SUMMARY:

• An accomplished IT professional with over 13 years of experience in data analysis, project management. Working with both the technology and the front office businesses to understand and translate needs and requirements to build the best solutions. Proven experience in requirements gathering, analysis and test plan design of increasingly complex projects in diversified industry sectors including Investment banking, Compliance Anti - Money Laundering (AML), Corporate Compliance, Portfolio Management, Brokerage and Securities, Capital Market workspace and Credit Rating services. Functioning as a Technical Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Scrum Master and UAT Lead with a rigorous background in the full lifecycle of testing and business analysis. activities including process mapping, scope definition, requirements definition, functional design, test plan & test case preparation, traceability matrix preparation, effort & schedule estimation, reviews and reporting.
• As a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), facilitates the Fin crime technology team in agile process.
• Gather business requirements.
• Preparing Requirement specification by interacting with users and Project delivery planning and distribution and resolving the dependencies
• Evaluating the information gathered from business users and distinguishing user requests from the underlying true needs by suggesting “To-Be “Model.
• Ensuring conversion projects are completed within stipulated time and managing the resources during release and directly responsible and owned: Information Gathering, Feed analysis, Testing and User training.
• Perform all major project management functions at the program level as well as for all sub-stream of multiple projects.
• Extensive Experience in project management and effectively coordinating development, testing and product teams.
• Coordinated business user during business testing.
• Tested backend Scripts and performed Data Validations using SQL queries on UNIX server.
• Effective communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams.
• Conduct Feedback review session with UAT users to understand their views on the current implementations.
• Defined and implemented QA processes by creating test plan prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix and created and executed test scripts, managed requirements, and defect life cycle.
• Defect Analysis and Defects Management.
• Performed Disaster Recovery and Load Balancer testing.
• Prepared/Reviewed the Process Documents.
• Experienced in Project Startup, Process and Closure Audits
• Very good mentorship skills and have successfully trained numerous resources across projects.
• Successfully managed offshore testing team with complex projects.
• In depth experience in Financial Crime domain using AML platform Oracle Mantas from base implementation, upgrade, Jurisdiction onboarding to Optimization of data models.
• More than 12 years of experience in working on complex ETL and data warehousing solutions in Oracle and SQL Server databases
• Has more than 6 years of experience in creating and updating the business requirement document.
• Extensive knowledge of Data warehouse including data integrity, Data Conversion, Data migration, Data schemas, Data quality, Data tables, Data marts, Database and have used ETL tools such as Informatica.
• Proficient in Prototyping User Interfaces using Wireframes and Mock-ups with focused attention to detail in enriching User Experience and User Interaction.
• Skilled in creation of Project Charter, Work Breakdown Structures, Project Plan, Business Requirements documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System Requirements Specification (SRS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Hands on experience on compliance with the change delivery control standards as outlined in the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), including management of cost, benefit, resource, supplier, planning & milestones, change, risks & issues, assumptions, dependencies, stakeholders, RAG definition, QA and tools.
• Standardize the approach to project management and the artefacts used within the CCO function with guidance provided in the PMO handbook.
• Assisted in monitoring, tracking and reporting of Programme or Project Finances including Forecasts and Variances.
• He has good experience in Unix Basic Commands
• Has experience in Charles River IMS Product testing
• Has worked in tools like HP Diagnostics and Hyperic- HQ for Load balance testing
• Has worked in Tibco Designer to run the scripts which loads the raw files in to database.
• Has very good experience in implementation of Dodd-Frank Rule.
• Has good understanding on Anti Money Laundering and Transaction Monitoring.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AML Solutions: Actimize and Oracle Mantas

Trading Platform: Charles River Management

Databases & Tools: SQL Server 2008, Oracle, Sybase 15

Test Management Tools: HP-ALM, JIRA

Office and Productivity Tools: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Sharepoint

Other Utilities: MS Visual Source safe, WS-FTP Pro, Putty (Terminal Emulator), HP Diagnostics, Hyperic- HQ, Fatwire, TIBCO designer and SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - New Jersey

Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Works with Intelligence, Monitoring and Investigation (IMI) users to understand and document the business requirements for transactions, surveillance reports and relevant workflow for correspondent banking
• Documenting business requirements in BRD, Technical specification in FRD and Data interface requirements in IRD formats
• Conduct brainstorming sessions, Impact Analysis, effort estimation, Sprint planning ad scrum meetings
• Working with technical leads in implementation of Mantas case management UI changes or Case workflow configurations
• Working with tech leads in designing complex ETL PL/SQL solutions to transform upstream source system data in Oracle Mantas specifications
• Using data mining, analytics techniques along with OBIEE tool to design MI reports as per investigation team’s requirements
• User training, application demos and walkthroughs, issue and queries resolution in UAT phase
• Test Planning, participating in E2E testing with cross-functional teams
• Project and task management using tools like Jira
• Working with RTB to provide necessary L3 support whenever required
• Partner with global business and technology team in Financial crime, compliance and RTB for end to end build and release deployment.

Confidential - New York

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master facilitates the team and run the sprints for biweekly release.
• Review Business Requirements, analyze, and identify gaps & implementation challenges.
• Discuss with Business Development Team on business processes and recommendation related to proposed solution.
• Research and design data enrichment & transformation processes to solve complex data mapping issues.
• Develop Functional Specification and high level test scenarios.
• Analysis and implementation of models migration and optimization
• Work with Optimization team and Inquiry & Surveillance team, identify required changes and communicate needed changes to Development Team.
• Conduct & Facilitate Review meetings and report project progress to the senior management.
• Coordinate and Support business user during UAT phase.
• Track all the user stories till closure for every sprint in JIRA.

Confidential - New Jersey

Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design Oracle queries to validate the AML scenarios configured in the Mantas UI
• Involved in designing the requirement specification document for AML customized scenarios
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan, & Business test execution activities.
• Conduct periodic review meeting with Product management team.
• Conduct business testing with end users during UAT phase.
• Coordinate test management activities using ALM.
• Being ALM admin, configure all new projects and track all the testing artifacts in ALM and mentored the business users on the ALM usage.

Confidential - New York

Business Analyst / UAT Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Captured business requirement documents (BRDs), designed the functional requirement document (FRDs) and architecture for Calculation engines to determine the strategic date in the US region.
• Provide subject matter expertise on questions from DTCC to the bank in relation to trade reporting.
• Coordinate with different asset classes (IT and OPS) and help them in running the test cases.
• Conduct daily UAT status call with all asset classes and assign the issues to corresponding team.
• Run the Production feeds in UAT and generate Collateral link and value files based on user request.
• Coordinate with DTCC on external issues and get it resolved for the business users testing.
• Worked extensively on Dodd Frank act of Global Trade repository / FPML on OTC Derivatives. Created PET and confirmation reporting for GTR for credit derivatives.
• Conduct Defect triage on daily basis with development, business and product management.
• Collect the execution summary from all asset classes and prepare detailed EOD status report and send it to all stake holders.
• Load or process the feeds using Autopilot \ BMC middleware management administration.
• Perform sanity testing before deploying the fixes to business users.
• Perform the web service validation using the SOAP UI tool.
• Running the Prod\UAT feeds to generate the Intraday\EOD files for DTCC submission using TIBCO designer.

Confidential, New York

Onsite Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Documented application specifications by reviewing existing artifacts and interacting with stakeholders including the (SME) Portfolio Managers, Ratings\Risk Managers, and Compliance team.
• Performed GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies, mapped the current and the expected processes respectively.
• Documented the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Collaborated with data modeling team to build ER Diagrams by identifying data objects and constraints.
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan, Test Design & Test Execution activities. Prepare Test Plan and conduct review meeting with Product management team.
• Coordinate with different Upstream and Downstream application team to capture the test data for SP.com
• Create and manage the task in VersionONE for all the QA stories in each sprints
• Updated test cases in QC with all the possible scenarios for credit rating testing.
• Conduct Defect triage on daily basis with development, business and product management.
• Create articles using Fatwire application and also control the tokens created in websites using the Fatwire content management system
• Performed the Mobile testing which includes the iPad
• Performed the web service testing using the SOAP UI tool.

Confidential

Onsite Project Lead

Responsibilities:

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Confidential

Onsite Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led two ( Confidential & Tapestry- SecMaster) major projects from onsite.
• Involved in requirement gathering with asset managers from Dreyfus and updated specifications document as needed.
• Simulate the application end to end flow with custom built RTAPI client.
• Debugging the project applications to provide the feasible solutions
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan and Estimation, Test Design & Test Execution activities.
• Prepared the High availability and Disaster Recovery test plan and test cases.
• Coordinate the Operations team during the HADR and Load balance testing.
• Updated test cases in JIRA with all the possible scenarios for HA and Load balance testing.
• Guided the Performance Engineering team to create performance scripts for Tapestry, Registry, Integration Layer and Data Operation tools.
• Perform application validation during the Hardware migration.
• Provided training to offshore team on Hyperic and HP diagnostic tool for the server monitoring.

Confidential

Onsite Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan and Estimation, Test Design & Test Execution activities.
• Working with Business Users upfront to gather the functional requirements
• Successfully Implemented HP-ALM (Quality Center 11) test management tool in testing process and given knowledge transition to clients and business team.
• Design the regression test scripts and testing framework document.
• Test and Deliver customized applications for the assigned project modules.
• Analyze and Implement the functional requirement using practical knowledge on the OFSAAI and Informatica tool.
• Debugging the project applications to provide the feasible solutions
• Perform System Integration testing on the delivered modules in the application
• Provide appropriate training to the end user on the testing framework for their execution phase.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test Design & Test Execution activities.
• Involved in preparing the Test Strategy, Test Plan and Estimation.
• Led a 6-member Testing team at offshore.
• Highlighted project risks to the Development Team.
• Prepared/Peer Reviewed the test cases.
• Trained the Testing Team.
• Reviewed the High Level Design document and provided the comment to the Development/onsite Team.
• Closely worked with the Development, /onsite team in resolving the functional issues.
• Consulting with subject matter expert and participating in continuous review and improvement of the testing and quality assurance methodology.
• Prepared the Daily/Weekly Status reports
• Prepared the Task Allocation documents and Achieved the Milestones without any delay/escalations
• Prepared/Reviewed the Process Documents
• Handled the Internal Quality Audit as well as External (Ernst & Young) Audit for the projects.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Define test strategy for the project.
• Involved in Test Design & Test Execution activities.
• Involved in resource planning along with the Vertical Team.
• Prepared / reviewed the test cases.
• Analysis of defects or issues from the business perspective and report it appropriately.
• Closely work with the Development, Design and Business Solutions team in solving the functional issues.

Confidential

User Acceptance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared/Peer Reviewed the test cases.
• Involved in test execution activities
• Reviewed the Design document and provided the comment to the onsite Team.
• Reviewed and gathered all the available documentation on systems (TeamSite, OCCT, and Quality Center).
• Closely work with the Design team in resolving the functional issues.