SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst with excellent understanding, analyzing, and documenting Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Business Process Flow, Business Process Mapping, and Modeling
• Expertise in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Use Cases, Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN , Object-oriented Analysis and Design, Rational Unified Process RUP and Rational tools used during all four phases of RUP: Inception, Elaboration, Construction
• Extensive experience in Investment Banking, Retail/Commercial Banking, Financial Services, Portfolio Management, and Cash Management
• Knowledge in Counterparty, Financial Products, derivatives, equities, options, F.I. and ETFs.
• Experience in preparation of Deliverables, Business Requirement Documents BRD , System Requirement Specifications SRS , Functional Requirements Document FRD , Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM developing Use Cases and Test Cases
• Providing traceability across the project by analysis and review of project elements involved in traceability including testing artifacts, end-user support documentation and training materials.
• Extensive Documentation Skills for use in Standardization of Testing and Programming Procedures and Guidelines. Extensive experience to analyze and document business requirements and system functional specifications including use cases
• Strong Knowledge of RUP, Rational Suite including Rational Rose, Requisite Pro
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, design and Rapid Application Development RAD
• Conducted GAP Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis, and Impact Analysis, modeling Businesses Processes, and prepared Training Manuals and Knowledge Transfer manuals
• Expertise in creating Unified Modeling Language UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, as well as Data Flow Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, and Flow Charts using MS Visio and Rational Rose
• Experience in working with QA Teams in defining the Test Plans and Test Cases, and conducting User Acceptance Testing UAT
• Broad understanding of SharePoint's information sharing, docs management reporting.
• Experience gathering business requirements for integration points including downstream/upstream interface requirements
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, and analytical skills and experience of working in high pressure environments
• Education: MBA Finance
• Technical Skills:
• Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, PVCS, CMM, UML, Mercury Test Director, Rational Suite, PVCS, Rational Clear Case, Microsoft Office Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel , Microsoft Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint Systems development life cycle SDLC , Teradata, Rational Unified Process RUP , E/R Design, Waterfall, Prototype and Agile, Oracle, DB2, MS Access, SQL Server, Windows 95/98/00/XP/Vista, Mac OS- X, and NT, C, C , SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Obtained a detailed knowledge of business process involved in the project environment.
• Interacted with SMEs, Directors, IT and Vendors for overall understanding and need of the system. Was able to fine tune the business rules with inputs.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business rules as system rules that must be included while developing the software
• Gathered the requirements for a trust/custodian to open an account
• Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRDs Business Requirement Documents supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and extensively used SharePoint platform to communicate, send and receive these high level documents among team members
• Established Business Analysis methodology using Agile Extreme Programming to create Architecture and Interaction models.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Extensively involved in JAD sessions to converge early towards a design acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME Subject Matter Expertise , vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Scheduled meetings with data analysts, developers, System Analysts to explain the business needs and fine tune the requirements. .
• Made recommendations to improve the current application performance depending on time limitations and capacity constraints with the aid of SCR's Scope Change Requests .
• Authored progress and completion reports, which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
• Assisted in testing the application for Usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application for intended users and tools that will be released out to the field users.
• Environment: MS Word, MS Visio, MS Projects, Mercury Quality Center, MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Teradata, MS SharePoint, M O Serve ME Integrated business system .

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Performed GAP Analysis to analyze the current system and worked with internal users to help define system requirements.
• Assisted in developing Project Proposal, Business Case and Business rules.
• Organized various JAD sessions with development architects and business leads to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet business needs.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.
• Responsible for scheduling meetings with users, SMEs and stakeholders to identify problems resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Worked collaboratively with User Experience Analysts, and System Analysts to help document custom and system modifications.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining documentation related to the project including scope document, vision document, functional specification document, defect status report, risk analysis document, mitigation plans, supplementary requirements specification document and impact analysis document.
• Developed Traceability Matrix for maintaining updating current and new system requirements using MS Excel.
• Created and managed Use Case templates.
• Developed Functional Use Cases to enable developers and other stakeholders to understand the business process.
• Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data.
• Used problem and change management software to document work requests for release activities.
• Coordinated with teams within the organization to collect release requirements via SharePoint
• Produced and managed documentation on release activities to support problem resolution and post-release analysis. Reviewing use cases authored by the off shore team for the second release.
• Environment: MS Word, MS Visio, MS Projects, Mercury Quality Center, .Net framework 3.0, ASP.Net, XML, HTML, SQL Server, MS SharePoint, M O Serve ME Integrated business system .

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Developed and implemented modified RUP approach in interfacing and interviewing different stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Facilitated JAD sessions. Took aggressive efforts towards completion and finalization of documentation towards the end of JAD sessions.
• Analyzed requirement document by identifying ambiguous, incomplete and incorrect requirements. Helped in developing attribute matrix and functionality traceability matrix.
• Acted as liaison between Information Systems group and Business User group.
• Analyzed and collected business requirements, identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.
• Defined user and system requirements for existing and proposed system during existing system integration and new system development initiatives.
• Involved in risk-management process whereby identified critical areas of business risk and modified the business process to reduce the same.
• Studied carefully all of the organization's policies and procedures relating to loans.
• Identified use cases and created Use case, Activity, Sequence, collaboration diagrams and wireframe using MS Visio.
• Worked with data modelers in creating conceptual and logical data models for the warehouse.
• Created data mapping documents DMD and data models for the project to map the data from the source feeds onto the target repository.
• Worked extensively with GUI team for designing the screens and assisted in developing screen shows, and prototyping of the user interface and usability testing.
• Developed test plans and performed testing of the various customers fields and tested the message behavior functionality. The messages are tracked in the system using proprietary tools.
• Extensively worked with quality analysts to make sure that the functionality meets requirements.
• Conducted walkthroughs with development team and stakeholders.
• Environment: UML, RUP, MS Project, MS Access, MS Visio, VB .Net, Teradata, Oracle 8.1, Windows

Confidential

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Responsibilities

• Assisted PMO Leadership Team with the coordination and administration of the Project Management Office including but not limited to the following activities: managing and adjusting project timeline, IT development work efforts for standardization of project implementations, administration duties, monitoring deadlines, activity and issue tracking.
• Gathered and analyzed data in support of SOP's, business use cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements for mortgage loan origination system using RUP standards.
• Interacted with Business Owners, Users, and Stakeholders to identify Business System Needs, evaluated solutions for business problems, and prepared Business Requirements Document BRD .
• Represented the business requirements in various alternative views such as analysis models, process flow diagrams and user stories.
• Worked with SMEs of different groups to gain detailed knowledge of Treasury Services, Commercial Loans, and RSA SecurID Setup to understand the cross impacts of the system.
• Uses UML to produce AS IS and TO BE models
• Followed solely RUP methodologies during the course of the project.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to define the impact of the new requirements on the existing GUI and further prepared Business Impact Analysis Reports.
• Extensively used tools such as Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, MS Access
• Designed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define the Business Process.
• Analyzed the Data Entity Relationships for Teradata trend analysis and worked on Functional Requirements Document FRD .
• Worked on multiple short term projects in between and co-led teams
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate with each other, resolve problems at an early stage.
• Coordinated with the test team to check the Weekly Status and Report it to the Project Manager.
• Responsible for Interacting with the Developers to explain the proposed changes and ensure understanding of the system requirements to handle these changes.
• Developed and maintained Service Oriented Architecture SOA governance process costing models and metrics ensuring architecture compliance.
• Generated reports using Crystal Reports.
• Environment: SDLC, UML, User Count Tool, Rational Tools Suite, MS Project, Teradata, MS Office, Windows XP, MS Access, MS Visio,

Confidential

Business Analyst/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities

• Conducted JAD sessions with each group individually to determine TO-BE processes that would incorporate new incentive code changes into the existing system, while acknowledging all project
• Provided Process Flow diagrams and detailed specification document to each department individually.
• Created data flow diagrams that connected each department and showed how the incentive codes data would flow through the system as the transaction moved through the approval process.
• Effectively assessed business problems, gathered and defined business requirements by using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Documented the functional and Non-functional specifications, which were used by the development staff to create technical designs programming specifications.
• Implemented Traceability Matrix and User Requirement Specification document URS and verified the functionality coverage.
• Used various procurement tools for acquiring right amount of goods from suppliers while analyzing the end-customer needs to purchase for the individual store.
• Documented workflow according to RUP specifications adhering to UML standards.
• Analyzed order processing management system and helped in consolidation of multiple databases into a single database
• Created Use Cases and used MS Visio to model Use Case Diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Environment: UML, Enterprise Architect, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, MS Visio, MS Word, Microsoft Project, Process AMDD , HTML, J2EE, SQL, ORACLE.