SUMMARY

• Proficient Business/Data Techinical Analyst with over 8 years of experience in Information Technology and Cross functional domain. Has strong hands - on experience in software development methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall and Robotic Unified Process (RUP).
• Extensive experience iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project management life cycle (PLC) and software development methodologies such as Agile, RUP and Waterfall.
• Excellent skills in gathering Business requirements, facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, developing User stories, Acceptance Criteria, creating Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents.
• Skilled in eliciting user demands and translating them to data, functional and usability requirements. Extensive experience in visualizing the design of the system by UML diagrams, ER Diagrams and web page mock-ups
• Strong expertise in evaluating the gap between AS-IS processes and TO-BE Processes (Gap Analysis), working with Requirements traceability matrix, Business Process Mapping and Business Reengineering
• Proven track record in Data analysis and mapping, Change control combined with analytical problem solving and decision making capabilities
• Assist Portfolio Manager in proposing allocation changes and provide risk characteristics and performance data to help determine a fund’s suitability in the portfolio.
• Asset Management for Pre-investment strategy research (paper portfolio), operational due diligence, and post-investment due diligence and reporting which would cover various hedge fund strategies and managers.
• Highly proficient in conducting data gathering and design workshops, data analysis, data profiling, Object oriented design and data modelling, prototyping, service-oriented architecture.
• Assisted in data management to properly enable strong risk data aggregation capabilities, while clearly defining the usable infrastructure to allow that the data they are looking at is accurate and precise.
• Developed schedules and corresponding functional/data requirements for subsequent implementation/execution phase. Prepare accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents.
• Exposure to Bloomberg products such as the Professional Service, Bloomberg Market Data Feed, Pricing data, comprehensive and instrument data, corporate action, and corporate structure data.
• Extensive experience with BI tools, evaluate data gatheird from multiple servicing and other source systems reconcile differences, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to understand and distinguish optional user requests from what is required.
• Very good understanding of software delivery lifecycle with focus on requirement management and business analysis, Design, Development and Automation UAT.
• Adept at designing business models using UML diagrams - Use Case, Work Flow diagrams and data flow diagrams, pivot tables, metrics.
• Initiates the design and implementation of the operational and technical aspects of the project plans and develops and supports programming requests to meet project goals through discussion with project stakeholders.
• Experience in ETL Processing DataAnalysis,DataProfiling,DataMining,DataMigration,Data Integration, Data Mapping and Configuration Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Office
• Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• Project
• Visio
• Access
• Outlook
• Communicator
• MS SharePoint 2007
• Lotus Notes
• Confluence
• JIRA
• EDM (Enterprise Data Management)
• SQL Server 2005/2000
• Oracle 12C/10g
• Qlik Sense
• Qlikview
• Tableau
• API Swager
• Kafka.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oaks, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple small and big projects on the go, responsible for delivering for different stakeholders, schedules, task lists, and more.
• Created Requirements for financialInstrument productsand functional specs documents that translated business requirements into Technical specification including business and validation logic for ease of understanding to the development team.
• Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers, collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Co-ordinated with offshore team to get the work done. Conduct grooming session, and clarifying business requirement question and to review test cases and reconcile UAT.
• Experience using Agile Project Management software like JIRA and Confluence, track the progress of project, sprint capacity panning, defining the backlog and roadmap of project.
• Provide end-to-end technical expertise and noledge in support of Data Modeling using Tableau
• Experience on data visualization solutions to improve business processes using Tableau dashboard reports, working with developers, creating business intelligence reports and visualizations and attending feedback sessions to improve systems.
• Support overall project implementation and architecture of large volume applications in Tableau, leveraging Tableau-specific design patterns specifically designed to support datasets with hundreds of millions of records.
• Prepare project related design documents and articulated instructions relation to various data points, KPIs and visual presentation upon Qlik/Tableau dashboards
• Good noledge of Data Modelling Validate Json models with swagger and use the spec to validate incoming data at request time, Check to see if API requests and responses are lining up with the API description.
• Perform quality control to ensure data accuracy by comparing Bloomberg data to source documentation.
• Exposure to Bloomberg products such as the Professional Service like Bloomberg Market Data Feed, Pricing data, comprehensives and instrument data, corporate action and corporate structure data.
• Worked with Instrument data and large volumes of data from various data vendors like Bloomberg, S&P, Reuters, Extel and Factset and providing trending and analysis to draw conclusions based on data.
• Implement business rules for programmatic data validation by codifying market conventions and/or data relationshipsbetween Bloomberg data and other data vendors.
• Assisting in planning and evaluating project activities including, project documentation, scheduling, requirements management, deployment readiness reviews, and status updates.
• Hands on experience with MarkIT EDM (Enterprise Data Management) tool, which is a data management platform for acquiring, validating, and distributing trade, operational, risk, financial and customer data. It creates a single version of the truth in a consistent, transparent, and fully audited environment which benefit from greater control, ongoing compliance and transparency of the data.
• Experience usingBit Bucket, Code repository solution to deploy the package to different environment and validating the work flow of solutions and processes.
• Kafka integration and stream processing with different engines like Trade communicator and other downstream platforms, wherein analyze and visualize data running in real time.
• Developed the Solution for file Monitoring and Process monitoring for Business user group and support group which helps in trouble shooting and tracking the workflow.

Environment: EDM (Enterprise Data Management), Geneva, SunGuard Invest One, SQL Server, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, Outlook, Communicator/Lync), JIRA, Confluence, Swagger API, Kafka, Qlik Sense.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

BusinessAnalyst/ Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Syndicated daily ratings allow for actionable planning decisions and competitive benchmarking. Digital Content Ratings provides transparency into the digital landscape for all players in the ecosystem.
• Project was implemented using the Agile Methodology to produce artifacts in the different phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Collect and document feedback from clients directly and indirectly through client-facing teams to stay ahead of the curve and no how competitors stack up.
• Work closely with Product Development and content teams to define and evolve the product roadmap by delivering new content sets/applications and improving existing ones for the Corporates user class.
• Participated meetings with review teams to continually improve the QA process for application developments.
• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow andbusinessprocess with use case diagrams.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change thebusinessspecifications for the product and ensured that the developers were updated.
• Employed Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources and collaborate on the project implementation and management.
• Involved in designing, developing and deploying packages for File Transfer from one location to the other using FTP task. Prepared the completedata mappingfor all the migrated jobs.
• Involved in Transforming data from one server to other servers using tools likeSQL Server Integration Services(SSIS) and facilitate to create ETL package that extracts data from asingle flat file source, transforms the data.
• Facilitate UAT to ensure all applications were tested for functionality and were adequately accepted by user community.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by generating ideas to improve our data products and/or associated processes and building prototypes to validate and illustrate requirements.

Environment: SQL Server, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, Outlook, Communicator/Lync), MS SharePoint 2007, Lotus Notes, JIRA, IBM InfoSphere Data Modeler.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Business Analyst/ PROJECT COORDINATOR

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering and analyzing Business and system functional requirements and for understanding and translating these needs into Business Requirement Specification (BRS) and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents.
• Determine requirements and create specifications for risk and portfolio construction features and functionalities.
• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose.
• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process.
• Conducted interviews, fact-finding and independent research to design creative IT solutions for business problems
• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of project.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisted in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Conducted and lead JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, proposed solutions, shared concerns/disagreements, resolved outstanding issues and came to an agreement.
• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to the project manager and business areas.
• Designed and documented solutions that span multiple interfaces across multiple business units with consideration of all impacted components from an end-to-end perspective.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational rose to easily convey the projects process and requirements to developers and other stakeholders.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change thebusinessspecifications for the product and ensured that the developers were updated.
• Employed Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources and collaborate on the project implementation and management
• Conducted Single handed Non- scripted UAT with Business users regression testing, system testing, integration testing, functional testing by partnering with Testing Specialist to ensure the business requirements and technical designs requirements are met.

Environment: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, Outlook, Communicator/Lync), MS SharePoint 2007, JIRA, Oracle 12C/10g, SSIS.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical-Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business stakeholders to elicit and gather functional/non-functional requirements based on defined scope and estimate timeline for product delivery.
• Acted as liaison between various IT departments like Business Owners, Design team, Development team and vendors to discuss business problem and provide industry standard solutions.
• Participated in Architectural discussions with Tech leads to understand the end-to-end flow of the application, identifying the API endpoints involved and create workflow diagram for the same.
• Maintained program management processes for program scheduling, quality management, communication management, cost management, change management and risk/issue management.
• Identified different backend services required for the implementation of the feature and raised engagement requests respectively in order to have their support during feature testing and deployment.
• Developed interactive Kanban board for the team, for QA and other teams as well to track the tickets based on various swim lanes and filters like fix version, Epics, etc
• Created and/or maintained the following project documentation:- Project Plans, Project Schedule,, Meeting Agendas and Minutes / Action items, Key Decision Tracking, Business Sign-off documents, User Stories, etc
• Extensively involved in resolving blockers/impediments by performing root-cause analysis while communicating with the cross-functional teams and the Product Owner’s.
• Conducted different Scrum ceremonies like Discovery, Grooming, Stand Ups and Sprint review meetings. Also, held retrospective meetings using Retrium to get feedback on various aspects.
• Involved in maintaining tickets on Kanban board with JIRA. Also, involved in creating high level confluence pages for effort estimate and feature details as source of truth.
• Tracked various logs in case of any issues to identify the header, params, correlation, URL, tab type, features, etc. and shared with the developers for resolution.
• Proficient understanding in interfacing different APIs like REST and SOAP API to connect related Web Services using various formats like XML and JSON to check for API validation and verification.
• Overlooked the debugging using Omnibug in Adobe analytics to identify the pageName, PublicGUID number, URL, etc. to analyze the graphs for the number of requests made to a particular site via mobile or web.
• Extensively used Slack and crested personal channels to interact with various stakeholders across different teams for transparent communication. Also, used Workast to create and assign tickets with respective team members.
• Coordinated with QA and the data setup team to have Test Data Characteristics ready, review the Test Cases and identify the backend services to be used.
• Performed Regression testing to check the mobile application functionality and report any errors or bugs to the QA and the Development team

Environment: Agile Scrum, MS Office, JIRA/Confluence, MS Visio, Ms Project, Workast, Fabrics, Splunk, Adobe analytics, Kanban board.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst/Onsite coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Creating project requirements, test plans and test cases in Quality Center.
• Used recognized business analysis methodologies to elicit requirements from business users as the foundation for developing solutions to the organization's business needs.
• Assisted in entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto JIRA Agile application.
• Identified issues from various aspects including system design, business process, and development specifics.
• Created different Traceability views to maintain the Traceability of the requirements and deliverables.
• Maintained Data Dictionary and assisted the development team in Data Validation and Verification.
• Completed Data Mining and Scrubbing to optimize design efficiency in terms of agility and reusability of customer data.
• Led key analysis and discussion on issues and drove to final resolutions in a timely manner.
• Prepared management report and presentations for directors and senior managers.
• Co-ordination with Off-shore team and did work review.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings

Environment: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, Outlook, Communicator/Lync), MS SharePoint 2007, JIRA, Oracle 12C/10g, HP Quality Center 9.2, Tableau

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing project reports, investment review, profitability statements, financial projections, and project cost estimation.
• Project Financing: Liaised between Govt body, Financial Institutions, and investors to bring in capital in the form of equity, Term loan, debt, working capital loans, venture capital funding, Business loan(secured or unsecured) for Various projects.
• Prepare the project summary for venture capital and getting approvals from Government grants, subsidiaries, and Banks for business loan.
• Valuation of the net worth of company and projection of cash flow statement of company to get approvals from Banks for project funding.
• Getting approvals from credit score bureau to prove the credit worthiness of our clients and make repayment plan.