SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in business process analysis, business requirements modeling and development of Web Based, and Client/Server applications in diverse business domains of Banking and Financial Sectors
• Proficient in gathering and converting User Requirements into Business Requirements and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and use Modeling tools like Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio for requirements modeling.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills in designing, developing and implementing innovative business processes using new approaches and technology
• Commanding knowledge of various Software Development methodologies like Waterfall, Rational Unified Process, JAD, RAD, Agile and Scrum.
• Experience in teh Fund Transfer Operations and Technology field. Accomplished in providing excellent customer support in a real time environment requiring immediate resolution for money movement and critical reporting.
• Combined views and reports into interactive dashboards in Tableau Desktop and presented to senior management.
• Experience in creating visualizations and reports using Tableau 9.1
• Proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.
• Implemented an AGILE solution for Brokerage applications which resulted in enhanced trading efficiency and reduced IT support time by 30%.
• Created different Data visualizations using Bar, Line and Pie chart, Background Maps, Box plots, Scatter plots, Gantt charts, Bubble charts, Histograms, Trend lines & statistics, Bullets, Heat maps and Highlight tables.
• Expertise in Project Management me.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures.
• Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions wif Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions wif IT Groups and Conflict Management wif Project team members.
• In depth knowledge Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, Use Cases, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD).
• Competent in Creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, technical assessment tools, Micro Strategy Data Warehouse Data Modeling and Design.
• Experienced in data warehouses and data marts for business intelligence reporting and data mining along wif developing and documenting process flows for business processes.
• Facilitated Change Management across entire process from Project conceptualization to Testing through Project Delivery, Software Development and Implementation Management in diverse Business and Technical Environments.
• Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate teh Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) which halped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by teh teams across teh deliverables for a project
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance wif teh Business Requirements.
• Strong experience wif SQL queries and database objects.
• Strong Experience wif data migration (ETL development), document data manipulation processes and scripts
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Interface wif clients from Operations, Marketing, Sales, Technologies, and Outside Vendors and act as their customer interface point as teh lead of teh Projects.
• Highly motivated team player wif excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Communication, Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.
• Experience in conducting JAD sessions / Facilitated sessions for project definition involving analyzing requirements, creating prototypes, and user interface documents.
• Solid understanding of Business Requirement gathering, Requirement Analysis, Business Process flow, Business Process Modeling, Data Analysis and Data Mapping.
• Experience in preparing various documentations like Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Data Mapping Document (DMD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), designing User Interfaces (GUI) and wireframes and other client specific documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Visio
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Rational Rose
• SQL
• UML
• Rational Unified Process
• FIX
• Test Director
• Crystal Reports
• MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New York

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining teh scope and implementing business rules of teh project, gathering business requirements and documentation.
• Coordinate wif teh business Users to gather requirements for teh issues raised by them on teh applications.
• Coordinate wif teh offshore development team to explain teh requirement and assign them teh tasks which needs to be worked on for teh issues raised by teh business users
• Coordinate wif teh offshore to get updates on teh tasks which were assigned to them.
• Performed unit testing for teh tasks completed by teh offshore and update teh business on teh same.
• Performed Data analysis and Data validation by writing SQL queries.
• Worked closely wif teh Enterprise Data Warehouse team to understand repository objects that support teh business requirement and process.
• Authored progress and completion reports which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis in MS project.
• Led teh testing team and assisted teh finance team wif teh customization and implementation of Dy- namics AX, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for Confidential .
• Manages Issue Tracker for Preprocessor Enterprise Data Warehouse team, to resolve teh issues proposing to correct team.
• Involved in designing and developing Data Models that support teh Business Intelligence Data Warehouse for Enrolment and Eligibility.
• Assisted wif project team in teh whole project lifecycle phases including scope analyzing, requirements gatherings, developments and quality assurance.
• Assisted project managers wif teh development of project schedules. Developed requirements and preliminary design for client applications. Performed analysis and design projects using a systems development methodology. Worked wif all levels of client staff in solution definition
• Extensively involved in business process modeling
• Conducted interviews wif various business users to collect requirement and business process information using MS Visio, Requisite pro.
• Coordinated wif various vendors who were supporting different applications for teh client to get a status updates and timelines and updated teh client on teh same.
• Coordinated wif teh accounting team in various regions such as China, India, Europe, Brazil & U.S. to get their requirements.
• Involved understanding teh current business process, defining scope of teh project along wif position statement.
• Met wif users and stakeholders to understand teh problem domain, gatheird customer requirements through surveys, interviews (group and one-on-one) along wif JAD sessions.
• Created business use case, functional (FRS) and technical specifications for trading system.
• Helped document teh rational and requirements behind teh XML architecture that encompasses data origination, secondary market and servicing data for implementing MISMO standards
• Assisted in preparing a data dictionary to provide business definitions and corresponding architecture data element tag names for MISMO
• Applied Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodology to create use case diagrams and sequence diagrams in Rational Rose.
• Created use-case scenarios and storyboards in MS Word and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of teh application.
• Resolved issues and improvised teh process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Performed cost-benefit analysis, generated reports for analyzing various investments and their profitability and also for analyzing various lost opportunities due to time delay in investing.

Environment: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Tableau, MS Dynamics AX,Use cases, Windows, JSON, XML, UML, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, SharePoint, Power

Confidential - New York

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining teh scope and implementing business rules of teh project, gathering business requirements and documentation.
• Part of team as Senior business analyst involved in teh design, analysis, testing and support of an asset management billing, trading account maintenance and a wealth planning tool
• Provide user support and assistance to teh bank on all aspects of teh bank's core banking system and its integrated systems, including testing/implementations, resolving systems issues, and supporting routine.
• Perform extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and gap analysis to create and develop new functionality to meet business needs..
• Responsible for validating teh work of teh KYC Analyst as well as ensuring that all pertinent information and AML risk TEMPhas been addressed.
• Involved in Preparation and present dashboards to managers highlighting key findings and takeaways. Create advanced reporting and analysis by mining company data using SQL, Excel and Power BI. Occasionally use Tableau to analyse and visualize data.
• Performed Quantitative and qualitative document review retail Portfolios and risk models to deem fit for monthly usage in order to calculate risk-weighted assets and minimum capital requirements for Broker-dealer functions.
• Extracted teh Business Requirements from teh end users keeping in mind their need for teh application and prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Represented teh business requirements in various alternative views such as analysis models, process flow diagrams and user stories and Created teas cases in ALM for test execution, defect tracking & reporting.
• Created business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, source to target mappings, and workflow analysis.
• Managers, generated business process models, & use-case models, and created business requirements document (BRD) & functional requirements document (FRD).
• Utilize teh Bank's core banking system and other integrated products extensively, and act as a super user for teh Core and related systems: adding/deleting/modifying user privileges, testing new features and enhancements, and identifying / resolving a variety of system and software problems.
• Liaised wif Clients, Front Office, Credit, Legal and Client On-Boarding as necessary as part of teh KYC process.
• Expertise in creating UI Mockups, wireframes, ER diagrams, Use Case Models and creating coherent user interfaces to realize business requirements.
• Reviewed counterparty credit risk & assigned credit risk ratings for transactions for credit limit applications.
• Conducted business and data analysis and developed teh activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and created use cases using UML and AGILE methodology.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate wif each other, resolve problems at an early stage.
• Conducted interviews wif key business users to collect requirement and business process information for teh loan process including set-up Account Information, New Loan set-up, teh Appraisal, Credit, income and Title functionalities
• Designed, developed, implemented and executed test plans, test cases and test processes manually and also wif XML messages and UI Web Services.
• dis application was used to monitor transactions for derivatives, wealth management and across all teh transactions flowing through Barclays.

Environment: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Tableau, Use cases, Windows, JSON, XML, UML, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, SharePoint, Power Designer

Confidential, NYC,NY

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted weekly meetings for deciding teh Policies and Procedures to be followed while constructing new sites.
• Extensively involved in every phase of teh RUP process starting from Inception to Transition.
• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed teh feasibility of their needs by coordinating wif teh project manager and technical lead.
• Excellent understanding of EFT system (such as ACH, Fed Wire, BACS, CHIPS, FIX, SMAC, Automated Cash management and Prime Brokerage).Knowledge of Online Banking and teh whole Fund Transfer process
• dis involves Analysis & testing teh actual structure of SWIFT message to ensure that it complies wif SWIFT standards.
• Message Routing, validation ON both message transmission and response to teh SWIFT message.
• Design, build and support usage of Tableau dashboards & workbooks to convey performance to business partners
• Message Format, Validation of field formats and field content wifin SWIFT messages to ensure compliance wif SWIFT standards.
• Application was developed for Online Banking accessing personal accounts, checking balances, payment of recurring bills, such as mortgages and loan payments, transfer of funds between accounts of its customers.
• Perform teh operation deposit, wifdrawal, fund transfer, FD or RD creation or apply for Loan, along wif text to speech facility.
• Interacted wif users for verifying User Requirements, managing Change Control Process, updating existing Documentation
• Involved in designing and developing Data Models and Data Marts that support teh Business Intelligence Data Warehouse.
• Involved in requirement gathering and database design and implementation of star-schema, dimensional data warehouse using Erwin.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions wif IT groups. Identified teh Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate TEMPeffectively wif them
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation.
• Developed & executed several Optimized queries in SQL on dis data.
• Extensively worked on teh ETL mappings, analysis and documentation of OLAP reports requirements.
• Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Business process diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) using Microsoft Visio.
• Worked on Documentum for Version Controlling, to maintain up to date changes in teh Documents.
• Analysed teh business and functional requirements of teh application and developed detailed test plans, test cases in Test Director.
• Used Informatica to extract and transform data from various DB2 database to teh data warehouse.
• Assisted to develop teh Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, SQL, UML, Rational Unified Process,FIX, Test Director, Crystal Reports, MS Office

Confidential - Murrysville, PA

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews wif business users to gather requirements and documenting those requirements for technical and non-technical audience.
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, and Visio and provided key initiatives in working wif users in defining project and system requirements.
• Worked on various Online Banking projects like set up Check Payment, Browser variations, Keep teh Change, Online Banking mail communication wif live customers, Authentication flow, Alert mails to Customers etc.
• Worked wif Siebel users and co-ordinate wif teh teams involved in testing teh user interface and backend testing.
• Worked wif teh ETL,QA and teh BI team to halp them understand teh data model and halped them in preparation of Data Element Mapping (Source to Target Mapping)
• Gatheird user and business requirements through surveys, prototyping and observing from portfolio managers and UI (User Interface) and extensively used HP ALM/Quality Centre for Test Planning, Bug tracking and reporting teh defects.
• Extensively worked on teh ETL mappings, analysis and documentation of OLAP reports requirements
• Provided inputs in teh strategic development of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates etc.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML
• Identified, researched, investigated, analysed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios. Analysed business requirements and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, site map and wire frames.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyse teh level of effort on project specifications.
• Documented and supported teh requirements to develop teh platform which enables teh user to monitor his/her accounts, provides at-a-glance balances and positions, order status, account reporting, grouping accounts, real-time margin balances and real-time profit & loss.
• Captured and managed change requests throughout teh lifecycle - as well as provided effort estimations to internal and external development teams.
• Documented business workflow textually as well as in UML diagrams according to agile for teh stakeholder review.
• Worked extensively wif SME's including heads in areas of derivatives, swaps and futures in understanding, extracting, refining and documenting teh User and Business Requirement Specifications in teh BRDs.
• Involved in defining teh source to target data analysis, data mappings, and business rules and data definitions.
• Facilitated JAD sessions wif SMEs and business analysts from other feeder systems for a detailed analysis and a better understanding of impact of various projects on each other.
• Assisted in on-going process improvement efforts to ensure Test Planning, Execution, and Reporting is TEMPeffective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated.
• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases according to Business Requirements and Followed agile methodology and maintained user stories.
• Acted as User Acceptance Testing coordinator and monitored business testing and interfaced wif teh development team regarding defect status and fixes on a daily basis.

Environment: MS Visio, MS-Project, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word, MS-Excel, SharePoint, Rally, HP Quality Center, Agile.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews wif business users to gather requirements and documenting those requirements for technical and non-technical audience.
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, and Visio and provided key initiatives in working wif users in defining project and system requirements.
• Documented current-'as-is' and future-'to-be' business process flows
• Gatheird and documented customer requirements, detailed functional design specifications and system documentation;
• Created and maintained all related procedural documentation.
• Created UML diagrams using Visio and Rose to represent teh business process visually for teh relations and actions between teh users and system.
• Involved in conducting JAD sessions wif Business and Developer units.
• Documented Business processes in terms of customer service and feedback.
• Documented teh Glossary terms
• Recorded Data Elements and Business Rules
• Identified and documented issues, risk and gaps, their descriptions, their impact and provided recommendation and alternatives to develop teh application to meet teh user requirements
• Developed and managed creation of product documentation to communicate features, benefits, positioning and impacts to different audiences and ensured that documentation deliverables from various groups are produced as needed.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract data from teh Tables.
• Documented functional, non-functional requirements and Use Cases
• Assisted project management wif technical and support process development.
• Maintained track of timelines and project progress, using Project and Visio.
• Oversaw two complete project development life cycles.
• Created and Managed teh Requirements traceability Matrix
• Used SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodologies like teh RUP and teh waterfall.
• Assisted in designing test plans, test scenarios and test cases for integration, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Identified problems and presented solutions associated wif Business data models, Inconsistencies in Data reporting and Business Data Exchange
• Implemented a structured system development methodology wif emphasis on Rational Unified Process that dramatically improved productivity, reduced errors, and increased morale.

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, MySQL, Rational ClearQuest,