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San Mateo, CA

SUMMARY

  • Energetic, goal oriented Business Analyst with over 3 years’ hands - on experience working in various domains like Investment and Banking.
  • Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM, RUP).
  • Good understanding of Investment Banking, Risk Management, Fraud Management, AML, Portfolio Management, Asset Management.
  • Experienced in identifying, analyzing, and resolving risks involved during execution all the way to completion of the project.
  • Skilled in conducting elicitation techniques like surveys, questionnaires, interviews, JAD sessions.
  • Involved extensively in creating Wireframes and Prototype using Justinmind.
  • Experience in Documentation such as BRD, Use Case’s, FRD/FSD and conducting various Business Analysis viz. GAP analysis, ROI and SWOT.
  • Experience in communicating directly with Stakeholder, SME’s and end users to gather and translate requirements into detailed project development strategies for effective deployments.
  • Created and documented Use Cases, Process Flows, Work Flow Analysis and used Unified Modelling Language (UML) to pictorially describe Use Cases.
  • Knowledge of SQL queries in databases such as Microsoft’s MySQL, SQL Server using TOAD and SQL Plus.
  • Expertise in designing, creating Test plans, identifying, Test Script/Test case for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  • Experience in Defect and change Management reporting. Software: Bugzilla, JIRA.
  • Ability to collaborate with project teams in technical and non-technical areas, to deliver optimal business process solutions, in line with corporate/client priorities.
  • Organized weekly project status meetings, Walkthroughs, and Inspections and worked as a liaison between business users, designers and developers.
  • Comprehensive experience in negotiating skills, Team Management, Project Management, time management and multi-tasking on daily basis.
  • Coordinated with geographically distributed, cross-functional teams (Development, QA).
  • Effective verbal/written communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, MAC OS X, Mobile IOS, Android

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA, HP Quality Center

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP)

Requirement Management Tools: IBM Rational RequisitePro, MS Project, MS Excel

Project Design & Architecture: Microsoft Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose

Other Tools: MS Suite, VM Ware, Toad, Tableau, Google Analytics/AdWords, Salesforce, MS Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Access, MS One Drive

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - San Mateo, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Followed SDLC methodology - Agile SCRUM.
  • Worked as a Business analyst in the project and assisted the Project Manager in Project planning, scope management,deliverables and key milestones.
  • Responsible for understanding and translating the needs of the business with the use of technology.
  • Documented detailed user stories in JIRA from the business requirement documents.
  • Planned, prioritized and gathered requirements and conducted JAD sessions with business sponsors, developers and testing team.
  • Documented requirements and transformed them into functional and technical requirement specifications, modeled business process flows using UML diagrams (Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Swim Lane Diagrams).
  • Worked with business users to define product feature, business requirement specifications, and change requests.
  • Performed Risk analysis to analyze implementation of new enhancements around existing features.
  • Carried out detailed and comprehensive Gap analysis (As Is, To Be) and documented detailed process flow.
  • Reviewed QA Test Cases to ensure compliance with Portfolio and Asset Management which include Investment Record Management, Hierarchal Portfolios, Price updates, Retrieve Transactions Directly from your Broker or Fund Company, Capital Gains Reporting, Price Alerts, Yield Calculations, Markers and Trendiness, Asset Type, Investment Goal, and Sector Allocation, Moving Average Alerts, etc.
  • Conducted daily Scrums and reviewed progress of sprint by referring burn down and velocity charts.
  • Created User Acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure all business and functional requirements were met.
  • Assisted QA team by reviewing test cases and test plans to ensure complete coverage of requirements.
  • Involved in defect triaging and creating change management requests.
  • Creating user documentation and conducting user training session.
  • Provided post- production support and planning for maintenance releases, etc.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Worked as a Business analyst in the project and assisted the Project Manager in Project planning, scope management,deliverables and key milestones.
  • Responsible for building and establishing the off-shore model for credit research and analysis.
  • Followed SDLC methodology - Agile SCRUM.
  • Performed SWOT and GAP analysis for new functionality requirements as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs. This helped to optimize the business processes.
  • Responsible for conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews to enable free communication among different team and aided in conflict management.
  • Had several user interviews and meetings with business teams to elicit accurate information and requirements.
  • Responsible for Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and UAT testing.
  • Interviewed the Key Stake Holders, SMEs, and Decision makers to have a successful collection of requirements from all domains.
  • Interacted with End Users/Business folks to understand the scope of reporting for a particular client and prepare list or reports needed to be in the sprint backlog.
  • Experience working on Agile methodology and executing various functions of Agile including - writing User stories, daily scrum call, sprint planning, Jira grooming, Showcase and Retrospective.
  • Created Use Case, Activity diagrams and Process flows using Rational Rose.
  • Queried the database using complex SQL queries.
  • Worked closely with product owner to prioritize different stories and with technical team to ensure Testability of requirements.
  • Performed Defect Management with QA team and Developers to resolve issues, establish and provide feedback to eliminate bugs/defects using Quality Center.

Confidential 

Business Analyst 

Responsibilities:

  • SDLC methodology - Agile (RUP).
  • Gathered and classified requirements as business and functional.
  • Interviewed business users and corresponding tech team and identify the various channels and avenue through which payment related information is captured.
  • Performed analysis of the scope of the project by going through existing documents (BRD and SRS).
  • Captured the business level requirements off the BRD and performed the GAP analysis to lay out the intersection point that required analysis on technical design scheme.
  • Analyzed “As is” To be” system state to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
  • Translated requirements into functional specification, including process flow and data model documents.
  • Interacted with the technology team to gather understanding on the various systems and applications.
  • Primarily worked with stakeholders of various application owners and defined the rules of AML, payment fraud which would be applied to various payment transactions.
  • Contributed to the development of project plans by providing input to project charters, project deliverables, cost/benefits analysis, time line estimates, scope and control.
  • Assisted the QA team and supporting various aspects of testing, reviewing the test cases and various test scenarios of fraud activities.
  • Presented Weekly / Monthly Project status reports describing the project status to date and the impact of issues and change requests on the project plan.
  • Participated in weekly status meetings to present status and incorporate any digressions from the original scope.
  • Assisted in translating requirements into test conditions and expected results or product, performance, and user acceptance testing (UAT).

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