SUMMARY:

• 5+ years of extensive experience in gathering business and application requirements, business processes, identifying risks, impact analysis, UML modeling, Sequence and Activity Diagrams using Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio.
• Comprehensive knowledge of RUP, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) having thorough understanding of various phases of Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Analysis of business requirements and system design.
• Object Oriented Analysis of business requirements and application system design.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Use Case and activity diagrams in Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Strong Knowledge of Business Process Mapping and Data modeling.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, and ROI analysis and Risk Assessment.
• Extensive knowledge in User Experience design.
• Good knowledge of Knowledge and Content management.
• Sound Knowledge of developing test cases and using Mercury Test Director/Quality Centre.
• Possess strong analytical, verbal and presentation skills that help in communicating with team members as well as Project sponsors.
• Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook.
• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experienced of working in a CMM Level 5 work environment and adhering to set quality standards and processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

BA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the project group and the operations group.
• Helped design scope document and to coordinate with top management for the approval process.
• Interviewed various personnel including broker dealers and traders to understand the current process and the future requirements.
• Tracking and reporting budget and cost allocation variances and performing cost/benefit analysis.
• Documented the business requirements following the RUP methodology using rational requisite pro, for the desired system in the Business Requirement Document.
• Developed Business rules for the equity trading system based on technical chart analysis and fundamental analysis and trends.
• Used Rational Rose to draw use cases for different scenarios and cases.
• Developed Business specification diagram so as to understand the whole work flow.
• Developed activity diagrams in Rational Rose software, so as to have a diagrammatic view of the workflow.
• Used CMS Content management tool to keep the web application updated with up-to-the minute details about the company.
• Used Asset Manager to store all the graphics and pictures used on the website in one secure and central location.
• Maintained Administration, finance and CMS web pages as requested by the user.
• Collaborated with the QA team for developing scenarios for validation and testing.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to get the Business and Development teams to agree on the requirements stated in the Business Requirements Document.
• Worked with UI team to create report mock-ups of new reports required by Business team and seek approval from both the Business and Development team for the reports.
• Created use cases to help identify complex situations to help in creation of test cases. Discussed and explained the use cases with the testing team.
• Contributed in detailed database design
• Responsible for analysis of the additional requirements submitted through change control process.
• Analyzed the impacts of the changes on the requirements from Business requirements
• Documented and prepared a supplemental document for the new requests and got both

Environment: Siebel Call Center, Siebel Tools, Siebel VB/eScript; Siebel communications, Testdirector7.5, Windows NT, UNIX, Oracle, Amdocs Ensemble, SQL, UNIX, C++

Confidential

Big Data, QA & Testing

Responsibilities:

• Involving in conducting team meetings (JAD session) to gather requirements from stakeholders such as Business SME. Also, conducted interviews with SME.
• Finalizing Requirement Scoping and identifying high priority requirement for implementation with the business users, core team & management.
• Worked with Data Designers and Data Base Administrators in deployment of DB changes within the organization in data modeling hierarchy.
• Developed use cases, process flow charts including activity & sequence diagrams, mockup screens
• Performed Data flow analysis & Gap analysis with UML using MS Excel, MS Visio.
• Translated user requirements into High Level Design Document for communicating to technology team.
• Facilitated review meetings with core team to ensure that the project was implemented within the specifications of the business need. Generated reports and guidelines for the management using MS Excel, MS PowerPoint etc
• Tracked change requests for enhancements or defects introduced by business team.
• Provided input to fiscal planning process based on previous trend analysis and planned initiatives/projects identified through consultation with assigned portfolios
• Developed communication strategies and tactical tools to ensure seamless communication of the new/to-be state
• Developed a detailed risk management plan identifying potential issues and risks, impact, severity, criticality, mitigation strategies and the contingency plan for each of them
• Created comprehensive test scripts to be used for regression scenarios as well as new functionality in Loan IQ.
• Formulated the manual procedures by developing formulas in MS excel and automated the process thereby bringing efficiency to the process
• Identified, defined, produced and updated detailed documentation for new and/or changed enhanced processes, systems and programs
• Worked closely with the Regulatory and Compliance Group of the company (FATCA, CRS, IIROC and AML) on redesigning the manual processes and to prepare associated manuals, documents and reports

Environment: MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, Advanced PowerPoint, SQL, Java, Windows 2000/NT, Unix, HP QC/ HP ALM, SQL, VB, ASP, VB script, HTML, SQL server, Oracle.