SUMMARY

• Seven years of Industry experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications, Application Design.
• Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.
• Extensive experience in developing applications using Struts Framework and different J2EE design patterns.
• Proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.
• Reviewed mortgage documentation on the UniFi Pro and Loan Origination Mortgage system and gave feedback to Business Analysts and QA testers on any challenges of the system.
• Expertise in Project Management i.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures.
• Got opportunity to gain functional understanding of legal, regulatory, operating standards/protocols of Security industry & wealth management applications like Charles River & Calypso.
• Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.
• Created Murex trade, payment, and market operations workflows including trade status, validation queues, and user defined fields.
• In depth knowledge Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, Use Cases, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D).
• Strong understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including RUP, RAD, Waterfall and Agile.
• Competent in Creating Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, creating Screen Mock - ups, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis.
• Experience in development methodologies like RUP, SDLC, AGILE, SCRUM and Waterfall.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Interface with clients from Operations, Marketing, Sales, Technologies, and Outside Vendors and act as their customer interface point as the lead of the Projects.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Communication, Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, VC++, VB, VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, Java, SQL, PLSQL

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux.

Databases: MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, DB2, Sybase

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, ATG Dynamo, BEA WebLogic.

Internet: HTML, XML, VBScript, ASP, JavaScript, JSP, J2EE.

Automation Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Agile, Rational ClearCase Documentum, Calibre RM, DOORS, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Covington, KY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analysed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Worked as a business analyst to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management, risks and returns, Bond Pricing, MBS, ABS, Derivatives (repos, interest rate swaps), Money Market Instruments and used strong knowledge of financial statements, cash flow, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Budgeting, trade capture application, risk management, and Investment Accounting.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Managed software artifacts for the suite of investment products such as Online Banking and Brokerage, BIDS, Insurance etc
• Apply custom changes to Calypso software to replicate vanilla and exotic OTC derivative products
• Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the BPS Risk Management product with involvement through the whole SDLC
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Understood Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, and Sales and Marketing.
• Developed detail class diagrams and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose XDE implementing J2EE patterns in UML design.
• Acted as the Business Analyst to integrate the SunGard reconciliation system as per Business requirements.
• Collaborated with Basel II team on credit risk analysis and issue resolution.
• Developed BRD documents for Securitized Inventory (CMO, ABS, MBS, and ABCP). BRD targeted new Basel II Compliance requirements.
• Worked in detailed design for the use cases and developed detail class diagrams and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose implementing J2EE patterns in UML design.
• Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC methodology. Used Scrum Work Pro and Microsoft Office software to perform required job functions
• Worked on Risk analysis, Securities (Stocks and corporate bonds) and their valuation, Portfolio Management (risks and returns) and analysis, Asset Allocations Bond pricing, Financial Derivatives, Cash flows, financing structure, Capital Management, Stock Valuation, Amortization, etc
• Evaluated Competitors offerings and products including fixed income and derivatives
• Identified various data sources for the system including Charles River Trading System, Murex Trading Platform, investment systems and data warehouse.
• Involved depth understanding of Credit Risk management for the application
• Interacted with users for verifying User Requirements, managing Change Control Process, updating existing Documentation
• Conducted UAT to confirm that all derivative products can be successfully processed through stages of the trade life cycle
• Facilitated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Pega System Administrators and Business Users, documented any issues or defects and eventually got sign off from the right parties.
• Created relationships in Requirement Traceability Matrix linking Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems Requirements.
• UAT testing performed along with call centre managers to make sure that application meets their requirements.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing
• Led and conducted JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design of the system.
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion.
• Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) using Microsoft Visio .

Confidential, LP. Radnor, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in every phase of the RUP process starting from Inception to Transition
• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analysed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Created context sensitive on-line help files for a wholesale banking software. This involved creating animated help screens, writing RTF files, capturing screens, creating hotspots and compiling help files.
• Assigned tasks among development team monitored and tracked progress of project following agile methodology.
• Interface with the Wholesale Commercial Loan and Mortgage user group to address issues.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Developed and executed test cases for systems testing and User Interface Acceptance testing
• Working knowledge of implementing software development projects using methodologies such as Waterfall, Rational Unified Process, Agile/Scrum.
• Was Responsible for development of some custom components based on Flex components to implement some customized functionalities.
• Authored Business Requirements Document BRD with project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users and SME’s.
• Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.
• Worked with front and back office employees to determine their software needs and implement these custom changes in the Calypso environment.
• Introduced Agile and RUP methodologies to reflect liquid nature of front-office improving time-to-market
• Extensively involved with the trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives; and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype, Use Cases, UML diagrams for overall system.
• Created User Acceptance Test Plan and coordinated UAT for the site redesign project
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT groups. Identified the Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion.
• Data mapping, logical data modelling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database
• Generated server-side SQL scripts for data manipulation and validation and created various Snapshots and materialized views for remote instances.
• Involve in preparing Trace Matrix to design test cases
• Performed manual front-end testing to check all functionalities of different modules.
• Have a uniform confirmation and settlement function as disparate confirmation and settlement processes impact the front office requirement.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing
• Apply custom changes to Calypso software in order to replicate vanilla and exotic OTC derivative products.
• Trained the future users to coordinate their activities vis-à-vis CORD system rather than ARW.
• Assisted the SA to document all custom and system modification after the SCR’s were satisfactorily solved.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in RequisitePro and managed the concurrence of the parties involved with respect to the evaluation criterion
• Assisted to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.

Confidential, Stanford, CT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements through interviews, surveys, and observing from account managers and UI (User Interface)
• Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then translate requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Extensively worked on the ETL mappings, analysis and documentation of OLAP reports requirements.
• Interacted with fixed income business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the Risk Management process.
• Good comfort level with Capital Markets, Money markets, Trading Systems, Derivatives (Strong in Options), Equities, Fixed Income, US government Treasury Securities (T-Bills, T-Bonds and T-Notes), Municipal Bonds, Stocks Trading Cycle, Margin Requirement, Mark to Market, Hedge Funds
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
• Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)
• Explored Mercury Interactive Tools (QTP, Quality Center and Load Runner) and Rational tools (Clear Case, Clear Quest, Test Manager and Functional Tester), JIRA for Client/Server and Web-Based Applications.
• Wrote BRD, FRD, use cases, test scenarios, test cases for testing the functional and non-functional aspects of both ETL jobs and Reporting jobs.
• Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.
• Write Detailed Business requirements documents (BRD) and assessment of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes for front, middle and back office, reference data, data attributes and security master database.
• Understood Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, and Sales and Marketing.
• Prepared BRD and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Analyzed the existing system and process gaps in context of new business changes (Gap Analysis).
• Conducted JRP sessions with management, SMEs (Subject Matter Expertise), vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Primarily involved in the Mutual Fund trading activities of Domestic and International Equity, Fixed Income, Money Market, and Cash Investment.
• Designed Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams in UML methodology using MS Visio.
• Using Shared Containers and creating reusable components for local and shared use in the ETL process.
• Attended daily update meetings with onshore and offshore team using Agile methodology.
• Developed and maintained relationships with clients on all on-going projects.
• Established a corporate finance data repository assisting in credit score carding and Integrated an external credit score carding system into internal risk management system by identifying management requirements and implementing automatic information upload.
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Rational Clear Quest to track defects and used Rational Clear Case to maintain consistency in the builds.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in business analysis and project management, coordinating between the team members, addressing budget issues and creating test plans according to the business requirements.
• Translated user requirements into technical specifications and mapping the process design, work flows for SDLC with documenting and managing business requirements using waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)
• Implemented Front End to a Fixed Income Derivatives Trading System, including trade blotter and interfaces to risk management, accounting, and middle and back office.
• Primarily involved in the Mutual Fund trading activities of Domestic and International Equity, Fixed Income, Money Market, and Cash Investment.
• Expertise in quote and trade related-data associated with equity, fixed-income, financial derivatives, currency, and other investment instruments. The term market data traditionally refers to numerical price data, reported from trading venues, such as stock exchanges. The price data is attached to a ticker symbol and additional data about the trade.
• Create and track defects in JIRA. Responsible for retesting the functionality after the issue is fixed by the Development Team.
• Managed requirement activities using an iterative and incremental methodology such as Agile using User stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• In depth knowledge in Equities and other OTC products Trade Processing including front office, middle office & back office operations and trading life cycle (Sale, Order generation, Execution, Reconciliation, Clearing, Settlement and Books & Records).
• Identified high-level requirements for developing and documenting detailed business requirements using Test Director
• Generated reports and statistics, correct human errors, and explain changes and adjustments within the production system
• Developed and Maintained Test Matrix on various dimensions like test status to reflect the test progress.