SUMMARY

• Over 20 years of IT experience with solid 15 years into Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Requirement Gathering and Quality Assurance.
• Comprehensive knowledge and expertise in implementation of Core Banking Programs on FLEXCUBE UBS and Temenos T24 banking solutions data migration with interfacing of SWIFT, SAS AML, Oracle Financials, Fedwire, Chips and other regulatory and MIS reporting system.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of its various methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, etc.
• Strong experience in using Agile Methodology.
• Utilized and supported teams in use of JIRA, Clarity, and remote collaboration tools such as WebEx, Skype etc.,
• Expert in using JIRA as a tool for requirement documentation, user story tracking and generating various scrum artifacts
• Support the Product Owners, particularly with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Conducted Requirement Gathering Sessions (RGS) and interviewed Business users and SMEs with different techniques.
• Brainstorming, Focus group, Question and Answer, shadowing.
• Coordinated with Scrum Master for Project Progress and Release Management.
• Sets and runs effective scrum recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio, and delivery managers
• Provides a single point of contact for projects.
• Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.
• Implemented loan origination system, commercial and retail lending systems.
• Hands - on in-depth experience in requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Training, and Implementation of Temenos T24, FLEXCUBE UBS and Custom Applications.
• Experience implementing Information Management solutions with focus on data modeling, data sourcing, ETL, data transformation, data integration, reporting and migration.
• Implemented projects leveraging Agile project management principles.
• Proficiency in documenting Business Process Design, authoring Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use case Specifications, Functional Specification Document (FSD), Detailed Design Specifications (DDS), User Interface Specification (UIS) and other related artifacts.
• T24 Modules handled in implementation CU, AC, MM, LD, TF, DR, DE, FX, FT, SC, RE, MD etc.…
• Scrum as an asset; strong knowledge of all the concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ETL Tools: Custom developed in house tools, DB forge

RDBMS & Tools: Oracle, Universe, Jbase, FoxPro, Sql server, COBOL, Dbase, Foxpro, MS-Project., Jira, Jboss

Languages: COBOL, Pro*c, Info Basic, C, SQL, PL/SQL

Operating Systems: UNIX (Sco Unix, AIX), Windows 95/98/NT/XP, MS-DOS

Scripting: UNIX

Interfaces: SWIFT, FEDWIRE, GIFTSEDD, NEFT, Regulatory reporting, Sharman Calculator, Wolters Kluwer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota

SR. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating the Functional Specification Document (FSD) based on Business Requirement document (BRD).
• Writing Use Cases and developed various models like Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams
• Maintaining a structured approach in organizing requirements to ensure that critical business rules and requirements are met.
• Functioning as a liaison between various business users and the technical team throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintaining the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Participating in test cases reviews to make sure that all the requirements have been covered and accurately tested.
• Writing test cases for conducting User Acceptance Testing.
• Agile and Waterfall methodologies used in implementing the systems.
• Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
• Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes
• Works effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks

Confidential, Columbus, GA

SR Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and participating in the meeting sessions with the business users and stakeholders to define the project scope and boundaries.
• Assisted the project manager in developing scope and vision documents describing primarily the goals, objective, and scope of the project.
• Validated the various business processes with a committee of Subject Matter Experts (SME's) like Mortgage Servicers, Underwriters, Credit Analyst etc, to ensure the rules and guidelines have been met.
• Elicited requirements through brainstorming, Joint Application Development (JAD) and interview sessions.
• Created the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and the Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).
• Writing Use Cases and developed various models like Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams
• Maintaining a structured approach in organizing requirements to ensure that critical business rules and requirements are met.
• Functioning as a liaison between various business users and the technical team throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintaining the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Participating in test cases reviews to make sure that all the requirements have been covered and accurately tested.
• Writing test cases for conducting User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential - NY

Principal / Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Created Migration Strategy document for business users how each of the legacy banking products will be migrated to new Temenos T24 core banking system.
• Created module wise data mapping document for technical team how the legacy data will be migrated to Temenos T24 core banking system.
• Created transformation mapping document for technical team
• Involved in creation of Chart of Accounts and General ledger mapping for products.
• Identified the functional gaps between legacy system and Temenos core banking system.
• Modules used in in T24 - Customer (CU), Accounts ( AC), Funds Transfer (FT), Loans and Deposits - Commercial and Retail lending (LD), Money Market (MM), Letter of Credit ( LC), Drawings (DR), Negotiation (DN), Forex ( FX), Securities ( SC), Delivery ( DE), Reporting (RE), Data Capture (DC) etc..
• Created Interface document for SWIFT, FEDWIRE, NEFT, EGIFTS and RTGS systems.
• Created interface document of OFAC and Enhance Due Diligence (EDD), Statutory and Regulatory reporting (RBI, Hongkong Monetary Authority, NYSB, UAE central bank)
• Developed and interfaced Banks Balance sheet and Income expenditure reports using RE reporting module.
• Conducted end user training how to use Temenos T24 System.
• Developed, Planned, and Implemented complex data conversion Roll-Out Strategy (Day 1) for the new solution involving 1.2 million customers, 500K Accounts, 100K Loans using Temenos T24 system.
• Involved in resolving post-production issues.
• Managing banking application support, new business requirements, release management, vendor, and budget. Identify and manage project risks to the closure and provide information senior management.
• Co-ordination with other interdependent groups for resource and budget allocations.
• Making Disaster recovery plans for the systems to comply with regulatory authorities. Analyze process flows and make recommendations.
• Provide expert input to implementation projects, as requested by Service Delivery Managers
• Ensures project methodologies, project delivery processes, and implementation management processes are followed. This includes Risk and Issue Management and Scope Change Management
• Measures and tracks performance and contribute to and implements standards and changes to processes within Quality Services.
• Led the data migration team for Flex cube and Temenos T24 core banking, which has 7 replacing applications and 127 surviving applications including Direct banking systems.
• Implemented Tools for automated technical and business data quality checks, auto reconciliation for balancing of Assets and Liabilities to Finance department
• Researched and Implemented auto comparison tools for migration activities with huge volume of data (1.2 TB).

Environment: Custom ETL tools, ORACLE RDBMS, DBforge for data comparison, T24, jBASE