PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with over 6 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry - specializing in Requirement Management, Documentation and Project coordination.
• Solid background and knowledge in Financial Management areas like Wealth Management and Portfolio Management including derivative products such as futures and options.
• Knowledge of compliances and regulatory norms like Basel II, Dodd-Frank Act, and Sarbanes Oxley Act.
• In depth knowledge of financial and investment management industry in diverse areas such as Risk management and analyses, Fund accounting, fixed income instruments, and MBS.
• Excellent in eliciting and writing detailed technical documents like BRD, FRD, and SRS.
• In-depth experience on creating business process models via workflow diagrams and system modeling using UML diagrams and data flow diagrams.
• Excellent working experience on process analysis and improving the process including Business Process Re-engineering
• Hands on experience in data analysis with SQL queries for retrieving, maintaining and organizing data.
• Exemplary in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with front end and back end testing.
• Expert in designing detail system use cases, user stories, developing business test cases and working with QA teams during testing phase thereby facilitating acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users
• Experience in conducting joint application development (JAD) sessions with end user, expert team, Business intelligence team, IT SMEs and QA team for project meetings, walk through and all stakeholders.
• Attained powerful communication skills through meeting stakeholders, System developers and other teams and developed stakeholder friendly attitude
• Independent, self-motivated and possess ability of quickly grasping clients’ business requirements, critical thinking, in-depth analysis and team oriented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Development Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Hybrid

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Axure RP

Requirement Management Tools: Rational RequisitePro, Rational DOORS, MS TFS, JIRA

Content Management System: SharePoint, Confluence

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP ALM

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Databases: MS SQL Server, MS Access

Desktop Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Business Analyst/ Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements. Interacted with the process owners, project manager and other actors to get a better understanding of the business processes.
• Conveyed interviews and JAD sessions to get business requirements.
• Responsible as the primary liaison between the Business, Operations and the Technical areas throughout the Project Cycle
• Analyzed and modeled the system using Data flow Diagrams, Functional Hierarchy Diagram and Process Development Diagram.
• Systems Documentation included Business Requirements Document (BRD), Systems Requirement Specification (SRS) and test plans.
• Created “AS-IS” and “TO-BE” business process flow diagrams, integrate process flow diagrams to show one end-to-end business model and process mapping exercise including swim lanes.
• Developed efficient SOX test plans to validate the operating effectiveness of the general computer controls and IT entity level controls of the organization
• Planned the UAT testing, test plans, test cases and worked with the business users for UAT test execution in developing the training documentation.
• Involved in application deployment in Pre-Prod environment ensuring the migration of data to be tested for production parallel testing
• Used MS TFS to maintain and track the requested enhancements and changes
• Used SQL queries commands like distinct, where, joins to retrieve and organize database.
• Created Project management plans for managing on time delivery using MS Project along with writing test cases, unit and systems integration test plans in Test Director
• Participated in plans for Business Process Reengineering and was responsible for deriving requirements, process flow from many sources and formulating them into concise requirements

Environment: Java, Oracle, MS Access, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Office, MS TFS.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary liaison between business stakeholders and development team
• Followed agile/ scrum SDLC methodology
• Captured requirements via user stories and acceptance criteria in JIRA
• Conducted sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective meetings
• Analyzed “AS-IS” and “TO-BE” business processes and created process flow diagrams
• Planned the UAT testing, test plans, test cases and worked with the business users for UAT test execution in developing the training documentation.
• Executed end-to-end business level testing and full-scale production parallel testing.
• Involved in application deployment in Pre-Prod environment ensuring the migration of data to be tested for production parallel testing
• Used JIRA to maintain and track the requested enhancements and changes
• Used SQL queries commands like distinct, where, joins to retrieve and organize database.
• Created Project management plans for managing on time delivery using MS Project along with writing test cases, unit and systems integration test plans in Test Director

Environment: Agile, Java, Oracle, MS Access, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Office, JIRA.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for several applications and documented them in the BRD and FRD
• Involved with Commodities Trading System and the Information Sharing application between Bunge and data providers at inception phase, in coordination with the Project Management Office
• Led discussions for a global Treasury operation to centralize FX payments, to further eliminate foreign currency risk, to optimize lending/borrowing, to streamline inter-company sales/purchase transaction settlements, and to define Accounts Receivable processes for applying cash against customer invoices.
• Conducted unit level and system level SIT testing during dry run phase prior to release management
• Coordinated End user testing by working with the testing team, and end users
• Gathered functional requirements from users and management (SMEs).
• Gathered Business Requirements. Interacted with the Client, Process owner's, Project Manager and other actors to get a better understanding of the Business Processes.
• Impact analysis, budget and forecast including resource employment using Sopheon PPM tools
• Responsible for syncing requirements from RequisitePro to Quality Center using sync tool
• Created Project management plans for managing on time delivery using MS Project along with writing test cases, unit and systems integration test plans in Test Director
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases. Created Use case diagrams, activity diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Worked closely with test team for user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Toad, MS Access, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, Requisitepro, and Crystal Reports

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered primary input/output requirements and modeled the agile processes using Rational Rose.
• Participated in developer’s team to ensure that end system is met as per specifications and within time and cost budgets
• Gathered data requirements for the furtherance CRM system functionalities by interacting with the users and IT team.
• Mapping existing business processes and desired business processes
• Business Process Model (Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Collaboration diagrams).
• Ensured application forms and reports (UI) followed client’s development standards and guidelines in terms of usage, naming conventions etc.
• Responsible for writing Business Use Cases, Business Rules, logical analysis and change management of SharePoint requirements.
• Follow audit processes and standards in coordination with QA, decisions based on GAP analysis and industry standards.
• Resolved technical and functional issues raised by team members Quality management, Audits & SOX Compliance
• Used MS Access, MS Excel (Pivot tables), SQL to design and test
• Created use cases, activity and sequence diagram for online banking using MS Visio, also analyze and design the data flow.
• Provided hands-on project schedule management using MS Project during the various stages of the project.
• Managed all the requirements in Requisitepro, making requirements available to all team members.
• Designed the test plan and worked with the QA team to implement and monitor the entire QA process.
• Responsible for processing change requests from the client by filling Change Request Forms (CRF).

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project, HTML, Windows, SQL.

Confidential, SFO, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted one-to-one interviews with Portfolio Manager to gather Business Requirements and was involved in the documentation of Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Derivatives Business Requirement Documents.
• Assisted the Project Manager in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly and conducted Project related presentations.
• Identified internal and external system Requirements, design and configuration set-up.
• Developed strategic partnerships with the Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Derivatives Business units to develop a solid knowledge base of the Business line, including the Business Plan, Products and Process.
• Translated the Business needs into Fixed Income Derivatives system Requirements, communicating with the Business on a broader scale and with an in-depth view.
• Designed and developed Project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Developed Business Requirement Document (BRD) as well as High-Level Project Plan.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the Business line, Operations and the Technical areas throughout the Project Cycle.
• Developed Functional Specification Document (FRD) and Supplementary Specification (non-functional) Document.
• Participated in the Logical and the Fixed Income Derivatives Physical Design sessions and developed Design documents.
• Worked with developers to make sure that they understood the Use Cases.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and Report / Data Validation.
• Partnered with the Technical Areas in the research and resolution of System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with Quality Control Teams to develop Fixed Income Derivatives Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Developed User Manuals and training Manuals as per Project Specifications and Timelines.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, Windows XP, Dreamweaver, SQL, PL SQL, XML, VB, ASP, Crystal Reports, Adobe Photoshop, Quality Center.