SUMMARY

• 9+ years of experience in business analysis, business requirements modeling and development of Web Based, and Client/Server applications in diverse business domains of Finance, Capital, and Banking, Service Industry Sectors.
• Extensive experience in Investment Banking and loans and has specialized in the areas of Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, equities and derivatives trading), wealth management, cash management, and Treasury and risk management.
• Experience inregulatoryreporting requirement analysis.
• Strong knowledge in Automated Clearing House (ACH), Bank Clearing System, Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). General understanding of Accounting process including general ledger and account reconciliation.
• Proficient in gathering and converting User Requirements into Business Requirements and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and use Modeling tools like Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio for requirements modeling.
• Experience in identifying and documenting detailed business requirements pertaining to Fixed Income Securities and Repo/Reverse Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trading Cycle, Derivatives, OTC traded securities Trading Life Cycle, Portfolio Management, Corporate Action, and Wealth Management, etc.
• Expertise in Business Process Modeling, Business Process Re - design and in designing Process Architecture.
• Experience in development methodologies like RUP, SDLC, JIRA AGILE, SCRUM and Waterfall.
• Written Use cases and have produced Use Case Models, creating Behavioral diagrams (use case diagram, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams) based on UML Methodology & Business process flow diagrams.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, ROI analysis.
• Extensively used JIRA for managing User stories and contributed in Scrum Ceremonies like Release Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Standup meeting, Sprint Review and Retrospective while assisting Product owner in prioritizing the Product Backlog Items (PBI).
• Proficient in the use of tools like Telelogic DOORS, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, Telelogic System Architect and MS Visio.
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications, including BRD, FRD, and FSD
• Actively involved in organizational level Big-Data and Hadoop architectural implementation sessions as well as pilot projects.
• Solid understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object Modeling Technique (OMT), Extreme Programming (XP), and Object Oriented Analysis (OOA).
• Experience it in Amazon cloud AWS easy to auto scaling EBS, S3 glacier, Storage Gateway, snowball, Amazon connect, Data transfer, Data pipeline, VPC, Cloud front, route 53, elastic load balancing, ideas, Aurora, dynamo DB, Richard, data migration service, cloud front, cloud formation, cloud trial, elastic been stuck, office work, IOT, AWS management console etc.
• Excellent in designing business models using UML diagrams such as use case diagrams, class diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Highly efficient in using the change management tools of Version Control System like Document Center/Documentum and IBM Rational Clear Case.
• Experience in developing QA test cases, test scenario and leading towards UAT and Beta Testing for ensuring the application’s successfulness.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and White Board Sessions with end-users, Subject Matter Expert (SMEs) team, Architects and design group development and QA team for project meetings, walkthroughs and customer interviews commensurate with excellent communication skills.
• Creative and aggressive self-starter with integrative thinking skills, capable of communicating creative ideas through graphical analysis charts and statistical data display.
• Solid Experience in Collection, Analyses, and Documentation of Users Requirements, as well as Organizing interviews, user meetings, workshops, JAD sessions.
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications, including BRD, FRD, and FSD.
• Expertise in developing QA Test Plan, Test Conditions, and Test Cases; ensuring adequate testing of software both before and after completion; conducting and documenting UAT.
• Strong knowledge of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Business Architecture.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Business Analysis
• Data Mapping
• Data Modeling
• Requirements Gathering
• Functional Specification Design
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Documenting Process Flow
• Process Re-Engineering
• Process Mapping
• Business Contingency/ Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• GAP Analysis
• SDLC
• Rational Rose
• Clear Case
• Clear Quest
• Win Runner
• Windows
• Unix
• Linux
• Solaris
• SQL Basic
• Shell Scripts
• MS Visio
• MS office
• Silverlight
• Adobe PageMaker
• Adobe Photoshop
• MS Office
• Visio
• MS Word
• MS Project
• Adobe workflow systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Functional Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business community to define business requirements and analyze the possible technical solutions.
• Create and manage all implementation documentation. Scope, project plan, schedule, weekly status reports, risk management reports, business requirements document, training materials, etc.
• Worked extensively with SME in understanding and documenting their requirements pertaining to monitoring changes and portraying a trend to maintain and analyze customer needs and many other business areas.
• Co-authored documents for capturing pricing data using Bloomberg and Reuters terminals.
• Worked as Project Manager for time being, led a group of 15 plus people, modified timeline for program planning period in order to include Project Initiation Phase.
• Involved in creating technical requirements (HLDs/LLDs) from business process requirements (BRDs) within Hadoop technology stack.
• Extensively worked over AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, and EBS for installing, configuring and troubleshooting, for server migration from physical to cloud.
• Facilitated, configured, and led first Agile-Scrum (JIRA) development team to kickoff IT Agile/CICD initiative.
• Promoted to Senior Project Coordinator based on initiative of identifying, researching, and rectifying gaps and discrepancies inRegulatoryReporting.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Deep understanding the Business Flow of Investment Banking, and extensively involved in Portfolio management and analyses, Mutual Funds, Securities trading.
• Conducted market research and analysis in Capital Markets consisting of Stock Market and Bond Market.
• Scheduled and conducted meetings with client work group (SME’s) to identify requirements, and documented them in SRS document and identified priorities.
• Analyzed the various kinds of risks that had to be accounted such as the Asset Class Risk for e.g. Credit Card Risk, Personal Loan Risk, Mortgage Loan risk, etc.
• Modeled the risks in Excel spreadsheet and performed sensitivity analysis and shared this document with the managers and the technical team to facilitate more efficient communication.
• Involved in performance testing, functional testing and integration testing.
• Used Rational Rose to designed and develop Use Cases scenarios, Use Cases models, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and State chart diagrams.
• Created Use Case model and process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Designed and Developed the Business Objects Universes which suit the standard, analytical and ad-hoc reporting requirements of the Business Objects users.
• Developed and maintain information and documentation related to developing and modifying business processes and systems.
• Experienced implementing Operational Risk Management and Mitigation strategies.
• Streamlined the Restatement Financial Data Warehouse access review Process.
• Gathered requirements from users of the Clear Quest (CQ) tool for any Enhancements or change requests for any defects.
• Established RUP (Rational Unified Process) methodology and provided assistance in developing Use cases and project plans.
• Hands on experience in managing and reviewing Hadoop log files with the development team.
• Co-authored many business requirements document with project teams for Fixed Income and Brokerage documents. Extract, discuss, and refine business requirements from business users and team members.
• Delivered presentations on Project Status and Current Open Issues Report to Users, Stakeholders and other involved groups.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Functional Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Helped in defining Change Management Process for Release Management Team.
• Mapped process flow; assess as-is a process through user interviews, data collection and analysis, design and evaluation of to-be process solutions.
• Prepared for GAP Analysis; identified and documented improved areas to meet capital requirement regulations for Basel II Compliance.
• Understanding of Financial andRegulatoryreports, AML reports including Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR), OFAC reports, Currency TransactionReport(CTR) and CMIR reports.
• Prepared Business Object / Business Process Models that included modeling of all the activities of business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Worked on the initiative to the cloud migration project.
• Analyzed requirements & recommend strategic initiatives for OTC derivatives protocols and practices around DTCC, CDS, and SWIFT for treasury and asset management documentation.
• Collected requirements, designed, developed, and implemented all Pro Active Risk Management (PRM) fraud prevention solutions.
• Defined a statistical approach towards Operational Risk assessment/ Supplier Risk Management by quantifying key risk factors in each activity within a business process for service provision.
• Worked on Investment/portfolio management in multicurrency securities, equities, Fixed Income, portfol0io accounting and related back office processing, lifecycle of a trade, Lifecycle of an account, Security setup, Account setup, Reconciliation.
• Documenting business and system needs via the creation of a variety of documents including Scope documents, Use Case Storyboards, GUI wireframes and Software Requirement Specifications.
• Created and maintained user stories in JIRA for better understanding of the requirements for the development team also use JIRA for bug tracking.
• Collected business requirements to set rules for proper data transfer from Data Source to Data Target in Data Mapping.
• Gathered user and business requirements through surveys, prototyping and observing from portfolio managers and UI (User Interface).
• Responsible for working as a member of the big data team for implementation of the big data platform Hadoop in Windows and UNIX environment.
• Documented Requirements for Activity management, Fixed Income, Asset Management Services, Client portfolio management, Order management system, Performance, Equities, Reconciliation, Transaction capture/Execution and reporting requirements for the user interface.
• Responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, writing specifications of back/middle office interfaces, preparing use cases using Unified Modelling Language and Rational Rose.
• Developed data conversion programs for membership, claims, and benefit accumulator data - converted thirteen corporate acquisitions. Developed data field mappings. Provided programming and support for claims processing functions and auto-adjudication.
• Conducted Regression testing, smoke testing, cross browser testing through automated testing tools like Selenium andcucumberalong with manual testing.
• All the test scenarios which have been satisfied with the functionality are moved to automation testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Prepared Test Cases based on base-lined Requirements Document, prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix and provided Performance Testing Requirements. Worked very closely with the Test team to Test all iterations during the Testing Phase and documented all the defects.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Functional Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered legacy system requirements by shadowing Customer Service Representatives (CSRs), Customer Relationship Representatives (CRRs), preparing questionnaires, to identify limitations in the current system and GAPS in the proposed system.
• Created presentations, scenario narratives andregulatoryforms that analyze and summarizecapital projections for senior management, internal risk governance committees and regulators.
• Created an enterprise workflow application based on CRUD rules for Customer Data that would allow for future integration of data infrastructure across various business areas into a single UI.
• Performed custom data conversions and developed custom software for risk management applications including general claims, vehicle accident and administrative tracking. Performed all data field mappings.
• Experience from Front to back office, worked with fund managers, financial advisors and technical team members.
• Worked on JIRA and TFS used for team and vendor collaboration, user story, product and sprint backlog management, and issue and defect management.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frames with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Conducted 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.
• Used Rational Rose to model the process using UML to create behavioral and structural diagrams.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to track required changes and Rational Clear Case to maintain different versions of the project documentation
• Collected business requirements to set rules for proper data transfer from Data Source to Data Target in Data Mapping.
• Data transfers from text files and Access databases using BCP and DTS; Data mapping and transformations while loading data using VBScript.
• Modeled Business requirements into workflows to depict various scenarios of system to request RFI and RFP responses from major vendors.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOAD using UML and Business Process Modeling.
• Performed detailed comparative analysis of response to RFPs of vendors and Graphically Represented the recommended solutions in PowerPoint to Senior Management.
• Prepared Business Context Diagram, Use Case diagrams and corresponding Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose to depict the workflows to be incorporated into the development of Pega Business Process Management (BPM) tool.
• Involved in creation and execution of manual test cases in Mercury Test Director and automated Test Cases in QTP and analyzed the Test Results.

Confidential, Harleysville PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with SME’s in understanding the Requirements pertaining to Loan Origination to Loan Processing.
• Extracted the Business Requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) using Rational RequisitePro.
• Reviewed Design Documents, Requirements Analysis Specifications with Project Lead, Business Owners and the Technical Lead.
• Managed software artifacts for the suite of investment products such as Online Banking and Brokerage, BIDS, Insurance etc.
• Used JIRA for User Story requirements management throughout the Agile Sprints and development life cycle.
• Worked with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction information related to Capital Markets - Online Brokerage, IVR trading, Conventional Brokerage, Orders, Trades Executed and SPS Orders for reinvestment agreement to write global specs.
• Write Detailed Business requirements documents (BRD) and assessment of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes for front, middle and back office, reference data, data attributes and security master database.
• Organized and actively participated in requirements gathering workshops involving various key business users from the Portfolio Management Unit and Back Office Unit.
• Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates, Requirement Types and Traceability Relationships in RequisitePro.
• Analyzed product fit with business plans, developed business requirements and functional specifications. Mapped navigation paths and data flows, developed wireframes of screen layouts and prototype designs to meet interface requirements.
• Responsible for gathering requirements from users in operations group and performing data mapping for the application, confirm and vacillating the requirement at time of BA testing.
• Developed and managed Project Plans and Schedules. Managed resolution of Project issues and conflicts.
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using Rational Clear Case and performed defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.
• Worked onCucumberto test certain scenarios which include calculation of the data fields.
• Create, develop and test department contingency plans and perform risk management assessments.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Worked in a P&C environment.
• Interacted with users for verifying User Requirements, managing Change Control Process, updating existing Documentation
• Created relationships in Requirement Traceability Matrix linking Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems Requirements.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT groups. Identified the Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion.
• Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) using Microsoft Visio.
• Assisted to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.