PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business Analysis: 7 years of rich experience in Corporate and Retail banking domain with Tier 1 banks ( Citi, JPMC, Confidential ) with over 5 years in Cash Management Services, Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis, and preparation of Functional and system Specification document, Traceability Matrix and Business Scenarios.
• Conducted detailed workshops and Product Demos to the Clients for a better vision of the Solution being offered .Managed and led team of associates responsible for developing and testing the customized product offered.
• Thorough Knowledge of Payments and Receivables.
• Experienced on Liquidity management and Investment.
• Well conversed with International payment message format SWIFT
• SDLC: In depth knowledge of SDLC (software development life cycle) phases like requirement Gathering, analysis, design, Planning, development, testing and maintenance.
• Strong Knowledge of VISIO and Proficient in creating Use Cases
• Quality Management Process: experience in defining Test Scenarios, reviewing Test cases, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members for getting the errors fixed during the SIT and UAT (User Acceptance test) phase.
• Strong Understanding of Master Data Management.
• Experience in Data Analysis with tools like Pivot Table and SQL.
• Excellent communication and Project management skills to proficiently understand the business requirements and recommend appropriate solutions to the client and to train, guide and lead a professional development team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/ Vista/2007

Languages: Basic SQL

Process Methodology: SDLC

Requirements Management: Rational Requisite Pro

Graphics: MS Visio, Msword,excel,Powerpoint

Test Management Tool: Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing process flow and created new process flow diagrams
• Conducted Focus Group sessions for Requirement Elicitation.
• Conducted Requirement management & Communication process by preparing BRD and getting a sign off from the stakeholders.
• Prepared Functional Specification as part of Solution Assessment & Validation process.
• Supported QA/UAT - prepared test plans, UAT scenarios and prepared traceability matrix
• Guide to the Development and testing team during the development and testing phase.
• Prepared business user training material

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, SDLC)

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Updated the Functional Specification document with new requirements and the revised requirements after discussion with the client on the SWIFT transactions used for Sweep Transactions.
• Preparation of Business Scenarios, review of the test scenarios, test cases and analysis of the raised defects.
• Prepared the Training material in the form of Power point for reference of the end users and Internal team
• Handled Client Interaction during the SIT phase onsite.

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Oracle DB, Quality Center, Manual Testing)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Presented the Intellect Sweep Product Demo at the Client site.
• Requirement gathering at the clients place with the Business Stake Holders based on the Business requirement document produced by the Client.
• Functional Gap analysis exercise done with the client and requirement Analysis with the technical staff internal to Polaris for understanding the technical feasibility of the requirements.
• Preparation of Functional Specification document and Business Scenarios.
• Verification of the test scenarios / Test cases
• Verifying and analyzing the bugs raised and getting in touch with the team for fixation of the bug during the SIT and UAT phase.

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, SQL, Manual Testing)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand the FLEXCUBE Liquidity (Sweeps) product and the PAYMENT gateway used by Citi for Cross Country Sweep transactions.
• Prepared an Understanding Document of the application in use.
• Gave a complete understanding of the application to the automation testers offshore and helped them in preparing the Test scripts.
• Preparation of Business Scenarios, Test Cases. Manual Test Execution of the same, Sanity Testing and Preliminary analysis of the issues.
• Extended role to a Test lead by being exposed to preparation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Data and Test execution.
• Handled Client Interaction during the SIT at onsite.
• Handled the Quality Management Process and interaction with the Quality Team

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Quality Center, Manual Testing)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering at the clients place with the Business Stake Holders based on the Business requirement document produced by the Client. Preparation of Functional Specification document and Business Scenarios.
• Worked closely with Technical staff to validate business requirements. Tested new code implementations to expected results and cross functionality occurrences.
• Handled Client interaction during UAT phase and Internal Quality Management process.
• Preparation of Business Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution of the same, Sanity Testing and Preliminary analysis of the issues.
• Handled Client Interaction during the SIT, UAT phases.UAT support at onsite along with providing hands off training to the end business users.
• Handled the Quality Management Process and interaction with the Quality Team.

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Manual Testing)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handling modified versions of requirements from Business Users Requirements and validating them with offshore technical team.
• Prepared the functional Specification Addendum with the new Requirements and change Requirements during the development phase.
• Used Pivot table for data analysis .
• Handled Sanity Testing and preliminary analysis of the issues.
• Acted as single point of contact between Client UAT team in Thailand and the Offshore team
• User Manual preparation for Origination Gene, detailed description of the Process module wise.

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Manual Testing)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge acquisition from SME’s at the Exchange
• In-depth discussions/interviews with the operations team at the Exchange to analyze the automated trading system
• Documentation of the end to end processes involved in trading of following instruments
• Equity
• IPO
• Mutual Funds
• Prepared functional specifications

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Manual Testing)