SUMMARY

• 5 years of experience working as a Business Analyst in the Financial Services industry.
• Business requirement gathering from various sponsors and stakeholders by understanding business goals and priorities through interviewing, research, JAD sessions with teams, stakeholders and end users.
• Actively participated in multiple Agile Ceremonies at various stages of the project like Scrum planning meetings and Sprint meetings, Daily Scrum.
• Performing GAP analysis on existing system and suggest solutions for a new system based on business needs.
• Drafting business requirements and functional requirements in the form of BRDs, FRDs, and SRSs etc. with great technical detail to support actual implementation of project. Hands - on experience with MS Visio and use case diagrams for creating data flow/process flow diagrams such as flowcharts, activity charts, sequence diagrams as per UML.
• Created and maintained Epics and User Stories by interviewing thebusinessusers to communicate the requirements to development and testing teams.
• Facilitating User Acceptance Tests and other testing procedures when required. Testing phase of the project included producing test cases and scripts, manage progress and debugging.
• Identifying issues/risks on a timely basis and confronting the stakeholder for mitigation.
• Extensive experience in developing and enhancing applications for financial purposes in the advisory sector.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Technically competent and goal oriented with problem solving skills. Excellent team management and leadership skills. Additionally, great presentation skills in regards to communication with both business and technical teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM)

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio

Requirement Management Tools: Confluence, Caliber RM, Etl Informatica

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP QC-ALM

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Xp, vista7, Mac OS X

Databases: Oracle (11g), MS SQL Server

Tools: MS PROJECT, SQL, SharePoint, MS Office, MS Excel

Reporting Tool: Crystal Reports

Prototype Tool: Justinmind

Data Visualization Tools: Tableau, Qlickview

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked with various work stream leads to define theBASEL3 RWA requirements and documented theBusiness(BRD:Businessrequirement document).
• Created (Functional Required Documents), System Requirement Specifications (SRS)
• Coordinated with various work stream (Fin/Reg and risk) and Risk sub work stream (credit, market and counterparty risk) in different geographic location (SF, Hawaii, NY and Paris) and entities (BOW, FHB and BNPP).
• Created current and future process models by using Microsoft Visio and identified existing gaps that required to be addressed.
• Participate in reconciliations between the Accounting and the Risksystems, perform analysis and contribute to resolution of reconciliation breaks.
• Worked with work streams leads to provide control of data for audit purpose.
• Ensured the proper audit trail and the documentation on theBaselIIIRisk Weighted Assets and Risk BasedCapital for the IHC.
• Contribute to the data collection and data source analysis and remediation of data issues for Risk Weighted Assets calculation.
• Engaged with the Client to demonstrate and test the iterative work product while making sure along the way that the developments meet their needs.
• Prepared Data analysis and data cleansing to ensure data quality in the system.
• Acquire data from different data sources and maintain databases.
• Worked with work stream and entity leads to identify various data elements that were required for regulatory reporting.
• Worked with data stewards to establish a Data quality framework and define data quality rules for key data elements impacting RWA calculation.
• Provided project status to project owners in weekly meetings and kept track of project for status reporting and project planning and Coordinated with IT in development of DQ metrics and dashboards.

Environment: Windows, MS Office, Waterfall, Notepad++, MS Visio, JIRA, Confluence, Oracle 11g, TableauHP ALM, ETL Informatica, Crystal Reports.

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gap analysis and mapping document of data attributes for data migration.
• Worked withBusinessUsers, Customers and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to understand the existing reportingsystemand the current process and methods of report generation.
• Worked with SME to understand the manual feed of confidential data presented in the Operational Risk reports.
• Created and maintained Epics and User Stories by interviewing thebusinessusers to communicate the requirements to development and testing teams.
• Collaborated withBusinessfor Product/Sprint backlogs prioritizations and backlog grooming
• As a Product Owner/story author collaborated with Scrum Master for all scrum meetings like Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives.
• Participated in daily standup meetings & sprint retrospective meetings with the Agile team to ensure that the requirements are accurately understood.
• Collaborated in Sprint retrospective meetings and Poker-planning sessions.
• Maintained burn-down charts and task boards in collaboration with Scrum master.
• Worked closely with the QA Team to create test plan and test scripts and review test cases.
• Validated and regularly monitored all the filed defects and their progress.
• Involved in understanding thebusinesslogic for calculation of the different Operational Risk types across the LOBs.
• Ability to analyze the problems occurring with the clients data by verifying the contents of the file
• Collaborated with the testing teams for validating test cases, test scripts planning, review and approval.
• Involved in creating the User Manual Document and training for the end users.
• Worked with the team on various ProjectManagementactivities like keeping track of Project Status, Deadlines, Environment Request, and Risk Compliance Issues.

Environment: JIRA, SAP-Power Designer, JustInMind, MS-Office Suite, MS-SharePoint, SnagIt, Qlickview, MS Visio

Business analyst

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Responsibilities:

• Built effective relationships with clients to develop a joint vision for the project.
• Consulted withbusinessteam to identify, define and documentbusinessneeds and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements.
• Performed elicitation techniques for gathering requirements.
• Ensured that the requirements set forth by thebusinessare captured and documented correctly before the solution is developed and implemented.
• Experience in Multi-factor authentication for security purpose.
• Developed detailed functional and technical requirements from the high-levelbusinessrequirements shared by stakeholders; prioritized the requirements for development.
• Analyzed processes As-Is and developed To-Be; ensured that the context and implications of change were understood by the clients and the project team.
• Developed an understanding of how present and futurebusinessneeds will impact the solution; developed a risk analysis document.
• Worked in Infrastructureenvironment for documenting and implementing new programs.
• Provided guidance to the project team in regards to the in-depthbusinessdomain and assist them in technology development.
• Worked as a high-levelbusinessexpert/ consultant to the project owners and executives in shaping the strategic decision-making process.
• Developed requirements management plan and disseminated the plan to all stakeholders; gathered requirements from various stakeholders through Brainstorming session and workshops.
• Participated in multiple Agile Ceremonies at various stages of the project.

Environment: Caliber RM, SharePoint, SQL Server, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Visio.