SUMMARY:

• An accomplished consultant with 9 years of industry experience as Business Systems Analyst and Scrum Master with experience working in the Finance, Banking, Healthcare, and E - commerce companies
• Good Domain knowledge in Investment Portfolio management, rebalancing and optimization, Regulatory laws in Investment Advising, Corporate Finance and Healthcare
• Extensive experience in full SDLC Governance and Collaboration, Waterfall & Agile - Scrum methodology
• Experienced in front, middle and back office enterprise system orchestration. System analysis, design, test and implementation. Documented Business Rules, system validations, web services documentation (WSDLs)
• Scrum Ceremonies - Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective Meetings. Maintaining scrum reports - Burn Up/Burn down Charts, Velocity Charts, Kanban Board, Sprint Report, Control Charts, Swim lanes
• Assisted in grooming product backlog, sizing user stories, following Invest/Smart Criteria. Removed impediments, & worked with cross-functional teams - JIRA, Rally
• Conducted Gap, Impact Analysis, JAD, JRD, Brainstorming, Requirement workshops, worked on BRD, FRD, SRS, NFRD, FSD and creating software manuals; created UML diagrams like Use case diagrams, activity flow charts, sequence diagram, data flow diagrams
• Proficiency in database development life cycle. Developing conceptual data model, data normalization, logical design considerations; Helped with Data mining, cleansing & mapping, data modeling, indexing and updating plan.; SQL querying. Canned & Ad Hoc reports, interactive dashboards, Statistical analysis
• Aided development of test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, and execute test cases, UAT - HP QC
• Working Knowledge of Equities, Fixed Income, securities, investment performance, IRA’s, foreign exchange, bonds and derivatives, insurance, mutual funds and check processing, trading & risk environment, credit, interest rates, Treasuries, alternative investments - Commodities, Foreign Exchange Trading. Hands on Knowledge on wealth management - Financial Planning and Capital Markets
• Good knowledge of SAFe 4.0, ITIL V3, AWS, Hadoop. And trending technologies/ Practices

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Modelling tools: Rational Rose Enterprise Suite, MS Visio, BPMN, UML

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JQuery, ASP.net, C#, Java Script, AJAX, XML, WSDL

ETL Tools: Data stage, Informatica, Teradata

Management Tools: MS Project professional, JIRA, MS SharePoint 2010, Rally (CA Tech), Version 1, HP-ALM

QA Testing tools: HP QC, JIRA, HP Load Runner, MS test Manager, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Load Runner, Rational Test Manager, Selenium

Database and Server: Oracle, MS SQL server, MS Access, IBM DB2

BI Reporting tools: Tableau Desktop, SAS, Crystal Reports, Cognos, QlikView, Microstrategy, R

Financial KT: Equities, Fixed Income, securities, foreign exchange, bonds and derivatives, insurance, mutual funds and check processing, trading & risk environment, credit, interest rates, IRA’s, Treasuries, Mortgage.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Business Systems Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a BSA in the beginning of the project, and then became an agile coach and scrum master; Enforced agile and scrum principles coaching the teams transition into Agile Scrum environment so that the teams incrementally develop the enhancements through PSPI’s
• Gathered requirements using GAP analysis, Artifacts digging, Interviewing, Prototyping, Benchmarking and job shadowing to create Product Backlog and Release Backlog
• Created UML activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), state diagrams using Microsoft Visio to help developers understand the user stories
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Used Scrum Related tools such as Rally to document and visualize stories, tasks and measure performance through burn down charts/velocity charts
• Used Kanban Board in implementing the project
• Worked with cybersecurity experts to improve the security aspects of the application
• Used Mockup Screens to convey look and feel of the GUI screens
• Assisted system architect in writing client-side validations for the UI webpages and also assisted UI developers in creating Ajax for dynamic and interactive UI pages
• Worked with team on Microservices infrastructure and API documentation
• Defined and suggested SOAP, XML based web services, web methods, (API’s)
• Prepared Client side and Server side validation in SRD and provided to lead developers
• Used various SQL commands like Create, Delete, Update, and Inner, Outer, Left, and Right joins to update the database and retrieve data for data analysis and validation
• Helped in creating a Data Dictionary
• Used HQ Quality center to handle testing life cycle
• Created Stub Data in XML and provided to UI developers to progress the web page development.
• Facilitated the process of orchestration by providing process flow diagram
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for UAT process with business users
• Researched keenly on Investment finance - wealth management, financial planning and working of Capital Markets
• Hands on experience with portfolio management, futures, options, forwards and other OTC products and trained developers for various financial products and help them understand the logic of operation of Derivatives Analysis, Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Securities

Environment: Scrum, Windows 10, HP QC MS Office Suite, Java, Java Scripts, XML, SOAP, MS Visio, UML, Adobe Photoshop, SharePoint, SQL Server Services, Tableau, HP Load Runner, Rally

Confidential, Boston

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Owners and SMEs along with Risk Managers and Project Architects, to gather client specific business requirements
• Conducted user interviews, facilitated JAD sessions
• Helped to prioritize user stories using MoSCoW and Planning Poker techniques
• Worked as Proxy Scrum Master for certain sprints
• Acted as an agile coach in Introducing Scrum, SAFE to multiple team members
• Worked with RTE’s and was involved in Scrum of Scrum, PI planning, HIP sprint
• Used Scrum Related tools such as JIRA to document and visualize stories, tasks and measure performance through burn down charts/velocity charts
• Created UML - Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Work Flow Mockups using MS Visio
• Used various SQL commands like Create, Delete, Update, and Inner, Outer, Left, and Right joins to update the database and retrieve data for data analysis and validation
• Defined and suggested SOAP, XML based web services, web methods and application programming interfaces (API’s) based on JAVA
• Prepared Clientside validation and Server side validation in SRD and provided to lead developers
• Created Stub Data in XML and provided to UI developers to progress the web page development.
• Referred to UDDI to access external web services in WSDL and also assisted in SLA agreement
• Extensively used Tableau for building analysis flow for monitoring asset class performance
• Used Informatica ETL tool for data mapping, modelling and integration of multiple resources of data
• Knowledge in data profiling, root cause analysis, and quality improvement
• Worked with Lead Developers in building the ER Diagram, Connecting the databases to data warehouse, and creating data marts about specific services for the concerned departments
• Created RACI MATRIX, Traceability Matrix between the Use Cases (Requirements) and Test Cases, developed detailed Test plan, Test Cases, Test scripts, GUI and security testing
• Strong understanding of Equities and Fixed Income products with respect to Brokerage Operations, Margin trading and Securities Lending
• Extensively used BI for analyzing securities including equity, foreign exchange, bonds; building analysis flow for portfolio rebalancing and monitoring asset class performance

Environment: Scrum, MS Office Suite, Java, Java Scripts, XML, SOAP, MS Visio, UML, Adobe Photoshop, SharePoint, HTML5, SQL Server Services, Informatica, Tableau, HP Load Runner, JIRA, Bugzilla

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Helped resolve queries regarding ICD 9 - ICD 10 transition and worked on CPT codes
• Facilitated daily scrum, sprint review, retrospective, sprint planning, grooming
• Elicitation of Functional/non-functional requirements and conducted walkthroughs with architects, developers, SME’s and stakeholders
• Interviewed Domain Analysts, SME’s and Process Consultants to review, verify and validate Project requirements for an Integrated Sales, Customer Service and BI system
• Used SQL queries to extract data from DB for testing the accuracy and efficiency of the data
• Used Unified Modelling Language (UML) to prepare Process Flow Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams from the gathered requirements with the help of MS Visio

Environment: Rational Suite, RRC/DNG, MS Office Suite, Java, MS Project, Office 365,, HP ALM/QC, MS Visio, UML, Adobe Photoshop, SharePoint, HTML5, SQL Server Services, Tableau, JIRA

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used requirement workshops, reverse engineering, Doc Analysis to create the BRD, SRS
• Performed risk analysis of the requirements and prioritized the application development
• Develop HTML prototypes and UI deliverables, such as wireframes, flowcharts, screen mock-ups, and interface design specifications. Helped in Testing and DB development

Environment: Waterfall, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, UML, SharePoint, SQL Server Services, Mockup Screens

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited requirements by conducting GAP analysis, Brain-storming, Focus group sessions with the stakeholders and SMEs. Documented the BRD, FRD and the Use Case Documents
• Analyzed Requirements and created Use Cases, Business Processing Modelling Notation (BPMN), Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio

Environment: Waterfall, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, UML, SharePoint, SQL Server Services