SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst in the Financial Domain, with a solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications, Application Design.
• Experience in the areas of Futures Trading, ETF and Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mortgage Business and Mutual Funds.
• In depth experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Verification and Validation, Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies used for the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software.
• Extensively performing Business and Requirements Analysis, JAD (Joint Application Development), and creating Business Requirements Document and Business Process Modeling.
• Proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Business Process Workflow Modeling, Business Analysis and UAT Testing.
• Expert in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications document (FSD), Systems Requirements and USE Case Specifications, User Stories using JIRA and Confluence.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries and Linux commands.
• Extensive experience with Buy-side and Sell-side portfolio management and trading systems.
• Exceptional relationship management skills and experience owning IT relationships with the front office users including Portfolio Managers, Traders and Risk managers.
• Expertise in designing and developing User Stories in JIRA and using Fibonacci User Points for estimation.
• Managed Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog User Stories and assigned tasks as need using JIRA.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization such as technical, management and customers and presented technical designs and strategies through daily operations meetings.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with proven collaboration techniques. Strong analytical, multitasking, time management and presentation skills. Ready to respond to unplanned demand.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC: Agile Scrum, Iterative Development, Waterfall

Project Management Tools: JIRA, HP ALM, Confluence, Rational Doors

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL

Business Modeling/ UML: MS Visio, StarUML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather customer requirements from various stakeholders through JAD sessions, brainstorming, personal and group interviews to develop architectural solution that an application meets the business requirements
• Liaise between product and technical teams to the purpose of ensuring technical teams have sufficient information to complete designing, coding, testing, and implementation phases of the project life cycle
• Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models
• Conduct meetings and interviews with Subject Matter Experts (SME) database administrators to apprehend the business process, business rules, and data requirements
• Apply UML methodology to design Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Process Flow Diagram in MS Visio
• Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams
• Perform User Acceptance Test for stakeholders and responsible to obtain final sign off from the client
• Create wireframes, UML diagrams and screen mockups using Visio and APP Sketcher
• Coordinate SIT and UAT test plans and execution across multiple teams and systems: Trade Router, Trade Capture
• Advise on Finance domains with exposure to Capital Markets, Securities, Credit Risk, and Trading: Fixed Income, Equities, Derivatives, and Foreign Exchanges
• Perform End-to- End, regression, user acceptance and integration testing to verify the clients need are met
• Facilitate implementation of new functionality through training sessions, demos, and documentation
• Perform Data Analysis, Data Mappingand Technical Design Document for reporting application
• Analyze the portal of trading activity and secured web-based transactions and information
• Perform strong Risk Analysis of existing system to add on new products and modify the existing ones
• Conduct Knowledge Transfer for end-users to understand processing needs and interfaces with development teams to design and deliver systems enhancements to improve the workflow systems efficiency and effectiveness
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of Securities process workflow, database and analyzed data to get the correct context from the various tables
• Retrieve FIX Logs using Linux Terminal and compared FIX messages against GUI and Test Data
• Document via flow chart and requirements documents short falls and propose solutions to fill inconsistencies between reporting projects

Confidential, Long Island, New York

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the Requirements, developed Process Model and detailed Business Policies and modified the business requirement, system requirement and system design documents with narratives and flow charts
• Created business requirement documents (BRD) and the Technical Requirements Document (TRD)
• Defined and documented the vision and scope of the project
• Set in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for communicating and managing expectations
• Created sequence diagrams and workflow process diagrams for the business, system and component architecture
• Prepared, reviewed and validated Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications
• Interacting with teams through walkthroughs, teleconferences, meetings to resolve various outstanding issues
• Worked closely with the project manager, business lead and technical lead to identify research and escalate issues and risks to the appropriate work stream for resolution
• Took part developing Test plan and modified the test plan when required in later stages of testing
• Elicit requirements using Interviewing skills by talking with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface and extract essential requirements
• Facilitated the Customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the main phases of the project cycle
• Created UAT test strategies and create resource and timing estimates for UAT work
• Provide recommendations to business team for Go/ No Go release decisions based on sound UAT testing

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicit requirements using Interviewing skills by talking with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface and extract essential requirements.
• Assembled business requirement documents (BRD) and the Technical Requirements Document (TRD)
• Defined and documented the vision and scope of the project.
• Led in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for communicating and managing expectations.
• Facilitated the Customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs.
• Gathered the Requirements, developed Process Model and detailed Business Policies and modified the business requirement, system requirement and system design documents with narratives and flow charts.
• Worked extensively with the GUI (Graphical User Interface) designing and developing for the As Is and To Be provisioning front-end modules.
• Created sequence diagrams and workflow process diagrams for the business, system and component architecture.
• Prepared, reviewed and validated Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications.
• Interacting with teams through walkthroughs, teleconferences, meetings, etc. to resolve various outstanding issues.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the main phases of the project cycle.
• Worked closely with the project manager, business lead and technical lead to identify research and escalate issues and risks to the appropriate work stream for resolution