Sr. Business Analyst Resume Chicago - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Currently working with Confidential - Channels Technology Management across Retail Banking and Wealth Management platforms.
8+ years (Sr. Business Analyst) of IT & Banking experience primarily in Banking and Finance Domain.
Experience in Core Banking, Channels (Online Banking, Tablet & Mobile), and Payments, Transfers & Cash Management domain.
Detailed understanding and complete business knowledge of banking and payments - Account Transfers, Wire Payments, Bill Payments
Hands-on experience with crucial project phases such as Initiation, Requirement Gathering & Documentation, QA & UAT Support, Execution & Closure.
Strong client & Business facing experience with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
An effective communicator with excellent presentation, facilitation skills and high analytical ability.
Worked with Waterfall and Agile software development and Testing Methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, PVCS tracker, Bugzilla, JIRA

Accessibility testing tools: JAWS, Voice Over

Programming Languages: VB.Net, ASP.Net,C#.Net, Java, SQL and PL/SQL

Software Packages: MS Office, Visio

Mobile OS: IOS, Android and Blackberry OS

Browsers: IE, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for creating User stories through brain storming sessions and gathering requirements for development of new account creation for new clients.
Prepare the User stories and get it reviewed with all the stakeholders
Provide story point estimates for each User story
Guided automation team to discuss all the integration points
Actively worked with offshore vendors, technical teams and release managers to manage new Releases, resource planning, effort estimation and cost reporting.
Raised Defects during UAT and followed up with developer until closure
Attend daily scrum meetings

Confidential, Toronto.

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for documenting Functional design document and gathering requirements
Created high level design document
Provided estimates for requirements for the project
Prepared requirement traceability matrix after completion of business scenarios and test scenarios
Review offshore team test cases along with Defect tracking
Organized Defect triage meetings
Developed and published Project metrics, trend analysis and QA metrics
In-corporated last minute updates on enhancements and defect clarifications before the release
Helped to create test data for UAT support and Demos

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Creating Functional Design Document for the Research website and all Back Office related functionality.
Facilitating and driving the requirement gathering workshop with the various stakeholders of the project.
Managing client expectations, update meeting minutes, project status updates, demos, reviews and walkthrough.
Creating Business Scenarios and Use cases.
Updating DRS, Product Document, Mapping sheet, Visio for the Gaps and new functionality, Change Requests.