SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst and Technical Writer with a track record of managing complex IT projects in the Financial Services domain.
• Strong Subject Matter expertise in Banking Industry, Retail/InvestmentIntegration, Credit Card Industry and Asset Management - Risks and Returns.
• Excellent knowledge of Capital Market, Mortgage banking, MBS, SOX and Basel accords and Investment banking such as Stock exchange, fixed income, Stocks/bonds, equities, futures, trading operations, mutual funds.
• Proficient in preparing Business Use Cases and UML Diagrams using UML modelling tools such as Visio.
• Experience working on Loan IQ (LIQ) and also various tools for planning, tracking, and managing issues and projects such as Jira, Team Foundation Server, MS Project Professional; team management and collaboration tool such as SharePoint also Balasmiq for creating wireframes.
• Excellent at managing UAT using tools like HP Quality Center, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), and also using Excel.
• Strong Knowledge of Rational Suite including Rational Rose, RequisitePro etc.
• In depth knowledge of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
• Hands on with Data Modelling, Data Mapping, Data Dictionary and Data Validation.
• Good skills in performing Basic Sanity testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Stress testing, Integration testing, Configuration testing,Systemtesting, and Black box testing.
• Experienced in reviewing Test Plan, defining Test cases and Conditions and perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Proficient in writing, editing and versioning Technical Documents, including User Manuals, white papers, Annual Reports, presentations, tutorials and Web content.
• Experience in preparing financial reports for client distribution and regulatory filling.
• Design and review of various documents including the SRS, FRD, BRD, FSD, SDS and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in organizing various Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions.
• Experience in conducting Gap Analysis, SWOT Analysis, ROI Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Sound financial domain knowledge on SWAP Derivatives including Interest rate, Currency, Credit Default, Commodity SWAP'S, Hedge funds, Portfolio Management, Asset Management Liabilities (AML), Liquidity Management, Quantity Risk Management (QRM), Trade Life- cycle, BPM, Sales and Marketing.
• Fund services, Fund Accounting, Financial Accounting, Transfer Agency and Mutual Fund Administration.
• Financing Structures, Portfolio Analysis and Capital Management.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies and also BABOK methodology.
• Excellent in conducting Scrum meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming for Sprints in Agile Scrum Methodology as an experienced Scrum Master.
• Excellent written and verbal Communication skills, Analytical, Problem Solving skills, Interpersonal skills, Flexible, Responsible, self-motivated, organized and goal-oriented individual with strong leadership capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM), Prototyping, RUP, UML, Six Sigma

Business Modelling Tools: MS Visio, MS Project

Requirement Management Tools: Caliber RM, HP ALM, Rational Requisite Pro

Testing Tool: Quality Center, Rational Enterprise Suite

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP QC, Silk Central, Rational ClearQuest

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, Business Tools MS Office Suite, idashboard, LucidChart, Intellect BPM

Reporting Tools: SAPBusinessObjects and Crystal Reports

Content Management System: SharePoint

Domain expertise: Capital markets, Fixed income, Equities, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Stocks, Options, Commercial lending, Wealth Management, Risk management, FX, Asset management, Derivatives, Bonds, Credit risk, Market risk, Loan processing, SOX, Data warehouse, BASEL, BASEL II, BASEL III.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential - Long Island City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Agile and Scrum Methodology for salesforce custom app implementation based on clients requirements.
• Gathered requirements and preparedBusinessRequirement Document, by interviewing the end users and SME's and developed detailed use cases.
• Gathered, documented, managed and tracked the requirements using Rational RequisitePro.
• Documented Requirements for Activity management, Asset Management Services, Client portfolio management, Order management system, Performance, Equities, Transaction capture/Execution and reporting requirements for the user interface.
• Organized JAD Sessions to figure out requirements, performed work flow analysis, outlinedbusinessrules, and developed domain object models.
• Experience on creating Interactive UI's and Mock-ups Screens.
• Reported metrics to management via Excel PivotTable analysis on a daily basis on all action items, issues / risks and training course enrollment for multiple projects.
• Extensively used VLOOKUP for retrieve specific data in the large dataset using various formulas.
• Worked on domain like information reporting, fraud services and payments, receivables for the project.
• Maintained project milestones, schedules, and project progress using MS Project.
• Performed financial data analysis such as end-to-end data mapping on two major Capital Market projects feeding data to a more robust financial data warehouse system.
• Worked closely with Project Manager on Data Analysis, Feasibility Analysis and SWOT Analysis to check the compatibility of the existingsysteminfrastructure with newbusinessrequirements.
• Created high level Data Mapping as required and other data activities working with Enterprise Architect and Solution Architect.
• Conducted Elicitation and Focus Group Sessions with several business user groups to determine the customer feedback about the retail banking experience and gather requirements.
• Performed Gap Analysis by doing an in-depth study of the current process, planned implementation actions and Change Control Process.
• Prototyped the application changes using JustInMind Prototype providing mock-up screens and wireframes.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database.
• Widely used Requirements Traceability Matrix for identifying and tracing the linkages among several connected project artifacts to analyse the impact of a desired change.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing and verified performance, reliability and fault.
• Extensively used Borland's Silk central for defect management that included bug tracking, review, assignment and reporting.
• Worked withbusinessteam,systemsanalyst, developers and test team to resolve any follow up and action items.
• Assisted in development of training materials for end users to conveniently use the dashboard.

Environment: Agile Methodology, Rational RequisitePro, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Justin Mind Prototype, Microsoft Visio, Borland Silk Central, Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Business Analyst

Confidential - Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Participated in using the Agile and Scrum Methodologies on projects utilizing full Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), while using MS SharePoint for storing project documents.
• Create epics, user stories and manage the backlog.
• Act as the product owner for the Development team.
• Run sprint-grooming meetings.
• Manage related stories from different tenants through epics.
• Capture requirements for user stories and articulate the UAT criteria.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and otherScrum-related meetings.
• Interpreted metrics and participated in the development of appropriate actionable plans for the definition of a improvement of an existing ITIL process.
• Work with securities, derivative products, commodities andcapitalmarketinstruments.
• CreatedBusinessRequirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement documents (FRD).
• Conducted JAD Sessions, Interview, and Survey with the subject matter experts, stakeholders and otherBusinessteams in the finalization of the User Requirement.
• Conduct workflow, process diagram and GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements about the online money transfer experience.
• Worked on administration setup like manage Users, Security Controls and Data Warehouse.
• Implemented and delivered projects under Kanban andAgileDevelopment Environment and Test Driven Environments with large & small project teams.
• Worked on domain like cash management, Item processing for the project.
• Designed and developed User Stories, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML and MS Visio.
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform Data Validation.
• Involved in providing requirements for Data Modelling, ETL Process, and prepared Data Mapping documents based on business requirements.
• Created Test Cases reviewed test cases and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Develop the Test Plan and Test Conditions to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Developed mock-up screens and prototyping static and dynamic UI with HTML5, quick wireframes using Balsamiq.
• Tracked, Detected and Reported bugs using JIRA and Quality Center as the defect tracking tool.
• Required to use Excel and SharePoint to for updating and reporting purposes.
• Interact with team to review and develop data standards as well as develop and review Data Exchange.
• Experience creating Design Documentation related to system specifications including user interfaces, security and control, performance requirements and data conversion.

Environment: Agile Methodology, MS Visio, UML, SQL, MS Project, Microsoft Office Suite, HP Quality Center, Balsamiq, MS SharePoint.

Business Systems Analyst

Confidential - Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on documenting detailed specifications and conducting end to end testing of Sanctions Tool Multi List Manager which helped manage official blocked-entities lists, as well as user-defined lists.
• Developed Complex Reports using multiple data providers, user defined objects, aggregate aware objects, charts, and synchronized queries.
• Conducted Daily Stand-up Meeting with offshore developers to get updates, assign task and clear doubts.
• Assisted the development team on database development and also data modelling for the project.
• Demonstrated expertise utilizing ETL tools, including SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Data Transformation Services (DTS), and Data Stage and ETL package design, and RDBM systems like SQL Servers, Oracle, and DB2.
• Created user defined tables that improved performance and speed of queries.
• Worked on ITSM strategy for governance and projects planning and project design strategies.
• Managed, assigned and tracked issues in HP Quality Center.
• On a regular basis ran queries in SQL developer & Squirrel (client tool) to do in depth Data Analysis.
• Created and maintained Data Mapping documents which identified the backend tables that were related to the GUI.
• Prepared Use Cases. Test Cases and Test data for system simulation purpose.

Environment: SQL Developer, SQuirell SQL Client, MS Visio, MS Project Plan, HPQC, MS Office Suite, HP ALM, MS Share Point.

Business Analyst

Confidential - Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Engage in project initiation activities such as developing the Project Charter, Project Scope and assisting the management in resource and budget estimation.
• Performed as the primary Intermediary between the Subject Matter Experts such as Credit Risk Managers, Market Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers and relationship managers to understand and identify the business requirements, Business Rules.
• Document Functional Requirements and communicate across various project teams.
• Conduct Brainstorming and JAD Sessions with the clients, SME’s and other business groups to propose future business processes and documenting project shareholder's requirements.
• Helped development team build logic for applying factor for pay down fixed income securities such as Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS), and ABS (Asset Based Securities).
• Manage business requirements Change Requests that arise during the design and construction by effectively documenting and communicating them to the QA and development teams.
• Work in different software development methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.
• Create application training manuals, UAT Test cases and manage UAT sessions.
• Use Various IT tools such as Visio, HP QC for various purposes ranging from quality management, business modelling and project planning.

Environment: MS Visio, RUP, UML, SQL, MS Office, MS-Project, HP QC, RTM.