SUMMARY:

• Master's degree in Finance with over 7 years of experience in the Finance Domain with a focus on Business Requirement Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Quality Assurance (QA).
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of the Financial Services Industry, Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Fraud monitoring, Customer Identification Program (CIP) / Anti - Money Laundering (AML) / OFAC rules, Investment Data Management and Portfolio Management System.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Agile methodologies.
• Expert in creating Scope documents and Requirements Matrices, Analyze Requirements, perform Reverse Engineering to identify core business requirements and contribute toward the development of baseline specifications.
• Experienced in working with a Cross Functional team and perform certain Project Management responsibilities.
• Expert in conducting JAD Sessions, brainstorming, Walkthroughs, Client Presentations, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Hands on experience in Use Case Modeling and Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) using UML methodology
• Knowledge of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) architecture. Expert in Data Mapping and Analysis.
• Proficient with various UML tools, Microsoft Excel and Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills along with strong analytical and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile: Rational Unified Process (RUP) MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect

Quality: Center, MS SQL, Unified modeling language (UML), Use Case

Diagrams:, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams, TPX, Hogan and MS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the stakeholders and SMEs to identify and capture requirements related to the Project.
• Conducted JAD sessions, brainstorming, and interview sessions between the IT teams, business stakeholders and external vendors.
• Documented core business process information, business rules, business entities and other relevant information in the Detailed Business Requirements Documents.
• Worked with the SMEs and external vendor teams to create process flow diagrams.
• Helped solution work around for impediments interfering with the core business rules and requirements.
• Acted as liaison between IT, Business groups and vendor, researching and expediting resolution of issues.
• Created a Traceability Matrix to track High Level Business requirements to the Detailed Business Requirements throughout the phases.
• Acted as liaison between end users and vendor, expediting resolution of issues. Identified and resolved issues.
• Assisted with the screen design of ecommerce site, mobile page, report design, and all user interface issues by providing detailed functional requirements.
• Used the Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing
• Analyzed and mapped processes (current state/future state).
• Assured that the project plan is adhered to and scope changes are formally reviewed and documented.
• Conducted brainstorming sessions with the QA teams in order to identify the critical test scenarios and scripts.
• Assisted the QA team to write the test plan and test cases.
• Worked with the QA team to perform SIT, Regression and exhaustive User Acceptance Testing for all phases of the project.
• Directed quality assurance efforts through the creation of test plans and test matrixes. Coordinated and assists with user acceptance testing.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions with the business unit managers and subject matter experts to document requirements.
• Conducted various client webinars to communicate new and enhanced product functionality
• Developed and documented current state environment and processing flows with Microsoft Visio.
• Drafted content for internal and external communications and documents.
• Liaison between technical side and business side of projects. Creative elicitation of true requirements, traceability matrix monitoring, Visio expert, MS Office and SharePoint advanced user
• Involved in maintaining and managing different versions of Documents.
• Maintain requirements and defects in HP ALM and participated in defect review meetings.
• Coordinating with offshore team for various projects on day-to-day basis and responsible for deliverables of the offshore team.
• Coordinated and attended meetings to review the requirements specifications with the Quality Assurance Manager and other team members.
• Developed test cases and test scripts for functional and integration testing.
• Created and executed custom Test Cases and User Acceptance Test cases for the UI-based application as required by regulations through HP ALM.
• Updated tickets on day-to-day basis in JIRA.
• Involved in analysis of test reports and identified the bottlenecks in the application and checking database also and reviewing test result.
• Coordinated and attended meetings to review the requirements specifications with the Quality Assurance Manager and other team members.
• Assisted Project Manager by creating project charter, scope and schedule.
• Documented use cases, “To Be” business process flows and use case diagrams based on client requirements using Rational Rose.
• Design and documented test cases and scenarios according to the applications requirements.
• Worked with Product Owners to create user stories
• Responsible for working with other Business Analyst on team to share/discuss responsibilities of Business Analyst
• Worked with scrub master to schedule Facilitate scrum meetings (grooming sessions, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc)
• Conducted QA/UAT with the cross-functional business teams to ensure the user stories were completed.

Confidential

Business Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented core business process information, business rules, business entities and other relevant information in Business requirement document (BRD) and functional requirement document (FRD).
• A facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents (BRD) that provided appropriate scope of work for the technical teams.
• Assisted in creating business requirements, implementation, test cases, test scenarios and test plans.
• Conducted JAD sessions and brainstorming, interview session between the development team, business stakeholders, and end users.
• Worked directly with Risk Analytics/Users to establish Business Requirements, defined and documented core business process information, business rules, business entities and other relevant information in Business requirement document (BRD).
• Prepared the Use Case views for a clear understanding between the vision document and the stakeholders using Microsoft Visio
• Interacted with SMEs, Business and IT to develop Process flow diagrams.
• Prepared the RTM (Requirement traceability matrix) using MS Excel to map the status of requirements.
• Kept RTM updated as per the progress of the project to keep the development of the project as per user requirements.
• Conducted meetings with users and other stakeholders to elicit, organize and document the requirements
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for Rapid Application Development (RAD) to identify business rules and requirements and documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders to resolve open issues.
• Involved in maintaining and managing different versions of Documents.
• Thorough knowledge of implementing SDLC in all six phases of a project i.e. Initiation, Gathering requirements, designing, development, testing and implementation.
• Prioritized business and systems problems; analyzed there impact on the system.
• Validated technical designs created by IT developers against business requirements and functional specifications.
• Analyzed requirements and involved in preparation of Test Plans, Test case and test scenarios for different modules and documented test cases for various screens of the application.
• Reviewed Test Plan Document and Test Strategy Documents using Application Lifecycle Management.

Confidential, NY

Business Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Users, Developers, and Project Manager to understand the business process, identified enhancements and gather Business Requirements to be converted to the Functional Requirements Specification Document for integration into the new system.
• Participated in the meetings with SMEs and Managers to understand current business processes and analyze functional improvements.
• Prepared Business Requirement and Functional Requirement Documentation for internal and external audiences
• Identified and documented system problems and recommended solutions.
• Performed root-cause analysis and troubleshoot data-related issues on an ongoing basis
• Monitored progress on Test Plans and Test Cases, adjusting them based on test results and progress.
• Discussed new requirements with Business and IT to derive action plan, deadlines and standards.
• Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and presentations; defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors.
• Mapped data to ensure smooth data flow to and from different systems and interfaces.
• Prioritized business and systems problems; analyzed there impact on the system.
• Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.
• Designed test plans for system integration testing phase and assisted with preparation of test cases for User Acceptance Tests.
• Assist with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business Clients to Document requirements related Market Risk measurements. Creates Business requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).
• Design Business Reports by interacting with users requirements. Transfer requirements logic to Developers.
• Track all the requirements; assign deadlines to onsite and offshore developers, and status reported to Project Manager.
• Worked independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers;
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Developed prototype of new information processing application. Facilitated collection of functional requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents using Rational.
• Create training plans, prepare training materials and deliver training to internal and external users for new and existing tools and processes.
• Coordinates the development of all approved versions of business and functional specifications for specified Requirements.
• Develop Functional Specifications for OBIEE Developers based on the requirements.
• Participation in Project status, Test planning and Design review with team.
• Coordinate with ETL Developers, OBIEE Developers and Database Modeler and maintain status of the Project.
• Scheduled and Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business clients
• Design and develop Use Cases and UML models using Rational and developed Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Develop strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in HP Quality center (ALM 11).
• Research performed on new Dodd-Frank's New Credit Rating policy for the banks.
• Worked on IBM Lotus Notes (8.5) also proficient with MS Visio.
• Hand over the Report Requirement Matrix and Functional Requirement documents to the application support team.
• Extensively involved in Deployment process planning, Perform all assigned task for the deployment. Also track the deployment status.

Confidential BARNEY, NY

Business Requirement Analyst / UAT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with business and functional owner to discuss system problems and identify risks associated with the Target Operation Model (TOM).
• Discussed new requirements with Business and IT to derive action plan, deadlines and standards.
• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows and requirements.
• Conducted UAT sessions with business and financial advisors to ensure that the system meets all the requirements.
• Developed Business Requirement Documents (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Change Requests (CR) documents.
• Expertise in creating UML based modeling views like Activity/ Use Case/Data Flow/Business Flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Ensured all artifacts complied with MSSB's corporate policies and guidelines.
• Conducted brainstorming sessions with the QA team to develop critical test scenarios.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Led daily defect meetings with the Technology, Operations and Business teams to drive closure on open defects and coordinated defect re-testing efforts. Produced testing status reports and updates.
• Developed training material for financial advisors and system users.