SUMMARY:

• OverSevenplus years of experienceas a Sr. Business Analyst working in the Software Development Industry specializing in requirement management, documentation and project coordination.
• In - depth experience in business administration, information technology applications, Credit Cards authorization, application development and online banking.
• Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, Gathering requirements, creating functional specifications, and data flow diagrams.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in writing and maintaining the Requirement Definition Document that included Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Requirements (FRD) and Use cases.
• Strong understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including RUP, RAD, Waterfall and Agile
• Good financial product working experience (including pricing, risk management and related reporting/compliance knowledge): Derivatives (Option, Swap, CDS, future/forwards), Commercial Lending/Credit product (term loans, bridge loans, syndications, participation/assignments, commitments, letter of credit, etc.), Fixed Income (Rates, Repo, FX, Commodities).
• Performed planning and development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenario to meet product’s business and solution requirements.
• Experience on both Agile and Waterfall Software development methodology.
• Fluent with businessprocessmapping, use case diagramming, sequence diagramming and activity state diagramming using MS Visio.
• Responsible for Gathering Requirements from the Quantitative Analysts, Portfolio Managers and Technical Team to produce Business and Functional Requirements for a Risk Management Application from Data warehouse.
• Strong experience and solid understanding (SME) towards Market risk management, including VaR model (calculation, interpretation, model accuracy measures and back test/stress testing, Sensitivities, Greeks and Durations/Convexity).
• Knowledge and understanding of capital markets and the effects of liquidity risk in an organization
• Experience in testing Web Services (SOAP, API).
• Very strong with FIX, SWIFT and XML, Strong knowledge of APIs, integration as well as implementation concepts. Worked with Major data sources. Strong with performance attribution concepts.
• Expert in writing detail system use cases, developing business test cases and working with QA teams during testing phase thereby facilitating acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users
• Experience in Back-End Testing using SQL on UNIX and Windows platform to validate the consistency of data.
• Excessive use of documentation to avoid any form of miscommunication or misinterpretation during the entire software development process. Prepared Systems Proposal Reports and Business Plans.
• Good team player with the ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Possess excellent communication and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment.
• Proficiency in tools such as MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Gathering Requirements from the Quantitative Analysts, Portfolio Managers and Technical Team to produce Business and Functional Requirements for a Risk Management Application from Data warehouse.
• Analyze system documentation and system artifacts to develop an understanding of the associated business process
• Prepared (BRDs) to document all existing Files and Data elements to be converted from source system to Target Pre-staging.
• Responsible for multi-organizational setup business requirements, legal entities, multi-currency functional documentation for order management implementation.
• Familiarized with Adobe CQ5 (Adobe Experience Manager) for analyzing and documenting the requirements.
• For complex projects, acted as liaison between IT and business clients to accomplish credit card application enhancements and production bug fixes in support of company objectives.
• Developed the project vision, scope and objectives after business problem analysis and problem definition
• Interacted with software developers to understand application functionality and participate in the product design process including functional specifications and other document reviews.
• Act as SME during requirements-gathering phase of migration from Oracle Stellent Platform to Adobe Experience Manager.
• Worked for ensuring that the final data warehouse implementation will meet the user expectations
• Involved in data management for Credit Risk, Liquidity risk and Market Risk data warehouse and create business rules for risk management systems
• Work with digital strategy team to release web documents using Adobe Experience Manager CMS and ensure that newly released content is displaying correctly on web
• Extensively involved and performed Feasibility Analysis for the proposal of the new system around Agile methodology
• Prepared ‘Statement of Work’ documents based on defects or change request documents submitted by the production support/QA team during UAT testing.
• Created and performed automated (SQL-based) report scrubbing to improve operational efficiency to define requirements and executing to delivery.
• Expertise in writing SQL Statements in database to make sure whether the data is populated in Data Mart /Data warehouse According to Business Rules.
• Familiarized with Content Management System (CMS) for analyzing and documenting the requirements.
• Developed UAT test cases associated with the functional requirements.
• Adapted the existing SDLC Methodology to allow for Agile projects
• Performed GAP Analysis, conducted walkthroughs and acted as a liaison between the business users, stakeholders and the team to perform the requirements, quality and risk analysis
• Conducted JAD sessions, analyzed and documented the business requirements from various teams and stakeholders.
• Maintained the master schedule for projects and coordinated with executive leadership to manage the priority, timing, and status of IT projects across the organization.
• Deliver targeted content that is tailored to any type of visitor based on context, behavior, geography, and profile data - improving the customer experience
• Managed requirement activities using an iterative and incremental methodology such as Agile using User stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Measured project and program performances by developing and implementing scorecards, metrics/KPIs and dashboards.
• Executed SQL Queries for test data using Business Objects
• Defined and created a wide range of documentation: business requirements, system requirements, UML use cases, test cases, wire frames, GUI and portal design, Visio flows, training manuals, and user guides
• Identified the limitations users currently experience in the operational reports obtained from current systems and recommended solutions to overcome these limitations.
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve data from databases after data migration.
• Suggested measures and fine-tune queries to improve the performance of each Interface and the quality of the output files.
• Coordinated the activities of subordinates in the Interface Team and organize weekly status Meetings.
• Performed financial research and analysis as necessary and respond to data requests and additional projects and responsibilities as assigned.
• Communicate and analyze business needs and create business and technical documentation
• Crystal Reports was used to generate reports from different databases of different asset classes like equities, bonds, derivatives, and commodities, for all business needs.

Environment: Agile, SQL, AEM, CMS, Microsoft SharePoint, JIRA, ALM, MS Office, Microsoft Project, UML and Data Stage, Process Methodology.

BA/QA Analyst

Confidential, Berkley Heights, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked with product SMEs to define product specifications in order to define Line of Business within Policy Center
• Defined customization product rules including coverable items, coverage, coverage terms, deductibles, and limits within Policy Center system
• Performed GUI Testing Negative Testing and Positive Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.
• Worked in Agile scrum methodology for both manual and automation testing.
• Conduct Agile Scrum meetings to discuss project progress and plan
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects, errors, and inconsistencies in the application using JIRA.
• Worked with cross-functional Claim Center team to be sure that LOB is in sync with Policy Center as configuration continues
• Defined business rules for account and agent set-up within PC and integration requirements for downstream applications including Billing Center
• Created business requirements for Policy Center to have a producer management system to track detailed information about producers.
• Executed automated test cases in ALM/Quality Center and reported defects in JIRA.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings and sprint reviews and Implement AGILE QA processes and practices for efficient test and defect management.
• Designed a new replacement requirements template which could be used across all lines of businesses to maintain consistency
• Worked in mainframe environment and used SQL to query various reporting databases.
• Wrote PL/SQL statement and stored procedures in Oracle for extracting as well as writing data.
• Assisted in building a Business Analysis Process Model using Rational Rose and Visio.
• Extensively used agile methodology for testing the application.
• Performed extensive Requirement analysis and developed use cases and workflows.
• Interacted with Product Specialists and Product Analysts to identify the changes in the existing system and additional features required in new system
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, etc.
• Performed negative and positive testing as per the test cases.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects, errors, and inconsistencies in the application using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Utilized Agile Software Development Methodology using tools like Rally.
• Played a key role in the planning, User Accepted testing (UAT), and Implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Analyzed system performance and initiated process improvement measures for mainframe and Web-based applications.

Environment: ALM Quality Center, JIRA, Rational Requisite pro, SQL, Java, Rally, Agile, Cognos, Microsoft Office Visio, Billing Center and Claim Center MS Excel

Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Requirements (Business as well as System requirements), performed requirements analysis along with the creation of Use Case Scenarios. Modeling of the business and application using Rational Unified Processing (RUP) and Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Functionally validated Web services delivered in SOAP XML format as provided in specification document
• Document management system was utilized in the access control and management of the requirement specifications produced in this role.
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using HP Quality Center
• Facilitated JAD sessions to collect requirements from system users and prepared business requirement that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Identified processes for developing and documenting detailed business requirements. Data was collected from end-users, and analysts.
• Involved in validating SOAP XML specifications as per the standards
• Created Process Work Flows, Functional Specifications, and responsible for preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Worked closely with information architect, visual design and technology teams to formulate functional business solutions and help resolve issues, risks and dependencies within the track and across different tracks
• Maintained project modules in Clarity which included resource schedules, project plans, status reports, and Risks/issues management
• Created Use-Cases and Requirements documents to document business needs.
• Developed business requirements document (BRD), User stories, User requirements and functional requirements.
• Managed requirement activities using an iterative and incremental methodology such as Agile using User stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Worked with the technical team to ensure that the data collected could be sent across the web services via the API to Pershing
• Conducted Use-Case reviews and identified gaps, leading to improvements/enhancements in the same.
• Analyze business rules to develop wireframes for pages in HTML to assist in UI design.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Worked with the Project Manager on various Project Management activities like keeping track of Project Status, Deadlines, Environment Request, and Compliance Issues.
• Wrote test plans and test cases based on the business requirements which involved market risk analysis and risk management like continuous time finance & asset pricing, stochastic processes & simulations, credit derivatives, structured products, documentation, value at risk, risk & return optimization
• Created Wireframe Diagrams for a New Web Application for filtering and viewing Extract file Error Reports
• Ensured Use-Cases were consistent and covered all aspects of the Requirements document.
• Was responsible for tracking issues and updating the status of existing issues based on the daily meetings with off-shore team.
• Identified and analyzed the data requirements for the various site teams and made sure that the required data is available in the testing environment.
• Involved in project status meetings, QA review meeting, and System Test meeting.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the User Acceptance testing. . Design, write and maintain data requests and/or queries to support the business.
• Provided regular verbal and written status reports to IT management and business community; published meeting minutes and maintained project plans.
• Actively interacted with the development team to fix critical bugs.

Environment: JAD, RUP, Quality Center, Oracle, UML, MS Visio, SOAP XML, MS Project, SQL, Web Service, Rational Requisite Pro, ClearQuest, MS Suit

Business Analyst

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• As a BSA have played an important role in finance organization, departments and also on financial tools like accounting principles, ETL.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements and analyzed the requirements using Rational Rose Requisite Pro - RUP.
• Prepared financial Portfolios structure to guarantee fixed income based on that investment.
• Good knowledge of investment in a variety of securities like Stocks & Bonds
• Was responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Strong knowledge of Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
• Performed testing on a data warehouse platform, including data integrity and data validation.
• Designed and built data migration capabilities extracting data from source systems to be loaded into a Data warehouse.
• Assisted the tech lead in defining the elements of tables to perform data modeling.
• Used ETL tool to perform 'stage data' to queue it for preprocessing prior to merging it into a Data warehouse.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Tested application under the agile, scrum and sprint development and process.
• Involved in Data Analysis for the data warehouse and data mart system.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules, created detailed Use Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing.
• Maintained documentation related to difficulties, complexities, and anomalies that may arise during the ETL process.
• Developed the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Followed Agile Methodology to emphasize on real time communication over written documentation.
• Performed ETL process using Data Manager for loading the data into Data marts which were used for performance reporting.
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvement.
• Participated in the logical and physical design sessions and developed design documents.

Environment: MS Office Suite, XML, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat reader, MS Visio, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Share point, MS SQL Server.