SUMMARY:

• Over Six (6) years of experience as a Business Analyst with in - depth knowledge of business processes majorly in Finance, Insurance, Ecommerce and Government domain where responsibilities included implementing on-site business analysis, requirements management and data analysis for application development.
• Excellent knowledge in Asset Management, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, Derivative products such as Options and Futures, Mortgage, Insurance, Bonds, Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), GAAP, GAAS, IFRS
• Exposure of financial market instruments: Equities (EME, Directional & Growth Strategy, IPOS), Fixed Income Securities (High-yield) Derivative Instruments, Options, Futures, Forwards and Swaps (Swap Options, IRS) Alternative Investments (PE Funds’ Investments in Energy Companies, Infrastructure Project Investments, LBO), Hedge Funds (Global Macro Funds, Event-driven (M&A Investments, HFT of Commodities), SAR), and Foreign Exchange
• Well versed with Trade Life Cycle, knowledge in Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office responsibilities including risk assessment (Market Risk, Credit Risk), AML procedures and regulations
• Proficient in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall models and Scrum Methodologies like Agile
• Distinguished by strong conceptual overview and proven track record in understanding business challenges and providing suitable IT solutions to stakeholders and software vendors.
• Developed strong analytical skills, client relationship management, team management, and communication and presentation skills.
• Proficient in requirement elicitation techniques like facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD/JAR) Sessions, Interviewing, Questionnaires, Brainstorming.
• Specialized in developing data and process models, conducting feasibility study and working with technical staff to create, interpret and implement business requirements into functional specifications.
• Proven skills in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Business process documents, user manuals.
• Created RTM by mapping requirements using PowerDesigner which is efficient during change management.
• Using SQL for data extraction, data analysis, reporting and testing.
• Deployed UML models in different projects by way of activity diagrams, use case diagrams, swim lane diagrams and sequence diagrams using MS Visio and PowerDesigner.
• Competent at performing gap analysis, root cause analysis, business process improvement and business process reengineering projects.
• Extensive experience in creating Screen Mockups (Wireframes), SWOT Analysis, Cost benefits Analysis, Risk Analysis, User acceptance Test (UAT). And Post Production Validation (PPV) and demos for the users.
• Competent at performing gap analysis, root cause analysis, business process improvement and business process reengineering projects.
• Extensive experience in creating Screen Mockups (Wireframes), SWOT Analysis, Cost benefits Analysis, Risk Analysis (VaR), User acceptance Test (UAT). And Post Production Validation (PPV) and demos for the users.
• Skilled at reviewing, making sure they are in accordance with requirements, and assist the overall testing process by working with development and testing teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: RUP, UML, CMM, SIX SIGMA, WATERFALL MODEL, AGILE

Testing Tools: Test Director, Load Runner, QTP, Quality Center

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear quest, Test Director

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio

Version Control Systems: Rational Clear Case, CaliberRM

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office

Programming Languages: SQL, PL\SQL, JavaScript

Databases: Oracle 9i, 10g, MS SQL Server

Web Technologies: Dreamweaver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Carefully studied and analyzed existing artifacts including Annotations, wireframes and designs.
• Elicited, analyzed, documented and communicated requirements for implementation of the NYC Business in the Waterfall Environment.
• Performed Feasibility Study, Project Planning, Requirements Analysis.
• Applied Waterfall model in each SDLC phases, involved in daily meetings, and incorporated change requests throughout the project lifecycle
• Gathered Business Requirements, analyzed data/workflows.
• Designed and corrected existing Wireframes for the development of the user friendly User Interface Design.
• Elicited, facilitated, analyzed, scoped, managed and documented business process flows and portal system requirements.
• Facilitated requirements meeting, group discussions with business users and subject matter experts (SME) to elicit requirements including for mobile platform.
• Familiarized with Content Management System (CMS) for analyzing and documenting the requirements.
• Documented project artifacts such as Stakeholders Analysis, Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System requirement specification (SRS), Traceability Matrix.
• Developed UML Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio to understand the requirements.
• Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reports.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Conducted requirements walkthrough back and forth with business users and SME and developers and QA testers, to bridge the communication gap and address doubts and concerns of developers and QA to find an efficient solution possible to the problems.
• Created data dictionaries by analyzing and comparing existing systems and with future systems and following DoITT standards.
• Suggested changes in Data Dictionaries and Error Message Template to have consistency for future releases.
• Creates Error message template after analyzing and comparing existing systems and with future systems.
• Actively participated in data migration of sensitive data. Understood migration plan and requirements based on existing DCT
• Involved in build process for QA, UAT and Prod environments and coordinated periodic production moves. Created test cases and test scripts.
• Worked with application developers, DBAs, QA Testers and User Acceptance Testers.
• Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by the QA team once the systemwasin testing environment.

Environment: MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, SQL, MS Project, MS Visio, Oracle, CaliberRM

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the project managers with the development of project schedules using MS Project 2010.
• Acted as a liaison for projects with other corporate departments, including Executive, Legal and Information Services as well as vendor relationships
• Elicited requirements for development of the users’ GUI, interfacing with various systems.
• Establish the product backlog and work with the Product Owners to ensure feature-level user stories are prioritized and accurately reflect customer and business. Regularly groom the product backlog by adding, prioritizing, and/or removing user stories to maintain alignment to the product/project vision and roadmap
• Documented project artifacts such as Stakeholders Analysis, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System requirement documentation (SRS), Traceability Matrix, Test cases, use case including activity diagram and sequence diagram using Visio.
• Took additional responsibility by writing Dodd Frank Business Requirements Documents to bridge the gap between business units and technology teams further illustrating willingness to work beyond defined job responsibilities
• Conducted user interviews, JAD sessions, brain storming and surveys for capturing requirements for both mobile devices and personal laptops.
• Gathered and analyzed the requirements using Visio 2010.
• Worked on JAVA based front-end applications in refining the requirements for the respective systems
• Developed prototype of new JAVA based front- end information processing application.
• Helped PM/SM to draft appropriate plan documentation, i.e. Project charter, project plan, communication plan, Proposals, Statement of work, risk management plan etc. Facilitate appropriate reviews; secure approvals as needed
• Analysis of clients' profiles and building models for capturing their investment and risk profiles.
• Utilized FIX/FpML protocol for trade-book integration, back-office position reporting and straight through processing projects
• Prepared Business Process Models that depicted modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual and procedural level.
• Create Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) to depict the source-to-Target Mapping and Data Lineage Analysis.
• Identify source systems, their connectivity, related tables and fields and ensure data suitably for mapping
• Worked on data mapping of source to target elements performing gap analysis Conducted interviews
• Analyzed the existing reports of the reporting system in the database.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Business Process using MS Visio.
• Developed test cases to be used in UAT testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge

Environment: MS Office, MS Project MS Visio, SQL, Data ware housing, ETL tools, Java, Lotus Notes, Data integration.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited, analyzed, documented and communicated requirements for implementation of the trading system in the Agile Environment.
• Performed Feasibility Study, Project Planning, Requirements Analysis, and Prototype Development
• Studied established Trading System to understand the processes and challenges in STP, which helped define project scope
• Studied OTC Derivatives Trade Lifecycle to analyze trading processes and post-trade processing challenges, and recommended system settings to materialize the STP Environment
• Involved in Risk assessment and planning operations as an IT BA to find solutions from the IT perspective.
• Applied Iterative/Agile model in each SDLC phases, involved in daily Scrum Calls/Meetings, and incorporated change requests throughout the project lifecycle
• Gathered Business Requirements, analyzed data/workflows. Defined the scope, financial projections and Cost/benefit analysis. Progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented Designs.
• Elicited, facilitated, analyzed, scoped, managed and documented business process flows and system requirements.
• Facilitated requirements meeting, group discussions with business users and subject matter experts (SME) to elicit requirements.
• Created Use-Cases for appropriate decomposition to use-case model; designed navigation flows, narrations, and user interfaces
• Conducted Use-Case reviews and identified gaps, leading to improvements/enhancements in the same and ensured Use-Cases were consistent and covered all aspects of the Requirements document.
• Designed Wireframes for the development of the user friendly User Interface Design.
• Designed and developed scenarios based on business requirements.
• Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reports.
• Worked with Financial Analysts on Fixed Income Analysis (Pricing, Risk, Yield, Duration, and Recommended Strategy) with Excel to support trading, and reviewed with portfolio manager and traders
• Accurately performed the analysis and data mapping of FpML, FiXML and XML trade messages.
• Reviewed trade confirmations for OTC derivatives trades, including rates, credit, equity, commodity and FX derivatives.
• Managed Dodd Frank compliance of all external vendor applications in FX and Commodities with stringent timelines. Coordinated with various stakeholders and vendors for issues resolution.
• Conducted user interviews and documented business requirement document, technical requirements document and RTM for the project.
• Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business process.
• Documented project artifacts such as Traceability Matrix, Test cases, use case including activity diagram and sequence diagram using Visio.
• Created Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Involved in build process for QA, UAT and Prod environments and coordinated periodic production moves. Created test cases and test scripts.
• Assisted in development of materials for new technology and process improvements
• Worked with application developers, DBAs, QA Testers and User Acceptance Testers.
• Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by the QA team once the systemwasin testing environment.

Environment: MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, SQL, MS Project, Lotus Notes, .NET

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Reported metrics and status to client and closely monitored the Sprint burn down chart to facilitate the team progress
• Customized Microsoft Project for creating, managing and controlling project schedule
• Coordinated technical activities to develop and deliver business systems solutions to meet business objectives and on-going operations.
• Captured meeting decisions and content into Excel based tracking logs
• Created and updated the Story Points in coordination with Product Owners and development team lead
• Enabled the required interaction between thescrumteam and product owners for resolving any impediments to project progress.
• Involved in the design of the front-end using JAVA, JSP and Servlets
• Convert and modify existing matrix reports from Excel pivot tables to a more dynamic reporting tool utilizing Access, Excel VBA.
• Maintained burn down charts, sprint backlo and product backlog sheets; used all SCRUM rituals such as stand-up meeting, Sprint planning. Sprint review and sprint retrospect
• Managed client relationship to ensure service delivery per milestone and overall performance
• Create Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) to depict the source-to-Target Mapping and Data Lineage Analysis.
• Identify source systems, their connectivity, related tables and fields and ensure data suitably for mapping
• Worked on data mapping of source to target elements performing gap analysis Conducted interviews
• Identified Qualitative and Quantitative Risks Analysis and executed resolution strategies

Environment: MS Project, MS office, Java, Visio, SQL, Axure, Jira

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Thoroughly studied the inherent systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.
• Prepared Business Process Models that depicted modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual and procedural level.
• Conducted Gap analysis to understand new business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated into the new application.
• Conducted JAD sessions for better understanding and refining of requirements in coordination with multiple teams.
• Clarified and prioritized requirements by conducting brainstorming sessions with the stakeholders and SMEs.
• Documented project artifacts such as Stakeholders Analysis, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System requirement documentation (SRS), Traceability Matrix, Test cases, use case including activity diagram and sequence diagram using Visio.
• Identified all use case components including basic, alternate and exception flows.
• Participated in various architectural development sessions to provide technical teams with a better understanding of the requirements.
• Gathering business requirements and converting them into functional requirement specifications and user requirement specifications. Used Rational Requisite Pro for Requirement Document preparation.
• Carried out detailed and comprehensive business analysis with the RUP methodology.
• Prepared Business Process Models, which included modeling of all activities of the business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Participated in Change control meetings recommending appropriate action after analysis of changing requirements.
• Conducted multiple interviews to clarify requirements in order to identify use cases and document UC Specifications.
• Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.
• Provided to users, and involved in conducting UAT sessions to gain user confidence and approval.
• Provided project manager with regular status updates assisting the overall project management initiative.
• Worked on data mapping of source to target elements performing gap analysis Conducted interviews
• Developed test cases to be used in UAT testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge

Environment: UML, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Lotus Notes, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel. MS Project.