PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 8 years of extensive experience as a Business/Systems Analyst in business requirement gathering and analysis, business process re-engineering, object-oriented design and modeling and project management in Retail/E-commerce,Banking/Finance,
• Experience with Onsite/Offshore co-ordination models.
• Business Process Modeling BPM , Use Case modeling using UML, Data Modeling, Project Management, Change Management, Software Training, Software Development methodologies, QA testing and Systems Testing, troubleshooting of client server and web-based systems.
• Experience on both Agile and Waterfall Software development methodology.
• Responsibilities carried out as Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, and Team Lead on Business side as well as IT side.
• Highly trained and tremendous expertise in Agile product life cycle SCRUM methodologies.
• Managed and Facilitated and JAD sessions with Business Directors, IT Directors, Business IT Project managers, Developers and Testing Teams and other SMEs.
• Experienced working with Business and Development team in gathering and prioritizing business needs for successful execution of the project.
• Experienced with reviewing and writing BRD, FRD, Technical Specification document
• Managed program and project efforts for Logistics and E-Commerce, POS, Supply Chain, CMS, and Web based applications, business strategy and web site content, content management.
• Subject matter expertise in Securities and Capital Markets, Risk Management Market and Credit , Fixed Income and Derivatives, Credit Derivatives Market, Equity Market, and Money Market
• Good Understanding of different phase of Trade Lifecycle such as Account Set-up, Trade Order Generation, and Trade Order Execution, Order Settlement etc...
• Strong domain knowledge in Banking and Finance. Good understanding of basic principles of financial markets and instruments Equity Derivatives, Cash Equities Domestic and International , Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives FX Options, OTC Options, Swaps, Forwards, Futures, Market Link Investments, Deposits, Repos, CDS , Mutual funds, NAV, fund accounting
• Knowledge and understanding of FINRA Financial Industry Regulatory Authority regulations.
• In-depth knowledge in the Investment Banking Industry, Project Finance, Credit Card Industry, Mortgage Loan Origination, Loan Servicing, Treasury Services ACH, Wire Transfers etc. , Brokerage Services, Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Asset Wealth Management, Liquidity Risk ,Cash Management, Capital Market risk and Credit Risk Fundamentals
• Knowledge in Federal and Basel III BCBS regulations in liquidity risk management and Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
• In depth knowledge and experience in Front to back office trading functions booking, processing and reporting.
• Experience in creating BRD and FRD for front to back office trade life cycle .Trade order generation ,Risk management ,clearing and settlement .
• Hands on experience in creating SQL Queries, Stored Procedures, Data modeling, Triggers, Views, Indexes in SQL Server with a strong understanding of data analytics.
• Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications SRS , User stories , Business requirements document BRD , Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications FSD , Systems Design Specification SDS , High Level Design Document HLD , Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM and testing documents.
• Hands on experience in Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence tools Informatica, Business Objects Cognos ,Qlik view andTableau Dashboards.
• Worked efficiently on multiple projects spanning over different releases at the same time
• Experience in Enterprise data warehousing tools ERP like SAP R/3 ,SAP APO Advanced planning and optimization tools.
• Experience in Wire framing and ,mock ups, prototyping using Axure.
• Experience working with data elements and metadata requirement gathering and used ETL for integrate data from multiple platforms.
• End-to-end data warehousing experience across full SDLC from inception to deployment. Experienced in both strategy and tactical of BI projects.
• Proven track record in requirement gathering analysis, data collection, analysis and evaluation in Information Systems issues, analytical problem solving and decision making, communication and inter-personal skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Transformed business requirements into functional specifications, focusing on workflow analysis and design, user interface - UI design, and process flow modeling.
• Expert in MS Office Products such as Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Access, Visio.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Testing Applications: Rational Test Manager, HPQC,JIRA,HP QTP

Suites: SharePoint, MS Project, MS-Office Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Adobe Photoshop

Reporting Tools: Cognos, Business Objects and Crystal Reports, Qlik view

Requirement Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear-Quest, Caliber RM

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm, Microsoft Visio

Databases: Oracle, DB2, UDB, SQL SERVER, MS ACCESS, Mainframe

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, Lean, Kanban, XP

Applications: BMC Remedy ,SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is a global financial services firm. The firm is a leader in investment banking financial services for consumers and businesses, involved in financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management and private equity.The project was to develop Advanced Document Management System ADMS for Credit Card Processing. This software automates the processing of credit card applications by creating digital images of the paper applications and processing these applications electronically, using handwriting recognition tools. Updated the online portal for credit card application and payments.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business area experts, IT experts asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams across organizational lines
• Provided continuous support to the development team in order to make sure that business requirements are being converted into a desired software product
• Followed UML based methodology using Rational Rose for creating Business Cases and Use Case Models after assessing the status and scope of the project and implementing technology based solutions that will meet their strategic business processes needs.
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts SMEs and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client's business processes.
• Monitored client expectations and skillfully negotiated with clients through client involvement and all types of communication with the client's team throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Actively involved in designing of the system with the system architecture and the development team, supporting the technical team in the product development and delivery process and translated the business requirements into Functional Specification Document FSD .
• Elicited meetings on credit card application process and payments.
• Conducted Agile stand up meetings and created user stories
• Involved in the periodically held JAD sessions for the purpose of project updates as well as involved in the weekly meetings to discuss the current project status.
• Identified Use Cases from the requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications document.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, identifying opportunities for business process improvement and involved in the performance of cost/benefit analysis.
• Worked extensively on data mapping and metadata requirements. Wrote SQL queries to test the source to target data.
• Reported status to project management and project owners on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Actively involved in developing, executing and coordinating functional and user acceptance testing UAT .
• Maintained strong working relationship with various business groups such as project technical/development team and external clients throughout the development process of the credit card processing system.

Environment: ASP.Net, VB.Net, C ,SQL, PL SQL, MS SQL Server, Qlik View,JSP, XML, MS Visual Basic, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Win Runner, Test Director, Oracle 11g, Windows XP/NT, MS Project,Agile/Scrum.

Confidential

Business Analyst/QA

Confidential Corporation is an American brokerage and banking company. Schwab operates in four main divisions: investing, wealth management, banking, and trading.The project is to develop of an Investment Management System Portal .This portal will be providing live feeds of risk interest rate risk and credit risk and price behavior in fixed income Corporate Bonds, Municipal Bonds, and MBS for clients. Added enhancement to existing margin calculating portal . This portal calculates the collateral requirements of instruments.

Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements from user interviews to convert requirements into technical specifications
• Conducted joint requirements planning sessions with stakeholders fixed income business heads and SME's Information Technology Risk and Operations to gather requirements for FRD Functional Requirements Document
• Proactive in responding to the client enquiries and resolved discrepancies.
• Organized meetings with the development and QA teams to elicit use cases and document them
• Created Use Cases and Use Case Diagrams to define the Functional requirements of the application using MS Visio.
• Generated Unified Modeling Language UML diagrams such as Activity, State Transition, Sequence Diagrams and Workflow Diagram to demonstrate critical processes
• Excellent experience in design and development of Data warehousing solutions and generation of OLAP reports

Environment: SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic, Sybase, MS Project, MS excel, MS Word, MS Visio, and MS Power point

Confidential

Business Analyst /Quality Analyst

• Confidential is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company. The company operates across 35 countries and has over 70 million customers globally.
• 1. The project was to develop a Derivatives Access, web-based portal for credit, risk, and treasury management an Over-the-counter derivatives clearing portal.
• 2. The project enhances the company's website for Checking, Savings or Ready Reserve accounts. The application provided account summary, facility to transfer funds between various accounts, online bill payment and updates in the personal loan application process.

Responsibilities

• Facilitated Joint Application Development JAD sessions, as well as conducted interviews of appropriate business/technical stakeholders.
• Worked with project manager on various project management activities like keeping track of project status and deadlines.
• Performed analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the proposed system
• Developed and maintained Business Requirement Documents BRD and Functional requirement documents FRD .
• Worked closely with the technical team and project manager to analyze, document and optimize on the durations and resource allocations on the project.
• Utilized RUP methodology and created Use Cases, Activity, Class diagrams and Workflow process diagrams.
• Analyzed, documented and managed project requirements and changes to requirements throughout the software development lifecycle using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Documented Functional Requirement Specifications FRD and assisted Systems Analyst to come up with System Requirement Specifications SRS .
• Analyzed team performance with the QA manager and implemented the changes if any, with respect to raising the efficiency of the entire team.
• Worked with developers to test the iterations of the System under Development SUD to ensure it met the user's needs.
• Developed Test Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT .

Environment: MS Office,.Net ,C ,Quality Center, SQL Server, MS Project, Server, MS Visio, Unix, XML, Mainframes and Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case, Windows XP, SOAPUI, Jmeter, Restful Webservices, Sun Solaris, Linux, Adobe CQ5.

Business Analyst

Confidential -based global investment management/Wealth management firm with a focus on asset management.The project entailed developing end-to-end solutions with all functionalities enhanced as per customer specifications. The solution enabled the client to track and brand the customers in order to deliver superior personalized service and stay ahead of competition. The end result was a completely prioritized, and user-friendly, real-time listing of mutual funds, equities, fixed income, portfolios, options, annuities, IPOs and other asset classes to be broadcast over the web and Bloomberg terminals.

Responsibilities:

• Experience from Front to back office, worked with fund managers, financial advisors and technical team members.
• Designed asset management portfolio for its customers as per business requirements.
• Interacted with Fixed Income business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the application.
• Worked in Wire framing and prototyping using Axure.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract data from the Tables
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frame with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML Unified Modeling Language methodologies.
• Assisted with project team in the whole project lifecycle phases including scope analyzing, requirements gatherings, developments and quality assurance.
• Used MS Visio for Process modeling and Business Process flow diagrams.
• Conducted interviews with various business users to collect requirement and business process information using MS Visio, Requisite pro.
• Conduct extensive analysis on security trading cycles provide consulting on financial disclosure, regulatory and Compliance issues
• Performed Data mapping, data mining,data analysis, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data
• Used SQL for data extraction and data analysis, Qlik view dashboards has been made to increase the data visualization.
• 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.
• Conducted project due diligence and created testing document to meet Sarbanes-Oxley and other Compliance requirements
• Worked with Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives Options and Futures , Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
• Involved with the trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Credit default swaps, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivatives and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology
• Gained understanding of the Asset management requirements for risk analytics and developed the equity reference data mappings and equity reference data dictionaries considering the source system and target system equity reference data.
• Identified, researched, realized, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Rational and Visio
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Visio.
• Prepared detailed design documents to translate business process effectively for developers and product managers using MS Visio.
• Developed user documentation for all the application modules. Also responsible for writing test plan documents and unit testing for the application modules.
• Executed Regression and IST sceneries in the Quality Center
• Assisted in system and User Acceptance Testing, performed client presentations.
• Assured that all Artifacts are in Compliance with corporate AGILE Policies and guidelines.

Environment: Windows, Oracle, SQL, MS Visio, HTML, PHP, MS Access, UML, Quality Center, WebLogic, Requisite pro, Rational ClearQuest.