SUMMARY

• Over 8 Years of experience as Business System Analyst/Business Analyst in diverse domains including Investment Banking and State Government. Thorough knowledge of Business Process Modelling (BPM).
• Experience with leading team and managing small scale projects or workstreams
• With experience in AML Transaction Monitoring and Actimize AML SAM application
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like requirements, analysis/design, and development and testing.
• Experience in developing UML use case diagrams, work flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, flowcharts, screen mockups and report prototypes. using tools like Rational Rose and MS Visio
• Created complex workflow, data flow, process flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Solid understanding of gap analysis, requirements management, testing and project plans.
• Practical knowledge of Waterfall, Spiral, Agile & Rational Unified Process (RUP) SDLC Methodologies.
• Excellent Business writing skills in writing BRD, Use Case Specifications, SRS, FR, NFR,& BR.
• Expertise in requirements gathering using different Elicitation techniques.
• Helped in creating a Data Dictionary having the business definition of Data Mapping to map the Logical Data elements in use cases to Physical data elements (record source).
• Acquired data from different systems like Bloomberg, Reuters
• Worked on Data Mapping.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAR/JAD) sessions with end - users, expert team, development and QA team for resolving issues and making decisions.
• Excellent knowledge in SQL including writing Views & Joins.
• Ability to implement Change Management and Defect Management techniques.
• Expertise in creation of UAT Plan, UAT cases covering different Business, functional and non-functional test scenarios and creation of expected test results & UAT execution including defect tracking and resolution.
• Experience creating test metrics including test coverage, test results, requirement traceability matrix (RTM) and acceptance reports using tools (Test Director, Quality Center) and manually.
• Involved in data warehouse at different layers staging, integration, and access
• Involved in GUI testing & Functionality Testing of Client/Server & Web based applications.
• A Versatile Self-starter with, strong listening, interpersonal, quantitative, qualitative analytical, evaluating & analytical skills.
• In depth knowledge of Stocks, Futures, Forwards, Swaps, Options
• Experience working with Credit Risk and AML Risk

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP/NT 4.0/2000

Business Analysis: Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest,) MS Visio, MS Project 2000, UML

Front-End Tools: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

Data Bases: Microsoft Access, MS-SQL Server, Oracle 8i/9i, MYSQL, DB2

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Test Director, Quality center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working on Agile Methodology and leading a team of 5 quality analyst/testers
• Worked closely worked with business users to gather & documented business requirements
• Converted the business requirements into agile stories and define business value and priority
• Worked closely with the product owner to prioritize different stories
• Analyze financial transaction data from multiple sources to identify AML related red flags
• Create complex SQL query to extract transaction related data from multiple source for data analysis
• Work with technical team in creation of data marts in the data warehouse based on different red flags
• Validate different data sources to ensure alignment with the business requirements
• Identify and understand relationships among internal systems problems, issues and data
• Serve as a liaison between business users and development teams to compile, analyze and interpret information related to complex business and systems processing.
• Create clear, complete and accurate documentation of user requirements and business process workflows
• Define and deliver test strategy, plans, and systems scripts

Confidential, Quincy, MA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Capture and document detailed business, functional, and data requirements in a manner that is traceable, testable, and verifiable
• Perform integrated business process modeling for operational procedures, including problem identification, process improvements and efficiencies
• Review use cases and other contract deliverables to verify the functionality aligns with documented business requirements
• Ensure future state business process models are aligned with the business requirements
• Analyze business processes and define performance metrics for future state business processes
• Assist RMV functional leads with execution and planning of JAD sessions
• Present complex concepts in a meaningful and concise manner for project stakeholders, team members, and end users
• Maintain future state process models, requirements and use cases using tools such as IBM Blueworks and Rational Tool Suite
• Understand organizational dependencies, regulatory constraints, technical limitations, and other factors that may impact the user experience
• Make appropriate business decisions that carry the project forward to completion and elevate any concerns of delay to management when necessary

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist operations manager by tracking day to day operations of the team; providing daily and weekly summary
• Communicate with users to build an understanding of the business process.
• Create business process and workflow documents for transiting the process to external vendor
• Create flowchart and workflow diagrams in Visio to assist
• Prepare and review annual Blue Sky filings for multiple funds for different states
• Analyze huge amount of data to check the data accuracy
• Help the developers by resolving their query to load the data into the system.
• Understand business data need and conduct data analysis to meet those needs
• Understand the data sources as well as how the extracted and processed to generate different reports for senior management
• Work with operations manager to understand the requirements for reporting for senior management
• Design and publish weekly and monthly management reports
• Validate and QCs own and others' reports for accuracy

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted project manager in project management by keeping track of tasks and timelines; as well as communicating the projects status on a regular basis
• Worked closely with project manager to analyze project risks; recommended steps to mitigate the risk
• Communicated with users to elicit and document business requirements and business rules
• Designed business process and workflows
• Translated business requirement document (BRD) into functional specification document (FSD) for technical team
• Coordinated and developed testing and implementation plans
• Tested application to establish that all business requirements have been implemented completely and correctly
• Identified defects and performed root cause analysis of the defects; communicated the defects to the technical team
• Logged, tracked and verified resolution of software and specifications defects
• Worked with the technical team and business user to ensure the issues and defects are resolved
• Served as a liaison between Risk Management Group and technology point of contact to ensure proper implementation of the application
• Supported business users by efficiently handling and resolving their issues

Confidential, Albany, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with users to understand and documents their needs and requirements
• Worked with users to understand business reporting needs and created functional specification document and report mockups
• Provided support to the business users and resolved day to day system issues
• Analyzed the data and assisted the business users in manipulating the data
• Created test plan, test cases and test scripts
• Conducted regression testing as well as worked with users to conduct UAT
• Analyzed different business process and responsible for business process reengineering
• Created training materials for different business process
• Understood the database structure to create data dictionary
• Ran SQL queries to create, modify, delete and update the Oracle database and to analyze the data

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed stakeholders, gathered requirements and documented requirements.
• Analyzed existing trading procedure and incorporate it into the new system with improved automation and efficiency.
• Helped in different layers of data warehouse - staging, integration, and access
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Adept in designing and developing Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and State Diagrams based on UML.
• Analyzed market data from different sources like Moody’s, Bloomberg, etc.
• Extensively worked with Portfolio Managers, Experienced Traders, and Compliance Manager to configure the rule-based scenarios for capturing market and credit risk, general multi-factor sensitivity analyses, and PnL.
• Worked with managers to understand the requirements for reporting on fixed income securities
• Build the understanding the data requirements for reports on fixed income securities.
• Creating different report prototypes for fixed income securities as well as understood the source of data and how the data is processed.
• Helped in creating a Data Dictionary having the business definition of Data Mapping to map the Logical Data elements in use cases to Physical data elements (record source).
• Created Logical data models and Logical to Physical Data Mappings.
• Acquired data from different systems and worked on Data Mapping.
• Assisted Project Management in developing Scope/ Vision Documentation and Project Plan, tracking project process.
• Maintained and tracked stakeholders requests for enhancements and changes using Unified Change Management tool (UCM) such as Rational Clear Quest.
• Assisted with user testing of systems, developed and maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Helped conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Participated in developing the test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Acted as liaison for projects with other corporate departments, including Executive, Legal and Information Services.
• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively to gain knowledge about historical data of the various portfolios of different asset classes handled by the Company
• Interviewed portfolio managers to gather requirements regarding the risk assessment of their portfolios and their expectations for the system developed
• Participated in each phase of the SDLC following RUP methodology
• Work on data mapping for data from different data providers like Reuters, Markit, etc.
• Understand client's challenges and goals to build and expand GUI tools
• Knowledge know-how on the process of risk management and the best practices
• Worked with managers in understanding the risk calculation for fixed income securities as well as different risk reports for fixed income securities.
• Understood the data sources as well as how the extracted and processed to generate different risk reports for fixed income securities.
• Documented a detailed report for on VaR and Statistical Analysis and procedure of employing VaR across the whole portfolio management spectrum
• Built checkpoints to discover requirements specification problems like ambiguous requirements, missing requirements, inconsistent requirements
• Made extensive use of MS-Visio to represent the current workflow while documenting system workflows
• Involved in user acceptance testing (UAT), helped in defining test documentation

Confidential, Texas

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the change in the proposed system.
• Worked with SMEs to understand and document Credit Risk & Management, Customer Segmentation, Portfolio Analysis/Mgmt, FDR and TSYS processes, FICO Score generation and other business areas.
• Conducted interviews and performed Stakeholder Analysis, worked with the IT managers’, software architects to identify the key changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them.
• Participated in providing implementation assessment for Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, and Rational ClearQuest, using Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Created and managed project templates, Use Case Project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Rational RequisitePro.
• Created Use Cases using UML and managed the entire functional requirements life cycle using Rational Unified Process and Rational Rose.
• Assessed project status and tracked defects for quality control using Rational ClearQuest.
• Responsible for preparing the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) document, Functional Specification Document (FSD), creation of Process Work Flows and Functional Specifications.
• Developed various reports for user verification like Cross Tab Reports and Sub Reports, various charts and graphs like Bar chart, line graphs, and Pie charts by using Crystal Reports and exported reports into formats like PDF, HTML, Excel, Word and RTF.
• Created product documentation including online help, printed user manual, and training materials.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, system analyst’s (SA) and testers to identify resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.

Confidential, Northbrook,IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Business Requirements Document based on the requirements gathered from different sources
• Attended all JAD sessions for gathering the business requirements from Home office & Branches
• Conducted time after time client interviews for gathering system information for documentation
• Analyzed & developed the prototypes for the new PTM application and got them approved by the business
• Facilitated the analysis and design sessions with ISD team
• Created data flow diagrams depicting what critical data are streaming between DB and its partner vendors
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle in RUP framework.
• Worked in the RUP environment for the elicitation, representation of requirements and in change management.
• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non functional requirements based on interactions with the customers of AllState and the users of the Web Portal (Financial Representatives), and document analysis, represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using Requisite Pro.
• Assessed the flaws in the existing as-is system and made clear recommendations of Businessprocess improvements and BPR, incorporated them in the future to-be system design.
• Wrote User Requirements Specification (URS) and Functional requirements specification (FRS) Documents as per the Business requirements and process flow.
• Performed activity based Cost Analysis and ROI and NPV calculations.
• Developed UML Use Cases for the application using Rational Rose and prepared the detailed Work flow diagram based on the proposed enhancement for the system.
• Developed modules in the HR department for the user education and training about the new system.
• Developed project proposals, charters, concept design and prototypes, conducted series of feasibility studies and impact analysis, implemented configuration management and change control procedures. Analyzed project risks, constraints, developed mitigation plans and workarounds.
• Planned and coordinated with multiple tasks and projects at the same time, delivering all the required artifacts before deadlines.
• Identified test cases and test scenarios for functional testing, system testing, positivetesting and negative testing.
• Created different presentations for higher management showing the AS-IS and TO-BE process flows
• Used MS Project extensively for scheduling the entire life cycle of the project
• Managed the monthly stakeholder's and bi-weekly subcontractors meetings
• Resolved any issues development teams have during the development phase
• Responsible for defining the system documentation template and creating the document