PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of extensive experience as a Business Analyst, system analysis, scrum master in business and functional requirements gathering, analyzing requirements, developing, data analysis, data mapping, business process re - engineering, object-oriented designing, unified modeling language (UML), SDLC methodology (RUP, Agile, SCRUM, XP), in finance, capital market and investment banking domain, very good team player with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Extensive experience in working and implementing various Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies (SDLC): Waterfall; Agile Methodologies such as Waterfall-Scrum (Hybrid) and Scrum, RUP.
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) tools (Qlikview and tableu)
• Experience in writing SQL queries and writing technical specification (SRS)
• Experience with projects that involved delivering business solutions, user interface design, data integration, and metadata management.
• Experience within Investment Banking / Financial Services industry with exposure to Regulatory Reporting
• Experience as a Regulatory Operations Consultant and responsible for impacting the company’s monthly FOCUS report.
• Performed daily regulatory rule reporting, Risk Management problem solving, troubleshooting, testing and ad hoc analysis
• Experience in analysis and design of as-is business process and to-be design processes (Gap analysis) using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Design (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions, brainstorming sessions, requirement reviews, system walkthroughs and customer interviews for various business processes.
• Knowledge of SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis and ROI analysis.
• Knowledge in Tracking, Documenting, Capturing, Managing and Communicating the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), and helping teams across the deliverables of a project for controlling different artifacts.
• Extensive success in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed functional specifications, use cases and wireframes employing Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Skillful Scrum Master Adept in facilitating Scrum Processes and conducting ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) in Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Managed the breaking-down of Epics into User Stories (INVEST format) and handling the Requirements Churn in Scrum.
• Efficient in performing, prioritizing and leveraging analyzing techniques like Planning Poker, MoSCoW,& T-shirt Sizing
• Experienced in the securities and derivatives trading and extensive knowledge of the securities, derivatives, FX, Hedge funds and fixed income instruments such as Bonds.
• Strong Experience in implementation, Upgrade and Production support of Oracle ERP financial suite including Oracle General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Fixed Asset, Cash Management and SLA
• Very good understanding of Financial modules like AP, AR, CM involved in OTC (Order To Cash) & P2P (Procure To Pay)
• Knowledge of E- Commerce and define business requirement through workflow analysis specific to ecommerce solutions and MS Dynamics NAV/ Navision
• Strong knowledge of Dodd Frank, Charles River Investment Management System (CRIMS) and CALYPSO OTC
• Extensive knowledge in Finance, Credit Card, Investment Banking, Mortgage, BASEL ll AND BASEL lll, Deposit (Liquidity Deposit, Fixed Term Deposit and ACH)
• Strong understanding of portfolio analysis report and P&L reports by performing the risk analysis (Credit Risk, Market Risk, Reinvestment Risk, and Inflation Risk) based on the client investment objective.
• Proficient in UAT (user acceptance testing), Functionality Testing, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Involved in the formulation and implementation of a structured credit policy and related processes to manage credit risk. Involved in the designing the strategy for credit risk management, including credit policy development and risk monitoring. Knowledge of the quantitative risk management.
• Experience in prime brokerage, MBS and and/or Risk Management, project vision and P&L
• Excellent in performing GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Experience in Prime Brokerage, Portfolio, Risk Management and Property & Casual Insurance
• Extensive success in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed functional specifications, use

TECHNICAL SKILL SET:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, 7, 8.1, 10, Linux

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Wireframes, Mockup Screens

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, V-Model, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid

Requirement Management: JIRA, Rally, MS TFS, HP QC, HP ALM

Business Skills: Change Management/Requirement Churn, Use case Modeling, JAD Sessions, Project Scheduling, Risk Analysis, ROI, SWOT analysis, Interviewing

Project Management and Collaboration Tools: MS Project, SharePoint 2007, 2010, MS Office Suite, MS TFS

Testing Tools: HP QC v10.0, HP ALM 11.5, HP LoadRunner

Data Warehousing: Data Mart, OLTP, OLAP, Slicing/ Dicing

ETL and Reporting Tools: SQL Server, InformaticaPowerCenter, Qlikview, Tableau, IBM Cognos, Spotfire

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, CSS, Java, JavaScript

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g, 11g, MySQL, MDM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Cherry Hill, NJ

Sr. Business System /Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between development team and end-users during various Software Development Lifecycle phases.
• Conducted Questionnaires, Interviews, JAD Sessions, Requirement Workshops, User Interface Mockups and Brainstorming to gather businessuser requirements using AGILE methodology.
• PreparedUse Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams which included modeling of all the activities ofbusinessfrom conceptual to procedural level in MS Visio.
• Prepared regulatory capital calculations daily, monthly & annually.
• Interpreted user requirements into a well-organized and sustainable functioning Finance System application reporting to the upper management.
• Performed daily regulatory rule reporting, Risk Management problem solving, troubleshooting and testing.
• Performed GAP analysis to define gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes.
• Scrutinized and aided in Prioritizing user andbusinessrequirements with the Product Owner and Development Team and documenting them in Product Backlog.
• Assisted in concocting Conceptual and Logical Data Models.
• Prepared BusinessRequirement Documents (BRD), System Requirements Specification (SRS) and Use Case Document.
• Assisted Project Manager in Data Analysis, Feasibility Analysis and SWOT Analysis to check the compatibility of the existingsystem infrastructure with newbusinessrequirements.
• Used Pega- Business Process Management(BPM) for managing the business operations within the organization, improving the business process efficiency.
• Managed schedules, deadlines, resources and the project tasks with the help of MS Project Professional
• Coordinated with the Business Analysts for assisting Data Analysis, Data Mapping process, Data Extraction and Integration to the data mart by using the InformaticaPowerCenter.
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) tools (Qlikview and tableu)
• Experience in writing SQL queries and writing technical specification (SRS)
• Synchronized with project managers in the groundwork of the project plans with any impact due to Requirement Churn
• Shaped and managed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Authored progress and status reports which were then acquiesced to project management on a weekly basis.
• Assisted in developing Release Notes, User Manual and Training Manual for the project.Performed Client-Side Validations to check all functionalities of different modules.
• Conducted the Black-box, System, UAT and Smoke Tests for various phases of this application.
• Assisted in writing SQL queries like Select, Update, and Joins to retrieve desired information.

TECHNOLOGIES: Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid, Wireframes, Java, Apache Tomcat, JavaScript, Eclipse, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project Professional, HP LoadRunner, UML, JIRA 5.2, HP ALM, GAP Analysis, Tableau, InformaticaPowerCenter, Web Services, MDM, XML.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Business Analyst/ Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Involved throughout the agile methodology focusing on Agile in combination with Waterfall and understood problem definition through one to one meetings with SMEs.
• Identified and analyzed businessneeds using techniques such as JAD sessions, Document Analysis, Interface Analysis, Requirements Workshops, User Interface Mockups and Interviews with SMEs and stakeholders.
• Analyzed the businesscases for the project to understand the project needs to create AS-IS and TO-BE process workflows.
• Encouraged the use of Agile Best Practices and Estimation techniques like Planning Poker and T-Shirt Sizing. Analyzed and assisted in user stories Prioritizing techniques like MoSCoW and Kano.
• Gathered businessrequirements from the Product Owner and documented them in Product Backlog.Responsible for product backlog grooming, requirements analysis and estimation, user demo of PSPI, interfaced with development team to clarify requirements.
• PreparedUse Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Modeled all the activities ofbusiness and assisted the Data Architect in preparing Conceptual and Logical Data Models.
• Prepared Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Businessrequirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, User stories/flows, Functional Specifications (FSD) and supporting documents.
• Maintained Scrum works which was used to manage, track and identifies impediments for tasks and introduced Test Driven Development (TDD) for a sprint. Also worked with project managers for the preparation of project plans with any impact due to any changes and handled Requirement Churn.
• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Standup Meeting, Sprint Review Meetings, and Sprint Retrospective Meetings).
• Understanding the norms, regulations and legal obligations that will help build an effective module.
• Created and managed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) using Requisite Pro and also maintained progress and status reports which were submitted weekly to the project management.
• Worked closely with Project Manager for any change request and helped to do Impact Analysis.
• Worked with the QA team for designing Test Plans and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black-box, System, Smoke and Regression Testing.
• Performed Client-Side Validations to check all the functionalities of different modules.

TECHNOLOGIES: Waterfall-Agile Hybrid, SQL Server, UAT, Mock-up Screens, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Suite, Rational Rose, Clear Case, GAP analysis, Clear Quest, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite and XML.

Confidential, PA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Researched and analyzed existing business processes and systems to formulate logical statements of business requirements.
• Looked at the various system (Origination, servicing system, Data Mart) and understand the transformation.
• Built the lineage mapping document and looked at all the source to be able to document and test the transformation.
• Served as interface between users and Software Engineers to identify software modifications tailored to clients' needs using Leverage (ALS and PolicyLink).
• Analyzed how data flows from Point A to B based on line of business (home, auto loans)
• Prepared data lineage mapping documentation.
• Facilitated testing data lineage and prepared data lineage testing documentation.
• Interacted professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Extensively involved in Consumer loan lending process, loan origination, and ALS loan booking process, payment applications, ALS billing & coupon concepts and Citibank, specific external interfaces.
• Assist Data Stewards in their research and testing of their Critical Data Elements (CDE)
• Understand the source systems feeding the Basel Lending Data Mart (BLDM)
• Developed test plans, test cases, assisted in testing. Provide user documentation, user training, and post implementation support.
• Developed test plans and test case scenarios to guarantee the changes to the system design meets business requirements.
• Collaborate with business leaders, IT professionals, and vendors ensuring that management is kept informed of project status and the problems. Issues are escalated appropriately and clearly communicated.
• Demonstrated leadership and partnership skills by interacting with other technology teams within organization to solve problems and deliver solutions.

TECHNOLOGIES: Microsoft Office Suites (word, Power point, Access, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio), Windows, Share point, Quality Center, SQL, UML, Clear Case, Crystal Reports.

Confidential . BalaCynwyd,PA

Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stake holders to detail the decision making process at that time creating business process flow diagrams utilizing MS Visio. This allowed for the identification of duplications of user effort and data collection.
• Assisted in identifying gaps in data collection and content management
• Assisted in ensuring consistency of SFG's Global Reference Data by reviewing identification codes for securities
• Worked with the project sponsor to create entitlements matrix
• Developed and received approval for all Functional Requirements
• Verified the Use Cases to support the technical design of the system
• Created a data dictionary for use of project for requirements, testing and development
• Conducted work flow analysis to examine the current needs and to establish the future goals of the project
• Created documentation associated with message broker flows including: detailed design, technical design, message flow diagrams, system topologies, and test cases
• Prepared Business Process Models that depicted modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual and procedural level.
• Experience in Writing user defined functions, stored procedures and views using SQL Server.
• Automation of routine data handling and processing task using VBA and Excel.
• Interacted with Legal & Compliance team to include regulatory aspects
• Published functional requirements on web for access by all project participants.
• Created screen designs in Visio for each step of system including all what if scenarios. Held screen reviews with business to determine usability, held reviews with development for technical approval, modified screens as required by business and development
• Reviewed and approved test scripts.
• Reviewed test results and prepared test scenarios for UAT

TECHNOLOGIES: Windows NT, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, MS Project 2007, XML, J2EE, HTML, Siebel eFinance, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio 2007, HP Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle.
• Followed the RUP (Rational Unified Process) methodology for elicitation and representation of requirements.
• Contributed in defining the Scope of the project and defined functional specifications.
• Analyzed and documented the system specifications, Business requirements; used the tool Telelogic DOORS for documenting, tracking and analyzing the requirements.
• Used DOORS to link requirements to test cases, business rules, design items to maintain traceability.
• Used UML to produce Use-Cases, Use case diagrams and Activity diagrams to explain process flows and functional specifications.
• Used the tool Systems Architect and MS Visio to create use case diagrams and process flows.
• Used Mercury Quality Center to look up defects and issues raised by testing activities.
• Worked closely with QA and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provided feedback to nail down the bugs.
• Produced and managed documentation on release activities to support problem resolution.
• Review prototypes, solution blueprints, and project scope to ensure that the needs of the business are being met
• Used the Agile (SCRUM) Methodology on the project.
• Worked in the Scrum team and participated in backlog review and sprint planning sessions
• Translated the requirements to the IT and web production teams in building their HTML for the projects
• Used MS Project to document the project progress and manage the project resources
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases. Created Use case diagrams using MS Visio according to UML methodology
• Responsible for giving Knowledge Transfer (KT) sessions of the project to the Production Support Team.

TECHNOLOGIES: MS Office, MS Visio, RUP, UML, SQL, Oracle 8i.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to drive process from analysis till implementation using SDLC methodology including testing, quality assurance and gathering business requirements.
• Conducted Data Analysis for existing project and identified new conflicts, situations and/or project to recommend alternative strategies for accomplishing desired goals.
• Assisted Program Manager to ensure project coordination and timely document review and approval.
• Establish and maintain activity logs, performance metrics, project plans, and other pertinent forms and documents to provide the basis for resource allocation, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Used Six-Sigma (DMAIC) tools for process improvement and achieving desired goals.
• Managed Change Requests and performed impact analysis.
• Created and managed a master project plan with work breakdown structures in MS Project.
• Responsible for project defining: Define business process, functionality and participate in new systems evaluation and adoption.
• Providing liaison between engineering teams, business areas, and end users.

TECHNOLOGIES: Windows NT, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Outlook, MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).