SUMMARY

• Seven (7) years of professional experience in Business Analysis, Business Modeling, Requirements Gathering, Technical Documentation.
• Experience in creating Business Requirement Documents(BRD),Use Case Specifications, Process Flow Diagrams,Functional Specifications, Requirements Traceability Matrix(RTM) across the project Deliverables.
• Strong understanding of Investment Banking, Fixed Income,Bonds, Mutual Funds, Equities, Credit Derivatives (Options, Swaps and Futures), Portfolio Management, Trading Systems.
• Excellent in writing business and system specifications, designing and developing use case and test case scenarios, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, developing test plans, analyzing root - cause analysis of software failure, conducting user acceptance testing as well as training and implementing new processes and procedures.
• Extensive experience on Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) in Waterfall, Agile and RUP.
• Expertise in implementing Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Suite.
• Possess experience in framing business processes and acting as liaison between business management, development and testing teams.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Feasibility Studies, Risk & Impact Analysis.
• Helped in creating Data Dictionary having business definition of Data Mapping to map Logical Data elements in use cases to Physical data elements (record source).
• Ability to implement Change Management and Defect Management techniques.
• Proficient at coordinating testing team in developing test plan and test cases by giving view of functional requirements.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office especially MS Excel, Visio, Power Point, Word.
• Successful as team player working in conjunction with other testers, developers and other team members in validation and testing complex scenarios and projects and in maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects especially with Test Director.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Analysis: C, Java, .Net, HTML, Unix Scripting

Business Strategy: SAS, SQL (SQL Server and Oracle Databases)

NPV Analysis & Cost-Benefit Analysis: Big Data- Hadoop Framework

Risk Management: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Eclipse, Visual Studio, LucidChart

Data Analytics: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX

Visualization (e.g. Charts, Flow-Diagrams): Microsoft Office Tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, FL

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Owners and Subject Matter Experts of various fields such as Risk Managers, Project Architects, etc., to gather client specific business requirements and translate them in a proper manner for developers.
• Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering functional requirements and represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using RequisitePro.
• Developed Use Cases and Activity Diagrams for the application and prepared detailed Work flow diagram based on proposed enhancement for system.
• Performed risk analysis of requirements to identify key business risks areas for project and prioritized application development and testing.
• Gathered Business requirements and according to process flow developed User Requirements Specification (URS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and BRD.
• Conducted user interviews, facilitated JRP and JAD sessions to reduce Scope Creep and document analysis in requirements elicitation.
• Assessed flaws in existing as-is system and made clear recommendations of Business Process Improvements (BPI) and incorporated them in to be future system.
• Developed strategic partnerships with Business Users to develop solid knowledge base of business line, including business plan, products and process.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with review teams to continuously improve Quality Assurance (QA) process for application development.
• Worked on logical data modeling to represent graphically about what information is about, how to relate it with business concepts and how to apply business rules to system.
• Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test plan, Test Cases, Test scripts for testing the functionality, GUI and security testing.
• Collaborated with QA Group to ensure adequate testing of application both before and after completion, maintained quality procedures, conducted UAT Testing, and ensured that documentation is in place.
• Collaborated with QA team to develop test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product specifications.

Business Analyst

Confidential, LA

Responsibilities:

• Incorporated Rational Unified Process (RUP) to create Business Requirement Document Specifications using MS Visio and MSWord.
• Conducted JADsessions with management, SME, vendors and other stakeholders for open, pending and critical issues.
• Played major role as point of contact in tracking issues and communicating them to vendors, management and stakeholders.
• Gap analysis and structured walkthrough of workflow within different departments to identify and fill gap after merger.
• Involved in preparing BRD's (Business Requirement Documents) supporting documents.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, System Analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Extensive use of MSOffice suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) for detail reporting and Use cases.
• Played major role in Interface testing both functionally and manually.
• Assigned problems to appropriate software development team for fixes.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Automated and Manual Black box testing using Mercury's WinRunner.

Business Analyst

Confidential, OR

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved with trading activities of Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Equity Derivatives and Commodity Derivative and Futures including Commodity Futures Contracts and Financial Futures.
• Extensive work experience with Portfolio Managers, Experienced Traders, and Compliance Manager to configure the rule-based scenarios for capturing market and credit risk.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, to include solid experience in writing business requirements and functional specifications.
• Wrote SQL queries to fetch data from different source/Systems and generated Business Reports.
• Helped in creating Data Dictionary having the business definition of Data Mapping to map the Logical Data elements in use cases to Physical data elements (record source).
• Created Logical data models and Logical to Physical Data Mappings.
• Acquired data from different systems and worked on Data Mapping.
• Assisted Project Management in developing Scope/ Vision Documentation and Project Plan, tracking project process.
• Conducted system analyses, data analysis and gap analysis.
• Extensively worked with business users in gathering, analyzing, and organizing business Requirements, as well as developed BRD and FSD.
• Assisted business users in identifying functional gaps, and developed detailed FSD for gap.
• Developed test plans with QA team and helped to develop test cases for system testing, integration testing and performance testing.
• Conducted UAT to confirm that all derivative products can successfully processed during trade life cycle.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout project life cycle.
• Gathered analyzed, documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate needs of business stakeholders.
• Performed GAP Analysis to identify deficiencies of current system and to identify requirements for proposed system.
• Prepared BRD and FRD using UML and flowchart diagrams and writing up complex use cases.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Conducted analysis to improve existing User Interface and design UI prototypes.
• Perform budgeting, cost control, analysis and reporting ( Excel).
• Detailed analysis of transaction (SMS) in charts and graphs ( Excel, PowerPoint).
• Performed Cost benefit, ROI and ROM studies.
• Conducted user interviews and documented business and functional requirements.
• Performed Requirement Analysis and developed UML Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose to understand the requirements.
• Completed documentation of Claims Scenario's for source system.
• Usage of Test Automation Tools increase productivity and lead to huge cost savings.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented and managed new Loan Origination System (LOS) to process correspondent loans that account for more than 60% of company's revenue.
• Interacted with clients and business users, identify key challenges and define project scope and deliverables.
• Prepared interview questionnaires for business users and gathered requirements.
• Used UML notations and RUP methodology to analyze and translate business requirements into system specifications (SRS).
• Developed use case scenarios, sequence diagrams and class diagrams.
• Documented project plans, process flow, timelines and other requirements.
• Prepared communication results and milestone achievements for each iteration.
• Conducted meetings with review teams to continuously improve Quality Assurance process for development of application.
• Created test cases to check functionality of application.
• Responsible for creating artifacts like use-case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence, and component diagrams.
• Supported QA team in the creation of release notes and for change management documentation.
• Facilitated communication with Developers, Consultants, Business Users, and other multiple levels of management across various departments.