SUMMARY

• Overall professional experience of 8+ years as Business Analyst in domains such as Banking & Finance and Retail.
• Experience in Business analysis and data analysis, requirement analysis, Business Modeling and proficient in customizing workflows, activities and deliverables of existing business practices
• Well experienced in creating deliverables such as Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), High level Design Document (HLD), Test cases etc.
• Exceptional track record of working in every stage of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using both waterfall and agile(SCRUM) methodologies.
• In Depth understanding of the AS - IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting these requirements into Technical Specifications for preparing Test Plans
• Hands on experience in analyzing the high level requirements, developing User Stories, Test Plans, writing Test cases, creating RTM, building test data using Excel & SQL queries, testing & documenting issues and collaborating with development teams to resolve issues using tools such as Quality Center
• Expertise in UML (Use Case Diagrams, User Stories, Sequence Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams) as a business analysis methodology to define the Business Model using MS Visio
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE 9i and 11g,SQL Server and MySQL using Toad and SqlDeveloper.
• Proficient in all cycles of test life cycle from Test planning, defect tracking, managing defects life cycle and responsible for test deliverables, status reporting, issue escalation and defect trend analysis.
• A keen communicator with honed problem mitigation and analytical abilities, with critical thinking and cross-collaborations towards successful solutions meeting aggressive business goals.
• Good knowledge on the banking and finance regulatory boards such as BASEL and DODD FRANK ACT
• Sound knowledge on the various products of financial domain such as Deposits, Loans, Fixed Income (US Treasury Bond, Treasury Bills, Corporate bond, Municipal bond), Repo-Style Transactions, Derivatives (Future, Forward, Options and Swap).
• Experience in working on Liquidity Risk and possess knowledge on various other risks such as Credit risk, Market risk, Opportunity risk, Counterparty risk and Interest rate risk

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall

Data Modelling: Microsoft Visio, iGrafx and Excel

RDBMS: Oracle 11g, MySQL, SQL Server

Reporting & Analysis: Microsoft Excel

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center

Monitoring Tools: Microsoft SCOM

Data Validation Tools: SQL Developer and Toad

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Window 9x/NT/XP, Windows 8.1

Programming languages: Java and SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - NewYork, USA

Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

• Conducting requirement gathering sessions in person and over virtual meetings to create System Interface requirements document and obtaining sign off from the stakeholders.
• Successfully translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML) and tools like VISIO.
• Interacting with senior peers or subject matter experts to learn more about the data and requirements.
• Interacting with the project coordinator and users, Understanding the data issues and resolving it in a specified time frame.
• Participated in all four ceremonies of scrum from sprint planning, daily standup meeting, sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Validating data in various stages, obtaining user acceptance in UAT and post production data validation
• Facilitated the scrum daily standup meeting in the absence of the scrum master
• Participated in UAT sessions to educate the business users about the reports
• Worked with the QA team to provide insights into the data scenarios and test cases
• Involve in peer review of Test cases written by testing and development teams
• Worked on addressing various production issues by providing data validation and clarifications for the business logics

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

• Worked with Business to write high level requirements and created HLD documents and reviewed and validated them
• Analyzed the activity diagrams / flow diagrams in clearly differentiating the critical and non-critical alerts and defined the Test cases for each process / activity.
• Responsible for creating UML modeling plans, process flows and business requirements documentation
• Managed both functional and non-functional Business Requirements as well as new requested requirements using JIRA
• Documented maintained all the Project Changes Request (PCR) documents and updated them accordingly.
• Actively been part of all the four ceremonies of the scrum including sprint planning, daily standup meeting, sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective meeting
• Extend support to the development and testing teams at various stages, review the Test Cases and Validate the Defects and assist in User Specific Testing
• Interacted and coordinated with various stakeholders to get the required requirements approved and signed off for a smooth and immediate implementation.
• Helped in creating the User Interface mock-ups for the notification screen and created Training documentation to help the users to get familiar with the usage of the framework.

Confidential, NewYork, USA

Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

• Gathered and documented Business Requirements and Use Cases after meeting Enterprise Risk Management Team and SMEs multiple times.
• Consulted Database Administrator team in creating additional tables and columns in the database by logical data modelling method with use of diagrams and charts.
• Prepared Functional Requirement document and used cases to define the developer team about the process flow and functional requirements.
• Determined risk factors and test strategies according to system complexity
• Prepared graphs and diagrams using MS Visio and MS Excel to understand and describe CEM strategies to the developers.
• Assisted RWA reporting team on quarter end deliverables.
• Employed SQL to query the database tables and performed data analysis for the financial data
• Managed defects and assisted testing team in writing test cases, providing test data and helped them in executing test cases.
• Assisted QA team in developing test strategy, test plan, test cases, and test scripts; and conducted functional testing, integration testing, system testing, and regression testing.

Confidential, San Jose, CA - USA

Business Analyst/Java Developer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyzing and understanding the Business requirements and Verifying the Business requirement document and Technical design document against requirements.
• Participated in brain storming sessions and perform gap analysis to understand the limitations in the current platform.
• Performed Requirement Analysis and developed UML Use Cases, Activity Diagrams to understand the requirements.
• UAT scripting, Post implementation support to clients / SMEs
• Involved in the migration activities, where some part of SAP EP was migrated to JAVA
• Helped the development team by taking up some of the enhancement tasks.

Confidential .San Jose, CA

Java Developer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Involved in designing, developing and delivering complete software solutions using JAVA/J2EE with its supporting tools and technologies.
• Developed RESTful services using JerseyAPI by consuming SOAP services to transfer the data between upstream and downstream
• Involved in creation and implementation of the Incidents and Problems through the Change Management Process and actively participated in the CCB (Change Control Board) calls
• Maintained various documents such as KEDB (Known Error Database), KT (Knowledge Transfer) and CS (Coding Standards)
• Improved the efficiency of the website developed by actively monitoring their speed of loading and therefore eliminated the cause of the slowness using performance analysis tools