SUMMARY

• Over 7 + years of Professional Experience as a Business Analyst in Banking and Financial Service Industries.
• Experience in Working and Assisting in all the phases in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Working Knowledge in Methodologies like Waterfall, Agile and Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Expertise in Performing GAP analysis (AS IS and TO BE), checking the feasibility, providing Cost - Benefit Analysis Report.
• Proficiency in Requirement Elicitation with respect to discovering user requirements by conducting Client Workshops, Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, Brainstorming sessions and documenting them in terms of preparing the Business Requirement Document (BRD)
• Experience in authoring Functional Specification Documents by capturing User Interface Screen Layouts (Wireframes) and designing various UML diagrams including Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams and Process Flow Chart
• Sound Knowledge of Data Modeling with respect to identifying Data Entities, defining Data Attributes and Relationships while validating Data Quality and designing Entity-Relationship diagrams
• Technical Competence in Data Mapping with respect to evaluating data values from different data sources and targets while determining complex mappings between data sets
• Experience in designing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Cases and proficiency in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of systems and application fixes and development
• Proven Expertise in using Test Management tools to identify, manage and log defects in the Bug Tracking System including the capability to evaluate the criticality of the bug and correspondingly assign for resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, MS-Dos, Unix

Database Systems: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2

Tools: MS Office, SQL, JIRA, MS Visio, Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for the Stake Holders and Subject Matter Experts (SME) by conducting interviews and JAD Sessions.
• Worked and assisted in the all the phases of SDLC.
• Performed GAP analysis of AS-IS and TO-BE Systems and modeled them for better understand of the business process.
• Adapter Scrum methodology for the Project.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to design Product Backlog.
• Conducted Daily Stand Ups and checked accomplished task with the Team.
• Used JIRA to write the User Stories and Usecases.
• Closely worked with the Risk Team to understand Stress Testing.
• Assisted in designing the Test Cases for the QA Testing.
• Noted the feedback from the User after Performing User Acceptance Testing UAT.
• Provided Productions Support by Training Users.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, JIRA, Sql Server.

Confidential - Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the current systems in place and evaluated their use and scalability in developing this system.
• Gathered all the requirements from the business users and mapped out the scope of the project.
• Prepared the High level documents and use cases to provide oversight to development and design teams in execution of concepts.
• Worked with the UI team and designed the mock-up screens as per technical requirements to match user acceptance criteria on how the reports should look like. Prepared excel mock up to explain the surplus and deficit calculation algorithm to developers.
• By working with the database team, understood the end to end flow on how the reference data and position data are integrated with the system.
• We followed the agile methodology, I assisted product owner in various stages of Agile in managing the product backlog based on the priority of the requirements during sprint planning.
• Extensively involved in defect tracking and management - open defects, prioritizing defects, assign to the concerned developers, track status, ensure fixes and summary reporting.
• Worked with the QA team and created traceability matrix for every possible scenarios. Monitored the QA testing process, tracked issues, risks and dependencies on analysis and requirements work.
• Cross-Checked the system generated report using SQL queries.
• Performed SIT/User Acceptance Testing, managed defect life cycle and tracked each defects through JIRA.
• Managed Post production activity, continuously monitored production environment and assigned production issues for immediate rectification.
• Documented the feedback from users for future enhancements. Contributed to the future direction of the team’s projects.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, Blue Print, HP UFT.

Confidential - New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited the project requirements from stakeholders by employing techniques such as one-on-one interviews, JAD workshops, focus groups, observing real-time trade processes, and reviewing existing documentation
• Performed GAP analysis analyzing the existing system, determining factors required to achieve the desired state of system and identifying the differences
• Prepared Business Requirement Document clearly articulating key business objectives, user requirements, dependencies, and constraints; worked closely with technical team to prepare Functional Specification Document capturing the functional specifications, application interfaces, batch jobs / schedules, GUI design, and Use Cases
• Implemented effective traceability strategy by employing Requirement Traceability Matrix managing the forward and backward tracking between business requirements and test cases
• Conducted business modeling using MS Visio to visually represent and analyze requirements by creating written use cases, use case diagrams, workflow diagrams, process flow charts, activity diagrams, swim lane diagrams, and class diagrams
• Worked with data modeling team to develop Entity-Relationship (ER) diagram (conceptual, logical, and physical data model) using Erwin employing best practices such as database refactoring, encapsulation, and normalization
• Prepared data mapping document to setup the end-to-end data load process (ETL) for market & reference data vendors such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Interactive Data into the target databases
• Constructed complex SQL queries and stored procedures to access various data marts to extract and generate user reports such as Order History Reports and Issuer Availability Reports
• Assisted Quality Assurance team in developing the Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, and Test Scripts to perform Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Performance testing, GUI testing, Sanity testing, Regression testing, and extensively supported UAT in each sprint

Environment: MS Office, MS SQL Server, Rational Rose, Rational Quality Manager.

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews with business user for requirement gathering and in designing trading and notification screens.
• Adapted Waterfall Methodology for the Project
• Performed Feasibility and GAP analysis to understand various aspects of ‘’As and To Be’’ scenarios of the system. Negotiated solutions with business users to refine initial scope and requirements.
• Gathered all the Requirements from clients, created FRD, SSD and Use Cases.
• Developed screen mock ups using MS Visio to explain users & development teams on how a trading window & notification screens should look as per user requirements.
• Supported the QA team in understanding and prioritization of requirement testing.
• Developed SIT/QA/UAT test plans and scripts; managed the defect/resolution process with IT and business leads;
• Did Integration testing to check the integration between equity trading system and Trade notification framework.
• Performed User Acceptance testing and obtained formal user sign offs for the test plan and exit results.
• Ensured that appropriate levels of service are provided to meet current and future business needs. Worked with an in-depth understanding of equity trading end to end flows.

Environment: Palisade

Confidential - Fort Lee, NJ

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the project through complete SDLC process.
• Managed product and Sprint Backlog by gathering requirements through user stories and managed Scrum calls and daily meetings.
• Partially Implemented Waterfall Methodology.
• Worked with Project Manager and coordinated Development team, DBA’s, and QA team during each stage of SDLC
• Worked with Project Manager for various Project Management tasks like generating estimates, resource allocation and status updates on various projects
• Interacted with many internal and external users in order to receive and automate the receiving process of data
• Assisted Data modeling team to identify various entities and entity types, developed a progressive relationship between various entities and respective constrains
• Coordinated with DBA’s and ETL team to make necessary Database changes and created mapping document and executed SQL queries and worked with Data Base team
• Worked with SME and QA team to help them on creating user scenarios for system testing and UAT. Performed Unit testing and integrated testing

Environment: MS Office, Informatica, MS Visio