SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with 9 years of diverse experience with requirements management, business analysis, data analysis and project management
• Strong understanding and experience in Capital Marketswith Equity, Fixed Income, Swaps Derivatives, Commodities.
• Knowledge of regulation and risk environment regarding financial markets
• Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of its various methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP) etc.
• Very Strong understanding of Finance domain with extensive experience in diversified industry sectors including Commercial, Retail and Auto finance banking.
• Good understanding of AML, CCAR, Dodd - Frank compliances
• Extensive experience in conducting GAP Analysis Applied tools and techniques in estimating cost and schedules using qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Conducted Requirement Gathering Sessions (RGS) and interviewed Business users and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) through the use of different techniques like Brainstorming, Focus group, Question and Answer, shadowing
• Demonstrated experience defining Impact Analysis, LOE, Conversions, Business Rules, and Configuration Decisions on downstream systems and interfaces.
• Experience in facilitating JRP sessions with Business User Groups and conducting JAD sessions with IT Groups for Conflict resolutions
• Experience gathering requirements with the help of User Stories.
• Excellent skills in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Business Process Modeling and Use Case Development as well as Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using UML methodology.
• Experience with Data Analysis using Oracle as a backend and TOAD and SQL Developer Tools as the querying interface.
• Facilitated Change Management across entire process from project conceptualization to Testing through projects implementation using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTMs).
• Synchronized and prioritized relevant defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines using standard Defect Tracking Tools such as JIRA and SilkCentral.
• Expertise in Reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases after conduction Knowledge Transfer Session with QA Team to
• Proficient in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Excellent at creating User Manuals and Training Session Materials.
• Highly experienced in PPV and Smoke Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirements Management Tool: Sybase PowerDesigner, Rational Rose, MS Office.

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS Excel.

Languages: .NET, XML, SQL, UML

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Silk Central, Bugzilla

Database Management: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Database Access: TOAD, SQL Developers Tool

Operating System: MS Windows, iOS, Android, Linux

Prototyping Tools: Just in mind Prototyping, Smart Draw, Snag it, Wink

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Weehawken, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies, mapped the current and the expected processes respectively. Documented the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Conducted and lead the JAD session with the end users and team members to setup the project goals and objectives, issues resolution, and system design for effective software development.
• Documented the detailed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and translated into Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs) and Non-Functional requirements documents (non-FRD) and Use Case Documents (UCD’s).
• Conducted Business Requirement Document walkthrough with business users, addressed any concerns raised and ensured timely signoffs to keep the project schedule.
• Assisted Project Manager in setting-up the timelines for project deliverables, managing project resources, and managing conflicts for successful completion of the project.
• Worked as a liaison between business and technical teams to communicate requirement prioritization and implementation level of effort to make sure highest value features are given higher priority.
• Effectively used Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) to categorize and structure the requirements into logical groupings to avoid redundancy, improve maintainability and help define boundaries.
• Conducted requirement walkthroughs with the development and test teams before the development and testing phases respectively, to ensure that the requirements are accurately understood.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) between BRDs, FRDs and UCDs and reviewed RTM’s from testing team to make sure test cases covered all the requirements.
• Assisted testing team in documentation of test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and managed complete defect tracking life cycle using a defect tracking tool. Actively participated in User Acceptance Testing at functional level.
• Performed Impact Analysis when request for change (RFC) arrived by looking at Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). Escalated the results of the analysis to the Change Control Board (CCB).
• Actively participated in Post Production Validation (PPV) and production support calls.

Environment: Rational Rose, Smart Draw, Windows,MS Office(MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), Java, Oracle, RUP, UML, SQL

Confidential, Westchester, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked in Agile frame work throughout all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Worked to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Securities Asset Management and their Valuation.
• Worked on business rules of various banking processes like equities, mutual funds, futures, swaps, derivatives etc.
• Met with client groups to Worked as liaison between technology and the business clients to improve business processes and support critical business strategies.
• Helped to create and translate User Stories to define the functions the system must provide, and to facilitate requirements management.
• Worked closely with the Business Intelligence (BI) team to define standards for report.
• Collaborated with Scrum master and scrum teams for creating Scrum artifacts like Burn-down charts, Task boards, Velocity planning and prioritizing backlogs
• Gathered requirements and prepared and translated BRD into functional Requirement documents (FRD) and coordinated with both business users and developers for mutual acceptance.
• Conducted stand-up meetings to provide a status update to the team members.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for communicating and managing expectations.
• Deployment of business process management and process framework at enterprise level. Highly involved in process modeling.
• Developed and maintained operational and technical flow using MS Visio.
• Created data mapping documents and ETL specification document to map the data from staging database to data mart.
• Involved in data mapping and making traceability views.
• Experience in writing SQL queries for validating and data mapping
• Experienced onMarket Data and Reference Data, and performeddata extraction, and data manipulationwithSQL
• Gathered and defined OLTP and OLAP database modeling requirement.
• Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes.
• Developed the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements and technical specifications
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvement.
• Created detailed Use Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: MS Access, Silk Central, Java, MS Project, Power Designer, Business Objects, SQL, .Net

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked throughout the SDLC process, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizing RUP methodology.
• Performed GAP analysis and wrote application enhancement specifications detailing in scope/out of scope items, as-is/to-be process maps and critical test scenarios.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD) by gathering requirements through detailed discussions with business users and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
• Closely interacted with designers and developers to understand the application functionality and navigational flow and kept them updated on requirement modifications to continuously improve and develop new features.
• Developed Use Cases and Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) for the online claims filing method.
• Organized and participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with business users, development and testing teams.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancements and modifications with business users and stakeholders.
• Provided structured walkthrough to the developers to understand the Use Cases and worked with quality control teams to develop Test Plans, Test Cases and test scripts based on usability and functional performance criteria.
• Organized and Performed UI/GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Progression and Regression testing and provided support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for multiple iterations involving the entire User environment setup.
• Tested the application manually and worked with RTM with the Quality Center (QC).
• Wrote SQL statements to extract data from the tables to validate data flow
• Participated in product release and deployment to end-users after successful development and testing of the product. Also participated in training the end-users and creating training documents.

Environment: Business Objects, UML 2.0, MS Project 2007, SharePoint, Oracle, MS Office Suite 2007

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Activities and deliverables for the assignment included an aggressive regimen of interviewing supervisors and associates, documenting processes step-by-step, reviewing with constituents, consulting with Requirements Analysts and software designers, and reporting directly to project manager and upper management.
• Analyzed and defined BRD requirements for critical business applications projects focused on Web based systems and ecommerce functionality.
• Gathered, analyzed, defined user requirements and translated them into Functional Requirement Documents. using UML Created Use Case diagrams, and Sequence diagrams to show various processes
• Designed user interfaces and applications by Prototyping, obtain multiple department approvals the .Net and XML environment.
• Created/ reviewed SQL or sequel queries in DB2, Oracle and Sybase for many different applications to achieve best performance possible.
• Documented process flows /system specifications. Assisted JAD (Join Application Development meetings/sessions using Agile methodology.
• Enhanced and corrected all Federal compliance issues with Patriot system using DB2.
• Maintain documentation related to difficulties, complexities and anomalies that may arise during the ETL process.
• Utilized strong SQL knowledge and executed performance tuning. Performed root cause analyst and identified missing links in system designs.
• Used Rational ClearQuest for all types of change requests, including defect Tracking, enhancements, issues and documentation changes with a flexible workflow process.
• Developed and maintained a reusable implementation plan checklist and work plan, based on lessons learned from previous project launches.
• Worked as a testing coordinator by creating test plans/scripts, reviewing results and repeat the testing process until system is working as expected.
• Documented requirements for the reconciliation database and wrote and run SQL scripts to pull the data.
• Worked on the IPM, Integrated Product Message, project to convert from INET fixed format to IPM bit mapped format to be in compliance with Master Card, a major flag ship and complex project.

Environment: MS Office 2003 suite, JIRA, Java, MS Project, Power Designer, Business Objects, SQL, XML