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 wif leading team and managing small scale projects or workstreams
• Wif 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 teh business definition of Data Mapping to map teh 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 wif 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 wif, strong listening, interpersonal, quantitative, qualitative analytical, evaluating & analytical skills.
• In depth knowledge of Stocks, Futures, Forwards, Swaps, Options
• Experience working wif 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, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working on Agile Methodology and leading a team of 5 quality analyst/testers
• Worked closely worked wif business users to gather & documented business requirements
• Converted teh business requirements into agile stories and define business value and priority
• Worked closely wif teh 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 wif technical team in creation of data marts in teh data warehouse based on different red flags
• Validate different data sources to ensure alignment wif teh 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 dat 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 teh functionality aligns wif documented business requirements
• Ensure future state business process models are aligned wif teh business requirements
• Analyze business processes and define performance metrics for future state business processes
• Assist RMV functional leads wif 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 dat may impact teh user experience
• Make appropriate business decisions dat carry teh 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 teh team; providing daily and weekly summary
• Communicate wif users to build an understanding of teh business process.
• Create business process and workflow documents for transiting teh 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 teh data accuracy
• Help teh developers by resolving their query to load teh data into teh system.
• Understand business data need and conduct data analysis to meet those needs
• Understand teh data sources as well as how teh extracted and processed to generate different reports for senior management
• Work wif operations manager to understand teh 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 teh projects status on a regular basis
• Worked closely wif project manager to analyze project risks; recommended steps to mitigate teh risk
• Communicated wif 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 dat all business requirements have been implemented completely and correctly
• Identified defects and performed root cause analysis of teh defects; communicated teh defects to teh technical team
• Logged, tracked and verified resolution of software and specifications defects
• Worked wif teh technical team and business user to ensure teh issues and defects are resolved
• Served as a liaison between Risk Management Group and technology point of contact to ensure proper implementation of teh application
• Supported business users by efficiently handling and resolving their issues

Confidential, Albany, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

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

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed stakeholders, gathered requirements and documented requirements.
• Analyzed existing trading procedure and incorporate it into teh new system wif 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 wif Portfolio Managers, Experienced Traders, and Compliance Manager to configure teh rule-based scenarios for capturing market and credit risk, general multi-factor sensitivity analyses, and PnL.
• Worked wif managers to understand teh requirements for reporting on fixed income securities
• Build teh understanding teh data requirements for reports on fixed income securities.
• Creating different report prototypes for fixed income securities as well as understood teh source of data and how teh data is processed.
• Helped in creating a Data Dictionary having teh business definition of Data Mapping to map teh 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 wif user testing of systems, developed and maintained quality procedures, and ensured dat appropriate documentation is in place.
• Helped conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Participated in developing teh 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 wif 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 teh various portfolios of different asset classes handled by teh Company
• Interviewed portfolio managers to gather requirements regarding teh risk assessment of their portfolios and their expectations for teh system developed
• Participated in each phase of teh 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 teh process of risk management and teh best practices
• Worked wif managers in understanding teh risk calculation for fixed income securities as well as different risk reports for fixed income securities.
• Understood teh data sources as well as how teh 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 teh 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 teh 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 teh deficiencies of teh current system and to identify teh requirements for teh change in teh proposed system.
• Worked wif 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 wif teh IT managers’, software architects to identify teh key changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively wif 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 teh 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 teh 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 wif 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 teh requirements gathered from different sources
• Attended all JAD sessions for gathering teh business requirements from Home office & Branches
• Conducted time after time client interviews for gathering system information for documentation
• Analyzed & developed teh prototypes for teh new PTM application and got them approved by teh business
• Facilitated teh analysis and design sessions wif ISD team
• Created data flow diagrams depicting wat critical data are streaming between DB and its partner vendors
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle in RUP framework.
• Worked in teh RUP environment for teh elicitation, representation of requirements and in change management.
• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non functional requirements based on interactions wif teh customers of AllState and teh users of teh Web Portal (Financial Representatives), and document analysis, represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using Requisite Pro.
• Assessed teh flaws in teh existing as-is system and made clear recommendations of Businessprocess improvements and BPR, incorporated them in teh future to-be system design.
• Wrote User Requirements Specification (URS) and Functional requirements specification (FRS) Documents as per teh Business requirements and process flow.
• Performed activity based Cost Analysis and ROI and NPV calculations.
• Developed UML Use Cases for teh application using Rational Rose and prepared teh detailed Work flow diagram based on teh proposed enhancement for teh system.
• Developed modules in teh HR department for teh user education and training about teh 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 wif multiple tasks and projects at teh same time, delivering all teh 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 teh AS-IS and TO-BE process flows
• Used MS Project extensively for scheduling teh entire life cycle of teh project
• Managed teh monthly stakeholder's and bi-weekly subcontractors meetings
• Resolved any issues development teams have during teh development phase
• Responsible for defining teh system documentation template and creating teh document