SUMMARY:

• Over (5+) five Plus years of experience as a Business Analyst working in Software Development Industry
• Highly capable of providing Complete Handshake between Line of Business and IT Team by understanding the task and converting it into technical specifications.
• Proficient in performing Gap Analysis, gathering Business Requirements, creating Functional and Usability requirements, by seeking clarity in understanding ‘AS - IS’ state and collecting requirements to determine ‘TO-BE’ state in requirement management, documentation and project coordination
• Highly capable of providing Complete Handshake between Line of Business and IT Team by understanding the task and converting it into technical specifications. customer service and strategic planning working in Banking (Retail & Commercial), Financial Services and detailed understanding of the business process models underlying these domains
• Knowledge of Capital Market, Investment Banking products like Derivatives Options, Forwards, Futures, CDS etc.
• Developed detailed auditing and reporting of the current status and history of all components related to a product.
• Performing in-depth analysis of existing systems to help define integrations plans for various projects,
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),Waterfall Model, Agile Software Development,
• Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes/wireframes and creating and analyzing workflow diagrams.
• Extensive experience in documenting Project requirements and creating Vision and Scope document as part of Business Modelling to assess success criteria.
• Experience in writing and maintaining the Requirement Definition Document that included Business Requirements (BRD) and Functional Requirements (FRD), Use cases and data flow process Diagrams.
• Assisted in planning and development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenario to meet product's business and solution requirements.
• Involved in creating and maintaining Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing detailed analysis of the project activities.
• Assisted to conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as an expert in writing detail Use case and working with QA teams during testing phase thereby facilitating acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users.
• Created swim-lanes and workflow diagrams to validate the Basic and Alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases
• Responsible for creating Project Control Plan, Risk and Issue Management Process and Change Requests.
• Responsible for writing weekly status reports and facilitate formal weekly project status meetings.
• Overall understanding of Service Delivery, (SLA) Service Level Agreements, and Stakeholder management.
• Exhibited strong analytical ability during Functional Test, Regression Test to efficiently prioritize and manage the defects using the Defect Tracking system.
• Managed offshore and onsite teams and defined processes, schedules and development guidelines.
• Experience in handling offshore teams and working for different time zones
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills to facilitate cross-functional teamwork in a fluid environment
• Senior Data Analyst for EIP(Enterprise Information Platform) technology projects.
• Gathered requirement through workshops and JAD sessions.
• Developed Use case diagrams, activity diagram and system design diagrams.
• Created Test Conditions from business requirement document and functional requirement document.
• Created System Requirement Specifications (SRS) document entailing business rules, conditions, calculations, triggers, visual representation, type of text (smart text, static text, free text, special formatting, metrics) of various dynamic elements present within the reports.
• Created Business Process Flows (Current State & Future State), Flow Chart diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer System: Window 9X/2000,XP, DOS

Programming Languages: C++, PL/SQL

Special Software:: Data Warehousing Tool, VISIOPentium 4 PC, Window XPOracle SQLMercury Quality Centre, HP Application Life-cycle Management, Microsoft Office Tools - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint, VISIO, TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, KS

Data/Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering, Understanding documenting the same.
• Managed day-to-day project activities and coordinate tasks with other teams.
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Conducted detailed and comprehensive business analysis by working with the IT staff, business users and end-users, in order to identify requirements and improvement.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, process Diagrams, Fabricated User Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Helped the development team in understanding the design and also developing complex logics.
• Allocated work to junior team mates, tracked deliverables and tracked timesheets.
• Tracked, coordinated, and assigned defects identified during the validation phase. This was accomplished using the Mercury Quality Centre tool.
• Actively involved in Validation process using and ensured all applications were tested for functionality through unit testing and regression testing.
• Support UAT and co-ordinate the offshore team.
• Interact with end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements.

Team member

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding, Analyzing and Documenting requirements of various Line of Business in need of data out of this platform.
• Facilitating discussions with Business Users to gather appropriate scope of work for every release and in overall project planning
• Conduct detailed Requirement and Gap Analysis sessions with various source systems SME and Prepared Source System Understanding documents
• Understanding and Analyzing Source System Data and their respective data sufficiency for Enterprise Data Warehouse. Proposed changes if needed.
• Worked in close proximity with development and testing team to bridge gap between business understanding and related technical aspects. Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Involved in building the Architecture and Road map for execution of the projects.
• Brainstorm and Understand Bank’s each business portfolio and their respective integration with IT
• Designed Source System Data Interface Files to feed data in this platform and ensure all Enterprise data is covered.
• Designed first level of Data Integration Layer - Standard Interface Files as per each Banking Business Subject area before data is fed to IBM Banking Data Warehouse Relational model.
• Performed Data Analysis on each source system and Mapped Financial data, Customer data, General Ledger data, Loss event data and Reference data to Standard Interface Files.
• Worked with Data Modeling team on Customization of IBM - BDW model for creating an Enterprise Data Repository (EDR) as required by Basel II reporting regulations and other regulatory reporting requirements.
• Defined and Provided the Reference data approach required as part of Data Standardization and reporting requirements.
• Performed data mapping from Enterprise Data Repository (EDR) to Risk Data Models and Reveleus tables and output from Risk Data Models and Reveleus back to Enterprise Data Repository.
• Involved in Designing Data extraction specifications for BASEL II RWA Calculator, OCC Reporting, Credit Reporting, Economic Capital, Oracle Financial Reporting, from this platform.
• Documented each process and work effort in detail for a smooth transition for new joiner in team.