SUMMARY

• Masters of Business Administration in Finance with over 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst in the field of Banking, Finance, brokerageand in depth functional and domain understanding of the entire operations and supporting IT systems.
• Possess extensive experiences in gathering Requirements, analyzing and optimizingthe processes and converting user requirements into Business Requirements documents, documenting functional and system specifications and providing liaison and QA support throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Quick learner, team player with good communication, analytical, leadership, interpersonal and problem solving skills.
• Self - starter with motivation, experienced working under pressured with diverse groups and capable of multitasking independently.
• Strong knowledge of applied principle of the iterative methodologies like SEIs CMM, SDLC (Waterfall model) includingRequirements Analysis/Design and Development using iterative and incremental methodologies: Agile (SCRUM) and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Expertise in gathering and analyzing requirements and documentingthem asBusiness Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and Technical Design Document (TDD), Traceability Matrix (TRM) using Requisite Pro and DOORS.
• Expert in UML based methods using Rational Rose and MS Visio to develop business cases, use case diagrams and activity diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams.
• Expertise in Interviews, Joint Application Development Sessions (JAD), Focus sessions for requirements gathering, analysis/design with stakeholders, SME’s, Developers and system architects.
• Experienced in using Project Management Tools (MS Project) in managing schedules and deadlines, analyzing information and collaborating projects with great judgment skills identifying high and low risk for critical business area.
• Performed GAP analysis generating “AS IS” and “TO BE” work flows.
• Performed Feasibility Analysis, Impact Analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Data Analysis and Risk Analysis for operations in Financial Institutions.
• Worked with the development team to ensure all the application requirement are covered and the solution is on schedule.
• Experience in writingSQL queries (using DDL and DML commands).
• Experienced in defining Testing Strategies by creating Test Plans and Test Cases to determine the Test Schedule and Test Environments.
• Proficient in defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle using Rational Clear Quest.
• Hands in experience of creation of user instructionmanuals and performingUser Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Extensive experience in liaising with business, product owner and functional owner during risk engineering, high-level and low-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, UML

Requirements Management: Rational Requisite Pro, HP quality center (QC)

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft VISIO, Rational Rose, MS office

Change Management tools: Rational Clear Quest

Testing tools: HP QC / Test Director, QTP

Operating System: Windows 98/2000/XP/VISTA/MAC OSX

Databases: MS Access, Oracle (SQL), MySQL, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Communicated and collaborated with key stakeholders (Business and Technical) and project teams to gather and analyze high and low level business requirements.
• Developed Business Case document andRequirement Charterdocumentto describe the key activities and deliverables of the Requirement Phase of the Project Life Cycle.
• Identified Key requirement stakeholders and prepared Requirement Elicitation plan to manage all planned, scheduled, and delivered elicitation events.
• Gathered Business, Functional & System requirements by conducting interviews, JAD sessions, and observations.
• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and help develop strategies for improving or further leveraging the current system.
• Documented business gathering into Business requirement document(BRD) and Functional requirement documents(FRD) to describe Scope, current state, future state, assumptions, constrains, Functional and Non-Functional requirements in Rational Requisite Pro.
• Strong understanding and proven skills in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models such as the Iterative Methodologies (Agile)
• Performed GAP analysis to analyze the current environment and desired environment and IMPACT analysis of the integration.
• Developed Use Cases, Process Flow, Activity, Sequence diagrams using UML tools like using MS VISIO
• Assisted with user testing of systems (User Acceptance Testing), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Developed Test Strategy documentation that defined the testing environment, phases and time line of testing; and Entrance and Exit Criteria for different phases of testing such as Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Participated in Timelines for project delivery, managed projects and resources for successful completion with proven skills of meeting the deadline of the project.
• Used HP Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking.
• Maintained traceability of requirements throughout the project life cycleand maintained Stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Traceability Matrix.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked collaboratively with upper managements and senior team member in discussing Project Scope, strategies and deliverability.
• Performed GAP analysis on “As IS” and “To BE” scenarios and Impact analysis of implementation on current work flow.
• Participated in interviewing area expert and asking detailed questions for project planning and deadlines.
• Facilitated meetings with stakeholders and end users for requirement collection, design changes and feedbacks.
• Documented business gathering into Business Requirement Document (BRD) and translated requirements into functional Requirement Specifications (FRS)under guidance of Project manager.
• AssistedSenior Business Analyst in planning, Analyze/design, testing and implementing client projects throughout SDLC (RUP).
• Created functional specifications, included use cases, data models, and business process flows using modeling tools like MS Visio.
• Escalated issues and reported them as appropriate to Project manager and management for support and guidance by participating in weekly status meetings.
• Responsible for generating innovative solutions to bridge the gap between business and IT.
• Implemented formal and informal routines for planning, monitoring & reporting with key stakeholders
• Conducted presentations to key decision makers.
• Created and maintained user documentation, project plans, managed deadlines, and working to meet feature requirements and customer expectations.
• Performed follow- up with branches on required reports and data.
• Analyzed data reports and assisted QA team forUser Acceptance Testing (UAT) for end user acceptance.

Confidential, Whitehall, WI

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with project teams to analyzed high level and low level requirements.
• Participated in interviewing area expert and asking detailed questions for project planning and deadlines.
• Documented business gathering into Business Requirement Document (BRD) and translated requirements into Software Requirement Specifications (SRS)
• Applied UML notations and methodology in developing models that accurately represent the business process and workflows and clearly communicate them to the stakeholders.
• Developed Use Cases, Process Flow, Activity and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio
• Performed GAP analysis and documented the impact of the migration on current business processes and applications.Planned and analyzed AS-IS Business Process Workflow Models to create TO-BE Business Process.
• Facilitated Joint Application Discussion(JAD) sessions for communicating and managing expectations and also allowing different stakeholders view their perspectives, resolving any issues and final agreement.
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance team to formulate test plans in the pre-testing phases.
• Participated in timelines for project delivery, managed projects and resources for successful completion using MS Project.
• Extracted data from the flat files and transforming the data according to the target database and performed loading.
• Performed User Acceptance Team to ensure all requirements are met.
• Designed, developed test PL/SQL code (Procedure, function, package, trigger, views etc.). Responsibility included analyzing tables, indexes and cluster for verifying the validity of its storage format.
• Creating primary objects (table, view, indexes) Modifying database structure as necessary. Successfully reduced contention between database data files. Allocate and manage physical storage structures. To get maximum performance database objects are properly sized and configured.

Confidential, Orange County, CA

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked collaboratively with upper managements and senior team member in discussing Project Scope, strategies and deliverability.
• Utilized Agile Unified Process (AUP) Methodology to configure and develop process, standards and procedures with a strong understanding of seven disciplines in Agile Methodology
• Interacted with users and stakeholders to Gather Business Requirements, analyzed data/workflows, defined the Project Scope and performed the cost/benefit analyst.
• Conducted interviews with the clients for gathering requirements and evaluation/analysis before converting the Business Requirements into Functional Specification.
• Facilitated Joint Application Discussion(JAD) sessions for communicating and managing expectations by allowing different stakeholders view their perspectives, resolving any issues and final agreement
• Identified actors and use cases from the requirements and prepared Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagram for a clear understanding using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Facilitated meetings with users for requirement collection, design changes and feedbacks.
• Escalated issues and reported them as appropriate to Project manager and management for support and guidance.
• Worked closely with Quality Assurance Analyst team to analyze system requirements and formulate Test Plans in the pre-testing phases and then writing Test Cases for functionality, navigation and integration testing of the application
• Experienced tracking Business Requirements and Test Cases linkage using Standard Traceability Metrics pre-testing and during testing phase
• Frequently updated the Requirement and Defect status per the current project status
• Experienced tracking and maintaining the bug or defect reports for internal evaluation of the product using Mercury Quality Center
• Worked closely with the team to ensure common goal and make collective decisions on critical issues
• Managed and shared all business documents and contents using MS SharePoint Server