PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years’ experience as Business Analyst having domain experience in financial services.
• Experienced documenting Business Requirements Document (BRD), developing UAT Plan, maintaining Traceability Matrix and assisting in post implementation activities.
• Clear understanding of Fixed Income, Derivatives and trading lifecycle.
• Highly experienced in performing Feasibility Studies, Impact analysis, GAP analysis and Risk Analysis. Expertise in creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, and Sequence flows using MS Visio and UML concepts.
• Experienced conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases.
• Proficient in data analysis using MS Excel Pivot tables, Macros, MS Access and SQL queries.
• Expert in presentation skills using MS PowerPoint, Wireframes using Visio, Adobe InDesign.
• Organized professional with excellent verbal and written communication skills, excellent presentation, interpersonal skills, problem solving skills, fast learner and also adept quickly new technology with ability to take new roles in minimum time and little training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Project
• Excel
• Access
• Visio
• PowerPoint
• Adobe InDesign
• SharePoint
• HP QTP
• SQL
• XML
• HTML
• HP Quality Center
• Rational Clear case
• Java SVN
• Oracle
• SQL server
• Windows
• UNIX
• Waterfall
• Agile
• RUP
• Informatica
• MANTAS
• JIRA
• VBA
• Ab Initio
• Erwin.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with SMEs across the Bank to gather the requirements of the Encryption to strengthen the security.
• Analyze the policy like ISO 27001/27002, NIST to articulate the requirements and draft the BRD. Worked extensively around the Key management in encryption, risk analysis of the security of vendor hosted application.
• Worked on the requirement session with stakeholder, reviewed the policy document to map requirement to policy.
• Created the requirements for the reporting and was responsible for creating the trackers for status - tracking with VBA routines and pivot tables.
• Created various PowerPoint presentation decks for Project Overview and management reporting.
• Worked as a Release Manager for the implementation of encryption across the Bank.
• Held the session for ITAOs for providing the overview, responsibilities of the program.
• Coordinated meeting session to engage various vendors of the bank.
• Extensively worked in Visio to create process map for the implementation of encryption of applications.
• Created Project Plans for multiple projects and allocated resources accordingly.
• Setup SharePoint workflows, task lists, document library for the team.
• Worked with architects and developers to create high-level and low-level design documents for release 1 deliverables.
• Created deployment documentations for SIT, UAT and production environments.
• Created test plans and test scenarios for QA team. Reviewed and provided feedback for the test cases.
• Created wireframes for developing screens for data room access request, revocation.
• Conducted workshops for identifying operational tasks and created a run book for the operations team.
• Worked with offshore ITAO's in APAC and Europe regions for policy requirements gathering and release management.
• Created User Stories, raised bug stories in JIRA for database engineering teams.
• Worked with the DBA across the globe for implementing the solution.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively worked in a scrum environment for multiple products at a time.
• Handled the QC triage for the scrum and provided sign-offs.
• Created user stories for product backlog and also manage the sprint backlogs.
• Prepared test scripts for UAT users and provided demo sessions. Written exit criteria for each sprint. Worked extensively in creating use cases for each product.
• Worked with the SME to capture the policy forms for each product that needs to be implemented and created forms requirements document.
• Analyze and clear Quality Center tickets assigned to BA team.
• Created mockup screens for the products.
• Created data mapping documents for capturing data exchange between CCUW and downstream systems for compliance purposes.
• Worked in an Agile environment and was responsible for creating sprints, user stories, bug tracking and reporting in JIRA.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for migration to strategic platform by creating questionnaires and group discussion sessions and interviews with development managers and information owners.
• Prepared SOP (Standard Operation Procedure) for RSAM onboarding.
• Created questionnaire for Onboarding the application from different request tool to one strategic Platform.
• Created decision matrix template for various applications to be on boarded on the strategic platform.
• Conducted in gap analysis between the existing request tools and processes used in the applications and the strategic tools.
• Provided PED (Plain English Descriptions) of the entitlements within an application for resolver and requester to have clear understanding on requested access.
• Analyze user-listing reports to flag entitlements as heritage, obsolete or active.
• Analyzed application’s access management processes and entitlement structure to categorize into simple, medium and complex categories.
• Analyze the entitlements to detect any toxic combination and flag them.
• Perform UAT testing of the entitlements data on boarded to R-SAM.
• Created data mapping documents for auto provisioning requirements.
• Performed data analysis on applications and request tools using MS Excel macros, pivot tables and created forms using MS Access for data input and updates.
• User SQL queries for data analysis and finding gaps between ID Cert and enterprise app inventory.
• Worked in an Agile environment with 2 weeks’ sprint. Represented the BA team in scrum for deliverables.

Confidential, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Functional Requirement Documents (FRD’s) after the collection of Business requirements from business users.
• Created wireframes and prototypes for client onboarding re-engineering project using Adobe InDesign and Visio.
• Created data mapping documents for integrating with KYC such as Actimize /AML systems such as MANTAS and also with NESS for OFAC screening in CAS.
• Interacted with KYC and compliance teams for requirements gathering and preparation of interface control documents.
• Worked with the team to create specification of AML Library of that region.
• Created new UI for the compliance officer for the Flags from the different Aml System like Mantas and OFAC.
• Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Written simple and complex SQL queries on SQL Developer on Oracle database to generate report for the management.
• Authored Data flow diagram, sequence diagrams and business process models that describe how the payment instruction will flow from the UI layer to the backend services layer and GL application.
• Created data mapping documents for ISO 20022 XML and Swift messages for funds transfer.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) along with the Subject matter experts (SME’s).
• Involved in functional testing, integration testing, and system testing phases.
• Created SharePoint Site for the team for document management, task lists and release schedule.
• Co-ordinate with Offshore analysts and technology teams for requirements gathering and reviews.

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst/ Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed the requirements for new reports (scheduled/ad-hoc reports) and dashboards for asset management. Worked with IT team to create scheduled automated reporting for standard and frequently used reports.
• Produced UML Activity diagrams with defined swim lanes using MS Visio as part of process analysis. Created and reviewed User Requirements Document, Use Cases, and Functional Requirements Document.
• Gathered and prioritized requirements, developed business scenarios to check how the system would work with the roles and processes of the departments, and developed acceptance criteria.
• Maintained requirements in SharePoint, and for testing we used HP QTP.
• Wrote ETL specifications for all the development tasks, to better evolve the ETL design.

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered details on the business process, technical architecture, software systems and servers employed in the client location.
• Organized and scheduled user interviews, user meetings, group meetings, and JAD sessions. Performed a detail research on their existing financial transaction processing and reporting methodologies.
• Documented detailed functional and technical specifications based on agreed solutions.
• Supported development of the business solution as part of the technical team. Worked with DBA to support migration of applications from Development to Test to Production
• Involved in writing and reviewing test plans, test cases and conducting functional testing.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with multiple teams across geographies to gathered business and functional requirements and analyzing those requirements, generating workflow process and necessary documents for the project.
• Developed User requirement specification and functional requirement specifications and use case diagrams.
• Initiated Use Case Analysis, which provided the framework for potential use case deliverables and their inter-relationships, Developed Use Case specifications with flow of events, pre conditions and post conditions.

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of functional documents and review of design documents.
• Testing support for SEPA Credit Transfer work requests.
• Conducted Banking domain sessions for Technical Employees; sessions include generic payment, Swift and SEPA concepts.
• Created ISO mapping documents and Interface Control Documents for SEPA messages.