SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of Industry experience as a Business Analyst with Project management experience and business requirements gathering, database design and development of SOA, web based and Client/Server applications.
• Highly skilled in requirement management, business process reengineering, data analysis, and project management in the financial industries.
• Good knowledge of various financial products like equities, bonds, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Asset Backed Securities (ABS), and Fixed Income Instruments, Derivatives, Futures/Forwards, Options, Credit Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Credit Index, Loans and Securities Lending
• Good understanding of Banking, Basel2, AML/KYC requirements and regulations.
• Experienced in various Data Warehousing concepts and principles such as Dimensional Data Modeling, Star Schema, Snowflake, Fact and Dimension table Design, Canonical, Conceptual and logical data modeling
• Experience with Data Integration (ETL), Analysis and reporting activities using SSIS, SSAS and SSRS
• Understands the workflow concept, ability to gather and document the 'As - Is' and 'To-Be' processes
• Expertise in Requirement gathering through interviews, workshops, JAD sessions with clients, developers and QA Analysts and referring to existing system documentation and procedures.
• Expertise in the development and interpretation of requirement documents including Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) documents and Use Case Models
• Strong knowledge in writing Use cases and producing Use Case Model, Analysis model, Behavior diagrams (Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams) and Class diagrams based on UML Methodology & Business process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Adept at creating quality documentations such as Requirements Documents, Design Document, Test Plan, User Acceptance Test Plans and Workflows.
• Excellent experience in performing GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies, and documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements.
• Strong in Tracking, tracing and managing requirements using Requisite Pro.
• Expertise in using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies, Rational Unified Processes (RUP), Agile methodologies.
• Expert in defining Test Cases, reviewing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs, interaction with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensive experience in identifying risks and impact analysis, cost and benefit analysis and feasibility analysis.
• Performed QA functions by conducting functional testing, regression testing both manually and automated
• Highly motivated, organized and results and detail oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Proven capability of adapting to new and fast changing technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodology: Agile, SDLC, RUP, Waterfall, UML.

Project Management Tool: MS Project, SharePoint.

Requirement Management Tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, IBM Rational Requisite Pro.

Business Modeling Tools: IBM Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio.

Business Intelligence (BI) Tool: IBM Cognos/TM1, Business Objects, Crystal report.

Data Analysis: SQL Navigator, MS Access, TOAD

Vendor Tool: iRise, Moody's Analytics

Change Management Tool: IBM Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope, Created Business Analysis and software development using the RUP methodology
• Worked with the Finance Regulatory Reporting division and Project Managers in developing project scope, gathering business requirements, documenting as-is and (proposed) to-be processes - GAP Analysis
• Gathered and analyzed requirements based on the Reg W, AML/KYC regulations.
• Defined bank wide business process enhancements, plans and solutions for the affiliate risk management and regulatory compliance across various credit approval systems.
• Created target state business process flow diagram, requirement documentation, Reporting specification, Report mock ups and data dictionary.
• Developed knowledge of Letter of Credit (LC), Loans, Derivatives, Equities, Overdrafts and Foreign Exchange contracts
• Developed Test Cases and Test plans for interface testing both manually and automated.
• Conducted benchmarking activities to identify best practices
• Developed Master Project Plans by working with internal partners and project managers. Presented a consolidated and manageable view for management.
• Created Status reports for team meetings and steering committee’s on regular weekly basis to reflect progress of program.
• Established and maintained process of closely tracking all deliverable milestones in a detailed level.
• Assisted in creation of Communication plans for Internal and External teams for IT and business organization.
• Maintained and managed a Change Control process to introduce change in scope or cost of any project involved in the program.
• Managed client expectations through client involvement and communication throughout the lifecycle of the project; educate clients and stakeholders on the benefits and risks associated with the project
• Communicated and interacted on a regular basis with the project manager and development team during different stages of the project.

Environment: RUP, MS IIS 6, Weblogic 8.1, MS Visio, JavaScript, Java AWT, EJB 2.1 JDBC, Java Mail API, HP Quality Center, Launch Pad, Oracle 10g, Pro*C, PL/SQL, SSRS

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with the investment banking division to understand requirements based on investment products such as stocks, bonds, derivatives, OTC, fixed income securities and Asset backed securities.
• Interacted extensively with the securities trading department (middle and back office), sales team and traders, to understand securities trading process flow and the order management system (trade capture), recording/ticketing, STP.
• Wrote and maintained Business Requirements Documents BRDs and Functional Requirements Documents FRDs defining new systems operations for project.
• Provided direction on business process designs and high-level requirements to requirements analysts, database designers and modelers, technical architects, developers, and testers.
• Participated in Data Analysis and Design with the Data analysts and data modelers by defining data requirements and sources and providing required data content for the data warehouse component. Used MS Visio to create Data Models and Data Network Charts
• Created Data Mapping documents based on the requirements, needs and Features documents.
• Created ER models for Conceptual and Logical models
• Reviewed the data model and reporting requirements for SSRS with the Data warehouse/ETL and reporting team.
• Captured process flows by preparing activity and sequence diagrams, pre- and post-conditions, performance requirements, volume estimates, high-level business rules, issues, assumptions, etc.
• Arrived at the Primary key and foreign key constraints based on the business logic.
• Created and managed the Business Use Case Model Survey and modeled business process in Use Cases to define functional requirements during the inception, elaboration and construction phases using Rational Rose.
• Gathered user and business requirements through open-ended discussions, and brainstorming.
• Managed quality and implemented it throughout all disciplines, workflows, phases, and iterations in the SDLC using RUP principles.
• Formulated test plans, test scenarios and test cases for core subsystems.
• Conducted JAD and elicitation sessions for user interviews to gather requirements.
• Created the SQL scripts and queries for validating the test results.
• Created wireframes and screenshots for the application to easily communicate it to the users using MS Visio.

Environment: UML, Rational Rose, RequisitePro, Rational Test Manager, MS Visio, Windows 2000, MS Office, RUP, Microsoft SQL server 2008, Sharepoint

Confidential, River Woods, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, performing GAP analysis and documenting them.
• Conducted customer surveys and interviews to gather requirements for the new online application.
• Gathered requirements from the customer service representatives based on customer feedback.
• Converted customer requirements into user stories for better understanding by the development team.
• Analyzed and collected business requirements, identified system interfaces, and created the requirements specification documents
• Created use case scenarios and documents, work flow and business process.
• Created static and dynamic prototypes using MS Visio and iRise for a more realistic software prototype
• Assisted in Performing Client and Server side validations for the web application.
• Conducted benchmarking activities to identify best practices.
• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose.
• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of the project.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Created wireframes and screenshots for the application to easily communicate it to the users using MS Visio.
• Performed GUI testing, regression testing and UAT of the new online access system.
• Used RequisitePro to document requirements, associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements with Use cases.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

Environment: Java, JavaScript, HTML, Use Logic, DHTML, Oracle, UNIX, Rational Suite, Microsoft Visual Studio, Linux, Agile methodology, iRise

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted extensive meetings to understand the business model and processes, documented and gathered the business requirements, and carried out implementation of new derivative products.
• Validate rules, custom settings, and security check by UAT testing for the end clients.
• Worked with vendors that provides data feeds i.e. Broad ridge impact for fixed income, Thomson one, Bloomberg, IDC and SunGard for equities and derivatives.
• Worked extensively with SME’s including heads in areas of fixed income, derivatives, options, foreign exchange (FX), futures and risk managers in understanding, extracting, refining and documenting the User and Business Requirement Specifications in the BRDs.
• Worked with SME’s of Corporate Actions to better understand the impact and document the Business Requirement Specifications, Equity Trade Flow Processes and Credit analytics for Fixed Income Securities and equities.
• Used Crystal Reports to generate reports from different databases of different asset classes like equities, bonds, derivatives, commodities, for all business needs.
• Created Use Case Scenarios and maintained the Use Cases (Business Use Cases, System Use Cases) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, revised functional specifications and other core materials throughout the System Life Cycle making all necessary revisions for defect correction and requirement clarification and refinement.
• Performed Gap Analysis, Swot analysis and cost Benefit Analysis for the modules in production, conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.
• Involved in trade processing and cost basis processing.
• Conduct Inventory Management of Cash and Securities Positions across different Asset Classes like equity, bonds, and derivatives.
• Worked with stakeholders to obtain deliverable sign-offs. Provided functional direction to other systems analysts and used the meta-data definition and workflow needs and how these functions map to business processes.
• Involved in fee calculation and data reporting.
• Created numerous deliverables in different phases of the project beginning from project Initiation, through Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition to create User Manuals.
• Involved in analyzing various business scenarios and pitfalls in the process that could occur because of network/system/user undoing; this being a data intensive project.
• Assisted and executed Test cases and test scripts per Functional Specifications of the application. Documented test/cases, test results, test procedure and reported to client.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Crystal Reports, Fiserv Recon, Rational Rose, Moody’s Analytics Tools, Business Objects, Bloomberg AIM, Mercury Quality Centre, Load runner.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle in RUP framework.
• Analyzed and collected business requirements identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.
• Worked on Moody’s Pricing and Valuation Tools and Wall Street analytics for credit risk measurement and risk calculation.
• Used Moody’s Fermat for credit research, risk measurement and valuation for the system.
• Performed Requirement Analysis to Develop Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams. Hence developed and documented conceptual design of Application in System Specification Document.
• Extensively interacted with both user group and development team in coming up with charts, sequence diagrams.
• Involved with client service and customer relationship team (CRM) to get the end users feedback about the application.
• Involved in checking the bugs in the codes or confirmation with the team of QA
• Consolidate Trade Date and reconcile from across multiple settlement platforms like equity, bond market, derivatives and commodity market.
• Perform Inventory Management check of different asset classes like stocks, commodities and bonds.
• Managed and tracked change control process of requirements and design changes using Rational Requisite Pro. Documented the changes, issues and their impact on the system design and delivery.
• Provided documentation such as requirements management plans, operational risk management plans, functional requirements, test plans and test cases.
• Incorporated the best practice methodologies as advocated by the Rational Unified Process.
• Designed and analyzed Use Case model and test procedures based on RUP methodology.
• Crystal Reports was used to generate reports from different databases of different asset classes like equities, bonds, derivatives, commodities, for all business needs.
• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and nonfunctional requirements based on interactions with the process owners. Performed user interviews, JAD sessions.
• Wrote Functional requirements specification (FRS) documents, swot analysis as per the Business requirements and process flow.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Designed and developed project templates based on SDLC Methodology
• Acted as User Acceptance Testing coordinator and monitored business testing with vendors Thomson one, Bloomberg, IDC and SunGard for equities and derivatives and interfaced with the development team regarding defect status and fixes on daily basis.

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, SQL, UML, Fiserv Recon, Moody’s Tools, Rational Unified Process, FIX, Test Director, Crystal Reports, MS Office