Quality Assurance in Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD)
Pavel Andrianov, National Settlement Depository
11 November 2015
Trading Technology Trends & Quality Assurance Conference in St. Petersburg
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The Russian CSD
First trade repository in Russia with over 1 178 clients
as of October 01, 2015
Local Operating Unit for assigning Legal Entity Identification codes
Operator of systemically and nationally important payment system
Systemically important CSD, Settlement Depository and Repository
More than 18 years on depository services market
Member of the Moscow Exchange Group
The largest settlement depository in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe
Provides both bank and custody services to the clients
Settlement depository for the Moscow Exchange
Diversified assets on deposit
A European tariff model
Servicing the Moscow Exchange currency exchange market
Participant of the major working groups organized by Russian regulators
Assets under custody,
USD, bln
Number of custody
accounts
Num. of securities
transactions,
mln (2012)
Vol. of securities
transactions,
USD trln (2012)
Num. of cash
transactions,
mln (2012)
Vol. of cash
transactions,
USD trln (2012)
Capital, USD mln
FACTS AND FIGURES
Assets under
Custody*, USD bln
Number of settled
securities transactions,
ths pcs.
Value of settled
securities transactions,
USD bln
437
1 792
2 840
Value of settled cash
transfers**,
USD bln
4 155
Number of registered
trades in Repository,
ths pcs.
319
9М15 YTD
Number of custody
accounts, pcs. 3 731
* Value of securities under custody on behalf of clients
** Covering only delivery money transfer on NSD clients’ accounts
Number of settled
cash transfers,
ths pcs.
758
Value of settled
trades in Collateral
Management, USD bln
545
01.10.15
RUB / USD rate is 66.2367
as of 30.09.2015
3. FIVE BUSINESS STREAMS
RepositoryCSD
Clearing &
Tri-party
services
Cash
settlement
services
Corporate
Information
Center
RISK-MANAGEMENT
IT
CSD
Safekeeping
Settlement of on-exchange and OTC transactions (FOP, DVP)
Corporate actions
Tax agent services
CORPORATE INFORMATION
CENTER
Consolidated and verified information about securities, corporate actions and codes: ISIN, CFI, LEI
Valuation center
CASH SETTLEMENT
SERVICES
Cash settlement services
FX services
Authorized currency control
Cash accounts maintenance
CLEARING &
TRI-PARTY SERVICES Clearing and collateral management (tri-party services)
REPOSITORY Registration of OTC repo trades and trades with derivatives
RELATED SERVICES
NNA in Russia and Substitute NA for the CIS countries
Local Operating Unit (LOU) for the Russian market (LEI assignment and verification)
EDI system with registrars
Providing access to SWIFT
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4. IT AND NSD.
Current status:
• Key IT systems were created and developed as in-house solutions
• We use waterfall and iterative/agile technology
• IT staff more then 350 people (including outsourcing)
• We use several outsourcing companies
• We use the modern technology to manage quality and delivery (fast
functional point (ffp), code review and integration continues)
Main goals:
• Add functionality
• Improve quality
• Extend capacity
5. TECHONOLY OF QUALITY
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
How do we measure?
• Use task manager (Redmine) for all requests
• We have daily reports for key figures
• We have statistics and BI to analyze it
• We have progress bar for each stage of release
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
Qualityofffp
Ready Plan
6. TECHONOLY OF QUALITY
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
What do we measure?
• Errors per ffp
• Retest iterations per error
• Requirements change amount per analyst
0.00%
0.50%
1.00%
1.50%
2.00%
2.50%
3.00%
3.50%
4.00%
30 31 32 33 34 35
Change
7. TECHONOLY OF QUALITY
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
What do we measure?
• Errors per ffp in UAT
0.00
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.10
0.12
0.14
0.16
0.18
28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
Errors
8. TECHONOLY OF QUALITY
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
What do we measure?
• SLA
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
90.00%
100.00%
29.09.2015
30.09.2015
01.10.2015
02.10.2015
05.10.2015
06.10.2015
07.10.2015
08.10.2015
09.10.2015
12.10.2015
13.10.2015
14.10.2015
15.10.2015
16.10.2015
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20.10.2015
21.10.2015
22.10.2015
23.10.2015
26.10.2015
27.10.2015
28.10.2015
29.10.2015
30.10.2015
02.11.2015
03.11.2015
05.11.2015
06.11.2015
Testing
Analitics
Development
Standart
9. QUALITY. STEP BY STEP
What have we implemented recently?
• Fast Functional point methodology
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Code Review
• Continues Integration
• Post implementation review
• Performance and smoke test
• KPI for IT people
• SLA for outsourcing companies
10. QUALITY. OUR PLANS
What do we want to do over the next year?
• Implement dedicated IT solution for QA
• Implement processes to check quality of the source code
• Make refactoring for the most important and complicated source codes
• Implementation institution of test leaders
• Hallway testing
11. CURRENT RESULTS
897
1,098
2,378
2,779
3,048
3 552
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
Release 30 Release 31 Release 32 Release 33 Release 34 Release 35
Productivity. Function points developed per release cycle
0.258 0.258
0.131
0.116
0.098
0
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
0.3
Release 30 Release 31 Release 32 Release 33 Release 34 Release 35
Quality. Bugs in production environment per function point developed for first 6 weeks after
release deployment
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