SUMMARY

• Experienced in leading client engagement, understanding their needs/priorities and expert in eliciting requirements from users in Front, Middle, & Back office with strong communication skills.
• Co - ordinate and network with multiple stakeholders to successfully deliver critical applications/solutions.
• Proficiency in working in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Hands on experience with Waterfall, and Agile(Scrum) methodologies.
• Skilled in documenting Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD/FSD).
• In depth experience in creating business process work flow diagrams on white board as well as in Visio and Gliffy.
• Result oriented joint application development (JAD) facilitator and coordinator.
• Created test plans, test scenarios, and test cases as well as conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Assisted in creating Gantt chart, milestones, forecasting, presentations, WBS, status update reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technology: SQL, MS Excel, Pivot Table Analysis, VBA Macro, Visio, MS Project, SharePoint; UML; COGNOS; IBM Rational Requisite Pro; Enterprise Architect; TIBCO Spotfire; SAP Business Objects; Calypso v15, Confluence, JIRA; Bloomberg; MarkitServ; Fidessa for Equity Cash, GMI for Futures and Options, DTCC D/S Match; Actimize, HTML; XML; FIX Protocol, FpML; XBRL; Altova XML Spy; Confidential Clearport, Micro Strategy

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented end-to-end Confidential II Regulatory reporting solution for Post Trade Transactions (To TradeEcho) and T+1 (To UnaVista) for all asset classes and successfully met the regulatory reporting deadline of January 3rd 2018.
• Created and contributed to Functional Specification Document (FSD), participated in data modeling exercise with, and created rules, and buy/sell logic document for all asset classes.
• Identified all source systems in scope for Confidential II and their sources and created data mapping document for PTT fields of 18 and T+1 Reporting fields (65) with mandatory and optional flags.
• Conducted detailed testing in conjunction with QA team and resolved issues with the assistance of developers and LSEG operations team before go-live.
• Proficient reading XML messages to find out data discrepancies, identified issues, and created QC in ALM.
• Communicated with on-site, off-site, and off-shore teams on a daily basis and also provided updates to C-Level management.
• Monitored post production reporting through reconciliation of trade counts, acknowledgements, non-acknowledgements, from TradeEcho, and UnaVista, and resolved post production issues.
• Created a daily recon report for all asset classes and circulated to all stakeholders.
• Lead and participated in daily Triage call to identify issues and resolutions.

Environment: Squirrel, MS SQL Server database, MS Office, Pivot table, XML, JSON, FIX

Sr. Business Analyst/PM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acquired knowledge about UI based centralized limits management system and familiarized with various limits applied on Equities, Commodities, Rates, Credit, Wholesale, and OTC Clearing positions
• Elicited and documented business requirements for integrating new system using confluence.
• Communicated with Market Risk, users, technology teams (on-shore, off-shore) on a daily basis.
• Created UI screen mock ups and presented to users as well as technology teams for critique and evaluation.
• Dealt with system issues, created JIRAs on a daily basis and resolved with the help of technology team and user group.
• Coordinate with technology team for periodic releases (every 6 weeks) and supported over the weekend.
• Assisted in QA Testing as well as UAT testing.

Environment: SQL, MS Office, Visio, Pivot table, FIX Protocol, JSON

Sr. Business Analyst/PM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acquired domain knowledge of Retail Banking, gathered management reporting requirements (Dimensions & Measures) from Retail Management Reporting team, created BRD & FRD (Business & Functional Requirements Documents).
• Conducted detailed data mapping exercises with source system and defined rules in conjunction with Retail Management Reporting team to create an Aggregation layer to suffice various ad-hoc and static Retail Management reporting requirements.
• Dissected CRO Monthly Report, created Data Demand Sheet for Aggregation Layer as well as CRO Monthly Report and participated in Data Modeling Exercises with Modeling team.
• Acquired account level sample data files from Big Data Repository (HDFS) to check the availability of data in the repository.
• Liaised and co-ordinate with source system owners, integration team, modeling team, and developers to publish data into reporting portal.
• Carried out SIT and mock report creation testing.
• Designed various test scenarios to create various Management Reports for ad-hoc reporting.
• Acquired signed off on BRD, FRD, and Data Demand Sheet on a timely basis.

Environment: Hadoop, SQL, Pivot table, Databridge, Java, Microstrategy, Citi Reporting Portal, Confluence, JIRA, Visio

Sr. Business Analyst/PM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acquired knowledge on Equity Swaps, Portfolio Swaps, Total Return swaps and their architecture.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions with Product BLM, Operations, Risk, IT, SDR, to elicit requirements on Product Scope, Account set up, connectivity, messaging, risk management, client reporting to create BRD and detailed FRD for clearing listed Equity Swaps, BRL Swaps, Swaptions, Confidential listed NN/NG Commodity Futures Spreads.
• Analyzed and assisted in Calypso customization/configuration fields/elements around major modules like Trade Capture, Market Data capture, Valuations, Workflows, EOD Reporting, Regulatory, Risk, for Equity and BRL Swaps.
• Reviewed FIXML/FpML elements and inbound/outbound messages for Equity/Rates (CAD/BRL) Swaps and Swaptions.
• Hands-on experience with various listed options (CBOE) and futures ( Confidential ) contracts specifications, expiration, clearing, margining, and settlement.
• Tracked issues, project progress; and drafted Status/Forecast reports.

Environment: Clearport, Confluence, JIRA, Calypso, FIX, FpML, Altova XML Spy, MS Office, Gliffy, SQL, SharePoint, Cognos