Skills

Please use this table to list the skills noted in the Required/Desired section of the requirement. In addition, please respond with the years of experience for each skill and the last time each skill was used. Add or delete rows as necessary.

Employment History

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst / Solutions Analyst/Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working with Citi bank team to understand their hedge fund requirements.
• Responsible for total program and portfolio management of capital markets software products for operational risk, regulatory compliance, trader workstations, wealth management, market data and client specific custom projects
• Utilized business logic, focus groups, and other resources to allow iterative changes and improvements to business processes, applications, and the user experience.
• Participated in various stages of data and requirement analysis for project needs.
• Gathered in person information from end-side users highlighting their requirements and implemented those ideas into writing technical and functional specifications.
• Worked extensively on Hedge Fund and Private Equities along with Human Resources.
• Development of business process modeling workflows for finance, logistics, and contract management lines of business utilizing IBM System Architect 11.3.
• Analyzing the accuracy of hedge fund financial calculations, business rules and transactions for the application.
• Prepared Use cases based on Business Requirements and High Level Design using MS Visio. Identifying the crucial factors which precipitated in the implementation of the current project.
• Understanding the real end user needs and analyzing their requirements on different platforms performing a cost benefit analysis and Risk analysis.
• Analyzing the current software and hardware system and evaluating their compatibility and scalability in developing the present system.
• Developed used case scenarios, class diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
• Conducted various JAD sessions with different stakeholders in order to get a better understanding of ongoing activities and updating every party of their tasks and assigned duties
• Documented business rules and business integration processes using BRD Business Required Documentation based on the gathered requirements.
• Used MS-Visio and UML for generating Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams also used Adobe RoboHelp, ERD Diagrams, COTS
• Conducted periodic meetings with technical team in order to make sure that developments are adhered to the business requirements and customer's expectations.
• Verified that the requirements are testable and involved in testing for the software implementation
• Imparted technical experience assisting database designers in the development of current project right from the business transition phase to database design phase.
• Used SQL queries for data validation retrieving the date from the back end.
• Developed various Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Verify the issues raised by Citigroup during the UAT testing and document them for the development team to fix them.
• Responsible for resolving the clients issue by working with Development and QA team.
• Constantly followed and reviewed SDLC methodology at every stage of software development in order to make sure that requirements are testable and necessary changes could be made before moving it to production.
• Preformed System Testing, Usability Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing and also Conducted UAT User Acceptance Testing

Environment: Equitrak, V3 System, MS Office,Nintex Workflow Sharepoint, Quality center, Rational Rose, Java, SQL, UML, Oracle, MS Visio, Windows XP, Citrix, PowerPoint.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/Process analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis on historical trade position data, trading trends and opposing trade positions for fraud detection and trading limit violations
• Identified system and operational requirements and improvements while working with other BAs, IT developers, financial analysts, experienced traders and end-users
• Identified requirements to access and store a variety of market, reference and pricing data related to fixed income products so that the results could be published to the trading applications.
• Deep understanding of Front office, middle office and back office activities especially, trade processing and clearing and settlement
• Documented business rules and business integration processes using BRD Business Required Documentation based on the gathered requirements.
• Analyzing the accuracy of hedge fund financial calculations, business rules and transactions for the application.
• Assisted in the implementation of the COTS reporting tool to integrate it with the existing software.
• Extensively used MS-Visio and UML for generating Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams also used AdobeRobo Help.
• Develop artifacts for use in business process re-engineering efforts for Department of Defense client utilizing line of business areas for functional decomposition. These areas include finance, logistics, and contract management.
• Maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM across the deliverables of a project
• Identified entitlements and access issues pertaining to specific streams and user groups and their touch points with other systems
• Contributed to the integration of Wall Street on Demand and NASDAQ streaming quotes with the front end systems
• Provided management with metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings

Environment: Windows NT/2000, Rational Unified Process, UML, Use Cases, Visio, MS Project, MS Excel, Barcap Point, PowerPoint

Confidential

Business Analyst /Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identify internal client and partner business needs by interviews and requirements elicitation session.
• Gather and document feature requirements by developing business cases and use cases.
• Responsible for documenting Activity diagrams, Use Case diagrams Process Flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Conduct gap analysis cost benefit analysis.
• overseeing the work of the team of capital managers and analysts.
• responsible for conducting the meetings on strategies behind venture capital expansion and enhancement of their performance.
• COTS evaluation and implementation for reporting tool, that resulted in choosing Business Objects.
• Utilized business logic, focus groups, and other resources to allow iterative changes and improvements to business processes, applications, and the user experience.
• Coordinate day-to-day decisions, priorities and relevant information by documenting meeting minutes, guidelines, plans, and procedures.
• Identify, plan and manage the design and analysis activity on new business models.
• Involved in the development of a detailed Test Plan, Usability Testing, Wireframes, UX Design and Test cases using HP Quality Center
• Documented the business requirements and web specifications, business rules and workflow and information architecture for CMS and other applications.
• Built a document management system for contract management in Finance Department Prepared business case with plan of implementation and cost-benefit analysis
• Manage project requirements, design document and SIT plans using organization's internal in built tool.
• Use SharePoint for Web Portal and Intranet Functionality.
• Manage Tests, Requirements, Documented defects, change tracking using Rational Test Manager.
• Responsible for defining SLA between FIS and client.

Environment: Agile, MS Office Suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint ,Sharepoint, MS Visio, SharePoint 2.0, Windows7, HP QC, SQL, Java, Dot net, ETL, Oracle, HTML.

Confidential

Business Analyst/Process analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business user groups, other Nike facilities and departments to gather and document business requirements. Coordinate and communicate functional requirements of business unit and technical solutions with IT capability resources by designing and documenting basic functional specs.
• Assisted the Project manager in doing the ROI and GAP analysis
• Experience in Commercial Off-the-Shelf COTS software system implementation in evaluating and selecting COTS solution.
• Develop artifacts for use in business process re-engineering efforts for Department of Defense client utilizing line of business areas for functional decomposition. These areas include finance, logistics, and contract management.
• Documented AS IS system and business process workflow and modeled TO BE business process using Visio
• Conducted interviews, gathered, analyzed and documented the business requirements to formulate FRD
• Build dashboard for decision making based on the past sales trend and market research analysis
• Created artifacts like use cases, user stories, product backlog and sprint backlogs based on Agile practice
• Worked under sprint Iteration model and gained expertise in customized Scrum methodology
• Involved in working with the front-end and back-end system development teams
• Performed UAT to ensure optimization of e-commerce business process flow
• Documented business rules and business integration processes using BRD Business Required Documentation based on the gathered requirements.
• Developed Context diagrams and Class diagrams using MS Visio
• Identified system and operational requirements and improvements while working with other BAs, IT developers, financial analysts, experienced traders and end-users
• Analyzed user problems, during both automated and manual business process by activity diagrams
• Data mapping, logical data modeling and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database
• Worked with QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases using Mercury Quality Center

Environment: MS Office 2007, MS Project, Visio, Power PointRational Clear Case, Rational Test Manager, Data Stage, Mercury Quality Center 9.2,Sharepoint.