SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with 5+ years of experience in Banking, Systems / Solutions Engineering and Financial Services.
• Extensive experience communicating with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), performing Requirements Gathering, Business Analysis, Data Analysis and Documentation
• Extensive experience in gathering of requirements, co - ordination with Business Owners, Developers, Testing Team and End Users.
• A balanced blend of Business, IT and Project management skill with strong in-depth and breadth of experience with multiple industry, technologies, frameworks and processes
• Skills include defining Project Scope, Business Process Analysis, Business Process Reengineering, Requirements Gathering, Data and Process Modeling
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle methodologies (phases and gates) like Agile and Waterfall models
• Experience with Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process as per Rational Unified Process (RUP), involved in inception, elaboration, construction & transition phases using rational tools like Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest during various phases of RUP.
• Extensive experience in Business Requirements gathering and writing skills with expertise in developing and documenting Business Requirement document (BRD),Functional Requirement Document (FRD),Software Requirement Specification (SRS) across the deliverables of a project.
• Effectively used Rational Requisite Pro to organize, track and change requirements of the system.
• Expertise of UML in visualizing and documenting the artifacts using Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio
• Experience in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Rapid application development (RAD) sessions, conducting user interviews and acting as a liaison between the customers, development team and testing team
• Comprehensive experience in, Feasibility studies, GAP and Variance analysis, Impact analysis, Risk analysis
• High level understanding of Design use cases for Maintenance Requests. Creating system design proposals including RFP’s and RFQ’S.
• Up to date knowledge of Industrial, Technical Compliance and Regulatory Bodies like GAAP, ACORD, HIPAA, cGMP, GAMP, Six Sigma, FDA, HIM, CMS, 21 CFR chapters 210, 211, 820, 110, 606, CMM and PCMM.
• Experience working with query languages like SQL
• Experience in working with QA team to develop the Test plans, Test scenarios, Test procedures, and Test cases to ensure adequate testing of software both before and after completion.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the stakeholders and the business users as well as trained users to use the system configured.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong analytical abilities and can perform well both independently and as a team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Erwin.

Process Tools: Rational Rose Suite, RUP, MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS VisioXP,PORTIA V9.0, FIX, SWIFT, SASV9.0.

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Tableau, Cognosv8.0..

Testing Strategies: Integration, Unit, System, Black Box, White Box, UAT.

Programming Language: SQL, Transact SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, COBOL, Visual Basic 6.0/5.0/4.0, HTML 4.0,JAVA, J2EE5.0, .NET framework 3.5, Informatica V8.6.

Version Control System Tools: PVCS, Rational Clear Case

Testing Tools: Rational Enterprise Suite, QTP V9.5, Win Runner V9.2, Load Runner, Quality centre 10.0.

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest7.1, Test Director 7.0, Requisite Pro v7.1Database MS SQL Server 2005 & 2008, MS Access, Oracle11g/10g/8i/9iDB2, SAS.

Environment: XP/Vista, Win NT, Linux, VM ware V2.0.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Poway, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Established average cost methodology utilizing NetSuite including inventory valuation and accurate COGS reporting. Report daily and month end financials to the parent company.
• Preparation and completion of journal entries, reconciliation of balance sheet accounts using Great Plains
• Analyzed data for effective business operations, Cost Analysis, current and past sales, coupon promotions, etc.
• Provided Solutions and recommendations to improve existing business process through data analysis.

Confidential, Arlington Hts, IL

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created high quality presentation materials and ensured that the necessary communications take place between stakeholders.
• Prioritized project goals and deliverables according to the strategic vision of the Online Technology Group.
• Developed business awareness, by partnering with the studios to align internal group goals with strategic studio business priorities.
• Drove new business opportunities based on the identification of growth areas.
• Guided large multi-disciplinary teams in the achievement of either technical or non-technical project objectives.
• Worked with business supporters & technical supporters (QAs and Developers) to develop high quality Business Requirement Documentations &Functional Specification Documentations.
• Implemented Waterfall model for the different phases of the application development of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Planned & defined system requirements into Narrative Use Cases&Use Case Scenarios.
• Tested application & reported bugs to development team using Mercury Quality Center.
• Involved in highlighting the key problem areas to be addressed with Risk Analysis and accurately documenting the potential risks with respect to different time frames.
• Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE work flow scenario, performed GAP Analysis, designed new process flow and documented the business process and various business scenario and activities of business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements. Provide training to users and user managers.
• Participated in Bug-Review meetings with software developers, QA engineers, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives, provided solutions to existing bugs.
• Played a key role in the planning and testing the system enhancements and conversions.
• Provided remote and onsite support to end users during and post-implementation.
• Created Traceability matrix and Requirements matrix.
• Worked on Master Data Management (MDM) for maintaining the customer information and also for the ETL rules to be applied.
• Performed all kinds of testing including system, integration, functional testing.
• Involved in both Manual and Automated testing at various phases of the project development whereby conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and collaborated with the QA team to develop the test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data to be used in testing.
• Planned the resources, budget and milestone dates in order to hit ship and quality targets.

Environment: Windows 98 / NT, UNIX, SQL Server, .NET, Agile, MS SharePoint, XML, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Rational Tools, UML

Confidential - Boston, MA

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of OMGEO Central Trade Manager to match International Broker Confirmation for Equity and Fixed Income Trades
• Gathered requirements from various user groups - Trade OPS, Portfolio administrators and Compliance, to understand current process of confirming international trades with brokers
• Used Six Sigma DMAIC process to manage project plan, organize tasks and control project dates. Adjusted dates and tasks if required and helped communicate changes to stakeholders and management team during weekly meetings
• Created diagrams to understand current workflows for confirming international trades depending upon ISO standard security types by different offices. Analyzed the flows to define scope of the project and achieve maximum Straight Through Processing
• Performed data analysis to normalize required fields from various Order Management Systems - Longview Active Equity, Longview QSG, Charles River Development and Bloomberg
• Worked on designing Trade Flow Manager that consolidates outbound feeds to OMGEO Central Trade Manager from all 4 Order Management Systems
• Analyzed Settlement Instruction setup on ALERT, created mapping logic and worked with OMGEO in cleaning ALERT data so that trades would flow and match automatically in CTM
• Updated existing system to accept inbound broker confirm message and retain them as per compliance guidelines. Created reports to view and print confirms as per compliance guidelines to satisfy SAS70 requirements
• Coordinated Unit testing and Integration testing to validate all systems performed as per requirements. This involved working with OMGEO and four Confidential groups
• Validated trades using OMGEO CTM GUI and by running SQL queries on back end
• Worked with OPS to prepare UAT test cases that would encompass all possible trading scenarios and capture all possible security types and markets
• Provided demo and trained OPS team to work with CTM and created manuals for work around scenarios
• Analyzed current processes and proposed different solutions to reduce time and effort in sending settlement instructions out to different custodians and interested parties
• Evaluated cost/benefit analysis of vendor package to replace legacy system. Compared these systems from a financial and operational perspective.
• Prepared spreadsheet to compare vendor costs and conduct buy versus build analysis
• Managed vendor selection by creating Functionality Matrix to compare and analyze features offered by different vendor products and how each product matched user requirements. Analyzed the matrix by using feature weight ranking
• Documented Confidential 's Operational processes and business rules to define business requirements
• Analyzed vendor data field requirements, identified gaps and created data mapping documents for development teams
• Created Test Plan and scenarios to manage Integration and User Acceptance testing

Environment: UML, RUP, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Test Director, MS Word, MS Visio MS PowerPoint, Visual Basic, Windows 2000, Oracle 8i, Java/J2EE.

Confidential, RI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted controlled brain-storming sessions with project focus groups.
• Authored Functional Requirement specifications based on the business requirement.
• Performed Gap analysis, baselined BRD and obtain sign-off from customer.
• Designed process flows in MS Visio for projects.
• Managed the requirements and prepare/reviewed test plans.
• Guided Development and testing team on the base lined requirements.
• Reviewed system test plan, test cases and test results.
• Effectively managed both Onsite and Offshore teams.
• Preparing Project Plan and estimates on an ongoing basis for each release.
• Planned and executed the change requests and maintenance requests for all the above said systems for manual testing team.
• Provided UAT support and obtained sign-off.
• Created user-manual and provide end-user training.

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Unified Process, Quality Center, Microsoft SQL server 2000, MS Project, Microsoft Office 2005, Oracle, Windows XP Operating System