SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diversified IT experience in complete software development life cycle process including System Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and documentation
• Business Analyst experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Requirement gathering and Documentation, Use Casing, Functional specification, Business Case analysis, Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design using Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall cycle, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and MS Visio.
• Extensive knowledge in working with different kind of derivative products like Fixed Income Securities, Equity options, Interest rate derivatives and creating their payoff structures.
• Experience in interacting with business users and executives to identify information needs, gather Requirements, and authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML modeling.
• Experience in publishing and content management.
• Skilled in translating business objectives into prioritized functional requirements and recommending feasible solutions to business problems.
• Experience in training and mentoring team members with product knowledge and business processes.
• Outstanding organizational skills including ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage complex issues.
• Extensive experience in business analysis, gap analysis, cost/benefit analysis, risk analysis, testing, development of functional specifications and project planning.
• Defined the test criteria, project schedules and base lined the Test Plan with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HP PPM
• Rational Rose
• Requisite Pro
• Rational Clear Quest
• Rally
• UML
• QTP
• Clear Case
• C
• C++
• MS Access
• MySQL
• ORACLE
• DB2
• Linux: RedHat
• SUSE
• Ubuntu
• Solaris Windows: XP 2003 Server
• Vista and HP: HPUX
• Mainframes
• MS Office 2007 (Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Outlook)
• MS Visio
• MS Project
• MS Access and MS FrontPage
• STAFF
• SPSS
• HTML
• XML
• HTTP
• SCSI
• DNS
• DHCP
• TCP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati,OH

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a new Credit Card application which was all automated and replacing existing system
• Obtaining a detailed knowledge of the business process being followed in the project environment.
• Extracting the business requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application, and documenting it for the developers.
• Involved understanding the current business process, defining scope of the project along with position statement. Conducted a budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Meeting with users and stakeholders to understand the problem domain, gathering customer requirements through surveys, interviews (group and one - on-one) along with JAD sessions.
• Analyze business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases and activity diagrams using MS Visio
• Preparing Business workflow models that cover "How" business processes are accomplished.
• Analyzing Business Requirements to produce System Requirements for the technical team using MS Visio.
• Testing the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.
• Bugs, which would enhance the usability of the application, were logged using Jira and Quality Centre.
• Interacting with the developers on resolving the reported bugs and various technical issues.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application, for an intended novice user.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, MS Visio, MS Project, Enterprise Architect (EA), iGrafx Flowcharter, Oracle, MS Office Suite, Java/J2EE, TOAD, SQL Developer, Sybase, DB2, DB Artisan.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed business requirements document (BRD), User stories and functional requirements, created the same by creating vision/scope document.
• Acted as the primary Intermediary between the Subject Matter Experts such as Credit Risk Managers, Market Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers and relationship managers to understand and identify the business needs, Business Rules, Business Processes & Interface Specifications, wrote users user stories, documented them in Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Designed, Co - Authored, Prepared Graphical depictions of Narrative Use Cases and created UML Models such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Flow Diagrams using MS Visio & igrafx flowcharter. Detailed the Functional requirements specifications, user stories and other core materials.
• Conducted GAP Analysis by doing current state assessment of the entire data warehousing & ETL (Extract, Transact, Load) process, prepared the AS IS and TO BE workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level and prepared Business Workflow models that cover "How" business processes are accomplished.
• As a Project Manager, created project schedules, conducting task identification and management, milestone tracking, resource allocation using MS Project and Used HP PPM to align portfolio investments to better support business strategies. Completing Project Status Reports & participated in PMO meetings to update senior management and other stakeholders on the progress, issues and deliverables of the project.
• Completed Project Status Reports & led PMO meetings to update senior management and other stakeholders on the progress, issues and deliverables of the project.
• Conducted data mapping & data modeling activities to map products (Equity, Bonds, Loans, etc) with the existing processes.
• Created presentations & demo’s of the new releases to senior management, documented their feedback, organized and participated in Release walk-throughs.
• Worked on Reference data, Source to Target Data Mappings, Data Element Mapping, Functional Element List, Report layout templates and prototypes.
• Performed Gap analysis between old and new system, identified gaps between the business and technical processes & the extracts (sent to client) from the new system, prioritized them based on actual business needs, created reference data, data dictionary and data mapping documents.
• Wrote standard and complex SQL queries to perform data validation to ensure test results matched back to expected results based on the user needs.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, MS Visio, MS Project, Enterprise Architect (EA), iGrafx Flowcharter, Oracle, MS Office Suite, Java/J2EE, TOAD, SQL Developer, Sybase, DB2, DB Artisan.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited business requirements from the stakeholders and analyzed them for consistency, flexibility and completeness.
• Followed RUP methodology for the project.
• Created target questionnaires for SMEs to gather requirements.
• Familiar with SFAS 133 and 149.
• Identified the key changes and conducted periodic walkthroughs with business users to communicate effectively with them.
• Identified data to various upstream and downstream applications.
• Performed GAP analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Acted as a liaison between the developers, clients and Line of Business (LOB) and was instrumental in resolving conflicts between user and technical development teams.
• Experience and knowledge ACH and Check 21.
• Used Automated Clearing House (ACH) for the financial transactions.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro for managing the requirements.
• Knowledge of Check 21 for the remote deposit.
• Created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams and Deployment Diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Defined Business Process Model with the help of Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and Web Page Mock-Ups using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Prepared artifacts such as; Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD) for the team.
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications based on User Requirements.
• Conducted meetings with Project Manager, Business users and ensured that team is on the same page.
• Prioritized and ensured testability of all the requirements and mitigated any issues found by the stakeholders.
• Involved in maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables for a project.
• Used the Rational Clear Quest as an effective Bug tracking tool.
• Used MS Project & Gantt chart for scheduling timelines of the project.

Environment: Rational Suite (Rose, Requisite Pro), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Windows NT/XP/2000, UML, UNIX, MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, Mercury, Test Director.

Confidential, Tulsa, Ok

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Rational Requisite-Pro to prepare BRD, use cases, process flow diagrams, and other artifacts while analyzing the inception phase.
• Conducted JAD sessions during design and development phases of models to formulate payoffs on interest rate swaps and Credit-at-Risk (CaR) analysis module.
• Involved in the preparation of System Requirement Specifications (SRS) to in corporate models to value interest rate and equity options, measure options Greeks.
• Designed workflow charts and created rules relating to trading, post-trading management in order to automate and streamline back office operations to achieve STP.
• Managed (UAT) sessions and processes to review user feedback.
• Investigated, reviewed, and analyzed the current system.
• Developed an internal Search Engine Optimization tool to track ranking results for 10,000 keywords on Google and Yahoo.
• Analyzed Web Analytical data collected from Web Trends Analytics for the SEO requirement and made a recommendation and project plan based on the data trends.
• Conducted initial JAD session with business users, managers, system architects, data administrators, requirement auditor, production planners, and trainers for creating high-level process model of business.
• Development of "to-be" IT and business process strategy, and mapping "as-is" and "to-be" business processes in alignment with the business process strategy
• Developed and implemented workflow and QA process for search engine optimized Web sites.
• Lead on corporate and departmental Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project, as directed by the Business Change Manager.
• Defined problem domain by gathering requirements from business user and stakeholders and transformed functional requirements into system requirement specifications.
• Created Use Case model and Process flow diagrams.
• Developed and managed project plans and schedules. Managed resolution of project issues and conflicts.
• Involved in providing direction to Quality Assurance team.
• Managed resolution of project issues and conflicts.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing

Environment: Agile, Rational Requisite-Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Clear-Quest, Microsoft Visio, UML, JDBC

Confidential, Columbia, MO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings with Subject Matter Experts for Requirements Gathering and transforming them to functional specification.
• Acted as a primary liaison between business lines, operations, and technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Conducted JAD sessions and meetings with developers, QA team, and users for communicating primary requirements, also discuss different versions of requirements, queries, and clarify the issues.
• Participated in writing data mapping documents and performing gap analysis to verify the compatibility of existing system with new business requirements.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Created requirements document for Data Extraction, Data Analysis and Loading process.
• Applied SDLC as a software development methodology.
• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Design UML diagrams like Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State - Diagram for project documentation using MS Visio.
• Coordinated UAT and executed environment build plans.
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform Data Validation.
• Organized and Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression, and support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in publishing and content management.
• Involved in defect tracking and bug management using Rational Clear Quest.
• Planned, scheduled, and controlled projects based on plans and requirements outlined by the business.
• Interacted with developers to report data related bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Involved in providing input for Modification and Enhancement Requests.
• Involved in meetings, walkthroughs and creating minutes of the meeting.
• Created and submitted weekly status report to the project manager.

Environment: J2EE, Java Script, HTML, Oracle, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user/business requirements, conducted/organize team meetings, working sessions, generated business process models, use case models, created documents like Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Created workflow diagrams, flowcharts, activity diagrams, design specification document, functional matrices and use case diagrams.
• Worked actively in a Web Analysis project involving order creating/management system, analyzing current data on production, updating web pages - look and feel, formatting data stores and generate UML diagrams of logical and physical data.
• Provided analysis to expand the current system to track the activity of the individual Mobile activation within the portfolios.
• Carried out a thorough target organization assessment and risk analysis.
• Involved in object oriented designing using UML and Rational Rose.
• Implemented requirement gathering & management using Rational RequisitePro.
• Facilitated JAD sessions acting as a facilitator between various teams.
• Created work flow diagram.
• Implemented a structured system development methodology with emphasis on Rational Unified Process (RUP) that dramatically improved productivity and reduced errors.
• Implemented Change Management in a RUP environment.

Environment: Windows XP, C++, VB, Dot NET Framework, Oracle 9i, SQL, DB2, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS word, MS Power Point.