SUMMARY

• An innovative Business Analyst wif a Masters Degree in Business Administration, and over 12 years of experience in Investment Banking, Financial services, accounts processing, operations and audits.
• Extensive experience in Business Analysis, requirement gathering wif Investors On boarding process, Reconciliations, Payment Services, new fund Closings and Data Management, Transaction Processing, Auditing processes wif experience in Managing Client, Supervising team and training.
• Championed process migrations (remotely) & improvements dat resulted in cost reductions, productivity enhancements & quality improvements, also a prolific team leader, trainer and a motivator having ability to build and retain cohesive team of performers.
• Possessing strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Superior written and verbal communication abilities and demonstrated capabilities in managing process verticals.
• Strong business analysis skills and an understanding of teh software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in conducting requirement analysis, use case design, designing test plans and developed database schemas based on teh logical models.
• Ability to gather business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions utilizing a variety of software tools including, Use Cases and teh Rational Unified Process.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check teh compatibility of teh existing system infrastructure wif teh new business requirements.
• Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, technical assessment tools.
• Responsible for supporting and managing database activity during teh development cycle.
• Proactive database monitoring and maintenance to locate and prevent future problems.
• Strong communication skills when working wif developers, project managers, subject - matter experts, stakeholders, system implementers, and application end-users.
• Creative and aggressive self-starter wif integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships in internal, external, independent, and team environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio

Operating Systems: Windows 7

Bug Tracking Tools: HP ALM, Jira

Software: MS Office Suite, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Visio

Database noledge: MS Access, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting interviews wif all project stakeholders to elicit functional requirements, modeling those requirements in an organized manner, then managing and communicating those requirements throughout teh project life cycle
• Address change management issues and assist in test planning.
• Developed user stories in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Worked wif Agile center of excellence team to assess timeline, scope and feature delivery schedule in an agile/scrum environment where delivery is oriented around 2 week sprints
• Consistently and TEMPeffectively documented requirements using use cases and practical UML
• Applied noledge of teh SDLC and software development methodologies
• Ability to prioritize tasks/objectives wif strong organizational, administrative and analytical skills
• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions for different business areas reporting needs.
• Created Business Requirement documents based on teh scope document and meetings wif users.
• Interviewed Clients and defined functional and non-functional requirements
• Conducted JAD sessions and performed gap analysis.
• Acted as teh primary liaison between teh business community, technology organization and clients.
• Responsible for Documenting workflows and results of business analysis and obtaining sign-off from client on specifications.
• Responsible for Assisting teh technical team in translating application functionality into application architecture and teh production of a System Functionality document
• Review customer’s business requirements and communicate to teh implementation team and Sr. Management.
• Proactively anticipate client’s needs and concerns and developed plans to address them.
• Coordinate all implementation activities. Translate effort estimates and customer timeline requirements into meaningful and realistic project timelines, integrate various customer and other vendor dependencies.
• Maintain and own Project Plan throughout teh project lifecycle, monitor project status and update on a regular basis through project acceptance and closure.
• Provide assistance in UAT
• Met wif users and stakeholders to understand teh data migration, gatheird requirements through meetings.
• Redesign teh control workflow tool for teh Strategic Controls and prepare Business requirements document and Functional requirements document.
• Liaise wif client personnel to identify gaps and provide recommendations on changes to teh current process and changes in teh systems to achieve accuracy and efficiency in teh process.
• Analyze teh data, identify gaps and provide improvement suggestions
• Create use cases, process flows using MS Visio
• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Determine how to improve teh existing business process

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely wif team members and product owner during whole SDLC
• Team Followed Agile Scrum Software development methodology
• Organized and managed user story mapping workshops
• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to teh project manager and business areas.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational rose to easily convey teh projects process and requirements to developers and other stakeholders.
• Conducted and lead JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, proposed solutions, shared concerns/disagreements, resolved outstanding issues and came to an agreement.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for teh User Acceptance Testing.
• Initiated walkthroughs and interviews wif teh Subject Matter Experts (SME) and stakeholders to keep track of user requirements.
• Actively participated and contributed in daily scrum, sprint planning and sprint review meetings
• Worked wif stakeholders to refine and break down user stories
• Assisted scrum master in creating sprint backlog and breaking down user stories into tasks
• Analyzed as-is activity and data flow diagrams as well as system use cases
• Engaged in prioritizing user stories by importance (MoSCoW technique) and urgency
• Working wif senior data analyst to study database to document Information Exchange Format (IEF)
• Created user interface wireframe templates for loan summary, available rates and rate conversion pages
• Created different Traceability views to maintain teh Traceability of teh requirements.
• Acted as a liaison between teh different stakeholders for facilitating communication between them.
• Assisted QA testers wif system testing and UAT preparation
• Assisted Scrum master in creating users guides and manuals

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering and analyzing Business and system functional requirements and for understanding and translating these needs into Business Requirement Specification (BRS) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) documents.
• Prepared teh UML Use Cases using Rational Rose.
• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process.
• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for teh design, development and implementation of project.
• Developed user stories in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Worked wif Agile center of excellence team to assess timeline, scope and feature delivery schedule in an agile/scrum environment where delivery is oriented around 2 week sprints
• Interacted wif teh Users by interviewing them, preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Supported teh assigned project manager wif creating detailed project plans and assisted in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Implemented RUP wifin teh different groups involved in teh project to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures.
• Converted User Requirements into Business Requirements, analyzed teh same, and segregated them into High Level and Low Level business requirements.
• Reviewed and finalized teh User Requirement Specification (URS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Technical Specification, and Detailed Design documents.
• Tracked, reviewed, and analyzed defects using Rational ClearQuest.
• Checked teh functionality and teh appearance of teh Website using Rational Robot.
• Worked closely wif teh Business Intelligence (BI) team to define standards for report.
• Identified teh AD Hoc scenarios.
• Involved in clarifying teh issues of teh technical team while in teh construction phase.