SUMMARY

• 8 years of extensive experience as a Business/Systems Analyst in business requirement gathering and analysis, business process re - engineering, object-oriented design and modeling and project management in Banking/Finance,
• Experience with Onsite/Offshore co-ordination models.
• Business Process Modeling (BPM), Use Case modeling using UML, Data Modeling, Project Management, Change Management, Software Training, Software Development methodologies, QA testing and Systems Testing, troubleshooting of client server and web-based systems.
• Experience on both Agile and Waterfall Software development methodology.
• Responsibilities carried out as Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, and Team Lead; 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 Testing Teams and other SMEs.
• Experienced working with Business and Development team in gathering and prioritizing business needs for successful execution of teh project.
• Experienced with reviewing and writing BRD, FRD, Technical Specification document
• Managed program and project efforts for Logistics and E-Commerce, POS, Supply Chain, CMS, and Web based applications, business strategy and web site content, content management.
• Subject matter expertise in Securities and Capital Markets, Risk Management (Market and Credit), Fixed Income and Derivatives, Credit Derivatives Market, Equity Market, and Money Market
• Good Understanding of different phase of Trade Lifecycle such as Account Set-up, Trade Order Generation, and Trade Order Execution, Order Settlement etc...
• Strong domain noledge in Banking and Finance. Good understanding of basic principals of financial markets and instruments (Equity Derivatives, Cash Equities (Domestic and International), Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives (FX Options, OTC Options, Swaps, Forwards, Futures, Market Link Investments, Deposits, Repos, CDS), Mutual funds, NAV, fund accounting
• Knowledge and understanding of FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) regulations.
• In-depth noledge in teh Investment Banking Industry, Project Finance, Credit Card Industry, Mortgage Loan Origination, Loan Servicing, Treasury Services (ACH, Wire Transfers etc.), Brokerage Services, Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Asset Wealth Management, Liquidity Risk, Cash Management, Capital Market risk and Credit Risk Fundamentals
• Knowledge in Federal and Basel III (BCBS)regulations in liquidity risk management and Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
• In depth noledge and experience in Front to back office trading functions booking, processing and reporting.
• Experience in creating BRD and FRD for front to back office trade life cycle .Trade order generation, Risk management, clearing and settlement .
• Hands on experience in creating SQL Queries, Stored Procedures, Data modeling, Triggers, Views, Indexes in SQL Server with a strong understanding of data & analytics.
• Design and review of various documents including teh Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), User stories, Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), High Level Design Document (HLD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents.
• Hands on experience in Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence tools Informatica, Business Objects Cognos, Qlik view andTableau Dashboards.
• Worked efficiently on multiple projects spanning over different releases at teh same time
• Knowledge of Credit valuation Adjustments(CVA) and credit risk exposure.
• Experience in Enterprise data warehousing tools (ERP) like SAP R/3, SAP APO (Advanced planning and optimization) tools.
• Experience in Wire framing and, mock ups, prototyping using Axure.
• Experience working with data elements and metadata requirement gathering and used ETL for integrate data from multiple platforms.
• End-to-end data warehousing experience across full SDLC from inception to deployment. Experienced in both strategy and tactical of BI projects.
• Proven track record in requirement gathering & analysis, data collection, analysis and evaluation in Information Systems issues, analytical problem solving and decision making, communication and inter-personal skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Transformed business requirements into functional specifications, focusing on workflow analysis and design, user interface - UI design, and process flow modeling.
• Expert in MS Office Products such as Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Access, Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Testing Applications: Rational Test Manager, HPQC,JIRA,HP QTP

Suites: SharePoint, MS Project, MS-Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Adobe Photoshop)

Reporting Tools: Cognos, Business Objects and Crystal Reports, Qlik view

Requirement Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear-Quest, Caliber RM

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm, Microsoft Visio

Databases: Oracle, DB2, UDB, SQL SERVER, MS ACCESS, Mainframe

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, Lean, Kanban, XP

Applications: BMC Remedy, SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Annapolis, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business area experts, IT experts asking detailed questions and carefully recording teh requirements in a format dat can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams across organizational lines
• Involved in teh periodically held JAD sessions for teh purpose of project updates as well as involved in teh weekly meetings to discuss teh 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 teh system with teh system architecture and teh development team, supporting teh technical team in teh product development and delivery process and translated teh business requirements into Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Monitored client expectations and skillfully negotiated with clients through client involvement and all types of communication with teh client’s team throughout teh lifecycle of teh project.
• Interacted with teh Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client’s business processes.
• Followed UML based methodology using Rational Rose for creating Business Cases and Use Case Models after assessing teh status and scope of teh project and implementing technology based solutions dat will meet their strategic business processes needs.
• Provided continuous support to teh development team in order to make sure dat business requirements are being converted into a desired software product
• Identified Use Cases from teh requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications document.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, identifying opportunities for business process improvement and involved in teh performance of cost/benefit analysis.
• Worked extensively on data mapping and metadata requirements. Wrote SQL queries to test teh source to target data.
• Reported status to project management and project owners on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Actively involved in developing, executing and coordinating functional and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Maintained strong working relationship with various business groups such as project technical/development team and external clients throughout teh development process of teh credit card processing system.

Environment: ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#,SQL, PL SQL, MS SQL Server, Qlik View,JSP, XML, MS Visual Basic, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Win Runner, Test Director, Oracle 11g, Windows XP/NT, MS Project,Agile/Scrum.

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 teh client enquiries and resolved discrepancies.
• Organized meetings with teh development and QA teams to elicit use cases and document them
• Created Use Cases and Use Case Diagrams to define teh Functional requirements of teh application using MS Visio.
• Generated Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Activity, State Transition, Sequence Diagrams and Workflow Diagram to demonstrate critical processes
• Excellent experience in design and development of Data warehousing solutions and generation of OLAP reports

Environment: SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic, Sybase, 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.
• Worked with project manager on various project management activities like keeping track of project status and deadlines.
• Performed analysis to identify teh deficiencies of teh current system and to identify teh requirements for teh proposed system
• Developed and maintained Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional requirement documents (FRD).
• Worked closely with teh technical team and project manager to analyze, document and optimize on teh durations and resource allocations on teh project.
• Utilized RUP methodology and created Use Cases, Activity, Class diagrams and Workflow process diagrams.
• Analyzed, documented and managed project requirements and changes to requirements throughout teh software development lifecycle using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Documented Functional Requirement Specifications (FRD) and assisted Systems Analyst to come up with System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Analyzed team performance with teh QA manager and implemented teh changes if any, with respect to raising teh efficiency of teh entire team.
• Worked with developers to test teh iterations of teh System under Development (SUD) to ensure it met teh user’s needs.
• Developed Test Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: MS Office,.Net, C#, Quality Center, SQL Server, MS Project, Server, MS Visio, Unix, XML, Mainframes and Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case, Windows XP, SOAPUI, Jmeter, Restful Webservices, Sun Solaris, Linux, Adobe CQ5.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience from Front to back office, worked with fund managers, financial advisors and technical team members.
• Designed asset management portfolio for its customers as per business requirements.
• Interacted with Fixed Income business heads to finalize teh Business Requirements for teh application.
• Worked in Wire framing and prototyping using Axure.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract data from teh Tables
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frame with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using teh UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Assisted with project team in teh 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.
• Conduct extensive analysis on security trading cycles; provide consulting on financial disclosure, regulatory and Compliance issues
• PerformedDatamapping, data mining,data analysis, logicaldatamodeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filterdata
• Used SQL for data extraction and data analysis, Qlik view dashboards TEMPhas been made to increase teh data visualization.
• Documented Requirements for Activity management, Fixed Income, Asset Management Services, Client portfolio management, Order management system, Performance, Equities, Reconciliation, Transaction capture Execution and reporting requirements for teh user interface.
• Conducted project due diligence and created testing document to meet Sarbanes-Oxley and other Compliance requirements
• Worked with Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
• Involved with teh trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Credit default swaps, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives; and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology
• Gained understanding of teh Asset management requirements for risk analytics and developed teh equity reference data mappings and equity reference data dictionaries considering teh source system and target system equity reference data.
• Identified, researched, realized, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Rational and Visio
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Visio.
• Prepared detailed design documents to translate business process effectively for developers and product managers using MS Visio.
• Developed user documentation for all teh application modules. Also responsible for writing test plan documents and unit testing for teh application modules.
• Executed Regression and IST sceneries in teh Quality Center
• Assisted in system and User Acceptance Testing, performed client presentations.
• Assured dat all Artifacts are in Compliance with corporate AGILE Policies and guidelines.

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