SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diversified experience as a BusinessAnalyst.
• Strong understanding of business processes and Trade Life Cycle for Financial Instruments such as Fixed Income - Corporate, Government and Municipal Bonds, Convertibles, Hedge Funds, and Derivatives like Options, Futures, Forwards and SWAPS, including teh Brokerage, Custody Trading and Capital Markets.
• Comprehensive noledge of industry standard methodologies like SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process as per RUP (Rational Unified Process), Six Sigma Methodologies, CMM (Capability Maturity Models) and of various tools, including Rational Tools.
• Experience in conducting JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, and design.
• Expertise at developing Quality Assurance (QA) Test Plans, Test Case, Test Script, Test Schedules, defining testing strategies, executing test plans and Data Mapping.
• Proficient wif MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources.
• IT skills include gathering requirements, creating Data Warehouses, and Database Models including Data Mapping and Implementation for key Business Intelligence.
• Extensive noledge of Traceability Matrix and Mapping between customer requirements and test cases.
• Extensive experience in Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Software Development wif expertise in Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation.
• Good Knowledge of Oracle databases and MS SQL Server.
• Provided technical support to teh database team on Oracle based architecting, developed SQL queries for data extraction purpose along wif Pl/Sql for Setting Stored Procedures.
• Proficient in interacting wif stakeholders, gathering requirements through interviews, workshops, and existing system documentation or procedures and defining business processes.
• TEMPEffectively coordinated wif teh Onsite, Offsite and Onshore teams during my projects.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check teh compatibility of teh existing system infrastructure wif teh new business requirements.
• Excellent skills in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) and using other industry standard analysis techniques for gathering user requirements and understanding of teh business process.
• Extensive experience in creating Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).
• Documented teh objectives, constraints and scope of teh system keeping in mind teh changing business requirements.
• Maintained teh Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across teh deliverables of a project.
• Experienced in creating Use Case Models, Process Flows, Workflow Analysis and Unified Modeling Language (UML) Diagrams like Class, Use Case and Activity Diagrams using popular designing tools.
• Expertise in creating Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases from teh Requirements documents for distinguished testing efforts like Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Proficient in coordination of defect management and monitoring teh status using QualityCenter

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Office tools, including MS Project, MS VisioMS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint

Methodology: Unified Modeling Language (UML), Agile, and Waterfall

Languages: SQL and PL/SQL

Requirements/Document Tools: Rational Requisite, HP QualityCenter, Rational Rose, Deal Interactive, Mingle and Serena Team Track

Database: DB2, MS SQL Server.

Testing Tools: HP QualityCenter and Quick Test Pro (QTP)

Modeling/Design Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, and me Rise

Data Analysis and Financial Modeling: SPSS, @Risk, MS Excel (Pivot tables, Lookup, Macros) VBA and SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boutte, LA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Translated stakeholder requirements into functional specifications, use cases, work / process diagrams, data flow / data model diagrams.
• Produced functional specifications and led weekly meetings wif developers and business units to discuss outstanding technical issues and deadlines that must be met.
• Coordinated project activities between clients and internal groups and information technology, including project portfolio management and project planning.
• Provided functional noledge for developers during teh technical design and construction phases of teh project.
• Documented and analyzed business processes and workflow and send to Business users and clients for approval.
• Participated in space development - planning, design, construction, distribution, and maintenance phases.
• Assisted wif designs and developed by defining teh universe joins, Cardinalities between tables.
• Created UML use case, activity diagrams for teh interaction between teh analyst reports and reporting systems.
• Successfully implemented BPR and achieve better performance, reducing time and costs.
• Developed test plans and scripts, teh client performs teh routine testing to complex processes to ensure proper functioning of teh system.
• Worked wif UAT testers and end users during system validation, user acceptance testing to expose teh functionality / business logic problems that unit testing and system testing failed.
• Modeled teh As-Is system and conducted teh complete GAP analysis for teh existing system in order to map it to teh To-Be system. Facilitated large-group Business Development Planning sessions and ensured appropriate business participation in teh project.
• Participated wif integration, system, regression, performance and UAT - Using teh TD, WR, Load Runner
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into High Level and Low Level Use Cases, and developed Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Participated in defect review meetings wif team members. Worked closely wif project managers to record, track, prioritize and close bugs. Use CVS to maintain versions of teh various stages of SDLC.

Environment: JavaScript, HTML, UML modeling, MS Word, MS Visio, J2EE platform, GAP Analysis, SDLC(RUP, Agile, Waterfall)

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise in Conducting Research, Evaluations and Studies, and presented recommendations and solutions related to short and long-term improvement opportunities.
• Conducted daily status conference call meetings wif all international groups and leads, monitoring progress of all groups and their interpretation of business requirements and how it effected system and coding modifications, database stabilization, and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Contributed to continual process improvement activities and initiated potential reengineering opportunities wif a view to achieving Rapid Deployment of initiatives.
• Ensured that teh Internal Process Library of service management processes is regularly updated to reflect latest operational processes.
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into High Level and Low Level Use Cases, and developed Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, performed critical path analysis, and identified opportunities using Six Sigma DMAIC for Business Process Improvement.
• Coordinated wif process owners and associated international staff to ascertain requirements, capabilities, and process improvements and monitored user queries about teh international customers and responded wif relevant information.
• Derived FRS (Functional Requirement Specifications) based on URS (User Requirement Specification), and understood and articulated business requirements from user interviews and tan converted requirements into technical specifications.
• Reviewed Test plans, Test cases, Test case execution using specification documents and Rational Test Manager.
• Created data dictionary for often used retail and technical terminology for benefit of developers and customers respectively.
• Managed client delivery systems by setting up version control using ClearCase software configuration management tool
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) of product and prepared relevant test cases for functional and technical QA testing
• Managed defects tracking system using Bugzilla software to track and maintain client’s enhancement requests and defect loggings
• Developed Java based web applications on J2EE platform during development phase of project
• Served as liaison between client, senior product managers and development teams to bridge teh gap between client’s needs and developer’s requirements

Environment: MS Project, MS Office, Java/J2EE, Rational Rose Developer, Rational Clear Case, Bugzilla, Windows XP/Vista/7, MS SQL Server 2000, SDLC(RUP, Agile, Spiral)

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird analyzed, validated, managed and documented those requirements. Interact wif users to verify teh application, managing change control process, updating teh existing documentation.
• Created functional requirement specification documents - which include UML diagrams, use case, scenarios, activity diagrams and data mapping. Consulting wif teh end-user functionality and business processes.
• Acted as client liaison for teh review of priorities and manage teh total customer order. Provided consulting services to clients, technicians and departments on basic to intricate functions of teh application.
• Identified business directions and goals that could effect teh necessary data and application architecture.
• Defined, teh priority of business requirements, determine which business subject areas to provide teh most relevant information, priorities and sequence of project implementation in accordance wif it.
• Provide relevant test scenarios for testing these. Work wif test team to develop system integration test scripts and provide test results meet business expectations.
• Used Test Director QTP, Load Runner test management, functional, GUI, performance, stress testing
• Perform data validation, data integration and Backend / DB testing using SQL queries manually.
• Followed UML based methods using Rational Rose and MS Visio to create Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams
• Created test input requirements and prepare test data for data driven testing.
• Mentored, trained on teh Tech Guide & Company standards. Set up and coordinate teh onsite offshore team, conduct noledge transfer sessions offshore team.

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Java, SQL, J2EE platform, GAP Analysis, SDLC(RUP, Agile, Waterfall)