SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience in the IT industry with experience in Agile methodology (Scrum) along with extensive analytical and management skills.
• Functional knowledge of Retail, Banking and Mortgage industry with exposure to Annuity, Fixed Income, Change management, Web content management, ECommerce, and Investment Banking.
• Experience in creating Business Requirements Documents(BRDs), Project Plans,Functional Requirement Specificationsdocument (FRD),RFP, Use Cases,User Stories, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Requirement Traceability Matrix andTest Plans.
• Efficient in conducting workshops andJoint Application Development(JAD)& Joint Application Requirement (JAR) sessions, Project meetings, Reviews and walk through sessions.
• Expertise of UML and BPMN in visualizing and documenting the artifacts using Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, snowflake schema, Architecture Diagram development, Class diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, Swim lanes, Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Experience in assisting Project Manager with - SOP, RFP, SOW, Planning and Budgeting.
• Knowledge of Financial Statements, Credit Risk, FX, Loans, Options, Equities, Futures, Cash Flows, Financing Structures, Portfolio Analysis, ROI, Stock Valuation, Bonds, Derivatives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Rational Tools: Rational-Rose, Requisite-Pro, Rally, Clear Case, Clear-Quest, and Test-Manager.

Data-Modeling/PM Tools: SharePoint 2010/2013, Atlassian Jira, VersionOne, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel 2003, 2007, 2010.

Databases: Oracle (8i/9i and 10g), MS Access, MS SQL Server 2008/2010.

Business Intelligence: Cogno’s, Business Objects, OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1, Microsoft RS, Clarity, Ad-hoc Reports and Crystal Reports, Tableau, HP Quality Center, DOORS, HP ALM, HP Repository, Test Director, Quick Test Pro.

Software Tools: Win-Runner, Load-Runner, Cyberlife Administration System.

BPM Tools: PEGA BPM Suite (PRPC, Process Analyzer, Simulator).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Methodology for facilitating user stories workshop. Documented User Stories in VersionOne.
• Participated in Daily standup, Product Refinement Session, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, & Sprint Retrospective meetings for smooth execution of the sprint.
• Created mockups for the website and document the listing name, description and functionalities of each screen page for client sign-off.
• Conducted and facilitated technical requirements meeting with the developers on the team for Iteration planning.
• Lead and supported change control on requirements and develop requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
• Developed business rules spreadsheets (BRSs) to document data movement/data transformation rules.
• Performed data profiling, data analysis, set up mock data for development/unit testing.
• Worked with developers, data modelers, testers and business area SMEs to support development, system testing and UAT.
• Maintained documents and collaborated with the team by extensive use of SharePoint.

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented Business requirements and Business Process Models to create BRD for better understanding of the business process.
• Followed the UML based methods using MS Visio to create Use Case, Activity/State Chart, Data Flow diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams and analyzed them to create “AS IS” and “TO BE” scenarios.
• Created the BPM using MS Visio and present it to the SME for validation and getting the sign-offs.
• Worked closely with the Technical Analyst to study the UI Prototypes, USE CASE BAC (Business Acceptance Criteria document) and DRD (Data Requirements Document).
• Developed governance plan including guidelines on taxonomy, style guidelines, publishing processes, naming conventions, roles and responsibilities, metadata, approval processes, and more.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with new business requirements. Created training manuals to increase security awareness.
• Participated in the Test phases including development of Test Plan and Test scenarios. Developed and reviewed functional and technical design documents.
• Managed and coordinated site rollout and content migration process.
• Provided SharePoint support for any content migration issues. Conducted SharePoint and MS Office training to end users and site admins.

Confidential, Plantation, FL

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Methodology for facilitating user stories workshop. Documented User Stories in Rally and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Facilitated Daily standup, Product Refinement Session, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, & Sprint Retrospective meetings for smooth execution of the sprint.
• Worked on numerous procedures and security policies in support of engineering operations, participating in regular audits to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the different department heads to have a deeper understanding of the requirements. Created High Level Class structure and Workflows in PEGA PRPC.
• Served as a servant leader by fostering a collaborative environment for scrum teams and encouraging self-management of daily tasks.
• Organized and managed all phases of the software testing process, including planning, writing test cases, executing tests and tracking defects using Rally.
• Developed reports for tracking financial trends and transactions to maintain security and SOX compliance.
• Used Share point to share business requirements documents, data model, Business workflow models and Business rules documents with team and stakeholders.
• Helped QA Team by executing Functional, Integration and System level test cases and test scripts.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Daily Stand ups and other scrum meetings like Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and sprint Retrospective.
• Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Create user stories and its corresponding tasks and enter them into Version One.
• Coordinated extensively with Product owner on Artifacts like Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown and Release Burndown.
• Worked extensively with the team members to pull and own the tasks and helped them remove any impediments that are holding them back from achieving their sprint goals.
• Created several types of info radiators like Release Plan, sprint backlog, impediment wall, to ensure teams progress and success are highly visible to all stakeholders.
• Ensured that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
• Collaborated with QA and developer peers to improve testing processes and infrastructure.
• Developed and implemented manual and automated test cases, plans, and specifications for back-end server team.

Confidential, St Petersburg, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Iterations for releases, Business Requirement and functional requirement in TFS.
• Conducted JAD sessions and interviews with stakeholders and gathering and compiling user and technical requirements to convey to development teams throughout the software lifecycle.
• Implemented SOA concepts (service oriented architecture) for the application and implemented search engine based techniques.
• Worked with cross-functional teams for gathering the requirements. Involved in Project plan, release planning, and scheduling.
• Executed test cases; perform traceability analysis and reporting defects using HP Quality Center.
• Experience in providing integrated services to the number of clients, including debt and equity capital raising, Derivatives, advisory services and financial risk management, risk evaluation as well as equity and fixed income research, sales and trading.
• Developed UML models for modeling static and dynamic aspects of Wealth management portal.
• Worked with several other PM’s and infrastructure team todevelop data management solution that includes master data management, enterprise datawarehouse, and business intelligence.
• Created a Fixed Income app for financial advisors to determine the price, yield, and cash flow for many types of fixed-income securities, including mortgage-backed securities, corporate bonds, treasury bonds, municipal bonds, certificates of deposit, and treasury bills of their clients.
• Defined data Migration strategy, prepare Data Migration Functional Design document.
• Documented Users Interface (GUI) requirements, User manuals, Use case diagrams, Use case specifications an actively participating in system design discussions.
• Used SQL for report generation, automation initiatives and incident investigations.
• Designed and developed Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams utilizing MS Visio.