SUMMARY
Over 7 years of professional experience in Financial services and Information Technology as a business analyst in areas such as consulting, business analysis, change management, design automation, software development, business process modeling, and process integration. Advance knowledge in Finance in areas as capital markets, equities, financial databases, economics, risk management, derivatives contracts, fixed income, asset pricing, bonds etc.

• Involved with Business Analysis, Domain Analysis, Data Analysis, Business Rules, and Prototyping, Developing & creating business process related documents.
• Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive solutions. Demonstrated success leading and mentoring cross-functional teams in multi-environments in order to maximize levels of productivity.
• Experience in gathering, analyzing and documenting functional / business requirements and writing use cases, based on information gathering sessions with clients / stakeholders and technical team members.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), including phased and iterative models of development.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML) using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Test Manager, Clear Quest, and Object Oriented Analysis (OOA).
• Extensive experience in preparing design documents such as Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Software Design Documents (SDD), User Interface Design, designing of Application Architecture & Database Modeling as per as RUP (Iterative) process.
• Experienced in conducting Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to converge early towards a design acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers, and to limit exposure to later change orders.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal & written, with particular emphasis on the production of clear & detailed written Test Plans, Business Requirements and Functional Specification.
• Strong knowledge/experience in conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT Analysis, and Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Worked extensively with Data modeling tools identifying key elements and table structures to aid in database designing.
• Extensive knowledge experience of data manipulation, data mining in programming languages and with writing PL/SQL queries.
• Knowledge of and experience working with relational data bases, including an understanding of joins, sorts, table relationships, and grouping of data.
• Have worked on different data warehousing architectures and methodologies.
• Have maintained extensive traceability trees (across all deliverables) in Requisite Pro for change and version control. Extensively used Rational and Mercury Tools for documentation, functional, integration and performance, visualization and test script analysis.
• Extensive experience in Capital Markets, Corporate Banking, Financial Asset Management, Insurance/Mortgage Markets and their Business Processes
• Worked with different Basic Derivative / Exotic Options and incorporated its features into the projects efficiently and satisfactorily maintained all securities related with their Risk/Return Tradeoffs.
• Subject matter expertise in Fixed Income, Risk Analysis especially the Custody and Corporate action. Good understanding of Equity, Cash management, Capital market, SWIFT, STP and Credit risk, Derivative Securities fundamentals with hands on experience.
• Good working knowledge of major operating systems and tested applications developed in wide variety of environment viz., Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, Mac OS 8.
• Strong experience in building applications in Microsoft Excel / VBA. Comprehensive knowledge of Macros, Pivot Tables and other Advanced Excel concepts.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communicational, presentational, administration skills throughout the product life cycle and within business units. Organized, goal-oriented, self-starter, and ability to master new technologies, manage multiple tasks while following through from start to completion with limited supervision.

ROLES

• Senior Business Analyst and Project Management
• Business Analyst
• Finance Faculty
• Software Developer

Tools/Methods

• UML
• BPR
• Rational Rose
• RAD
• SDM
• RUP
• Waterfall/Iterative Lifecycle
• Test Driven Development

Industry/Application

• Finance
• Equities
• Information Technology
• Embedded Software

EDUCATION

• B.E. Electronics from
• MS Finance and Risk Engineering (Capital Markets)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirement Analysis, Business Rules, Data Flow Diagrams, Flowcharts, Business Process Modeling & Improvement, Gap Analysis, Prototyping, Cause and Effect Analysis, BRD, BRS

Software Packages/ Processes Model Tools:

MS Office Suite 9X/2000/XP(PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Project, and Outlook), Banner, Lotus Notes, Rational Rose; Rational Requisite Pro, Business Objects 6.5, MS Visual Studio 6, MS Visual Studio .Net, Matlab, Bloomberg, Reuters

Enterprise/Custom Reporting Tools:

RUP, UML, ClearQuest, Crystal Reports, Cognos, Actuate

Data Bases:

MS Access, MS SQL, Oracle, Teradata

Operating Systems:

MS Windows (9X/NT/2000/XP/Vista), Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris, HP

Data Modeling:

ER Diagrams, Erwin, Conceptual, Logical, Physical schema

Methodologies:

Spiral/Waterfall, RAD, JAD, RUP, Agile, OOA, OOD, UML

Version Tracking Tools:

ClearCase, PVCS, SVN, CVS

Testing tools:

Mercury Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner, Rational Suite

Languages:

C/C++, PHP, SQL, Perl, Tcl/Tk, HTML, .Net,Visual Basic, R and S-Plus.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Richmond VA
Business Analyst Jan 08 – Sept 09

Project Details: Confidential,is a diversified financial services company offering a broad array of credit, savings and loan products. I worked on Helix project which involves in the replacement of Capital Ones current cardholder billing system. Project involved gearing the process of system/code modification to better meet the demands of its customer environment. Engaged in the Analysis, Design, Reporting, and Testing phase of cross sell products. The role was also involved in identifying credit risks and techniques to offset/minimize risks.

Job Responsibilities:

• Led six simultaneous infrastructure initiatives to provide a consolidated online interface for all Capital One customers. Initiatives included call center rollout, online banking sustainability, WWW disaster recovery, monitoring & capacity, secured messaging and online chat pilot.
• Managed 35 resources in India, Canada and the U.S. leading the onsite team in Richmond and coordinating with the offshore team located in India.
• Led mapping of multiple data sources to migrate data from legacy sources. Compiled Sarbanes-Oxley documentation on all data/system changes.
• Managed bi-monthly code releases into production PeopleSoft for ePerformance.
• Specialized knowledge of and capacities to teach peers and clients, web-based brokerage systems.
• Managed Agile project burn-down, facilitated sponsor review presentations and Agile Initiative Planning Meetings
• Utilized Congnos BI tool suite (Report, and Query studio) to manage, report, and deliver Waterfall methodology-based phased deliverables.
• Work with the business to ensure their intent is truly captured in the system. Creating new requirements & making appropriate changes to requirements attributes in Rational Requisite Pro. Such as changing the requirement text to make them more precise/testable.
• Having change control using Rational Clear Quest required. Followed the changed requirements with test team & the vendors.
• Was a part of AM meeting & RM weekly status report meeting.
• Identified and analyzed business and technical requirement.
• Studied Data mapping & Data Synchronization requirements in order to come up with a list of available technology options and to decide the synchronization frequency.
• Reviewed Data mapping & Synchronization Architecture detailing high level flow between the different systems.
• Studied SQL/PL-SQL data elements and provide a mapping from the existing legacy system.
• Planned and designed processes for reconciliation of transactions.
• Investigating the Business requirements that are not mapped or for which some of the mappings are missing. Researching the right accountabilities of requirements tracing & performing the trace relationships accordingly.
• Assisted informational needs in mapping of Test Cases. Review the mapping in Requirements-Test Case mapping in Test Director 7 and Mercury Quality Center 8.0.
• Conducted regular meetings with business users, documented requirements (using RequsitePro) and resolved issues.
• Conducted project estimation and scheduling.
• Coordinated with QA and user acceptance testing teams.
• Communication management, status reporting and creating implementation plans.
• Involved in evaluating the scope of application, defining relationship within and between groups of data.
• Worked on their software product development methodology and implemented RUP (Rational Unified Process with Requisite Pro and Rational Rose) in it to reduce product development time.
• Responsible for creating business work flows and processes and creating management reports based on the analysis.
• Conducted joint discussion sessions with business users, stakeholders to understand the requirements in more detail.
• Conducted joint analysis sessions with the team in inception/elaboration phases of the project.
• Clarified QA team issues and reviewed test plans and test scripts developed by development team and QA team to make sure all requirements have been covered in scripts and tested properly.
• Participated in the Bug Review meeting to discuss outstanding issues with QA team and developers.
• Did risk analysis for production rollouts and came up with strategies to minimize risks.

Environment: Rational Rose, RequisitePro, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center 8.0, Query Studio, Report Studio, MS Visio, WinCVS, Windows NT/XP, Microsoft Office .

Confidential,CA
Senior Business Analyst Jan 05 till Jan 08
Confidential,is the leading provider of early design closure solutions to radically improve design efficiency throughout the design flow. Customers benefit from Atrenta tools and methodologies to optimize their design flow. Atrenta has over 120 customers, including the world\'s top 10 semiconductor companies.
Responsibilities:

• Evaluated the existing work-flow of client’s operations to recommend, develop and integrate a new system design with our product from Atrenta.
• Involved in business analysis, business evaluation, design development and process integration
• Interacted with Business Users and conducted user interviews/JAD sessions with relevant business Units and developers for the requirement clarification and brainstorming.
• 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.
• Corrected the application manual according to the business workflow and analyzed software requirements and specifications documents.
• Extensive experience in transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams -- Use Case, Sequence and Activity diagrams Rational suite using Rational modeler.
• Coordinated with QA team (test plan) for the applications and executing them in the strict timelines.
• Developed and managed creation of product documentation to communicate features, benefits, positioning and impacts to different audiences and ensured that documentation deliverables from various groups are produced as needed.
• Working knowledge of requirement gathering by conducting personal interviews, developing questionnaire, brainstorming, or role playing to get a better understanding of client business processes and creating requirements traceability matrix for tracking the requirements.
• Prepared the traceability matrix for the application.
• Used Erwin data modeler to design data marts, data warehouses.
• Developed a Change Management Program (CMP) to assure that the negative impact of changes to the company’s Information Technology system will be minimized by using a standardized process of governance.
• Acted as mentor to team to give team solutions to problems or obstacles as they face.
• Creates and maintains timelines for all development projects. (Queues and prioritizes projects based on company goals and management direction).
• Pre-sales and Post-sales demos, power-point presentations and training to customer semiconductor companies like TI, Intel, Sony, HP, Toshiba, Cypress etc.
• One of 6 members in the software development team for embedded system software tool in C and C++ and Perl & Shell scripting on Linux/Hp/Solaris/Windows platform.
• Responsible for final code build, package & release of product on all Unix including different flavors of Linux/HP/Solaris and Windows.
• Model and run use cases, automatic testing, manual testing, regression, patch-ups and assured all code meets proper standards.
• Responsible for client interaction on the updates, queries, support and online demos.
• Developed plug-in in Visual Studio IDE on windows with QT framework from Trolltech and Visual Basic, and integrated with visual studio environment to invoke 1Team Embedded and 1Team System internally.
• Hands on experience on Tcl/Tk to develop Graphical User Interface for the tool.
• Closely involved in closing 15 licenses worth 3 million USD with Texas Instrumentation.

Environment: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Suite (RequisitePro, ClearQuest, ClearPro), MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, Business Objects, Windows XP, Oracle 9i, Mercury Test Director, Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2003 Server/XP, UNIX, Linux Red-Hat, Ubuntu, Solaris, HP , C/C++, PHP, SQL, Perl, Tcl/Tk, HTML, DotNet, Visual Basic.

Confidential,NY
Business Analyst Jul 03 to Jan 05
Confidential,include credit and capital market products, investment banking, commercial banking and merchant banking. The application was developed as a product to capture, analyze, calculate and report risks for all asset classes traded by the client bank. The asset classes consisted of OTC bond options, Repos, commodities, stock loan/borrow, OTC derivatives, FX options/FX forward. It could generate paths and stress scenarios so that trade can be valued against various paths and scenarios. It allowed traders to perform what-if analysis, stress test and computed VaR under different confidence levels
Responsibilities:

• Participated in project review meetings and gathering Business Requirement Documents (BRD).
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed the requirements using Rational Rose requisite pro – RUP .
• Configured, designed, and developed C++ project using UML and Rational Rose effective software training
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD (Object oriented Design)
• Experience with ERDs to analyze the nature of all significant interactions.
• Participated in JAD and JRP sessions and interacted with technical leaders from various departments
• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC methodology
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements
• Assisted with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place
• Created and Maintained Supporting documents (technical, business, project level and sops) to meet SDLC standards
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Excellent working knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Defined various scenarios for testing the application and wrote test cases based on these scenarios as well as ad-hoc test cases based on interactions with users
• Developed and wrote test cases for the testing efforts in compliance with Design Control Policy
• Updated and wrote several SOPs for day-to-day functioning of the system as well as emergency operation (system recovery, back-up, etc)
• Created a detail Requirements, Test plan and procedures for application testing using Rational Test Manager.
• As a Business analyst supporting all US fixed income trading, was responsible for technical support of all business users as well as application processes employed for trading various FID product lines.
• Led ERP package selection and design for data migration of equity and fixed income research databases.
• Coordinated group responsible to setup a fail control system for the resolution of problems relating to International and DomesticTradesSettlement.
• Worked on special projects as needed to aid in the dissemination of new or relevant information as it relatedto trading or account maintenance procedures.
• Maintained close relationship with traders, brokers, custodians,and agent banks to spot and solve issues.
• Reviewed andanalyzedbusiness requirements for International Fixed Income, Equities, Equity Derivatives and Prime Brokerage; developedbusiness strategy and test plan; interpretedrequirements to createand execute test cases and test scripts. Heavy interactions with Trading Desks, Operations and IT developers.
• Made sure that thecurrent testing practicesmeet legal compliancy standards.
• Drastically improved the performance of the calculation engine with novel data structures and highly optimized code. Involved in optimizing a stock-screening module which brought down the average time to run a screen from 35 seconds to 4 seconds. This involved re-architecting the database and turning SQL and Stored Procedures.
• Performed data integrity testing by executing SQL statements.

Environment: Rational Rose, Windows 2000,C++, Perl, XML, HTML, XML, XSL, MS Visio, MS Project.

Confidential,INDIA
Business Analyst Jun 02 to Jul 03
Activity Module is a component of web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) named Smart Office (SO), solution for Insurance Agents and Advisors. SO is used by insurance agents or individual for creating appointments, calls, projects, etc. to be carried out with regard to ‘insurance policies’. ‘Activity Module Records’ enable users to record and monitor these activities with ease. Features like calendar for quick and organized reference, automation of recurring activities, reporting upon the completion of activities, were added. It also involves notifying the user using an alert mechanism of his/her upcoming timed activities before the pre-specified time.
Responsibilities:

• Communicated with Business Users to identify needs, defined project scope, and analyzed functional and non-functional requirements
• Documented the Business requirements while involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Successfully used RUP Analysis model, gathered requirements, facilitating use case workshops in sessions.
• Specified the system architecture and design utilizing the UML Analysis and Design Models.
• Used tools such as Rational Requisite Pro, defined Business and System use cases and Activity diagrams
• Reviewed documents/templates to create BRD and implemented the RUP process, identified Worked on the Flowchart and Process diagrams using MS Visio.
• Generated Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Business Objects reports, Domain Object Model, in addition to creating and presenting PowerPoint presentations.
• Tested Reports functionality and result applying Business rules with estimated Results
• Manage all inbound cross functional roll-out of products and services.
• Prepared Load test Strategies for the application and set guidelines for best practices.
• Developed and executed test cases test Scenarios and followed-up defects using Test Director to GUI Standards of this application
• Inserted Checkpoints in WinRunner for objects to verify the behavior of component as expected.
• Conducted load testing, front end testing and security testing and generated reports using Load Runner.
• Manually conducted Positive and Negative Testing.
• Performed smoke testing of the application manually after each build.
• Studied the test plan to provide insight into the business transactions to monitor.
• Perform ad-hoc tests to uncover defects and log them.
• Modified previously existing test cases, which were driven by the manual testing effort so that they are more appropriate for future automation testing.
• Proposed a cost effective test strategy that will provide comprehensive functional testing of the application and uncover any mission critical deficiencies.
• Data Driven Testing to test the application with different sets of data.
• Conducted timely Walkthrough’s for informational purposes.
• Participated in bi-weekly meeting between testers, developer and Project Manager to resolve issues arising after each build, assigned priorities to tasks and suggested solutions and methodologies to overcome problems and streamline everyday processes.
• Helped test engineers trouble shoot and problem solve any issues that would arise.
• Verified fixed defects.
• Other responsibilities covered channel programs, deal / market sizing and dealing with structure work.

Environment : Rational Unified Process (RUP), Java, J2EE technology, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, UNIX / Oracle Platform, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Quest, Rational ClearCase, Caliber Define IT, Rational test manager, Rational Robot, LoadRunner, WinRunner.