Summary

• Over 7 years of experience as Business Analyst in Software Requirements gathering, Analysis, Modeling using various methodologies.
• Experience in analyzing and documenting Business Requirements Documents BRD , Functional Requirement Documents FRD , and Supplementary requirements.
• Creating Business Context Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams, Implementation Checklists and Responsibility Assignment Matrix RAM
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development life Cycle SDLC . Experience working in RUP, Waterfall, Agile and other Methodology.
• Experienced in the business process redesign and documentation.
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions and interviewed Subject Matter Experts SMEs , asking detailed functionality aspects of business process.
• Performed GAP Analysis between 'AS IS' and 'TO BE' state designed workflow models accordingly.
• Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams based on UML methodology using tools like Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Experience with SQL.
• Expert at giving presentations and walkthroughs of detailed business requirements, use cases.
• Creating Project Deliverables such as Project Charter and Communications Matrix.
• Generated Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are addressed by the test cases.
• Effective Project Scope Change Management
• Provided extensive End User Training and Support during UAT.
• Knowledge in financial, banking and accounting, Energy sectors.
• Excellent communication, co-ordination and presentation skills. Pro-active and experience working with global teams. Ability to work independently as well as a Great Team Player.
• Handle multiple tasks and responsibilities.
• Strong experience in creating reports - PowerPoint presentations, project planning and status reporting using tools like MS Project, Excel for Management review.
• Strong experience using MS Word, Excel, Outlook and other MS office applications.
• Excellent technical, analytical, problem- solving and leadership skills.

SKILLS:

• Methodologies: RUP Ration Unified Process , UML Unified Modeling Language , Agile Tools: MS Projects, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, SharePoint, SQL server, SharePoint Designer, JIRA, HP-ALM CASE tools: Rational Clear Case/Quest, Requisite Pro, Mercury Test Director, Rally Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is a leading provider of financial services to institutional investors. Its broad and integrated range of services spans the entire investment spectrum, including research, investment management, trading services and investment servicing. The project related to the Billing of the Investment Management Division. The Billing department is responsible for calculating the client fee and for determining the split in revenue between the firm and the money managers. I worked on several projects which provided me exposure to the various facets of the firm.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business users and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Review Commercial loan documentation to ensure enhancements are meeting the proper audit standards.
• Used Rational Rose to designed and develop Use Cases Scenarios, Use Cases Models, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, State chart diagrams, OOAD using UML.
• Work with team in preparing 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.
• Wrote Test Cases in MS Excel for user registration, access to training material, and activity log-in, reviewed the test cases and finalized.
• Responsible for defining and designing commercial lending loan approval process which resulted in data collection and analysis compliance
• Discussed with SMEs across different businesses units to gain solid knowledge of the existing Credit Risk
• Calculation System and assisted in preparing an advanced Risk Assessment and ROI Management.
• Leverage strong business knowledge of the investment banking sector to help design viable solutions.
• Involved in creating Data Flow Diagrams for Database of the Investment Portfolios.
• Developed UML Use-Cases and Use-Case diagrams after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes using Rational Rose.
• Facilitated Joint Requirement Planning JRP sessions with SME's in understanding the Requirements pertaining to Loan Origination to Loan Processing.
• Integrated Requisite Pro with Rational Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintain traceability among requirements, use cases and change requests.
• Managed all the requirements effectively and made them available to all team members.
• Created use-case scenarios and storyboards in MS Word and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application and managed them using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Supported User Acceptance testing UAT and collaborated with the QA team, based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frame with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML Unified Modeling Language methodologies.
• Interacting with the developers to report and correct bugs.
• Generation and reference data analysis of equity, fixed income and derivative products

Confidential

Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

Confidential is an emerging financial services provider on the internet. This E-banking application offers personalized banking on the Web. The application offers specially designed banking products to members, including credit cards, debit cards, bills payments, checking, savings and money market.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions for project definition, resource identifications, deliverable prototype identification, and user interface design and database schemas needed.
• Authored Data Flow diagrams/Work flows, Sequence diagrams and Business Process models with special detail to Sub-Processes.
• Defined Activity flow diagrams in conjunction with UML diagrammatic representation to define various levels of data and control flow.
• Developed use-cases for the system with special emphasis on defining Parent-child use case hierarchy as well as supporting Extension and Inclusion use cases as derived from the base use case. Used UML as a standard for the same.
• Used FileNet software to create business processes.
• Created test strategies targeted for requirements validation.
• Helped develop specific plans and tests to ensure that proposed system and business processes meet those requirements, as they are being planned, developed, delivered and supported.
• Created and Maintained Test plans using rational test manager.
• Created Use case documents, GAP documents, Business requirement documents and project charters.
• Interfaced with testers for rapid creation of test cases for functional, regression, recovery, GUI, and integration testing purposes.
• Various measures of Verification and Validation were implemented to ensure prompt accurate data entry in the application.
• Configure Rational Test Manager to create schemas and databases for total testing process management

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is a non-discretionary investment advisory platform that provides a flexible investment solution combined with a disciplined wealth management process for clients seeking to be actively involved in the management of their wealth.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for laying out business needs in the form of Business Requirements Documents to our technology partners to make data requirement are correctly mapped to client needs.
• Conducted GAP analysis between current and desired system by creating Process flow diagrams and as is- to be flow diagrams using MS Visio in order to interpret current and desired state.
• Analyzed individual portfolios compared their annual ROR against custom benchmark indices in order to determine if the target asset allocation is in line with the client's objective.
• Performed in-depth data analysis by identifying the source of data comparing various Excel data files to make sure they are in the scope of the project.
• Processed raw data and prepared excel files into meaningful analysis by extensively using v-lookup, h-lookup and pivot table functions in MS Excel.
• Generated crystal reports based on data files displayed data in a variety of visual formats to analyze patterns identify differences among the results set.
• Monitored incoming data for quality and consistency and developed customized data files to be communicated to Financial Advisors, Office of Management and the client.
• Created and updated Business Use Cases based upon the changing needs of the business users using MS Visio and maintained project schedule using MS Project.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and updated the system training documentation and manuals.
• Maintained and updated Project Status Reports with issues, tasks, risk and milestones to be achieved in order to distribute it to the senior management for weekly calls.