SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst and UAT coordinator wif frontline leadership role in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Highly experienced in various areas of Investment Banking: Portfolio Management, Fixed Income, Annuities, Trading Life Cycle, Mortgage, Loan Orientation, Stocks, Bonds, Futures, Options, Hedging, Equity Research, Mutual Funds, Securities trading and Commodities.
• Extensive experience in implementing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles and methodologies such as Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Waterfall Method in development.
• Expert in writing Functional and non - Functional requirements.
• Highly experienced in conducting Gap Analysis and Feasibility Analysis to check teh compatibility of teh existing system infrastructure wif new business requirements.
• Participated in project assessment, functional analysis and requirements gathering and converting business requirements into functional requirements.
• Conducting JAD sessions wif teh technology areas, interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations and email, to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts.
• Good experience in developing testing scenarios and testing scripts.
• Extensive knowledge of UML modeling, Drawing Sequence Diagrams, Flow diagram and Activity diagram using tools such as Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.
• Extensively used rational tools for creating use cases, version control, defect tracking and reporting and applied teh Rational Unified Process in all areas of a software development life cycle.
• Extensive knowledge of managing Diversified Portfolios of Corporate Clients, Retail and HNWI investors.
• Expert in trading Stocks and Derivatives which include Stock Futures, options and Commodity futures for teh corporate clients and retail investors.
• Proficient wif Microsoft Office tools (includes MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint).
• Skilled in coordinating and communicating between Developers, ams, Management, QA and project leads and stakeholders to keep them informed at all teh times about teh development and teh open issues.
• Exceptional communication skills, Result oriented professional who combines formal education/certifications wif experience gained from research and hands-on opportunities.
• Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business as well as financial and system requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Skill Set: Moody's Analytics, Standard & Poor's, Thomson Reuters, Crystal Reports, Rational Unified Process, UML, MS Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Access), MS SQL Server, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Mercury Quality Center, Broadridge impact, Thomson one, Bloomberg, IDC, SunGard, Business Objects, Cloud computing, Crystal Reports, FIX protocol, Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2007, Bloomberg AIM, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, VBA, XSLT, SOAP, XML Schemas, IEPDs and WSDL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston MA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering requirements to produce business and functional requirements.
• Participated in primary and secondary research to determine user requirements and goals and converting them into business and functional requirements.
• Participated in meetings wif teh management team, and teh SME.
• Conducted Requirement analysis and Design Walkthroughs wif teh designers, developers and management staff.
• Followed teh UML based methods using MS Visio to create Business flow diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, State diagrams, Sequence, and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) Sessions for communicating and managing expectations.
• Communicated Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and made recommendation.
• As a liaison between teh developers and management, was instrumental in resolving conflicts between stakeholders and technical development teams.
• Produced System Diagrams, Business Requirements, Report Specifications, Workflows and other documentations as required for Project Analysis, Planning and Design.
• Established a business analysis methodology around teh RUP (Rational Unified Process).
• Utilized RUP to configure and develop processes, standards, and procedures, to provide technical leadership and expertise in reorganization of a complex End-to-End Testing effort, and to perform system analysis and organizational review of existing QA processes.
• Prepared and Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and teh Technical Specifications using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Expected Results, and coordinated teh tests wif teh QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.
• Worked wif teh technical and business staff to produce Test Scripts, Configuration and Change Management Plan documents.
• Assisted teh development team during teh second and third iteration using teh RUP model.
• Worked closely wif teh Project Manager and different teams wif effective presentations. Also delivered training and presentation to lenders, colleagues, and customers.
• Managed identifying and ancillary data about entities that include individuals, computer-related hardware and applications.
• Worked on Pure Identity Function: created and managed identities wifout regard to access.
• Worked wif Lean Six Sigma to critically evaluate quality characteristics.
• Worked for teh development of e-commerce portal.
• Worked wif XML and XML Schemas.

Environment: MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Suite Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Windows XP, HTML, PHP, XML, XML Schemas, Lean Six Sigma, Tableau, I&AM, E-commerce platform

Confidential, Windsor, CT

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gaining a good understanding of user needs and accurately representing them in a well-documented software functional specifications document.
• Gathered Business Requirements, interacted wif teh users, designers and developers, project manager and QA team to get a better understanding of teh Business Processes.
• Documented teh Business Requirements Document (BRD) and teh Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Interacted wif teh “End-Users” by interviewing them, by preparing appropriate questionnaire to better understand end-user needs and teh business process.
• Supported PL/SQL development for Contingency and Internal Audit Reports.
• Conducted walkthroughs and code reviews wif developers, project managers and stakeholders and users to comprehend business workflow of applications.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings such as requirements for Customer, Client, Group, Member and Reporting to make sure that teh critical requirements are not missed.
• Performed GAP analysis of 5010 EDI transaction using implementation guide to identify teh changes in teh segments and data elements.
• Created test cases for System Testing (Development Environment), Integration Testing (UAT) and Production (Post Implementation Review) in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Supported teh testing team wif Defect Management, Requirement Analysis and SQL development for back-end and regression testing and maintaining teh Mercury Quality Center wif teh latest updates on teh defects.
• Created and maintained data mapping document(s) in reference to teh HIPAA transaction: 837.
• Worked wif WSDL and SOAP

Environment: Windows XP/NT, UNIX, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Lean Six Sigma, WSDL, SOAP

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst Brokerage

Responsibilities:

• Conducted extensive meetings to understand teh business model and processes, documented and gathered teh business requirements, and carried out implementation of new derivative products.
• Validate rules, custom settings, and security check by UAT testing for teh end clients.
• Worked wif vendors that provides data feeds i.e. Broad ridge impact for fixed income, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, IDC and SunGard for equities and derivatives.
• Worked extensively wif SME’s including high level leads in areas of fixed income derivatives, options, foreign exchange (FX), futures and risk managers in understanding, extracting, refining and documenting teh User and Business Requirement Specifications in teh BRDs.
• Worked wif SME’s of Corporate Actions to better understand teh impact and also to document teh Business Requirement Specifications, Equity Trade Flow Processes and Credit analytics for Fixed Income Securities and equities.
• Used Crystal Reports to generate reports from different databases of different asset classes like equities, bonds, derivatives, commodities, for all business needs.
• Created Use Case Scenarios and maintained teh Use Cases (Business Use Cases, System Use Cases) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, revised functional specifications and other core materials throughout teh System Life Cycle making all necessary revisions for defect correction and requirement clarification and refinement.
• Performed Gap Analysis, Swot analysis and cost Benefit Analysis for teh modules in production, and hence conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.
• Involved in trade processing and cost basis processing.
• Conduct Inventory Management of Cash and Securities Positions across different Asset Classes like equity, bonds, and derivatives.
• Worked wif stakeholders to obtain deliverable sign-offs. Provided functional direction to other systems analysts and used teh meta-data definition and workflow needs and how these functions map to business processes.
• Involved in fee calculation and data reporting.
• Created numerous deliverables in different phases of teh project beginning from project Initiation, through Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition to create User Manuals.
• Involved in analyzing various business scenarios and pitfalls in teh process that could occur coz of network/system/user undoing; this being a data intensive project.
• Conducted scenario analysis to document business rules that govern teh pass/fail criteria, set timelines to process teh files, created backup for failed imports, etc.
• Assisted and executed Test cases and test scripts per Functional Specifications of teh application. Documented test/cases, test results, test procedure and reported to client.
• Developed strategies wif Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Worked on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Technology Program.
• Managed requirements and documentation for AML.
• Reconciling teh financial statements to get teh information together.
• Worked wif consumer lending software system as a part of teh project.
• Extensive knowledge of consumer lending tools.
• Experience working wif credit risk.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Crystal Reports, Fiserv Recon, Moody’s Analytics Tools, Bloomberg AIM, Mercury Quality Centre, Load runner, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Oracle

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst Brokerage

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle in RUP framework.
• Analyzed and collected business requirements identified system interfaces and created teh requirements specification document.
• Worked on Moody’s Pricing and Valuation Tools and Wall Street analytics for credit risk measurement and risk calculation.
• Used Moody’s Fermat for credit research, risk measurement and valuation for teh system.
• Performed Requirement Analysis to Develop Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams. Hence developed and documented conceptual design of Application in System Specification Document.
• Extensively interacted wif both user group and development team in coming up wif charts, sequence diagrams.
• Involved wif client service and customer relationship team (CRM) to get teh end users feedback about teh application.
• Involved in checking teh bugs in teh codes or confirmation wif teh team of QA.
• Consolidate Trade Date and reconcile from across multiple settlement platforms like equity, bond market, derivatives and commodity market.
• Perform Inventory Management check of different asset classes like stocks, commodities and bonds.
• Managed and tracked change control process of requirements and design changes using Rational Requisite Pro. Documented teh changes, issues and their impact on teh system design and delivery.
• Provided documentation such as requirements management plans, operational risk management plans, functional requirements, test plans and test cases.
• Incorporated teh best practice methodologies as advocated by teh Rational Unified Process.
• Designed and analyzed Use Case model and test procedures based on RUP methodology.
• Crystal Reports was used to generate reports from different databases of different asset classes like equities, bonds, derivatives, commodities, for all business needs.
• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions wif teh process owners. Performed user interviews, JAD sessions.
• Wrote Functional requirements specification (FRS) documents, SWOT analysis as per teh Business requirements and process flow.
• Supported teh assigned project manager wif creating detailed project plans and assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Designed and developed project templates based on SDLC Methodology.
• Acted as User Acceptance Testing coordinator and monitored business testing wif vendors Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, IDC and SunGard for equities and derivatives and interfaced wif teh development team regarding defect status and fixes on daily basis.
• Worked wif teh financial statements to gather further information.
• Worked wif COTS during teh project

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, SQL, UML, Fiserv Recon, Moody’s Tools, Rational Unified Process, FIX, Test Director, Crystal Reports, MS Office, COTS, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters