SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with over 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst and UAT coordinator with frontline leadership role in System Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Expertise in requirements gathering through direct user interviews, workshops, secondary market research and database analysis
• Possess exceptional documentation skills for writing Business and Functional requirement documents.
• Worked as Business and Quality Assurance analyst on several Financial/Fixed Income/Equity/Mutual Funds/Derivatives trading and wealth management systems.
• Thorough understanding of Trade Life cycle including post settlement and custody.
• Successful track record interfacing with Information Technology developers and the user community to deliver on time.
• Expertise in User cases, use stories, test planning and Guide wire.
• Strong knowledge of automated and manual testing on mainframe and web-based applications.
• Perform all kinds of testing: Black box, White box, Gray box, Smoke, UAT, End to End, Integration, Functional, Stress, Regression and Performance.
• Proficient in PL/SQL to extract data from MS SQL Server database, Oracle and DB2.
• Conducting JAD sessions with the technology areas, interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations and email, to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts.
• Skilled in developing testing scenarios and testing scripts.
• Extensive knowledge of UML modeling, Drawing Sequence Diagrams, Flow diagram and Activity diagram using tools such as Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.
• Extensively used rational tools for creating use cases, version control, defect tracking and reporting and applied the Rational Unified Process in all areas of a software development life cycle.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools includes MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS SharePoint .
• Skilled in coordinating and communicating between Developers, QA Teams, Management, QA and project leads and stakeholders to keep them informed at all the times about the development and the open issues.
• Exceptional communication skills, Result oriented professional who combines formal education/certifications with experience gained from research and hands-on opportunities.
• Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business as well as financial and system requirements.

SKILLS

• Requirements Gathering Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect.
• Modeling Designing Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose.
• Presentation and Workbooks: MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Quick Test Pro QTP , HP Quality Center.
• Languages: HTML, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, UML, C .
• Methodologies: RUP, Waterfall, Agile.
• Application Servers: BEA WebLogic 6.1/8.1, Apache Tomcat 5.0, WebSphere.
• Operating Systems: UNIX HP, Solaris8.0 , Linux, Windows XP/NT.
• Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server 2009, MS Access.
• Configuration Management / Defect Tracking: Microsoft VSS, CVS, Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, JUnit.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Documented the Business and Functional Requirements for the bank's key Receivables systems.
• Prepared BRDs for CAS- Checking Accts and TIPS- Time Products systems based on the requirements gathered from RUSA business team.
• Conducted Gap Analysis and created an AS-IS workflow to better understand the interfacing of the assigned legacy sub-systems mainly Safe Box, Tax Shelter and Online Overdraft.
• Designed Data Flow Diagrams DFD's and assisted development teams with required data analysis and modeling of CMR--Global repository hosting 148 million CITI customers and 131 million accounts around the globe.
• Performed SQL queries to mine data for business teams. Also, conditioned the data for testers.
• Coordinated with Mainframe development teams to monitor Test batch runs for legacy CBNA applications.
• Worked as an Interface between the end users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential Functional
• Requirements, Non Functional Requirements, Interface Requirements and Report Requirements and ensures that critical requirements are not missed
• Assisted the QA team in designing the Test Plan and Test Cases for User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Business checkout and provided team's signoff on major code releases.
• Assisted the FIU Financial Intelligence Unit team to implement standard processes and procedures for investigation lifecycle.
• Supported the Project testing teams to validate data in SIT and UAT environments.
• Reviewed test cases, generated daily test reports, monitored testing runs, triaged defects and followed up with development and testing teams to ensure timely closure of defects.
• Ran ad hoc shakedown testing postcode releases to ensure system sanity.
• Updated and communicated project status to senior management through weekly reports.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Created Use-Case diagram, Sequence Diagram and Activity Diagram after accessing the scope of the Project and understanding the business processes.
• Modeled the AS-IS system and performed GAP Analysis for the existing system in order to map it to the To-Be system.
• Worked closely with the UI team to model the screens, which met user defined requirements, organizational and regulatory standards.
• Reviewed test cases written by QA team and made modification for better execution of test cases.
• Documented Requirement Traceability matrix in Requisite Pro for traceability of requirements through test cases.
• Coordinated with the PMO group in defining timelines schedules for the project.
• Maintained and monitored Project progress status using MS Project.
• Created the source System Requirement specs SRS articulating the known issues and potential risks for feeding data into PDS repository that will be storing daily positions and reference data subscribed by LRM.
• Analyzed and documented gaps in Sophis', the source trading system, trade and positions attributes based on the requirements defined in the Risk Management BRD.
• Drafted the Trade and Positions sample feed file with types and transformation rules well defined for loading data via ETL.
• Analyzed the data in the source databases to ensured referential integrity across various instances.
• Identified test approaches that optimized the delivery schedules. Lead team meetings and workshops.
• Created the detailed test plans and test cases for testing the enhanced feed.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Elicited business requirements from Middle and Back Office users for system called Pre Payment Tracker PPT , which helps back office confirmation users to post the payment discrepancies, widely used by Chicago, London and Tokyo users, further reducing the emails and data tracking those issues.
• Executed P/L analysis, Risk reconciliation and preparation, G/L reconciliation.
• Worked with Executive management team to strategically manage implementation plans.
• Maintained the database of the daily process, history files and correspondence with clients.
• Interacted with internal teams and external corporate clients in order to obtain timely resolution of queries.
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions with the development team to develop and understand the business requirements and created work flow diagrams using Visio.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries and converted to Excel for data analysis effort for ad-hoc reporting.
• Identified resources and allocated tasks to maximize resource utilization.
• Performed business process analysis and implemented business process re-engineering techniques.
• Worked as a team member of the SME group for developing Cash Management Application.
• Coordinated in development of TAS Trade Amendment System , interface between trading desk and middle office, helps F/O and M/O to make adjustments in trades, generate electronic documents with user identification, and comply to audit standards using SQL.
• Supported special projects as requested by senior management assisting internal managers to derive CPT Cost per Trade .
• Supported the data warehouse team to create a dynamic database that incorporates real time changes and create a correction probability matrix to enable internal users to reduce processing time in resolving issues.
• Use of the system I-CDAS for getting the information of the recent transactions of BOFA with its clients. I-CDAS is unique product of BOFA, which automatically updates its database in ten minute intervals with Derivative Products.
• Member of testing group for the back office new payment generation system called Meridian.