TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Enterprise Architect
• MS Visio
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Access)
• Rational Rose
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Waterfall, Agile
• RUP, UML
• Iterative
• MS Dynamics
• Salesforce
• Bloomberg Terminal
• DCF, LBO
• Java/J2EE
• Java Swing using NetBeans
• HTML/CSS
• Java Script, JSP, XML
• Spring Boot, Maven
• SQL Server 2000
• Oracle DB, MySQL
• MS Project
• Eclipse
• Visual Studio

SUMMARY:

• Sr. Business Analyst professional with 8+ years of expertise in the Banking, Financial, and Healthcare domains. Within most of the previous roles was responsible for enhancements to various systems and web portal upgrades to increase efficiency. Highly experienced in working with the development as well as the business side to create complete technical and functional specifications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Analysis/Design

• Comprehensive knowledge in Merger & Acquisitions, International Finance, Corporate Finance, Bonds, Options, Derivatives, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Analysis and Management, Capital Markets, and Financial Statements.
• Working experience in Financial Modeling such as Discounted Cash Flow, Leveraged Buyout (buy side & sell side), Comparable Company Analysis, and Comparable Transaction Analysis.
• In - depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Extensive experience in Project Management, Gathering Requirements, Data Modeling, Business Process Flows, and Implementation Plans.
• Proficiency in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specification Document, Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Data Dictionary, Disaster Recovery, SWOT Analysis.
• Knowledge in the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) with Informatica into a data warehouse/date mart and Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Business Objects Modules (Reporter, Supervisor, Designer, and Web Intelligence).
• Strong understanding of OLAP Cubes.
• Worked with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
• Experience with SQL queries for Data analysis and modification.
• Proficient in developing Behavior Diagrams (Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams), and Class Diagrams based on UML Methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Working experience in writing SQL queries and proficient knowledge of RDBMS concepts.
• Experienced in conducting JAD sessions, project meetings, reviews and walkthroughs.
• Working knowledge in creating Test Plans and Test Cases to ensure Quality Assurance and to test all the business requirements.
• Extensive experience in Business Analysis, Gap Analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis, Testing, Development of Functional Specifications and Project Planning.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

• Analyzed impact of proposed solution across the business, developed Use Cases to explain/demonstrate business requirements/specifications to IT team, and contributed a business process perspective during design reviews.
• Made a detailed analysis of the existing systems and developed a model to develop an AML system.
• Interacted extensively with business through JAD sessions and one-on-one interview sessions to write Use Cases, drawing UML Diagrams and designing graphical user interface prototype.
• Worked closely with on-site and off-shore team members, resolving issues that surfaced during this stage of the software development life cycle.
• Applied Iterative Model technique in every stage of the SDLC.
• Managed the workflow process using SDLC Methodology and Iterations.
• Extensively used ER (Entity Relationship) Diagrams and performed Data Modelling.
• Worked with Information Architect to create Wireframes/Prototypes of the web-based application.
• Worked directly with senior development engineers to identify areas to focus testing activities, reported and tracked defects and project schedules.
• Interacted with Development and QA Team to ensure overall quality and scalability of the software.
• Extensively involved in User Acceptance Testing, Performance Management and Documenting User Manual.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, HTML, JavaScript, Rational Rose, RUP, UML, Oracle 8i, SQL, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Crystal Reports, .NET.

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

• Interacted with Stakeholders by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing GAP Analysis and documenting them textually or within models.
• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detailed design of the software for full understanding of the business.
• Supported the assigned Project Manager with creating detailed project plans and assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Stakeholders. Worked as a liaison between Stakeholders and Developers.
• Worked with CTMS tool to perform Planning, Reporting and Performing.
• Created Use Case using UML tools and Process Analysis tool such as Fishbone Diagram and Business Process Flow Chart using MS Visio and mapping documents.
• Created Use Case Scenarios and documented Work Flow and Business Process.
• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose.
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams according to RUP for the stakeholder review.
• Worked with IPad and Mobile applications.
• Conducted Scrum meeting sessions to allow different Stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues, and come to an agreement quickly.

Environment: Agile, JIRA, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Visio, SQL 2008, UML Diagrams, HPQC, MS Office Suite.

Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

• Interacted with Stakeholders by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Communicated Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and made recommendation functional requirement, business rules & complex security requirements.
• Worked on data mapping techniques to connect data from different systems to MS Dynamics ERP.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing GAP Analysis and documenting them textually or within models.
• Worked with SMEs in regulatory compliance to identify gaps in the existing compliance systems and to chart a future state of the compliance portal.
• Conducted GAP Analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements. Reviewed and made input to Business Requirement Document (BRD) from policy owners.
• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detailed design of the software for full understanding of the business.
• Identified KPI aligning with business rules.
• Worked with ERP MS Dynamics implementation team for requirement gathering and functional analysis. Worked with large data migration project with MS Dynamics.
• Created Use Case using UML tools and Process Analysis tool such as Fishbone Diagram and Business Process Flow Chart using MS Visio.
• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose. Worked with SQL to extract validation of data.
• Conducted scrum meeting with the Scrum Master to understand the User Stories and prioritized the User Stories for the development team.
• Interacted with the Development team to help write Technical Specifications to describe Functional Requirement Documents (FRD
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams according to RUP for the stakeholder review.

Environment: Agile, JIRA, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Visio, SQL 2008, UML Diagrams, HPQC, MS Office Suite.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Hills, MI

• Interacted with Stakeholders by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Performed Requirement Gathering & Analysis by actively soliciting, analyzing and negotiating customer requirements and prepared the requirements specification document for the application using MS Word.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Worked with Subject Matter Experts in Fixed Income Annuities, Equities, Swaps, Finance, Trading Cycle, Portfolio Analysis & Management, Asset Management, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Pricing, Derivatives.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, functional requirement, business rules & complex security requirements, doing GAP Analysis and documenting them textually or within models.
• Supported the assigned Project Manager with creating detailed project plans and assisted in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Created Technical Business Rules for the Data Migration Project, which assisted the Project Management team with present and future development goals.
• Created Use Case using UML tools and Process Analysis tool such as Fishbone Diagram and Business Process Flow Chart using MS Visio.
• Developed Business Objects/Crystal Reports, Excel Pivot Tables, and V-Look-Ups, Forms and Graphs using Oracle 11i, Decision Point Data Warehouse Applications, and SQL databases.
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams according to RUP for the stakeholder review.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different Stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues, and come to an agreement quickly.

Environment: RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Visio, SQL 2008, UML Diagrams, Test Director.

Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, La Junta, CO

• Identified the stakeholders and elicited requirements in sync with the scope of the project.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and GAP Analysis to derive requirements.
• Validated and revalidated the requirements and aligned them with the specific business processes and business needs.
• Prioritized the requirements and also segregated them in terms of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and System Requirements Specifications Document along with Use Cases.
• Developed the requirements further in the form of Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Documented the changes to functional and business requirements and realigned the priorities.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assisted in developing the Test Plan and Test Cases to be used in testing based on Business Use Cases and Functional Specifications.
• Used SQL queries to do back end testing and did XML validation.

Environment: MS Office Suite, Waterfall, UML, MS Visio, GAP, SQL, XML.