SUMMARY

• 8+ years of insightful experience in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance & IT Project Management.
• Proficient in collecting, understanding as well as documenting the business requirements and business processes for the project, and translating them into functional specifications.
• Experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirement gathering, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment.
• Experience in Investment Banking, Trade Life Cycle, Corporate Actions & Healthcare Technology.
• Expertise in using methodologies such as Waterfall, and APM (Agile Project Management).
• Reviewed and maintained Test Data and executed detailed Test scripts for UAT, analyzing bugs, while interacting with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assisted in post - Production support.
• Working knowledge of tools like Rally, Jira and Quality Center.
• Facilitated test plan/test cases walk through for the Business and Development teams to obtain feedback and/or approval sign-off.
• Creative execution of many projects from scratch to deploy phases across diverse domains.
• Good knowledge and experience with Big Data Hive SQL and Oracle SQL.
• Acted as a liaison between the client, business users and technical teams. Ensured that the business requirements were clearly and unambiguously communicated to the IT team.
• Proven ability as a team player and to work independently with the ability to adapt to a new environment quickly.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, presentation, communications, teamwork, and leadership skills with proven skill to interact across multiple levels of organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Malvern

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review, analyze and document business practices and requirements related to existing or proposed information systems for BaNCS Corporate Action.
• Produce and explore requirements in collaboration with product owner, scrum master and project manager at the level of detail required for Sprints.
• Developed RTM, Key Controls, including test plans, test conditions and regression testing. Test systems functionality and document test results.
• Good Knowledge and understanding of BaNCS Corporate Action & vendor product Channels.
• Involved in Daily scrum stand-up meetings, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice.
• Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint.
• Identifying missing requirements and work with business users to develop solution document for the new releases and enhancements.
• Coordinate and record stakeholder Monthly prioritization meetings regarding system planning, implementation for future enhancements, release plans and issue resolution.
• Worked closely with data architects, developers, test managers, business stakeholders and project managers to achieve project objectives in defined time frames.
• Validated and debug server file logs through Putty and data validation by executing SQL Queries.
• Responsible for development of ongoing enhancements, create and prioritize the JIRA Epic & Stories.
• Involved in successful implementation of various MSM BaNCS Elevations- NeoXam IBOR Interface Changes, FFS2020 GIFS SecLending, TIBCO To Ansible and Monthly Vendor code deliveries and BAU Releases.

Environment: BaNCS, Oracle 11g, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, Quality Centre, Service Now, Confluence, JIRA, SQL Developer, Putty, WinSCP.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyse, validate, specify, and verify business requirements for IMS healthcare data.
• Day to day work in Big Data eco-system including tools such as Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Impala.
• Responsible for defining business and data requirements of large Application Services development program, specifically in the Big Data and Data Warehouse space.
• Participated in creating high level test outline, test plan, test cases, review and walkthrough with client.
• Liaison between external business partners and internal teams to deliver project requirements.
• Lead the identification and modelling of User/ Business Information Needs.
• Use SQL Developer, Toad and Hive to write and debug SQL queries to be used in analysing business requirements and Creating Data Acquisition & Restriction Document for Confidential data sets.
• Access remote files to perform various operations on Unix based Operating System via Putty/WinSCP.
• Worked closely with Business and Technical teams to ensure flawless implementation in Agile Environment.
• Extensive use of Big Data tools and technologies including working in a Production environment of a Hadoop Project.
• Reviewing the design and test scenarios to ensure requirements are met.
• Generating project reports using SQL for business teams and stakeholders.
• Reviewing source to target documents and created testing scripts to ensure data is being loaded correctly into the National Data Warehouse.
• Update and maintain a Requirements Traceability Matrix and Create, update and follow-up Jira tickets with details, owner and due dates.
• Communicate business concepts to technical audiences, for product development and serve as a Subject Matter Expert for end to end related activities for Confidential data sets.

Environment: Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, HBase, Oracle 11g, SQL, Apache Spark, Scala, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, QC, Service Now, JIRA, Rally, Toad, SQL Developer, Putty, WinSCP.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Build and perform end to end QA effort on the Data Warehouse.
• Design, develop and document the business requirements, test plans, test cases and conduct UAT testing for every release to ensure requirements are met.
• Played an active role on a Scrum Team following all facets of the Agile Delivery Process in implementation of integration projects with health plans and vendors.
• Worked with business teams and developers to identify and resolve defects.
• Participated in daily scrums as well as features planning discussions.
• Responsible for writing and executing test cases, mapping test cases to requirements, documentation and tracking defects and issues, closing testing activities for system implementation projects.

Environment: Windows, HIVE, SQL, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, QC, Service Now, JIRA, Rally.

Confidential, Oaks, PA

ADS Specialist/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Good Knowledge and understanding of Asset Data Management/Securities Master.
• Played a key role in the planning and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Documented key decisions, open issues, and functional requirements.
• Performed securities data clean-up loaded from various vendors in securities master application.
• Worked on SQL for writing queries from the database for validating data and producing reports.
• Performed UAT and coordinated UAT activities with regards to product rollout.
• Played an active role in the Scrum Team following all facets of the Agile Delivery Process.
• Involved in new client implementation project and data migration.
• Validated and verified backend data for vendor load exceptions and challenged them to load vendors securities file in the system.
• Involved and ran various game plans between cross functional and technical teams to correct data.
• Worked closely with application development, business operations and offshore teams to ensure product feature releases.
• Good knowledge of Control M Job and other monitoring tools.
• Handled and resolved client request within SLA through Service Request in SEI Wealth Platform.
• Analyzed research on operational procedures and methods and recommend changes for improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency.
• Support project managers and senior level analysts on various projects to ensure quality controls are met (Daily, Weekly & Monthly).
• Tracking project milestone to ensure timely execution of key deliverables and ensure service level agreements are met.
• Serve as 360 review coach for employees seeking feedback to enhance performance.

Environment: Windows, Oracle 11g, SQL, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, QC, UML, Service Now, JIRA, Rally.

Confidential

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete QA lifecycle activities like pre-testing phase, acceptance testing phase, testing phase and User acceptance testing.
• Analysed the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the project.
• Conducted walkthroughs and review meetings with the development team to set a hard-freeze date and gather input for creating the use cases.
• Good Understanding of Trade life cycle.
• Created use cases for the application under different releases and wrote SQL Queries to check the data.
• Used Quality Centre to maintain defect repository and followed the bug life cycle until bug closed.
• Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Involved in different phases of Test effort like functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, and User Acceptance testing.
• Experience in developing test plans and strategies and have conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Assisted QA team to devise the test plan for the application by explaining the business use cases.
• Created Traceability Matrix to trace each Test Case and associated them with the registered requirement.
• Coordinating with Offshore and Onshore Teams for analysing, discussing user requirements and specifications.
• Proactively escalating issues to the QA Lead and alerts the project team on potential impact to test schedule & quality review of daily deliverables.
• Experience with corporate ERP system (SAP-MM & SD module) for accounting & financing of product procurement and coordinating with team for PO raising, vendor selection, product specification test & deal closure.
• Preparation of Daily Status Calls and defects discussions with onshore clients.
• Conducting Trading & Risk Management Trainings as part of Knowledge and Learning Management.
• Developing project reports including issues, scope, risks, financial & regulatory information.

Environment: Windows, Oracle 9i, SQL, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, QC, UML, JIRA, SAP R/3