Summary:

• Over 7 years' experience as a Business Analyst with extensive and diversified experience in the Financial domain, effective at requirements gathering, data analysis, data mapping and user acceptance testing.
• Expertise:
• In depth knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC using Agile and other methodologies such as Rational Unified Process RUP and Waterfall
• Expertise in Requirement Analysis using Rational Requisite Pro and Caliber RM
• Experience in Requirement gathering via conducting Joint Application Development JAD , through interviews, leading workshops, and using surveys
• Design corporate banking process model with proficiency in Use Case development, UML Modeling with Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Workflow Analysis using MS Visio
• Met with stakeholders and users to review / manage expectations and identify opportunities to improve ROI
• Created Business Requirements Document BRD and derived FSD, as well as training material
• Experience working with Developers to identify performance issues and work on fixing them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Responsible, self-motivated and organized. Goal-oriented individual with strong leadership capabilities, mentored juniors
• Proficient in creating and managing Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM for tracking and managing changes based on project's evolving needs.
• Working knowledge in writing SQL query for identifying databases involved in the application development.
• Created defect tracking using HP QC and JIRA and reviewed them in subsequent iterations of the application development process.
• Experience in creating test cases using HP QC and participated in QA and User Acceptance Testing.
• Created training manuals, help manuals and user guides to enable smooth deployment of applications.
• Strong understanding of financial valuation concepts and various capital market instruments and processes including Equities, Fixed Income Derivatives.
• Understanding of different mortgage instruments like Mortgage backed securities, CMOs, CDOs including the tranche structuring and credit enhancement processes to manage prepayment and credit risk.
• Extensive experience in developing and enhancing applications for financial processes including Hedge Funds Pricing, Trade and Settlements operations.
• Understanding of AML reports including Suspicious Activity Reporting SAR , OFAC reports, Currency Transaction Report CTR , Foreign Bank Financial Accounts FBAR and CMIR reports.

Technical Skills:

• Project Methodologies: RUP, Waterfall, Agile SCRUM
• Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose
• Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Caliber RM
• Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Quality center
• Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/2000/7
• Web development tools: Dreamweaver, FrontPage
• Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g , SQL Server, MS Access
• Tools: MS PROJECT, SQL, SharePoint, MS Office

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Sr.Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile approach of development throughout the project
• Acted as the primary Intermediary between the Subject Matter Experts such as Credit Risk Managers, Market Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers and relationship managers to understand and identify the business needs, Business Rules, Business Processes Interface Specifications
• Developed business requirements document BRD , User stories and functional requirements, created the same by creating vision/scope document.
• Created UML Models such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Flow Diagrams using MS Visio
• Detailed the Functional requirements specifications, user stories and other core materials.
• Conducted GAP analysis
• Designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level and prepared Business Workflow models that cover How business processes are accomplished.
• Completed Project Status Reports led PMO meetings to update senior management and other stakeholders on the progress, issues and deliverables of the project.
• Conducted data modeling activities to map products Equity, Bonds, Loans, etc with the existing processes.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing and training of end users as well as defined and documented business training requirements for new product releases enhancements

Environment: Windows XP, Oracle 11i, MS Visio, MS Project Plan, MS Office Suite, Caliber RM, Quality Center.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile approach of development throughout the project
• Involved in defining scope of the project along with vision statement.
• With the help of the Financial Analyst, Designed and created Excel sheets to provide market analysis charts.
• Coordinated and tracked project communications and also maintained project schedules and milestones.
• Accumulated customer requirements from various end users through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions and analyzed the requirements.
• Created functional, technical and system requirement documents for trading system.
• Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Applied Unified Modeling Language UML methodologies to design Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams in Rational Rose.
• Created use-case scenarios and storyboards in MS Word and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application and managed them using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Performed manual front-end testing to check all functionalities of different modules using Test Director for bug tracking.

Environment: Business Objects, Rational Requisite, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case, UML 2.0, MS Project 2000, MS Office, Oracle 10g, Windows 2000, SharePoint

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between business team and the project team by assisting the business in identifying, understanding and documenting their business needs.
• Worked with traditional waterfall methodology for this web-application.
• Collected and documented business processes as well as business rules.
• Participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements including the applications capable of supporting those requirements.
• Designed and developed Use Cases using data mapping techniques such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams
• Involved in testing on all stages of System Development Life Cycle SDLC . Performed Integration testing, Build Verification testing, System testing manually.
• Translated the business needs into system requirements, communicating with the business on a non-technical level and with the System Analyst on a more technical level.
• Collaborated with development architect and the business to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet the business needs.
• Assisted the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly.
• Provided technical assistance in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements. Defined Validations to be built into applications per the functional requirements.
• Developed test scenarios and implemented test plan. Providing key input in working with users in defining project and system requirements.
• Managed and maintained database, updated site content and maintained overall visual and functional balance.

Environment: MS Visio, Windows NT 4.0/XP, Unix, Java/J2EE, XML, HTML, Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, XML, VB.Net, ASP.Net, MATLAB, Oracle 8i

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted senior business analyst in the requirement gathering and documenting process based on user requirements.
• Worked with the Senior Business Analyst to conduct JAD sessions with business and technical units.
• Prepared Test plans, Test Cases based on business requirements.
• Worked with the Senior Business Analyst to develop test cases for UAT
• Followed established formats and procedures, created new formats, as well as researched, created, edited technical and business data documents.
• Used UML diagrams to visually express the core functionality of the system under development.
• Exposed to Security Testing and Regression Testing using Win Runner.
• Exposed to Functionality Testing and GUI Testing using Win Runner
• Assisted the QA testers in determining the application's response time using Load Runner.
• Interacted with the developers to report and track bugs using Test Director.
• Follow up with developers on defects status on a daily basis.
• Coordinated activities between business unit and technical staff, developing new methods, policies, and procedures to meet the business needs, and acted as primary trainer in education of the business unit as it relates to business applications.
• Organized meeting and send agenda of the meeting, draft minutes to keep all invitees of the meeting on the same page.
• Organize weekly status meetings with the team to promote open discussion of business requirements and other system functionalities.

Environment: MS Visio, Oracle , ASP.NET, SharePoint, MS Project, MS word, Use cases, UML Visio , Windows XP, HPQC, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Excel