SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of total experience in IT, diverse experience in functions of complex software projects and Web applications with thorough knowledge of all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong experience as an organized, creative & innovative Project Manager/Scrum Practitioner with experience in Financial Services Industry.
• Strong Financial Product knowledge of Capital Markets, Fixed Income Securities, Equity Securities and derivatives such as interest rate swap, Capital Markets, Securities Trading, Investment Banking and Mortgage backed securities such as CMBS, ABS.
• Experienced in creating excellent documentation on business requirements.
• Strong business skills and a thorough understanding of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) sing Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile.
• Excellent professional skills, drive and ability to work independently and as a team member in designing, developing, and implementing innovative business processes and system solutions using proven approaches, technologies and training.
• Extensive experience in defining business processes, identifying risks, Impact analysis and Gap Analysis and Process modeling. In - depth knowledge of Proprietary methodologies, Change/Release Management, SAFe 4.0, DevOps, RUP methodology, and CMMI.
• Strong experience in working as production support.
• Proficient knowledge in Business Analysis and its documentation including Business Requirements Gathering, Functional Specifications, Business Processes, Use Cases etc.
• Experience with handling functional testing teams and documenting Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Extensive experience in Analyzing and Documenting Business Requirements and System Functional Specifications. Proficient in creating Use Cases, Process flow Diagrams, etc.
• Strong experience in SDLC implementation, Agile, UML, MS Office Suite etc.
• Experience with a broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as MS Project, Excel, Access, Visio, Remedy, Clear Quest, HP Quality center, Business Objects and SQL.
• Sound understanding of database, web-based system and system design.
• Excellent communication skills.

Agile/PM/BA/QA SKILLS:

• Team Agile, SAFe 4.0, Kanban, Waterfall, RUP and Iterative RUP environments.
• Creating Project Charters and negotiating SOW, Change Management.
• Cost Analysis, Budget management, Project scope, Project Scheduling and Resource management.
• Business Process and Workflow modeling.
• Gap Analysis & Impact Analysis.
• Continuous Integration / Test Driven Development, Test Automation, Test execution and End to End QA Process management.
• Load/Performance testing, measurement and analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7/8/10, Linux.

Databases: SQL Server 2005/2008/2010, Oracle 9i/10g/11i, IBM DB2.

Testing Tools: - HP QTP/UFT, Load Runner, Performance Center, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester.

SDLC / Business Modeling Tools: IBM BPM, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager, Mercury Quality Center, MS Visio, Caliber RM, MS Access, Jira Bug and Project Tracking, MS Project.

Methodologies: Unified modeling language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, SAFe 4.0, XP, DevOps and CMMI.Other Tools MS Office 2008/2010/2013/360, MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat X pro.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Consultant Agile Practitioner/ Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Define, Implement and Establish all the processes as required for SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework for enterprise) practice for WRP Project.
• Extensively used Rally for managing two agile teams each having 10 DevOps resources.
• Played a key role in Coaching and Transitioning projects from Waterfall/RUP to Agile/DevOps.
• Coached the teams in using Agile for well-defined User Stories/Requirements and Kanban Board for BAs for research / spike items.
• Introduced strict guidelines while creating user stories to ensure user stories are to be testable and should have actor-action-result relationship.
• Organized seminars, workshops and socializing events (like coffee connections) and created training material. (Power Point presentations, quizzes, manuals, readouts, templates).
• Performed Source system analysis (SSA) to identify the source data that needs to be moved into the target tables.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram, User Stories and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Defined target load order plan and constraint based loading for loading data correctly into different target tables.
• Designed and created Data Quality baseline flow diagram, which includes error handing and test plan flow data.
• Created XML block additions and modifications based on business rules and workflow modifications to capture and manage client policy for McCamish Non Qual Platform.
• Used JSON to send real time data feed to be displayed for personalized video on the Workplace Retirement Website.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for all testing events such as System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Unit Integration Testing.
• Created SQL-Loader scripts to load legacy data into Oracle staging tables and wrote SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Data Integrity testing.

Environment: Agile (Scrum) Methodology, MS Visio, MS Project, MS-Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, and Outlook), Rally, HP Quality Center, Oracle, DB Visualizer.

Consultant Project Manager/Scrum Master/Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Team Scrum Master to provide expert advice to Management on best Agile practices.
• Define, Implement and Establish all the Agile/BA processes for the Project
• Managed the BA team comprising both offshore and onsite resources including intense mentoring of team to the newly established BA processes and tools.
• Mentored the BA team to use Jira for Issues/Tasks/Bug management and Confluence for Document and version management.
• Created and owned the projects RTM, TCM and Bug-Test Case mapping. Appraised the project team with weekly reports which included Requirement Coverage, Test Case Coverage and Defect trends.
• Key member in planning and implementation of Load/Performance testing of the Web application and ETL interfaces.
• Solely responsible for all QA deliverables, deadlines, planning and implementation of the project.
• Led a team of Business Analysts that worked with the traders to evaluate, understand and create functional excel model for pricing the fixed income products.
• Wrote business rules, requirements, User Stories, functional and non-functional requirements in Doors.
• Involved in data mapping for Committing and Loan Delivery.
• Involved in next phase planning, scheduling and scope documentation.
• Analyzed the upstream and downstream system components of the Freddie Mac’s centralized pooling unit and created a data mapping documents.
• For future state vision worked with the traders for ARM Pricing Re-design. This involved functional demo with Confidential (as a data feed from Confidential was used for the base pricing).
• Performed UAT and end-to-end testing for loan level committing in HP ALM.
• Helped developers do the back-end testing by providing business rules and confirming the Pricing logic for every update. This involved analyzing and verifying (calculation, rules, product terms) of each deal.
• Wrote SQL queries to compare data in test and production environment.

Environment: Windows 7, Oracle, Java/J2EE, Java Struts, Java Script, Agile methodology, Jira, UML, MS Outlook, RUP, XML, SQL, ETL, SOA, Unix, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, DOORS, Oracle, Toad.

Consultant Sr. Business Solutions Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Introduced HP UFT and HP Agile Manager to the PMO and QA departments.
• Provided coaching and mentoring as needed to several cross functional teams in best practices of Agile which included, Scrum organization, self-governance, sprint planning framework, sprint backlog management, meeting product owner expectations, sprint metrics and collocation strategy to name a few.
• Championed the adoption of Agile Management in place of waterfall and RUP. Shared the knowledge and expertise as a CSM to the management in making this transition.
• Key Member in developing Test Automation Framework using HP UFT. Key team member in HP QC to HP - ALM upgrade effort. Customized QC/ALM Project Template to accommodate Agile related fields and metrics.
• Solely responsible for installation and configuration of HP AGM (Agile Manager SaaS) and HP AGM sync server.
• Extensively used IBM BPM for creating business workflows. Responsible for testing new workflow process in project.
• Acted as backup Scrum Master for over 6 projects and facilitated and controlled scrum meetings which included taking very strict measures to keep them within time-boxes and heavily emphasizing on progress made during the previous day/expected deliverables for the current day.
• Established a strategy to help resources define the number of points for sprint backlog stories and created an equation to directly estimate the time required to complete each point with a very high accuracy.
• Responsible for creating various QA artifacts such as QA Test architecture, QA Test Plan, QA Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Responsible for BA/QA/QC efforts in multiple projects. Oversaw functional, regression, system integration, load and performance testing.
• Partnered with Operations leads to ensure the team produces solution that meets the procedures, policies and practices.
• Created training manuals for BI reporting and Smart search applications for end users.
• Coordinated with execution team to define the batch flow for data validation process. Designed and reviewed the business requirement, functional specification and project schedules based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.
• Responsible for managing new requests, scope changes and priorities with the business/requestor.
• Responsible for initiation of “Approved” scope and requirements change requests, ensure communication and dissemination of the change request.
• Ensured issues were escalated as necessary to Stakeholders and resolved in a timely manner.
• Lead and Coordinated with UAT teams.
• Assisted in evaluation of vendor(s) with respect to their ability to satisfy requirements.
• Enriched library of Use Cases to achieve full coverage of BRD requirements (were used as input for Functional Specs, framework for vendor/IT checkout and UAT test scripts).
• Reconciled BRD to Functional Specs, ensured specs satisfied requirements.
• Performed data analysis using SQL to generate portfolio summary reports; the system used this information to generate reports analyzing returns on equity and fixed income portfolios.
• Created scenario analysis for portfolio returns using historical data from vendors like Confidential, Confidential for portfolio returns and comparing it with composite, fixed and target allocated benchmarks.
• Day to day oversight of progress of Design, Functional Specs and Development.
• Extensively used real time market data systems like Confidential professional and Reuters 3000Xtra to retrieve real time prices for testing portfolio returns..
• Provided BA tasks and deliverables to PM for inclusion in Project Plan.
• Organized development of use Cases to be used in Quality Control testing.
• Drafted initial Testing Approach Document to address all phases of testing (QC, Component UAT, Integrated UAT, Conversion Testing)
• Coordinated and provided input to test plan, cases & scripts.

Environment: Windows 7, IBM BPM, SAP BI, Oracle, Java/J2EE, Java Script, SAP BI, Agile methodology, UML, XML, HP Unified Functional Tester, HP ALM, VBScript, Mainframe, MS Outlook, RUP, XML, SQL, VBA, Access, SOA, Unix, IBM Web Sphere Business Modeler, MS Visio/Project, MS Office, Rational Suite (RequisitePro, Clear Quest, Clear case), DOORS, Informatica, Jira, Teradata.

Consultant Sr. Business Analyst/Project Lead/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions with the customer, to review and update the integration plan by understanding components like reports and device events which were affected/modified/reengineered/added.
• Created a Gap Analysis worksheet which addressed the UI/DB modifications that needed to be made for a successful integration and QA testing that needed to be performed to ensure the quality if the final product before rolling out into production.
• Created a draft of Test Automation plan for testing the Front end Application.
• Interacted with the fixed income investment broker officers and understood their need in fixed income trading on behalf of the clients.
• Responsible for gathering and analyzing Business and system functional requirements and for understanding and translating these needs into Business Requirement Specification (BRS) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) documents.
• Interacted with the Business users/Product Owners by interviewing them, preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Supported IT unit by creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of project.
• Created detailed project plans and assisted in developing, scheduling and tracking project time lines and User Stories.
• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to the project manager and other business areas.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational rose to easily convey the projects process and requirements to developers and other stakeholders.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the User Acceptance Testing.
• Developed periodic reports such as quarterly progress summary, weekly status report, technical progress report and all other required reports to communicate to senior management project status, progress and performance. Applied Earned Value Methodology (EVM) to determine project performance and implement necessary corrective actions to ensure project is on track.

Environment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Oracle, Java/J2EE, Java Struts, Java Script, Unix, Agile methodology, UML, XML, HP ALM, VBScript, Jira, MS Outlook, RUP, XML, SQL, VBA, Access, SOA, Unix, IBM Web Sphere Business Modeler, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office.

Sr. Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Defined and implemented the Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) process responsible for extracting the data from Tera Data Warehouse, transformed it into a predefined ASCII format and loaded it into SQL Server Database.
• Managed the time/cost/scope constraints for the Project. Assisted QA Practice Manager in preparing status/progress reports and presented performance reviews of the assigned resources.
• Utilized SQL Server to analyze the data feeds that we receive and coordinated with the development team to validate the data loads. Researched and strategized on new approaches to address complex business and technology problems related to airline industry and to suit the database table constraints.
• Created the test cases and test scripts to test the ETL process and ensured the complete coverage by using traceability matrix. Created complex SQL queries to validate the data in the data tables to ensure its correctness.
• Created table definitions and defined logical relationships between different tables and views in database for the data loading process.
• Worked closely with business, PMO, development and testing team to provide solutions for complex problems throughout all the phases of SDLC.
• Defined, developed and reviewed vision document, functional requirements, service level requirements and reporting requirements with stakeholders.
• Worked with the Release Manager in defining scope, new code release management into the production environment, end user communications regarding system availability, end user feedback, and production performance monitoring.
• Developed data warehouse test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test scripts to ensure appropriate test coverage that suited the development modules and builds.

Environment: Windows XP, Unix, SQL Server, DB2, COBOL, JCL, Teradata, Toad, SOA, Agile methodology, CMMI, Six Sigma, UML, XML, IBM MQ, Rational Suite, Citrix, HP Load Runner, HP QTP, Mercury Quality Center, MS Outlook, RUP, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office.