SUMMARY

• Work experience of 9 years as Sr. Business System Analyst and Requirement Gathering in IT industry with focus on Banking and Finance clients.
• Exposer to different of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as Waterfall, RUP, Agile - Scrum Hybrid waterfall-Scrum methodologies.
• Extensive experience in preparing Requirement Artifacts such as Business Requirement Documentation (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Change Management.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Interviews, Brainstorming sessions with end users, SMEs and stakeholders.
• Highly experienced in designing UML diagrams such as Use case diagram, Activity diagram and Sequence diagrams, ER Diagrams by using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Significant experience in creating Master Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test cases, maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and also familiar with Software Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Tools such as HPQC ALM 11.0, Selenium.
• Highly expertize in using JIRA for writing requirement, issue tracking and generating reports throughout application development lifecycle.
• Experience in conducting different analysis like AS-Is and To-Be Analysis, GAP Analysis, Feasibility Analysis, Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, ROI Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Good understanding of Client-Server Architecture, User Interface, Middle Tier, Data Layer and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), AJAX, SOAP, Web service and WSDL.
• Experience in creating Mock up screens and UI with HTML5, Mock Up Screens and MS Visio.
• Expertise in implementing Client side and Server side validation.
• Programmed SQL Quires, Functions, and business logic in Stored Procedures and exposer to various database platforms such as MYSQL, Microsoft SQL, and ORACLE.
• Good understanding of using ETL Tools like Informatica and SSIS.
• Experienced in handling Onsite/Offshore Challenges.
• Extensive experience in proficiently using MS Office(MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power point, MS Access, MS Project).
• Excellent Oral, Written, Communication, and Presentation skills.
• Experience in understanding business needs and writing User Stories, Prioritizing product Backlog, Facilitating Scrum meetings, gathering feedback from end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/7/8/, Mac O.S., Linux

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile - Scrum, Rup, Hybrid Waterfall-Scrum

Business Modeling Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, VBA

Requirement Tools: JIRA, HPQC ALM 11, MS Word, Rational Requisite Pro, Rally

Testing Tools: Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Centre v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Quality Centre (Test Director) v7.0, Load Runner.

Database Tools: MySQL, MS Access Microsoft SQL, Oracle

ETL Tools: Informatica v 7, SSIS

Graphical Tools: Mock-up Screens, Wireframes, Rational Rose

Project Management Tools: MS Project, SharePoint (2007, 2013)

Reporting Tools: Tableau Desktop 8.2, IBM Cognos v 8, SSRS, Spotfire

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Business System Analyst/Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understood prior documentation and business process for understanding teh Scope. Developed noledge of Asset Allocation, Risk parameters, and Key Market Indicators.
• Designed Front End for optimizing asset allocation process by implementing waterfall-Scrum methodology.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD), Brainstorming Sessions involving business unit stakeholders, technical analyst, SME, Portfolio managers, and financial analyst to gather requirements and have better understanding of business process.
• Involved in GAP analysis in teh identification of business rules, business and system process flows, requirements and assumptions. Prepared requirement artifacts such as Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Designed UI components, screen mock ups, process flows, business logic, configuration requirements, Requirement traceability matrix, and technical diagrams.
• Involved in extracting data from Morningstar, Finra and Yahoo Finance to develop models and generate reports, such as Monte Carlo, Wat-if analysis as per teh requirements of teh managers.
• Created teh UML for structuring teh whole project. Identify Use Cases and developed Use Case Diagram, Activity diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Liaise with all teh stakeholders and work closely with teams of BAs, developers, testers and product control throughout teh development life cycle to ensure a quality product is delivered.
• As a Scrum Master executed daily scrum meetings and collaborate with team to come up with action plan to improve performance for next sprint in Retrospective meetings. Ensured to remove impediments to make team more efficient and productive.
• Managed Product Backlog by using JIRA and generate Reports. Maintained burn down charts and Kanban boards effectively. Involved in data mining from data warehouse to further analyze teh data for business needs.
• Created test plan, test cases, test workbooks and test data for UAT Testing. Used HPQC ALM for test management. Conducted training session at teh end for teh new functionality of system.

ENVIRONMENT: VBA, C#, TFS, UML,ASP.Net MS Office, JIRA, MS SQL Server, ALM, Angular Java Script, Ajax, Waterfall-Scrum.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Business System Analyst/Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designed and implemented Front End for Margin Account leverage which included a consolidated platform that could manage loans, show line of credit and monitor securities that were pledged as collateral on teh margin account by using Scrum-Waterfall Methodology.
• Coordinated activities between business unit and technical staff, developed new methods, policies, and procedures to meet teh business needs
• Conducted JAD Sessions and interviews with stakeholders and end users to gather requirements and prepare requirement artifacts.
• Ensured teh implementation of Regulation U and Regulation T in system.
• Worked on UI components by using inbuilt functions of HTML5.
• Took charge of Requirement Traceability Matrix, tracked issues using JIRA and assisted QA team throughout teh process.
• Extensively done GAP analysis in teh project as their were numerous'As-Is'and'To-Be'conditions.
• Designed Business Process Flow Diagram and ER entity relationship diagrams by using MS Visio.
• Developed business requirement documents, use cases, functional and non-functional documents and process diagrams including context, dataflow and decomposition diagrams.
• Facilitated with product owner for prioritizing teh user stories and creating repositories of teh user stories in teh product backlog.
• Defined teh data sources, data loads and data transformation using ER Diagrams. Used MS-Visio for model diagrams, MS-Word for documentation and used UML for visual modeling.
• Ensured proper functioning of client side and server side validation.
• Resolved impediments in teh Sprint Execution meetings and enforced timely execution of sprints.
• Maintained Burn down charts to calculate velocity.
• Collaborated with QA team to prepare Master Test Plan, RTM and Prepared UAT test cases created a list of UAT users and conducted UAT along with them.

ENVIRONMENT: Java, Java Script, JQuery, EJB, JSP, Hibernate, Angular J Query, HTML5, Rational rose, Clear Quest, Informatica, Mock Up Screens, My SQL, Oracle 10g waterfall-scrum.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Sr. Business System Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzed teh existing documents and business process flow to develop noledge about teh project.
• Served as liaison between business and technical people.
• Conducted interviews with area experts and recorded and documented teh requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical people.
• Developed noledge about fixed income securities, Bonds, U.S. Treasury Bonds, Municipal Bonds, Corporate Bonds, and Foreign Bonds.
• Understood teh concepts like Coupon rate, Bond pricing, Bond Yield, Bond ratings, Bond durations, fair value and market price.
• Gatheird business requirements with continues interactions with Product owners, SME’s, end users, and developers to enhance teh noledge about business process.
• Facilitated (JAD) Joint Application Sessions and presentations theirby utilizing strong communication and listing skills to gather requirements to prepare (BRD) business requirement documentation.
• Educated various financial analysts by conducting training sessions about teh functionality of application.
• Identified and Created user stories and use cases from teh gatheird requirements.
• Maintained burn down charts to keep a track on velocity throughout teh application development.
• Coordinated in writing test cases and prepared (RTM) Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in creating data marts as per teh business requirement.
• Involved in programming SQL quires to extract data from different data sources and mapping them into central database by using informatics.
• I was extensively involved in web services, XML, WSLD, SOAP, REST, Web methods.
• Generated fixed income reports by using tableau.
• Proficient in writing, linking, and keeping track of requirements using HP ALM and assisted testing team on testing platform by using HP ALM.
• Worked on developing test strategies and also assisted in developing test case and test conditions.

ENVIORNMENT:Agile -Scrum, JIRA, MY SQL Workbench, web service,Informatica, MS Office, Rastion Rose, Rational Requiest Pro, HP ALM.

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed noledge about Fraud Detection and Fraud Prevention techniques.
• Involved in getting a new feature called as Reverse Positive Pay on teh online architecture. dis involved teh corporate clients who were interested in dis new functionality.
• Extensively done GAP analysis in teh project as their were numerous'As-Is'and'To-Be'conditions.
• Baseline teh requirements in Business Requirement Document And prepared Functional Requirement Specifications for technical team.
• Assisted in designing prototypes for user interface components and participated in teh meetings with teh business analyst and teh development team.
• Conducted Survey Questionnaire with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD with all teh stakeholders and worked closely with teams of BAs, developers, Architect, and testers.
• Created Business Requirement document and detailed functional specification document for each functionality for teh developers and QA team
• Involved in data validation, client side validation and server side validation to ensure security measure.
• Involved in implementing database security (Users, Roles, and Privileges).
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and report / data validation.
• Involved in Data Analysis & Mapping to track data elements used in teh application from teh UI through different interfaces to teh target databases.
• Used JIRA for defect management process.

ENVIRONMENT: My SQL, MS Visio, MS Project,SharePoint, MS Excel, UML, XML, Wireframes, Waterfall, SSIS, JIRA

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understood teh business logic and designed business process flow diagrams.
• Gatheird requirements by conducting interviews, Brainstorming sessions with various business units involved to understand teh web site functionality and identify different type of users.
• Assisted teh Project Manager in conducting SWOT & GAP analysis to understand current and desired state.
• Documented requirements and prepared BRD & SRS to simplify teh process for teh understanding of technical team which included use case diagram.
• Designed business logic to develop new functionality in teh application to meet teh Auto loan needs.
• Researched and established teh points of improvement in teh website and teh possible implementation of security standards.
• Assisted in designing business process model using rational rose and Conducted UAT testing of teh application with teh end user.
• Involved in data warehouse and data mining and demonstrated understanding of SQL quires.
• Edited User Manual to include teh new functionality of web site.

ENVIORNMENT: UML, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Office, ASP, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SDLC.

Confidential

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Actively participated in requirement gathering sessions and developed new approach in context with project scope and software development lifecycle.
• Carried out SWOT Strength Weakness Opportunities and Threats Analysis to do teh internal analysis of teh company and product.
• Initiated by using various requirement gathering techniques like interview, surveys, Joint Application development with internal end users to gather requirements.
• Observed teh User Interface (UI) for existing system and conducted As Is- To Be to no teh GAP between current and to be state of system.
• Proactively recommended innovations and modifications which were in compliance with industry requirements and consistent with corporate objectives and goals to improve operational processes, systems, policies and procedures
• Designed teh process flow diagrams for better understanding of system and Documented gatheird requirements in BRD and further created FRS for technical teams.
• Interacted with cross functional teams, stake holders, project managers, technical team by facilitating meetings to come up with solutions for teh challenges faced by teh team by Conducted market surveys to no teh requirements of end users.
• Assisted technical team in data validation and data verification process throughout teh process.
• Designed UML diagrams by using MS Visio and created test plans, test cases, test reports and halped QA team in implementation by maintaining RTM.
• Assisted in conducting demo session to teh end users.

ENVIRONMENT: UML, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Office, MS Visio, Web Services, Mock up Screen, Visual Studio, SDLC.