SUMMARY

• 7+ years of work experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Project Management, Software Design, Implementation and Quality Assurance of client business applications.
• Excellent knowledge in Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Credit tracking, Derivative Clearing, Asset Management, Wealth Management, IRS, DCS, Hedging (Long and Short).
• Good knowledge in Derivative products such as Options and Futures, Swaps and Swap Options involving Credit and Interest rate and other OTC derivatives.
• Good knowledge in Fixed Income, Trade Life Cycle, Mortgage, Insurance, Bonds, CAPM, Asset Allocation, Security Selection, Market Risk and Unique risk Section 508, Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), Basel and GAAP.
• Good knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Quality Assurance Life Cycle.
• Proven success in Business Requirement gathering, Analysis, Business Process flows (As - Is and To-Be) Gap Analysis, JAD sessions, UAT, Cost Benefit Analysis and Workflow Management tool.
• Proficient in understanding the business requirements and developing technology specifications accordingly
• Strong project management skills including planning, project scheduling, work breakdown structures, size resource and effort estimates, monitoring, Data Modeling, BPM, Process modeling and Status reporting.
• Experience in customer / client interaction, deep understanding of business systems functionality and technicality environment, and have the ability to acclimatize to new technologies and situations with ease.
• Experience in creating Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Functional and Non-Functional testing.
• Extensive Knowledge of Financial Analysis, Time value concept, Market Efficiency, Forecasting, Capital budgeting Valuation and Planning.
• Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analyses, Data Mapping, Data Profiling Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risks Analyses, and Risk management.
• Excellent knowledge in Business process re-engineering and reverse engineering by reflecting business process evaluation and facilitating solution.
• Experienced in working with various industries - Finance, Banking, Health care, Insurance and Automobile.
• Expert in pre / post implementation of ERP systems and other technology tools in the form of data migration and business process development.
• Strong Knowledge on ARGO Teller and ARGO- Sales and Service Modules.
• Good Integration Knowledge on the ARGO Sales, Service along with ARGO Teller Modules.
• Strong analysis and communication skills with an ability to transform the needs of stakeholders into Functional/Technical requirements and SME in the functional areas.
• Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Creating Request for Proposals (RFP), Change request Management (CRM), creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Expertise in diverse software engineering practices such as Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile Method in delivering artifacts pertaining to requirement analysis.
• Experience in documenting the business requirements that are acquired from end users and stakeholders.
• Experience in Use Case Analysis, creating Key performance indicators (KPI), Enterprise Risk Management, Multi Chanel marketing concept, Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Kanban Board and Tickets and Change Management.
• Extensive experience on Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Suite and SQL.
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP systems: SAP ECC 6.0, PeopleSoft 9.1

Technology: Java, MS Office, SQL Server, CRM,BPM, Front Excel, Query Builder, Sharepoint

Microsoft Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Front Page

SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Spiral, RUP

Financial Tools: eFront, Bloomberg, Reuters Eikon, Reuters 3000 Xtra, Datastream

Statistics: Financial Data Modeling and Analysis, Regression, Risk Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) Documents to define the system rules by creating Use cases, interface designs etc.
• Understood areas of business automation requirement through business process module, functional, and existed artifacts.
• Prioritized and managed business requirements based on understanding of possible business Impacts.
• Performed well structured feasibility Study to uncover potentials and viability of proposed project.
• Conducted assessment of Technical and business impact analyst at Change request.
• Designed wireframes and screen mockups to explain the implication.
• Created Use Case diagram, activity diagrams, sequence diagram, Work flow Chart in MS Visio.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirement that must be included.
• Involved in creating physical Architecture, Logical Architecture and Data Model.
• Involved in creating the Project templates, Use case specifications, Change request form.
• Worked with cross-functional teams for building use cases, demonstrating the business requirements, developing business models.
• Facilitated JAD session for requirement elicitation.
• Conducted decision point analysis, process analysis and impact analysis.
• Resolved issues, bugs related to an application to keep align and conform functionalities meets its requirements.
• Provided Bi-weekly status on project milestones to track progress of the project.
• Actively involved in eliciting requirement by collaborating with Front, Middle, and Back Office teams and status updates
• Given proper technical and business recommendations thorough out the development process to deployment destination
• Designed and developed business flow diagrams, Object Oriented models, MS Visio.
• Conducted live meetings, JAD sessions to identify requirements and functional specifications.
• Wrote and implemented SQL scripts and tuning the scripts to improve the database performance.
• Used SQL extract Data dictionaries and entity relationship diagrams documenting related data for GAP Analysis.
• Worked with the database design team to assist them in designing the database and also created data dictionary.
• Conducted reviews with team members. Publish and communicate models to various IT and business-based teams.
• Maintained a (PLL) Parking lot list and (RTM) Requirement Traceability Matrix to make sure requirements manage its consistency.
• Worked with testing team in developing the test plan, test conditions, test cases, executing plan based on business requirements and technical specifications for the conformity of its attributes.
• Involved in UAT process and coordinated with the UAT team to get the feedback to make change requirements document.
• Created extensively used quality center for bug tracking.
• Involved in log in of defects in QC and participated bug review meetings.
• Frequent interaction with quantitative analyst, SME’s, Domain experts, business owners, executive sponsors and risk managers for requirement needs and updates.
• Managed Data requirement with different components of Data dependency, transformation logic etc
• Gathered functional, Non-functional, GUI, DATA requirements, analyzed and reviewed system capabilities followed by recommendations.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, RUP,MS Visio, MS Excel (Macro), HP Quality Center, SQL Server, Management Studio 2005/2008, Java, MS SharePoint.

Confidential, NY, NY

System Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted formal interviews, live Meetings, JAD sessions to identify requirements and functional specifications.
• Conducted and controlled brainstorming sessions with various groups.
• Worked and created architectural flow along with the system architects.
• Documented functional and technical specifications with wireframes and screen mockups.
• Created Use Case diagram, activity diagrams, sequence diagram in MS Visio.
• Prepared functional requirements to define the system rules by creating Use cases, interface design and data dictionaries.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirement that must be included while developing the software.
• Managed possible risk factors by maintaining risk mitigation plan.
• Involved in creating the Project templates, Use case specifications, Change request form.
• Worked with cross-functional teams for building use cases, demonstrating the business requirements, developing business models.
• Designed and developed business flow diagrams, Object Oriented models using MS Visio.
• Worked with the database design team to assist them in designing the database and also created data dictionary.
• Conducted Model reviews with project team members. Publish and communicate models to various IT and business-based teams.
• Worked with testing team in developing the test plan, test conditions, test cases based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Involved in UAT process and coordinated with the UAT team to get the feedback to make change requirements document.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Pega, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, Clear Case, Windows XP, MS Project, Quality center, .NET, SQL Server, Share Point.

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

Functional Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Completed a thorough customer analysis and prepared a Request for Proposal (RFP) document.
• Created and maintained Use Cases, visual models, including activity diagrams, logical Business process models, and sequence diagrams using UML.
• Prepared Use cases and Data flow diagrams, Work flow diagrams, considering the scope of the project with MS Visio 2003.
• Reviewed Stored Procedures for reports and wrote test queries against the source system (SQL Server) to match the results with the actual report against the Data mart (Oracle).
• Created and scheduled Sessions based on demand, run on time and run only once using Informatica Server Manager.
• Worked on MS Excel Macros for creating automatic reports. Prepared Data Comparison tool by using VBA (Excel Macro).
• Responsible for executing User Interface Testing, System Testing, Data Quality Testing on the configuration design and prototypes.
• Defined the test criteria and project schedules, and baseline the Test Plan with the help of project meetings, walkthroughs.
• Generated XML documents using the XML Output Stage. Participated in the Logical and Physical Design sessions and developed Design Documents.
• Developed Functional Specification Document and Supplementary Specification (non-functional) Document.
• Worked with Quality Control Teams to develop Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Develop User Manuals, and Training Manuals as per Project Specifications and timelines.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, Windows XP, Dream Weaver, CRM, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, VB, ASP, Crystal Reports, Adobe Photoshop, Mercury Test Director, WinRunner, Load Runner.

Confidential, NY, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with business user Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) for requirement gathering.
• Prepared AS-IS TO-BE requirement, technical business rules documents for understating of developers, stakeholders.
• Analyzed business needs/requirements, incorporating regulatory changes, ratings and re-engineering processes.
• Actively involved in Process Management to enable the activities of planning and monitoring the performances of a process.
• Ensured quality of system changes through plans, development and execution of system test plans as well as built and executed test plans.
• Prepared data integration test cases, review test results and provided analysis for the same.
• Audited/reviewed the project management activities in the project - this includes risk management activities, issue management activities, managing by metrics, statistical management of projects etc.
• Acted as a moderator for issue resolution, if any, between senior management and project teams on process compliance.
• Had Role Specific trainings (Quality Controller, Configuration Controller, and Defect Prevention Controller).
• Planning, coordinating and conducting appropriate Audits (Configuration Management Audit, Metrics Audit and Defect Prevention Audit)
• Assisted in formulating testing documents like Test Plans and Test summary report.
• Communicated directly with Clients to understand their business needs and to resolve business issues.
• Worked with SQL queries to extract data and perform validations.

Environment: Visual Studio.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Oracle 11g, SQL, PL/SQL, Windows, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite (MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint), Test Director.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility was to gather business requirements and prepare business requirement documents and transform it to process flow documents or functional requirement document.
• Used Bi-directional traceability of forward traceability and backward traceability to keep track of requirements.
• Defined system requirements to Use Case, Use case scenario and Use Case narrative using the UML Methodologies.
• Developed detailed BRDs and FRDs using modelling tools following the SDLC structure.
• Developed business use cases textually and using Rational Rose, generated UML based diagrams for a better understanding of the user community.
• Developed Analysis Model that includes entity classes, use case diagram, sequence diagrams, object collaboration diagram that provided the development team a view of the requirement.
• Conducted presentations of the Q/A test results with analysis to the stakeholders and users and documented modifications and requirements.
• Developed and executed detailed unit, user acceptance, and regression test plans and test cases based on user/technical requirements.
• Owner of use case documents, test plans, test case documents and data dictionary.
• Writing and implementing SQL scripts and tuning the scripts to improve the database performance including data mapping, data mining and query skills.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, RUP, UML, SQL, MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook), MS Visio, Crystal Reports.