SUMMARY

• Pro - active and result oriented business analyst wif 7 years financial domain experience in software development lifecycle like Agile scrum, RUP and Waterfall wif exceptional skills in planning, organizing, documenting and business support.
• Experienced in working wif Credit Portfolio Risk Management System along wif Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risk assessment, Fixed Income trading systems, Mortgage Backed Security System, Trade Order Reconciliation System (TORS), Mutual Fund Reporting System, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transaction Monitoring System, Credit Card Billing System and Stock Trading System
• In-depth noledge of wide array of financial products including Stock, Options, Bonds and Treasuries (Equities, Fixed Income and Options) equity, fixed income derivatives, portfolio analysis, forecasting, budgeting and cost benefit analysis
• Profession in Use Cases on functionalities for Mortgage Backed Security (MBS) pool allocation and optimization, pool substitutions, pair-offs, trade assignments, account allocations and broker give-ups
• Familiar wif Basel III, Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) and FINRA's rules and regulations
• Proficiency in data analytics wif emphasis on credit scoring, credit risk, behavioral models, loan loss and general purposerisk/profitability models
• Good understanding of GAAP & Tax rules applicable to US registered funds and strong familiarity wif IFRS and other GAAP/Tax a plus
• Highly experienced wif Requirements gathering, data modeling, System Architecture. Feasibility studies, Scope Documents & Requests For Proposal (RFP)
• In-depth noledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various methodologies, such as Waterfall, Agile Scrum, and RUP
• Strong experience as Scrum Master responsible for organizing and facilitating sprint planning sessions, creating and managing sprint backlogs, leading daily scrum meeting and bi-weekly retrospectives
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions. Expertise in drafting technical documentation - Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System Design Specification, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Plan
• Detailed noledge of creating use case, activity, logical, component and deployment views to extract business process flows and workflows theirby helping development and quality assurance in understanding the requirements
• Extensively used rational tools for creating use cases, version control, defect tracking and reporting and applied the rational unified process in all areas of a software development life cycle
• Good Experience in both Manual and Automation Testing including Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT, and Browser Compatibility Testing in a multi-platform environment
• Expertise in using Bug Tracking Tool like Bugzilla, Jira, IBM clear quest
• Strong SQL queries experience wif PL/SQL developer and TOAD
• Extensive experience wif data warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and loading (ETL) and Business
• In-depth noledge of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)/ Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
• Strong analytical, debugging, troubleshooting skills and quick learning abilities
• Strong interpersonal skills, extremely adept at diplomatically facilitating discussions and negotiations wif stakeholders
• Strong recognized project management skills, consistently deliver complex, large-scale projects on time and wifin budget

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Rational Rose
• Rational Requisite Pro
• RUP
• Agile
• Rally
• QTP
• Win runner
• Load Runner
• Quality Center
• ASP
• Visual Basic
• UML
• MVC Framework
• Oracle 8i & 9i
• Together J
• Toad
• MS-Access
• ERwin 4.1
• Actuate 6.0
• Windows NT/2000
• Solaris
• Tuxedo
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint Access
• Visio and
• SQL
• Test Director
• XML/XSLT
• JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Identified, understood and documented business needs for new market risk and credit risk module or re-usability of an existing module by performing a GAP analysis
• Performed data analytics wif emphasis on credit scoring, credit risk, behavioral models, loan loss and general purposerisk/profitability models by brainstorming
• Evaluate requirements of US Basel standardized approach for Credit Risk
• Managed the implementation of Investortools Perform FPC Portfolio Management System for the Municipal Bond trading desk including Treasuries as a Project Manager and Business Analyst
• Mitigated extreme technology risk by retiring unsupported applications for the Fixed Income Trading platforms
• Integrate multiple reference data masters for securities to eliminate manual entry and operational risk
• Developed trade-related work flows for fixed income trades flowing through tothe settlement and accounting systems
• Develop and launch implementation GAP analysis surveys for significant AML Policies like FATF, OFAC, FIFCA, HIDTA and HIFCA
• Developed business requirements for proprietary bond allocation models to be processed on Perform
• Generated Business Requirements Documents (BRD) by using MS Visio
• As Scrum Master involved in creating and prioritizing the Sprint Backlogs in Rally Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, conducting Sprint Retrospectives and Reviews, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
• Constantly interacted wif stakeholders to develop release backlog and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) into use case for the IT team
• Translated business requirement into Technical requirements and system specifications
• Provided specifications for Data Models, Logical and Physical Database design
• Performed data analysis using SQL server in addition to implementing ETL wif the direct correlation to the data warehouse and data marts
• Documented Test Plan, Test cases and performed functional and stress testing
• Reported all the defects in Quality Center while conducting UAT and stress tests
• Managed all the requirements wif Rational Requisite Pro, making requirements available to all team members
• Designed Trade-Break, Aggregate report formats and evaluating COGNOS as an strategic reporting tool
• Facilitated UAT and recorded the user feedback for future changes
• Conducted training sessions to make the users comfortable wif the functionality and provided support on maintenance issues

Environment: Agile Scrum, Rally, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, Cognos, SQL, Quality center Basel Dodd Frank Act, USA PATRIOT Act, FATF, OFAC, FIFCA, HIDTA, HIFCA, Oracle, Mantas

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively interacted wif both user group and development team, conducted JAD session to gather requirements for conceptual model
• Involved in extensive analysis and decision making wif the stakeholders to identify and realize relative value opportunities wifin and across multiple portfolios and trading accounts
• Reviewed and analyzed Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) compliance rules for Trade Processing Module which provides real-time submission, management and reconciliation of MBS trades and pools as required by FICC’s trade processing, risk management, trade netting and pool netting programs.
• Responsible for developing requirements for customization and enhancement of fixed income trading applications.
• Implement Investortools' perform FPC application for municipal bond trading
• Optimize data flows to enhance and automate market and reference data feeds wif S&P (PDM, KDBS, and Eval80) and IDC
• Wrote Business Requirements Document (BRD) and use Rational Rose for Functional Requirements Specification (FRS) Documents as per the Business requirements and Post Trade MBS work flow
• Documented specifications on Settlement risk mitigation through flexible, integrated workflow management throughout the entire MBS trade lifecycle
• Developed User Story on functionalities for MBS pool allocation and optimization, pool substitutions, pair-offs, trade assignments, account allocations and broker give-ups
• Designed the logical and physical models and came up wif structured charts, Class and sequence diagrams and activity Diagrams wif Design Team
• Frequently communicated wif the Data Architect team regarding the data mining, Data mapping and Data modeling and ETL processes
• Actively involved in developing Test Plan. Test Cases, Test Reports and Defect tracking
• Used Rational ClearQuest for all types of change requests, including defects, enhancements, issues and documentation changes wif a flexible workflow process
• Actively interacted wif testing team for Apha-testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing
• Involved in data analysis using SQL Server in addition to implementing ETL wif the direction to the data warehouse
• Involved wif reviewing defects reported from UAT/B-Testing efforts and analyzed for root cause and took actions based on the findings
• Conducted training sessions to make the users comfortable wif the functionality
• Provided support on maintenance issues
• Developed modules in the HR department for the user education and training about the new system

Environment: Agile Scrum, MS Visio, Base Clear case, Erwin, Oracle, DB2, MS Project, MS office suite.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird requirements from customers including developed a balance sheet and a statement of the fund's total investment value, a list of the securities' amounts and values on the date the balance sheet was issued and a summary about total dollar amounts of securities purchases and sales for each investor
• Facilitated team meetings to coordinate activities for project schedules, presented deliverables to the management, conducted JAD sessions wif Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to elicit requirements
• Documented an initial project glossary and an initial business case, which included business context, success criteria (revenue projection, market recognition, and so on), financial forecast and an initial risk assessment Elaboration
• Analyzed Business requirement document, developed functional requirement document (FRD) and got it approved by the client
• Wrote clear, concise detailed system requirements specification (SRS) documents and user documentation in accordance to guidelines and standards of a level where developers can interpret, design and develop the application wif minimum guidance
• Created and maintained Issues Log and ensured timely resolution of all items
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings wif development team to discuss related issues
• Interacted wif the developers to report and correct bugs
• Collaborated wif the QA team to develop test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test data to be used in testing, based on business requirements and application noledge
• Efficiently interacted wif designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about business user’s specifications
• Managed all the requirements TEMPeffectively and made them available to all team members and presented the testing defects and resolution in the project review meetings
• Conducted User Acceptance testing (UAT) and to validate the new system against user expectations
• Parallel operation wif a previous system that it was replacing conversion of operational databases
• Involved in training of users and maintainers and executed roll-out of the product to the marketing, distribution, and sales teams

Environment: RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational XDE, Rational Rose, Rational ClearQuest,, UML, HTML, Quality Center, SQL Server, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Load Runner, OO Modeling.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducts reviews of client documentation/information obtained by client contacts wifin the business units
• Ensures that information obtained is consistent wif BSA/AML Policy and Procedures and satisfies regulatory requirements
• Assisted in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose and Visio
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating wif Stakeholders and SMEs
• Assist in the administration and review of Client Risk Scoring, Client Identification and KYC documentation oversight/management requirements
• Communicated extensively wif the clients and wif different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes
• Managed all the requirements in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members
• Used the Unified Change Management from Rational to track changes to multiple artifacts by versioning artifacts, associating requirements to specific change request/defects to streamline the defect/change tracking process
• Studied the existing KYP/CIP system and prepared the test data for the CDD and EDD based on the inputs
• Tested the application manually by executing Test Cases in Quality Centre prior to Automation and Involved in automated testing and Performance testing using QTP and Load Runner
• Develop User Acceptance Testing and specifications wif guidance from AML Compliances
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines
• Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews
• Prepared the report publishing frequencies and the media in which it shall be published(SharePoint), also prepared the document for filing frequency and filing format of the SARs, CTRs to the regulatory agencies and internal systems

Environment: Waterfall, SDLC, Erwin, Microsoft Office 2010 (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel Pivot and VLookup, Outlook, Project, Visio), Rational Clear Quest, QTP, Mercury Quality Centre, RequisitePro, NICE Actimize, Dodd Frank Act, USA PATRIOT Act, FATF, OFAC, FIFCA, HIDTA, HIFCA, Scenarios Analysis, Alert, Threshold-Setting

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird and documented the requirements that were critical to the business mission and used those requirements to design application software using a Use Case in Requisite Pro
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives wif each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly
• Led business initiatives including brainstorming on new functionality for current systems
• Assisted project manager wif creating detailed project plans assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines
• Interacted wif the “Users” by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback
• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to the project manager and business areas
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective
• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of strategic projects
• Analyzed the project coverage for modification and enhancement of various credit card and billing areas like Marketing, Payment, Getting Credit Bureau Report and Transaction
• Used Requisite Pro to document requirements, associated change requests wif requirements and connected requirements wif Use cases
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams (State diagrams) according to RUP, for the stakeholder review
• Conducted FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs wif the designers, developers and stakeholders
• Proposed conceptual solution and translated conceptual solution into technical design. Extensively worked on system architecture
• Employed UML to create use cases, used case diagrams, classes and sequence diagrams. Extensively used OOA/OOD techniques based on MVC architecture
• Employed QML Qt Creator for Product demos
• Performed Functional and Regression testing by developing scripts in QTP which included Parameterization, Checkpoints and Output Value
• Identified the Defect and uploaded the Defect into Defect Tracking Tool QC
• Lead QA team to fix the bug identified in Systems testing
• Actively participated in promoting the product to application teams in services
• Facilitated UAT and ensured proper testing environment and test data was made available to the users
• Involved wif reviewing defects reported from UAT efforts and analyzed for root cause and took actions based on the findings
• Conducted training sessions to make the users comfortable wif the functionality and provided support on maintenance issues

Confidential

Jr. Analyst in Personal Wealth Management

Responsibilities:

• Identified and communicated dependencies and potential risks to the completion of the sprints including resources, costs and systems
• Constantly partnering wif project leads to ensure the team is producing solutions that meet established standards, procedures and practices, address issues, risks and mitigation plans
• Prepared the final requirements document for peek and peer review and designed the process flow diagram
• Organized and conducted meetings and brainstorming sessions relating to database design and data assessment
• Coordinated in writing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts in Quality Center
• Involved in Creating and Executing Test Scenario based on User/Functional Requirements