SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with 8+ years of experience in business process analysis modeling, business requirements gathering, analysis, design and development of the web based and client/server applications.
• Expertise in understanding and supporting the client with project planning, project definition, requirements definition, analysis, design, testing, system documentation and user training.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Deft at translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML) using Rational Rose & MS Visio.
• Expertise in Fixed Income, Derivatives, Equities, Bond Pricing, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS).
• Organized Joint Application Developments (JAD) & Joint Requirement Planning (JRP), walkthrough, Interviews, Workshops & Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions with end - user/clients/stake holders and the IT group.
• Design & review various documents including Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents.
• Gather and analyze business requirements & processes and develop specification document such as BRS & SRS.
• Financial domain knowledge of Fixed Income, Bonds, Equities, Derivatives (Options & Futures), & SWAP Derivatives, including Interest rate, Currency, Credit Default, Commodity SWAP’S, Hedge funds, Portfolio Management, Asset Management Liabilities (ALM), Liquidity Management, Quantity Risk Management (QRM), Trade Life-cycle, BPM, Sales and Marketing.
• Excellent Business scripting skills and proficiency in developing Use Case Models, Analysis Models, Design Models, Implementation Models, Use Case Diagrams, Context Diagrams, Dataflow Diagrams, State Transition Diagrams, Functional Storyboards, Behavior Diagrams (sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, & activity diagrams), and Class Diagrams based on UML Methodology using MS Visio.
• Experience in using quality center/ALM administration for workflow design.
• In Depth understanding of AS-IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting these requirements into technical specifications for preparing test plans.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, Portfolio Analysis and ROI analysis.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with end-users, SMEs’and development team for project meetings, walkthroughs and customer interviews.
• Extensive experience in business analysis, Gap analysis, cost/benefit analysis, risk analysis, testing, development of functional specifications and project planning.
• Strong understanding of the business process, Definition of the Scope of the Project, User and system requirements, and implementation to functional and technical specifications.
• Experience in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution and Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.
• Experience using MS Visio, MS Project and MS office tools like MS-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access.
• Experience in developing User interfaces and requirements sessions. Requirements gathering, data modeling, System Architect. Feasibility studies, Scope Documents, Requests for Proposal.
• Exceptional problem solving and sound decision making capabilities, recognized by alternative solutions, and confident, accurate, decision-making coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, ERWIN, Stria

Requirement Management Tools: Enterprise Architect, Notes 7, Rational RequisitePro

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Quality Center, Team track

Reporting Tool: Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Actuate, Oracle Express OLAP, Hyperion (BRIO) FFE, O’Calc Pro

Business Applications: Microsoft Office Suite- MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, AutoCAD2012

Quality Assurance: Software Application Testing Life Cycle

Configuration Management Tools: Visual Source Safe (VSS), Subversion

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, SAP 5.5

Operating Systems: Windows XP, UNIX

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Responsibilities:

• Prepared work estimate by gathering proposals, blueprints specifications (field note, designs) & docs on SAP
• Documented (via Stria & Visio process flows) and technical assessments using estimation tools (FFE & O’Calc Pro) to assemble and display numerical & descriptive information. Assisted in change management for new systems
• Prepared electric pole construction drawings in strict accordance with Confidential & Confidential Standards and Specifications using AutoCAD (electric maps using estimating standards for installation and removal)
• Participated in requirements analysis, design activities, functional documentation to manage project workload from customer’s application submission through construction of job, meter installation, ensuring accurate energy billing
• Provided specific knowledge and requirements captured and reflected in all deliverables
• Ensured current needs and 3rd party system integrations function as designed
• Provided weekly status updates to ensure meet project timelines/deliverables
• Evaluated current business processes to identify gaps and implement solutions
• Acted as SME to analyze and make recommendations for process improvements and system enhancements

Finance Business Analyst

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Conducted financial analysis of clinical engineering equipment and assisted in the budget formulation
• Formulated and documented process workflows and prepared graphical detail charts for applications.
• Supported the radiology service line through the use of business analytics software and analyses
• Processed capital equipment requests and provide recommendations on capital expenditures.
• Reallocated funding from insurance reimbursements to appropriate operational departments
• Collaborated with colleagues providing knowledgeable insight to customers and business partners.
• Developed accurate financial projections to support new programs or services.
• Conducted interviews, meetings and JAD sessions during the process of Requirement Gathering.
• Provided input (scope, goals, risks, constraints, timelines and interfaces) to PM for project planning and control.
• Involved in the Gap Analysis to determine the impact of the new enhancement vs the old one.
• Created use cases to flow out the different scenarios that will be introduced as functionality on builder.
• Designed and developed Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams utilizing MS Visio.
• Followed a systematic approach to eliciting, organizing, and documenting requirements of the system.
• Designed workflows and allocated permissions within SharePoint.

Environment: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), UML, Agile, MS Project.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Responsibilities:

• Implemented effective requirement practices, including gathering & analyzing User Requirement Document (URD), and functional specification document (FSD), and continuous improvement of a requirement gathering processes.
• Applied agile methodology with workflows, artifacts & activities to manage lifecycle from inspection to transition.
• Developed business/technical needs in preparing design & functional specifications for business needs/processes
• Liaised between external clients & SMEs to generate & standardize product need specification document
• Employed UML methodology in creating UML Diagrams such as Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, State diagrams, Activity Diagrams and business process and workflows.
• Assisted JAD sessions to identify the business flows and determine whether any current or proposed systems are impacted by the EDI X12 Transaction, Code set and Identifier aspects of HIPAA.
• Involved in GAP analysis, mapping, implementation, and testing for processing of Medicaid Claims. Worked on EDI transactions: 270, 271, 835, and 837 to identify key data set elements for designated record set.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace relation between business requirements to test cases; prepared and executed different Test Cases & Test Scripts.
• Used rational rose to determine structure, key elements & design for database and create tables, stored procedures.
• Critically evaluated the information gathered from multiple sources during requirement gathering and analysis and responsible for tracking, tracing and managing requirements using Rational Requisite

Environment: MS Visio, MS Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Gap Analysis, Agile, Rational requisite pro, Rational Rose, UML, SQL and windows.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Portland, OR

Responsibilities:

• Elicited customer needs by organizing interviews with stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD) coordinating with other Business Analysts in the team.
• Coordinated JAD sessions with business users to analyze present shared resource, analyzed needs of new application, application lifecycle, gathered & defined KPIs, document and presented the requirement specifications.
• Collaborated between upper management and technical team and assisted Project Manager in scheduling tasks.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documented enhancement to end state requirements.
• Used RUP methodology and coordinated with members to implement the process and create the following various RUP artifacts scope statement: high-level requirements, detail requirements (use cases), functional specification.
• Analyzed Use Case specifications and Use Case models for technical criteria.
• Created weekly Claim reports for management and administration purpose.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate data after testing the changes.
• Involved in maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across deliverables.
• Documented User Requirements with MS Word as the editing tool and Rational Rose to develop the Use Cases.

Environment: RUP, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, SQL, Quality Center.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering & analysis from business owners and users using Agile SCRUM methodology.
• Worked alongside PM on developing the WBS and RBS in MS Project 2010 for backlogs. Planned and defined Use Cases, created Use Case diagrams in Rational Rose Enterprise 2002, Scenarios and Detailed Use Case.
• Created Activity Diagrams and process flow diagrams in MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD Sessions with the subject matter experts, stakeholders and other management teams in the finalization of the Business Requirements Documentation.
• Assisted in design review meetings ensuring all requirements are covered in the development project scope.
• Integrated advertisement tracking data from social media - LinkedIn, Facebook, & My Space with Salesforce CRM.
• Led a team responsible for end-to-end delivery of critical web product within stringent timelines.
• Involved in creating, updating and reviewing Functional Requirement specifications, Database Mappings and User Acceptance Test Cases which improved quality of deliverables.

Environment: Scrum, UML, MS Visio, MS Office and HP Quality Center, DB2, Enterprise Architecture, Balsamiq, Snagit, MS Project.

Jr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated JAD sessions to understand the user requirements and also their system's implementation.
• Demonstrated experience in Waterfall methodology activities for Requirements and Analysis phases.
• Was Able to understand business goals and business context and translated them into technical specifications
• Defined impacts of conversions, business rules, & configuration decisions on downstream systems and interfaces.
• Worked in a shared services environment with understanding of SOA.
• Experienced in web services concepts and support utilities, related database utilities. Demonstrated understanding and experience with ETL, Stored Procedures, and Queries.
• Involved in gathering requirements, identifying and preparing Use Case specification documents, creating Trace-ability matrix and tagging it in the Rational Requisite Pro.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/ State diagrams & Sequence diagrams using Rational rose so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process

Environment: Unix, Mainframe, Caliber, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, UML, QTP, VB Script, MS Project, MS Office, DB2, MS SQL Server, Windows Server, Windows XP