SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience as Business Analyst with concentration on Finance domain
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and ability to work as a liaison between business users and development team, QA team
• Followed Agile (Scrum), Waterfall and Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodologies
• Proficient in requirements gathering and translating Business Requirements into Functional and Non - Functional Requirements
• Proficient in preparation of Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirement Document and System Requirement Specification (FRS/SRS),Use Case Document
• Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) using UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Rose, Rational DOORS, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and MS Visio
• Proficient in designing UI Mock-ups and Wireframes using Balsamiq, Axure, MS Visio and MS Excel
• Extensive experience writing Use Case Requirements, Requirement gathering, GAP Analysis and full life cycle development using Rational Requisite Pro and IBM Rational DOORS
• Proficient in creating UML diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagram. Diagrams created using Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose
• Ability to create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for managing changes in requirements using IBM Rational DOORS and Rational Requisite Pro
• Experience in creating RUP based documents such as Vision, Use Case Specification, Business Requirement Document and Functional Specification Document
• Excellent skills in forming and facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) teams and sessions
• Performed GAP analysis. Documented AS IS And TO BE process
• Created Test Cases in HPQC and Excel. Participated in QA Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Defect Tracking using HPQC and JIRA
• Created Training manuals, Help manuals and User guide and conducted end user trainings
• Web application usage estimation using Omniture
• Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving and Communication skills and Team Spirit

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Documentation Tools: IBM Rational DOORS, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Word, Rational Rose, MS Visio, Balsamiq, Axure, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Testing Tools: HPQC, JIRA, Mercury Quality Center/Mercury Test Director

Content Management Tools: Rational Clear Case, Computer Associate Harvest, SharePoint

Technologies: Java, .NET, SQL, HTML, XML

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access

Other Tools: MS Project, Omniture

Operating Systems: Windows 7/Vista//XP/2000/98, Mac OS X

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in project scope meetings with GSM-Pricing manager to understand pricing flow and business requirements for new application that involves different Capital Market securities including equities, fixed income, derivatives and foreign exchange.
• Involved in Joint Application Development sessions with Prime Broking SMEs and development teams and documented functional business requirements as product backlogs using JIRA Agile.
• Performed business process analysis including Data Mapping and GAP analysis of the existing legacy pricing system and the proposed new GSM pricing system.
• Created UML diagrams including pricing data flow diagrams, activity diagrams and application wireframe prototypes using MS Visio.
• Coordinated with the development team and database administrators to create the required pricing data structure in Oracle database platform.
• Experience using Sharepoint application for pricing data sharing and content management.
• Assisted the Project Manager in setting project expectations and evaluating the impact of changes on other related pricing systems.
• Coordinated with development team to conduct daily scrum meetings and Sprint planning meetings, which involved creating user stories and epics for chosen sprint backlogs.
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements for the pricing application are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.
• Conducted Project status meetings to apprise the product owners and other stakeholders about the project’s progress and roadmap.
• Performed Functional and GUI Testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria are met. Created User training materials and carried out the User acceptance testing (UAT) in coordination with the SMEs to make sure that all the Business Requirements are addressed in the new GSM pricing application.

Environment: MS Visio, Oracle, MS Suite, SharePoint, JIRA, HQ QC, Load Runner, Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC.

Confidential, Murrysville, PA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user and business requirements through surveys, prototyping and observing from portfolio managers and UI (User Interface). Provided inputs in the strategic development of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates etc.
• Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRD’s (Business Requirement Documents) supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirements
• Facilitate weekly interviews with SMEs, senior management, IT teams to track and document, Credit Risk, market risk and operational risk, related, issues and tasks
• Worked on various Online Banking processes like set up Check Payment, Browser variations, Keep the Change, Online Banking mail communication with live customers, Authentication flow, Alert mails to Customers etc.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios
• Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC methodology. Used Scrum Work Pro and Microsoft Office software to perform required job functions
• Assigned tasks among development team monitored and tracked progress of project following agile methodology. Responsible for creating Business Process Modeling and Work Flow Diagrams
• Co-authored documents for capturing pricing data using Bloomberg and Reuters terminals
• Involved in creating automated Test Scripts representing various Transactions.
• Created test reports for analysis and integrated the Performance Testing in the SDLC with QAs
• Assisted in presenting reports and analysis to help guide the management

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint, MS Visio), Bloomberg Terminal, Oracle

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented regulatory guidelines for authenticating requirements for the FAS implementation
• Interacted with enterprise wide stakeholders to understand and gather high-level Business Needs
• Facilitated meetings and telephonic conferences involving Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from Middle Office and Compliance
• Performed Impact Analysis of FAS 157 regulation on middle office procedures
• Assisted creating Vision document listing the high level requirements
• Identified, developed and documented detail requirements based on the high level requirements. Classified requirements as Functional and Non- Functional and prioritized them after discussion with middle office
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD) and User Case Documents (UCD)
• Assisted Project Manager in creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) using Microsoft Project
• Created UI mock-ups for GUI to run report manually using Axure
• Created wireframe for the FAS 157 report using Microsoft Excel
• Created Context diagrams and Use Case diagrams using Microsoft Visio
• Involved in development of detailed Test plan, and Test Cases for new functionality and Regression Test Cases
• Involved in identification of test data for positive and negative test cases
• Conducted Functional Quality Assurance(QA) Testing
• Maintained traceability among Vision Document, BRD, UCD and test cases using Requirement Traceability Metrics in Microsoft Excel
• Managed centralized issue log in SharePoint
• Presented requirements, test cases and sample test results to end users for sign-off
• Assisted end user in creating UAT test cases and test execution
• Created FAS 157 Help Guide and trained end users
• During post implementation phase, assisted in Business As Usual (BAU) testing by comparing various CSV reports between production and parallel environments

Environment: Axure, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, SQL, Java, Lotus Notes

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from accounting department and PeopleSoft team by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Worked as an interface between the users and the different teams involved in application development for better understanding of the business and IT processes
• Gathered requirements through Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions involving Project Manager, Technical Lead, QA Lead and SMEs for conflict resolution
• Refined requirements using iterative approach
• Analyzed and prioritized requirements. Created Business Requirements Document and Use Case Documents using Rational RequisitePro
• Used RUP-iterative process to conduct Data Analysis on the feed to be sent to PSGL to find missing data fields in application and aggregation rules.
• Worked with PeopleSoft team to ensure compatibility of the feed with enterprise-wide PeopleSoft guidelines.
• Performed GAP analysis between data requirements of legacy system and PSGL system
• Documented AS IS process and TO BE process
• Created UML diagrams like Use Case diagrams and Activity diagrams using MS Visio
• Created UI mock-ups for PSGL Resend GUI
• Maintained traceability between requirements and test cases using Traceability Metrics in Rational RequisitePro
• Created User Acceptance Test Cases in Microsoft Excel
• Identified test data using SQL queries on Oracle database
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Logged issues in JIRA. Assigned severity to defects based on the business impact.
• Participated in daily test status meeting. Managed issue log. Ensured critical issues are addressed with high priority.
• Sign off from business users on User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Conducted Periodic Reviews with the project stakeholders to obtain sign off on requirements, UAT test cases, UAT test results and synchronize the team tasks
• Version Control of documents using Microsoft SharePoint

Environment: RUP, Rational RequisitePro, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Java, Oracle, SQL, SharePoint, MS Office Suite (Word Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Outlook

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated JAD sessions; Conducted Telephonic Conferences; interacted with Stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Documentation of AS IS process and TO BE process
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD), Use-case Specification Documents etc.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) using Rational Requisite Pro
• Created UML Diagrams using Rational Rose
• Assisted in creating UI Mockups according to end user requirements
• Performed Quality Assurance Testing. Created Test Specification Documents
• Change Management of Use Case documents using Computer Associates Harvest
• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing
• Web application usage estimation using Omniture
• Addressed weaknesses and efficiency issues. Suggested future enhancement
• Participated in End-User training and created User Manual

Environment: Rational Rose, RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Computer Associates Harvest, Microsoft Office, .NET, Omniture, Mercury Test Director (Now HPQC), XML, Microsoft Outlook