SUMMARY:

• A highly motivated business analyst with 7+ years of progressive experience in Business Analysis, Project Management, User documentation, QA Testing & implementation of complex technology projects in Financial, Banking Sectors and capital markets with knowledge in Equities, Fixed Income, OTC, Credit derivatives and Securities.
• Experience in requirement discoveries, requirements capturing & analysis. Extensively supported change requests management process and software testing.
• End to end testing, UAT testing and defect management with hands on experience in defect tracking & resolutions. Interacted with developers, architects and system testers during entire software development life cycle (SDLC).Skills includes designing System test plans and UAT test plans, defining test scenarios and developing test cases, test executions, test result analysis and test reports.
• Extensive experience working with various type of reference data.
• Experience in using several tools such as rational requisite Pro, MS Visio, Quality Center and developing various diagrams using UML. Effectively contributed at system specification and design reviews. Excellent understanding of the process improvement methodology such as CMMI and DMAIC ( Six Sigma)
• Strong functional knowledge in the front office processes such as financial planning, asset allocations, rebalancing, trade order management, pre and post trade compliance and back office asset management processes.
• Demonstrated firm leadership, continuous improvement, culture of dedication, problem solving, influencing skills, decision making abilities as well as the ability to foster teamwork
• Financial services industry in Derivative trading and risk management, Financial Engineering, software product management
• Business process Modeling (BPM) and Documentation, Data flow modeling and workflow analysis.
• Use case modeling & root cause analysis.
• Expert in Trade Life Cycle, Trade Clearing
• Databases (RDBMS), data mapping, data management, data marts, data dictionaries and data analysis.
• Process Improvement methodology ( Six Sigma, CMMI)
• Functional/ Technical Requirement specifications.
• System testing (functional, integration and regression), performance testing, test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test data sets.
• SQL, TOAD, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio & MS Projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL, Teradata

Languages: C,C++, Java, HTML, XML and Visual Basic

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 98, UNIX,DOS, Windows 2000, Windows XP

Network Protocols: TCP/ IP, Routing Protocols, HTTP.

Technologies: ASP 3.0, VB. NET, XML, XSL, JavaScript, HTML.

Tools: UML, MS Visio, Requisite Pro, MS Project, Quality Center, Clear quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Clearing Business, FO for requirements gathering sessions and to capture the current business process (trade flow from FO systems to BO systems) for Credit Derivatives products.
• Developed process flows for all trade events (Client rejection, FCM rejection, EB rejection) for CCPs and affirmation platforms.
• Analyzed existing business processes/systems, identified the process gaps and prepared business process flows/business scenarios & workflow analysis.
• Worked with different external vendors like Markit, ICE, LCH, CME and DTCC to implement the clearing workflows.
• Booked and blotter the trade in bank systems to test front to back trade flow includes Front office, affirmation platforms, clearing house and DTCC warehouse.
• Interacted with Business team, FO and MO for requirements brainstorming sessions and to capture the current business process (Trade flow from FO to Back office) for Credit Derivatives.
• Created project plans and project status reports and conducted weekly meetings with IT team to track the requirements.
• Controlled and managed the project documents on document repository site(SharePoint)
• Organized and conducted the requirements sessions with the business and IT team.
• Monitor project progress, coordinates and communicates regularly with the cross functional team in order to provide status updates and to highlight project risks.
• Interacted with the business users, application developers, technology team and QA team as and when needed to resolve the issues and execute the project tasks as per project plan.
• Reviewed test plans and test cases with QA testers and maintained the requirement traceability matrix.
• Partnered with various project delivery stakeholders including business analyst, application developers and software validation testers to ensure the product is developed and delivered in effective manner.
• Logged & tracked the defects in Quality Center, prepared defect matrix and issue logs.
• Responsible to create user training documents and UAT testing documents.
• Established and maintained project documentation in project repository.
• Created UAT test pack for ICE Clear Europe testing.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business team, FO and MO for requirements brainstorming sessions and to capture the current business process (Trade flow from FO to Back office) for Derivatives and Fixed income products.
• Followed Six Sigma methodology (DMAIC) and responsible for all document control and document management within SDLC on SharePoint.
• Created artifacts of Current state analysis, target state analysis. Also performed gap analysis on business statement generation and field gaps.
• Extracted the Equity Derivative data using R Language platform.
• Translated complex Exotic trade process flow into simple diagram for better understanding of Business and IT stakeholders using Visio.
• Created various artifacts such as FMEA chart, Proof of concept matrix, Business rule matrix, Project communication matrix in co - ordination with six sigma team.
• Performed Eq. derivatives data validation using TOAD and Excel.
• Validated Eq. forward and Eq. Options data dumped by Informatica.
• Coordinated project team meetings including meeting logistics, agenda and meeting minute preparation.
• Monitored project progress on Clarity, coordinates and communicates regularly with the cross functional team in order to provide status updates and to highlight project risks.
• Performed analysis on various reference data such as product classification, counterparty references, book/portfolio attributes, accounting mapping, day counts, rate conversions.
• Effectively implemented the change request management process and kept stakeholders updated with the changes using JIRA.
• Worked closely with Technical PM for release management and incident management.
• Interacted with the business users, application developers, technology team and QA team as and when needed to resolve the issues and execute the project tasks as per project plan.
• Reviewed test plans and test cases with QA testers and maintained the requirement traceability matrix.
• Logged & tracked the defects in Quality Center, prepared defect matrix and issue logs.
• Partnered with various project delivery stakeholders including business analyst, application developers and software validation testers to ensure the product is developed and delivered in effective and timely manner.
• Responsible to create user training documents and UAT testing documents.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned and conducted the requirements gathering sessions with the business team.
• Initiated, managed and improved change management process and problem management process within group in accordance with the company’s policy.
• Ensured with process improvement team that project follows all level of CMMI methodology from initial to Optimizing within SDLC.
• Responsible for document management and record management for audit purposed on document repository.
• Analyzed existing business processes/systems, identified the process gaps and prepared business process flows/business scenarios & workflow analysis.
• Created and maintained User Requirements specifications (BRD), Business process models, data flows and UML diagrams using MS Visio.
• Worked with reference data; validate any trade recorded by FO is in the valuation system
• Responsible to create screen shots and prototypes of different User Interface screens of derivative products using UML and MS Visio.
• Created basic and advanced business reports and distributed to various teams using Cognos 8.
• Interacted with the business users, application developers, technology team and QA team as and when needed to resolve the issues and execute the project tasks as per project plan.
• Reviewed test plans and test cases with QA testers and maintained the requirement traceability matrix.
• Logged & tracked the defects in Quality Center, prepared defect matrix and issue logs.
• Worked on user training documents and UAT testing.
• Analyzed cubes and explored business data in a multidimensional manner in Analysis studio in Cognos 8 application.

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted user interviews with business users and business domain Subject Matter Experts to capture user requirements, business rules and business processes.
• Interacted with different source system architects to understand the source data and data file layouts.
• Gain understanding on the productivity analytics and calculations to clearly document the calculations and data processing rules.
• Assisted the team lead in planning & conducting JAD sessions, preparing the minutes of the meetings and developed the requirement specifications documents (BRD).
• Identified the major tasks, timelines for each tasks and assisted the project manager in preparing the project plan using MS Projects. Also involved in defining the Project Charter, Scope and PMO reports.
• Identified and documented business rules and mapped with business requirement and functional requirement.
• Translated the business requirement document (BRD) into Functional Specification Document (FSD) and posted screen mockups and wire frames wherever necessary.
• Prepared screenshots, UI interface diagrams and wireframes using UML & Visio.
• Assisted designers and programmers to analyze the business requirements for developing initial estimates for the project.
• Worked with developers and QA testers for requirement status, requirement modifications and defect analysis and defect fixes.
• Participated at test plan meetings, testing status meetings and defect analysis meetings.
• Prepared status reports and provided the project status to project manager and business stakeholders.
• Created UAT test cases executed UAT testing with business users and trained the users on the new systems.
• Used SQL and MS Excel for back-end testing and data validation based on the calculation rules and formulas.
• Extensively worked with on-shore and off- shore models.
• Performed data mining, data cleansing, data mapping and data validation using Toad.
• Helped build requirements documentation for input feeders, layouts and data analysis.
• Interacted with multiple Business Analysts working on different stream

Confidential, NJ

Financial Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, analyzed and defined clear and unambiguous Business and Functional requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions and translated the user requirements to system specifications.
• Interacted with end users to understand their workflows/business process and requirements.
• Identified the Data Attributes for the data required by the users & developed the Data Mapping & data dictionaries.
• Planned & conducted JAD sessions and finalized Business Requirements & prepared Functional Specifications.
• Involved in documentation during various phases of product life cycle and maintained all artifacts updated throughout each iteration execution.
• Created different screenshots for UI applications using various MS tools and Visio
• Worked with project manager and PMO for identifying project scope, tasks and preparing project plans and project status reports during the entire project life cycle.
• Implemented the Change Management and defect management process.
• Worked with Testers to develop the test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed data analysis using SQL and MS Excel. Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM).
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and developed the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements/use cases. Also involved in preparing and implementing deployment check lists, user manuals and user training schedules.

Confidential

Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the business environment and identified process improvements.
• Interacted with business users to conduct through requirement analysis.
• Assisted the Project Manager in performing change impact analysis.
• Assisted in on-going process improvement efforts to ensure test planning, execution and reporting is effective, efficient, standardized.
• Responsible to create various user diagrams, screenshots for better understanding of requirements to IT team
• Developed test plans and test cases according to business requirements.
• Implemented traceability matrix mapping requirements to test cases.
• Performed manual testing on web application which involved executing regression as well as progressive test cases.
• Acted as User Acceptance testing coordinator and monitored business testing and interfaced with the development team regarding defect status and fixes on a weekly basis.
• Project Status meetings, Kick off meetings, Gate review meetings and Post audit meetings.