SUMMARY

• Result oriented Business Analyst with over 7 years of consistent experience and hands - on knowledge of complex financial projects like Fixed Income and Structured Finance Portfolio Management Systems, Equity & Derivative platforms, Valuation Systems and Trade Finance & Insurance Projects
• Good understanding of the Commercial Insurance Underwriting, Annuities and new insurance policy procedures, Property & Casualty, Auto and Life Insurance, Annuities, Investor reporting, insurance premium processing
• Strong expertise in different Asset Classes. Hands on experience with working on Cash-Flow & Portfolio Performance systems and Liquidity & Credit Enhancement measurement, Default Risk Management, Credit and Market Risk
• Proven leadership in managing and supporting the Banking & Investment Systems, analyzing processes, concepts & managing projects by creating project charter, WBS & risk management plan for affective implementation of the project goal
• Experienced in AGILE, Waterfall & RUP Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies
• Extensive experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for gathering requirements from the project stakeholders and converting & documenting them into Business Requirements (BRDs) and Functional Requirements (FRDs/SRS), developing Use Cases and Use Case Diagrams using Unified Modeling Language (UML) tools
• Expert in using elicitation techniques like interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming, focus groups and prototyping to gather business requirements
• Expert in conducting GAP Analysis with a very good understanding of Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams
• Proficient with developing and helping the technical team with understanding user stories by breaking large user stories for execution
• Expert Knowledge of Requirement Traceability Matrix & Version control as well as requirement change management
• Experience of working with Quality Assurance (QA) team in developing & Validating Test Cases and performing pre-UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Successfully trained the users on the implementation of the new financial systems including cash-flow analysis and portfolio performance measurement
• Experience of working on projects for System Analysis & Design, Project Management using Tools like MS Visio, MS Project, Rational Rose
• Advanced MS office experience with strong MS Excel (macros, pivot tables, look-ups and filtering) and SQL skills and very well versed with Bloomberg terminal to source data for the financial systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Analysis: Requirement Analysis, detail design, Business Rules, data flow diagrams, data definition table, data modeling, system integration, and team building

Processes/Technologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Clear case, Use Cases, Workflow and UML.

Rational Suite and Tools: UML with Rational Software Modeler, Rational RequisitePro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, HP Quality Center, MS-Office, MS Visio and MS Project

Databases: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MySQL, DB2

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP, NT, 95,2000, 98, Vista & UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CT

Sr Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The project requires a business systems analyst to consult Voya business owners for their $50 million worth rebranding project, by analyzing policies and guidelines, performing impact analysis & providing business solutions, to evaluate legal entities, applications & system changes
• Served as a conduit between the client community and the software development team.
• Elicited requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis
• Critically evaluated information gathered from multiple sources, reconciled conflicts, deconstructed high-level information into details, abstracting up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguished user requests from underlying essential needs
• Work with SMEs to gather the business requirements and UI preferences for multiple applications to identify the key areas to be impacted with rebranding changes and prepare AFDs (BRDs) & target process flows
• Facilitate critical planning sessions to define scope & develop workflows for multiple business units & release cycles
• Liaising between development teams and business members to interpret & translate customer business needs into application and operational requirements and ensure all requirements within scope are met
• Gain insight into various external, client specific & internal applications in a process to identify and validate each required change
• Perform GAP analysis and conduct ‘As Is’ & ‘To Be’ assessments for client specific applications
• Determine the impacts, dependencies and process-flows for web services & batch applications
• Prepare UAT documents, detailing each impact to facilitate business/application owners with testing and ensuring that all the rebranding changes have been implemented
• Identified multiple external data sources for various reports and files generated through various applications
• Co-ordinate all phases of migration cycles and assist in performing User Acceptance testing to avoid operational risks
• Validate defects and assign those to the responsible team/owner using Quality Center to ensure full compliance with functional requirements
• SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010to manage content, trained end users in SharePoint & familiarized them withOutlookto facilitate smooth integration withMicrosoft Dynamics
• Manage daily aspects of the project including, goal documentation, facilitating meetings, gathering business requirements, issue management, user acceptance testing and project team deliverables
• Created wireframes & hyperlinked those in presentation to help simulate the application without writing code

Confidential, New York

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The project required a financial business analyst with a very good understanding of financial portfolios and risk measurement to develop a web based cash-flow analysis and performance measurement system for fixed income and securitization portfolios
• Documented the end to end process model of cash-flow for different asset classes like auto loans, consumer loans, vehicle and equipment leases, residential mortgage and synthetic RMBS & CMBS deals
• Oversaw all phases of the SDLC in the AGILE framework thereby participating in the Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, & Daily Scrum Meetings
• Liaised between traders, developers, project manager and process/product analysts to understand the business processes, identify enhancements and gather business requirements and converting those to functional requirements
• Conducted User Mapping Workshops to gather User Stories in order to create product and sprint backlog
• Ensured that the user stories have business value and story points thereby the user stories have acceptance criteria
• Defined the lifecycle process for structured finance and securitization deals and helped identify different use-cases for the whole system & Created Work-flow diagrams & Use case diagrams using IBM Rational Rose and MS Visio
• Conducted a GAP and SWOT analysis to identify the risks & problems in the existing system and implemented the strategies and solutions to rectify those problems
• CreatedTraceability Matrix across the project by linking business requirements, functional specifications and corresponding test cases
• Performed Data mining and data extraction by using SQL to create financial Spreadsheets by pulling data from databases including Bloomberg for various portfolio and deal data
• Prepared a credit enhancement and liquidity model for different bonds/tranches using MS Excel to provide a prototype of a functionality to be included in the system. Defined the logic for the system to model Swaps automatically using the data sources & documented various stress testing scenarios
• Collaborated with the QA team in reviewing and validating test plans and test cases, ensuring that the final application catered to the user requirements. Also, created system manuals and guides for the users to perform final UAT

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The project required a BA with good understanding of mortgage products and risk associated in the banking and trading division to create a loan servicing system to process and enhance then existing case management application
• Oversaw all phases of the SDLC in the AGILE framework thereby participating in the Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, & Daily Scrum Meetings
• ConductedGAP Analysis, developed questionnaires andgathered user requirements through Interviews, user meetings, and Requirement Elicitation Sessions like User Mapping Workshops and Brainstorming sessions
• Documented and translated business and technical requirements between the Loss Mitigation, Foreclosure and Loan Administration teams as well as the IT Ops team and developers
• Used Quality Center for implementing the project and supporting the Agile management practices using different modules
• Assessed the current business processes and identified the key pain areas and issues by performing Business Process Modeling (BPMN)
• Assisted in development of test plansandtest casesfor the functionalintegrationandsystem testingof sprint releases
• CreatedTraceability Matrix across the project by linking business requirements, functional specifications and corresponding test cases
• Performed Data mining and data extraction by using SQL to create lending analysis and risk Spreadsheets

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The role was to assist the senior business analyst with enhancing a web-based banking application, with an objective to reduce response time and show up-to-date transaction activity in a secure environment
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for Rational Unified Process (RUP) to identify business rules and requirements and documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical team
• Performed extensive data analysis using MS Excel and other Business Intelligence tools. Reviewed existing data-mart and helped in data conversion plans by analyzing the database using SQL queries and views
• Created various UML Diagrams like Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, Data Flow Diagram and Wire Frame
• Facilitated discussions involving key stakeholders from both business side and IT side to elicit high level requirements and estimate project feasibility, designed and conducted survey among different end users including institutional users, brokers to collect detailed requirements, and documented business requirements according to interviews and user surveys
• Mediated users and stakeholders conflicts on requirements through JAD sessions Derived functional specifications using UML models including user case diagram, activity diagram, and sequence diagram, and collaborated with software architects and developers to ensure that the applications conform to the requirements and helped to understand the business flow and account relationships in accordance to the specific databases and tables involved in development
• Established traceability matrix using Rational Requisite Professional to trace completeness of requirements in different SDLC stages, and managed changes requests; controlled, tracked and monitored change requests using Rational Clear Quest to enable successful interactive development