SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with almost six years of hands on experience in requirements gathering, project management including staffing and coordinating software development projects
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment as well as software engineering methods like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile and Waterfall Method
• Performed planning and developed detailed schedules for all the projects; use MS Project Server to update and manage schedule on a day - to-day basis and used it for Program Management reporting to client and upper management
• Experience in performing end-to-end User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Strong experience in RUP and Agile Business Modeling process, complete UML artifacts related to Business Modeling and Requirements, including MS Visio and Rational Rose
• Expertise in Requirements Gathering through direct user interviews and workshops
• Facilitating JAD sessions with business users and development team to detail out business requirements
• Exceptional Documentation Skills for writing Use Cases and Functional Requirement Documents as well as for creating Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, State diagrams based on UML Methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio/Enterprise Architect/Rational Rose
• Defining Test Cases, creating Test Scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with QA / dev teams in fixing errors
• Involved in creating test data and experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS for writing queries to perform data analysis and reporting and Corporate Data Warehousing skills
• Involved in creating Fact Tables and Star Schemas from the business analysis point of view
• Involved in writing SQL queries that were used by the testing team to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database
• Using project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning.
• Good knowledge of Financial Analysis (NPV analysis, Stocks/bonds valuation, Real/financial options pricing, and DCF analysis), Corporate Actions Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Feasibility study and Risk assessment, GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis and Cost benefit analysis including ROI and Financial Justification
• Strong subject matter understanding in Risk Management, Derivatives
• Extensive knowledge in Risk Analysis like Credit Risk, Market Risk, Business Risk, etc.
• Experience in Investment including Macroeconomics analysis and Equity research

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows
• HTML
• VBA
• UML
• XML
• Microsoft FrontPage
• Requisite Pro
• Rational Rose
• Microsoft Project
• Oracle
• Visio
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• MS Office Suite
• HPQC
• Methodologies: SDLC
• UML
• QALC
• Financial Analysis
• Quantitative Research
• Translating Abinitio graphs into documents

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing system through codes and existing documents to get details on the functional and technical aspects of the system
• Conducted meeting with senior analysts and managers to discuss the possible back tracking
• Documented feedback from meeting and incorporated changes in requirements documents
• Lead team meeting consisting of three business analysts and two quality analysts
• Involved in analyzing Ab initio graphs and converting them into system requirements and then to high level functional requirements
• Managed and enhanced Monthly Load process and First Seconds processes
• Extensively used data marts and SQL for querying to get relevant understanding of the system to decode the values of various parameters
• Updated existing Visio diagrams based on the back tracking effort and newly added functionality
• Served a liaison between the business team and the technical team
• Conducted JAD sessions to understand business requirements and new functional change requirements

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the portal of trading activity and secured web-based transactions and information
• Gathered confidential information from the High Level Management and Technology Department
• Conducted Various Research work on Financial Risk Assessments
• Gathered Requirements from Corporate Clients of Confidential, In-house Technical Department and Management
• Managed the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) during overall over project coordination
• Prepared High Level and Low Level requirements
• Prepared Functional specifications using UML based on Business requirements.
• Prepared Use Cases
• Actively involved in Documentation Management Implementation to organize and facilitate creation of documents
• Actively involved in all aspects of the analyses process including creating problem reporting, and documenting results
• Created different Traceability views to maintain the Traceability of the requirements.
• Development of standard documentation package (Requirements, Specification, Architecture, Design, Operations, and Quality Testing Plans)
• Analyzed operating procedures and policies on an ongoing basis and recommended and implemented improvement plans where appropriate
• Responsible for the UAT test process
• Actively involved in project meetings and Independent Verifications
• Used MS Project to schedule deadlines, resources, and facilities
• Conducted JAD sessions to develop architectural solution that application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requirements

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a liaison between technology and the business clients to improve business processes and support critical business strategies
• Facilitated JAD sessions for defining business requirements and follow-up for Project Plan updates
• Reviewed the existing waterfall methodology and worked towards implementing RUP iterative process
• Involved in creating Business Flow Diagrams, Dataflow diagrams, UML Activity diagrams and USE cases diagrams using MS VISIO to define the actual data flow and activities in the system architecture
• Designed use-cases and use-case models to further refine the requirements and understand the business processes
• Involved in finding and documenting requirements where the new data capture solution would be compatible with existing Customer Interface Control Systems (CICS)
• Worked extensively in Rational Requisite Pro to organize and catalog requirements.
• Gained consensus for business requirements being fully met and attainable technical development expectations
• Performed research on incoming user requirements/modifications and suggested improvements for the second release of the application
• Proactively identified opportunities and made recommendations to improve the system's effectiveness via data mining and analysis to understand user interactions with system and to scope out opportunities to increase user engagement and satisfaction
• Data extraction, Data Migration and Data conversion using ETL tools from application front-end with Oracle databases and data warehouse
• Addressed software validation and compliance issues with particular attention to data migration
• Worked closely with the QA Team to review and enhance the Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Reviewed development plans, quality assurance test plans, and user documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications
• Analyzed PL/SQL queries that to be used by the testing team to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database
• Worked with the test team in Identifying and creating Test Data for Smoke, Functional, and end-to-end testing
• Worked Closely with UAT Team to understand their needs and issues
• Performed regression tests to check for unintended errors after the enhancement
• Helped in designing and implementing deployment process, and thus maintaining the application in post deployment process

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with corporate stakeholders and investment bankers for detailed understanding of the opportunities for improvements of systems in order to Gather Requirements and prepare a comprehensive set of documents such as BRD to define the specifications and business value of the system
• Led and facilitated cross-functional teams for technical and non-technical business requirements
• Involved in analyzing different source systems and assist the BA and technical team to understand the systems and data
• Responsible for data modeling - creating logical and physical model
• Involved in data and gap analysis, involved in documentation of ER (Entity Relationship) diagrams, data dictionaries, develops source-to-target documents while indicating, sources, transformation, cleansing rules, and metadata for loading into the data warehouse, data marts, and operational data stores; accountable for all project documentations
• Participated in analyzing business requirements, Data Model Design, Data flow from various Sources to Target
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan for System Testing
• Written SQL queries for testing ETL and Reports
• Conducted Volume test on the application manually
• Involved in test case creation, system testing and coordinate UAT, resolved the data related issues such as: assessing data quality, data consolidation, evaluating existing data sources and data profiling
• Functioned at varying times as data analyst/data modeler and business analyst, involved in project management communicating overall project status to all stakeholders.
• Provided in depth and detail reporting and analyses for different departments for functional and project side of the business
• Developed use cases to explain / demonstrate business requirements / specifications to IT team
• Closely monitored the project deadlines to manage the production flow

Confidential, New York City, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified opportunities for web site process improvement through various meetings with business users, Confidential Insurance Brokers and Marketing team, AICPA Insurance and Investment Advisory Group and developers
• Developed the project plan with assistance from the web site designers, and included provisions for project scope changes
• Participated in Primary and Secondary Research at AICPA to determine User Requirements and Workflow Processes
• Documented use case specifications on the basis of requirements gathered from stakeholders
• Created functional requirement specifications (FRS) for Insurance Management, Competitive pricing, Risk management and risk reduction education
• Documented and analyzed the catastrophic loss from their insurance claim database using risk management software and ACORD Insurance data standards
• Created use case diagrams, UML diagrams and activity diagrams
• Effectively analyzed and created business requirements from the customer needs into detailed user and product requirements for enterprise content management applications
• Developed website wire frames to refine requirements, and created detailed prototype of the AICPA website portal, outlining all the insurance products available to members
• Documented and analyzed the automated process in which claims would be scanned and indexed into the workflow and imaging system and prioritized and forwarded to department's inboxes using FIFO
• Documented the most-asked insurance inquiries, and online explanation of benefits (EOB's) that Confidential wanted to implement in their database for higher employee empowerment and workload balance
• Created detailed periodic status reports, Plan, Risk Mitigation Plan, Project Scope Document, Project Glossary and artifacts to provide client, top management and implementation team, visibility into the progress of the implementation
• Conducted UAT, prepared test plans and test cases and performed load/stress test