SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst professional with 6+ years of experience in Banking and Financial domains.
• Expertise in working with various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes including Waterfall and Agile Methodologies such as Scrum - Waterfall (Hybrid), Scrum, Lean Software Development (LSD) and Rapid Application Development.
• Experience in creating and evaluating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), and Systems Required Documents (SRD) and propose changes as per various internal and external requirements gathered for process improvement.
• Implementing Screens JIT and Six Sigma Methodologies for process improvement and implementation.
• Conducting Cost Benefit, Return on Investment, Root Cause and Risk Analyses and feasibility studies.
• Creating Use Case, Sequence, Activity and Class Diagrams using UML, MS Visio, and Rational Rose, as well as creating Mock-Up and prototype using tools such as Wireframes and Lucid charts.
• Extracting data through writing complex SQL queries and coordinating UAT data validation.
• Performed as liaison between business and functional owner during risk engineering and high-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards.
• Conducting story writing, Brainstorming, Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint Application Requirement (JAR) sessions with Development Team and Project Sponsor.
• Expertise in using various tools like MS Visio for Functional Flow Charts, Business Process Diagrams.
• Comprehensive understanding of the Organizational Framework that help to map the AS-IS and TO-BE model using the GAP Analysis, and plan effective approach to build/buy solutions to the business problems/needs/opportunities.
• Quick learner with good analytical skills and ability to quickly adapt to new environments.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly appreciated team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, MS Excel, UML s Class diagrams, Mockup Screens, Wireframes.

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Waterfall-Scrum, Iterative Waterfall, Agile, JAD and six sigma

Requirement Documentation: Project Vision Document, Requirement Management Plan, Use Cases, User Stories, Business Requirement Document, Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting, Adhoc reporting, web Services (SOAP and REST).

Project Mgt/Req Gathering Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint Server, JMS, Wireframe, MS Office, JIRA

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL.

Databases: MySQL, Oracle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users to gather requirements and goals.
• Involved in gathering and synthesizing Business Requirements and translated into Functional and Non-Functional Requirements to be used as input to the functional design specifications.
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD). Analyzed and prioritized business user requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.
• Created UML Diagrams, Use Cases diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Involved in entire SDLC process including Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wireframe with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Used SQL queries to retrieve the data from the customer database.
• Conducted JAD sessions with the Management, Vendors, Users and other Stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Involved in testing vendor developed Java API webservices.
• Maintained the Minutes of Meeting of the entire requirement gathering sessions.
• Ensured that the shared data is accurate and updated for tax purposes.
• Prepared and analyzed AS-IS and TO-BE in the existing architecture and performed GAP Analysis.
• Documented the Traceability Matrix for tracing the Test Cases and requirements related.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing and documented detailed results.

Environment: Java 1.8, Spring, Jersey Restful web service, Grizzly server, DB2, Titan Graph database, Camunda Work flow engine, Elastic search, Maven, Json, ETL, Angular JS, NodeJS, Proprietary ORM framework

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations and the technical teams throughout the project cycle.
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD) on the basis of information gathered and ensured that it is completed within the defined SLAs.
• Performed GAP Analysis by understanding the AS-IS business process and the TO-BE business process along with the cost-benefit analysis.
• Organized requirements into high-level Use Cases and low-level Use Case Specifications on the Functional Requirement Document (FRD), and prepared Activity and Sequence Diagrams.
• Acted as a process flow person and prepared Business Process Model (BPM) diagrams & Data Flow Diagrams, and engaged in process analysis and mapping by using MS Visio.
• Designed, developed and executed data migration plans and activities including scrubbing, extracting, transforming, combining, validating and loading large data tables into SQL server database.
• Created and maintained SQL queries, views, and stored procedures in multi-database environment.
• Created Wireframes and developed prototypes of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) Design; demonstrated them to the stakeholders and business users and took feedback from them.
• Involved in Requirements Traceability Matrix management in Testing Phase.
• Assisted Quality Assurance (QA) team to develop test plan, test script, test strategies & test scenarios to perform System Integration testing, Regression testing & User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Designed the test cases and ran them as well by using HP ALM.
• Assisted the QA team in continuous integration as well as automated testing throughout every sprint.
• Conducted all scrum ceremonies.

Environment: Waterfall- Scrum Hybrid, SOA, MS Office 365, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Balsamiq, JIRA, Selenium, Tableau, Oracle 11g, XML, SOAP UI

Confidential

Business Analyst/ Incident Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migration of existing customer from a legacy platform to a new platform in UNIX.
• Direct interaction/communication with DB’s customer to co-ordinate migration date and time to the new platform.
• Preparing all prerequisites/setup/configuration ready before moving the customer on to live Environment.
• Setting up a test account in UAT Environment for customer’s end-to-end testing.
• Guiding customer of DB to help with setting up proper configuration in customer’s machine ensuring proper connectivity to DB servers.
• Generating all public and private certificates for the customer for them to install Migration steps executed on a web application called WMS to ensure proper movement of customer from legacy to new platform in Unix Environment.
• Resolving/Troubleshooting into logs for errors in post migration procedure.
• Documentation of procedures, notes and history of releases for tracking purpose.