Sr. Business Analyst

Professional Summary:

• 7 years of IT experience as a Business System Analyst in SDLC: analysis, design, development, deployment, testing, and implementation of projects for various business and finance organizations.
• Excellent skills in conducting scrum meetings to ensure the project quality and schedule.
• Proficient in using UML for Business Process Modeling, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Class Diagrams and document them using MS Visio.
• Excellent skills in Business Analysis, GAP Analysis, Risk Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Business Modeling and Use Case Development using UML methodology.
• Extensively used SharePoint for Project Management
• Worked on different SDLC Methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, RUP, and IDEF..
• Proficiency with Rational Enterprise Suite Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest in support of the RUP methodology.
• Experience working with production support teams to resolve any high priority issues.
• Expertise in preparing Test Plan, Test Summary Reports, and Test Cases
• Proactive approach to streamline different IT efforts and also worked to set up core IT processes.
• Experience in developing business and functional Requirements, including requirements traceability, categorization, and prioritization.
• Successfully worked on iterative offshore/onshore IT Business Development model.
• Able to effectively converse, relate and liaise with multifunctional teams, including business owner, stakeholders, mangers, architects, developers and testers at all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases : Oracle 10g, MS Access, MySQL, SQL Server

Financial Packages: OneTick, X Trader, Bloomberg

Packages: Netbeans, Eclipse, MS Office, MS Visio, SAS 9.2, SPSS 20, ACL, R, MS Project

Programming Languages: J2EE, C , C, ASP.net, VisualBasic, HTML, and XML.

Project Management: MS Project, MS SharePoint, Microsoft TFS, HP QC, IBM Rational Suite, Primavera, Lucid Charts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Development Analyst

Project Responsibilities:

• Performed SWOT analysis of viable European markets for international expansion
• Developed market-entry strategy targeting sales of 10 million in 2 years
• Reported findings and strategic recommendations to the C-suite executives
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions with IT groups. Identified the Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them.
• Analyzed and documented of AS IS and TO BE business process requirements for existing point of sale application.
• Authored business requirements document with project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users and team members
• Act as a resource in understanding how IS systems carry out business functions and assists in ensuring the timely and effective implementation.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Test manager for User Acceptance Testing.
• Analyzed the test results from QA teams using Performance Studio Analysis to create various scenarios.
• Helped in creating end user manuals and procedure manuals.

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Rational Rose, RUP, MS SharePoint 2010, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro

Confidential

Business Analyst

Project Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements to automate order entry, pricing, customer data and market position
• Followed metal trading process from order to final delivery.
• Proficient in Order to Cash O2C business flow E commerce Business Model.
• Singled out by the owner to recommend future course of internal software development
• Created and deployed a new business strategy which estimates 20 increase in profits
• Maintained RTM for tracing them all the way to the stakeholder requirements
• Develop Order Management, Account Receivables, and Payables Pricing application requirements.
• Created functional specifications, business requirement s BRD and Use Cases using UML.
• Analyzed and design Use Case diagrams, using UML/Visio.
• Extensively used Rational Enterprise Suite Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest in support of the RUP methodology
• Extensively used SharePoint for Project Management documents.
• Performed GAP Analysis and derived requirements to enhance the existing system and improve efficiency.
• Understand and Document current state and future state architecture
• Responsible for daily communication with the Senior Management with response to project progress and various deadlines.
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues.
• Helped the testing team in creating test strategies and test plans to be used in the QA testing process.
• Prepared Test cases, test scripts and the test plans along with providing support throughout the QA process.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and ran multiple test cases to test all paths.
• Actively involved in defect tracking and defect Prioritizing and assigning to development

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, HP Quality Center, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS SharePoint. MS Project MS Visual Studio TFS-Team Foundation Server , Snagit.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Project Responsibilities:

• Managed the project as per BABOK PMBOK guidelines and instituted Agile development techniques
• Interacted with stakeholders to identify project requirements new strategic initiatives
• Created project charter, organized project team, developed WBS project plan, communication
• strategy testing plans UAT
• Created business requirement documents BRD , conducted JAD sessions for project
• Developed Key Performance Indicators for measuring efficiency of the legacy algorithms
• Performed data analysis generated ad-hoc reports using MySQL, Excel - Pivot Tables V-Lookups
• Suggested 6 privacy compliant improvements to the current hashing and matching algorithms
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership and superb project management skills, consistently scoring 90 on Customer Satisfaction surveys distributed to top management during project initiation, monitoring, and closeout phases.

Environment: MS Office, Primavera, RUP, Visio, MS SharePoint 2010, Windows and HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Project Responsibilities:

• Set up Market Simulation Lab for use in Investment, Portfolio Management, Market Microstructure classes from the ground up, keeping project implementation on-time
• Studied the U.S futures and options markets in-depth and simulated trading of E-mini S P 500, Euro-Dollar,Heating oil and Natural gas futures.
• Performed Cost-Benefit Analysis of 10 different packages and recommended purchase
• Write Detailed Business requirements documents for all the trading and analysis tools of client based application web based trading application.
• Determining the use cases and use case scenarios from the business requirements.
• Substantiation of process workflows, use case diagrams, use case documents and traceability matrix documents.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center MS Visual Studio TFS for various test activities such as identification and execution of test cases, defect tracking and fixation.
• Involved in various different testing rollouts such as Regression, Rolling Regression, UAT User Acceptance Testing .
• Design the mock-ups and visuals for the requirements
• Coordinating with production support team to find any production defects and getting them resolved promptly per the business need and client experience.
• Coordinate with Dev and QA via Scrum meetings to discuss and resolve any mid-project issues encountered.

Environment: MS Visio, UML, SDLC, Microsoft Commerce, MLS Merchandise location system Microsoft Office Suite, Quality Center, Windows NT/XP

Confidential

Junior Business Analyst

Project Responsibilities:

• Translated the client's business rules into functional/business specifications to design corporate website
• Acted as the liaison between the client, stakeholders, and implementations team throughout the SDLC
• Developed standardized processes, which can be applied to future projects reducing timeline by 30 .
• Conducted deep-dive subject matter expert interviews and documented requirement specifications
• and facilitated JAD sessions between business users and analysts team.
• Re-purposed 10 online and open-source resources, saving development time and expenses by 25