SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE

• Over 8 years of IT Business Systems Analyst experience with emphasis on business requirements gathering and analysis, design, development, testing and data management.
• Sound knowledge of Banking and Financial sector, Health Care, and Warehouse Management
• Proficient in gathering requirements and authoring Business Requirement Documents BRD into System Requirement Specifications SRS and identifying interface and business process specifications.
• Extensive knowledge of all phases of the Software development life cycle SDLC , Agile, Scrum and the iterative Rational Unified Process RUP .
• Extensive experience in conducting Gap Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering, Designing Work flows and communicating the trade-off decisions on product features based on technology, budget constraints and customer requirements.
• Extensively Created Risk Analysis Documents, Risk Management Plans, User requirement Specifications URS , Functional Requirement Specifications FRS , Business Process Documents and developed System Requirements.
• Experience in gathering and writing detailed business requirement and translating them into technical specifications and design.
• Strong Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture SOA .
• Organized numerous Joint Application developments JAD , Joint Requirement Planning sessions JRP , Interviews, workshops and Requirement Elicitation sessions with end-user/clients/stake holders, Subject Matter Experts and the technology group.
• Experience to work with senior management to identify strategic goals, objectives, scope, budgets and process for internal and external development and to manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations.
• Outstanding knowledge in Excel data analysis.
• Expert in project planning, strategic planning, systems analysis and troubleshooting, quality control, forecasting, scheduling and planning and tracking of results.
• Flexible, enthusiastic and project oriented team player with excellent communication skills with leadership abilities to develop creative solution for challenging requirement of client.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Users and Supervisors to get a better understanding of client business processes and to gather business requirements. Analyzed the Business requirements and site specifications to create Business Requirement Document BRD and Design Document Functional and Technical .
• Converted the User Requirements into Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Technical Requirement. Also created Business Process Models from the requirement specifications.
• Created Use Case specifications, Business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagram and Sequence diagram using MS Visio, so the developers and other stake holders can understand the business process according to their perspective with possible alternate scenarios.
• Communicated extensively with the Financial Examiners and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Implemented RUP and followed iterative, Use Case driven process for requirement documentation and deployment.
• Analysing the Source System data using SQL and Understanding of business requirements
• Migration promotions data of Legacy Mainframe to Linux platform
• Provided insight on Collateral Management.
• Participated in meetings and Database Analysis with Developers, Project Managers and Quality Analysts to discuss business requirements, test planning, resource utilization, and defect tracking.
• Assisted the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly and conducted project related presentations.
• Developed Data Flow Diagrams, illustrating the flow of data from the legacy systems into the Application database Tables, along with checkpoints for testing / verification.
• Assisted in test planning and execution. Created test plan for User Acceptance Testing. Developed user test cases and validated test results during user acceptance testing.
• Assured that all Artefacts are in compliance with Department's SLC Policies and guidelines.
• Used Quality Center for Defect Tracking and prioritizing defects and for enhancements after base lining the requirements.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, OMNI Recordkeeping, MS Outlook, Microsoft Visio, MS Office.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaison for project managers, managers, directors, and stakeholders.
• Provided leadership in identifying and implementing business process and/or technical solutions to improve organizational efficiencies across all business units
• Served as a functional expert on PeopleSoft ERP and key point of contact between Finance and IT departments
• Identified new operational effectiveness initiatives by collaborating with Actuary, Accounting, Risk and IT departments to solicit process improvement ideas
• Assisted Accounting managers with the preparation of monthly accounting reconciliations
• Presented budget vs. planned forecast and reconciliations summary to executive committee
• Implemented financial forecasting model developed in MS Excel
• Performed internal control gap analysis and presented risk management issues and internal controls deficiencies to the audit department
• Assigned business project manager role for information technology integration projects
• Analyze complex business problems. Multiple hands-on experience performing statistical analysis involving confidential financial data
• Conducted market-competitive research and benchmarking studies
• Involved in writing Test Cases, procedures, reports and approval of software release.
• Monitoring the project during Development phase and involved in User acceptance testing UAT once the change requests are released from system testing.
• Design and Development of analytic reports using raw SQL form.

Environment: Oracle, Peoplesoft, Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Outlook