SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, having worked on full system development life cycles on SDLC Methodologies like RUP, Waterfall, and Agile with primary domain focus being the Banking and Financial Industries.
• Strong work experience in Web Banking, Credit Card,Insurance, Trading Application, Risk Management, Capital Market.
• Strong knowledge and experience of Agile, Pega,Waterfall, RUP’s Iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.
• Extensive experience in gathering, analyzing, documenting business requirement and translating requirement into functional specifications, technical specifications and reviewing design documents with stakeholders.
• Strong visual modeling, business scope and objectives, business process modeling skills using Rational Unified Process (RUP), Proficient in utilizing Rational Rose, Reserve Pro Enterprise Architect, MS Visio for UML modeling.
• Conducted Surveys,due diligence,Brainstorming sessions with SMEs for various vendors screening process.
• Proficient in creating detailed use cases, activity diagrams, business process workflow, as well as experience in creating Wireframes/Screen mock ups using MS Visio, Rational rose.
• Strongly prepared all documents like project charters, meeting minutes,BRD,FRD,SRD,TDD, User Stories, kick off documents, issue tracking log and Involved in Project Planning and Scheduling.
• Analyzed “as - is” process of the existing system and understood the “to-be” process and provided assessment document & created and translated requirement and process flows.
• Involved with the compliance teams during implementation such that right business requirements are being translated into the system as well transactions reporting and enrollment reporting generated.
• Strong experience with SQL to query database.
• Strong experience in generating data reports, data analysis, data warehousing, data mapping and data modeling.
• Good experience in the User Acceptance Testing, test plan, test scenarios, to ensure requirements are met.
• Assisted in writing Test Plans and executing Test Cases, Regression testing, Unit testing.
• Proficient in transforming business requirements into user requirement specification, Functional Requirement Specifications Document (FRD) and Use Case Narratives.
• Well versed in conducting effective and productive Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with SMEs, software developers and QA teams for project meetings.
• Successful as a team player to work in conjunction with Testers, Developers and other Team members in Validation and Testing Complex Scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects especially with Test Director
• Facilitate and managed the meeting, interviews and JAD sessions with SMEs from various areas.
• Extensive consulting and problem solving experience.
• Ability to work effectively in several teams with heterogeneous skill sets.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with highly effective presentation ability.
• Expertise in User Interaction for analyzing various Business Activities.
• Ability to establish credibility with customers by responding to inquiries, concerns and create solutions.
• Obtain desired results by interviewing and processing user requests.
• Strong Communication, Problem Solving, Organizational, Interpersonal, and Presentation Skills.
• Excellent technical, analytical, problem-solving and leadership skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Rational Enterprise Suite, MS Visio

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro,Reserve Pro.

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest

Project Management Tools: MS Project

Analysis/ Modeling tools: UML, JAD, RUP, Waterfall, Agile

Testing Tools: Roadrunner, Test Director, Mercury Quality center

Operating Systems: MS Windows NT/98/95/2000, Unix

Database: MS SQL Server 2000(execution of queries), MS Access, Oracle

Language: SQL, UML, XML

Utility: MS Office Suite Word, Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Suite, Lotus Notes,Pega, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business System Analyst

Confidential, DE

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Requirements & Design documents and understood the existing systems & functionalities.
• Lead JAD Sessions to Collect requirements and translate Business User to initiate systems development process.
• Analyzed “as-is” process of the existing system and understood the “to-be” process and provided assessment document & created and translated requirement and process flows.
• Worked closely for business and delivering requirement documents on time for insurance.
• Closely worked with Project team so that deliverable are delivered on time for various phases of project.
• Worked for creation and execution of test plan, test scripts.
• Analyzed the functionality of Derivatives workstation and create a gap analysis of the transformation
• Extensive experience in documentation of Requirements Document with business process modeling
• Proficient in transforming business requirements into Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• Generated various data reports, conducted Gap analysis, transaction analysis, root cause analysis and prepared documents related to it
• Prepared and performed due diligence for various vendors as well as customers.
• Participated in design meetings and contributed towards creating screen design/UI
• Created and managed project templates, use case templates, microstrategy reports, requirement types and Traceability Matrix.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and requirement walkthroughs to elicit requirement
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.
• Experience in reviewing Test Procedures, defining Test cases, use cases, reviewing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and conducted regression testing.
• Handled Change Requests by capturing them in the available organizational templates & thoroughly analyzing them for the impact on the existing requirements
• Reviewed and reported the progress of the JAD sessions project during all the phases.
• Created requirement document on daily file feed and project charter, reports, status reports, milestones, with mock ups.
• Closed the projects by successfully deploying the applications into production and providing the needed training materials, release notes to the business users, & documenting lessons learned to store in the organizational process assets.

Sr.Business Analyst

Confidential, DE

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with Business and Functional owner during risk engineering and High-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards.
• Prepared User’s stories Scorecard for requirement documents with acceptance criteria.
• Documents prepared for Launch of application launched Interfaced with business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR) and Software System Requirements (SSR)
• Ensured all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC Policies and Guidelines so that all standard principles, theories, concepts, and techniques of business analyst are met.
• Prepared all documents like project charters, compliance reports,meeting minutes, kick off documents, issue tracking log and Involved in Project Planning and Scheduling.
• Prepared use cases like buy a stock,Sell a stock,retrieve and OTB Derivatives
• Worked with compliance team, and done sanctions screening for transactions as well as customer.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Performed GAP analysis of Business Rules, Business and System Process Flows, User Administration, and to support Feasibility and analysis.
• Involved in creating Business Processes and Modeling Diagrams,Data modeling and data mapping using Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Actively participated in status reporting meetings and interacted with development team to discuss technical issues.Performed GAP analysis of System Integration solution wise and prepared all documents.
• Created Sequence Diagrams and State Diagram.
• Worked with System Owners for System Architect Diagram
• Worked on Retail Front End and Authentication level for internal and external users
• Worked throughout on STM document for successful implementation of project
• Worked on JIRA for Bug Reporting
• Performed UAT testing and Regression testing and generated data reports on regular basis.

Environment: UML,ETL,Java,SQL,Teradata, Rational, Oracle 8.0,Waterfall., Pro, Lotus Notes, MS Visio, MS Office RationalRose, JIRA

Business Analyst

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Requirements & Design documents and understood the existing systems & functionalities.
• Lead JAD Sessions to Collect Requirements from Business User to initiate systems development process.
• Analyzed “as-is” process of the existing system and understood the “to-be” process and provided assessment document & created process flows.
• Extensive experience in documentation of Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Proficient in transforming business requirements into Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• Participated in design meetings and contributed towards creating Architecture Diagram
• Created and managed project templates, status, meeting minutes,use case templates, requirement types and Traceability Matrix in Requisite Pro.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.
• Defined system requirements to Wire Frames with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing for Web Portal
• Experience in reviewing Test Procedures, defining Test cases, reviewing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Handled Change Requests by capturing them in the available organizational templates & thoroughly analyzing them for the impact on the existing requirements.
• Reviewed and reported the progress of the project during all the phases.
• Created Simple Queries using SQL.

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS-Project, Windows 2000, Rational requisite Pro, Lotus Notes SQL, J2EEE

Business Analyst

Confidential -MO

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing system and Business Process Flow by understanding preset business rules and conditions.
• Assisted the project managers in Feasibility Analysis-schedule, Technical, Economical and Operational Feasibility.
• Facilitate and managed the meeting, interviews and JRP sessions with SMEs from various areas.
• Worked actively in the preparation of Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification Documents and Change Request Documents.
• Conducted Surveys and Brainstorming sessions with SMEs for requirement gathering.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including GAP Analysis.
• Developed project documents based on SDLC methodology-Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Assisted in creating the Project Templates for Use case specification, Change request form, functional specification documents and Business Requirement documents and Defect status form.
• Designed and developed Use Cases and many other UML models using Microsoft Visio
• Worked closely with QA teams to define Test Cases and execute Test Plans.
• Involved with the technical teams during implementation such that right business requirements are being translated into the system.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Client Server, UML, RUP, Windows XP, Director, MS Project

Business Analyst

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Conducting user interviews at both in-house and client locations, gathering and analyzing requirements using Requisite Pro - RUP.
• Developed Banking Web Portal Application for Risk management.
• Analyzed the system from Business perspectives and prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Proficient in transforming business requirements into Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD Using UML.
• Identify research, realize, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes and Use Case scenarios.
• Perform GAP Analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Conduct Workflow and Process Diagram to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Assist with User Acceptance Testing Systems (UAT), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish Timely Release Objectives.
• Using detailed knowledge of application features and functions assess Scope and Impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications.
• Responsible for all Project Documentations.
• Worked with other BAs to make an Object Oriented Model of the application and create Use Cases.
• Developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams based on Object-Oriented Design (OOD) using Rational Rose according to the UML methodology to define business processes.
• Using detailed knowledge of application features and functions, assessed scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications.

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS-Project, Windows 2000, SWOT analysis, Clear Case, Clear Quest.

Business Analyst/Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted broker/owner in managing mortgage brokerage firm and supervised in excess of fifteen loan consultants.
• Researched and performed cost analysis to provide most economical loan products to clientele.
• Processed all loan files in accordance with the real estate compliance and mortgage lender product guidelines.
• Worked as a liaison between loan consultants and mortgage lenders to ensure an accurate and efficient transactions.
• Monitored all loan files from initial submission through funding and closing.

Environment: - MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio & MS Access, SQL, MS Access.