SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst in domains like Finance and Banking Domains. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Object - oriented analysis and Unified Modeling Language (UML) are key expertise area.
• Highly proficient in working with users and stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze them and subsequently use design tools to model the requirements. Successfully managed medium to large sized projects.
• Ability to build client relationship through frequent meetings, one on one interaction and ability to converse with all facets in the client organization by utilizing elicitation techniques like Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, brainstorming, focus groups, prototyping, cost/benefit and risk analysis.
• Proficient in documentation of Business Requirements Document (BRD) and conducting meetings with Business people to give a walkthrough of Final BRD to get their concurrences and approval.
• Experience in preparation of the System Requirement Document (SRD) / Functional Requirement Document (FRD) based on the approved Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Extensive creating skill of Use Case Specifications, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the Deliverables of a project.
• Expertise in UML - Use case diagrams using Microsoft Visio. Extensively used technologies such as MS Office suite-MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint. Well experienced in developing and imparting pre and post implementation, conducting GAP Analysis and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). In-depth knowledge of all phases of UAT Life Cycle.
• Data Warehousing Analysis: Understanding of Fact tables, Dimensions tables, Star schema and Snowflake schema, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, BI reporting, logical and physical models with specific to MS SQL.
• Excellent communication skills to help facilitate requirements and communication between the client and the project team. Developed and conducted internal programs for various applications. Developed, updated, and reviewed documentation and course materials.
• Developed/executed test scenarios and use cases to support the development team and business groups. Developed Test Cases for Unit Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing along with issue/bug tracking
• Strong experience working in Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile & SDLC

Software Packages: MS SQL 2008/2012, MS Office (Word/Excel/Access, PowerPoint), MS Project, MS SharePoint, Dream Weaver, MS Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop

Business Tools/ Screen Design: Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Case), MS Project, UML, MS Visio, Rational Enterprise Suite, JIRA, Test Director 7.6, HP Quality Center 9.2, ATG, IRise

WebTechnology/ Server: HTML, XML, HTTP, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project

Operating System: Windows XP 7, MS-DOS, Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Authoring Project Plan, requirements specifications documents, test plans and protocols, test scripts for user and functional testing, generating summary reports for system and user level testing as well as overall reports for system releases.
• Created Business Requirements Document and other low level requirement documents such as functional specification and technical specification documents.
• Created Use Cases based on the process flows diagrams.
• Clarified questions on Requirements through meetings, calls, mails
• Prepared Technical Specifications document elaborating the Requirements and Design in a detail.
• Performed Gap Analysis to compare the existing system with the proposed new system.
• Created and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure that all requirements were 100 percent traceable as per test plan.
• Worked on SQL Server, Query database to extract a set of data for the required condition to support analysis and manipulate using excel to arrive at a conclusion.
• Walkthrough of the Requirement Specifications document with Developers and QA Teams
• Assisting Developers and QA team in understanding requirements and providing clarifications wherever required
• Assisted with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place. Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Authored and managed all the master validation documents from beginning to end of multiple releases of different TrackWise modules.
• Communicated with business SMEs and Project managers to solidify requirements and associated deliverables.
• Managed progress of projects through MS Project Plan.
• Providing post Go-Live support.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with the client as part of the Requirements Engineering team to finalize the project scope.
• Effectively aligned with the PM in developing project plans and also managed to capture changes to the scope of the project.
• Provided support to the Global Risk Management team under the counterparty credit Risk (CCRT) and credit valuation.
• AssessedCreditRiskstrategies with various internalcredittools and implemented Basel II strategies to augmentCreditavailability.
• Worked side by side with the PM in performing Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation.
• Directed user interviews, gathered requirements from different stakeholders, and analyzed the requirements through data and gap analysis.
• Documented Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD)
• Established business process models in RUP to document existing business process and future business requirement.
• Identified and documentedbusinessneeds for new marketriskandcreditriskmodule or re-usability of an existing module by performing a GAP analysis.
• Successfully established project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Identified internal and external system requirements, design and configuration set-up, also created User Documentation and conducted classes.
• Created User Interface document (UID), Wireframes, and Prototypes to help developing user interfaces.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, using UML.
• Supported the Project Manager to come up with detailed application architecture to meet both users’ requirements and business needs.
• Assisted in identifying and quantifying Credit Risk, Operational Risk and Market Risk
• Assisted the project manager in setting representative project expectations and in evaluating the impact changes on the project plans in an efficient manner.
• Evaluated requirements of US Basel standardized approach forCreditRisk.
• Effectively performed as the crucial liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project life cycle.
• Initiated proactive efforts to resolve issues reported by business Post-Production.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Businesses Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JRS session with business, stakeholders and technology to understand business requirements.
• Conducted various walkthrough calls for BRD & SRS with Business Team, technology team, design & testing tem.
• Worked with Solution Architect and helped him to draft "Architectural Blue print" document.
• Created Use Case diagrams, Flow Diagrams, Activity diagrams and Cross functional diagrams and linked with BRD and SRS.
• Created Business Use cases and System Use cases.
• Helped PM to schedule recurring meeting for stand up to stay on top of all actions/open items for the project.
• Created IAD logs and made sure to follow up & resolve with right set of people.
• Performed review sessions and gathered BRD and SRS sign offs from Business, technology and
• Designed presentation on PowerPoint for conducting walkthroughs with entire team.
• Responsible to create materials on behalf of LOB.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers.
• Maintained an action log that get discussed/reviewed in the meeting.
• Created GAP Analysis documentation, Interfacing context diagrams, traceability matrix and other related documents for the business processes.
• Created data mapping worksheets to extract data from one data base and transport to another data base.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as an effective liaison between the technical team and thebusinessteam to ensure smooth flow of communication existed for the project
• Framed a detailed agenda for JAD and facilitated JAD sessions between the various teams involved in the development of the application.
• Interacting with the businessusers to gather requirements based on the CCARRegulation for Financial Statements, Interest Rate, Credit Ratings, FRY9C and Investment Securities.
• Created screen mockups and wireframes for the application.
• Performed in depth GAP analysis on the requirements, identified the gaps, and documented the GAP analysis reports.
• Delivered all key documentation for the above includingBusinessCase, BRD, FRD, Use cases, BusinessRules, & Process flows
• Involved during various phases of Rollout of Client profiling andBankingBusinessAccount related service products.
• Provided testing support to the testing team. Actively participated in overnight app releases, running test cases, revivifying defects and bugs and properly communicating to the required
• Involved in testing of Java REST based web services.
• Requirements walk-through and single point of contact for Development and QA
• Architectural Design Review sessions and stage gates for the migration
• Partnered with project management to manage the project requirements, milestones, budget, risks and issues
• Reported on key metrics and indicators to ensure effective and accurate communication to Senior Management on the project progress and milestones.
• Serve as a key technology partner working closely withBusiness, Development and QA throughout all the phases of the project life cycle until go live and implementation
• Managed the product feature backlog for the end to end implementation - worked with HRbusiness partners and SMEs to contribute to and effectively implement key asks into the release