SUMMARY:

• Having 12 Years of professional experience in Capital Market Domain which inludes Business Sytem Analyst/BI Analyst/ Functional testing.
• Good understanding of Trade Life Cycle, Settlement and Clearing concepts with work experience and other operational areas in Capital Market & Investment Banking (Such as Trade Capture, Validation, Enrichment, Confirmation, Settlement, Record Keeping, Data Servers and Reporting Applications) and the related middle office enterprise applications
• Core Product experience - Investment Banking, Equities, Derivatives ( Futures & Option), Collateral Management, Commodities, Risk Management and Corporate Actions
• Experience in full life cycle gathering requirements, documentation, developing, designing, implementing, testing and deploying BI Solutions
• Development, and Integration as well as Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics within Financial Services organizations
• Have technical expertise with various Data/Business Analytics and Reporting Platforms and well versed in Managing and Delivering various DWH-BI projects and Online Information Delivery Platforms.
• Adept in Report Analysis and Designing using various Market Leading as well as open source Reporting Suites.
• Experience in Data configuration and development project implementations.
• Business analysis experience includes working on projects to understand client requirements prepared BRD and FSD for the change requirements project
• Involved in the preparation of System Requirement specification Documents in migration of Transfer agency application.
• Expertise in developing Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Plans for Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing and QA Testing.
• Experience of Sprint-wise working and successfully achieving the Sprint goals.
• Hands on Experience in Project Management Tools like QC and SharePoint,
• Knowledge of Squirrel Query preparation and Data Backtracking.
• Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement and analyzing workflow.
• Team player and self-starter with excellent communication, coordination, documentation, project planning and interpersonal skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECTS:

Business Analyst

Confidential, Boston

Responsibilities:

• Interact with end users and SMEs, developers and collect inputs to prepare the Functional Specification Document and conduct data modelling to ensure system is in line with business expectations.
• Supervising the gathering of requirements and testing the controls, and defining and setting up processes in the framework
• Experienced in the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Like Requirement Analysis, Requirement Validation, Requirements Specification, Detailed design, development, testing, and implementation.
• Created Data Marts for consumption of data via client reports .
• Meeting with source systems architects to understand and finalize the flow of transactions or files to ESP.
• Defined data sets and providing requirements to the source system.
• Work with upstream and ESP team for alternation of the feeds to make them compatible to be loaded on to platform.
• As part of Production parallel, performed recons of ESP data with client data and ensure that the differences are explained.
• Designing reports from Business Intelligence suites (such as Jasper,e-spred sheet), and configuring proprietary State Street BI systems.
• Develop, design and support complex Jasper reports that measure key business metrics.
• Debug and troubleshoot data quality problems using control framework and SQL tools.
• Supporting query resolution and data creation during BUAT/CUAT
• Uploading and maintaining test cases, defects and documents on share point
• Managing the team’s tight delivery deadlines, including ensuring all members meet and exceed daily and weekly performance targets and expectations
• Acting as a domain consultant for the Testing team to ensure testing effectiveness is continuously improved.
• Work with QA teams in setting up test data and validation of changes in UAT environment before being deployed to production.
• Maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure all the scenarios has been covered in the Testing.
• Reviewing test cases for the coverage.
• Performing basic level of functionality Testing.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed test teams to create test strategy, test plan, test cases and generating test reports including defect reports.
• As part of Production parallel, performed recons of ESP data with client data and ensure that the differences are explained.
• Debug and troubleshoot data quality problems using control framework and SQL tools.
• Operational differences were logged into Known difference document and get signed off by work stream owners of StateStreet and Client.
• Follow project change request procedure and log all requirements changes and analyze the impact of requirement changes.
• Review and ensure the release dates of the patches to the platform or on track.
• Provide Business signoff for the changes or new features deployed to production as part of the business check out and signoff.
• Translate and communicate technical requirements into well designed solutions that meet the business and technical goals defined by business stakeholders.
• Work with architecture and engineering teams in distributed locations to drive planning, issue resolution, and development on platform & project specific technical topics.
• Perform feed analysis by understanding the format of the file content and file layout.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the client’s business / functional requirements
• Liaison between onsite Clients & offshore development team
• Interacting with Clients & conduct Business Process analysis
• Gathering the requirements and preparing the SRS document.
• Helping Development and QA teams to understand the client business requirements and assist them to build, deliver & implement.
• Process Flows using VISIO and Preparing Use Cases diagrams
• Assisting QA team in preparation of the test cases
• Reviewing the test Cases.
• Test case preparation
• Execution of test cases
• Tracking the status of the bugs.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios for the change requests adhering to the new functionalities
• Preparing the test Data.
• Performing the GAP Analysis.

Confidential

Senior Risk Management Executive

Responsibilities:

• Categorization of securities into groups 1, 2 and 3 for imposition of margins based on their liquidity and volatility.
• Specification of mark to Market margins
• Determining how much additional exposure (credit) to extend to a client based on his/ her net worth, type of client and the credit available after taking into consideration the profits/ loss incurred during the day
• Real time monitoring of the Intra-day trading limits and Gross Exposure Limits by the Stock Exchanges
• Specification of time limits of payment of margins
• Collection of margins on upfront basis
• Index based market wide circuit breakers
• De-activation of trading terminals in case of breach of exposure limits
• Collection of margins from institutional clients on T+1 basis Analysing requirements for up gradation of the existing Risk Management and Trader Workstation software, providing inputs to higher authorities and coordinating with Software developers to ensure that these inputs are integrated into the software developed later testing it for adequacy to make it user-friendlier.