SUMMARY:

• Over Six (6) years of experience as a Business Analyst, majorly in Finance and Government domain where responsibilities included implementing on - site business analysis, requirements management and data analysis for application development.
• Distinguished by strong conceptual overview and proven track record in understanding business challenges and providing suitable IT solutions
• 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.
• Excellent knowledge in Capital Markets, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, Derivative products such as Options and Futures, Mortgage, Insurance, Bonds, Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), GAAP, GAAS, IFRS
• Broad 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), and Foreign Exchange
• Competent in preparing RACI (Responsibility, Accountability, Consulted, Informed) chart to clearly specify the roles of various people in the project for ease of communication.
• Proven skills in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Business process documents, user manuals.
• Expert at creating RTM by mapping requirements using PowerDesigner that comes handy during change management. Using SQL for data extraction, data analysis and testing.
• Skilled at managing change using impact analysis, cost benefit analysis (CBA), Level of effort (LOE) analysis, RTM and RACI.
• Deployed UML models in different projects by way of activity diagram use case diagrams and sequence diagrams using MS Visio and PowerDesigner.
• Experience in carrying out projects through all the phases of SDLC lifecycle using RUP Test cases (Rational Unified Process) methodology, Agile.
• Competent at performing gap analysis, root cause analysis, business process improvement and business process reengineering projects.
• Extensive experience in creating Screen Mockups, prototyping, SWOT Analysis, Cost benefits Analysis, Risk Analysis, 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.
• 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 documentation (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

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
• 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
• Partnered with business systems vendors such as SunGard on utilizing to implement non -native systems integration
• Good understanding of financial protocols such as SWIFT, FIX, and FpML
• Implemented FPML to ensure the accuracy and competence of different user interfaces
• 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.
• Conducted user interviews and documented business requirement document, technical requirements document and RTM for the project.
• Performed Requirement Analysis and developed UML Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio to understand the requirements.
• Documented the business rules for automation of the project
• Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business process.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• Assisted the development of Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) model for implementing option hedging strategy trades including covered call writing, covered put buying.
• Also involved in developing spreadsheets to calculate the Greeks Risk - Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho.
• Conducted user interviews, JAD sessions, brain storming and surveys. Gathered and analyzed the requirements using Visio.
• 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, .NET, Lotus Notes, Data integration.

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.
• 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 backlog 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.