PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 Years of Experience in Business Analysis and Test Analysis in understanding, analyzing, and designing Business Process Modeling and Performing requirement analysis, prepared test scripts, executed performance and system tests, and resolved defect issues with strong focus in Banking and finance domain.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , having thorough understanding of various phases like requirements, analysis/design, and development and testing.
• Several years of experience and advance knowledge of project life cycles such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Rational Unified Process RUP .
• Expertise in effective and efficient requirements gathering activities to include developing relationships with business users, top management, and technical team.
• Proficient in creating Business Requirement documents BRD , Functional Requirements Documents FRD , Use cases diagrams, Activity diagram, Class diagrams, and Sequence diagrams.
• Extensive experience in conducting JAD sessions and brainstorming sessions.
• Strong experience in Project Management tools such as MS Project for status reporting and project planning.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM using Rational Rose to trace each software requirement to test case.
• Experienced in conducting GAP analysis, and Risk Analysis
• Well Experienced in User Acceptance Testing UAT , Test Plans development, Test Conditions and Test Cases, test data creation and analysis, and interaction with the development team for error detection and correction.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with ability to interact with various teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and customer relational skills.
• Experienced in understanding database structures, Data Definition Language, Data Manipulation Language.
• Apt at writing Data Mapping Documents, Data Transformation Rules and Data Dictionary maintenance, Data Warehousing, and Data Migration.
• Extensively used ETL methodology for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading process, in a corporate-wide ETL Solutions.
• Created reports using IBM Cognos, SAPBO, and Hiperos.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Worked with third party KPMG to analyze the phases of the Vendor Risk Management implementation.
• Successfully installed toolbox replacing InfoPath form following RUP SDLC.
• Documented Business Requirement, Functional document and primary point of contact business partners and developers.
• Applied logic and created workflow using MS Visio for conditional requirement that needed to be captured in the database.
• Conducted GAP analysis to understand the shortcomings of the existing system and evaluated the benefits of the new system.
• Reviewed and validated the data to show that the application was producing the correct output results.
• Demonstrated the new functionality to the entire business partners including offshore partners.
• Supplied job aid documents, and trained the team of about 30 people located both onshore and offshore.
• Pulled SMEs, Business partners and Developers on one table to resolve issues related to the workflow.
• Assisted on building up KRI's Reports for different level of management in hiperos.
• Performed testing in Dev environment, UAT environment and as well as production environment.
• Owned change request log after the launch of Toolbox Intake form for better user experience.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.

ENVIRONMENT:RUP, Microsoft Visio, IBM Openpages, MS Access, Snagit, Windows, SharePoint, PeopleSoft, Tableau

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implemented RUP Methodology of application development with various workflows, artifacts and activities.
• Assisted PM to develop GANTT chart and activity scheduling to align the project development with time and cost objective.
• Elicited and gathered high-level requirements by conducting stakeholder meetings, interviews and discussions.
• Conducted a JAD session to gather requirements.
• Developed workflow, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements for all transaction related activities.
• Performed GAP Analysis to analyze the current system and worked with internal users to help define system requirements.
• Collaborated with development team in identifying UI prototype elements from user's perspective.
• Defined system scope and objectives and prepared BRD Business Requirement Document and FRD Functional Requirement Document .
• Helped business and technical people in prioritizing wish list and managing the Change Requests.
• Developed Use-Cases and Activity Diagrams to model the detailed business system elements and data flow.
• Used Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access for Data Analysis and Reporting.
• Assisted in designing tests plans, test scenarios and test case for integration, and Coordinated user acceptance testing UAT to improve overall quality of the application.
• Used Bugzilla for assigning and raising an application bugs.

ENVIRONMENT:RUP, Microsoft Project 2000, UNIX, HTML, JAVA, Oracle9i, Web-Logic, Business Objects, and Bugzilla.

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Worked with the business community to define business requirements and analyze the functional requirements and gathered the requirement from stakeholder and SME's.
• Employed Waterfall SDLC for the purpose of monitoring the project and also followed the step-by-step procedure.
• Worked with the Project Manager on various Project Management activities like Resource Planning, Resource Request, keeping track of Project Status, Deadlines, and Issues, Environment Request, and Compliance Issues and Lead the role.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with management, users and other stakeholders to define the project and to reduce the time frame required to complete deliverables.
• Prepared and presented Business Requirement Document BRD and Functional Requirement Document FRD and involved in sign-off process.
• Managed day-to-day project activities and coordinate tasks with other teams.
• Worked closely with the UI team to model the screens, which met User defined requirements and also company standards.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Created Screen mock up to illustrate new requirements and alignment around project scope using Balamiq.
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases and Created Use case diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Responsible for managing Requirements Traceability Matrix using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Defined testing objectives and verify requirements are testable.
• Provided support for User Acceptance Testing with UAT cases and resolving any issues with the users and performed UAT and participated in writing test plans, and different testing strategies like Black Box testing.
• Involved in creating detailed test plans and testing strategies and ensure these are executed extensively, which includes executing SQL queries to retrieve data and test.

ENVIRONMENT:MS Office Suite, MS-Visio, Windows XP, Rational Rose, SQL, SharePoint, and Java.

Confidential

BUSINESS DATA ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Worked with Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives Options and Futures , Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Visio.
• Utilized Agile Scrum methodology and aggressively worked on every stages of SDLC.
• Developed project artifacts like Requirement List, Process Models, Wireframes, Data Journal, and the Business Rules Catalog using Rational Rose.
• Closely worked with the Scrum Master to remove any impediments and distractions for the team.
• Worked on brokerage applications for trading, risk management and processing.
• Provided inputs in the strategic development of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates etc.
• Performed requirement analysis, went through all the product backlog and created sprint backlog.
• Maintained the task board adding or removing any user stories from the Sprint backlog to break it down further into smaller tasks.
• Estimated and sized the user stories for upcoming sprints.

• Defined the test criteria, project schedules and base lined the Test Plan with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Worked on data modeling and produced data mapping and data definition documentation.
• Involved in business processes and application improvement recommending enhancements from conceptualization through implementation, including problem definition, process mapping, recommendations and implementation.
• Documented the mappings used in ETL processes.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Performed analysis on enterprise data/report integration provided functional specification to development team to build Enterprise Reporting Systems.
• Authored test plans, test cases for various test scenarios and helped testing team to better understand the test scripts.
• Used HP Quality Center for updating the status of all the Test Cases Test Scripts that are executed during testing process.

ENVIRONMENT:Windows, MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio , .NET, Oracle, Cognos, IBM Mainframes, UML, AGILE, SQL, PHP, SWOT analysis, Java Script, Informatica, Quality Center, Six Sigma, WebLogic, GAP Analysis, and Win Runner

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gathered business requirements by conducting detailed interviews with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts SME's . Defined the scope of the project, financial projections and Cost/benefit analysis.
• Implemented the entire Rational Unified Process RUP methodology of application development with its various workflows, artifacts and activities.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document BRD and then converted Business requirements into Functional Requirements Specification.
• Conducted GAP analysis to understand the shortcomings of the existing system and evaluated the benefits of the new system.
• Extensively used Rational Requisite Pro to gather and manage requirements. Created and managed project templates, use case templates, requirement types and tractability matrix in Requisite Pro.
• Identified and developed Use Cases from the requirements. Followed the UML methodology to Create UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, ER Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio and thus defining the Business Process Model and Data Process Model.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, system analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Monitored version control and defect tracking activities using Rational Clear Case and Rational Clear Quest.
• Extensively involved in writing test cases and test plans and reporting bugs using Test Director.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing UAT .

ENVIRONMENT:Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, RUP, MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio , Visual Basic, Win Runner, Test Director, Windows 2000, Java, J2EE, Oracle 9i.