SUMMARY

• 7 years of extensive experience as a Business/Systems Analyst in business requirement gathering and analysis, business process re - engineering in Banking/Finance
• Experience with Onsite/Offshore co-ordination models
• Experience in Use Case modeling using UML, User stories
• Experience on both Agile and Waterfall Software development methodology
• Responsibilities carried out as Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, on Business side as well as IT side
• Highly trained and tremendous expertise in Agile product life cycle (SCRUM) methodologies
• Managed and Facilitated and JAD sessions with Business Directors, IT Directors, Business & IT Project managers, Developers and QA Testing Teams and other SMEs
• Experienced working with Business and Development team in gathering and prioritizing business needs for successful execution of the project
• Experienced with reviewing and writing BRD, FRD, Technical Specification document
• Good Understanding in Capital Markets, Risk Management (Market and Credit), Fixed Income and Derivatives, Credit Derivatives Market, Equity Market, and Money Market
• Experience in Migrating from old system to new system
• Strong domain knowledge in Banking and Finance. Good understanding of basic principles of financial markets and instruments (Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives (FX Options, OTC Options, Swaps, Forwards, Futures), Mutual funds, NAV
• In-depth knowledge in the Investment Banking Industry, Credit Card Industry, Brokerage Services, Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Asset Wealth Management, Liquidity Risk
• Knowledge in Federal and Basel III (BCBS)regulations in liquidity risk management, Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and stress testing.
• Understanding of Volker rule
• Knowledge in front to back office trading functions booking, processing and reporting
• Designed and reviewed of various documents including the User stories, Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), High Level Design Document (HLD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents
• Experience in creating mock ups, prototyping using Axure and Visio
• Transformed business requirements into functional specifications, focusing on workflow analysis and design, user interface - design, and process flow modeling
• Knowledge of commercial lending attributes
• Knowledge in SAP R3 module, web based shopping portal and supply chain
• Expert in MS Office Products such as Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Access, Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Applications: HPALM, JIRA

Suites: SharePoint, MS Project, MS-Office

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Word, Microsoft Visio

Databases: Oracle, SQL SERVER

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted daily meetings for UAT and recorded updated from each domains, system experts
• Meeting with business team to understand the process in flow for existing system, and assisted IT for transforming those process
• Reviewed business requirements for each domains
• Reviewed test cases for UAT and uploaded them in ALM
• Designed a time line for UAT, Assisted business to build a UAT team
• Assisted in user training for new platform
• Conducted defect management meeting, tracked defect from HP ALM and assigned to concern team for resolution
• Created daily reports, ad-hocs, data analysis for tracking purposes, and conducted data reconciliations
• Assisted business team to migrate from exiting system to new system

Environment: ASP.Net C#,SQL, XML, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, ALM, Oracle 11g.

Confidential, Annapolis, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business area experts, IT experts asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams across organizational lines
• Involved in the periodically held JAD sessions for the purpose of project updates as well as involved in the weekly meetings to discuss the current project status.
• Conducted Agile stand up meetings and created user stories
• Elicited meetings on credit card application process and payments.
• Actively involved in designing of the system with the system architecture and the development team, supporting the technical team in the product development and delivery process and translated the business requirements into Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client’s business processes.
• Provided continuous support to the development team in order to make sure that business requirements are being converted into a desired software product
• Experience in collecting Data mapping requirements.
• Identified Use Cases from the requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications document.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, identifying opportunities for business process improvement and involved in the performance of cost/benefit analysis.
• Actively involved in developing, executing and coordinating functional and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Environment: ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#,SQL, XML, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Jira, Oracle 11g.

Confidential, Annapolis, MD

Business Analyst/QA

Responsibilities:

• Understand business requirements from user interviews to convert requirements into technical specifications
• Conducted joint requirements planning sessions with stakeholders (fixed income business heads) and SME’s (Information Technology Risk and Operations) to gather requirements for FRD (Functional Requirements Document)
• Proactive in responding to the client enquiries and resolved discrepancies.
• Created Use Cases and Use Case Diagrams to define the Functional requirements of the application using MS Visio.
• Generated Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Activity, Sequence Diagrams and Workflow Diagram to demonstrate critical processes
• Assisted Data analyzing activities.

Environment: Java, VB, .Net, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Project, MS excel, MS Word, MS Visio, and MS Power point

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Business Analyst /Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, as well as conducted interviews of appropriate business/technical stakeholders.
• Middle office Business requirement JAD sessions held with team and mangers.
• Worked with project manager on various project management activities like keeping track of project status and deadlines.
• Performed analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the proposed system
• Analyzed existing system and created FRD for migrating to new system.
• Developed and maintained Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional requirement documents (FRD).
• Worked closely with the technical team and project manager to analyze, document and optimize on the durations and resource allocations on the project.
• Created Use Cases, Activity, Class diagrams and Workflow process diagrams.
• Analyzed, documented and managed project requirements and changes to requirements throughout the software development lifecycle using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Developed Test Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: .Net, C#, Quality Center, SQL Server, MS Project, Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case. MS Office.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience from Front to back office, worked with fund managers, financial advisors and technical team members.
• Assisted QA team to do test planning
• Interacted with Fixed Income business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the application.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract data from the Tables
• Created Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Assisted with project team in the whole project lifecycle phases including scope analyzing, requirements gatherings, developments and quality assurance.
• Used MS Visio for Process modeling and Business Process flow diagrams.
• Conducted interviews with various business users to collect requirement and business process information using MS Visio, Requisite pro.
• Created Functional documents for technical team.
• Documented Requirements for Fixed Income, Asset Management Services, Client portfolio management, Order management system, Performance, Equities, Transaction capture Execution and reporting requirements for the user interface.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology
• Identified, researched, realized, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Visio
• Prepared detailed design documents to translate business process effectively for developers and product managers using MS Visio.
• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing, performed client presentations.

Environment: Windows, Oracle, SQL, MS Visio, HTML, MS Access, Quality Center, Requisite pro, Rational ClearQuest.