• Following the RAD (Rapid Application Development) Methodology for developing the application
• Closely interacted with business leaders, subject matter experts (SMEs), software developers and designers, to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Business users’ requirements through JAD sessions and with users to generate and review business test cases
• Followed a Structured Approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules, information needs and ensured that critical requirements are covered and documented Portfolio Business Processes and implemented Portfolio Asset Management (PAM) tools
• Prepared and presented System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• Worked Trading Business Process for Front End as well as Back end.
• Crafted and analyzed UML diagrams to assist technical team in development
• Experience in implementation of Commercial, off-the-shelf(COTS) for documenting the changes.
• Experience managing the Versions, Uploading and Managing the documents on SharePoint
• Experience creating the departmental wise documents and managing their partners.
• Developed and designed Use Cases and Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/ Workflow diagram, Collaboration diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose
• Wrote full functional and technical specifications and communicated requirements to development teams through Rational RequisitePro
• Created and maintained complete development plans that included functional specifications, requirements engineering, Use Case modeling, risk assessment and mitigation, internal and external workflow and Data Modeling
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product
• Perform GAP analysis by mapping requirements to the test cases
• Managed multiple in-house and off-house projects in parallel, in a matrix organization, utilizing integrated workforce experience (IWE) through an intelligent framework that combines voice, video, data, and collaboration.
• Worked with off shore team for reviews and managing the versions of documents
• Developed project plan and entered periodic updates in MS Project
• Responsible for Stakeholder management and project performance reporting by creating Milestone reports.
• Worked on requirements documentation for core scope includes the products of Foreign Exchange (FX) Swaps and Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Inflation Swaps, Asset Swaps, Swaptions, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Default Swap Indices, Credit Default Swap Baskets, Tranches on Credit Default Swap Indices, Equity Options, Equity Swaps, Total Return Swaps, and many others.
• Worked on NAV, validation of that NAV, Fund Accounting, Filings of portfolio investment avenues
• Created SharePoint structure for maintaining multiple documents and there different versions
• Used SharePoint to post project updates and project related documents which could be access by entire team.
• Ensured all applications were tested for functionality through unit testing and regression testing
• Developed User Guide to help user understand full application
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Analyzed Business Workflow through Business Object
• Critically evaluated the information gathered from multiple sources during requirements and analysis and responsible for tracking, tracing and managing requirements using Requisite Pro

Environment: Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, MS Office, Windows NT, Client Server, SharePoint, Oracle,

March ’06 to Feb. ’07 Confidential, Mishawaka, IN
Business & Data Analyst

Confidential, is one of the major Banking services company in Midwest America. Its Subsidiaries provide financial services-including corporate and small business, personal banking, mortgage servicing and insurance that meet a wide range of customer needs. The project was a web-enabled application involved in developing the banks module for an online mortgage application, which allows customers to apply for mortgage, check the status of their application, a mortgage calculator, where the customers can decide how much they can afford.

Responsibilities:

• Followed the RUP methodology for the entire SDLC
• Involved in business analysis and project management, coordinating between the team members, addressing budget issues and creating test plans according to the business requirements.
• Worked with the project manager for planning and organizing the project activities, and in communicating with other business center mangers and stakeholders of the project.
• Met with various groups, including business owners, SMEs (subject matter experts) and marketing team, for requirements gathering in definition Stage.
• Worked with the project manager to estimate best/worst case scenarios, track progress with weekly estimates of remaining work to do, conducting informal meetings ad hoc and as needed.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the test plan, and various test cases.
• Initiated, proposed and implemented critical analytical and technical turnkey solutions extensively increasing the quantitative and qualitative value of the application
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implemented QA methodology.
• Provided overall project management to multiple projects successfully completing them on-schedule and on-budget.
• Analyzed the report related source data from HR, ACCOUNTING applications to make it sure that all these data are present in the data mart.
• Prepared the Business Workflow using MS-Visio with input, output, Pre and Post conditions
• Utilized technical flow charts, Network Diagrams and Gantt Charts to effectively map and manage critical paths and bottlenecks in conjunction with Project Tracking Reports and Project Data Sheets for Senior Management.
• Enhanced test cases and scripts by adding the required functionality as per the new business requirements.
• Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting was performed using Test Director.

Environment: WinRunner, LoadRunner, MS-Visio, Test Director, Windows NT, Oracle, RUP

Jun.’05 to Mar.’06 Confidential, MN
Business Analyst

Confidential, provides health insurance coverage for more than 18 million people across United States. I worked on re-engineering the existing application and providing reports to the management.

Responsibilities:

• Following V-Model for Requirement gathering, validation and development.
• Understanding the transaction process of the application and the business rules involved.
• Researched on the process flow of the application by communicating with Subject Matter Experts (SME).
• Enhance the existing system to determine the eligibility of citizens who have self reported medical conditions.
• Facilitated JAD sessions, analyzed the AS-IS process and reengineered the business processes and proposed a TO-BE process. And Prepared User Documentation to train users and functionality of necessary reports.
• Analyzed the impacts of the proposed process, performed risk analysis and cost benefit analysis and developed process flow charts. And Posted several reports in the intranet for the management.
• Created business cases and translated business requirements into system requirements.
• Created an online document repository, standardized the feel of documentation templates; served as intranet developer, managed all technical documentation projects for the team.

Environment: MS Project, Windows XP, MS Visio, UML, Business Objects, MS Office, Power Designer.

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