SUMMARY:

• 8+ Years Professional Experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Financial Analysis
• SDLC: In depth knowledge of SDLC (software development life cycle) phases like requirements, analysis/design, Waterfall/Spiral models, development and testing.
• Experience with using UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and Visio.
• Strong Subject Matter expertise in Fixed Income, Equities, Equity Swaps, Equity Finance, Stocks Trading Cycle, Portfolio Analysis, Asset management,
• Develop Scope/ vision Documentation and Project plan, track Project Process, identify and analyze the key project risks, Develop risk mitigation plan, Schedule and organize project meeting, team/ group meeting;
• Strong Skills in Market research, feasibility studies, system analysis, gap analysis
• Strong Skills and experience in Collecting, analyzing, organizing and documenting Business requirement ( BRD);
• Solid UML skills, using UML for USE case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, Class diagrams, Develop Functional Specification Documentation (FSD) and Non - Functional Specification Documentation (NFSD)
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews
• Strong Skills in development of Test plan, Test Cases, and Test Scripts
• Excellent Communication Skills and Interpersonal Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Business Analysis Requirement Analysis, data flow diagrams, data definition table, data modeling, and team building, business rules, gap analysis, cause and effect analysis, decision trees, business process modeling and improvement. Summarized technical data to staff, As - Is-analysis.

Process/Model Tools: MS Office, MS Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, SQL Oracle, My SQL, B.R.D, F.R.D, S.L.S

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

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

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Burridge, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with project manager and high level management team to identify Project Scope, develop work plans and schedules using RUP to assure high quality and on time project delivery.
• Provide SharePoint best practices and advice regarding sire set-up, site security, maintenance, and future needs. Preparing PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheet for business meeting.
• Work with business to define business/product requirements
• Reviewed and modeled existing loan processing workflow ; identified improved opportunities
• Categorized and prioritized requirements from end users and communicate with project manager to design the business requirements
• Collected reports requirements for loan monitoring processing and Inspection
• Assisted in G AP analysis and business process reengineering; identified and documented improving area to meet the end state requirements
• Developed BRDs and FSDs Designed and developed U se C ase s using Microsoft Visio.
• Communicated requirements through visually modeled UML diagrams to both management and development teams to ensure uniform understanding of the business scope, and detailed business and functional requirements
• Position supports the delivery of project services, order management and service metric reporting within the Network Services area.
• Interview end users of systems, collect requirements, develop use case provide them with the knowledge needed to run their business. Made use case to generate functional requirement
• Created and maintained Business Requirements document and System Requirements document. In addition, was responsible for getting appropriate sign-offs and approvals.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented system requirements to meet business and end customer needs.
• Entering sales, purchase, and other data into the CRM system. Coordinating between sales, IT, logistics team.
• Determine, implement, and evaluate business metrics to meet ongoing organizational or customer information needs.
• Involved in Capturing and Designing, Executing and Monitoring Business Process Management Activities.
• Experienced JAD facilitator and meetings coordinator with excellent intrapersonal and conflict negotiation skills.
• Interacted with Business Owners, Delivery Managers, Application Developers, Testers and other IT staff to ensure successful teamwork and high quality solutions in the development and delivery of new applications.
• Coordinated and facilitated requirements analysis and walk through meetings.
• Employed systems analysis methodologies to obtain analyses and document IT system/application requirements including user security requirements.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements and analyzed the requirements using Requisite Pro based on RUP.
• Produced the visual models for the application to create State Chart, Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, using UML.
• Involved in managing Test Requirement Management and Business Rules Management.
• Utilized Rational Clear Quest for managing change user requirements and software version controlling using Rational Clear Case.
• Created and maintained project schedule using MS Project showing all of the deliverables target dates.
• Worked as primary IT contact for team members developing and executing test plan.
• Communicated business risks and project cross-impacts to Project Manager and BSA Manager - Support.
• Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts for testing the functionality, GUI and security testing.

Confidential, Addison, Illinois

Business Analyst

Environment: Windows, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, Agile

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed business test scenarios .
• Conducted JAD sessions summarize, and simplify complex and technical data in written and visual formats. .
• Performed functional gap analysis
• Established and documented business requirements and communicated to all involved parties
• Educated the technical team on HIPAA transactions code set for implementing EDI
• Developed user acceptance test criteria
• Managed client expectations
• Provided training to client staff, Job aid using the following formats worksheet, look up table, flow chart.

Confidential, Wood Dale

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with Fixed Income Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and gathered requirements from them and enriched my knowledge about the FI instruments
• Worked as a Business Analyst for multiple module wise development teams. The project followed full project life cycle as per the SDLC specifications using MS Project. Knowledge of BSA/AML and OFAC regulations
• Authored Data Flow diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Business models with special detail to Sub-Processes. Strong PowerPoint & SharePoint knowledge was required during the project.
• Performed business analysis, requirement specifications, and project planning in UML using Rational Unified Process.
• Developed use-cases for the system with special emphasis on defining Parent-child use case hierarchy as well as supporting Extension and Inclusion Use Cases as derived from the base Use Case. Used UML as a standard for the same.
• Created Activity diagrams for the most important classes of the system
• Created and implemented test plans and test cases based on technical specifications and business requirements for various phases of testing.
• Worked with QA testing team to design test methods to verify the application’s functions of consumer loan, home equity, refinance, commercial loan activities. SharePoint was used during meetings.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed stake holders and users to discover and document their business processes and performed domain analysis.
• Organized and facilitated JAD sessions as required with fellow Analysts, decision makers, users, key member(s) from the development team, system architect thereby developed the vision/scope of the system.
• Analyzed business process requirements, defined functional and non-functional software requirements, which were captured in Rational Requisite. Simultaneously performed Use Case Analysis, Identified Actors, developed Use Case Models in Rational Rose and use case specification documents in an iterative and incremental fashion.
• Conveyed whole system requirements clearly and thoroughly to the development team and ensured that they understand the scope of the project.
• Created Traceability Matrix, attributes for the requirements utilizing Requisite. Worked in close co-ordination with the QA analyst and testing team, reviewed, validated Test Plans, Test Cases & Scenarios.
• Communicated requirements and changes to cross-functional teams as appropriate in a timely manner there by continuously representing and ensuring that stakeholders/users needs are being met. Informed project managers about the progress of the project through PowerPoint presentation.
• Played crucial role in all the stages of the Rational Unified Process including testing and system integration. Assisted the testing team in User Acceptance Testing and heavily involved during business validation and user sign-off.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact with project manager and SMEs of different divisions, such as Information Technology, Risk Analysis and Competition Analysis to obtain current business process. Responsible to collect data from various disparate risk assessments such as - ISRA, SDRA, SIRA
• Understood and articulated business requirement through interviews, surveys and observing underwriters performing daily tasks. knowledge of IT risk aggregation architecture framework
• Analyzed and modeled business processes and data flows. Proposed process optimization plan.
• Interacted with underwriting department to finalize the business requirements for the integrated underwriting solution.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirement.
• Translated requirements into Functional and Technological Specifications.
• Designed Use Case for the whole software engineering, and designed UML which included Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams by using the Rational Rose.