SUMMARY

• Expertise in gathering Business requirement from various sponsors and stakeholders by understanding business goals and priority through research, formal - informal sessions, JAD sessions with teams, stakeholders and end users.
• Extensive experience in drafting business requirement and functional requirements in the form of BRDs, FRDs, SRSs and User Stories etc. with great technical details to support actual implementation of the project.
• Hand-on experience with MS Visio for creating UML diagrams such as Use case diagrams, flow charts, Activity charts and sequence diagrams to convey the business process flows and functional requirements in a efficient manner
• Expertise in creating prototypes and screen mockups/wireframes/GUIs using Balsamiq.
• Certified Scrum Master with hand on experience in working as a servant leader of Scrum and Kanban teams. As a Scrum Master, facilitated effective and efficient Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Hand on experience in enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving standards of work
• Hands on experience with tracking SCRUM activities through Kanban board, Burn down chart, Sprint Velocity, Spring Capacity and many more matrices.
• Hands on experience with Scrum metrics and used VersionOne and Jira as Agile life cycle management tool
• Hands on experience on Moody’s RiskFrontier Application and proficient at credit risk, Market risk and risk regulatory model using PD, LGD, credit migration, and correlation assumptions
• Excellent knowledge of OLAP technology, hand on experience on Business Object and SAS BI reporting tools and Informatica ETL tool
• Strong experience as a business system analyst in various functions including risk management, Financial Product Portfolio management and optimization, Trading order management life cycle, Wealth and asset management, regulatory standards and reporting.
• Hands on experience with regulation requirement of Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act, compliance reporting.
• Good understanding of Financial accounting, General ledger, FAS 133 (accounting for derivatives) & FAS 157 (Fair Value measurement)
• Extensively worked with the On-site and Off-shore Quality Assurance Groups by assisting the QA team to create & execute test plans and perform Black Box, GUI testing, Functionality, Regression, System, Unit, Stress, Performance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Extensive knowledge of relational database and client server systems. Hands on experience in Master data management, data governance, creating Data Mapping Documents and writing complex SQL (DDL, DML and DCL) queries for data validation of back-end data, ETL jobs (Informatica), ETL data transformation rules and analysis
• Expertise in Defect Tracking, Defect management and Reporting using tools such as Quality Center, JIRA

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban

Languages: SQL, JAVA, .NET Framework

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, Linux

Business Modeling Tool: MS Visio

Requirement Management Tool: Caliber RM

Defect Management Tool: Quality Center, JIRA, HP-ALM

Reporting tools: Business Object, SAS, Vermilion

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, DB2, SQL Server, Bloomberg

Data warehouse & Tools: Informatica Power Center, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), DataStage 11.3, Eagle/Pace

Tools: Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), MS Power Point, SharePoint, Subversion, VersionOne, Siebel eFinance, Load Runner, Moody’s RiskFrontier, APX, FactSet, Symphony

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Technical Business Analyst - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Agile boot camp and educated the development team and Stakeholders on Agile methodologies (Scrum and kanban).
• Enforced the Scrum methodology to the Dataware house team.
• Facilitated Daily scrum call and tracking complete SCRUMcycle through JIRA.
• Created Epics and User stories, kept product backlog well organized and prioritized.
• Assisted project manager to review user stories with team and resolving dependency for user stories and Epics.
• Iteration and release planning with team to achieve delivery dates with dependent application.
• Coached/Mentored resources on Agile and JIRA.
• Worked on Distributed agile environment and used PlanningPoker for Estimation.
• Used JIRA for Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management.
• Assisted Development team and Project manager to Conduct the Sprint Demos for end users
• Conducted Sprint Retrospective for the team and managing through JIRA.
• Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.
• Tracked and reported status and metrics throughout the project
• Communicated and presented weekly updates to stakeholders and program managers
• Conducted comprehensiveBusinessProcess Analysis by working with end users and other stake holders to identify the system, operational requirements, and proposed enhancements.
• Facilitated JAD sessions and translated business and functional requirements into technical specification.
• Performed data analysis from all the source systems, existing investment Performance reports and Security master database, Identified data gaps and documented
• Wrote User stories for developers on different key metrics including: Net Asset Value, Benchmarks, Trades, Composites and Portfolio details, Security master data including market data and reference data, Holdings and Positions, Portfolio Performance and attributions.
• Writing epics, stories and tasks for self and developers in JIRA with acceptance criteria
• Participating in the data architecture discussions with data modelers and prepared Data Mapping documents.
• Identified all necessaryBusinessand System Use Cases from requirements, created UML diagrams including Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Provide Support during Development, Resolve issues during System Test/QA phase
• Assisted QA team in developing test scenarios, test scripts & test data to support unit & system integration testing. Also Performed data validation by running SQL against new data source - APX-FactSet, Integration and UAT Testing.
• Worked with business team to designate UAT tester and schedule a UAT kickoff
• Resolved UAT issues by working along with development team and coordinates re-tests as needed.
• Provided weekly UAT final reports and sent out the communications to the business and technology team.
• Evaluated and resolving defects by assigning to ETL developers into JIRA

Environment: /Tools: Agile, MS Visio, Share Point, SQL Server, MS Office suite, Talend, Vermilion, Jira, APX, FactSet, Symphony

Confidential

BusinessAnalyst - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business users in defining the scope, analyzing business & system requirements and segregating them into high level and low-level requirements for Financial Risk Applications.
• Performed Business process analysis by using document review and interviews with project sponsors, and subject matter experts to gather detailed information on AS-IS and TO-BE business processes for creation of a SOP(Standard Operating Procedures) manual.
• Worked with Data warehouse team and source systems in preparing Data mapping documents and data models to procure the required data feeds into the Moody’s Risk Frontier Application.
• Conducted JAD sessions with users to identify the requirements and outline business rules.
• Enhanced and reengineered Business Processes and creating Business Process Flows (BPMN 2.0) using MS Visio.
• Developed User Requirements Specifications (URS), Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS).
• Involved with ETL developers in data cleansing & staging them on the platform with the help of Informatica.
• Assisted in preparing Business Operational Procedures document, which included Environment migration plan, Disaster recovery plan, and Technical specification document for the Risk Application.
• Worked with Data warehouse team and source systems to help them preparing Data mapping documents and data models to procure the required data feeds into the Moody’s Risk Frontier Application.
• Worked with the project manager for planning and organizing the project activities, and in communicating with other business center mangers and stakeholders of the project.
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with Project Team to discuss related business and project issues.
• Worked with the QA team to assist them with requirements clarification, develop system test plans and to analyze the test results of the application.
• Assisted development team with creating functional and technical presentations for management and training workshop for end users.
• Assisted business users with UAT related activities by providing UAT scenarios and test cases and gathered their feed back and communicated it with the development team
• Facilitate Scrum meetings: Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Epic and Story Estimation, Sprint Review and Demo, Retrospective.
• Creating and managing user stories, story points, daily standup calls,Scrum ofScrum, interaction with product owner and delegate. Defining iterations, creating tasks and reporting burn down chart.
• Work closely with the Product Owner, Project Manager, and Technical Lead to assure that the work is strategically prioritized for value, risk mitigation and timely delivery.
• Reinforced Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban
• Facilitate high level planning to establish project baseline and sprint schedule for functional and non-functional stories.
• Create and maintain information radiators and team tools: sprint board, burn-down charts, burn-up charts, progress dashboards, etc.
• Create reports as needed for Project Leadership including: progress, risks, dependencies, problems, delays, actions and decisions needed from leadership, etc.
• Ensuring highest quality quantifiable shippable software component as promised before development

Environment: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, SQL Server, Bloomberg, and Eagle/Pace data warehouse, Jira, VersionOne, HP-ALM, Agile, Kanban

Confidential

BusinessAnalyst-Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in documenting a Project Vision and Scope document to specify high level business needs and (As-Is/To-Be) scenario.
• Conducted an impact analysis to determine the critical areas with high priority.
• Gathered requirements for regulation using Dodd Frank rules for Consumer Protection.
• Documented scenarios for credit risk management for measuring, monitoring and managing credit risk, thereby offering a broad range of analytical Capabilities and user control.
• Documented functional specifications on estimating and stressing credit risk measures and rating estimates by using scorecards/models.
• Performed data analysis tasks to verify the gathered technical requirements, extensively worked on the ETL mappings, ER models, data models, analysis, BPMand documentation of OLAP reports requirements.
• Effective communication made possible between the developers and the end-clients to guarantee that development efforts were within the scope of the project and the development was as expected.
• Carried outdefect controlandchange controlinHP-ALM
• Executed SQL queries, to retrieve data from different databases, for data validation & analysis, researching underlying data errors, and generating reports.
• Conducted Regression Test on the system to make sure that the existing Dashboard reports are working fine.
• Facilitated Daily scrum call and tracking complete SCRUMcycle through JIRA.
• Participatedin scrumofscrum meetingsto resolve dependency and provide project updates.
• Assisted product Owner to review user stories with team and resolving dependency for user stories and Epics.
• Iteration and release planning with team to achieve delivery dates with dependent application.
• Coached/Mentored resources on Agile and JIRA.
• Worked on Distributed agile environment and used PlanningPoker for Estimation.
• Used JIRA for Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management.
• Assisted Development team and Product Owner to Conduct the Sprint Demos for end users
• Conducted Sprint Retrospective for the team and managing through JIRA.
• Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.

Environment: /Tools:Waterfall, Agile, MS Visio, Share Point, SQL Server, MS Office suite, Informatica, Market Watch, Jira, HP-ALM

Confidential

Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stakeholders 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 by running the data analysis task.
• 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 BRDs & FRDs and received approval for all 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
• 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 GUIs/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

Environment: Windows NT, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, MS Project 2007, XML, J2EE, HTML, Siebel eFinance 8.0, MS Visio 2007, HP Quick Test Pro, Load Runner 9.5, HP Quality Center

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted analysis on,Trading Lifecyclein front office to back office systems, trade capture,and FIX protocol for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions.
• Used MS Excel-Pivot tables for taking enormous amounts of data and summarizing that data into useful reports
• Strong understanding of FAS 133 (accounting for derivatives) & FAS 157 (Fair Value measurement).
• Made use of MS SharePoint for managing content & business processes, sharing information, enabling better-informed decisions.
• Coordinated with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to document all business requirements and activity diagrams to demonstrate workflow in Online Trading Station for opening brokerage accounts, margin accounts, registration, and multifactor login.
• Performed GAP analysis to compare the existing system with the proposed system and documented new requirements and features.
• Gatheredbusinessrequirements (BRDs) fromtraders, portfolio managers, hedge fund managers,andrisk management groupto identify and map detailed current processes and develop functional requirements (FRDs) that supported overall strategy, goals and objectives.
• Facilitated JAD sessions between the business users and the Subject Matter Experts.
• Designed and Analyzed Business Process/Work Flows and documented them using UML.
• Modeled functional requirements, converted business requirements into technical specifications, supporting them with class diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams, using MS Visio.
• Used HPQuality Centerto developTest Scenarioswith the complete description of Requirements of client.

Environment: /Tools/Technologies/Applications: MS Project, MS Visio, SAS, Bloomberg, MS Office, Quality Center, Oracle 10g, DB2, JAVA, HTML, XML, GUIs, Mockflow.