SUMMARY

• Analyzed businesses in the Finance & Retail Banking for 5+ years
• Worked wif diverse Software Development Life Cycles like Agile, RUP and Waterfall
• Elicitation of business and functional requirements through interviews and questionnaires
• Recognized the key clients, decision makers, diverse users, developers and the subject matter experts for accurate requirements gathering
• Designed wireframes and mockups to communicate the business and the functional requirements to communicate wif clients and developers
• Solid Experience in Collection, Analyses, and Documentation of Users Requirements, as well as organizing interviews, user meetings, workshops, JAD sessions
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications, including BRD and FRD
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Performed Gap Analysis to compare As - Is and To-Be business processes, Cost-Benefit Analysis and SWOT Analysis
• Assisted in project management, determined project scope and risks, budgeted cost and planned resources through Work breakdown structure

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, RUP

Project Management: Microsoft (MS) Project, Microsoft Office

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect and Microsoft Visio

Platform: Microsoft Windows (95, 98, 2000, 2007, XP and Vista), Mac OSX

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center, HP Quality Center

Programming Languages: HTML, SQL

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NewYork, NY

Sr Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working wif end users to identify business requirements
• Working wif retail banking analyst team to nail down the plug in feature of the loyalty program wif the checking account.
• Analyzed all the retail banking functionalities such as New Account Open, Customer Locate, Customer Create, account create, customer delete, lost and stolen credit cards, branch teller transactions etc
• Worked wif retail banking team to create some of the use cases and web based user interfaces
• Strong noledge of financial statements, cash flow etc
• Financing Structures
• Capital Structures and Budgeting
• Value Based management
• Conducting user interviews, gathering requirements, analyzing the requirements using Rational Rose requisite pro - RUP.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML
• Identify research, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes.
• Conduct workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Assist wif user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Case.
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing
• Develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product noledge.
• Using detailed noledge of application features and functions assess scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications.
• Act as a resource in understanding how IS systems carry out business functions and assists in ensuring the timely and TEMPeffective implementation.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Liaison for projects wif other corporate departments, including Executive, Legal and Information Services as well as vendor relationships.
• Assist in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements.
• Responsible for all project documentations.
• All other duties as assigned by management.

Confidential, California

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements Document for capital purchases, direct vendor relations, generate and maintain equipment tracking modules based on the project scope and SDLC methodology.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions wif committee of SMEs from various business areas including Loan Monitoring and Marketing.
• Excellent Knowledge of Inventory Management, Account Payables and Expense Reporting Modules
• Conducted interviews wif key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Conducted a budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Analyze business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases and activity diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Used Agile and Scrum methodology for a sequential development process.
• Communicated TEMPeffectively wif Stakeholders, and various project teams like Business and Technical support, UI, Development, Testing and Release.
• TEMPEffectively implemented all Scrum practices for the development of the product.
• Involved in all stages of Scrum process like adding user stories to product backlog, sprint cycle, sprint review meeting wif business owners.
• Conducted Questionnaires and Interviews wif Business owners to define Scope.
• Worked closely wif Subject Matter expertise and Tech Leads and did analysis on the high level business requirements to convert them to system requirements.
• Responsible for conducting JAD sessions and RAD sessions to gather System Requirements.
• Participated in QA meetings such as test strategy, test methodology and test plan meetings.
• Performed manual front-end testing to check all functionality of different modules.
• Created exceptions report which were then submitted to project lead and stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Prepared Business Workflow models that cover "How" business processes are accomplished.
• Various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using Rational ClearCase.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.
• Bugs that would enhance the usability of the application were logged using Rational ClearQuest.
• Interacting wif 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 user.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implemented an integrated RUP solution wif complete line of traceability for all the artifacts of web development projects.
• Involved in requirement gathering using Rational Requisite Pro which included interviews, brainstorms and meetings wif stakeholders and SMEs.
• Involved in the creation and maintenance of the Workflow plans and artifacts for all the waves.
• Developed and Supported requirements for trading platforms to offer faster trading capability, directed trading, Dow Jones News and trailing stops.
• Created use cases for alerts for margin calls, price triggers, stock research and breaking news and when trade executes.
• Extensively involved in all the waves to make sure that documented functional requirements are met.
• Maintained and kept track of stake holder’s requests for enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing processes and technologies, documenting the enhancements needed to meet the end state requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives wif each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Tested the application manually by executing Test Cases prior to Automation.
• Performed all kinds of testing including system, integration, functional testing.
• Actively participate in the brainstorming sessions to help in cost control and good client servicing.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to make sure that all the user requirements are catered by the application.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application, for an intended novice user.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives wif each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Used Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines, resources and collaborate on the project
• GatheredBusiness Requirements and prepared business requirements documentation (BRD) by working wif the client IT staff, project managers, SME’s, and internal business team
• Converted Business Requirements documents (BRD) into System Specification documents (SSD).
• Identified all necessary function points from the BRD, created UML Diagrams including Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagrams in the System specification document.
• Worked wif and assisted Information Architects in creating Mock-Up screens using Dream weaver.
• Created documents like the Business Glossary to facilitate the other teams in understanding client’s business.
• Performed manual test, functional and data validation tests by executing Test Cases prior to Automation.
• Conducted regression testing wif QA team on various builds of the application.
• Participated in Bug-Review meetings wif software developers, QA engineers, managers, suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspective, provided solutions to existing bugs.
• Developed user guide and facilitated training to train the user working wif newly built application.