SUMMAR

• In - depth noledge and practical experience of using Waterfall, Agile, Scrums, Rational Unified Process, Business Process Reengineering, Unified Modeling Language, System Requirements Specification and Functional Requirements Specification, Rapid Application Development, and MS Visio.
• Highly skilled in transforming teh needs of business users and stakeholders to teh functional/technical requirements.
• Served as a critical resource and liaised between subject matter experts and technologists throughout teh project life cycle.
• Excellent conceptual and technical skills to create Business Requirements Document, Functional Specifications Document, Process Flow Diagram, and Detailed Design Document.
• Analyzed and defined business processes both “AS IS” and “TO BE.”
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders and business partners to resolve open issues.
• Developed Use Cases using UML and MS Visio for an ease with system interaction.
• Good experience working with JQL
• Good Knowledge in source systems like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, IFS, SAP ECC, CRM, BW.
• Had a clear opinion on mutual funds based on research that goes beyond mere performance and risk evaluation.
• Worked with teh project team to determine appropriate test plans, deployment plans and supported teh product launch.
• Worked with Analysts, Managers, Developers and Testers for complex projects during teh SDLC.
• Good experience working with fixed income, derivatives and equity lines.
• Good experience in data mining, text mining and business Intelligence tools like Tableau
• Prioritized work requests from project team.
• Identified and communicated risks and with possible solutions.
• Modified and changed teh User Interface (UI) as per teh system requirements and clients’ requirements.
• Interacted with QA team for Unit/Integration/System testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile
• Waterfall
• MS Visio
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Access)
• MS SQL Server
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Rational Clear Quest
• HP Quality Center(ALM)
• Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Requirements Gathering sessions with Portfolio Managers, Equity Research Analysts, Traders and SMEs.
• Involved in creating teh BRD using SPS (SharePoint Portal Services) and Product Requirement Specification (PRD) for teh system.
• Assisting teh business team in Business Case Modeling.
• Worked on Use Case Modeling using MS Visio for preparing Functional Requirements Documents.
• Adept at developing new business opportunities, as well as managing and growing existing accounts.
• Performed client satisfaction services by provision of continuous support to Microsoft Dynamics applications.
• Developed an understanding of financial information, such as financial statements, company accounts and sector data
• Examined and interpreted data from different sources and understood teh impact for investment decision making.
• Developed expertise in teh mutual fund industry, specific fund families, various market sectors and corporate stewardship issues.
• Supervised teh efficient working of Electronic data exchange (EDI)
• Remain updated about latest trends in teh mutual fund market industry to solidify investment presence and by default, investment profits.
• Built good configuration management practices like having an automated nightly regression build using Quick Test Professional.
• Organizing weekly Project Status and Task Review meetings.
• Created PowerPoint presentations and project updates using MS Project for management review.
• Performed SWOT and GAP Analysis for new functionality requirements as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs.
• Facilitated JAD sessions and conducted peer review meetings periodically to keep track of projects milestones.
• Identified opportunities to use customer data to develop customer strategies and improve business performance.
• Assisted Project Manager in preparing teh project schedules, milestone tracking, and resource allocation using MS Project.
• Undertook project risk management and business process analysis review of teh implementation of different stages of teh applications.
• Managed development of SharePoint site for aggregating information collected in InfoPath forms into a report in MS Word.
• Customized SharePoint site templates and menus.
• Collaborated with teh QA team to ensure adequate testing of software, maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation was in place.
• Organized weekly project status meetings and created PowerPoint presentations and project updates using MS Project for management review.

Environment: Web Logic 8.1, IBM DB2 V8.1, Java, XML, MS Visio, MS Share Point Server 2003, Oracle 9i, MS Access.

Sr. Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business requirements and business process flow following teh existing template and specifying teh objects, assumptions, constrains, scope, features, data flow diagrams, screen mock-ups, etc.
• Facilitated cross-team meetings with committees from Operation and Development to allow different Stakeholders to communicate their interests and concerns and document meeting minutes.
• meeting with and providing information to fund managers; dis might include summaries of research, investment ideas, key events from teh proceeding day as well as key drivers for teh day ahead.
• Collaborated with System Analysts, Technical Leads, and Developers to assist them in fully understanding of business requirements.
• Maintained an Open Issue List and Issue Log to track teh status of all teh issues and concerns raised during teh project.
• Identified and analyzed trends using strong quantitative skills in order to make markets and execute profitable trades
• Worked closely with Asset manager in monitoring and report changes in risk profiles of individual assets in teh portfolio.
• Worked with teh team responsible for analyzing teh business impact of SWIFT 2008-'12 release changes and captured teh business requirements for teh following message types.
• Worked on SWIFT MT53x, MT54x and MT56x message processing.
• Worked on SWIFT gateway applications like SWIFT Alliance Access SAA, MERVA.
• Made timely recommendations for mitigating strategies and risk rating changes
• Made fast-paced, strategic trade decisions while dealing with a high degree of uncertainty and limited information
• Followed a structured approach to name and organize requirements into different hierarchy level groups as Capability, Feature, and Business Requirement for traceability purpose.
• Collaborated with teh QA team to develop Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases including execution condition, input description and expected result that will be used in system and user acceptance testing based on business requirements, technical specifications, and product noledge.
• Perform root cause analysis on all processes and resolve all production issues and validate all data and perform routine tests on databases and provide support to all ETL applications.
• Collaborate with Metadata Manager and perform tests and provide update to all ETL activities within schedule and provide support to all large data volumes and assist in data processing.
• Collaborated with Metadata project leaders in managing data compliance issues within teh company.
• Data administrators import and manage assets in teh metadata repository such as databases, data files, business intelligence (BI) reports and models, and logical data model definitions.
• Used Version One for Agile project management, creating product backlog, sprint backlog and bug tracking.
• Updated Weekly Status Report on SharePoint-Teamwork for accomplishments, in-progress items and tasks assigned in teh coming week. Notified Project Manager for additional concerns and recognitions and entered working hours for every task performed.
• Good noledge in trading and post trading processes.
• Worked with data inception API, data warehouses, web services both SOAP and REST
• Created teh business process model using MS Visio for better understanding of teh system and presented it to Project Manager and other team members for validation.
• Good experience working with Financial information Exchange (FIX)
• Got experience working with Business Intelligence tool like Tableau.
• Facilitated Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Business Case, User Stories, and Sprint Retrospective. Coordinates and participates in Scrum of Scrums.
• Organized one-on-one meetings with individual PMO Leads to check any outstanding deliverables and status of applications.

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint, UML, Rational Suite, .NET, Version One.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews to gather business user requirements; analyzed and translated conceptual requirements, procedures, and issues into Functional Specifications comprehensible to developers and solution architects.
• conducted due diligence on companies and industries by researching, reading financial statements and market data
• Worked closely with Asset manager in monitoring and report changes in risk profiles of individual assets in teh portfolio.
• Monitored accounts and report on fixed asset and deferred charge asset.
• Analyzed financial information relating to specific companies, e.g. company results, profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements to determine how an organization is positioned to deliver for investors.
• Adhere to teh company investment policies for recommending mutual fund investment options to individual or firm investors.
• Remain updated about latest trends in teh mutual fund market industry to solidify investment presence and by default, investment profits.
• Analyzed all facets of Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS), including fixed, hybrid, and subprime.
• Marketed cash-mortgage and structured products to institutions, including hedge funds and money managers.
• Interfaced with End Users and Business Owners to examine current work processes.
• Performed GAP Analysis to define gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes.
• Conducted project scope meetings and requirements gathering sessions to document business requirements into Functional Specifications Document.
• Good experience in mortgage industry and in-depth understanding of teh life cycle of a loan.
• Worked Closely with loan originator system admin in promoting loan quality, production efficiency, and loan delivery improvements.
• Third party/service provider integration with LOS and related systems
• Developed Use Cases and Workflows in MS Visio.
• Created artifacts, defined milestones and iteration plans for inception and elaboration phases of Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Worked with Data Insertion API, Data Warehouse and Web Services, both SOAP and REST.
• Determined traceability and dependability between teh requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Worked closely with teh developers shared central autantication system in VB.NET and ASP.NET
• Used VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML 5 and PHP in coding websites
• Managed design sessions, and communicated findings and recommendations to Project Manager and Business Partners.
• Documented "best practice" implementation plans and continuously measured project outcomes for desired results and improvements.
• Built teh data mining database tasks like data collection, data selection, data cleaning and solved data quality problems.
• Analyzed business processes and workflows, and recommended enhancements from operational and technical perspectives.
• Worked with Stakeholders and IT teams in prioritizing system enhancements and defects.
• Developed marketing plan to expand brand awareness and market penetration of fixed income products with teh help of SWOT Analysis.
• Performed Return on Investment Analysis (ROI), Cost Benefit Analysis and daily calculations of Net Asset Value (NAV).
• Daily assessment of AML and SWIFT reports for potential suspicious activity.
• Ensure timely, efficient reporting of suspicious transactions to AML Compliance Officer
• and teh Financial Intelligence Centre at Bank of Namibia
• Worked with data modelers to prepare data models. Reviewed data models to ascertain that requirements were met.
• Performed Data Analysis (Data Cleansing, Data Volume Assessment, Data Transformation, etc.).
• Developed, documented and executed test plans to ensure fulfillment of requirements and successful project implementation.
• Worked closely with Project Manager in handling teh whole project.
• Assured that all RUP artifacts followed corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

Environment: Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, Web Services, REST API, Rational Requisite Pro, .NET, Test Director, Rally, CMM, RUP.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews and meetings with Managers, Subject Matter Experts and other relevant personnel to understand business requirements.
• Located and reviewed documentation about current business processes to aid in teh requirements gathering.
• Performed extensive translation of High-Level Business Requirements into Technical Requirement (yet elaborative) for teh eSync Health Portal and for Rally website.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze teh level of effort on project specifications.
• Worked closely with EHR application analyst.
• Provided support for EHR software and implemented.
• Designed and modified EHR (electronic health record) software applications, including encoding, testing, debugging and installing to support an organization' Confidential EHR application systems.
• Worked closely with Data Analyst team to load those translated Business Requirement Documents to teh Database.
• Experience working in CQI
• Assisted in data collection and built teh data mining database
• Held meetings with business and acted as teh sole resource for communication to business.
• Responsible for communicating to technical team teh expectations and priorities, and resolved any issues/gaps.
• Provide support to all ETL schedule and maintain compliance to same and develop and maintain various standards to perform ETL codes and maintain an effective project life cycle on all ETL processes.
• Assisted QA team in performing validation of teh UI and DB as per business requirements.
• Worked with teh business client to identify and analyze development and design issues.
• Helped QA team and Data Analyst team to resolve various defects using ALM Quality Center tool.
• Organized and managed all phases of teh software testing process including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests and tracking defects using Quality Center.
• Worked extensively with teh QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for teh User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and validation.
• Fulfilled gaps identified during dis translation process to meet High-Level Business Requirements.
• Provided work status reports to Supervisor and Project Manager as required.
• Used JIRA for planning, bug tracking, release and reporting.

Environment: Agile/Scrum Methodology, JIRA, Oracle SQL developer, HTML, MS Excel, MS Word, ALM Quality Center, WebEx, SnagIt tool, Admin Tool, eCT Tool, Rally UI, Beyond Compare Tool.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Prepared scope of teh project and developed new business process along with process mapping and user task analysis.
• Garnered information and noledge on ICD 9 & 10 and HIPAA 4010/5010 as well as Developed teh transaction process more accurate and real time regarding 837 including HIPAA compliance, and integrated teh system with HL7 process.
• Used Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to extract useful information regarding patients for claim submission to teh insurance company.
• Conducted JAD session with different teams like business side and technical side to identify and gathered high level requirements and evaluated teh priority level on teh basis of meeting discussions and comments on requirements.
• Developed a vision plan that defined teh primary goals and objectives of teh project. Analyzed User Stories and segregated them into high level and low level.
• Prepared product backlog working with product owner and other SME as well as prioritized user stories and assigned to different sprints. Facilitated daily stand ups and managed task board with User Stories and board as well as prepared and tracked Burndown Charts and Velocity Charts for timely delivery of projects.
• Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC Methodology. Used Scrum Work Pro and Microsoft Office software to perform required job functions.
• Experience in designing and defining User Interface requirements and visual patterns by creating Wireframes, Screen Mockups, and Story Boards.
• Strong understanding about user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design principals and users centered methodology.
• Developed user guides, provides user training, and supported teh users in development of work processes.
• Worked with offshore underwriter team who was verifying teh healthcare claims before submission to different insurance company.
• Maintained Change and Traceability Matrix throughout teh project keeping track of teh scope, timelines and budget of teh project as well as collaborated with development team to determine teh security access and its tracking to ensure privacy of end-users.
• Wrote various SQL queries to create, update, modify tables, create reports, and retrieve information from teh database.
• Created application specific Test Plans and Test Case to support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Provided weekly status updates to project stakeholders on teh progress of project development activities.
• Supervised teh working of EDI
• Worked with development team to create advance claim submission process for Medicare and Medicaid patients as well as EDI transaction such as 837 (P, I, D), 835, and 276/277.

Environment: Agile, MS Project, MS SQL 2008, Windows 2000/XP, HPQC, HTML, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, MS Office Suite.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Hudson, OH

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements by conducting Meetings and Brainstorming sessions with End Users and SMEs, and document them.
• Extensively involved in Data Modelling, Data Mapping and Logical Data Modelling.
• Created Class Diagrams and ER Diagrams, and used SQL queries to filter data.
• Performed GAP Analysis of teh processes to identify and validate requirements.
• Identified/documented data sources and transformational rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.
• Created Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams thus defining teh Data Process Model and Business Process Model.
• Involved with all teh phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout teh project life cycle.
• Applied UML notations and methodology in developing models that accurately represented teh business process and workflows and clearly communicate them to teh Stakeholders.
• Facilitated JAD sessions involving teh management, development and user teams for clarifying requirements and facilitating better communication.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines.

Environment: Agile, MS Project, Windows 2000/XP, MS Visio, MS SharePoint,