SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in the field of Information Systems with emphasis on Business Analysis projects focused in domains such as Finance, Banking, and Trading.
• Expert in business process engineering and software development life cycle methodologies i.e. Waterfall, RUP, Agile, Extreme Programming, and Prototype., including analysis, design, development, gap analysis, testing and implementation of software applications.
• Extensive experience in Gathering Requirements, Scoping Requirement and creating Business Requirement Documents, User Requirement Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications, System Requirement Specification, Test Plan, analyzing and Creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams System Workflow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams.
• Expert in all kinds of Fixed Income products and Derivatives including Corporate Bonds, Treasury bills, Municipal Bonds, Sovereign Bonds, Asset back securities, Mortgage back securities, Credit Default Swaps, Interest rate Swaps, Credit Derivatives, Hybrid Securities, Securitization, Futures & Forwards, Exotic Options, Future options.
• Expert in documenting project plan, Business Requirements Document (BRD), Test Plans, Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD) and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Experienced in facilitating Joint Application developments (JAD) and Joint Requirement planning sessions (JRP), End user interviews, workshops and requirement elicitation sessions, providing production support, interacting with the business customer to resolve issues during UAT, conducting training sessions to educate the business customer on the application.
• Diverse experience with ITIL business process including ITSM, BPM. Proficient in MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro
• Excellent communication skills, Interpersonal skills, interacting with team members, leadership qualities, mentoring, ability to work independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Incremental build model, Prototype model, RAD, OOP, OOD, Agile, and Extreme Programming (XP), RUP

Languages: C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, VB.Net and C#.Net, Java

Databases: RDBMS, MS SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 9i/10g, My SQL 5.X, MS Access 2003/07, T - SQL, PL/SQL

Operating Systems: Suse Linux, HP UNIX, Sun Solaris, and Windows

MS Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint 2003/07

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the 5 member team of Business Analyst team.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to elicit requirements and defined effective solution based on business needs.
• Analyze existing legacy system functionality and identify the gaps.
• Create Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement document.
• Review Function Requirement document of team member.
• Create Use Case using UML tools and business process flow chart using MS Visio.
• Coordinate with DTCC for new real time Bank and Omgeo connectivity requirement and testing strategy of new system.
• Conduct regular presentations to the senior management and responsible for reporting the progress of the project and escalation of any critical issues.
• Manage the project scope, work allocation, team deliverables and timelines to maximize business value.
• Defined complex business logic by working closely with the bank.
• Worked with design team for requirement walkthrough and designing the solutions.
• Create Functional Test cases, perform testing and conduct UAT.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with SMEs, and identified, analyzed the core requirements and key features of the ongoing project.
• Facilitated user interviews and workshops to gather requirements.
• Developed business requirement document (BRD) with project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirement from business users.
• Converted Business Requirements documents into Functional Requirements Specification and Technical Specification.
• Participated in creating User manuals. Documenting all user and system requirement along with the work flow process.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Successfully used RUP Analysis Model for gathering requirements by facilitating Use Case Workshops and sessions.
• Lead design and status meetings with team members to discuss problem identification, prioritization and resolution, scope creep, and solution architecture.
• Created and transformed business requirements into software requirement specification (SRS) and designed business models using UML diagrams such as use case model, class diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams in Rational Rose thereby helping development and quality assurance in understanding the requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues, and reach agreements.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with clients and end-users to define and document functional specifications.
• Communicated with both technical and non-technical users to determine business functionality and resolving issues.
• Gathered requirements from the end-users and acted as a liaison between the end-users and the development team and QA team.
• Interviewed users personally and designed requirements survey for the various stakeholders of the project to gather requirements and used Rational RequisitePro to manage the requirements.
• Collaborated with the research and development groups, validated financial models and analytics to assure clients of company’s model accuracy.
• Designed Use Cases and Use Case diagrams to develop Business Requirements and converted Business Requirements Specification into Functional Requirements Specification using Rational Unified Process.
• Responsible for modeling detailed descriptions for user needs, tracking changes across business applications and data model program functions using Rational Rose.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with the local settlements group, operations group, and end users of the system and conference calls with the overseas users of the system.
• Developed Global Financial Market expertise in interest rates, futures, options, commodities, equities and other financial instruments, and in the use of risk management software and services.
• Assisted Quality Assurance process by conducting User Acceptance Testing before client releases.
• Performed data validation and database integrity testing by executing SQL queries.
• Created and documented processes during entire software development life cycle using Rational Rose and Rational RequisitePro.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Rational Requisite-Pro to prepare BRD, use cases, process flow diagrams, and other artifacts while analyzing the inception phase.
• Conducted JAD sessions during design and development phases of models to formulate payoffs on interest rate swaps and Credit-at-Risk (CaR) analysis module.
• Involved in the preparation of System Requirement Specifications (SRS) to in corporate models to value interest rate and equity options, measure options Greeks.
• Designed workflow charts and created rules relating to trading, post-trading management in order to automate and streamline back office operations to achieve STP.
• Managed (UAT) sessions and processes to review user feedback.
• Investigated, reviewed, and analyzed the current system.
• Conducted initial JAD session with business users, managers, system architects, data administrators, requirement auditor, production planners, and trainers for creating high-level process model of business.
• Development of "to-be" IT and business process strategy, and mapping "as-is" and "to-be" business processes in alignment with the business process strategy.
• Defined problem domain by gathering requirements from business user and stakeholders and transformed functional requirements into system requirement specifications.
• Created Use Case model and Process flow diagrams.
• Developed and managed project plans and schedules. Managed resolution of project issues and conflicts.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing

Confidential

Business Analyst\Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts, Project Manager, Developers, and Process Analysts to understand the business process, gather Business Requirements and identify enhancements. Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Extensively performed data and requirement mapping involving system functions & data elements from an existing system to a new system and a new interface.
• Thoroughly understood banking products offered by Confidential Personal Banking - Key Features - Account Statement, Bill Payment, Demand Draft, Transaction Enquiry, User Profile, Corporate Banking - Key Features - Advantage), Privilege, Freedom.
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify business critical and high-risk areas of the application. Experience with Financial Forecast Modeling.
• Developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio to define the Business Process and Data Process model using MS Visio.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation Involved with the QA team to determine and develop test approaches and methods for unit testing, integration and functional testing, load, and usability testing according to application complexity and test requirement.