Summary

• Over 7+ years of experience as aBusiness Analystin maintaining a frontline leadership role in all the phases of SDLC including Requirements Gathering, Data Analysis, UML Modeling, SDLC methodologies (RUP, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall) and Project Management, Fixed Income, Financial Analyst and Risk Management, portfolio and Asset Managers.
• Strong experience in coordinating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and structured interviews to converge towards a design, which is acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­
• Participated in project assessment, functional analysis and requirements gathering and convertingbusinessrequirements into functional requirements.
• Interacted regularly with the Development Team, Database Designer, System Administrator andall thesenior management tomeet the deadlines of Project Milestones.
• Adept in performing Gap Analysis, Feasibility Analysis and SWOT Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with newbusinessrequirements.
• Proficient in writing detailed Use Cases, developing Test Cases, and also working with QA teams during the testing phase.
• Effective in working withBusinessStakeholders, Senior Management, Support Managers onsite and off-shore, Project Managers, and Solution­­ Architects.
• Proficient in creatingBusinessRequirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents, User Requirement Specifications (URS) documents, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams,and Sequence diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing with stakeholders andbusinessusers.
• Excellent Analytical skills to understand theBusinessProcess and Functionality, Requirements, and translate them to System Requirement Specification documents.
• Extensive knowledge of UML modeling, drawing Sequence Diagrams and Activity diagrams using tools such as Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.
• Experience in Data analysis, Data modeling and Data mapping in Data warehousing
• Expert in SDLC processes including RUP, Agile, Scrum and Waterfall
• Excellent wire frame designing skills for the development of user-friendly User Interface Design.
• Exceptional communicationskills, Result oriented professional who combines formal education with experience gained from research and professional opportunities.
• Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and providing corrective actions to meet short and long-termbusiness, financial, and system requirements.
• Excellent knowledge of ETL cycle for extracting information from the source, transforming it in to the useful data according to operational needs and loading itin to the data warehouse or database.

Skills

Technical Skills

• Modeling Tools – MS Visio, Erwin, Rational Rose, Visual Paradigm, MS Access
• Management Tools – MS Project, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Databases – MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase
• Scripting – Java, C, C+, HTML, XML, CSS, SQL
• Testing Tools – Quality Center, Test Director, QTP, Load Runner, Win Runner, Rational Clear Quest

Functional skills

• SDLC Methodologies – Agile, Scrum, RUP, RAD, Waterfall
• Requirements Management, JAD Sessions and Project Management, UML – Activity Diagrams, Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagram, State Diagram, RDBMS, Data Modeling, Data Mapping
• Tools – MS Visio, Erwin, Visual Paradigm, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case
• Testing – User Acceptance Testing, Black-box Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Smoke Testing

Education

MBA

Professional Experience

Confidential, NY Oct 2009 – April 2011 
Business Analyst 
Confidential is a leading global British Investment Bank. Confidential provides Financing and Risk Management services to large companies, institutions and government clients.
The focus was to analyze the requirements of financial analysts, portfolio and asset managers for developing an intranet application that enhanced the investment process by making communication between different stakeholders’ smoother and time efficient. Als­­­­­o provided live market data alerts to the business users by utilizing live market data feeds and automated the post-trade reporting.
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedule documentation and test plans
• Worked with team to identify and map detailed current processes, identify gaps and defects, perform root cause analysis and develop functional requirements that supported overall strategy, goals and objectives
• Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing from portfolio managers and UI (User Interface)
• Analyzed, prioritized and managed the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues
• Participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements
• Created BRD’s (Business Requirement Documents) supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirements
• Developed timelines for project delivery and managed projects and resources to successful completion
• Acted as a liaison between technical team and business clients to accomplish application enhancement and production
• Created and managed requirement types and traceability relationships in Requisite Pro
• Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio
• Assisted the Project Manager in setting realistic expectations, in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly and conducted project related presentations
• Scheduled meetings with developers, SA’s (System Analyst) and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project
• Created wireframes in MS Visio and Mock-up forms for better visualization and understanding of the software solution.
• Assisted the SA to document all custom and system modification
• Assigned problems to appropriate software development team for fixes
• Authored progress and completion reports which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis
• Developed the test plans and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge
• Conducted UAT(User Acceptance Testing) and developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Quality Center for functional testing
• Suggested measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance

Environment:
J2EE, MS SQL Server, CSS, XML, Windows, SSIS
Tools:
MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Requisite Pro, Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner

Confidential, Ok May 2008 – July 2009 
Business Analyst
Confidential has added the Fixed Income services to the clients. As the first step Confidential wanted to enhance the existing software product of equity trading with additional features. The project intended to develop four modules for bond search, third party analysis, integration of trading system within the same environment and generating fund monitoring reports. 
Responsibilities:

• Worked with other business analysts and financial analysts in the development of module to manage portfolio allocation between equity and fixed income securities.
• Developed a module for bond search and risk analysis through third party data
• Developed an Integrated Trading System for equity n fixed income trading and automated report generating for monitoring the funds
• Conducted interviews, surveys, observing from traders and UI for requirements gathering
• Conducted JAD sessions with different stakeholders resolves the issues related to the system prototypes.
• Analyzed, prioritized and documented the requirements for better understanding
• Identified and created necessary Use Cases, created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams using Microsoft Visio
• Maintained and tracked stakeholders requests for enhancements and changes using Unified Change Management tool (UCM) such as Rational Clear Case.
• Assisted technical team in creating ER Diagrams for Database Design
• Worked with Data Architect in analyzing existing applications and assisted in Data Modeling for the corporate database
• Reviewed, assisted and validated the Data mapping to make sure that users requirements are met
• Participated in Bug-Review meetings with developers, Quality Analyst and provided solutions to existing bugs and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives.
• Created Test plan and Test Cases with QA team and was involved with test execution for the application.
• Participated in system testing and UAT process before rolling out to production

Environment: 
Java, PL/SQL (Oracle), Windows, XML, Informatica
Tools:
Visual Paradigm, Rational Clear Case, MS Office, Erwin, Test Director, MS Project, QTP

Confidential, Charlotte, NC Apr 2007 – Mar 2008 Business Analyst 
Confidential, a subsidiary of Confidential, is a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States based on total assets.
The project involved improvement of the mortgage closing systemthrough shorter closing time, and faster documents preparation. The system provided the ability to seamlessly import loan data from the Loan Origination Software (LOS).
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed clients system and business processes
• Interviewed clients to understand their business requirements, functional requirements, future needs and transformed them to functional specifications.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and Project Directors and documented and delivered Functional Specifications to the project team
• Documented and reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Assigned tasks, monitored and tracked progress of the project using MS Project
• Maintained and tracked stakeholders requests for enhancements and changes
• Designed the application in UML, using Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State Diagram for project documentation.
• Analyzed user statement of requirements to develop new reports.
• Used RUP process model for the different phases of the application development of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Recommended and coordinated development efforts and enhancements.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes using Rational Clear Quest.
• Conducted UAT, facilitated discussion between business team and QA team to determine the test requirements and pass/fail criteria and documented and reported user feedbacks to management team
• Recommended and coordinated development efforts and enhancements.

Environment: 
Windows, MS SQL Server, UNIX, JCL, Data Stage
Tools:
Rational Rose, Erwin, QTP, Load Runner, MS Project, MS Office

Confidential., Richmond, VA Sep 2005 – Feb 2007 
Business Analyst 
Confidential was formed by GE Financial Assurance Holdings to acquire its life insurance, long-term care insurance, group life and health benefits, retirement planning, and mortgage insurance business in the US, Australia, Canada, and Europe.The project was intended to develop the Portfolio Management System (PMS) to optimize workflow. It provided decision support for portfolio management by helping portfolio managers analyze and evaluate complex portfolios, showing individual breakdowns by assets, sectors and other micro factors.
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the scope and business rules of the project, gathered business requirements, and documented them textually and used UML models.
• Worked directly with portfolio managers and other investment and operations professionals in defining and documenting system requirements and workflows.
• Prepared an extensive Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Involved in preparing Test Plans based on User Requirements Document (URD).
• Resolved model clashes amongst various stakeholders to come up with mutually agreeable set of agreements through JAD sessions.
• Used Rational Clear Case to track changes and project status for Change Configuration Management.
• Supervised UAT using LoadRunner and WinRunner.
• Used MS Project to prioritize tasks.
• Developed Use Cases and Test Cases as per UML graphical notation.

Environment:
Windows, SQL, C#, ASP.net, CSS, XML, Cognos
Tools:
MS Office, MS Access, Win Runner, Load Runner, Visual Paradigm

Confidential, Chantilly, VA Oct 2004 – Jul 2005
Business Analyst
Confidential is the subsidiary company of United Bank shares Inc., and a community bank serving the financial needs of individuals and businesses throughout Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. The project was to enhance the on-line bill pay for their retail banking division to accommodate bill center, automatic payment of variable amounts of bills such as credit cards and utilities bills. 
Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, which included interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Identified and created all necessary Use Cases from requirements.
• Created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Recognized the business logic, user requirements and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases.
• Assisted in testing including regression, system integration, end to end, smoke, functional, backend, front end testing.
• Conducted UAT to make sure that all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
• Used Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources and collaborate on the project.

Environment:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, MS 
Tools:
MS Project, MS Visio, Erwin, MS Power point, Win Runner, MS Word