SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst with focus on understanding business logic, identifying implementation business requirements and specifications for complex application development projects and producing Business Process Models & Requirement artifacts. Creative and aggressive self - starter with integrative thinking skills.
• Solid experience in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC), particularly Requirement gathering and documentation, use case analysis, UML and Business Process modeling, functional specification, business case analysis, Quality Assurance and testing.
• Experienced in SDLC models and methodologies like Waterfall, Scrum and Agile, RUP as well as a Scrum Master attended the( Scrum Planning, Review and Retrospective Meetings) .
• Specialized in conducting JAD sessions to gather business and technical, understand the Business process and Functional requirements and to translate them to specified requirement specifications like functional and business requirement, process flows, wireframes and prototypes.
• Demonstrated ability in performing Business Process Reengineering/Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Used Agile software methodology for project implementation with Scrum framework.
• Expert in all areas of (SQL) server/Teradata development including Tables, Derived Tables, Store Procedures and maintain the data integrity.
• Possess comprehensive understanding of diverse facets of Lending, financial planning, including investments, POS, Oracle Retail, SOX, BASEL, SOC Data Security System/ Closely worked with Financial Advisors and Industry professionals for Revenue Recognition and Data Analysis according to US Confidential .
• Strong business acumen, analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and presentation skills, Excellent written and oral communications skills to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts.

SKILL:

Project Methodologies: RUP, Waterfall, Agile with Scrum, Six Sigma

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio 2016, Rational Rose, Confluence, Share Point, iGrafx

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Version One, DOORS, JIRA, Rally

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality center

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/2000

Databases: Oracle (8i/9i/10g), SQL Server, MS Access, MongoDB

Data Modeling and Other: MS PROJECT, TOAD, Informatica Power Center 8.6

Environment: .NET, C, ASP, Java, Java Script, SQL, HTML5,CSS

Desktop Software: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint

Industries: Financial, Investment Banking, Insurance, Retail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather the client’s business requirements and business process management, and then translate them to particular software requirements.
• Facilitating and conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, interviews, workshops and Requirement elicitation sessions with end-users, clients, stakeholders and development team.
• Design and document work flow, document business requirements, create user profiles, and assure that client’s business requirements are met.
• Acted as the liaison between the business (Fixed Income- General Ledger , Cash Transactions ) and the technology area to implement software upgrades, create new reports.
• Communicated team status/progress via Release/Sprint Burn down charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects and make sure the stakeholders are aware of what is going on.
• Coordinate /Participate in daily scrum calls to review /prioritize User Stories in Agile; Maintain new requirement enhancement/fixes as User Stories/Epics in JIRA.
• Created Mock up for ACH payment work flow and review and configure API’s into existing application to accept payments through multiple channels and .
• Develop and update functional use cases and conducted business process modeling (Provisions) to explain business requirements to development and QA Team, as well BRD, FRD and FSD implementation.
• Involved for implementing technical solutions including business process data analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, ETL (extract, transfer, load data) integration, mobile data presentation and data visualization.
• Capture Business Process Flows and Reengineered Process to achieve maximum outputs as well manage any change requests and work with project manager to adjust project plans schedule, interfacing with client to address any potential delays.
• Effectively conducted AML /KYC formality reports on questionable accounts and transactions,(IMS) to measure the risk, Performed the required KYC screenings on customers documenting the information obtained on the client's as required by global KYC procedures
• Documented Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and mapped use cases to test cases/Matrix Conducted troubleshooting and testing of REST APIs using XML/JSON in Postman .
• Created Tests scripts, tests Cases and executed manual test cases .Drafter UAT tests scenarios and project release notes.
• Generated detailed Bug Reports, pass- fail report and comparison charts using JIRA: Created baseline to help testers to conduct Smoke, regression, user and full network system testing in integration.
• Communicate effectively with external clients and internal teams to deliver product’s functional requirements like screen and UAI as well as obtaining sign-off from the appropriate client.

Environment: SDLC, MS Access, Salesforce, Apex Classes, Azure, iOriginate, UML, JIRA, IBM Lotus Notes, MS Project, MS Office and Visio, Share Point, Visual Force, Eclipse IDE plugin,Apex Data Loader, Force.com, Informatica

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Creating Business Requirements Identification (BRIs) to meet programming specifications; sending complete forms to Operations; ensure timeliness; accuracy and approvals are met per the release schedule.
• Deployed Confidential products to new Eastern Expansion states. Assists in preparation of documents for regulatory filing material; measures and monitors state filings; Represented the Product Manager in her absence; conducts meetings, leads projects and responsible for overseeing product development of assigned initiatives.
• Managed the project though SDLC with Agile/Scrum, Identify opportunities and use problem solving skills to create plans of action like POS sales data, Collected, analyzed and provided POS data to increase sales productivity, support forecast process, item level in stocks, inventory status, PCI and OTIF compliance etc.
• Managed the Project through JIRA, Created Bugs and reviewed each defect and assigned to development team to resolves the problems, maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that all functional Requirements are addressed at the User Cases level.
• Engaged with Scrum team to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization; Track and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management and ensure the programming team developed high-quality working applications to clients.
• Used Work Breakdown Structure ( Confidential ), performed stakeholder analysis using RASCI technique and build a communication plan for interfacing with the stakeholders during project implementation.
• Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, User Stories, creating Screen Mockups, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis.
• Worked with cross functional teams to support Confidentialaccounts and handled normal technology installation, tech support, sales, credit cards, EMV and POS issues.
• Analyzed the existing reports of the reporting system in the database. Checked the consistency of the data after ETL process using SQL queries.
• Environment including Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Mapping, Data Integration and Data Migration; perform root cause analysis to determine the solution to problems using Fishbone analysis.
• Assisted with/facilitate mapping of “to-be “process and worked on the gaps of “as-is” to “to-be” processes and used UML for Business Process Modeling, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Documented them in MS Visio.
• Duties includes but not limited to Requirements analysis; developed and planned; End-user training and reference materials; conducted site unit testing
• Devised extensive E-mail marketing campaigns regularly & kept a track of positive as well as negative feedback for improvisation

Environment: SDLC, MS Access, UML, JAWS, VistA, Cloud computing, SharePoint 2013 MS Project, MS Office, Azure and Visio, ETL, Rational Rose Modeler, SQL server, Queries

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed market trend and develop the marketing policies and support revenue growth by planning and executing client-focused sales events.
• Proactively analyzes potential investment risk, Economy and operational risks with the business; challenge the control environment within the programs.
• Supported senior advisor on multiple aspects of account management, including answering client inquiries, examining portfolios, making recommendations, and acting as primary contact for numerous individuals with net worth exceeding 20 million.
• Reviewed the General Ledger/Balance sheet for the Revenue and made the changes marketing Strategies.
• Conduct comprehensive review of client portfolios, including meeting with clients, lawyers and advisors to assess strategies based on objectives and risk profile, identify opportunities, and prepare customized asset allocation suggestions.
• Developed strategy for marketing to new prospective clients / fund-raising / promoting brand; resulted in increased awareness / investment commitments.
• Create and maintain Excel Models to track and project cash flow for funds and overall portfolio, and track and monitor investment and geographical exposures.
• Worked with the investment bankers and products partners on strategic alternative ideas generation and pitches, corporate finance opportunities, and public and private equity and debt, capital raising transactions
• Suggested effective changes and additions to product to include more business features thereby enhanced customer satisfaction.
• Applied SEBI investment Laws and Policies to implement features in application and ensure better adherence to same
• Prepare and conduct presentations to clientele and key stakeholders, arranging hand-off to peers if required based on client's needs.
• Conduct quarterly/annual business performance reviews in conjunction with the financial advisor and opened up the new accounts.

Confidential

Business Analyst Assistant & HR Executive

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between business user teams & IT development / product teams to elucidate requirements and arrive at better solution design.
• Review & confirm Requirements document, Functional Design document and Technical Design document ensuring no deviation from the required solution and followed waterfall methodology.
• Responsible for ER Diagrams, Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data modeling using Microsoft Visio and followed the Lean methodology to track development process and also made the business process models.
• Closely monitor the progress of the project liaising with outsourced vendor teams.
• Reporting the progress of the project to the management by holding presentation. And discussion with the stake holders if there should be any deviation in the agreed deliverable.