PROFILE

Solutions-oriented Business Analyst/Systems Engineer with 8 years of experience possessing a unique combination of skills, including business analysis, quality assurance testing and applications development in top-tier organizations. Well versed in solving complex problems in high-pressure environments and excels at cultivating, managing and leveraging client relationships.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Full Product Development Lifecycle Evolutionary Prototyping Requirement Tools: -Rational Requisite pro
• UML Unified Modeling language User Interface Design Modeling Tools: -MS Visio, Magic Draw, Rational Rose
• Technical Writing and excellent communication skills. Usability Study Databases: - Db2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, MS Access
• OOAD Object Oriented Analysis Design Agile Software Development MS Office suite
• Requirements Management QA Testing/ UAT User Acceptance Test Programming:- JAVA, HTML, XML, .net, Visual Basic

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Business Analyst with in-depth knowledge of SDLC Software Development Life Cycle and development practices ranging from traditional waterfall to Agile methodologies . Thorough understanding of RUP Rational Unified Process , and testing life cycle.
• Skilled in gathering User Requirements, translating them into data, functional, quality, and usability requirements.
• Experienced in requirements management, controlling change and preparing RTM Requirement Traceability Matrix .
• Strong experience in preparing Business Requirements Document BRD , Use Case Specifications, and Functional Requirements Document FRD .
• Well acquainted with Workflows and UML Unified Modeling Language diagrams such as, Use case diagrams, activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
• Actively used Joint Requirement Planning JRP , Joint Application Development JAD and Rapid Application Development RAD sessions for requirements gathering and brainstorming ideas.
• Proven track record in analysis and evaluation of Information Systems issues, analytical problem solving, decision-making and technical writing.
• Experience in end-to-end testing, UAT User Acceptance Test and user training for customers.
• Valuation applications and strong analysis knowledge of the financial statements, financing structures, derivatives, capital management, portfolio analysis, stock valuation, amortization and budgeting.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and T-SQL to access database like MS SQL Server.
• Strong working knowledge of Data Modeling, Data Mapping, Data Validation and Business Objects.
• Strong data collection, analysis and interpretation skills.
• Multi-Tasking and Organizational Aptitudes, with proven experience in Development and Implementation of Strategies.
• Highly disciplined and yet flexible approach to software development. A sound understanding of the balance that must exist between customer satisfaction and technical excellence. Proficient at all levels and stages of the software development cycle, from conception to production and maintenance.
• Self-motivated and objective driven. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of communicating with highly technical engineering teams. Exceptional mediator between external and internal customers, capable of interpreting their needs and positions to ensure the coherence and success of the projects.

CAREER PATH

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

• Confidential asset management group has been identified as one of the largest wealth managers in the U.S. and one of the largest ultra-affluent service providers. I have been involved in various projects on Book of Business Reporting and entitlement project to ensure the security for entire application.
• Analyzed the existing reports, procedures, extracts used to generate the manual reports.
• Worked with the business team to envision the Book of Business reports, information to be displayed, drill down functionality and navigation.
• Facilitated the JAD sessions with the primary stakeholders, end users for requirement elicitation.
• Worked with the Oracle technology team to implement the reports on a corporate tool called OBIEE.
• Worked with the Oracle Identity Manager team for the security project. Discussed the strategy to ensure the security of the application, granting user an access to the application and functionality being offered by user.
• Worked on drafting BRD Business Requirement Documents and FRD Functional Requirement Documents , conducting reviews and
• Assisted usability team and documented specifications for the user interface.
• Worked with the technology team during the design and development of the project.
• Assisted testing team for drafting the test plan, test cases and test scenarios.
• Coordinated the testing efforts in QA testing, UAT, regression testing.
• Conducted user training sessions for the end users of the application.

Environment: MS VISIO 2007/2010, MS OFFICE suite, MS Project Management, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise Architect, ,HTML, SQL server 2005/2008, HP ALM center.

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

• Pershing LLC is a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon. Pershing basically provides the Broker-Dealer solution, Global Prime Brokerage Solutions and Registered Investment Adviser RIA solutions. In July 2010, BNY Mellon acquired PNC's Global Investment Servicing Business. This acquisition resulted in two managed Account platforms. I worked on the various projects on the overall program, analyzing the gaps and assessing the issues and providing solution for the on-boarding client. I also managed the overall entitlement work stream for the new platform.
• Worked with the SMEs for both platforms, understood two different businesses and find the gaps between them.
• Facilitated the JAD sessions to communicate with the SMEs and stakeholder and allowing them to share their perspective and issues.
• Worked on the managed Accounts business, proposal system, Model Tools and other managed accounts related systems.
• Worked directly with the clients to understand the requirements and providing the solution to the issues clients were facing.
• Gathered requirements to solve the business need for the PNC clients on Pershing managed account solutions platform, keeping the gaps in mind.
• Prepared BRD and FRD for gathered requirements.
• Prepared use cases for the requirements.
• Experienced drafting the change requests to the project and the business processes.
• Worked with the usability team to change the organizational hierarchy for the Pershing offered platforms.
• Acted as a liaison between the business team and technical team to get them quickly on an agreement.
• Developed new workflows with the help of the Lombardi workflow.
• Worked on account opening solution, single sign-on solutions for the various projects.
• Developed project plan in accordance with the project manager.
• Performed testing on the projects and participated in the business testing.
• Have experience on unit testing, integration testing.
• Worked on different modules of the project and assisted QA during the integration testing to ensure the different modules of the program function properly.
• Environment: MS VISIO 2007/2010, MS OFFICE suite, MS Project Management, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise Architect, ,HTML, SQL server 2005/2008, Quality Center.

Confidential

Role: Optical Systems Analyst/Technical Support Engineer

• Optical Systems Research group at AT T focuses on constantly optimizing the components and the system architecture to maximize the performance in terms of bandwidth as well as cost. The research department maintains a futuristic outlook on the network and work with optical subsystem vendors, communicating AT T's vision, thereby tailoring the technology to meet future demands and goals of the network.
• The systems team works with component vendors to communicate the needs of AT T's future networks, to test their equipment in our experimental setups and validate that they meet industry standards, perform according to specs and meet our need. We designed, developed, tested and maintained an optical systems simulation program to model and simulate optical systems, automate experiments, capture data and interpret results.
• Elicited stakeholder requirements, feedback and input through interviews and surveys.
• Improved organization's efficiency by determining opportunities to automate processes and a number of test procedures.
• Tracked, analyzed and interpreted trends in data received from system and component performance tests.
• Documented and presented requirements for functional improvements and enhancements with vendors.
• Co-authored 7 technical publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals documenting the system performance results.

Environment: Matlab, LabView, MS Office suite.

Confidential

Role: Optical Systems Analyst / Research Engineer

• Optical Systems and Technology Lab OSTL is the home of innovative photonic system solutions for optical communication networks, medical imaging and other disciplines bridging the gap between novel approaches and real world applications.
• Traditional Optical Spectrum Analyzers OSA have limited resolution for numerous applications demanding high performance and often the cost rises exponentially if performance is improved using conventional methods. Coherent Channel Analyzer CCA is a novel solution providing improved resolution at a fraction of the cost. I worked with a team of SMEs to determine the requirements of the industry, did brain-storming sessions to develop a novel design to meet these requirements, presented the solution as well as initial prototypes to various stakeholders and shareholders to obtain the necessary grant money. I also developed a .NET application for the UI that the end users can use for the CCA.
• Co-authored project grant applications and effectively presented the CCA prototype to shareholders and other stakeholders that successfully secured 20k in funds for the project.
• Elicited stakeholder requirements and input through interviews and surveys.
• Identified bottlenecks and implemented new and improved processes for an advanced and cost effective solution for a spectrum analyzer.
• Effectively presented a novel solution to shareholders and stakeholders that secured over 20k in initial capital investment.
• Led cross-functional teams to analyze, understand and fine-tune the solution. Led the initiative resulting in the design and testing of the CCA with over 3 orders of magnitude improvement in resolution at one-tenth of the cost of state-of-the art analyzers.

Environment: Matlab, Visual C , MS Office suite, VPIphotonics

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst / Tester

• Confidential is an industry leader in wireless communication, blazing the trail for smart phones with its most popular wireless handheld device, the BlackBerry. The test team was responsible for ensuring that the wireless devices, soon to be released conformed to all the industry standard wireless protocols.
• Designed and Developed a cutting-edge automated test framework ATF used across testing teams that saved 10-15 man hours per week, boosted efficiency of the test team and improved inter-organizational work flow.
• Gathered functional requirements from multiple test teams to design the ATF using SQL queries and Python scripting that automates nightly builds and run over 20 different test cases.
• Created prototypes and wireframes to communicate the needs of the test teams with the development team. The ATF saved over 5 man-hours a week, increasing the efficiency of the test and analysis process of the team considerably.
• Created use case documents to verify the interaction between the wireless device and carrier as well as the user and device interaction conform to the standards document.
• Drafted over 50 test case reports and wrote use case documents ensuring interoperability of the newly released blackberry devices with multiple wireless carriers ..

Environment: SQL, Python, Visual C , MS Office suite, Perforce.