SUMMARY:

7 Years Professional Experience as Business Analyst in Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, Retail, B2B, B2C platforms. Extensive experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases. Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models Experienced with various Business Analysis SDLC Methodologies, such as RAD, RUP, Agile, JAD and Spiral Methodologies. Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analyses, Data Mapping, Data Profiling , Gap Analyses, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risks Analyses, and Risk management. Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing UAT and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts. Expertise in UML class diagrams, object diagrams, GAP Analysis, use case diagrams, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and collaboration diagrams as a data analysis methodology for application functionality designs using IBM's Rational Rose. Solid understanding of Business Process definition, Risk Analysis and SDLC methodologies. Knowledge on Software Development Life cycle SDLC- AGILE METHODOLOGY , Rational Unified Process RUP , Capability maturity models CMM , Six Sigma concepts. Conducted joint application development JAD sessions interviewing and assimilating information from Subject matter expertise SMEs , domain experts and disseminating information to project managers, architects, development teams and various other stakeholders. Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications SRS , Business requirements document BRD , Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications FSD , Systems Design Specification SDS , Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM and testing documents Professional experience in data analysis, operations management and development, design, documentation and testing. Maintain Traceability Matrix to Investigate and resolve issues. Extensive documentation skills including preparing test plans, user instruction manuals, programming standards and guidelines Wrote simple to complex SQL queries, procedures, views and Functions for validation of Data Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments ahead of schedule. Created and maintained effective budgets. Advised management on improvement strategies, Competitive Profitability Analysis Excellent in Business proposal Risk Assessment. Highly effective management and organizational skills with ability to prioritize Participated in system Demos to End Users. Communicated with them to gather system feedback and improve functionality. Exposure to Client/Server, Web Application developmental tools and Software development and design

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a business analyst, assisted the Project Manager in defining the detailed scope, objectives, architectural vision of the project, and worked with the design team during the Conceptual design phase.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Gathered business requirements by interviewing the Subject matter experts SMEs , conducting JAD sessions with stakeholders and documented them in a format that could be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams.
• Performed as a business and technical analyst by translating user requirements into practical/integrated process based solution
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion
• Worked along with the Project Manager and other BA's to develop various project plans to track time and progress of various projects using MS Project.
• Carried out extensive analysis of the business requirements and subsequently developed high level Use Cases.
• Prepared Use Case diagrams using MS Visio.
• Prepared basic design diagrams including flow charts, data flow diagrams using MS Visio following the UML conventions.
• Converted functional specifications to technical specifications design of mapping documents
• Designed UI User Interface models, prototypes for the returns integration workflow.
• Wrote Functional specifications for each of the ETL processes, working in close co-ordination with business users and development leads.
• Reported the overall progress periodically to the Project Management and business stakeholders.
• Maintain Requirements, Traceability Matrices and Attribute matrices using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Work on Documentum for Version Controlling, to maintain up to date changes in the Documents.
• Working extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing
• Conducting User Acceptance Testing UAT , gathering and documenting User Manuals and Business Rules.

Environment: Microsoft Word, Intershop, Excel, Outlook, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Java, C , NET, ASP.NET, Business Objects

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with SME's from various business areas Investment Bankers, Stock Holders, Financial Officers, Brokers, Traders and Risk Managers to gather business and user requirements by conducting interviews and JRP session.
• Mapped current business process, gathered Business User Requirements and wrote in Business Requirement Documentation BRD .
• Established RUP methodology and designed and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Identified, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and their Critical Success Factors CSF .
• Generated Physical Data model and Logical data models with Erwin.
• Installing and Configuring Cognos 8 BI Application server, Web server and content database.
• Developed policies and procedures to assure operation of a cost effective revenue collection process, credit card processing, cash management and account receivables.
• Implemented and operated the billing strategies from the designing of bill to issuing the bill accurately on time
• Implemented the debt recovery strategy that helped to obtain maximum leverage from the contract conditions.
• Run, quarterly, monthly, weekly,daily reports as needed to monitor external and internal conditions of the company revenue.
• Used SQL server to generate report to verify the revenue for company purpose.
• Worked on accounts payable, accounts receivable and data relating to credit card payments.
• Created User Requirement Specifications URS and Functional Requirement Specifications FRS documents.
• Used power point presentations for conducting walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.
• Developed timelines for project delivery and managed projects and resources to successful completion and generated report using crystal reports.
• Assisted the project manager in preparing the project schedules, milestone tracking and resource allocation using MS Project 2000.
• Conducted GAP Analysis in understanding how the upgraded system carries out the business functions and assists in ensuring the timely and effective implementation and conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.
• Developed test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data to be used in testing based on business and user requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Created Change Requests records for making changes in the Business Requirement document and Use Cases.
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements and was responsible for all project documentations. Also prepared end-user manual for better understanding of the designed system for the user Environment: Windows XP/2000, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, HTML, XML, .Net, SQL Server 2005, Cognos 8.2 BI Framework Manager, Report Studio, DMR ,Rational Suite Requisite Pro, ClearCase , MS-Project and LoadRunner.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Modeled the As-Is system with complete Gap Analysis for the existing system in order to map it to the To-Be system.
• Interacted with the Financial Examiners and Supervisors to get a better understanding of client business processes, gather business requirements was involve throughout the business SDLC Agile.
• Identified Use cases from the requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications.
• Conducted extensive JAD sessions for gathering the requirements.
• Created business process workflow diagrams Activity diagrams in Rational Rose.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, performed critical path analysis.
• Communicated extensively with the Financial Examiners and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes
• Ensure the application was HIPPA compliant
• Integrated Requisite-Pro with Clear Quest and Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintain tractability among requirements, use cases and change requests
• Managed all the requirements in Requisite-Pro, making requirements available to all team members.
• Used the Unified Change Management from Rational to track changes to multiple artifacts by versioning artifacts, associating requirements to specific change request/defects to streamline the defect/change tracking process.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose/MS Visio to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with Department's SDLC Policies and guidelines.

Environment: Rational Rose, MS Access, MS Excel and MS Word MS Visio, ASP.Net, C ,SQL Server 2005 T-SQL , SSIS, SSRS, Data Warehousing Technologies, Test Director, Quality Center.

Confidential

Business system Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a business system analyst, assisted the Project Manager in defining the detailed scope, objectives, architectural vision of the project, and worked with the design team during the Conceptual design phase.
• Conduct workflow, process diagram and GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements
• Gathered business requirements by interviewing the Subject matter experts SMEs , conducting JAD sessions with stakeholders and documented them in a format that could be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams.
• Performed as a business and technical analyst by translating user requirements into practical/integrated process based solution
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion
• Worked along with the Project Manager and other BA's to develop various project plans to track down the time and progress of various projects using MS Project.
• Carried out extensive analysis of the business requirements and subsequently developed high level Use Cases.
• Prepared Use Case diagrams using MS Visio.
• Prepared basic design diagrams including flow charts, data flow diagrams using MS Visio following the UML conventions.
• Converted functional specifications to technical specifications design of mapping documents
• Designed UI User Interface models, prototypes for the returns integration workflow.
• Wrote Functional specifications for each of the ETL processes, working in close co-ordination with business users and development leads.
• Reported the overall progress periodically to the Project Management and business stakeholders.
• Maintained Requirements, Traceability Matrices and Attribute matrices using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Worked on Documentum for Version Controlling, to maintain up to date changes in the Documents.
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT , gathered and documented User Manuals and Business Rules.

Environment: Microsoft Word, Intershop, Excel, Outlook, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Java, C , NET, ASP.NET, Business Objects

Confidential

Business/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience working with financial products such as fixed income instruments, equity instruments and derivative products like futures, options, swaps, mortgage-backed securities MBS , mutual funds among others with effective contributions at all stages of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and Project life cycle PLC .
• Worked as a Liaison between Stakeholders and IT department to fill the Gap by Using Simple UML Diagrams.
• Created Summary Use Cases for next phase of Forward Engineering.
• Extensive used of UML to draw Business Process Flow, Use Cases Modeling, Sequence, Sequential Diagram and Activity Diagrams.
• Used Rational Suite to analyze business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases and activity diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business, financial and system requirements.
• Worked on credit risk business requirements exposure, collateral and counter-party management.
• Working in strictly time boxed iterations with adaptive planning using some sort of prioritized work list.
• Prepared a Reverse Engineering Business Process Document.
• Communicated with Business Stakeholders for Requirement Gathering.
• Created Oracle BI Answers Requests, Oracle BI Interactive Dashboard Pages and Prompts, and Oracle Delivers iBots
• Established the JAR sessions with Clearinghouse System SME.
• Used MS-Visio to draw Sequence and Activity Diagrams.
• Involved in maintaining Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix. Helped with Data Mapping between the data mart and the Source Systems.
• Inserted Checkpoints to check for broken links, Text and standard properties of an object using Quick Test Pro, handled exceptional situations in test scripts using Recovery Scenario Manager in Quick Test Pro.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used complex SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Assisted the business partner in preparing UAT plan/scripts and assured project manager.

Environment: Rational Rose, MS Access, MS Excel and MS Word MS Visio, ASP.Net, C ,SQL Server 2005 T-SQL , SSIS, SSRS, Data Warehousing Technologies, Test Director, Quality Center