SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with 7 +years of experience in the Finance and Banking domains.
• In depth knowledge of System Development Life Cycles (SDLC) and Iterative SDLC process. Thorough understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) guidelines and rational tools used throughout the project life cycle.
• Developed various business vision documents involving Business Glossary, Architecture and Business Modeling and Business Use Cases.
• Adept with industry standards methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), Waterfall, and Agile Scrum
• Rational Unified Process methodologies were followed for most projects to ensure a streamlined and efficient process in developing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) and Use Cases.
• Extensive experience Gathering Business Requirements, Business Modeling, developing Project Plan and Scope documents, System Architecture and assisting in Feasibility Studies.
• Strong understanding of the Healthcare Industry, specializing in Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
• Hands on experience with Change Management process - using tools like Clear Case and Clear Quest to track changes brought on by business actors associated with the project.
• Experience developing various state, activity, class and Use Case Diagrams to better understand the process dataflow.
• Experience and knowledge of testing business process within client server, web and mainframe environment.
• Developed various Flowcharts, activity, use case, state chart and process flow diagrams in order to better communicate and visualize the business flow using Unified Modeling Language (UML) tools.
• Good understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting these requirements into technical specifications for preparing test plans.
• Assisted in updating Stakeholders and various business actors involved in the project using Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Initiated and conducted various Joint Application Development Sessions (JAD) to help better understand user requirements before entering the development phase and also conducted various Rapid Development Sessions (RAD) to develop a user acceptable design on an early stage in the project.
• Good working experience of Data manipulation, Performance testing using MS Access.
• Highly proficient in MS Office suite of products with extensive experience with MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS FrontPage, MS Visio, MS Excel and Project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Skills: Business Process Analysis & Design, Requirement Gathering, Use Case Modeling, JAD/JRP Sessions, Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, Change management

Operating Systems: MS Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7, Sun Solaris 2.8,Oracle, Mac OS X

Methodology: RUP, Agile, OOAD and Waterfall.

Management Tools: Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case and MS Visio. Cognos

Microsoft tools: SQL Server 2000\2005\2008\R2, MS Office suite, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Access and MS FrontPage.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed design prototype of new information processing application. Met with client groups to determine user requirements and goals.
• Utilized RUP to configure and develop process, standards and procedures.
• Involved in all four phases of the requirements development including elicitation, analysis, specification and validation.
• Developed business requirement documents, and functional requirement documents.
• Developed Use Case, Data Flow and Activity Diagrams.
• Created Systems Requirement Specification by combining the functional and non-functional requirements.
• Worked as an interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Formed a bridge between the Project Manager and different teams with effective presentations.
• Coordinated work plan between project manager and client using Microsoft Project.
• Assisted the Project Manager in budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Implemented and managed migration process and developer fixes.
• Coordinated between all IT departments to gather the status and updates for the releases.
• Tracked all the release related work and created release notes for each release.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules and information needs and ensured that critical requirements are not missed.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of the activities of business from conceptual to procedural level.

Environment: Java, SQL, Requirements Analysis, GAP Analysis, UML, Use Case Analysis, MS Visio, Microsoft Project.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a new Credit Card application which was all automated and replacing existing system
• Obtaining a detailed knowledge of the business process being followed in the project environment.
• Extracting the business requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application, and documenting it for the developers.
• Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data
• Involved understanding the current business process, defining scope of the project along with position statement. Conducted a budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Meeting with users and stakeholders to understand the problem domain, gathering customer requirements through surveys, interviews (group and one-on-one) along with JAD sessions.
• Analyse business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases and activity diagrams using MS Visio
• Preparing Business workflow models that cover "How" business processes are accomplished.
• Analysing Business Requirements to produce System Requirements for the technical team using MS Visio.
• Testing the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.
• Bugs, which would enhance the usability of the application, were logged using Jira and Quality Centre.
• Interacting with the developers on resolving the reported bugs and various technical issues.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application, for an intended novice user.

Environment: MS Visio, MS project, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, Quality center, Agile

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited, analyzed, documented and communicated requirements for implementation of the trading system in the Agile Environment.
• Performed Feasibility Study, Project Planning, Requirements Analysis, and Prototype Development
• Studied established Trading System to understand the processes and challenges in STP, which helped define project scope
• Studied OTC Derivatives Trade Lifecycle to analyze trading processes and post-trade processing challenges, and recommended system settings to materialize the STP Environment
• Applied Iterative/Agile model in each SDLC phases, involved in daily Scrum Calls/Meetings, and incorporated change requests throughout the project lifecycle
• Gathered Business Requirements, analyzed data/workflows. Defined the scope, financial projections and Cost/benefit analysis. Progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented Designs.
• Elicited, facilitated, analyzed, scoped, managed and documented business process flows and system requirements.
• Facilitated requirements meeting, group discussions with business users and subject matter experts (SME) to elicit requirements.
• Created Use-Cases for appropriate decomposition to use-case model; designed navigation flows, narrations, and user interfaces
• Conducted Use-Case reviews and identified gaps, leading to improvements/enhancements in the same and ensured Use-Cases were consistent and covered all aspects of the Requirements document.
• Designed Wireframes for the development of the user friendly User Interface Design.
• Designed and developed scenarios based on business requirements.
• Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reports.
• Worked with Financial Analysts on Fixed Income Analysis (Pricing, Risk, Yield, Duration, and Recommended Strategy) with Excel to support trading, and reviewed with portfolio manager and traders
• Partnered with business systems vendors such as SunGard on utilizing to implement non -native systems integration
• Accurately performed the analysis and data mapping of FpML, FiXML and XML trade messages.
• Reviewed trade confirmations for OTC derivatives trades, including rates, credit, equity, commodity and FX derivatives.
• Conducted user interviews and documented business requirement document, technical requirements document and RTM for the project.
• Performed Requirement Analysis and developed UML Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio to understand the requirements.
• Documented the business rules for automation of the project
• Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business process.
• Documented project artifacts such as Stakeholders Analysis, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System requirement documentation (SRS), Traceability Matrix, Test cases, use case including activity diagram and sequence diagram using Visio.
• Created Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Involved in build process for QA, UAT and Prod environments and coordinated periodic production moves. Created test cases and test scripts.
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements
• Worked with application developers, DBAs, QA Testers and User Acceptance Testers.
• Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by the QA team once the system was in testing environment.

Environment: MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, SQL, MS Project.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the project managers with the development of project schedules using MS Project 2010.
• Acted as a liaison for projects with other corporate departments, including Executive, Legal and Information Services as well as vendor relationships
• Elicited requirements for development of the users’ GUI, interfacing with various systems.
• Documented project artifacts such as Stakeholders Analysis, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System requirement documentation (SRS), Traceability Matrix, Test cases, use case including activity diagram and sequence diagram using Visio.
• Assisted the development of Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) model for implementing option hedging strategy trades including covered call writing, covered put buying.
• Also involved in developing spreadsheets to calculate the Greeks Risk - Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho.
• Conducted user interviews, JAD sessions, brain storming and surveys. Gathered and analyzed the requirements using Visio.
• Utilized FIX/FpML protocol for trade-book integration, back-office position reporting and straight through processing projects
• Prepared Business Process Models that depicted modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual and procedural level.
• Create Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) to depict the source-to-Target Mapping and Data Lineage Analysis.
• Identify source systems, their connectivity, related tables and fields and ensure data suitably for mapping
• Worked on data mapping of source to target elements performing gap analysis Conducted interviews
• Analyzed the existing reports of the reporting system in the database.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Business Process using MS Visio.
• Developed test cases to be used in UAT testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge

Environment: MS Office, MS Project MS Visio, SQL, Data ware housing, ETL tools, .NET, Lotus Notes, Data integration.