SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of IT experience as a Business Analyst and Product Consultant with analytical and technical skills to leverage experience in project management, Commercial Banking, Investment, Marketing and Healthcare Industries.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) through all the four phases including Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition, and employing Agile and waterfall software methodologies.
• Expertise in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS) Technical Requirement Documents (TRD’s), Non - Functional Specification Document, System Design Specification, Use Cases, and training manuals.
• Proficient in conducting Rapid Application Development (RAD) with Business Users, Joint Application Development (JAD) with developers, Joint Application Review (JAR) sessions with technical team including developers to develop and agree upon a system focusing on Business Requirements.
• Experience in analyzing Business and Technical specifications, developing Use-Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Data Modeling, Data Mapping and Work-flow Diagrams to test requirements and procedures and formulate robust Business Model using Unified Modeling Language (UML) Techniques, Visio and Rose tools.
• Worked extensively with QA Team in understanding Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Plans, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and ensuring that the software meets the system requirements.
• Expertise in working with Office Suite including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Access
• Experienced with production of documentation using templates, following writing standards for documentation, use cases using Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest.
• Working knowledge and experienced in GUI design/prototyping including web interfaces.
• Analyzed requirements by finding any discrepancies during requirements development process
• Assisted senior business analysts in making sure requirements are complete, concise, modifiable and traceable
• Translated User Requirements specifications into data flow diagrams by using MS Visio
• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills substantiated in past assignments with developers, project managers, subject-matter experts, stakeholders, system implementers, and application end-users.
• Excellent Analysis, technical Writing, Documentation, oral communication skills with a results-oriented attitude. Flair in easy presentation of complex concepts.
• Possess reasonable understanding of different relational databases, writing simple SQL queries, creating tables, and generating reports.
• Familiar with MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines, resources, collaborate with different teams, and analyze project information.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Office tools namely Project (WBS, PERT, Gantt charts), Visio, Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.

SDLC/Design Methodologies: Unified Modeling Language (UML), Agile, RAD and Waterfall.

Requirements/Document Tools: Rational Requisite-Pro, Rational Clear - Quest and MS SharePoint.

Modeling and Design Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio.

Testing Tools: Mercury Win Runner, Load Runner, Quality Center and Quick Test Pro (QTP).

Scripting Languages: HTML, XHTML, DHTML, and JavaScript.

Databases: SQL Server, MYSQL, PL/SQL, Oracle9i/10g, Access.

Hardware skills: Basic Hardware Knowledge of Computer System.

Operating System: Microsoft Windows95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 and Mac OS X

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Trumbull, CT

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied existing business application and processes, collected end user requirements and suggested the improvised business process model as per Agile Methodology
• Gap Analysis of client requirements, generated workflow process, flow charts and relevant artifacts.
• Defined and documented the vision and scope of the project.
• Conducted one on one interviews with high level management team and participated in the JAD session with the SME’s.
• Worked as a liaison between the business and technical side to convey the business needs to the system architects. Worked in association with RUP mentors to ensure fidelity to the standard RUP practices of the institution.
• Participated in weekly status meetings to present status and in corporate any digressions from the original scope. Designed Use Cases using UML and managed the entire functional requirements life cycle using RUP.
• Created and managed project templates, Use Case project templates, requirement types and trace-ability relationships in Requisite Pro.
• Carried out a thorough target organization assessment and risk analysis.
• Involved in cross-functional teams, developing new ways to boost efficiency and delivering results in a fast changing environment to achieve company goals.
• Provided the management with test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary using MS Project and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Analyzed the “As is” and “To be” system documents to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system using MS VISIO.

Environment: J2EE, Java, UNIX, SQL, Siebel 7.7, Windows XP, MS Project, RUP, Rational ROSE, Req Pro, Rational Clear Case, UML, MS Visio.

Confidential, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted user requirement analysis for this web based application.
• Created Use Cases and managed the entire functional requirements life cycle.
• Facilitated Joint Requirements Planning (JRP) sessions with Business Users, SME, and Stakeholders to gather requirements from the business team.
• Authored design documentation, which included: traceability matrices, functional specifications and complex process and data flow diagrams using Visio.
• Extensive practical knowledge on interface technologies, and importing data for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs, and flow charts.
• Experience in the operation and analysis of database software, and standards, as well as experience with data analysis applications.
• Experience in Data Reconciliation process and consuming Web Services.
• Facilitated application development sessions and walkthroughs between technical and business teams for meeting customer requirements as well as solving problems on a daily basis such as, but not limited to, classifying and documenting new change requirements, dealing with multiple teams, researching delays, documenting errors and incorporating software enhancements into design documents.
• Involved in UAT testing and ensuring that all the above customer support applications met the highest quality standards.
• Acted as a liaison when interacting with various business units and being cross functional.
• Performed GUI testing to check whether the application compiles with the User interface standards.
• Development of test scripts for all the Test cases to be tested manually and using automated.
• Used Test director for Requirements and Test Plan.

Environment: Microsoft Office Access, PowerPoint, SDLC,MS Visio, UML, SQL, TOAD, HTML, SSRS, SSO, SMAL, BizTalk.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted extensively with SMEs in multiple sessions to understand and document their requirements pertaining to corporate actions, risk analysis, portfolio performance attribution and Optimization related to fixed income instruments.
• Covered IT sector by prospecting daily with approximately 300 senior executives for business services.
• Worked with financial analysts, risk analysts and portfolio management to evaluate benchmarks that included a vast array of global indices as well as other customized benchmarks.
• Communicated with internal and external clients on behalf of financial advisors
• Assisted Vice President in preparing business proposals, presentations and business related templates. Participated in various project related presentations.
• Collaborated with other team members to write detailed business requirements document and develop functional requirements specifications from the business requirements. Designed data flow and business process flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Worked closely with the SMEs to analyze data requirements and mapping for various upstream and downstream systems. Participated in various brainstorming sessions to investigate, identify, analyze and solidify business rules.
• Reviewed technical design documents, SQL queries and stored procedures with architects and technical team.
• Worked with the QA team to develop test plan, test cases and test conditions for integration. Also used traceability matrix to ensure complete end-to-end testing.
• Coordinated system integration and user acceptance testing and reported all bugs and defects to the development team.
• Participated in end-user training and generating descriptive user manual.
• Prepared research reports and summaries on mergers & acquisitions by using Bloomberg Terminal
• Performed administrative work such as scheduling prospects meeting with the PWM Vice President

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed strategic plan documents and project management policies.
• Conducted polls and questionnaires to highlight the disadvantages of already existing manual system of operation.
• Processed insurance claims through the Preferred Provider Organization (PPO).
• Worked on 276, 277 EDI transaction and quote sets and validations.
• Developed standardized FACET testing, involved in implementation and QA process.
• Worked on FACETS Claims Adjudication, Claims Pre-pricing and Claims Logging.
• Trained internal users and their partner’s management or employees in the new web based applications.
• Used General Equivalence Mappings (GEM) to convert ICD 9 to ICD 10.
• Involved in creating and modelling the AS IS diagrams and TO BE system and accomplished the GAP Analysis.
• Worked as a Requirement Analyst analysing the user requirements and functional requirements.
• Articulated Business Requirements from user interviews and then converted those requirements into technical specifications.
• Used Rational Rose for data modelling.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues and change requests.
• Completed time estimates for all technical items, assigned work, monitored developers progress and produced timely status reports for upper management.

Environment: MS Office 2007 Suite, MS Visio, UML, Rational Clearquest, Crystal Reports, Rational Software Modeller, Rational Rose, Adobe Acrobat, PL-SQL, Oracle 9i, SDLC