SUMMARY

• Implemented complex projects using various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and RUP.
• Expertise in implementing various projects in areas like resource management, finance, and new software tools for better management control.
• Experienced in creating and analyzing Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and propose changes as per various internal and external requirements gathered for process improvement.
• Traced requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence using Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Very good experience in doing Manual Testing by using defect management tools like Test Director, Quality Center and Microsoft Excel.
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews.
• Had hand on experience in creation of Use Case Scenarios, process modeling using Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• 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.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black box, Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression testing and verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues.
• Self - motivated, capable of setting up useful priorities and take instant decisions and apply them to meet given deadlines.
• Adjust easily to innovative concepts and tasks. Can undertake difficult mandates and meet tight deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP/2000/NT/98,UNIX

TESTING TOOLS: HPQC, Win Runner, Load Runner

FRONT - END TOOLS: Adobe Photoshop, MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project

LANGUAGES: C, C+ +, HTML

REQUIREMENT MANAGEMENT: Rational Requisite Pro, Caliber RM, Rational Doors

MODELING TOOLS: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Caliber RDM

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: MS Project, Share Point 2010, JIRA, Primavera

BUG TRACKING TOOLS: Rational Clear Quest

METHODOLOGIES (SDLC): Scrum, Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall Model

DATABASE: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions, interviews with the Stakeholders and SMEs.
• Involved in interaction with testing department to make sure the usability standard is maintained.
• Contributed to the software project from the point of view of regulations with respect to SEC, NASD and other regulatory agencies.
• Involved in providing clients with business process management utilities so that it's easy to manage information across various levels of hierarchy with the use of Documentum.
• Used Documentum Repository to store all contents securely under the compliance rules.
• Experienced in customer communication management, Web content management, digital asset management, forms processing, Information Rights Management, compliance.
• Performed technical analysis of derivatives, fixed income securities and equities, which relies on finding patterns in price movements and determining appropriate entry and exit points by using Head & Shoulders, Saucers and Trade lines.
• Worked with the testing team to develop Functionality test plan, test scripts, and test scenarios.
• Analyzed and prepared report on ETF, Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund, Money Market fund, specialized sector fund and income fund also performed analysis on ABS(Asset based securities), MBS(Mortgage based securities) and CMO (Collateralized Mortgage Obligation).
• Experienced in redemption from the fund, subscription to the fund, conversions between funds, exchange, dividend activities, and maintenance of the shareholder records and correspondence.
• Analyzed and prepared portfolio analysis report and P&L (profit and Loss) report by performing Risk Analysis (Credit Risk, Market Risk, Reinvestment Risk and Inflation Risk) based on client's investment objective and submitted to trade, and also developing and executing short and long term financial strategies customized to meet client needs.
• Experienced in Basel II compliance system in calculating more accurately the capital provisions against credit, commercial and operational risk that allows greater business agility, lower programming costs, more visibility and control over how business decisions are being made.
• Claim the knowledge of monitored, ensured legal compliance, and approve incoming/outgoing brokerage correspondence, email and advertising, securities registration, rules and regulation with respect to SEC, FINRA.
• Assisted in back office, middle office and front office work using stream phase 3, where all payments and settlement of an orders takes place and also experienced in trading life cycle.
• Also involved in validation, entering the all transactions in to blotters and send out confirmation of trades

Environment: Agile, MS Visio, Word, Excel, Quality Center, PowerPoint, XML, SharePoint 2010, MS Project

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed OMS workflows models, business requirements, use cases and functional specification and test cases for CRD-IMS implementation forFixed Income HY trading
• Responsible for high level implementation plans, CRTS data and process models, cost estimating, and cost benefits analysis for CRD implementation which have included a detailed CRTS OMS workflow, use cases, use case diagrams, Master Test Plan, test cases and UAT test plan
• Experience on the CRD-IMS, Bloomberg TOMS, FX Connect, Macgregor XIP for application wide support, proposal for solutions, perform feasibility analysis, document functional and technical specification, data requirements and data mapping, test cases and implementation plans for Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives and FX trading by coordinating with front office, Technology and SME, Release Management
• Performed in depth requirements analysis and validation and document business requirements, test plans, and deployment plans in support of development projects for CRTS work flow processes for -- 1. Shell Security project for quicker and more robust data capture for the CRTS with the Bloomberg API using XML messaging by partnering with CRD - Dev, CRD - QA, Data Steward and front office desks 2. CRTS - SMF Data Enhancement for Fixed Income -Made detailed research and analysis on Bloomberg and CRD-database - by mapping CRD, CRD database, CPP data steward and Bloomberg (mnemonics), business requirements specifications and testing for security data and analytics to introduce and enhance CRD process and analytics model for securities.
• Worked with the testing team to develop Functionality test plan, test scripts, and test scenarios.
• Provided Charles River application support - to customize and implement blotters and manager work bench, establish user and group privileges, set up new accounts and brokers, EOD processing, write stored queries, trade file export, establish reports and navigations for the middle tiers, Charles River OASYS connection, create meta data, Bloomberg batch security feed, cancel-correct and rebook/clone orders, fill and allocate orders, Barra Model import, intraday position transfer, CRD-TSA-PAM recon, trade editing, FIX connections
• Developed SQL queries for daily holdings, corporate actions, trade processed, accounts, account reconciliation reports, data exceptions, complianceand settlement failure reports to CRTS team.

Environment: Java, c #, UNIX, Visio, Crystal Reports, SharePoint, MS Project, Rational requisite pro, MS Visio,UML-OOAD, Charles River, Fidessa, Oracle, MS SQL

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business teams to gather their report requirements.
• Performed GAP analysis by working closely with the users to understand their current state of information availability in and defined future needs based on analysis of business requirements.
• Organized and conducted review sessions with managers, team members, business managers and stakeholders
• Developed testing methodology and managed IT issues list during the UAT testing.
• Managed and advised on the development of test scenarios, and scripts.
• Managed the result comparison and reconciliation effort.
• Conducted walkthrough with IT to review issues found during UAT cycle
• Created High level and Detailed Functional Specification for Prime Services solution on Key Bank’s Corporation's product Control platform.
• Defined scope, objectives, deliverables and timeline; ensure that everyone adheres to them.
• Managed the requirement gathering effort. Identified all parties, functions, and systems affected by the project. Identified needs of all those affected.
• Coordinated meetings between different business units to gather requirement for new feeds to be developed out of the Impact settlement system.
• Trained Front and Middle Office user on Product control Platform functionality.
• Designed and built Showcase queries to facilitate data extraction and reconciliation process.

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Test Director, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Suite (RequisitePro), Business Objects, Windows XP.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements from the clients and Legal team to prepare the BRD and to understand the business process flow.
• Performed Gap analysis and was involved in analysis of the technical specifications of the current system and the infrastructure needs.
• Synthesized User Interface and Business Process Requirements and translated it into the Business Requirement Document (BRD), to be used as input to the functional design specifications.
• Planned and defined the system requirements to Narrative Use Cases and Use Case Scenarios using the UML methodologies.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, defined Process & business workflows inMS Visio.
• PerformedRegression Testingto ensure that existing functionalities and features are not impacted by new enhancements.
• Gathered business requirements through JRP and JAD sessions, one on one interviews of brokers and traders, surveys, controlled brainstorming sessions, prototyping and conducting JRP session with the management groups, vendors, users and the IT Group for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Designed and managed project plans and schedules.
• Managed issues and conflicts throughout the Project Life Cycle.
• Carried out UAT by developing test plan and test cases based on business and user requirements, technical specifications and product knowledge.
• Generate the reports using MSSQL and Excel.
• Prepare the power point presentation for the internal group to assist them in giving training for the new tool.

Environment: Agile, MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, XML, SharePoint 2010, MS Project

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with internal team to build out of a high level roadmap and time line to achieve compliance.
• Participated in ICD 9 to ICD 10 codes conversion requirement gathering sessions and created high level business requirement document.
• Prepared product backlog working with product owner and other SME.
• Facilitated daily stand ups and managed task board with user stories and board.
• Used the Agile methodology throughout the project, and conducted Sprint sessions to complete the tasks and activities.
• Defined ICD-9 to ICD-10 mapping process using GEMs (General Equivalency Mapping) crosswalk file.
• Created Preliminary mapping between ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes.
• Extracted data from several databases to create a master list of the ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes.
• Ran reports using Excel and Business Objects to compare and verify data.
• Conducted Business Requirements walkthrough with the business owners as well as the Technical Stakeholders.
• Change Control Process - Led the Change Control Process for changes submitted for the BRD once the document was submitted to IT department.
• Documented the UAT Plan for the project and worked with the UAT Team to ensure every acceptance criteria for the requirements has been included in the UAT task plan
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix table to uniquely trace the identified business requirements to general design to testing as proof that requirements requested have been developed into a solution and that it has been tested and tracked.

Environment: Agile, MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, XML, SharePoint 2010, MS Project