SUMMARY

• A progressive Project manager in Business Analyst and certified Scrum Master around 6 years of experience in Business Analysis, various SDLC Methodologies, Project Management, Data Management, Risk Reporting Framework, Trade Management System, CCAR, BASEL (II and II.5). Worked with cross - functional teams in medium to large-sized projects to deliver various complex capabilities.
• Experience in various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile (Scrum) and DevOps methodology.
• Certified Scrum Master. Expert in driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Strong experience with Scrum methodology.
• Strong understanding of Business Requirement gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Quality Assurance.
• Connoisseur in documenting Business Requirements Document (BRDs), Functional Requirements Document (FRDs), Non-Functional Requirements Documents, Use Cases, Test Cases, and User Interface Prototypes.
• Proficient in creating Business Needs and Features (BNF), Project Initiation Document (PID) and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) with appropriate artifacts.
• Experience using RUP based Unified Modeling Language (UML) for creating Use Case Diagrams, Business Process Model, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and work flow diagrams.
• Well versed in writing SQL queries for data analysis is with understanding of Relational Database Management System (RDMS) and Business Intelligence (BI).
• Broad knowledge of various asset classes of RISK Management Reporting involving Market risk (BASEL), Credit risk, Retail risk, Operational Risk, Trade life cycle, Swaps and Derivatives.
• Understanding of reference data, market data, exception management and other facets of data management that help drive the design of the infrastructure necessary for the organization to meet the risk reporting requirements of CCAR and BASEL II.5
• Extensive experience in leading cross-team meetings during the Requirements Elicitation and UAT phase. Ability to facilitate JAD sessions, conduct UAT and GAP analysis.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization. Coached the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Experience in various content management system (CMS) such as Share point, WordPress and Documentum.
• Strong analytical and design skills with keen eye to detail, well organized, and focused balanced inclination towards people and process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domain: CCAR, BASEL II and II.5

Methodology: Waterfall, RUP, Agile, DevOps

Workflow: Modeling MS Visio, MS Project, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Business Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Axure RP

Languages: HTML, UML, SQL

Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, MS Access

Front End Tools: MS Office Word, Excel (Vlookup, Pivot Table), Access, PowerPoint SharePoint, Documentum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Warren, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assessed the Commodities Trading Risk process to provide the front office a detailed look into the risk of their portfolios. This process calculates EOD trading to provide management a clear view of the risks before market opening.
• Conducted both Monte-Carlo and Historical scenarios to perform different VaR calculations in relation to the current market environment.
• Analyzed an internal market data warehouse which allows the risk team to maintain a separate historical dataset for analytics.
• Coordinated intra-day trade extract processes from the firm’s trade capture systems allowing risk analysts a real-time view of intra-day activity.
• Helped in reconciling financial data to deliver Greeks to the trade level granularity, which greatly increased analyst abilities to drill down into changes in portfolio risk.
• Documented the process of fetching data from TMS for various products classes including of swaps, commodities including their reference and market data flows.
• Identified data sources, defined data inputs required to compute theRisk basedcapital.
• Data cleansing, and data processing at ETL level. Wrote queries and scripts for creating input datasets.
• Reviewed and analyzed reports of master data to ensure timely receipt of updates. Analyzed reports and track specific activity to ensure records are synchronized.

Environment: MS Access, MS Suite, Jira, Agile, Scrum, MS SQL, MS Visio, UML, ETL

Confidential, Beaverton OR

Business Analyst / Jr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interpreted business requirements and translated them into functional requirements, creating reporting solutions implemented with the help of subject matter experts.
• Captured the current or “as-is” state of the business process, application, infrastructure, information, and security components along with the performance and current organizational capabilities.
• Documented the client portfolio level drill down till the trade and reported weekly submission to the senior management.
• Worked with business domain experts to capture existing process of funding, banking and transfer, and reconciled financial data across multiple reporting systems.
• Worked closely with Fixed Income trade management system for various instruments such as swaps, treasuries and corporate bonds.
• Integrated financial data and transaction data from source to target database for creation of a central Risk Data Repository as required by reporting regulations and also to make simulations simpler.
• Authored technical stories, user stories, acceptance criteria for the sprint backlog. Prioritization of product and sprint backlog facilitating scrum meetings within and across the program teams.
• Worked on impediments (issues) that the team encounter during the sprint release and prepared the sprint velocity burndown chart.
• Worked collaboratively with UX, UI, IT, Planning, and Finance.
• Performed SIT with QA team, UAT with business users which included validation of data, executing testing and defect tracking.

Environment: MS Suite, Confluence, MS Visio, SQL, Agile, UAT, Agile.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported and cross-trained to work onB2C Client projectsand maintained an outstanding status in handling both B2B and B2C projects.
• Created roadmaps for digital products and processes, designed products and interaction experiences (at online channels in HTML and CSS) to create distinction and competitive advantage, creating presentations to illustrate concepts and prototypes, summarizing marketplace (eBay, Amazon and other online portals) and competitive strategy.
• Generatedcustom reportsdetailing on amount of sales, volume of orders, sales by product, usage of discount codes and inventory status.
• Applied knowledge of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, Hybrid Agile and Waterfall Framework. Worked in facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD), organizing one-on-one interviews, Focus Groups, Brainstorming sessions and requirement workshops.
• Communicated with Business Owners and Project Sponsors on the Project Schedule, Project Status, Project Charter, Milestones achieved, Issues/Risks and Financial Forecasts.
• Delivered the listings and managed inventory on various e-commerce portals on time, addressed on-going issues, initiated corrective actions and managed content through SharePoint and Documentum.
• Coached, led overseas personnel in creating, scheduling and executingcomprehensive and potent promotions/dealsto be posted on B2C websites.

Environment: MS Access, MS Suite, SQL, MS Visio, Flipkart, eBay