SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of professional experience as a Business System Analyst in Finance/Banking Domain.
• Strong experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases.
• Experienced in Investment/Commercial/Retail banking, financial statements, cash flow, financing structures, Foreign Exchange FX Risk Management, Capital Management, Asset Data, Fixed Income, Portfolio Analysis, Stock Valuation, Capital Structures and Budgeting, Value Based management.
• Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models.
• Proven success as a business analyst through the years, providing a well - balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements and technical solutions.
• Experienced in UML class diagrams, object diagrams, GAP Analysis, use case diagrams, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and collaboration diagrams as a business analysis methodology for application functionality designs using IBM's Rational Rose.
• Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analyses, Data Mapping, Data Profiling, Gap Analyses, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risks Analyses, and Risk management. Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analyses, Data Mapping Gap Analyses, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risks Analyses, and Risk management.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing UAT and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Professional experience in business analysis, operations management and development, design, documentation and testing.
• Full understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose Modeler, Rational Requisite Pro, Unified Modeling Language (UML) in the context of Water fall methodology and Agile Methodology - Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
• Strong Knowledge of Business Intelligence (Power BI, Tableau. QlikView and BI Dashboards), Data Warehousing and Business Architecture/Processes.
• Excellent understanding of Data services, Data ETL using SQL query tools and applications.
• Effective in Facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to gather, synthesize and prioritize requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshop, site visits, and surveys.
• Involved in preparation of Test data to test the functionality of ETL Sources Mappings and Targets.
• Worked on ETL process to assess SLA time to provide to the Operation/Marketing team.
• Experienced working with Data Architect to review all the conceptual, logical and physical database design models with respect to functions, definition, maintenance review and support Data analysis, Data Quality and ETL design that feeds the logical data models of new the EDW.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Agile Business Analyst

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a Primary Point-of-Contact between the client and technology team, gathered requirements from various end users and analyzed, evaluated, and implemented these requirements into appropriate Business and Technical solutions.
• Performed gap analysis to identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Gathered and documented Use Cases, Business Rules, created and maintained Requirements/Test Traceability Matrices.
• Assisted in creatingProject Plan, Project Tracking, Designed Requirements Planning and Management document, Project tracking & Project Reporting.
• InterpretBusiness Process Flows and Reengineered Processto achieve maximum outputs.
• Assessed client needs utilizing a structuredrequirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes)to prioritize immediate business needs.
• InterpretBusiness Process Flows and Reengineered Processto achieve maximum outputs.
• CapturedAs-Is Process designed To-Be Process and performed GAP Analysis.
• Used Informatica Power Center for extraction, loading and transformation (ETL) of data in the DataMart.
• Worked with Scrum Master, Product Manager and development teams throughout planning, design, development, testing, and implementation of feature product releases.
• Supported Product Owner with backlog creation, prioritization and communication of requirements as needed to various levels of the organization.
• Efficiently managed working and coordinating tasks with the offshore team on a daily basis.
• Coordinated support teams, technical people and other vendors as need for rolling out project.
• Participated in Scrum and Sprint Planning meetings, ensured successful and timely project implementation.
• Utilizing Sprint retrospective Meetings to understand the impediments and improve the productivity of the team.
• Analyzed business and user needs, documented requirements in User Stories, Process Flows, Non-Functional Specifications and other supporting documentation as needed.
• Created Use case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Dataflow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Created Wireframes, UI Mock-ups, screenshots of the application using Balsamiq.
• Experience in writing API user stories.
• Groomed user stories and acceptance criteria for business rules, features that were made available to consumers.
• Working extensively in JIRA to upload Requirements, Test plans, Test Steps, Log defects and to follow up to fix.
• Responded and communicated efficiently between the business, tech, and QA team on projects and to facilitate resolution of user issues as and when necessary.
• Performed API Testing using Postman.
• Extensively involved in defect resolution by interacting closely with the QA team.
• Documented the Requirement Traceability Matrix for tracing the Test Cases and requirements related to them.
• Responsible for collecting test data for UAT sessions and facilitating Defect Triage Meeting.
• Actively involved in developing, executing, and coordinating Regression Testing, Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Sr Business Analyst

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Created Business Requirements Gathering sessions in the form of questionnaires and business scenarios with the end users, subject matter experts (SME) and the developers. Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys and prototyping.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software. Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML methodologies.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Created Business Requirements Gathering sessions in the form of questionnaires and business scenarios with the end users, subject matter experts (SME) and the developers. Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys and prototyping.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, vendors, users, and other stakeholders for open and pending issues. Implemented SOA concepts (search-oriented architecture) for the application and implemented search engine-based techniques.
• Helped prepare Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Modeled cash flows for securitized transactions containing wide variety of underlying asset classes. Responsible for creating proprietary Excel-based models to calculate bond waterfalls, overpoliticization and interest coverage ratios, and several other portfolio criteria.
• Collected user requirements to create a technological platform to perform transaction -related asset level due diligence, analytics and cash flow modeling, structural and document review.
• Assisted developers to create a platform for compliance reporting tie-out process and to review note valuation reports prepared by CDO corporate trusts on a monthly/quarterly basis.
• Created excel based models to calculate both the distribution of cash flows to all related parties of a deal as well as various collateral criteria set forth in legal documents.
• Performed agreed-upon-procedures related to collateralized loan obligations (CLO) and other structured products and maintained client relations with key personnel at prominent institutions.
• Regular discussions with developers to make them understand the use cases and function requirements of the client. Excellent Ecommerce applications / websites experience.
• Responsible for supervising work activities (Development, Testing) to ensure that they are well-performed, coordinated among team members and consistent with the approved work plan.
• Coordinated the design phase with the architects in improving the efficiency of the project.
• Worked with QA team in identifying test cases/test data and lead the business team for UAT.
• Documented all custom and system modification. Assigned problems to appropriate software development team for fixes. Tracked problems from start to correction and test.
• Interacted with technical team in allowing them to make a better navigational plan for the project flow which would further make a better user interactivity tool for the application.
• Signed off progress and completion report which were then submitted to senior management/leadership on a weekly basis.

Sr Business Analyst

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders to elicit requirements.
• Documented and created Business Requirement document (BRD) and Functional Requirement document (FRD).
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint planning, Daily Scrums or standups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Created and maintained Product Increment, Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog defining new systems operations for the project.
• Facilitated User story grooming sessions. Helped the team in breaking down the Epics into User Stories and tasks.
• Coached team members on how to effectively use Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework values as a guide.
• Designed and developed various UML diagrams like Use cases, Activity diagram and Sequence diagram using VersionOne.
• Created swim lanes, wireframes, screen mock-ups using Balsamiq to present the visual view of the feature within the website.
• Played integral part in creating test plan, test scenarios and test cases.
• Overviewed end to end defect management. bug fixes, retesting, break fixes, impact analysis and production assurance.
• Worked with multiple teams to improve the overall claim and reimbursement processes.
• Worked on EDI transactions which are used for submitting and tracking claims and discussed the same with developers and testers.
• Worked in the full HIPPA compliance life cycle from gap analysis, mapping and testing for processing claims.
• Create weekly reports to inform management about the status of the project. Used JIRA as the project management tool.
• Worked with multiple teams, both on site and offshore.
• Help in coordinating and managing various areas of the project and assist manager with the determination to finish the project on time and within budget.
• Worked closely with testers to create test cases and participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Experience in Managing Custom Dashboards and designing of SDFC custom objects, custom fields, pick list, role-based page layouts, Workflow Alerts and Actions, and Approval Workflow, Validation Rules, Approval Processes, custom Tabs, custom reports, report folders, report extractions to various formats, design of Visual Force Pages, Snapshots, Dashboards, and Email generation according to application requirements.