SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of extensive, practical experience as a Business Analyst/Data analyst in the Finance, Mortgage, Software Industries.
• Thorough knowledge on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles and methodologies such as Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Spiral and Waterfall Method.
• In - depth knowledge in developing Use Case Model, Use Case Diagrams, test case diagrams, UML diagrams.
• Extensive knowledge of business analysis concepts such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Joint Application Development (JAD) session.
• Experienced in creating data mapping documents and defining the transformation rules.
• Extensive knowledge of financial statements (balance sheet), Derivatives, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Amortization, Cash, deposits, loan asset classes, risk management, Credit Risks, Market Risk, Operational Risk, CUSIPS, ISIN
• Experienced in all financial instruments within investment banking and brokerage environments (Equity, Fixed income, FX, Derivatives, Securities, commodity trading, Mutual Funds, Options, Swaps, Asset Backed Securities, SWIFT Messaging, Hedge Funds).
• Strong understanding of Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know your Customer (KYC) regulations.
• Extensive experience working with a wide variety of business and technology groups (includes developers, QA analysts, data architects, ETL members, project managers) defining business requirements, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, use cases, test cases and creating detailed functional/technical specification documents.
• Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data and Test Checklists. Also conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assisted in post-production support.
• Experienced in managing project teams of Business Analysts and Quality Assurance Analysts ensuring quality, budget and timeliness of the project.
• Proficient with Rational Tools (includes Rational Requisite Pro, and Rational Rose) and Microsoft Office tools (includes MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint).
• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills substantiated in past assignments with developers, project managers, subject-matter experts, stakeholders, system implementers, and application end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista
• C++
• C
• MS Office Suites (MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Access
• MS Outlook
• MS Project
• MS Visio)
• MySQL
• Sybase
• UML
• RUP
• Test Director
• Crystal Reports
• Business Object
• Rational Requisite Pro and Rational Clear Case
• Dreamweaver
• Adobe Page Maker
• Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, DE

Senior Business System Analyst

Environment: SQL developer, Informatica Powercenter 9.5, Informatica PowerExchange, Oracle 11i, Sequential files, Complex Flat files, Flat files, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, Windows XP, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated JAD/RAD session with the users to elicit the requirements.
• Worked with the stakeholders and business users to develop the BRDs.
• Identified source systems, their connectivity, related tables and fields and ensured data consistency for mapping
• Worked on Informatica Analyst tool for data profiling and understanding the data.
• Created source to target mapping documents.
• Acted as a liaison between the business users and the technical development.
• Created the FRDs for the development team.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Analyzed the jobs that used Look up and transformation to understand the business logic
• Converted the business rules in to transformation logic and also converted the rules in to pseudo code.
• Inspected the data layout for any changes in specifications as per the requirements.
• Created data flow documents. How data flows from one 'worksheet' to another. And necessary transformations that happen from source to target.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the databases and do unit testing.
• Performed User AcceptanceTest(UAT)and created test scenarios to be validated by the business.
• Worked in production support team to solve issues during production and post production.
• Assisted in the creation of logical, conceptual data model.
• Tested data quality during the data integration process.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified the in-scope and out of scope reports for NAM/EMEA regions
• Conducted interviews with key business users to elicit, collect and manage requirements and business process flows.
• Worked closely with Senior Management to create Work-Breakdown Structure, Resource-Breakdown Structure using MS Project 98 and managed project and resources to accomplish company’s goal.
• Worked with the business users, stake holders to define business requirements and develop business requirements document (BRD).
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Worked with the stakeholders from different regions in developing the Functional Requirements Document FRD for each of the region.
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment ManagementBusiness, Portfolio Management, Hedgefunds, corporate actions, Brokerage andTradingModel within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
• Performed analysis and normalized reports/extracts/queries for the NAM and EMEA regions.
• Created Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams.
• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process.
• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of project.
• Interacted with the business user to enhance the digital asset management process.
• Prepared the Functional Specifications Documents for the Data Modelers and the ETL Teams.
• Worked on Agile Approach.
• Extensively worked with financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as-ExchangeTradedDerivatives(Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)
• Extensively involved in all phases SDLC (Software development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle)
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios and executed the same.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with the Users by interviewing them, preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Monitored and assisted the offshore QA team in preparing test plans and regression testing.
• Assisted the technical writers in preparing help guides for customers support
• Responsible for updating weekly status to the Project Manager.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed workflow of the existing SWEEP process and Money Market transactions using MKS Integrity Workflow for Retail accounts, High Net Worth (Institutional), Prime Brokerage accounts.
• Conducted GAP analysis to identify gaps and recommended the alternatives to streamline the service level offerings.
• Performed the Analysis and Design workflow for same- day/ next-day/ zero day trade settlement for derivatives by following the Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Held JAD sessions to collect the software requirement specifications (SRS) and used RequisitePro to maintain the requirements.
• Generated Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Activity, State Transition and sequence diagrams to demonstrate critical processes.
• Worked with in-house construction team to finish the second and third iteration of Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Used The Turbo Swift Corporate Suite to access the SWIFT network.
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrixes (RTMs) to support the application development that included Business Requirements, Actor Survey, Use Case Survey, Supplementary Specification Survey, Analysis Model, Design Artifacts and Test Case Survey.
• Experienced in analyzing and writing stored procedures.
• Performed as the main Point of Contact (POC) in a broker- dealer environment with the Outside Money Market Vendors to discuss requirements and facilitate the technical compliance required on their end.
• Performed QA testing for the basket-trading terminal for derivatives.
• Performed UAT test plans for QA analysis of the basket-trading terminal.

Confidential, New York, NY

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Obtained a detailed knowledge of business process involved in the project environment.
• Extracted the business requirements for the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and developed the BRDs
• Established Business Analysis methodology using Agile Extreme Programming to create Architecture and Interaction models.
• Used business process modeling techniques for reengineering.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Generated reports using business objects.
• Extensively involved in JAD sessions to converge early towards a design acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers.
• Involved in the back office operations using data from bloomberg.
• Generated advanced reports related companies performance that would help the business users in managing their portfolio..
• Helped the business users in portfolio management by giving additional information like beta value, target price and performance charts for the last five years.
• Created artifacts and defined milestones and iterations plans for inception and elaboration phases.
• Assisted in testing the application whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
• Performed different testing like unit testing, system testing, functional regression testing.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application for intended users.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed scope, assisted in preparation of business case and maintained project charter and other related artifacts
• Worked with the business users, loan officers, underwriting managers to define business requirements and develop business requirements document (BRD).
• Conducted user interviews, gathered and analyzed the requirements
• Created Use Case scenarios and maintained use cases (Business use cases and system use cases) and modeled use case diagrams using MS Visio for the application.
• Major functionality provided in the system Use Cases are Loan application, Loan origination, Loan underwriting, Merged credit profile, Property appraisal, Earning verifications, Title search, Rate assessment, Entitlement, Closing statement etc
• Participated in solution design sessions with the technology team, created web page mock-ups
• Provided assistance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the project objectives.
• Managed Change Control Request meetings, process change requests and updated the scope with the new changes.
• Monitored and assisted the offshore QA team in preparing test plans and regression testing.
• Attended review meetings with technical team to prioritize and clarifying feasibility of requirements.
• Responsible for updating weekly status to the Project Manager.
• Assisted the technical writers in preparing help guides for customers support
• Involved with problem resolution, adjustments to new procedures, new requirements, next phase issues, and other post implementation support