SUMMARY:

• An IT professional with 7+ years of experience in business analyses primarily for banking and financial domains with a demonstrated ability in Business Analyses and Business Process Documentation.
• A formal Computer science qualification coupled with strong analytical and problem solving skills helps deliver cost effective solutions while maintaining the focus on the bottom - line.
• Experienced in business analysis and producing Business Requirements Documents and Functional Requirement Documents.
• Excellent knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycle methodologies.
• Experienced in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies using SCRUM techniques.
• Experienced in managing and maintaining requirements from project conception to completion.
• Experienced in performing GAP analysis and Impact Analysis on existing software and documenting the deltas needed to satisfy the business requirements.
• Proficient in UML with a good understanding of data flow diagrams, use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Activity diagrams.
• Proficient in creating data mapping documents for data models to facilitate data transformation and reporting.
• Proficient in SQL queries with a good understanding of data analysis and management using different tools.
• Experienced in working with QA teams and assisting the QA team with identifying test cases and coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions.
• Experienced in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to keep track of the requirements from implementation through testing.
• Effective communication skills for coordination between globally located teams.
• Self-starter works well independently or as member of a team.
• Possess a working knowledge of project management tools like Microsoft Project and have participated in project planning sessions with development and QA teams.
• Equities (Common Stock, preferred stocks)
• Fixed Income Securities (Treasury Bonds, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Asset Backed Securities (ABS), etc.
• Derivatives (Options, Forwards Futures, Swaps, etc.)
• Basic Risk concepts
• Regulatory Compliance - DODD FRANK, Basel II III
• Pricing Models

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Server & T-SQL Microsoft SQL

Quick Test Pro (QTP)

Oracle & PL/SQL

JIRA

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

Quality Center (QC)

Microsoft Word

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, and worked with team to identify gaps and defects.
• E2E Implementation - used customized SAP ASAP Methodology to implement.
• Worked with the business users to understand the existing reports for prime brokerage, stock loans, swaps, futures and options.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.
• Analyzed, prioritized and managed the requirements for enhancing existing reports developed with Cognos.
• Conducted user story workshops.
• Conducted requirements workshops with developers and testers.
• Identified various data sources and documented the data mapping relationships between them.
• Assisted the data architect with designing and architecting the ETL process.
• Assisted the data architect in reviewing the dimensions and measures of the data model which was based on a modified star schema.
• Proficient in SAP ASAP Methodology and well versed with business process, its mapping & configuration in SAP.
• Conducted demo sessions with management.
• Conducted GAP analysis and created AS-IS workflow and TO-BE business processes.
• Assisted in testing reports that were developed using COGNOS.
• Participated and contributed in daily Scrums, Sprint meeting and Sprint review meetings
• Very good Comprehension of SAP ASAP methodology, PMI Project management methodology, Waterfall and Agile methodologies and adept at Project Planning with MS Project
• Involved in development of test plans and test case.
• Worked with Excel to do data mapping.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for validation of the application

Technologies used: Agile/ Scrum, Windows, MS Project, MS Visio, SAP ASAP, Quality Center, Java, Cognos.

Confidential, O’Fallon, MO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Captured business requirements and converted them to user stories, categorized into respective epics and maintained a requirements matrix.
• Facilitated Scrum planning meetings to coordinate between product team, develop team and QA team.
• Used JIRA to enter all user stories as product backlog items.
• Managed prioritized stories for the sprint and maintained backlog items.
• Designed Activity diagrams using Microsoft Visio for more complex user stories.
• Participated in daily SCRUM work meetings and weekly Sprint project progress meetings.
• Participated in the SAP ASAP methodology - Project preparation, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Testing and Go-live.
• Directly interacted with clients to determine the requirements and translate them into user stories that development team cam work with.
• Constantly groom the product backlog, walkthroughs with stakeholders and obtain sign-offs
• Assisted QA team in preparing test cases and test plans.
• Participated in bug review meetings, updated requirements documents as per business user’s feedback.
• Developed and documented user acceptance criteria documents.

Technologies used: QTP, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Microsoft Office, Windows XP, .NET

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business stake holders in analyzing and identifying user stories for TBA MBS and its trading process by conducting joint application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Focused specifically on the implementation of TBA MBS trading platform.
• Designed flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio for more complex user stories.
• Used JIRA Server to enter all user stories as Product Backlog items.
• Worked with the development team in clarifying requirements issues.
• Conducted sprint planning meeting, various review meetings and client team meeting.
• Participated in daily stand up meeting with the team.
• Worked closely with the QA team and assisted them in identifying test cases and test scenarios.
• Assisted the QA team in testing the system in each sprint.
• Assisted the QA team in identifying test cases for automation.
• Participated in defect review meetings at the beginning of each sprint to identify defects carried over from the previous sprint.
• Worked with Pivot tables, VLOOKUP in Excel.
• Conducted user acceptance testing sessions with the business users.

Technologies used: Oracle PL/SQL, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, QTP, Java.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, and worked with team to identify gaps and defects.
• Developed and maintained RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and conducted requirements and design walkthroughs with designers, developers and management staff.
• Assisted the project manager in documenting meeting agenda and minutes of the meeting.
• Developed several SQL queries to understand the data and data-relationships.
• Created use cases and corresponding test cases from requirements using QTP.
• Conducted requirements workshops with developers and testers.
• Conducted GAP analysis and created AS-IS workflow and TO-BE business processes
• Involved in development of test plans and test cases.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for validation of the application.

Technologies used: Oracle, Java, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, QTP.