SUMMARY

• Full life cycle analysis and documentation; including Terms of Reference, Business, System and Object Oriented process requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications and Implementation Plans.
• Self - starter, able to manage individual responsibilities and also contribute successfully to team deliveries on complex, long term projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to document and present results of analysis clearly and concisely, using effective written reports and diagrams.
• Facilitation of interactive workshops to gather requirements successfully.
• IT Project governance, including day-to-day management and resolution of risks, issues and conflicts.
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) analysis, including use case documentation, activity & sequence diagrams and business modeling.
• Strong technical background and full project life cycle experience gained as a former Java programmer analyst delivering enterprise level applications.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Sybase Power Designer, MS Visio, MS Power Point, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Excel, Rational Clear Case.

Database: ORACLE 11g, Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012

Other Tools: HP Quality Center, Borland Silk Central, Quest Software TOAD, SOAPUI, Business Objects Crystal Reports, MS SQL Reports.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. IT Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining and modeling stakeholder requirements and system level requirements for Process, Risk and Control inventory using various techniques such as focus groups, brainstorming sessions, document analysis, process flows, state diagrams, and data mapping.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram, use case models and performed gap analysis to derive requirements from various sources.
• Create, review and maintain Functional Requirement documents (FRDs) and Business Requirement documents (BRDs) for Risk Assessment platform releases including wireframes, screen mockups and flowcharts and UML diagrams (sequence, activity, state, etc.) as required.
• Defined, and outlined the strategy and approach for implementation of technical controls to mitigate risks.
• Involved in presentations to Business executive users and stakeholders on business process workflow, design and enhancement features in Process, Risk, Control & Operational loss events.
• Prioritize stories for next sprints in Agile methodology with storyboard tracking of JIRA stories there by making sure IT deliverables are aligned with business objectives.
• Create and review UAT Test scripts and participate in functional validation testing in co-ordination with Quality Assurance team in lower environments.
• Execute ad hoc SQL queries for data analysis, reference data migration and configuration, validation and testing.
• Prioritize tasks and mentor junior analysts on daily governance issues and best practices.
• Achieved high user satisfaction for Risk Assessment Platform application with 0 defects in UAT.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of system user guides and product documentation.
• Manage difference of opinion/conflicts across the business to clarify business requirements and ensure all areas considered at detailed level.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the development of functional requirements and technical design documents. Responsible for translating business requirements into functional specifications, perform requirement/specification analysis, and document software functional requirements specifications (SRS).
• Designed and documented use case diagrams to explain the flow of events and how different software systems interact with each other in a distributed heterogeneous system.
• Created application and system interface related artifacts- API web service specification documents, software component specifications documents, and validated technical designs against functional specs.
• Involved in creating functional, specification & technical documents, flow-charts, High/Low Level design documents from Use Cases using UML tools (Power Designer & Visio).
• Helped is defining and establishing business transformation rules, generate data mapping documents between source and target systems in SDLC.
• Worked with Integration testing/QA teams on translating use cases/requirements to test plans and testing scenarios for integration and functional testing.
• Involved in User acceptance testing (UAT) & sign off of the application interfaces.
• Review functional artifacts including, mapping documents and software component specification of peers and mentor junior BSA’s on requirement analysis and best practices
• Involved in risk analysis, impact analysis and conflict & issue resolution sessions with business & IT.
• Performed relational database SQL complex queries for data analysis, reference data configuration, and validation & testing.
• Responsible for maintaining user guides and project related documents in Wiki and Share point sites thereby adhering to ISO 9001 quality standards and procedures.

Confidential, Warren NJ

MTS System Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for translating business requirements into functional specifications, writing and generating Functional Enumerated requirements (FER), Use Case requirements for service related consumer portals.
• Maintain Third party OEM’s Client (Samsung, LG, Motorola) support for system enhancements and governance.
• Performed web service code reviews along with unit testing in rest client & mobile devices with android (SDK) flashing & debugging.
• Performed XML schema validations & Data mappings.
• Performed data driven test development and actively participate in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance
• Review application and service performance metrics (KPI’s) & monthly reports. Identify performance bottlenecks & work with team on optimizing use cases thereby improving customer/user experience.
• Worked with automation & QA team on reviewing test plans and design/automate test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Data analytics and running ad-hoc SQL queries for data validation and testing.
• Created knowledge base articles (ICS Wiki), technical notes and user guides (how-to) documents of production support of multiple applications.

Confidential

JSr. Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Graphic User Interface with end-to-end workflows for uploading /downloading media content (videos, pictures, music & documents).
• Involved in use case design using UML modeling, logical diagrams including Entity Relation diagram, class diagrams & sequence diagrams.
• Defect/Production issue tracking for media & contact modules, bug fixing and status review and reporting.
• Debugged code defects and delivered root cause analysis to development teams.
• Assisted in performing system testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and device testing along with QA team to ensure requirements are met and thoroughly tested.
• Run ad-hoc SQL queries as needed for data validation & testing.
• Provided software development support including responding to issues & hands on testing.

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared user requirements documents & software requirements specification documents.
• Followed UML based methods using Rational Rose to develop use cases and activity diagrams; assisted developers in creating sequence and class diagrams.
• Involved in writing Architecture Overview Documents (AOD’s) for various fixed income projects.
• Responsible for IT system integration and database migration to new hardware.
• Designed business process flow charts and flow diagrams for uploading/downloading bond data files, providing real-time client reports, Ticker mapping tools and User Management.
• Assisted in peer code reviews including redesigning Bond analyst portal UI screens and batch feed handlers for persisting bonds data from various sources.
• Data modeling, analysis and fine tuning PL/SQL queries, stored procedures and triggers.