SUMMARY

• In depth of knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Over 7 years of professional and diversified experience in requirement gathering, analysis, and business processes management.
• Expert in the Finance and Banking domains with exposure to Financial Analysis and reporting, Portfolio Analysis, Asset Management, Credit Risk Management.
• Adept at eliciting business and functional requirements through 1 - 1 meeting, interviewing session, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Expert in gathering business requirements, developing functional specification documents, transform requirement to BRD, FRD.
• Proficient knowledge of Unified Modeling Language. Expert in analyzing and creating Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Expertise in implementing Test scenarios, Test cases, System testing, Regression Testing. And maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices for baseline documents.
• Experience in conducting Gap Analysis, expert in creating AS-IS and TO-BE documents.
• Expert in facilitating and defining the entire Testing Life Cycle including Test strategy, Test planning, Test case preparation, Test execution and Defect management.
• Experienced in conducting User Acceptance Testing and coordinating with the UAT participants to get change requirements.
• Highly experience in broad range of technologies including MS Project 2010, MS Office Suite 2010, MS Visio 2010, SQL server 2010.
• Articulate communicator equipped with great work ethic, excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to evaluate alternatives and guide business decisions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook), Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, MS Visio

Process Modeling: Unified Modeling Language(UML)

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, RUP, Waterfall prototype

Database: SQL Server

Testing Tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Project Manager in developing and project plans and also managed changes to the scope of the project.
• Stay current on regulatory, compliance, business trends, and operational efficiencies in the loan industry.
• Organized workshops with Subject Matter Experts (SME) to obtain domain level information also get a better understanding of loan application processes.
• Lead discussions and JAD Sessions to gatherbusinessrequirements and discuss possible solutions.
• Used the Agile methodology guidelines to carry out every step of thebusinessmodeling process.Facilitated scrum manager with daily scrum meeting, sprint planning/review meeting.
• Identify, verify and document loan origination business, functional, non-functional or technical requirements to support development of loan solutions.
• Translated Business Requirements and Functional Specifications into user stories, conducted a comprehensive use case analysis to determine loan origination work flows.
• Conducted product backlogs grooming and analyzing requirement for the Sprints to follow. Explicitly defined detailed requirements before each sprint started.
• Support cost-savings and process improvement initiatives. Provide discrete and confidential handling of sensitive information.
• Facilitated Interviews and Questionnaire Sessions with end users, sponsor team, business intelligence team and SME’s. Updated requirement document based on feedback and changed functional document accordingly.
• Involved in testing by Collaborating with the QA team, developed the test plan and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications and product knowledge.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, MS project, JIRA, SSRS, MS office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook), MS Visio, Agile, SQL2010.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Set up agenda for JAD session with project stakeholders, subject matter experts (SMEs), end users, Developers, Testers and project management team. Contacted participants and make the proper schedule accordingly.
• Closely interacted with developers and QAs to conduct requirements definition and analysis to capture, clarify, and confirm the requirements.
• Interacted with developers to resolves questions and discrepancies during SDLC.
• Worked closely with developers to review user requirements and understand technical recommendations and constrains.
• Produced detailed specifications, planned the project deliverables with the software development team.
• Performed Gap Analysis to compare the existing system with the proposed system, analyzed AS IS and TO BE workflow scenarios to make plan for next stage and prioritize features.
• Conducted presentations for analysis of test result with stakeholders.
• Complete and support regular and ad-hoc reporting including informal and formal internal and client-ready documents, reports, graphs, charts and presentations.

Environment: HP Quality Center, JIRA, MS office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook), MS Visio, Sharepoint2010, Waterfall, SQL2008.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented business requirements (BRD) and functional requirements document (FRD) using process and data models to explain detailed business implications and impacts.
• Prepared Use Cases based on Business Requirement, and used MS Visio to create use cases, activity diagrams, state chart diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams.
• Identified and analyzed, defined opportunities for business process improvement, documented business process and initiated efforts to make improvements.
• Involved in the Waterfall methodology in all phases of the project.
• Developed non-functional requirements and documented them as Business Rules, Quality attributes, constraints documents.
• Coordinated and conduced joint application development (JAD) and walk through sessions involving business stakeholders, technical analyst, project managers.
• Tracked defects in quality center and worked with QA team to resolve defects.
• Involved in Knowledge Management Activities such documentation of release processes, creation of FAQ for resolution of common issues.
• Facilitated Interviews and Questionnaire Sessions with end users, sponsor team, business intelligence team and SME’s. Updated requirement document based on feedback and changed functional document accordingly. which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.

Environment: HP Quality Center, MS office Suite (Word, Power Point, Access, Excel, Outlook), MS Visio, Waterfall, SQL2010.

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed business users to gather requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the Project Manager and technical lead.
• Conducted JAD sessions to gather requirements and develop Business Requirements Document.
• Developed Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram by analyzing the business process to describe different functional requirements of the system.
• Followed Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using RUP which is an iterative and incremental software development methodology.
• Revised functional requirement documentations (FRD) and other core materials throughout the SDLC, making all necessary revisions for requirement refinement and defect correction.
• Reviewed Test Cases with QA and made sure all defects raised were closed.
• Analyzed which source system would be applicable for the reporting database. Understood Equity research, Asset management and trading process.
• Signed off progress and completion reports which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.

Environment: HP Quality Center, RUP, MS office Suite (Word, Power Point, Access, Excel, Outlook), MS Project, MS Visio, SQL2008.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a comprehensive use case analysis to determine
• Conducted JAD with SMEs and developers to get a better understanding of functionality of different tools.
• Knowledge of financial securities like Derivatives, Stocks, Bonds, Futures and Options, ETF and Mutual Funds. key features of the analysis tool.
• Used the Agile methodology during the whole SDLC, facilitated daily scrum meeting and ensure the integrity of the agile process.
• Modeled Use cases, Activity Diagram and Workflow Diagram using MS Visio for a better understanding of the tool’s functions.
• Interacted with technical team in allowing them to make a better navigational plan which would equip the tools with better user interactivity.
• Cooperated project progress by tracking activity with developers and QAs for each sprint.
• Created wire frames and developed a prototype of the graphical user interface (GUI) and demonstrated to the stakeholders and business users and took feedback from them.
• Participated in bug review meeting, assigned problems to appropriate software development team for fixes, tracked problems from start to correction and test.
• Performed defect tracking for the modules in production, conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.

Environment: HP Quality Center, JIRA, MS office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook), MS Visio, Agile, SQL2005.