SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with 7 years experience in Requirements Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Process Mapping, Reporting and Documentation.
• Adept at handling Financial and Investment market data, performing qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Had strong communication skills when working with developers, project managers, subject - matter experts, stakeholders, system implementers, and application end-users
• Capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships in internal, external, independent, and team environments.
• Experience with Unified Modeling Language (UML) and creating activity sequences, collaboration, usecases, workflows and data flow diagrams.
• Self-motivated, diligent, ability to adapt to new environments and situations quickly, good grasping ability, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships.
• Expert at identifying, developing interface and process specifications, documenting them in Project Scope Documents, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), User Stories and Project Schedules.
• Highly proficient in creating Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Website Wireframes, Activity Diagrams, and Cross-functional diagrams as per the process requirements.
• Worked in all phases of SDLC with working knowledge of Agile (SCRUM), RUP and Waterfall methodologies.
• Participated in Gap analysis, Fit Gap analysis, Risk analysis, Data Analysis and SWOT analysis.
• Expertise in a broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as MS Visio, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint and MS SQL Server..

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business modeling: UML CASE Tools, MS-Visio.

Requirement Analysis: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear CaseMethodologies Agile-Scrum, XP, RUP- Rational Unified Process, SDLC, Waterfall.

Change Management: Rational Clear Quest, Clear Cae

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX (UBUNTU), Windows, MS-DOS

Project Management: MS Office Suite, MS Project

Databases: MS Access, Oracle 10g, SQL server, MYSQL.

Testing Tools: HP Quality center 9.5, Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an interface between the users and the teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Initiated walkthroughs and interviews with the Subject Matter Experts (SME) and stakeholders to gather input to create data mart requirements.
• Planned & conducted JAD sessions and finalized Business Requirements & prepared Functional Specifications.
• Worked with the Project Manager on various Project Management activities like Resource Planning, Resource Request, keeping track of Project Status, Deadlines, and Issues, Environment Request, and Compliance Issues.
• Gathered Business Requirements, analyzed data/workflows & performed GAP analysis.
• Assisted in building a Business Analysis Process Model using Rational Rose and Visio
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Context Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML
• Perform data analysis and match business requirements to the data within the system
• Providing application user support to end users
• Followed Agile Scrum methodology to develop and document requirements and update backlog lists for each sprint.
• Created and executed SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Data Integrity testing.
• Performed extensive data analysis by writing SQL queries and using MS Excel.
• Followed Agile Scrum methodology to develop and document requirements and update backlog lists for each sprint.
• Documentation of training materials on new and existing functionalities

Environment: Rational Rose, Visio, MS project, MS Excel, Water Fall, JAD, Windows, UX, Erwin, SQL, MS SQL Server.

Confidential, Herndon VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Project Team, SME and Internal Business Partners to clarify business requirements and translate the requirements into technical specifications.
• Performed Source system analysis (SSA) to identify the source data that needs to be moved into the target tables.
• Defined frameworks for Operational data system (ODS), Black Rock Solutions (BRS) and Data Quality (DQ) and created functional data requirement (FDR).
• Identified Use Cases from the requirements and wrote UCS (Use Case Specification)
• Created artifacts such as Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Perform data analysis and match business requirements to the data within the system
• Specify, design, test and support standardized data management reports
• Filter, clean and map data.
• Defined target load order plan and constraint based loading for loading data correctly into different target tables.
• Designed and created Data Quality baseline flow diagram, which includes error handing and test plan flow data.
• Assisted with creating Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for all testing events such as System Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Created and executed SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Data Integrity testing.
• Coordinated with execution team to define the batch flow for data validation process.

Environment: Visio, Use case, MS project, MS Excel, JAD, UML, Windows, UX, Erwin, SQL, MS SQL Server.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for trade processing from FO to MO and till BO (gloss) in UAT environment. Aware of Straight through Processing (STP).
• Single contact person for handling all the trade related functionalities from FO to BO.
• Frequent discussion and participation with business on several functionalities related to product in live (production) environment.
• Simulation of prod scenarios in UAT with history live data
• Requirement gathering from stakeholders, having discussion with Front Office, Middle office and back office users, leads for requirement gathering
• Using several Web-based applications for Order Management systems such as Optime, Fibex
• Using several Web-based application for generating reports and reports management using business objects
• Worked on multiple projects and with multiple work streams at the same time.
• Documentation of training materials on new and existing functionalities to support change management. Training docs to ensure adoption of the new systems.
• Using FDA and SDM, web-based Java applications to manage static data maintenance.
• Coordinating processing of trades in Gloss (BO) to check there is no reject by the Back office application
• Preparation of functional specification documents for new releases and M &Es using Quality Center and JIRA
• Coordinate the execution of Functional and Regression Test Cases using Quality Center with the Testing Team
• Providing daily and weekly progress of deliverables to onsite and offshore managers
• Participating in status calls for releases with the onsite and offshore managers
• Defect reporting and tracking using Quality Center and JIRA
• Analyzing new requirements to check impact on the existing functionality
• Documentation of execution reports and signoff documents after each release
• Providing application user support to end users
• Documentation of training materials on new and existing functionalities
• Followed Agile Scrum methodology to develop and document requirements and update backlog lists for each sprint.
• Extensively involved in coordination, collaboration, tracking and related documentation of the project.
• Pro-actively worked towards problem solving, defined the problems by removing ambiguity and conducted impact studies to avoid the delay in sprints.
• Used analytical skills to deal with the project issues with a responsible, result-driven work ethic

Environment: MS Visio, UML,XML, Rational Clear Case, Agile/Scrum, MS Project, MS Office, Oracle, Java, Jira, Quality center

Confidential

Business/Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted user interviews at both in-house and client locations, gathering and analyzing requirements using Rational Requisite, Pro C, RUP
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Assist the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly.

Environment: Microsoft office, Rational tools, Pro*c, SQL, UseCases, Waterfall Methodology, UML, Windows.