SUMMARY

• A Senior Business Analyst with MBA in Finance and experience in Insurance domain.
• Thorough knowledge of Financial Instruments, and clear understanding of Risk Management Strategies and financial reporting standards.
• Experience in decision making using variance analysis on cost - benefit analysis, return on investment and risk assessment.
• Excellent Presentation Skills to avail information to both business and technical audiences.
• A self-starter, motivated team player with leadership abilities and excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Dedicated, diligent, well-organized, and efficient; consistently produced results above client and employer expectations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Office Suite
• Word
• Excel
• Outlook Publisher
• PowerPoint
• OneNote
• MS Projec
• SQL Toad
• JIRA
• QC
• SharePoint
• SharePoint 0365
• IBM Lotus Notes
• MS Outlook
• IBM Cognos FSR
• IBM CDM
• MS Visio
• Rational Rose
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Lotus Notes
• SDLC (Waterfall
• Prototyping
• Agile - Scrum and XP
• RUP)
• Use Cases
• UML
• Data Modeling
• Research
• Analytics
• Financial Modeling
• UAT
• Facilitation Skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead/Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Meeting with business and technical groups to gather requirements and document/ create documents that formulate and defines system scope based on user needs and thorough understanding of business processes.
• Gathering, eliciting and documenting business, functional and software requirements to design and develop a regulatory reporting tool.
• Arranging JAD sessions and structured interviews with business users, to define system specifications as per user needs.
• Working with internal business user groups on process improvement projects to improve business results.
• Gathering and analyzing information and providing recommendations to address and resolve business issues for a specific business group.
• Subject Matter Expert for technical and business implications of the system development.
• Responsible for extracting functional and non-function requirements from the Business Requirement Documents, and documenting the SRS (Software Requirements Specification).
• Responsible for keeping track of the change management requests for the Reporting application.
• Generated Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure all the business requirements have been covered.
• Working on use cases and test cases, and business project master plans while running/leading in-person and WebEx business meetings.
• Defined various data elements creating a data dictionary containing names of the tables, purpose of the tables, and the contents of the tables.
• Expertise in IMB Cognos FSR. Worked as a coordinator between IBM team and Confidential Technical Team to understand the aspect of the FSR tool and provided the feedback and solutions based on the requirements.
• Responsible for creating Standard User guide manual for Web front end application (MetSTAR) as well as customized User guide manual for IBM FSR.
• Performed UAT on behalf of Business Users. Responsible for providing the support of the application after the UAT.
• Responsible for meeting business to understand their needs and aspect for the application.
• Responsible for documenting high level project charter and project scope. Worked with project manager to generate the project plan.
• Gathering, eliciting and documenting business, functional and software requirements to design and develop a regulatory tracking application.
• Worked with cross functional teams to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements by providing the best solutions to the business. And then translate those requirements into Software Requirement Specifications.
• Responsible for creating various Visio process flow to provide the business with best solutions/options for the application.
• Creating and documenting use cases and test plans for the application scenarios.
• Responsible for creating Unser manual for IBM FSR tool used for the reporting purpose. Also responsible for creating User manual for IBM CDM (Upgrade of FSR). Created quick reference guide as well as the in-class training material to provide the training to the users in Europe.
• Responsible for creating Disaster Recovery Test Plan documents and Production Management Transition Documents and participated in the disaster recovery test.
• Responsible for reviewing the existing application for the thorough understanding of reengineering process.
• Meeting with business users to understand the current products and process of the system.
• Constantly worked with cross functional teams to establish comprehensive business requirements providing them best solution.
• Responsible for thorough study of the business requirements and extracting the software requirements.
• Documented the business and software requirements. Responsible for updating these documents based on the requirements changes from the business side.
• Responsible for defining and documenting the technical and design specifications.
• Performed analysis of the existing reports to match the feeds/fields in the existing report to the feeds/fields in the new datamart.
• Created MS Visio dataflow diagrams for the entire application as well as for the various parts of the application to understand the details dataflow.
• Responsible for constant exercise of mapping the existing data feeds of the application to the feeds in the new datamart.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for meeting business to understand their needs and aspect for the future application based on the current system.
• Created high level documents and data flows for business requirements based on the GAP Analysis.
• Responsible for constant exercise of gathering and analyzing the software requirements based on the business requirements.
• Responsible for creating and updating the detailed functional specification documents.
• Created various data flow diagrams using Visio to understand the data process within the application.
• Responsible for creating the standard manual of the entire existing application (RR - Reserve Repository) as well as the quick reference guide.
• Responsible for creating new manual for the GRR to include the changes and updates to the application.
• Responsible for creating Master Test plan, Test plan and Test result documents.
• Responsible for application testing in different environments including Dev, INT, QA and UAT.
• Involved in gathering and synthesizing business requirements and translated into functional and non­functional requirements to be used as input to the functional design specifications.
• Worked with cross functional teams in order to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements by providing the best solutions to the business. And then translate those requirements into Software Requirement Specifications.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining SharePoint site with all required documents and providing SharePoint access to the user.
• Created and documented use cases, test plans and test result documents for the application scenarios.
• Actively involved in the GUI Testing and UAT testing in Dev, INT and QA environments.
• Responsible for creating and updating User manual for new Web front application. Created quick reference guide as well as the in-class training material to provide the training to the users in Europe.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Meeting with business and technical groups to document/ create documents that formulate and defines system scope based on user needs and thorough understanding of business processes.
• Responsible for documenting project objectives, progression and tasks completion.
• Gathering, eliciting and documenting business, functional and software requirements to design and develop a portal to facilitate reporting as well.
• Facilitating JAD sessions and structured interviews with business users, to cover all the meeting agenda.
• Going through the meeting discussions to prepare meeting minutes and list of completed and remaining tasks.
• Gathering and analyzing information and providing recommendations to address and resolve business issues for a specific business group.
• Subject Matter Expert for technical and business implications of the system development.
• Responsible for extracting functional and non-function requirements from the Business Requirement Documents, and documenting the SRS (Software Requirements Specification).
• Created Data flow diagram, activity diagrams and cross functional diagrams using MS Visio.
• Actively involved in creating wireframes for the application.
• Responsible for creating Test plan and Test results documents.
• Responsible for performing Testing in INT and QA environment.
• Created user Manual documents and quick reference guide to be used for in-class training.
• Actively involved in provided User training.
• Responsible for meeting business to understand their needs and aspect for the future process based on the current manual process.
• Facilitating JAD sessions and structured interviews with business users, to cover all the meeting agenda.
• Going through the meeting discussions to prepare meeting minutes and list of completed and remaining tasks.
• Responsible for creating various Visio process flow to provide the business with best solutions/options for the process.
• Analyzing the current queries used to gather the data and in depth discussion to find the solution to automate the process.
• Meeting with technical team to explain and guide them on the best possible solution.
• Responsible for creating Software Requirements Document.
• Responsible for generating Test cases and Test results document.
• Actively involved in performing the testing in Dev, INT and QA environments.
• Created and updated existing User Manuals to incorporate the changes due to the table 1 report effort.
• Actively involved in providing the User Training to the Actuary Team.

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering and generating BRD and SRS documents.
• Responsible for weekly updates to the documents required for Confidential - MTL ( Confidential Tower) expansion project by incorporating all the information provided by various teams into once document.
• Responsible for maintaining SharePoint 0365 site for the project at the LOB level.
• Responsible for generating and providing required documents to the PMO team.
• Responsible for generating Master Test Strategy, Test Cases and Test Results Documents.
• Actively involved in the program level business meetings, technical team meetings, PGRs and additional meetings as required.
• Responsible for creating Data dictionary for Global Reserve Repository.
• Responsible for testing the global Reserve repository application in DEV, INT and QA environments whenever there are issues found by users and solutions are being implemented.