SUMMARY

• Around 8+ years of extensive professional experience as Business Analyst/Business System Analyst including documenting Business and Functional Requirements, Technical Specifications, Requirement Traceability Matrix and User Guides across the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong experience in Agile Scrum concepts like Scrum team, Product backlog, Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospective, User stories, Daily standup, Burn down charts etc.
• Expertise in facilitation of interviews, conference, workshops in Joint Requirement Planning (JRP), Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions.
• Expert in documenting Business requirements document (BRD), Functional requirements document (FRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), and User Stories.
• Excellent in performing feasibility studies and Impact Analysis, Cost/Benefit analysis, Gap Analysis and Risk analysis.
• Experience in gathering business requirements, functional specifications and writing and executing test scenarios and plans for fixed income products for trading in options.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Anti - Money Laundering (AML)/KYC and Operation Risk Management in the large Investment Banks and Finance Companies.
• Excellent knowledge in Asset Management, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, Derivative products. such as Options and Futures, Credit Card, Insurance, Bonds, Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), GAAP, GAAS, IFRS, CCAR.
• Strong understanding of Business process management, Business Process Automation (BPA), Business process Improvement (BPI) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR).
• Understanding and mapping business processes, performing Gap analysis, SWOT analysis and proficient in documenting As-Is and To-Be business processes.
• Proficient in conducting elicitation sessions like JAD, JRP, Brainstorming and Job shadowing
• Proficient in documenting requirement specifications including BRD, FRD, use cases, user stories and supplementing them with UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams for Web Services documentation etc.,
• Solid working knowledge on Scrum concepts like Scrum Team, Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, sprint review, User Stories, Daily Stand-up Meeting, Retrospective meetings, Burn down Charts.
• Expert in tracking & managing requirements through Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Strong SQL background, including ER diagrams, and writing SQL queries for data acquisition, reference data analysis and reporting purposes.
• Experienced in designing and developing project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Experience in Creating User Manuals and conducting User Training Workshops with users.
• Highly experienced in Designing process modeling (UML) using Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Data Modeling.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Phoenix, AZ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Release Management, PMO, Executive Management, along with managers/staff in Development, ETT, UAT, Core Business and other areas, to plan, delivers, and track testing progress.
• Worked closely with the creation and generation of reports.
• Interfacing with end users and business owners to examine current work processes and communicating the results to the stakeholders.
• Conducting JAD sessions with management, SME's, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues
• Perform GAP analysis to define gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes.
• Proficient in writing advanced SQL queries with ability to analyze large volumes of data.
• Demonstrating excellent technical writing skills by developing Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Specifications Document (FSD).
• Responsible for modeling requirements using UML diagrams such as Use cases, Activity diagrams in MS Visio tool.
• Experience in translating client requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams.
• Following and Appling Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodology in defining the problem, gathering requirements, business modeling and communicating with the technical team for the development of the system.
• Participating in the development and preparation of the Test Plan with the testing team.
• Experience working on projects with blended Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Used Rational Quality Manager to develop test plans, develop test cases, run tests and report status.
• Providing overall project management to multiple projects successfully completing them on-schedule and on-budget.
• Has JAD sessions with cross functional teams to understand business process flows and functional interdependencies
• Part of the requirements team and have written User Stories and Product Backlog lists.
• Designing and customizing data models for Data warehouse supporting data from multiple sources
• Administered and coordinated the monthly release cycles
• Conducting interviews with various business users to collect requirement and business process information using MS Visio, Requisite pro.
• Using Agile Development methodology throughout Project Life Cycle.
• Working in an Agile/Scrum environment which posed initiating several JAD sessions and active interaction with business and technical teams
• Using RUP approach to fabricate UML diagrams and use case storyboards.
• Providing value added suggestions for process improvement to business partners and end users.
• Compared actual and expected test results, discussed the defects in defect meeting with development team and then recorded/reported/tracked all Defects to Developers using a web-based tool called JIRA (Bug, Issue and Project Tracking t

Confidential - Bedford, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Proactively gathered and defined detailed business requirements and identify functional/non-functional requirements for as BRD, SRS, User Stories and RTM.
• Understood the AML compliance requirements by interacting with compliance department, and SMEs.
• Understood Fixed Income Modeling, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Equities and Equity Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Wealth Management, and Sales and Marketing
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SMEs, stakeholders and developing team for critical issues.
• Studied the existing KYC/CIP system and prepared the test data for the CDD and EDD based on the inputs.
• Acted as the Liaison between Line of Businesses (LOBs), Technology Partners (Source Applications) and implementation team.
• Conducted JAD sessions with business and other Tech partners.
• Conducted meetings with business to gather the business requirements, review the requirements, understood the system and workflow and converted those requirements into functional requirements.
• Chaired and attended day to day project meetings to discuss the outcome of implementation processes, testing efforts, time lines etc. Wrote and distributed meeting minutes.
• Managed requirements based on securities like Equities, Fixed Income, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), and Asset Backed Securities (ABS).
• Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
• Functional requirement document’s approval and signoff taken from business and other lines of businesses.
• Conducted extensive analysis of KYC data to understand the attributes, schemas and data structures.
• Prioritized user stories from product backlog and helped generate release backlog and sprint backlog using Microsoft Excel.
• Participated in Defect-Review meetings with developers, QAs, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives.
• Created SQL queries against different databases and analyzed different reports based on company’s requirements through .net.
• Used MS project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and collaborate.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business users to gather the requirements and coordinated with Project Manager and SME to understand the feasibility of their need.
• Worked on the feasibility study and gap analysis for implementation of the new OMS into the Asset Management line of Business.
• Prepared BRD’s from the collection of the functional requirements from the System users.
• Worked on Agile/Scrum development methodology.
• Facilitated (JAD) Joint Application Development sessions to identify the business rules and requirements and then documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Studied and analyzed competitor's applications and brainstormed to gather effective requirements for a quality product.
• Engage in project initiation activities such as developing the Project Charter, Project Scope and assisting the management in resource and budget estimation.
• Created Business Requirements Document and converted them into System Requirement Specifications Document.
• Extensively used SQL Queries and performed Data Analysis.
• Implemented Business Modeling, Data Modeling, and Object Modeling using MS Visio to develop the business architecture for the application.
• Analyzed and looked for the deference's between production data, staging data and new system core and reference tables for Trade System Project.
• Analyzed Requirements and created Use cases, BPM, Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams using Enterprise Architect
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationship in Requisite Pro.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking and change management request and reported them.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application, for an intended novice user.
• Researched discrepancies for various data elements.
• Ensuring that work is performed in a timely manner and deadlines are met as mentioned in the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure).
• Worked with DWH development in order to ensure the requirements and project goals are being met
• Used BEA (BPM Tool) to map Process flows and migrated Visio Process flows into BEA Tool.
• Created Test Strategy developed UAT Test cases and execution of Test cases
• Prepared test plans and executed Unit, Integration, User Acceptance testing using test cases to endure that the systems conformed to specifications of business requirements & performance criteria.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system
• Reviewed and documented the requirements in Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and conducted JAD Session.
• Defined Project Scope and worked with the development team to create User Stories as per requirements.
• Followed and applied Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodology in defining the problem, Gathering requirements, business modelling and communicating with the technical team for the development of the system.
• Participated in the development and preparation of the Test Plan with the testing team.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Quality Assurance.
• Planned and defined Use Cases created Use Case diagrams, Scenarios and Use Case Narratives using the UML methodologies.
• Enhanced the existing online banking application by improving its GUI, making it more users friendly.
• Managed user stories and conducted Scrum Ceremonies throughout the product development life cycle.
• Played active role in file transferring and file processing from mortgage to banking Division.
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the Application.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) requirements gathering sessions.
• Performed GAP analysis and SWOT Analysis.