SUMMARY

• Pro - active and result oriented business analyst with 7 years financial domain experience in software development lifecycle like Agile scrum, RUP and Waterfall with exceptional skills in planning, organizing, documenting and business support.
• Experienced in working with Credit Portfolio Risk Management System along with 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 with Basel III, Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) and FINRA's rules and regulations
• Proficiency in data analytics with 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 with IFRS and other GAAP/Tax a plus
• Highly experienced with 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 teh requirements
• Extensively used rational tools for creating use cases, version control, defect tracking and reporting and applied teh 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 with PL/SQL developer and TOAD
• Extensive experience with 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 with stakeholders
• Strong recognized project management skills, consistently deliver complex, large-scale projects on time and within 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 with 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 teh implementation of Investortools Perform FPC Portfolio Management System for teh Municipal Bond trading desk including Treasuries as a Project Manager and Business Analyst
• Mitigated extreme technology risk by retiring unsupported applications for teh 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 teh Sprint Backlogs in Rally Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, conducting Sprint Retrospectives and Reviews, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
• Constantly interacted with stakeholders to develop release backlog and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) into use case for teh 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 with teh direct correlation to teh data warehouse and data marts
• Documented Test Plan, Test cases and performed functional and stress testing
• Reported all teh defects in Quality Center while conducting UAT and stress tests
• Managed all teh requirements with 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 teh user feedback for future changes
• Conducted training sessions to make teh users comfortable with teh 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 with both user group and development team, conducted JAD session to gather requirements for conceptual model
• Involved in extensive analysis and decision making with teh stakeholders to identify and realize relative value opportunities within 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 with 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 teh Business requirements and Post Trade MBS work flow
• Documented specifications on Settlement risk mitigation through flexible, integrated workflow management throughout teh 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 teh logical and physical models and came up with structured charts, Class and sequence diagrams and activity Diagrams with Design Team
• Frequently communicated with teh Data Architect team regarding teh 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 with a flexible workflow process
• Actively interacted with 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 with teh direction to teh data warehouse
• Involved with reviewing defects reported from UAT/B-Testing efforts and analyzed for root cause and took actions based on teh findings
• Conducted training sessions to make teh users comfortable with teh functionality
• Provided support on maintenance issues
• Developed modules in teh HR department for teh user education and training about teh 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 teh fund's total investment value, a list of teh securities' amounts and values on teh date teh 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 teh management, conducted JAD sessions with 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 teh 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 teh application with minimum guidance
• Created and maintained Issues Log and ensured timely resolution of all items
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues
• Interacted with teh developers to report and correct bugs
• Collaborated with teh 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 with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about business user’s specifications
• Managed all teh requirements TEMPeffectively and made them available to all team members and presented teh testing defects and resolution in teh project review meetings
• Conducted User Acceptance testing (UAT) and to validate teh new system against user expectations
• Parallel operation with a previous system that it was replacing conversion of operational databases
• Involved in training of users and maintainers and executed roll-out of teh product to teh 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 within teh business units
• Ensures that information obtained is consistent with 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 with Stakeholders and SMEs
• Assist in teh administration and review of Client Risk Scoring, Client Identification and KYC documentation oversight/management requirements
• Communicated extensively with teh clients and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing teh status and scope of teh project and understanding teh business processes
• Managed all teh requirements in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members
• Used teh Unified Change Management from Rational to track changes to multiple artifacts by versioning artifacts, associating requirements to specific change request/defects to streamline teh defect/change tracking process
• Studied teh existing KYP/CIP system and prepared teh test data for teh CDD and EDD based on teh inputs
• Tested teh 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 with 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 teh report publishing frequencies and teh media in which it shall be published(SharePoint), also prepared teh document for filing frequency and filing format of teh SARs, CTRs to teh 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 teh requirements that were critical to teh 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 with 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 with creating detailed project plans assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines
• Interacted with teh “Users” by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback
• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to teh project manager and business areas
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify teh business critical areas from USER perspective
• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for teh design, development and implementation of strategic projects
• Analyzed teh 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 with requirements and connected requirements with Use cases
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams (State diagrams) according to RUP, for teh stakeholder review
• Conducted FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs with teh 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 teh Defect and uploaded teh Defect into Defect Tracking Tool QC
• Lead QA team to fix teh bug identified in Systems testing
• Actively participated in promoting teh product to application teams in services
• Facilitated UAT and ensured proper testing environment and test data was made available to teh users
• Involved with reviewing defects reported from UAT efforts and analyzed for root cause and took actions based on teh findings
• Conducted training sessions to make teh users comfortable with teh functionality and provided support on maintenance issues

Confidential

Jr. Analyst in Personal Wealth Management

Responsibilities:

• Identified and communicated dependencies and potential risks to teh completion of teh sprints including resources, costs and systems
• Constantly partnering with project leads to ensure teh team is producing solutions that meet established standards, procedures and practices, address issues, risks and mitigation plans
• Prepared teh final requirements document for peek and peer review and designed teh 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