PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 5 years of Professional experience as Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirement gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Quality Assurance.
• Proficient in gathering and analyzing the Business Requirements, documenting System Requirement Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications, Requirements Traceabilit y Matrix using Rational Requisite PRO and Software development plan.
• Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and business analysis methodologies.
• Experience developing Business Requirements - project initiation document, achievement needed to be fulfilled & class measure
• Experience developing Report Specifications - outline the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.
• Experience developing Functional requirements - detail description of what the application, process, or product/service must do in order to justify the business requirements.
• Experience developing stakeholder requirements - an essential part of the deliverables, understanding correct interpretation of stakeholder’s requirement. This deliverable will reflect how the product will be designed, and developed.
• Experience supporting PMOs and maintaining project documentations and prioritize projects.
• Writes reporting queries using SQL (or PL/SQL), experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Extensive expertise in security pricing operations covering a gamut Equity and Fixed Income in both domestic and international markets. Hands on experience with Instrument and Client Reference Data.
• Facilitated weekly and monthly business review meetings to keep SME’s, Stakeholders, product managers, executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, resolving issues and conflicts and preparing product demonstrations.
• Experience working with Microsoft SharePoint, Crystal Reports to document issues in monthly, weekly and daily meeting.
• Extensive Experience with process modeling using UML, Flow charts, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, activity diagrams and use case diagrams with Microsoft Visio.
• Well versed in project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning.
• Expertise in various types of testing including integration, functional, system and performance testing.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios / Strategies for Quality Assurance & to test all the business requirements.
• Extensive experience in gathering system requirements, describing business processes, identifying risks and Impact analysis, modeling, Sequence and Activity diagrams.
• Experience developing detailed source-to-target data mapping, data flow diagrams and data transformation rules.
• Expertise in creating Project schedules and maintaining it in Project management tool (MS Project, Clarity), tracking project performance, Stakeholder Management, Scope Management, Defect Management, Change Management, Risk Management and Quality Management.
• Thorough understanding of Federal Reserve System regulatory reporting including Securities Exchange Act, Financial Statements, Monetary Policy.
• Thorough understanding of Accounting GAAP and IASB rules and regulations, Corporate Taxation, Budget, Forecast modeling.
• Experienced in working with Cross Functional Teams and interacting with all levels of management for requirements, resources and project status and delivering custom applications in phases. Also assisted the Project Manager throughout the software development process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Javascript, Java, C#, .Net, ASP.Net, PHP

Testing Tools: Test Director, Win Runner, HP-Quality Center, ALM, Selenium, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)

Analysis Methodologies: RUP, UML, Agile methodology, Waterfall Methodology, Gap analysis.

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server 2014/2012/2008, MS Access, MySQL

Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Enterprise Architect

Operating Systems: Windows 10/8/7, UNIX, Linux

Tools: IBM Tririga, MRI, INVESTRAN, JIRA, MS Visio, ERWIN v 4.1, MS Office, YARDI, Tableau, SharePoint, Toad, Eclipse, Confluence, FAS

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), MS Visio, Clarity

Software Testing: Writing Manual and Automated Test cases, Creating Beta, Regression Tests, Client/Server Testing, Testing Web Applications, Manual, Functional, Smoke, Usability, User Acceptance (UAT), Unit/Module, Integration, System, Installation, beta, web, load, performance, usability, Security, platform/portability, API, regression, compatibility, GUI, system, Black-box and White-box Testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,New York, NY

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Interviews, JAD sessions with end users, SMEs, & various stakeholders to gather requirements. Generated Business Requirements Document and System Requirements Specifications.
• Ensure that development is adhering and following organizational business rules and organizational structure .
• Provided strategic direction and leadership to the project team to identify their key areas of risk and develop their risk management strategies.
• Developed use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams and workflow diagrams using UML.
• Identified gaps in requirements and managed feedback and control monitoring of project change requests.
• Executed workshops with Business Team (Advisory) in defining the Business requirement and transformed those requirements into user stories in JIRA for Dev Team.
• Facilitated effective Agile sprint ceremonies, including leading sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives and daily stand ups
• Assisted Product management in defining the scope for each release.
• Created Release Notes for clients before each release and assisted in creation of User Guide.
• Assisted QA and Development team in understanding of FASB and IASB reporting regulation related to forthcoming mandated reporting for all Leases.
• Performed Root Cause analysis on each bug/issue logged in JIRA.
• Created and defined mapping document between source system and target system for management consultants to help extract proper data from the client’s source system.
• Facilitated in defining Integration and validation rules for each onboarding clients.
• Led the development of test plan, test strategy, test scenario, test cases & test data.
• Led Functional, Integration, Regression and UAT Testing to ensure all business processes are covered.
• Facilitated critical bug fixing with developers and ensured the defects are retested and resolved before closing out.
• Acted as Accounting SME in creation of QA manual and automated test scripts.
• Participated in testing along with QA & UAT teams and resolved client’s data related defects.

Environment: IBM Triraga, JIRA, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Project, MS-Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher), Confluence, MS Visio, HP Quality Center, SQL Server, Outlook, UML, Use Case Analysis, Manual and Automated Testing, QTP, Selenium, SQL.

Confidential, Madison, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and maintained Business, Functional and System requirement documents Internal and External Financial Reports.
• Created UI Designs, Data Flow diagram and Process Flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Extracted and analyzed data using SQL queries and other reporting tools in order to identify anomalies and gaps in information.
• Created and maintained Data Dictionary for the portfolio Analytics application.
• Documented and maintained project risks and issue logs.
• Performed analysis and documentation of the AS-IS and TO-BE scenarios and performed Gap analysis.
• Developed functional requirements and obtain timely sign-off by all respective parties.
• Created Mapping rules between raw level data and user defined level data.
• Supported multiple Project managers with different application upgrades and enhancements
• Ensure agency partners adhere to deadlines and deliverables as per the project plan.
• Participated in testing along with QA & UAT teams
• Defined and monitored Key Metrics to measure change in Data Quality and drive accountability and compliance at source.
• Reviewed meeting minutes and ensured the follow ups are conducted in a timely manner.

Environment: Investran, MRI, PRUVAL, Tableau, MS Project, MS-Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher), Confluence, MS Assess, MS Visio, MS SQL, Outlook, HP Quality Center, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rational RequisitePRO, UML, Use Case Analysis, Manual and Automated Testing, QTP, Windows, Unix/Linux.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created global document templates used across the instrument reference data program for BRD, FRD, gap assessment document.
• Managed project to identify and document the existing business rules for normalization and consolidation of instrument reference data.
• Developed data dictionary attribution for Equity and Fixed Income instrument reference data to introduce common classification across the firm.
• Analyzed and serviced data requests from various business areas of the firm for instrument reference data.
• Performed coverage analysis using SQL queries for consumer data requests to ensure that the required data is available in the system.
• Worked closely with all levels of staff to provide reliable data, reports and analysis products upon which informed decisions can be made.
• Created detailed requirement documents for core foundational capabilities of the application to support the agreed upon Data Ops Service Model under the capacity of Instrument Reference Data SME.
• Managed and documented the service offerings of the program to create an exhaustive inventory of program capabilities.

Environment: BLOOMBERG, REUTERS, EVIEWS, STAT, MOODYS, Markit, Compustat Xpressfeed, Golden Source, MS Project, MS-Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher), Oracle, MS Visio, MS SQL, HP Quality Center, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rational RequisitePRO, UML, Use Case Analysis, Manual and Automated Testing, Selenium, Windows, Unix/Linux.

Confidential,New York City, NY

Financial Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed data analysis by accessing the data using queries or reporting tools, including mapping the business functions to the data and data model, data reconciliations, gap analysis.
• Managed Business, Functional and System requirement gathering and their delivery via Traceability matrices.
• Facilitated effective Agile sprint ceremonies, including leading sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives and daily stand ups
• Developed functional requirements and obtain timely sign-off by all respective parties.
• Created Vendor Mapping rules between Asset Control’s raw level data and user defined Normalized level data.
• Created required documents to educate Business and IT teams on the various aspects of vendor products.
• Defined and monitored Key Metrics to measure change in Data Quality & drive accountability/compliance at source
• Provided sustainment actions to consistently maintain and organize documentation of on-going processes from Image & Data Capture, Data Verification & Validation, and Image & Data Transmission.
• Created white papers that summarize the issues and outline available options for senior management.
• Participated in testing along with QA & UAT teams and resolved vendor data related defects.

Environment: MS Office, JIRA MS Assess, MS SQL, IHS MarkIT, BLOOMBERG, Base CPI, REUTERS, EVIEWS, STAT, Clearwater, Golden Source, Oracle, HP Quality Center, XML, MS Assess, MS Visio, MS SQL, HP Quality Center, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rational Requisite PRO, UML, Use Case Analysis, Manual and Automated Testing