SUMMARY

• Business System Analyst with over 7 years industry experience in data modeling, process modeling, requirements gathering and analysis, process flow, process analysis and quality assurance
• Experience working with customer / business and project team (Cross Functional), Vendor Management and Operation Management.
• Excellent writing skills in documenting Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications and Functional Specifications, Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), Workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams (Use Cases, Activity and Sequence), Requirement Management Tools and Change & Version Control Tools
• Experienced in all areas of project life cycle in a highly structured change management environment using traditional waterfall, and Agile Techniques and RUP
• Excellent knowledge of asset management, securities, brokerage, equity, derivatives, retail and commercial banking.
• Highly experienced in various areas of Investment Banking: Portfolio Management, Fixed Income, Annuities, Trading Life Cycle, Mortgage, Loan Orientation, Stocks, Bonds, Futures, Options, Hedging, Equity Research, Mutual Funds, Securities lending and Commodities.
• Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes and analyze workflow and conducted JAD sessions.
• Involved in creating and reviewing test plan and test cases, manual testing, and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experience in extracting data using SQL queries and sorting it using pivot tables.
• Experienced in creating Business Requirement Documents, User Requirement Specification, and Functional Requirement Specifications, and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Hands on experience using PEGA SCRUM and Smart BPM methodology PRPC Application Profile, Application Express, Document Wizard and Application Enablement Wizard, CPM.
• Experienced in creating Data Flow Diagrams, Use Cases, State Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagram.
• Exposure to OBIEE and Oracle Hyperion Financial analytical tools
• Good working experience in sprints of the project in SCRUM methodology.
• Skilled in performing Gap analysis, Impact Analysis and Risk Analysis, Cost benefit analysis.
• Exposure to Change Request Management tools like Clear Quest.
• Assisted QA team in developing Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Plan for User Acceptance testing.
• Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments ahead of schedule. Reputation for dedicated teamwork, high energy, work ethics and commitment with capability to handle new technologies and situations.
• Team player and self - starter with excellent communication, coordination, documentation, project planning and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business modeling: Microsoft Visio, IBM Rational Rose, Enterprise Architecture

Documentation: Rational Requisite Pro, On Time, Dream viewer, Microsoft Word, Excel

Tools: Microsoft front page, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, .Net, Java, Balsamiq, Dream viewer, Google docs, MS Visio, Web trends, Omniture site catalyst, Google Analytics, Erwin, Informatica, Snag it

Version Tools: Clear Case/ Clear Quest, Clarity

Defect Tracking: Mercury Quality Center, Application Lifecycle Management

Testing: Mercury Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Load Runner, Quality Center

Reporting tools: Micro strategy, Crystal Reports, SSRS

Languages: SQL Access, PL / SQL, VB Script, Java Script, C, C++, HTML, XML, VHDL

Databases: Oracle 8.x/ 9i/10g, MS Access, MS SQL Server, DB2

Operating Systems: Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP/7, UNIX, Linux (SSL, VPN)

Web Analytics: Google adwords, google analytics, web trends, omniture, Dreamweaver, Flash, hyperion dashboard, Biz Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively in Caliber to organize and catalog requirements, Business Requirement documents, and use case models to further refine the requirements and understand the business.
• Conducted JAD sessions, created scope definition, SOW and release plan.
• Created High Level Class structure, Workflows and Rule sets in PEGA PRPC
• Ensured that the process ofbusiness requirementdefinition and development of user acceptance strategy ishigh quality, documented, and consistentwith company standards of internal controls and audit ability.
• Responsible fordocumenting and escalatingall open issues that are critical to the business mission and using those requirements to design application software.
• Preformedfeasibility, adaptabilitystudy andrisk analysisto identify the business critical areas from the user perspective.
• CreatedFRD for projects, interfacing with the business for all requirements. Created functional, technical and system requirement documents.
• Worked with the Enterprise architect for the overall architecture/solution for the project and ensured that it aligns with the long-term strategy.
• Identified the stakeholder’s need and created communication plan to communicate project status/progress, issues, action items and risks. Experience in extracting data using SQL queries and sorting it using pivot tables.

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, SQL, UML, Rational Unified Process, Test Director, Crystal Reports, MS Office

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle in RUP framework.
• Analyzed and collected business requirements identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.
• Worked on Moody’s Pricing and Valuation Tools and Wall Street analytics for credit risk measurement and risk calculation.
• Used Moody’s Fermat for credit research, risk measurement and valuation for the system.
• Performed Requirement Analysis to Develop Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams. Hence developed and documented conceptual design of Application in System Specification Document.
• Extensively interacted with both user group and development team in coming up with charts, sequence diagrams.
• Involved with client service and customer relationship team (CRM) to get the end users feedback about the application.
• Involved in checking the bugs in the codes or confirmation with the team of QA
• Consolidate Trade Date and reconcile from across multiple settlement platforms like equity, bond market, derivatives and commodity market.
• Perform Inventory Management check of different asset classes like stocks, commodities and bonds.
• Managed and tracked change control process of requirements and design changes using Rational Requisite Pro. Documented the changes, issues and their impact on the system design and delivery.
• Experience in using Pega BA tools like Application Profiler and Application Accelerator.
• Provided documentation such as requirements management plans, operational risk management plans, functional requirements, test plans, test cases and tracking system access for failed test cases.
• Incorporated the best practice methodologies as advocated by the Rational Unified Process.
• Wrote Use Cases and developed Business Rules document for the implementation of Workflows in Pega PRPC.
• Designed and analyzed Use Case model and test procedures based on RUP methodology.
• Crystal Reports was used to generate reports from different databases of different asset classes like equities, bonds, derivatives, commodities, for all business needs.
• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and nonfunctional requirements based on interactions with the process owners. Performed user interviews, JAD sessions.
• Wrote Functional requirements specification (FRS) documents, swot analysis as per the Business requirements and process flow.
• Participated in several functional and business meetings acquiring great knowledge in commercial deal and loan products, trading (stocks, derivatives) regulatory compliance, risk and margin systems in related to the business functionalities.
• Designed and developed project templates based on SDLC Methodology
• Acted as User Acceptance Testing coordinator and monitored business testing with vendors Thomson one, Bloomberg, IDC and SunGard for equities and derivatives and interfaced with the development team regarding defect status and fixes on daily basis.

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, SQL, UML, DTCC, PEGA, NSCC, Fiserv Recon, Moody’s Tools, Rational Unified Process, FIX, Test Director, Crystal Reports, MS Office

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted extensive meetings to understand the business model and processes, documented and gathered the business requirements, and carried out implementation of new derivative products.
• Validate rules, custom settings, and security check by UAT testing for the end clients.
• Worked with vendors that provides data feeds i.e. Broad ridge impact for fixed income, Thomson one, Bloomberg, IDC and SunGard for equities and derivatives.
• Worked extensively with SME’s including heads in areas of fixed income derivatives, options, foreign exchange (FX), futures and risk managers in understanding, extracting, refining and documenting the User and Business Requirement Specifications in the BRDs.
• Worked with SME’s of Corporate Actions to better understand the impact and document the Business Requirement Specifications, Equity Trade Flow Processes and Credit analytics for Fixed Income Securities and equities.
• Used Crystal Reports to generate reports from different databases of different asset classes like equities, bonds, derivatives, commodities, for all business needs.
• Created Use Case Scenarios and maintained the Use Cases (Business Use Cases, System Use Cases) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, revised functional specifications and other core materials throughout the System Life Cycle making all necessary revisions for defect correction and requirement clarification and refinement.
• Good in Defining Test plan and Test Strategy, especially for BPM/PEGA based Application.
• Performed Gap Analysis, Swot analysis and cost Benefit Analysis for the modules in production, conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.
• Involved in trade processing and cost basis processing.
• Conduct Inventory Management of Cash and Securities Positions across different Asset Classes like equity, bonds, and derivatives.
• Worked with stakeholders to obtain deliverable sign-offs. Provided functional direction to other systems analysts and used the meta-data definition and workflow needs and how these functions map to business processes.
• Involved in fee calculation and data reporting.
• Created numerous deliverables in different phases of the project beginning from project Initiation, through Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition to create User Manuals.
• Involved in analyzing various business scenarios and pitfalls in the process that could occur because of network/system/user undoing; this being a data intensive project.
• Conducted scenario analysis to document business rules that govern the pass/fail criteria, set timelines to process the files, created backup for failed imports, etc.
• Documenting and executed Test cases and test scripts per Functional Specifications of the application. Documented test cases, test results, test procedure and tracking system access.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Environment: Windows XP/2000, MS Office Suite, PEGA, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Mercury Quality Centre, Load runner.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst to review the project plan and formulated schedule to gather requirements from business users
• Designed use-cases and use-case models to further refine the requirements and understand the business processes. Worked extensively in Rational Requisite Pro to organize and catalog requirements, documents, and use-case documents.
• Interacted with Traders, Developers, Project Manager and Process Analysts to understand the business processes, identified enhancements and gathered business requirements.
• Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Performed Requirements Analysis and Documentation using Requisite Pro.
• Worked as a team with ETL Developers and Process Analysts in preparing the requirements, and writing work flows, process flows
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify business critical and high-risk areas of the application
• Created UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data-Flow Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio to define the Business Process and Data Process model
• Used MS Project for managing schedules, resources and collaboration
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) for managing the SDLC
• Used Rational Clear Quest to track bugs and system enhancements
• Conducted JAD sessions to discuss requirements and resolve conflicts between stakeholders
• Involved with the QA team to develop and review Testing Strategies and Test Plans
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues

Environment: RUP SDLC, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook.

Confidential, Roseville, CA

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducted JAD sessions, created scope definition, SOW and release plan.
• Worked with the Enterprise architect for the overall architecture/solution for the project and ensured that it aligns with the long-term strategy.
• Created sprint plans and transformed the scope into work packages. Worked with the product owner to groom the product backlog throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Defined clear roles and responsibilities among team members and established a process for work management.
• Responsible for enhancing existing Logical and Physical data models to accommodate the new data requirements.
• Tracked the progress of sprints. Monitored sprint burn down and velocity of the scrum teams. Created dashboards for the management to view the sprint progress of all the scrum teams.
• Conducted team scrums, leadership scrums, sprint planning, sprint showcases and sprint retrospectives.
• Facilitated User Acceptance testing (UAT) for the application as a Business User.
• Proactively managed scope changes, risks, issues and action items throughout the projectAt the program level, interfaced with the owner of the interfacing applications and vendors to establish dependencies (Give Vs. Get) and milestones.
• Identified the stakeholders need and created communication plan to communicate project status/progress, issues, action items and risks
• Conducted training sessions on Agile methodology and work management process
• Generated Reports for Traffic Analysis using Analytics tools like Web Trends Tool, Google Analytics, and prepared reports by importing external data in Excel format with the help of ODBC Web Trends driver and MS Query.
• Experience in writing XML scripts
• Excellent skills in analysis web data and providing analysis.

Environment: Agile, MS Office (Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), SharePoint, Oracle, XML, SQL Server