SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of professional experience as Business Analyst wif expertise in business processing analysis, business process modeling, business requirement in Finance, Banking and Insurance domains.
• Expert in Business process analysis, Requirement gathering (Interviews, meetings, JAD), System analysis, Functional design and documentation (FDD), Risk analysis, Feasibility study, SWOT analysis and Cost benefit analysis.
• Strong business analysis skills and an understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), utilizing Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile/ Scrum
• Proficient in participating in JAD sessions to bring system developers and business users together in a productive software development environment
• Skilled in eliciting user needs and translating them into functional requirement, technical requirements, and business requirement.
• Excellent skills in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Systems Requirements Specification (SRS),
• Strong experience wif process modeling techniques using Unified Modeling Language (UML) via Rational Rose / Microsoft Visio - Written Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Workflow Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow diagrams
• Adept in writing SQL queries for data extraction, data manipulation, data analysis, data validation, and generating user reports and proficient knowledge of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), Data Warehousing .
• Proficient in collaborating wif Quality Assurance team to perform Functional Flow Testing, System Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Well versed in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) correlating baseline documents and tracking business requirements throughout the development and testing phase.
• Solid Knowledge of industry standards and products like Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), GAAP, GAAS, Fixed Income, Loans, Derivatives, Deposits, Securities, Equity, Bond, Equities, Derivatives, and Derivative Instruments.
• Highly motivated team player wif excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Management: HP Mercury Quality Center, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Project,, Rational Requisite pro

Modeling & Designing Tools: MS Visio, IBM Rational Rose 6.0

Business Analysis Structure: Agile/Waterfall/Scrum/JAD

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Win runner

Databases tools: Oracle9i/10g/SQL Server/Microsoft Access/My SQL

Reporting Tool: crystal reports, Oracle Reports

Communications: MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, TCP/IP, and MS NetMeeting/Chat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential IL

Responsibility:

• Followed Agile Scrum methodology throughout the application development process - planning Iteration, sequence project activities, and participated in all production releases
• Assisted Scrum Master wif managing tasks assessment, user stories creation, project plan, release documentation, resources allocation, project meetings (daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective),and tracking deliverables
• Functioned as a liaison between the business and technical team for managing and resolving all process matters throughout the project life cycle
• Conducted meetings and interview sessions wif business users and subject matter experts to gather, analyze, and document business requirements (BRD), identified functional specifications, documented functional specifications (FSD) and high-level design document
• Employed MS-Visio to document current workflows, end-to-end system interactions, and screen mockups; and documented different UML diagrams such as use cases, activity diagrams, state diagrams and sequence diagrams to enhance transparency by breaking down the complexity into diagrams
• Developed user-friendly GUI screens and their functionalities as per requirements and SME's guidelines
• Performed intensive SQL queries to retrieve data from the underlying database, validate data quality, run analysis, and create multidimensional reports
• Performed GAP analysis to analyze existing system flow and document proposed system process flow; developed transition plan to migrate from legacy to proposed system
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for reviews, approvals, progress strategies, system specifications, and conflict resolutions involving business users, SMEs, Development Team, QA Team, and other stakeholders
• TEMPEffectively followed the Change Control Process to manage the application scope and accommodate the changes as occurred
• Assisted Database Modeling team to identify entities types, develop progressive Entity Relationship Diagram by establishing relationships between different entities and respective constraints.
• Collaborated wif Quality Assurance team to develop test plan, test strategy, test cases, and test scripts
• Extensively worked wif QA team to conduct various types of testing - Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, GUI testing, Performance testing, Black-box testing, and User Acceptance testing to ensure a bug free product
• Employed Quality Center to manage defect tracking lifecycle - analyze, log, and prioritize defects, monitor defect resolution, maintain log, status updates, and generate reports & graphs
• Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix to track business requirements, functional specifications, and test cases to ensure streamlined development and testing.

Environment: MS Project, UML, QC, SQL, Windows, UNIX VB, PL/SQL, Oracle, Agile, MS Visio

Business Analyst

Confidential, CT

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements gathering from the business users of the system while adhering to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) industry best practices.
• Experience and ability to analyze each transaction and financial documents.
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level diagrams like Use Cases Diagrams, activity diagrams, State Chart Diagrams using MS Visio according to UML methodology, thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow stakeholders to communicate their perspectives wif each other, resolve issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and carefully recorded the requirements in a format that could be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Created Workflow and Activity diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Reviewed and assisted the QA testers wif the development.
• Involved in the Preparation and execution of Test Plans, Test cases, Test scripts using Test Director
• Used Visio to create workflows, manual processes and End-to-End processing of system interaction.
• Used MS Visio to carry out the business modeling and object modeling effort to develop the business architecture for the application for rapid and controlled Application development.
• Updated requirements and defect status as per the current status of the testing project in the Clear Quest
• Worked extensively wif MS office suite for preparing status reports.
• Prepared a project plan using MS Project to assigned tasks and responsibilities and to track the progress.

Environment: MS office Suite, Java, XML, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Toad, Oracle, UNIX, Clear Quest, Win Runner

Business Analyst

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile/Scrum methodology for better and rapid delivery of the business solutions. Suggested planning features one sprint ahead of the implementation in the Sprint Retrospective in order to achieve maximum utilization of resources and comfortable and thoroughly tested deliveries.
• Interviewed various stakeholders and SMEs for detailed business processes and understand the Collections and Recoveries side of the business segments. Interacted wif the Business Team through JAD sessions, to gather requirements and develop complex business maps.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Interacted wif various stakeholders to understand the scope of the project and created business requirements, system requirements and design specification documents.
• Created Screen Mockups using MS Office for the new GUI - dashboard to ensure all requirements are captured correctly.
• Responsible for various parameter changes on Queue Management System and Online channel.
• Wrote SQL queries through Toad to check the population of the data
• Managed business approval process, risk governance process and change management process for all the releases in Collections team.
• Use of Rational Rose to extend use cases beyond diagrams wif attributes, documents, and traceability.
• Acted as a liaison between developers and other stakeholders was involved in resolving conflicts between testers and development teams.
• Involved in system interactive testing and halped testers in understanding the business and the design specifications.
• Assisted testing team for successful completion of Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Requirements Testing.
• Followed rational unified Process(RUP) methodology, conduct user interviews, gathering and analyzing requirements using Requisite Pro
• Assist business units to identify, quantify and escalate risk and loss events.
• Using detailed knowledge of application features and functions assess scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications.
• Gather system requirements.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, using UML.
• Identify, research, Realize, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Perform Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Conduct workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Responsible for conducting data analysis, data mapping and data integration.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Case
• , conduct User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked wif development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Act as a resource in understanding how IS carry out business functions and assists in ensuring the timely and TEMPeffective implementation.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Liaison for projects wif other corporate departments, including Executives, Legal and Information Services as well as vendor relationships.
• Assisted for all project documentations.

Environment: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SQL, MS Project, Lotus Notes RUP

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC, actively monitored the development of system based on RUP.
• Worked as Business Analyst to support the re-design of the Mortgage Asset Management System.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions wif committee of SMEs from various business areas including Mortgage Servicing & Mortgage Backed Securities, Loan Monitoring and Asset Management & Asset Backed Securities.
• Conducted interviews wif key business users to collect requirements and business process information.
• Translated the Business needs into system Requirements, communicating wif the Business on a broader scale and wif an in-depth view.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and gap analysis.
• Experience Data mapping between Old databases to new database in Data migration project.
• Developed business requirement specification documents as well as high-level user case
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Rational Rose.
• Developing strategic partnerships wif the business unit to develop a solid knowledge base of the business line, including the business plan and process and the revenue streams.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system.

Environment: Rational Rose, UML, UAT, MS Visio, Rational Unified Process (RUP), MS Office PowerPoint and Excel