SUMMARY

• A business analyst with nearly 10 years of experience in Business Analysis, Software Validation, project management, object oriented analysis and business process re - engineering of web- based and Client Server applications.
• Exposed to diverse business processes, that includes Financial Industry, E-business, Banking, Mortgage, Insurance and Service Industry sectors.
• In-depth knowledge of financial instruments as well as trading and risk modeling techniques for equities, credit default SWAPS, equity derivatives & other OTC derivatives as well as Fixed Income assets and derivatives including Options, Futures, IR SWAPS, MBS and Commodities.
• Experience analyzing various instruments like Private equity, LBO, hedge funds, mortgages backed securities, managed futures etc.; experienced working with bond convexity, bond duration, option Greeks etc.
• Project experience with various investment systems including vendor trading systems or trade order management systems, such as Charles River, Macgregor, Longview, etc.
• Proficient in gathering requirements and working with a variety of CASE tools including
• Rational Suite Tools (Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Test manger and related tools)
• MS Visio, MS Access, MS Project (and other MS Office tools)
• Have been the liaison between various groups and have researched, analyzed, elicited and gathered requirements using a variety of techniques including
• Interviews with Business Sponsors / Various Stakeholders and end users
• Facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) / Joint Application Requirements (JAR) Sessions with developers and business units
• Facilitated brain storming sessions
• Have worked at all stages of a project/ Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and have created a variety of artifacts including
• Business Requirements documents /Business Rules Documents (BRDs), Process flows documents, Scope Statements
• Wireframes, Use Case inventories/ Use case Models, Use Cases, Supplementary specifications, and other software/functional specifications, traceability matrices/traceability trees, external interface documents in Service oriented architecture (SOA) projects
• Test Plans, Test scripts (using rational test manager), Error/bug tracking documents
• Functional Specification documents, Business Process Flow Diagrams, Application Input/Output Data Definitions, Workflow Diagrams, Screen Specifications, User Interface Design.
• Have carried out various project management tasks including
• GAP analysis, Defining Scope, Conducting Impact Analysis, Creating Estimation worksheets
• Defining change control processes, risk management processes
• Defining benchmarks, Tracking Statuses

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Rational Rose
• Rational Requisite Pro
• UML Diagrams
• MSOffice
• MS Visio
• iRise
• Waterfall Model
• Agile
• XP
• MS Project
• PERT
• Gantt charts
• MS Excel
• Component Matrix
• Java
• C
• C++
• VB Script
• ASP
• SQL
• C#
• VB.NET
• ASP.NET
• Windows95/NT/2000/XP
• AIX/ UNIX
• Solaris
• MS SQL Server 7.0/2000
• Oracle 9i/10g
• MS Access
• IBM DB2
• Sybase
• Erwin
• Informatica
• PolyPaths
• Toad
• Embarcadero
• VB Script
• Java-script
• Perl
• ASP
• CGI
• J2EE (JSP
• Servlets
• EJB)
• FrontPage
• Photoshop
• Dreamweaver
• Flash
• iRise
• HTML
• DHTML
• XML
• Crystal Reports
• Hyperion
• Siebel (Oracle)
• Rational Robot
• Rational ClearQuest
• Rational Test Manager
• Mercury Test Director
• JIRA
• VSS
• CVS
• Rational ClearCase
• Borland Caliber RM
• Apache web server
• Weblogic
• WebSphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

Sr. Business Analyst / QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the Requirements, Develop Process Model and detailed Business Policies and modified the business requirement document in an Agile as well as a Waterfall environment based on project needs
• Responsible for daily status meeting to discuss development plans, quality assurance test plans, and user documentation with developers, users, and the product management
• Designed use-cases and use-case models to further refine the requirements and understand the business processes. Worked extensively in Rational Requisite Pro to organize and catalog requirements, documents, and use-case documents.
• Created Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams thus defining the Data Process Model and Business Process Model.
• Conducted meetings, interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements.
• Studied business guidelines and prepared business rules and practices for trading. Developed website to include ETF applications.
• Communicated with clients and stakeholders such as content creators, engineers, and developers; created model variations; accomplished change management using wireframe model.
• Created UI layout for financial applications like strategy desk, pattern matcher and market motion detector.
• Helped the business to articulate and prioritize their ideas, while using the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and writing UML-based feasibility studies and Use Case Models to communicate those ideas to the developers
• Participated in the design, code and test plan walk through with the development and design team members
• Developed checklists to Verify and ensure that the functional specifications, use cases, and UI specifications documents are written in line with the guidelines as specified by the client, and that the quality standards as specified
• Worked closely with the database architect to finalize database design, table structures and other key database artifacts for the system.
• Coordinated with different agencies in tracking the progress of the software development and resolving the issues and worked with the UI team to create the User Interface Mock-ups to be presented to the Business
• Created Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts from functional requirements, technical specification and use cases.
• Utilized Quality Center to map the Requirements and Test Cases and built the test grid/test plan.
• Responsible for carrying out manual testing during various phases of testing.
• Performed Manual Testing of the Application, Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs.
• Performed Back End testing of the database by using SQL queries to make sure that the database reflects the updates/change, to verify the database Integrity.
• Performed data mapping between the developed/proposed models to ensure that critical data elements are captured
• Provided graphical analysis/statistical analysis to the stakeholders using MS Excel of the impact of the changes that the application can bring
• Conducted technical/non-technical presentations to the management and training workshops for the clients.

Environment: MS Project, Rational Rose, RequisitePro, Test Director, SDLC, Windows XP, OS, MS-DOS, Business Objects, SWIFT, XML, UML, C, C++, Microsoft Word, Access, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, RUP, Oracle, SQL server, MS front page.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Business Analyst / QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users to assess needs, identify key challenges, and define project scope and deliverables.
• Set-up weekly meetings with the users to suggest changes to enhance the system and application and also co-ordinate with project team members to assess needs, identify key challenges, and define project scope and deliverables to track the project status.
• Successfully used RUP Analysis Model for gathering requirements by facilitating Use Case Workshops and sessions.
• Tested process platform and regularly worked with SDD/ Testing teams in development of test plans, scripts and cases based on defined six sigma measures.
• Gathered and analyzed business requirements; responsible for communicating the same to the system architect and the development team.
• Lead design and status meetings with team members to discuss problem identification, prioritization and resolution, scope creep, and solution architecture.
• Delivered solutions to users by leading the development lifecycle. This requires coordinating with the development team to define and document solutions, test developed products, obtain user sign-off, and verify successful production release.
• Created a repository of credit risk derivatives (CDS, CDO, IRS, etc) and their risk mitigation strategies.
• Performed company valuations utilizing (i) comparable public company analysis, (ii) precedent transactions analysis and (iii) discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis
• Work with the development team to define system specifications based on the business requirements.
• Develop test plan and cases for new trading products, execute and validate the result.
• Executed test cases to ensure that the Business requirements have been delivered as per the Business’s needs by using Integration Testing and System Testing.
• Analyzed different types of Risks such as Credit Risk, Market Risk (VAR, Greeks, stress testing, etc.), Liquidity Risk etc and developed test scripts with all these parameters to analyze securities.
• Designed and Implemented complex risk management modeling techniques to find value at risk (VAR) measurements using Parametric, historical & Monte Carlo methods.
• Analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the bank’s proprietary MRA (Market Risk Analyzer) and CRA (Credit Risk Analyzer)
• Worked closely with the derivatives sales & trading desks and clients to collect user requirements; facilitate meetings; assist in the design and implementation for the Derivatives trading group.
• Provided and documented solutions to issues raised by users through analysis of derivative deal and market data, process logs, data interfaces, and code (scripting languages) as needed.
• Developed the specifications for mapping/transformation business logic all the way from internal data source to RiskMetrics risk model and results coming from RiskMetrics onto the risk reports.
• Studied Equities, Fixed Income Securities, Equity & OTC derivatives, and ETF, Portfolio Analysis, Asset Management- risk and returns and wrote functional and technical requirements to model them in the system
• Developed and managed the formal Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology which includes Use Case modeling, risk assessment and mitigation, UML Analysis and Design with MS-Project.
• Performed Gap Analysis for Geneva Trade System to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing on the application - resolved issues from the participants, prepared and submitted Test Analysis Reports and participated in Product Readiness Review.
• Conducted presentations and trained client, in use of system, including risk flagging, report usage, custom security overrides and overall risk analysis and mitigation life-cycle.

Environment: SQL, Rational Suite, J2EE, MS-Visio, MS-Project, Rational test Suite, Windows NT 4.0, UNIX, Mercury Quality Center, VBA, Rational Clearcase, XML, LoadRunner.

Confidential, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Discussed requirements with users on Equities, Fixed income and analysis of the same.
• Developed and executed test plans that will ensure business requirements have been met.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and gap analysis.
• Worked on FI securities and developed the Models for portfolio managers with FI and equities combination.
• Analyzed different types of Risks such as Credit Risk, Market Risk etc and developed the test scripts with all these parameters to analyze the securities.
• Provided and documented solutions to issues raised by users through analysis of derivative deal and market data, process logs, data interfaces, and code (scripting languages) as needed.
• Delivered solutions to users by leading the development lifecycle. This requires coordinating with the development team to define and document solutions, test developed products, obtain user sign-off, and verify successful production release.
• Understood the Pillar I requirements as laid by the Basel II Accord for reporting compliance capital and the internal MIS capital calculations and operational risk
• Accumulated customer requirements from various end through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions and translated them into system requirements.
• Conducted controlled brain-storming sessions with project focus groups.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Created Use Case Diagrams with Visio, Business Flow diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in Rational Rose.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME (Subject Matter Expertise), vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Wrote full functional and technical specifications and communicated requirements to development teams.
• Designed and implemented Simulation Tool to price complex equity derivatives portfolios in combination with fixed income and finance desk portfolios.
• Created and maintained complete development plans that included functional specifications, requirements engineering, Use Case modeling, risk assessment and mitigation, internal and external workflow.
• Documented various data source elements with standardized values, formats, business rules/algorithms, and data element relationships that are understandable to the business and development communities
• Prepared the documentation of Data Acquisition and Interface System Design.
• Conducted presentations and walkthroughs with end users and stakeholders prior to formal training sessions.
• Conducting user and other appropriate stakeholder training sessions.

Environment: Rational Suite, Microsoft.NET, MS-Visio, MS-Project, Rational test Suite, Windows NT 4.0, UNIX

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Discussed requirements with users on Equities, Fixed income and analysis of the same.
• Documented elaborate test scripts covering all the requirements.
• Worked on FI securities and developed the Models for portfolio managers with FI and equities combination.
• Analyzed different types of Risks such as Credit Risk, Market Risk etc and developed the test scripts with all these parameters to analyze the capital market securities.
• Analyzed various securities after liquidation to raise cash and thereby bringing them back to their original model.
• Developed tests scripts based on the different styles like Low cap value, high cap value etc and analyzing them.
• Accumulated customer requirements from various end through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions and translated them into system requirements.
• Suggested measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance.
• Analyzed data and created class diagrams and ER diagrams for designing databases.
• Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Applied Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies to design Communication Diagram, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagram and ER diagrams.
• Designed the look-n-feel requirements of the application through wire framing using MS Visio, for better illustration of the application to research team and portfolio managers.
• Updated and modified progress and resources allocation in MS project for the team.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers.
• Coordinated with the development team and helping them understand the requirements.
• Facilitated several JAD sessions with stakeholders to identify requirements and Cost/Schedule estimate
• Translated statement of work into business and system level requirements following the Rational Unified Process
• Developed business requirement document and functional specification document using Rational Requisite Pro by taking inputs from multiple parties.
• Project implemented using the Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodology to produce artifacts in the different phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Developed use case document to capture user experience taking into account the business rules.
• Performed extensive Data mapping between source files and target fields in the backend database
• Designed the Layout and Format for the “Positive” file to be sent to Confidential on a daily basis

Environment: Oracle, HTML, XML, Rational Rose, MS Visio, RUP, MS Project, SQL Server 2000, MS Access, MS Excel and MS Word

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business System Analyst to review the project plan and formulated schedule to gather requirements from business users
• Designed use-cases and use-case models to further refine the requirements and understand the business processes. Worked extensively in Rational Requisite Pro to organize and catalog requirements, documents, and use-case documents.
• Interacted with Traders, Developers, Project Manager and Process Analysts to understand the business processes, identified enhancements and gathered business requirements.
• Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Performed Requirements Analysis and Documentation using Requisite Pro.
• Worked as a team with ETL Developers and Process Analysts in preparing the requirements, and writing work flows, process flows
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify business critical and high-risk areas of the application
• Conducted training for developers and QA on financial instruments like Commodity Futures, CDS, CDO, etc.
• Prepared training documents for references
• Created UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data-Flow Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio to define the Business Process and Data Process model
• Used MS Project for managing schedules, resources and collaboration
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) for managing the SDLC
• Used Rational Clear Quest to track bugs and system enhancements
• Conducted JAD sessions to discuss requirements and resolve conflicts between stakeholders
• Involved with the QA team to develop and review Testing Strategies and Test Plans
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues

Environment: Rational Rose, RUP, MS Visio, Oracle, XML, SQL Server 2000, MS Access, HTML, MS Project, JSP, MS Excel and MS Word