SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience as a Financial Business Analyst with strong understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis.
• Foreign Exchange - Front-mid-Back-office platform for transaction processing and settlement of Multi-Currency, Multi-products encompassing FX, Money Markets and Derivatives. SWIFT compliant for generation of confirmation messages and payment orders
• Experience in Regulator Reports Testing for majors financial regulatory authorities across world like CFTC, JFSA, ESMA, HKMA, MAS, ASIC and Canada Provinces (OSC, MSC, AMF)
• Experience in Dodd Frank Global Trade Repository (GTR) Project initiative of Dodd Frank act Title VII (Wall Street Transparency and Accountability), facilitated by DTCC (: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation)
• Electronic Trading, Securities Lending, Risk and Compliance and Investment Banking Domain
• Worked as a business analyst to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Inflation Risk, Liquidity, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management, risks and returns, Bond Pricing, Equities, MBS, ABS, Derivatives (repos, interest rate swaps), Money Market Instruments and used strong knowledge of financial statements, cash flow, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Budgeting, trade capture application, risk management, Credit Risk, and Investment Accounting
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.
• Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business requirements document BRD, Use Case Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications FRS, Software Design Specification SDS, Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Software External Specifications SES, Software Requirement Document(SRD), Data Dictionary, Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
• Experience in various testing strategies likes Unit testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and manual testing (GUI testing, field validation testing, and functionality testing) using HP Quality Center
• Sound understanding of Object Oriented Analysis and Design OOAD and proficient in documentation of As-is and To-be business processes.
• Have good understanding of the Agile Scrum methodology and have participated extensively as a core team member over various project.
• Acted as a stand in Project Manager and Scrum Master as and when required by the team.
• Have good understanding with entire phases of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Full understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object Modeling Technique (OMT).
• Experience in Scrum Process and thorough understanding of Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Software Development Methodology and Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA).
• Experience in ISO 9000 Documentation.
• Basic understanding of Business architecture Zachman and POLDAT frameworks and Service-oriented Architecture SOA .
• Exposure to SAP Finance (FI) module.
• Experience in Competitive Analysis, Data Analysis, Gap Analysis, Usability Analysis and understanding of ROI Analysis, P&L Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Impact Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis.
• Experience with Business Intelligence, Data Feed Evaluation, Data Analysis, Data Mapping, Data Acquisition, Data Privacy, Data Compliance, Documenting Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Detailed Designs and Data Specifications with Data Interfaces.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages:: C/C++, SQL

Databases:: Oracle10g, SQL Developer, DB2

Modeling Tools & Languages:: Rational Rose, MS Visio, UML

Project Management Tools:: MS Project

Requirement & Traceability Matrix:: Rational Requisite pro, MS Excel, RTC

Change Management Tools:: Rational Clear Quest, MS Office, Snag-It

Testing Tools:: LinkScan, QTP, Win runner, LoadRunner

Web Technologies:: HTML, CSS, XML, LAMP, AJAX

Operating Systems:: MS-DOS, LINUX RH 9.x

Banking Protocols:: FIX, SWIFT

Financial Terminals:: Bloomberg, Reuters, Capital IQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Norfolk, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved with the project from its inception phase.
• Project was implemented using the Agile (SCRUM) Methodology to produce artifacts in the different phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in weekly scrum meeting for weekly status updates of the project and the issues.
• Analyzed and identified gaps in the existing system with the help of comparing and contrasting documented business requirements, and worked on creating a design for a new revised improved system.
• Worked on the Availity portal to create documentation for Authorizations, Claims, Patient 360, and PLUTO tools.
• Created UML diagrams to support the above mentioned tools, using Microsoft Visio.
• Ran SQL queries to pull relevant data from Facets, using Oracle SQL Developer 2.0.
• Created SEWF (Small Effort Work Form) and presented the same during CAB (Change Advisory Board) Meetings.
• Was responsible for updating the progress of SEWF on JIRA.
• Actively involved during the testing phase with involvements in Unit Testing, UAT and Integrated Testing.

Environment: Oracle SQL Developer 2.0, MS Office, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, Availity, Facets, Patient 360, JIRA, Toad, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Office Live meeting, SharePoint, Confidential Portfolio Management System.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst for Swap Data Reporting project which is Regulatory compliance requirement as part of Dodd Frank Reporting Act for 2013.
• Led the business requirements for multiple jurisdiction go-live namely CFTC, ESMA, Canada Provinces (OSC, MSC, AMF)
• Coordinated with DTCC for Real Time (RT) and PET (Primary Economic Terms) message formats used for Trade Reporting (Real Time and End of Day)
• Coordinated with Traiana the HML message format to be exchanged between State Street and Traiana Connect (TRC) application.
• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyze the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Provide assistance to DEV and QA team to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Created Use cases, activity report, logical components and deployment views to extract business process flows and workflows involved in the project. Carried out defect tracking using Clear Quest
• Interacted with the business users in knowing the business views and gathered the reporting requirements to design the universes and business objects. Reported, recorded and Tracked defects using JIRA
• Worked as a core agile team member in an industrial agile environment.
• Well acquainted with the agile process and also acted as a stand in Product Owner as and when required.
• Involved in the transition of the project from Waterfall to Agile Scrum.
• Also took upon the role of a scrum master as and when required.
• Involved in Regression testing of each build during the various phases of the application using QTP
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing, gathered and documented User Manuals and Business Rules
• Monitor Production Checkouts and own Post Deployment trade verification and Back Office reporting process.
• Managed Customers accounts with Traiana and kept it updated with State Street customer list.
• Root Cause analysis for with DTCC and Traiana so any issue on any FOREX trading.

Environment: MS office, MS Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Project, SQL, Oracle, RTC, Java, HTML.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyze the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Collects requirements from department managers and users for enhancements. Acts as liaison between clients and development. Implemented Agile methodology for the project life cycle and scrum framework for team management. The Project included automating the amortization process and interfacing with other banks through SWIFT for updating the financial transactions involving Fixed Income and Securities Investments.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Worked with Derivative modules, especially on Interest rate derivatives. Fallowed Agile (Scrum) Methodology to implement the project in OTC of Fixed Income products.
• Enhancing supporting documentation (policies, frameworks, standards, methodologies, and modeling documents) to demonstrate compliance with the Basel II Accord.
• Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain data warehouse content. Worked on Master Data Management (MDM) for maintaining the customer information and also for the ETL rules to be applied.
• Develop Logical and Physical data models that capture current state/future state data elements and data flows using Erwin. Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Involved in data migration design so that the data can be exchanged from other systems in standard ACORD XML standards. Worked on data modeling and produced data mapping and data definition documentation
• Configured the Data mapping between Oracle and SQL Server 2005. Tested Performance & Accuracy related queries under SQL Server. Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for testing and report/data validation
• Manage Scope and change throughout the SDLC process of the product.
• Created Use cases, activity report, logical components and deployment views to extract business process flows and workflows involved in the project. Carried out defect tracking using Clear Quest
• Interacted with the business users in knowing the business views and gathered the reporting requirements to design the universes and business objects. Reported, recorded and Tracked defects using JIRA
• Designed and Developed the Business Objects Universes which suit the standard, analytical and ad-hoc reporting requirements of the Business Objects users.
• Involved in Regression testing of each build during the various phases of the application using QTP
• Assisted to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing, gathered and documented User Manuals and Business Rules

Environment: RUP, UML, MS office, MS Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Project, SQL, Oracle, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Java, HTML, Crystal reports

Confidential, Virginia Beach, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Incorporated Agile Methodology and analyzed Business Need Document (BND).
• Worked with multiple project teams of technical professionals through all phases of the SDLC using technologies including Oracle, SQL Developer, .net.
• Worked with program managers to translate business requirements into functional and technical requirements.
• Involved in 834 Delegated Risk projects in CA and TX market.
• Worked with Delegated Risk Vendors requirement to prepare a proprietary 834 file.
• Assisted the Delegated Vendor in reading 834 file in compliance with the companion guide.
• Involved in System Development life cycle (SDLC) for 834 Enrollment process for CA, NY, TX
• Created UAT Cases for various projects related to 834 enrollment process for
• Markets like CA, NY, TX, VA and All Markets.
• UAT on various projects in markets like CA, VA, NY, TX and All Markets.
• Worked on enhancement or modification of various projects involving 834 process.
• Involved in updating Member Touchpoint Measures program (MTM) from current version to a new version to in corporate 834 and TRR transactions that receive at least one of the TRCs.
• Involved in System Development life cycle (SDLC) of MTM transaction for VA and CA.
• UAT MTM transactions for markets like CA, VA, and NY.
• Used various FACETS environment involving DEV, QA and Production to verify, test, enroll or modify members in Facets
• Worked on Tidal for UAT.
• Used Microsoft SharePoint to manage, share and update Projects.
• UAT the migration from Facets 5.10 to Facets 5.20 for Enrollment.
• Used SQL developer to optimize and execute SQL Queries.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation.
• Responsible for making data model, Use Case Diagrams and Class Diagrams using UML.
• Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data.
• Developed standardized FACET testing, involved in implementation and QA process. Worked on FACETS Audit Information.
• Updated technical mappings and supported the developers requiring the mappings to be created.

Environment: MS Access, Jira, Facets 5.1 and 5.2, Toad, SQL Developer, Tidal, MS SharePoint, .net, UltraEdit

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed existing functionality of online trading (Stocks & ETF’s), Options (Exchange Traded), MF’s and Bonds) to prepare for ported use of myFi & CPB. Overhauled necessary components and reworked existing processes to increase performance and reliability on par with expected additional volume.
• Assimilated the Business requirements from myFi, CPB and Benefits Access to formulate their version of Online Trading Application with their own compliances.
• Garnered insights on present framework and laid out the client centric application (Presentations).
• Developed an Integrated Trading System for equity and derivative trading and Risk management system for OTC securities.
• Acquired knowledge of performance measurement, GIPS compliance standards, sector, currency and security performance attribution, risk adjusted performance measurement (RAROC), volume weighted average price (VWAP) and implementation shortfall.
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Legacy trading system was re-written in Java and implemented using the standard RECOM Websphere J2EE architecture to run on fully licensed and vendor-supported infrastructure in order to comply with CITMP guidelines.
• Apply custom changes to Calypso software in order to replicate vanilla and exotic OTC derivative products.
• Built a “restricted security” tool for the IMS group to allow for RT blocking of specific securities in the case of last minute reorganizing issues.
• Performed Competitive Analysis on different online trading applications like GS, MS, SCHW etc,
• Business Process Re-engineering (Reverse Engineering) was performed on trading messages to churn out the Key-Business Logic (KBL’s).
• Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate AGILE Policies and guidelines.
• Generated requirements from Feedback (from FA’s) / Users’ requirements via CRM (SFDC or Salesforce.com)
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Worked with SME’s in Europe, to finalize the layout of the new Work-flow diagram. Also, the design (wireframes) was re-formulated.
• Determined and Drawn the preferred flows for OMS (Charles River), TMS figuration, BOSS and MEO for financial instruments (Stocks, bonds, Options, Mutual Funds, Preferreds, etc) with the consideration of Web discounts, daily trading account value, margin requirements, IRA accounts, trading limits, Lead-Ins and Lead-Outs, GLAS (Gain Loss Analysis Systems), Confirms, Settles, Trade multiplier, etc. on MS Visio.
• Customized Charles River functionalities (trade flows, compliance flows, blotter, manager work bench rules, broker commission rules, settlement instructions) to match the clients work flows
• Conducted UAT to confirm that all derivative products can successfully processed during the trade life cycle
• Managed Cross Team Collaboration and Offshore Testing team.
• Other areas include enhancements in Portfolio, Account setup, Content management, E-delivery and prepared Quick reference guide for CPB clients.
• Perform fundamental credit risk analysis and assign internal credit ratings on financial institutions and sovereigns.
• Propose credit limits based on analysis for individual counterparties and sovereigns.
• Monitor market, regulatory, macro economic, and political developments and assessing their impact on the credit quality of counterparties.

Environment: MS Office 2003, MS Paint, Snag-It v8.0, MS Visio 2003 Professional, Tealeaf.

Confidential, Murrysville, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business community to define business requirements and analyze the possible technical solutions.
• Requirement gathering, Business Process flow, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis
• Worked with the Business community, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering their requirements and data transaction information related to OLTP, OLAP and ASP.
• Extensive work experience with Portfolio Managers, Experienced Traders, and Compliance Manager to configure the rule-based scenarios for capturing market and credit risk, general multi-factor sensitivity analyses, and PnL.
• Co-authored business requirements document with project teams. Extract, discuss, and refine business requirements from business users and team members.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SME from various business areas including Mortgage Servicing, Loan Monitoring and Asset Management.
• Involved in modules which provides robust monitoring and validation to ensure regulatory and NACHA processing compliance
• Extensively involved with the trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives; and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures
• Developed and implemented processes and tools for requirements gathering, analysis, planning, tracking and delivery using Rational Rose requisite pro - RUP
• Performed Gap Analysis for new functionality requirements, as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs so as to align them with the product release roadmap.
• Designed and developed Use Cases and UML models using Microsoft Visio.
• Involved with all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout the project life cycle.
• Assisted project managers with the development of project schedules. Develop requirements and preliminary design for client applications. Perform analysis and design projects using a systems development methodology. Work with all levels of client staff in solution definition.
• To organize meeting and send agenda of the meeting, draft minutes to keep all invitees of the meeting on a same page.
• Organize weekly status meetings with the team to promote open discussion of business requirements and other system functionalities.

Environment: MS Project 2003, MS Visio 2003, MS PowerPoint 2003, MS Word 2003, Rational RequisitePro v.6.4

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the project and created Business System Analyst Reports.
• Created Use Case specifications, Business Flow diagrams, Activity/state diagrams and sequence diagrams, so the developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process according to their perspective.
• Used SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodologies like the RUP and the waterfall.
• Managed project resource allocations, planning and status updates to ensure efficient and responsive operations along with senior management.
• Participated in Project Iteration design meetings to discuss project status and resolve issues.
• Provided constructive feedback and assistance to management and IT, support, and application development teams on existing and new data processing systems and products.
• Identified, researched and resolved issues involving financial data errors during the daily data processing and calculations.

Environment: UML 1, MS Project 2003, MS Visio 2003, MS PowerPoint 2003, MS Word 2003, Rational Rose v 2003.