SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience as Busness Analyst in Information Technology with focus on Financial /Baking /Insurance domain. Solid knowledge of Business Solutions & applications possesses high - caliber presentation, Client Interaction, requirement gathering and analysis.
• Specialize in Financial Banking/Insurance with extensive knowledge in Governance, Risk, Compliance, Merger & Acquisitions, Stress testing Models, Regulatory Reporting, Global Consolidation and Project Planning.
• Review and preparation of schedules for various banking regulatory reports, including the quarterly Call Report (FFIEC030), FRY9C, FRYLP, and TICs, etc.
• Expert in Metric Stream GRC modules.
• Expert in People Soft FRS concepts - Edit Checks, Dimension Restrictions, Global Consolidation Process (Ledger preparation, Allocations, Elimination, Equitization, Ownership and NCI).
• Expert in Waterfall model, V-Model and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Arranged the pre-project planning meeting with sponsor, business team and project team to identify goal of the project, scope of the project and out of the scope details.
• Facilitates multi-day Requirement Acceleration Center (RAC) with end users/stakeholders to gather requirements.
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Capturing the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance
• Robust skills in scripting Business Requirements Documents (BRD), functional requirements, interface requirements, performance requirements, and design constraints/limitations.
• Expert in the design, testing and documentation of new or existing applications, which includes upgrades, enhancements and hot fixes, to thoroughly understand business needs and ensure comprehensive testing scenarios are documented.
• Extensive knowledge at creating process-flow diagrams for AS-IS and To-be process. Performs gap analysis between existing and To Be processes.
• Conducts peer reviews, monitoring quality of documentation across the team.
• Leads the prioritization of requirements to help manage overall project scope.
• Manages requirement change throughout design/build.
• Develops necessary validation plan and scripts.
• Validates solution/build against requirements for completion.
• Have experience in evaluating new vendor tools.
• Closely interacted with developers/designers to explain business requirements, functional requirements and technical tasks with use cases.
• Conducting daily Onsite - Offshore calls to provide daily tasks and gather status.
• Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Participated in SIT, Implementation and Post - production activities.
• Expert at facilitates creation of UAT cases, estimates amount of time for users to execute test cases, schedules users to execute UAT, facilitates UAT sessions, documents UAT results, and interfaces with development to resolve defects found during UAT.
• Extensive experience in creating USER guides and Wiki pages.
• Assisted project manager to set realistic project evaluation and to develop reasonable timelines for project deliveries, endured project completion.
• Participated in Defect Tracking and bug reporting through Quality Center.
• Creates traceability matrix between requirements and system test cases. Creates and executes system test cases, documents system test results and interfaces with appropriate IT teams to resolve defects found during system testing.
• Handled multiple projects at same time.
• Supports implementation of new system solutions or enhancements to existing systems with appropriate change management and minimal rework.
• Prepared Epics, User stories, tasks for all the business and functional requirements.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other sprint-related meetings
• Guide teammates to practice the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Work collaboratively as a team player to develop mutually acceptable solutions, define team agreements and maintain process documentation
• Act as an Agile leader and help teams self-organize using agile principles and practices to meet their delivery objectives.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition, and sizing
• Identify and remove any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver against their commitments.
• Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable.
• Create information radiators and sprint-based metrics to help the team and stakeholders understand their progress.
• Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule with identifiable platform dependencies, and major milestones.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Expert in JIRA, RTC.
• Expert in SAS stress testing and forecast models.
• Extensive experience in conducting interviews and prepare data lineage documents.
• Developed applications using ETL- Abinitio, Data stage, Informatica, Mainframes, JCL, COBOL, Easytrieves, and SQL.
• Good understanding Java/J2EE code and architecture.
• Good understanding of reporting tool - SAP BO
• Expert with PL/SQL, ORACLE, SQL developer environments.
• Fluent with using SQL to filter and select data and fulfill data mapping requirements per request.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Arranged the pre-project planning meeting with sponsor, business team and project team to identify goal of the project, scope of the project and out of the scope details.
• Performed the requirement analysis and prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Minor Development Documents (MDD).
• Performed the GAP Analysis and Impact Analysis for all business requirements.
• Prepared Process flow diagrams and use case diagrams.
• Closely interacted with designers to understand application functionality and navigational flow of the interface.
• Performed the UI analysis and demo the business team to understand the application.
• Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Created test cases to facilitate the overall development to implementation cycle including UAT with the business users of the enhancements
• Participated in various meeting discussing enhancement and modification request.
• Queried the Database Warehouse using SQL/PL-SQL according to information requirements from Business Actors, Business Intelligent and Finance Department.
• Assisted in designing and supporting ETL processes.
• Co-ordinate with offshore team.
• Reviewed the data model and reporting requirements with ETL and Reporting team.
• Created UAT Plan and UAT Test Scripts and executed UAT testing and validation for each project
• Held UAT status meetings with SMEs to ensure the quality of tech deliverables for the project.
• Assisted project manager to set realistic project evaluation and to develop reasonable timelines for project deliveries, endured project completion.
• Participated in Defect Tracking and bug reporting through Quality Center.
• Assisted in developing materials for new software functionalities and process improvements.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Arranged the pre-project planning meeting with sponsor, business team and project team to identify goal of the project, scope of the project and out of the scope details.
• Conducted RAC sessions with Business team, development team and gathered Business requirements, Functional requirements and system requirements.
• Performed the requirement analysis and prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD).
• Involved in evaluation of new tools to support business requirements.
• Coordinate with Metricstream vendor and understand the Metricstream tool.
• Closely interacted with designers to understand application functionality and navigational flow of the interface.
• Performed the UI analysis and demo the business team to understand the application.
• Performed the GAP Analysis and Impact Analysis for all business requirements having an impact application.
• Prepared the Process flow diagrams for GRC modules.
• Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Prepared Epics, User stories, tasks for all the business and functional requirements.
• Arranged the iteration grooming sessions for story pointing and story prioritization.
• Conduct daily standup meeting with teams and update RTC tasks.
• Created test cases to facilitate the overall development to implementation cycle including UAT with the business users of the enhancements
• Participated in various meeting discussing enhancement and modification request.
• Queried the Database Warehouse using SQL/PL-SQL according to information requirements from Business Actors, Business Intelligent and Finance Department.
• Assisted in designing and supporting ETL processes.
• Co-ordinate with offshore team.
• Reviewed the data model and reporting requirements with the Data warehouse/ETL and Reporting team.
• Created UAT Plan and UAT Test Scripts and executed UAT testing and validation for each project
• Held UAT status meetings with SMEs to ensure the quality of tech deliverables for the project.
• Assisted project manager to set realistic project evaluation and to develop reasonable timelines for project deliveries, endured project completion.
• Performed in depth and detailed reporting and analysis for different sectors for functional side and project side of the business.
• Participated in Defect Tracking and bug reporting through Quality Center.
• Assisted in developing materials for new software functionalities and process improvements.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducting BRD walkthrough and documenting the same.
• Working with the product owner and leads to update the product mapping.
• Facilitate and participate in cross-team requirements and design meetings
• Participated in Automation Test, System Test and CAT test case review meetings
• Participated in System Test and CAT defect tracking resolution and management through Application Life Cycle Management (ALM).
• Prepared Source to Target Mapping documents with data lineage based on the requirements.
• Documented data lineage as part of data governance.
• Defined data quality plans to address data quality issues and worked with business users to help them understand data issues.
• Documenting and communicating the necessary production support documents.
• Created control files for the input for several month end jobs for different LCR reporting.
• Documented lookup/ tables.
• Developed test scripts and extracts for UAT testing.

Environment: Oracle, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Access, Quality Center, Master Data Services, TLMS, SSIS, Workfront, Rally, IBM Cognos, ALM,QTP,TFS.