SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with 7+ years of extensive experience in Mortgage Origination, Banking, Secondary Mortgage Market and loan origination systems.
• Excellent experience with defining and scoping business areas, eliciting requirements, identifying solutions and verifying that the proposed solution meets the requirements.
• Experience with top leading lending application like FIS, ACBS and Loan IQ by Finastra which covers application implementation of majority of financial institutions in USA.
• Strong expertise in assisting project teams in implementing lending applications replacing legacy ones with strong understanding of business rules and application.
• Conducted workshops, brainstorming sessions and one on one interviews in eliciting business requirements and grooming them in Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development and Testing Life Cycle such as agilemodels with Scrum.
• Experienced in Scrum Practices like User Stories, Story Slicing, Backlog Grooming, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Spring Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Excellent experience in supporting the product manager in maintaining the product backlog and scheduling next release.
• Excellent experience in conducting weeklysprintplanning meeting with the developers and quality assurance analysts to review user story, assign story points and assign cards to a respectivesprint.
• Good emphasis on Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.
• Experience in using MS Office extensively (Word, Excel, Visio, Power Point, Outlook, and Project) for calculations, graphs, analysis, presentation and documentation throughout the project.
• Experience writing complex SQL queries and prepared custom reports and performed SQL query, data analysis and verification on MS Excel.
• Experience in Relational Data Modeling with very good focus on creating ER Diagrams and Dimensional Data Modeling in designing Data Marts and Data warehouse using Star Schema and Snowflake Schema models in implementing decision support systems.
• Experience in creating generic Business Analyst documents like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Project Scope etc.,
• Strong Collaborative skills with business end users to identify and understand business requirements from end users’ perspective.
• Prioritized and tracked defects using Bug tracking tool Jira and TFS.
• Expertise in various types of testing including unit, integration, functional, system and performance testing.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Strategies to ensure Quality Assurance and to test all the business requirements.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end business users and documentation of Test Cases.
• Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Strong experience in managing the testing phase of product life cycle with knowledge of various types of testing including A/B testing, Monkey testing, Integration testing, regression testing, etc.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to tailor presentations towards different functional areas of business.
• Experienced in working with Cross Functional Teams and interacting with all levels of management for requirements, resources and project status and delivering custom applications in phases.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a full - service commercial bank. The bank operates over 30+ countries offering lending services in commercial real estate lending, commercial and industrial lending and commercial deposit gathering activities.
• The project was to work on enhancing already implemented new platform Loan Servicing application Loan IQ by Finastra, Doc Preparation and Compliance tool LaserPro and currently LIBOR transition project.
• Accountabilities:
• Conducted requirement gathering sessions with business and Design team to gather requirements for LIQ upgrade to 7.5.XX version.
• Gathered and articulated System Requirements from User Interviews and Synthesis those requirements into technical specifications-Waterfall Methodology.
• Worked on Business System Modeling of Loan IQ functional modules and converting the BPMN diagrams into user guides assisting team using Bizagi modeler.
• Worked on Billing Enhancements and Payment Application of Loan IQ. Primarily responsible for testing the enhancements effort and then translating them to system requirements post business approval.
• Conducted walk through sessions for Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Use Cases to discuss certain issues with stakeholders, architectures, and design & development teams and performed GAP Analysis.
• Organized and conducted Joint Requirements planning sessions (JRP) as a facilitator to gather requirements from the Business User. Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD), and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions when needed.
• Worked with Enhancements released from Misys on different modules in Loan IQ.
• Employed best practices in project management& requirement gathering techniques
• Created Detailed Functional Specifications based on the high-level requirements, Defined Project Scope and created Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Responsible for the delivery of Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) within project timelines.
• Conducted many informal sessions to develop an architectural solution to confirm that the application meets the business requirements, resolved open issues, and handled change management requests.
• Analyze Business Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Navigation Flow, Business Flow Diagrams and Work Flow Diagrams for applications and created Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Responsible for requirements analysis, data mapping, migration &analysis and writing complex rules to migrate data.
• Design and develop Process flows, business design specs, Wireframes, Data flow design and data conversion specifications.
• Analysis of functional and non-functional categorized data elements for data profiling and mapping from source to target data environment. Developed working documents to support findings and assign specific tasks.
• Created logical data model from the conceptual model and its conversion into the physical database design using Erwin.
• Regularly interacted with the Testing team for executing the Test Plans, providing Test Data, creating Test Cases, and resolving issues upon detection of bugs and collecting the Test Metrics.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Business Process Model (BPM) for Loan IQ, to assist the team in developing and deploying the user requirements efficiently using Bizagi Modeler.
• Experience working on Collateral management, Accounting Module, Payments and Export Credit Module.
• Strong understanding of the functionalities of Loan IQ like Deal, Facility, Outstanding and Customer.
• Analyzed the requirements and created Use Case, and different UML diagrams including Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Collaboration Diagram using Bizagi Modeler
• Conducted and documented the GAP Analysis and Risk Analysis prior to the implementation of Loan IQ.
• Experience in preparing and leading the team that is responsible for Materials for the end users leveraging the Process Modelling Documents created using Bizagi.
• Developed and maintained a detailed understanding of business processes and applications, customer needs and priorities.
• Created AS-IS and TO-BE business process flow diagrams, integrate process flow diagrams to show end-to-end business model and business process mapping exercise including swim lanes.
• Created data flow diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence flows and Message flows as part of the EA- CoE that is responsible for Business Process Modeling and Enterprise level Architecture at the Bank.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for effective tracking of requirements on different project streams and modules of Loan IQ.
• Retrieved Data usingSQLqueries and did Data Mapping and Data analysis.
• Based on the physical model, developed strategies for Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) of the data into the data warehouse for our front end CRM application for integration.
• Performed database SQL queries usingIBMDataStudiofor day-to-day application support in our pilot and production environments.
• Design and implement basic SQL queries for QA testing and report / data validation.
• Performed manual testing and created test case and organized test plans & test cases.
• Wrote extensively SQL scripts for validating the data generated by the UATs.
• Updated the 'As -Is' document and brainstormed on the benchmarks to be reached in the 'To- be' application as part of initial Gap analysis for payment application module.
• Part of the business and tech team to discuss and review for applying Enhancements by Finastra that are being released periodically.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led AGILEScrumwork-streams to deliver complex software development and integration projects.
• Tracked project progress using Burnup charts, Burndown charts, Task boards, and other performance indicators to monitor project success in terms of team velocity, cost variance, and earned value.
• Track projects withTFS; Reviewed and analyzed the development estimation to help identify gaps in business and functional requirements and design.
• Ensured proper Change Control procedures and processes were efficiently used to maintain control of scope, schedule, and budget.
• Asked detailed questions and noted the requirements to understand business rules, business process, business flow, stakeholders, and follow the SDLC standard of the business in project meeting.
• Facilitation and utilization ofAgile/Scrum methodology across internal and external development teams.
• Epic and User story creation.
• Lead and facilitated the 4 main meetings ofAgileScrum: Daily scrum, release and sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, and retrospectives.
• Helped Prioritize and plan requirements for sprints in the Product backlog including requirements baselining and management of requirements conflicts.
• Developed materials and deliverAgile/Scrum .
• Document Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for traceability of requirements (epics, user stories, test cases).
• CreateUIconcepts and wireframes.
• Conduct system functional walk-through presentation after each sprint with the SMEs.
• Prepare detailed test scripts, test plans and assisted in integration testing.
• Responsible for tracking issues that are detected and updating the status of existing issues based on the daily scrum meetings.
• Perform Data Diving on ad-hoc basis using IBM Data Studio.
• Provided support for ETL processes that extract data from multiple sources residing on various technology platforms then transport the data to various delivery points data warehouses.
• Performed Data Analysis of existing data throughSQL.
• Worked to createData MappingDocuments and worked with business to write transformation rules through SQL.
• Managed and tracked Requirements, Test case, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defects using TFS.
• Assisted with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, and help team in transparency, radiating information and assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.
• Created test scripts and conducted Functionality, Security, Positive, Negative, Browser Compatibility, Data driven andUser Acceptance Testing.