SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst. Well qualified for positions as Business Analyst and Financial Analyst that require a good analytical skills and IT skills. Energetic, goal oriented, and team spirited with a strong work ethic to fill numerous management roles.
• Expertise in Financial Domain such as Banking, Insurance, Investments, Accounting and Mortgage industries.
• Subject Matter Expert in Equity, Equity research, Bonds, Derivatives (Forward, Future, Option and Swap), Mutual Fund, CDs, Treasury, Corporate Bonds, Municipal Bonds, and Preferred Stock.
• Expert knowledge in the area of Accounting such as; Financial Statements, Cost Accounting, Taxation, Cash Flow, Audit, Assets Management and GAAP.
• In - depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Expert knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.
• Participated in Project Assessment, Functional Analysis, and Business Process modeling, and Requirements Gathering; and convertedBusinessRequirements into Functional Specifications.
• Excellent skills in creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Proficient in developing Use Case Diagrams, Behavior Diagrams (Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams), and Class Diagrams based on UML Methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Experienced in conducting Test Approach, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Test cases, and Test Scripts.
• Integrated Business Process Re-engineering, GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, and Functional Specifications in the Project Life Cycle.
• Working knowledge of Regression, Performance, Functionality, Front End, Back End, Smoke, and Usability Testing for web and Client/Server application.
• Good Knowledge of Database Systems - SQL Server, Oracle 10g, 11g, and TOAD.
• Expertise in broad range of business process tools such as MS Project, MS Words, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Share point, MS Visio and Rational Suite.
• Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as a part of a team as well as independently.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, analytical, leadership and presentation skills with the ability to handle multiple, high priority projects with a keen attention to detail.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: RUP, SCRUM, SDLC, JAD, Waterfall, Agile.

Testing Tools: Rational Enterprise Suite, Mercury Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, UML

Version Control Systems: Rational Clear Case, Documentation

Project Management: MS Project, Requisite Pro, MS Excel

Management Tool: Rational Clear Quest, Mercury Test Director

Databases and Reporting Tools: MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle 10g, 11g, Crystal Report, TOAD

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista, MS Dos, Mac OS

Web Technologies General: Microsoft Front Page, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements gathering from the business users of the system while adhering to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) industry best practices.
• Developed Weekly reports which helped in assessing the percentage progress being made by the team compared to hours burnt.
• Commenced budgeting of projects using Work Breakdown Structure which helped in estimating the cost variance with the actual.
• Utilize Financial Modeling such as FCFE model, Dividend Model, P/E Model, etc. For stocks valuation tools.
• 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 different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Facilitated change requests and monitored schedule and workload accordingly.
• 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.
• Microsoft Project was used to manage schedules, deadlines, resources and collaboration on the project.
• Involved in automating test cases using QTP and Load Runner.
• Participated in Bug- review meetings with software developers, QA engineers, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives, provided solutions to existing bugs.
• Prepared User manual for applications and for reference purposes.

Environment: s: Microsoft Project, Microsoft office, Oracle, UML, UAT, MS Visio, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Secaucus NJ

Responsibilities:

• Applied agile methodology at requirements face to Gather and analyze data in support of business use cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements.
• Experience in requirement gathering by conducting personal interviews, developing questionnaire, brainstorming, or role playing to get a better understanding of client business processes and creating requirements traceability matrix for tracking the requirements
• Converted the technical document in to business document for better understanding for SME of backend process.
• Created Business requirements, functional requirements and Use case diagrams.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project(s), feasibility analysis, project planning, gathering business requirements by conducting user interviews, JAD sessions, and story boarding.
• Worked on Bond Trading Cycle, Sales and marketing, Government bonds, bond pricing, performance measurement and client reporting.
• Expert in Performance management, Asset Management, credit Management, Client reporting and implementing its benefits.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Expertise with all the phases of Quality centers as Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects.
• Worked closely with QA teams to define Test cases and execute Test plans.
• Experienced in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Risk Analysis and mitigation plan, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Updated and modified progress and resources allocation in MS project for the team.
• Prepared User manual for applications and for reference purposes.

Environment: SQL, HTML, Oracle 11g, QTP, Microsoft Office Suites (word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Project) MS Visio, Crystal Report.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis MN

Responsibilities:

• Gathered system requirements from various departments like information systems, accounting through interviews and surveys.
• Conducted JAD sessions with SME, vendors, management and stakeholders for better understanding
• Gathered business requirements using Rational Unified Process (RUP) using MS Word and MS Visio.
• With Use Case, Use Case narrative and different scenarios planning and defining system requirement were done using UML methodologies.
• Creation of Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, ER Diagrams and Activity Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Meeting stakeholders and different users in order to identify issues and resolve them with accurate and stable solution.
• Creation of reports for Project Manager and Stakeholders for the process of work.
• Expedite user acceptance testing and strategies with IS team.
• Manual front-end testing in different scenarios for checking functionality.
• Collaboration with Quality Assurance team for proper implementing of Test Cases and UAT.
• Facilitated small change requests during different phases.

Environment: Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Project, HTML, Oracle, SQL, MS Excel and MS Access.

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Responsible fordefining the scopeandimplementing business rulesof the project,gathering business requirements, and documenting them textually.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisted in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to the project manager and business areas.
• Responsible for writingFunctional Requirement Specifications(FRS).
• Conducted theFRSandUse casereviews andwalkthroughswithdesigners,developers.
• Involved in maintaining and managing differentversions of Documents.
• UsedTest Case distributionanddevelopment reportsto track the progress of test case planning, implementation and execution results.
• CreatedUse cases, activity report, logical components and deployment viewsto extract business process flows and workflows involved in the project.
• Prepared technical mapping documents for the interface/feeds from travelers to Confidential system.

Environment: Microsoft Project, Microsoft office suite, Mercury Quality Center, Oracle 10g, Windows NT, Rational Rose.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as business analyst to support the re-design of the Mortgage Asset Management System.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas including Mortgage Servicing & Mortgage Backed Securities, Loan Monitoring and Asset Management & Asset Backed Securities.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and gap analysis.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Developed business requirement specification documents as well as high-level project plan.
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using MS Visio.
• Actively monitored the development of system based on RUP.
• Developing strategic partnerships with 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 Requisite Pro, UML, UAT, MS Visio, Rational Unified Process (RUP), MS Office Words, PowerPoint and Excel.