Summary:

• Business/Systems/Data Analyst with 7 years of experience in business process analysis/modeling, business requirements gathering, database design and development of Web Based, and Client/Server applications.
• Proficient in business process modeling, documentation, and testing using Rational Suite Rational Rose, RequisitePro, SoDA, ClearQuest, Robot as well as MS Visio and MS Project in combination with UML 2.0 diagramming techniques.
• Capital Markets focus for both debt and equity with regards to structuring and pricing transactions.
• In-depth knowledge of creating use case, activity, logical, component and deployment views with rational tools to extract business process flows and workflows thereby helping development and quality assurance teams in understanding the requirements.
• Knowledge in the ETL Extract, Transform and Load of data into a data ware house/date mart and Business Intelligence BI tools like Business Objects Modules Reporter, Supervisor, Designer, and Web Intelligence .
• Excellent understanding and work experience over different Equities, Equity derivatives and Fixed Income instruments: Bonds, Cds, Repos, CMOs, CLNs, MBS, ABS OTC derivatives: Forwards, Futures, Options, Swaps investments.
• Thorough working knowledge of SharePoint and MOSS 2007 , TFS Team Foundation Systems.
• Extensive success in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language UML in an SOA environment.
• Experience in Designing, Creating and maintaining the Universes, Business object reports, WEBI reports and Domains Security, Universe, Document in Business Objects.
• Results-oriented Joint Application Development JAD Facilitator and meetings coordinator with excellent interpersonal skills.
• ssExtensive experience in all phases of RUP and SDLC processes
• Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying and documenting root causes and corrective actions
• Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, MS Access, MS Visio, technical assessment tools, Data Warehousing concepts and web design and development.
• Analysis and creation of financial models for equity, debt and M A transactions conduct detailed business and financial due diligence significant interaction with equity capital markets and financial buyers to execute debt and equity transactions prepare memorandum for and participate in internal commitment committee and valuation committee meetings.
• Experience in Change Management Process Identify, Analyze, Evaluate, Plan, Implement, Review and Close .
• Strong oral and exceptional written business communication skills
• Hard working, positive thinking, self starter with a strong goal orientation
• Excellent meetings facilitator with excellent inter-personal and conflict resolving skills.
• Proven success as a business analyst through the years, providing a well-balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, and technical solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Programming Languages : C, C , C , VC , VB, VB.NET, C .NET, ASP.NET, Java, SQL
• Development Methodologies : RUP, AGILE, Waterfall, Scrum, ESDM, STV
• Databases : MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, DB2, Sybase
• Application Servers : IBM Websphere, ATG Dynamo, BEA WebLogic.
• Internet : HTML, XML, VBScript, ASP, JavaScript, JSP, J2EE.
• Automation Tools : MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational RequisitePro, Documentum
• Bug Tracking Tools : Mercury TestDirector, Rational ClearQuest
• Utility Tools : MS Office Suite, MS Project, TOAD, TSO, Adobe Photoshop
• Reporting Tools : Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reports SSRS
• Data warehousing Tools : Informatica, Business Objects, Cognos, Erwin
• Testing Tools : Quick Test Pro QTP , TestDirector, WinRunner, LoadRunner

Experience:

Confidential

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Closely worked with development team to make sure whether the software application fits within the architecture and has the required behaviors.
• Performed Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Derivatives Gap Analysis to identify the holes in the requirements.
• Accountable for managing Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Derivatives Design Specifications within ReqPro, Requirement traceability from Scope, track dependencies and changes which helped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by the teams who are working on the same project by keeping track of simultaneous update, change notification, multiple versions using Version Control .
• Review the current BRD Business Requirements Document and SRD System Requirements Document to create HLD High-Level Design Documents and LLD Low-Level Design Documents to describe all detail component changes for specific programs.
• Provided Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Derivatives key initiatives in working with users in defining Business System Requirements. Followed Agile Methodologies in the complete context.
• Translated the business needs into system requirements, communicating with the business on a non-technical level, and with the Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Derivatives System Analyst on a more technical level.
• Responsible for syncing requirements from ReqPro to Quality Center using sync tool.
• Articulated UML through Use cases, use case document by specifying actors, normal flow, sub flow, alternative flows.
• Collected and documented policies, calculation methods, business processes as well as business rules.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules, created detailed Use Cases and conducted Credit Derivatives and Fixed Income Derivatives User Acceptance testing.
• Worked closely with test team for user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Developed the test scenarios and test plans based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge in Quality Center.
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements.

Environment: IBM Rational Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Quest, clear case, MS Visio, MS Project, Oracle, Quality Center, Windows NT.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Financial products involved: Fixed Income, Equities, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Fund of Funds, Insurance, Retirement Planning, Generation Planning and complete Financial Planning.
• Creating UML Diagrams including Activity Diagrams in the System specification document.
• Assisting the clients Business Analysts in gathering, analysis, review and signoff of business requirements and conducting interviews, sessions etc.
• Managed project resource allocations, planning and status updates to ensure efficient and responsive operations along with senior management.
• Defined the test criteria and project schedules and baseline the Test Plan with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Identified the data requirements for the application and wrote the data dictionary for fixed Income products.
• Work to fully implement test phase entry and exit quality criteria, standard test reporting metrics and standard test artifacts.
• Administer, direct, and review employee benefit programs, including the integration of benefit programs following mergers and acquisitions.
• Analyze compensation policies, government regulations, and prevailing wage rates to develop competitive compensation plan.
• Developed a change management and tracking process using MS-TFS Microsoft Team Foundation Server .
• Designed workflows and allocated permissions within MS SharePoint 2007.
• Evaluate and modify benefits policies to ensure that programs are current, competitive and in compliance with legal requirements.
• Fulfill all reporting requirements of all relevant government rules and regulations, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA .
• Identify and implement benefits to increase the quality of life for employees, by working with brokers and researching benefits issues.
• Established a RUP Rational Unified Process centric business analysis methodology.
• Manage the design and development of tools to assist employees in benefits selection, and to guide managers through compensation decisions.
• Managing simultaneous projects with multiple clients, through full system development life cycle, ensuring delivery success using Agile/Scrum methodology and Team Foundation Server TFS .
• Created and managed project templates, use case templates, requirement types and tractability matrix in Requisite Pro.
• Been a part of Architecture and modeling team and have used SOA Service Oriented Architecture .
• Identified Use Cases from the requirements. Created Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams/State Chart Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams, based on UML Methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Assisted in the development of quality assurance artifacts including: Quality Assurance Plan, Test Plan and Test Case.

Environment: Rational Suite, SQL, Crystal Reports, RUP, Agile, Scrum, UML, MS Office Suite, UNIX, SOA, Windows XP/2000.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact with SME's to elicit business goals and define goal-level requirements.
• Collaborate with financial analysts, investment analysts and accountants to collect and understand business requirements.
• Analyze Risks, documented Risk Logs and created Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM as a roadmap for the 'TO BE' system.
• Evaluate technical requirements Created System Requirement Specifications SRS , Systems Design Specifications SDS and System Information sheets to provide concrete inputs for the data mapping processes for Account Analysis, PayPlus PAM systems, Signature Snippets Data Conversion.
• Conducting JAD Sessions to resolve open issues, change requests so that the application meets the business requirements and deadlines.
• Helped the Business Users while performing the UAT testing and helping them resolve the defects in the environment.
• Worked in mainframe environment and used SQL to query various reporting databases.
• Interact and negotiate with Vendors to complete the tasks related to data conversion.
• Was involved in the Test Plan document preparation.
• Developed and designed the test cases for different modules of finance referring to the test plan document and analyzing the test rules.
• Outlined the long term benefits of developing some of our products in compliance with the standards of CMIS which would simultaneously increase their compatibility with several Content Management Systems such as MS SharePoint, IBM FileNet and EMC Documentum.
• Set up market data including zero curves, correlation matrices, dividend curves, etc., and the underlying financial instruments and then set up derivatives pricing parameters and trade capture options that drive the valuation of trades based on the market data to configure and test the system.
• Prepared an analysis report based on the COTS evaluation.
• Consolidated the analysis of multiple business lines after the COTS evaluation.
• Worked with Operations Risk Management division to assess operational risk, determine impact of FX trade transactions on incident reporting.
• Kept a track of all QAT and UAT bugs/defects and helped the testers to resolve the issues and made a report of all the defects which were resolved and which were not using MS EXCEL.
• Identified, prioritized and designed various test scenarios.
• Used Quality Center/Test Director for requirement management, test planning, scheduling, executing test cases, managing and tracking defects.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using Test Director.
• Customized the test scripts using check points, synchronization and parameterization of data.
• Automation of test scripts was done using QTP for test re-usability of different online transaction modules.
• Involved in converting User requirements into business requirements, functional and technical requirements using Rational Requisite Pro and also created business process models from the requirement specs.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, Windows XP, DreamWeaver, Mainframe, SQL, PLSQL, XML, VB, ASP, Crystal Reports, FileNet, Adobe Photoshop, Mercury TestDirector, WinRunner, UAT, LoadRunner.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC methodology.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas including Loan Monitoring and Marketing.
• Excellent Knowledge of Customer Segmentation, Portfolio Analysis/Mgmt, FDR processes and FICO Score generation.
• Wrote functional specifications and worked on aggregation and testing of global reference data for fixed income and risk management analytics of fixed income products.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Responsible for acting as a liaison with operational and financial management, systems support and sales to identify business opportunities. Developed a file of ACORD Forms used as the standards in all Property and Casualty markets, for both Personal and Commercial Lines of Business.
• Managed the development and implementation of the Independent Agent payroll system, Property Casualty Specialist compensation system, Telesales compensation system, contingent and bonus compensation system and several compensation contract agreements with the MetLife agency sales force
• Conducted a budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Analyze business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases and activity diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Used Quality Center/Test Director for requirement management, test planning, scheduling, executing test cases, managing and tracking defects.
• Providing Planning solution that focuses on financial statement derivation including P L, Balance Sheet and Statement of Changes in Cash Flow for the purposes of Budget and Forecast.
• Co-operated with Data Base Administrators DBA in Data Base Testing using SQL
• Prepared Business Workflow models that cover How business processes are accomplished.
• Various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using Rational ClearCase.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.
• Bugs that would enhance the usability of the application were logged using Rational ClearQuest.
• Interacting with the developers on resolving the reported bugs and various technical issues.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application, for an intended user.

Environment: Rational Suite, SQL, MS Office Suite, UML, Windows XP/2000.