PROFILE SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process - flow,Business Process Modeling, Data Analysis, Data Mapping and Business Analysis
• Imported, managed and tagged requirement documents, and designed project deliverables (Attribute Matrix, and Requirements Traceability Matrix) using various tools.
• Strong understanding of Capital Markets,Fixed Income, Equities,Risk management(credit risk, Over The Counter (OTC) Trading,Mortgage products, Collateralized Assets (MBS, ABS & CMO), Trading floor applications, Loan Processing Applications andPortfolio Management.
• Managed operational and analytical elements of OTC derivatives
• Extensive experience in working with different domains including finance, healthcare, property and casualty, auto insurance etc.
• Proficient in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, which includesRUP, Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Responsible to suggest different OTC derivatives.
• Extensive experience in gathering, managing and documenting business and functional requirements and communicating effectively with stakeholders, developers and QA testers.
• Experience in creating and transforming business requirements into software requirement specification (SRS)
• Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming and joint application development (JAD) sessions.
• Proficient in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Wireframes and Prototypes, andUML Diagrams using various tools including MS Visio, and Rational Rose
• Proficient in creating Use Case diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Class Diagrams
• Expert inBusiness Process Modeling, Data Flow Modeling, Work Flow Analysis, Use Case Analysis, ER Diagrams, GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Expertise in Client Server, Web-based, Multi-Tier applications. Proven expertise in business process modeling,Flow diagramming and data modeling using Erwin, MS Visio & Rational Rose.
• Expertise in designing & developing business intelligence reporting solutions in Insurance & Banking industries withData Warehousing using Business Objects - Crystal Reports, Cognos and ETL.
• Experienced in working withCognos 8 BI (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio, event studio and Analysis Studio).
• Extensive knowledge with Data modeling, Star Schema/snowflakes schema, OLTP/OLAP, E-R modeling, Fact and Dimension tables, Worked with Erwin for developing Logical and Physical design
• Expertise in developing test documents likes Test Plans, Decomposition of requirements, Test Procedures Creating Test Cases, defect tracking using tool such as test director.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirements Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, HP Quality Centre

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS-Visio

Change Management and Version Control Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case.

Environments: Assembly, Basic, Java, JSP, HTML,XML

Data Bases: Microsoft Access, Oracle, Mainframe, My SQL, SQL Server, Oracle Database Server, DB2,Business objects (Business Intelligence Software)

Software Utilized: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), Microsoft Project, IBM Lotus Notes, Erwin

Query Tools: TOAD, My SQL

Other Tools Utilized: UNIX vi editor, JDBC/ODBC,J2SE/J2EE, Web sphere, MS office, Active directory, Java APIs, C++ library, Norton Antivirus, Delete, Undelete, Norton Antivirus, MS Internet Connection Firewall, MS Baseline Security Analyser, Zone Alarm, SSH

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City, NY

Sr. 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
• Responsible to suggest different OTC derivatives
• Analyzed OTC Derivatives Trade Lifecycle to analyze trading processes and post-trade processing challenges, and recommended system settings to materialize the STP Environment
• Strong understanding of Capital Markets,Fixed Income, Equities,Risk management(credit risk, Over The Counter (OTC) Trading,Mortgage products, Collateralized Assets (MBS, ABS & CMO), Trading floor applications, Loan Processing Applications andPortfolio Management.
• Managed operational and analytical elements of OTC derivatives
• 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.
• Wrote business requirements documents (BRD’s), which involved market risk analysis and risk management like continuous time finance & asset pricing and documentation
• Conducted Business Process Reengineering to build a new version of the existing system.
• 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 developers to develop and document technical specifications of system document
• Used SQL statements for Back-end testing.
• Worked with Scrum Master in implementingAgile SDLCprocesses, including ticketing system, burn down charts, scrum sessions, and sprint and product backlogs
• Created Wireframes/Prototypes for the system.
• Validated the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and meets the scenario description.

Confidential - Vienna, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved 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 using RUP methodology
• The Templating Team is part of Derivative Operations. The objective of the group is to automate confirmation generation for OTC derivative transactions by building robust Templates for various instruments.
• Understanding of Derivatives products and Documentation for OTC derivatives.
• Responsible for Project Planning, Feasibility Study, Requirements Analysis (through JAD sessions and Storyboards), Wireframes, and Prototype Development
• Involve working on a wide range of projects across listed and cleared OTC derivatives building out the target state infrastructure for the utility.
• Used power point presentations for conduction walkthroughs with the stakeholders.
• Analyzed and documented Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business.
• PrototypedProperty and Casualtyforms in Microsoft word.
• Designed and developed theProperty & Casualty Insurance forms
• Studied the existing ODS with a view to Map the data from ODS to Data Warehouse.
• Created the ETL specification for loading theData Warehouse using EXCEL.
• Mapped the source and target databases by studying the specifications and analyzing the required transforms.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, User stories, Business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational rose so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process
• Responsible for creating wireframes and prototypes for the system
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective.
• Worked with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Clients sentiments.
• Conducted Design Walkthroughs with end users, developers, managers and analysts to gather the modification requests and to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules, information needs and insured that critical requirements are not missed.
• Responsible for creating test scenarios, scripting test cases using testing tool and defect management for Policy Management Systems, Payables/Receivables and Claims processing.
• Used Test Director to report bugs to Developers and Project Managers to resolve defect related issues
• Jointly responsible for monitoring the progress of the development and QA teams

Confidential, Birmingham, MI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with SME’s in understanding the Requirements pertaining to Loan Origination to Loan Processing.
• Extracted the Business Requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) using Rational RequisitePro.
• Extensively involved in the modeling and development of Reporting Data Warehousing System.
• Performed Business Process Mapping and performed AS IS and TO BE analysis
• Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates, Requirement Types and Traceability Relationships in RequisitePro.
• Develop test plans in conjunction with team leads and business personnel and perform unit, integration, regression testing.
• Worked closely with the Enterprise Data Warehouse team and Business Intelligence Architecture team to understand repository objects that support the business requirement and process.
• Developed the ETL Informatica Mappings for importing data from ODS into subsequent data marts.
• Analyzed the business and functional requirements of the application and developed detailed test plans, test cases in Test Director.
• Involved in creating automated Test Scripts representing various Transactions, Documenting the Load Testing Process and Methodology. Created meaningful reports for analysis and integrated the Performance Testing in the SDLC.
• Reviewed the data model and reporting requirements for Cognos Reports with the Data warehouse/ETL and Reporting team.
• Developed and managed Project Plans and Schedules. Managed resolution of Project issues and conflicts.
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Assisted in mapping the requirements to the source systems, the DW and applicable data marts.
• Various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using Rational Clear Case and performed defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Conducted one to one interviews with Portfolio Manager to gather Business Requirements and was involved in the documentation of Business Requirement Documents.
• Assisted the Project Manager in setting realistic Project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly and conducted Project related presentations.
• Reviewed Stored Procedures for reports and wrote test queries against the source system (SQL Server) to match the results with the actual report against the Data mart (Oracle).
• Created and scheduled Sessions based on demand, run on time and run only once using Informatica Server Manager.
• Translated the Business needs into system Requirements, communicating with the Business on a broader scale and with an in-depth view.
• Designed and developed Project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Developed Business Requirement Document as well as High-Level Project Plan.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the Business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the Project Cycle.
• Defined the test criteria and project schedules, and baseline the Test Plan with the help of project meetings, walkthroughs.
• Documented the entire testing process, test cases and test results.
• Developed Functional Specification Document and Supplementary Specification (non-functional) Document.
• Participated in the Logical and Physical Design sessions and developed Design Documents.
• Worked with developers to make sure that they understood the Use Cases.
• Partnered with the Technical Areas in the research and resolution of System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with Quality Control Teams to develop Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Develop User Manuals, and Training Manuals as per Project Specifications and timelines.