SUMMARY

• Imaginative and Aggressive person capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive team environments and integrative thinking skills. Exceptional ability to learn new industries and business processes quickly.
• Excellent knowledge of industry standard methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process as per Rational Unified Process (RUP), CMM (Capability Maturity Models) and Rational Tools used during various phases of RUP
• Extensive experience doing System Analysis and Design using Joint Application Requirement (JAR), JAD, Work Break Down, Entity Relationship, Data Flow, Structure Chart and Flow Chart documentation.
• Proficient in customizing already existing business practices, workflows, activities and deliverables. Preparing graphical depictions of use cases including Sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, use case diagrams including the business workflow.
• Proficient with MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Project, Visual Basic and Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and exposure to various SDLC methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Scrum and V - Model.
• Experienced with various asset types including in-depth knowledge of Fixed Income securities & derivatives.
• Good knowledge of Business Process Modeling and Business Re-Engineering.
• Experience in large scale complex web portal with eservices involving payment gateways and web certificates.
• Project experience with commercial and retail banking, investments, FX Trading, capital market, securities,brokerage and mortgage industry.
• Good knowledge of Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk, Market Risk related to securities and measuring risk using metrics such as VAR, and Stress Testing.
• 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.
• Proficient in written correspondence, preparing project status reports, presentations and implementing requirements.
• Solid foundation in: GAP Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis, Analyzing market trends and Statistical analysis.
• Effective communicator of the business directives, goals, and needs to the technical team and a successful client interface to manage user expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: MS-Project, MSOffice, MS Visio, MS (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). SharePoint.

RDBMS/DBMS: SQL, MySQL, Oracle 7.x/8.x/9.x, Oracle 10g

Rational tools: Rational Clear Quest, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro

Known Scripts/Languages: HTML, JavaScript, Confidential, Confidential ++, Java, VB, Dot net.

Application/Web servers/OS: Apache 2.0.52, WebLogic8.1.6, Windows XP.

QA Tools: Roadrunner, Win Runner, Test Director, QTP, HP Quality Center.

Case Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest Suite, Test director8, Quality center9.0.

Business Skills: Business Definition Requirements, Business Process Analysis & Research, Use Case Modeling, JAD/RAD Sessions, Requirements Gathering, Gap Analysis and Impact analysis, Finance, Banking, Mortgage.

Methodologies: RUP, UML, CMM, Six Sigma & Agile.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Analyzed, validated, Managed and documented the stated Requirements with the business user and/or End user.
• Conducted market analysis and feasibility studies & developed the project plan.
• Integrated with users for verifying the requirements, managing change control process, updating existing documentation & Project Tracking.
• Understood Fixed Income, Equity Trading, Foreign Exchange Trading & OTC derivatives.
• Gathered details on the business process, technical architecture, software systems and servers employed in the client location.
• Worked with the Traders and Brokers while collecting requirements and present the shares & bond price in Excel Chart to better understand the market.
• Performdataanalysis andDatamapping from source(s) system to target system(s) and helped in the preparation ofdatamapping documentation.
• Created functional requirement specification documents such as UML diagram, use case diagram, scenarios, activity diagrams and mapping.
• Provide end User consulting on Functionality and Business Process.
• Conduct GAP analysis & JAD sessions with stakeholders.
• Identified business directions & objectives that may influence the required data and application architectures throughout the Project life cycle.
• Provide relevant test scenarios for the testing team.
• Work with test team to develop system integration test scripts, test plan and ensure the testing results correspond to the business expectations.
• Created UAT/QA test plans,strongmanual, functional, system and regression testing in an agile development environment
• Used test director, HP Quality Center for Test management, Functional, GUI, Performance, Stress Testing.
• Perform data validation, data integration and Backend/DB testing using SQL Queries manually.

Environment: Rational Rose, Requisite Pro Agile, UML, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Visio, ASP.NET 2.0, MS Visual Stuidio.NET 2005, QTP, SQL, .Net Framework 3.5.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented Use Cases, Business Rules, created and maintained Requirements/Test Traceability Matrices.
• Assisted in creating Project Plan, Project Tracking, Designed Requirements Planning and Management document, Project tracking & Project Reporting.
• Assessed client needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes) to prioritize immediate business needs.
• In-depth knowledge of the practices of private equity, FX, Derivatives, risk management, financial tools and theories.
• Interface with the traders for gathering the requirements & development of application documents.
• Interpret Business Process Flows and Reengineered Process to achieve maximum outputs.
• Captured As-Is Process designed To-Be Process and performed GAP Analysis.
• Detailed design of some of the key aspects of the accounting application like Equities, FOREX trading & stocks.
• Created Business Requirements Documents, Functional and Software Requirements Specification Documents.
• Developed and updated functional use cases and conducted business process modeling (UML) to explain business requirements to development and QA teams.
• Translate functional requirements into use cases for ecommerce applications.
• Performed Requirements Elicitation through Use Cases, conducted JAD session and RAD (Rapid Application Development) sessions with stakeholders.
• Accumulate subject matter experts and drove the requirements gathering process through approval of the documents that convey their needs to management, developers, and quality assurance team throughout the Project cycle.
• Work with project team on:planning, analysis, requirements, design & testing and training for production implementations.
• Prepared test cases and came up with a testing strategy fortesting the Banking Application by analyzed the Business requirementsand theAccounting, Budget, and Procurement systems.
• Developed Base line testing scriptsfor testing the future releases of the application using HP Quality Center.
• Involved in testing, performance and benchmark test using HP Quality Center to find out the performance of the application and prepared a document with the bottle necks found with possible solutions.
• Created UAT/QA test plans,strongmanual, functional, system and regression testing in an agile development environment

Environment: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, Agile, ASP.NET, MS-Access, MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), J2EE, MS Project, SDLC, Java, JSP, MS SharePoint.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed the business users and SME’s to gather business requirement for the application
• Identifiedthe businessrequirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared the Business Requirements Document and Functional Specifications Document.
• Organized and moderated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions identified business and system use cases, wrote use case narratives and used MS Visio to prepare the Use Case diagrams.
• Improve the reach, effectiveness and trustworthiness of the ecommerce application.
• Created Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams including Activity diagrams, Use case model and State diagrams, using MS Visio.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, system analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion usingMS Project
• Wrote testing requirements, test plans and test cases for System Testing
• Created and executed test scripts in HP Quality Center for defect tracking and effectively communicated the defects to the developer team
• Worked with testers, developers and other team members to validate and test complex system and with the maintenance of Quality Standards in projects
• Widely used SQL to extract data from the database.
• Acted as a liaison between the developers and user staff and was instrumental in resolving conflicts between the user and technical teams
• Finished the projects by successfully installing the applications into production and providing the desirable instruction materials liberate comments to the businessusers, & filing lessons learned to accumulate in the organizational procedure assets.

Environment: Microsoft Visio, J2EE, MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project, Agile, UML, Rational Rose, HTML, XML, .NET, CSS, SQL, HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Business/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Appoint in creating targeted questionnaires and interviews for SME’s, clients and business users to gather requirements.
• Interfaced with stake holders and facilitated communication between client and the IT department.
• Involved in Probability and Risk Analysis to identify the business critical and high-risk areas of the application.
• Worked as a liaison between business users and developers to submit requirements and changes, clarify questions and issues.
• Experienced for organizing and documenting requirements, preparing use cases, writing business documents and reports in SDLC phase.
• Identified the process flaws in the current system after analyzing and documenting the AS-IS system and recommended business process automation in the new system through the creation of the TO-BE system.
• Developed data flow diagrams, illustrating the flow of data from the Legacy systems into the Application database Tables, along with checkpoints for testing / verification.
• Prepared use case documents and utilized MS Visio to create UML diagrams including use case, activity and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows, thereby assisting development and quality assurance teams in understanding the requirements.
• Participated in JAD sessions for requirement, feasibility and risk analysis with various stakeholders, including designers, developers, QA and management to identify critical and high risk areas of the application.
• Collaborated with the QA team in reviewing and validating test plans and test cases, guarantee that the final application accommodates to the user requirements.
• Developed a user acceptance test plan and test case scenarios to guide end-users in testing the user interface and functionality of the application.

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS SharePoint, Windows 2000, UNIX, MS Office, Oracle 9i, XML, HTML, Microsoft SQL Server, Win Runner, Load Runner

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Thoroughly studied the inherent systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.
• Gathering business requirements and converting them into functional requirement specifications and user requirement specifications.
• Conducted GAP analysis to understand new business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated into the new application.
• Conducted JAD sessions for better understanding and refining of requirements in coordination with multiple teams.
• Develop Project Plan, Project Scope with project Manager and divide the product cycle by WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) using MS Project.
• Clarified and prioritized requirements by conducting brainstorming sessions with the stakeholders and SMEs.
• Documented various documents including the Business Requirements Document and the Use Case Specification Documents.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro & MS Visio as requirement gathering tool.
• Participated in various architectural development sessions to provide technical teams with a better understanding of the requirements.
• Analyzed Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Carried out detailed and comprehensive business analysis with the RUP methodology.
• Prepared Business Process Models, which included modeling of all activities of the business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.

Environment: Windows, MS Office(MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio),, RUP, UML, SQL, JAVA, SWOT analysis, GAP Analysis.