SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst and UAT coordinator with frontline leadership role in System Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• 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 trading and Commodities, Trading and Market Surveillance.
• Extensive experience in implementing Software Development Life Cycle SDLC principles and methodologies such as Agile, Rational Unified Process RUP and Waterfall Method in development.
• Expertise in documenting Business requirement document BRD , Functional and non- Functional requirements Requirement Traceability matrix RTM and Use case specifications.
• Highly experienced in conducting Gap Analysis and Feasibility Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with new business requirements.
• Participated in project assessment, functional analysis and requirements gathering and converting business requirements into functional requirements.
• Conducting JAD sessions with the technology areas, interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations and email, to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts.
• Good experience in developing testing scenarios and testing scripts.
• Extensive knowledge of UML modeling, Drawing Sequence Diagrams, Flow diagram and Activity diagram using tools such as Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.
• Extensively used rational tools for creating use cases, version control, defect tracking and reporting and applied the Rational Unified Process in all areas of a software development life cycle.
• Extensive knowledge of managing Diversified Portfolios of Corporate Clients, Retail and HNWI investors.
• Expert in trading Stocks and Derivatives which include Stock Futures, options and Commodity futures for the corporate clients and retail investors.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools includes MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint .
• Skilled in coordinating and communicating between Developers, QA Teams, Management, QA and project leads and stakeholders to keep them informed at all the times about the development and the open issues.
• Exceptional communication skills, Result oriented professional who combines formal education/certifications with experience gained from research and hands-on opportunities.
• Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business as well as financial and system requirements.

Skill Set:

Moody's Analytics, Standard Poor's, Thomson Reuters, Crystal Reports, Rational Unified Process, UML, MS Visio, MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Access , MS SQL Server, Oracle, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Mercury Quality Center, Broadridge impact, Thomson one, Bloomberg , IDC, SunGard, Business Objects, Cloud computing, Data warehousing, Crystal Reports, FIX protocol, Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2007, Bloomberg AIM.

Projects Summary:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering requirements to produce business and functional requirements.
• Participated in primary and secondary research to determine user requirements and goals and converting them into business and functional requirements.
• Participated in meetings with the management team, and the SME.
• Conducted Requirement analysis and Design Walkthroughs with the designers, developers and management staff.
• Followed the UML based methods using MS Visio to create Business flow diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, State diagrams, Sequence, and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Worked with the technical and business staff to produce Test Scripts, Configuration and Change Management Plan documents.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Expected Results, and coordinated the tests with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.
• Prepared and Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Utilized RUP to configure and develop processes, standards, and procedures, to provide technical leadership and expertise in reorganization of a complex End-to-End Testing effort, and to perform system analysis and organizational review of existing QA processes.
• Established a business analysis methodology around the RUP Rational Unified Process .
• Produced System Diagrams, Business Requirements, Report Specifications, Workflows and other documentations as required for Project Analysis, Planning and Design.
• As a liaison between the developers and management, was instrumental in resolving conflicts between stakeholders and technical development teams.
• Communicated Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and made recommendation.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development JAD and Rapid Application Development RAD Sessions for communicating and managing expectations.
• Worked on Personal Lines Property and Casualty Insurance including both policy and claim processing and reinsurance.
• Developed Data Mapping Documents to depict Data Flow between Checkout application and Manage Financial Information.
• Assisted the development team during the second and third iteration using the RUP model.
• Assisted in implementing cloud computing for test center
• Worked closely with the Project Manager and different teams with effective presentations. Also delivered training and presentation to lenders, colleagues, and customers.

Environment: MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Cloud Computing, MS Visio, UML, Oracle, Rational Unified Process RUP , Agile, Rational Suite Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Windows XP, HTML, PHP, XML.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gaining a good understanding of user needs and accurately representing them in a well-documented software functional specifications document.
• Gathered Business Requirements, interacted with the users, designers and developers, project manager and QA team to get a better understanding of the Business Processes.
• Documented the Business Requirements Document BRD and the Functional Specification Document FSD .
• Interacted with the End-Users by interviewing them, by preparing appropriate questionnaire to better understand end-user needs and the business process.
• Supported PL/SQL development for Contingency and Internal Audit Reports.
• Conducted walkthroughs and code reviews with developers, project managers and stakeholders and users to comprehend business workflow of applications.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings such as requirements for Customer, Client, Group, Member and Reporting to make sure that the critical requirements are not missed.
• Performed GAP analysis of 5010 EDI transaction using implementation guide to identify the changes in the segments and data elements.
• Created test cases for System Testing Development Environment , Integration Testing UAT and Production Post Implementation Review in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Supported the testing team with Defect Management, Requirement Analysis and SQL development for back-end and regression testing and maintaining the Mercury Quality Center with the latest updates on the defects.
• Created and maintained data mapping document s in reference to the HIPAA transaction: 837.

Environment: MS Office Excel ,Windows XP/NT, UNIX, C , Java, HTML, XML, Java Script, MS SQL Server ,Rational Requisite Pro, UML, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Data Warehousing, ETL Tools

Confidential

Business Analyst Brokerage

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 high level leads 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 also to 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.
• Worked along with development team for a surveillance and compliance platform for financial markets
• 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.
• Performed Gap Analysis, Swot analysis and cost Benefit Analysis for the modules in production, and hence 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.
• Assisted and executed Test cases and test scripts per Functional Specifications of the application. Documented test/cases, test results, test procedure and reported to client.
• 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, MS Visio, Crystal Reports, Oracle ,Fiserv Recon, Moody's Analytics Tools, Bloomberg AIM, Mercury Quality Centre, Load runner

Confidential

Business Analyst Brokerage

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.
• Provided documentation such as requirements management plans, operational risk management plans, functional requirements, test plans and test cases.
• Incorporated the best practice methodologies as advocated by the Rational Unified Process.
• 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 non-functional 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.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• 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, MS SQL Server, UML, Fiserv Recon, Moody's Tools, Rational Unified Process, FIX, Test Director, Crystal Reports, MS Office