PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Certified Business Analyst Professional CBAP with 7 years of experience in Business Analysis, design, testing, gathering and eliciting requirements based on functionality, workflow and business rules and maintenance of business applications in Finance and banking domain
• Working as Business Analyst Lead at Citibank and certified in Introduction to Finance from Stanford University.
• Extensive experience with product and pricing reference data application and platforms
• Well versed with Agile methodology using Scrum, iterative and incremental software development lifecycle using Rational Unified process RUP . Hand on experience on Agile tools like Rally for sprint planning, Blueprint Requirements Management Centre to write user stories.
• Conversant with UML and designing of logical and conceptual database schema.
• Highest GPA 3.95 in MS-Management Information systems, University at Buffalo
• Proficient in writing complex SQL queries, stored procedures database administration using Oracle SQL developer
• Great analytical skills and Excellent Oral and Written communication skills

Confidential

• Proficient in establishing Business Cases, gathering requirements, creating BRDs and FRDs
• Experience working with end users to understand and create business requirements, Dataflow analysis using use cases, dataflow diagrams, and business process diagrams
• Extensive experience with C, C programming and .Net platform
• Extensive experience in test planning and test case designing
• Experience in designing and development of testing scripts in Automated regression testing tool QTP
• Comfortable working individually as well as in a team environment
• Team player and have Project Management experience

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst Lead

• Monitor Securities and pricing reference data platforms to identify data exceptions containing inaccurate data and to engineer processes to ensure data quality.
• Modify existing datasets in the database using SQL and other database management tools.
• Remediate exceptions by modifying datasets in the database via SQL or other tools
• Engineer advanced operational and financial processes to maintain data quality, and perform further analysis to compare datasets from Strategic and Legacy securities and pricing platforms requiring enhancement.
• Lead- Vendor Management Process: Manage communication with external/ internal vendors e.g. Bloomberg to onboard pricing feeds, to improve price quality and liaison with technology teams to setup procedures for the same
• Create and monitor business-as-usual BAU processes to satisfy data requirements and perform test script execution for new financial systems implementation and present testing results to management.
• Work on the legacy integration and decommissioning projects as a lead for Pricing applications and coordinate with global clients to gather requirements, translate them to the tech team and deliver the products back to the clients.
• Train and manage team of 3 business analysts working on the strategic Pricing data platform of Citibank
• Independently query data from multiple relational databases for analysis
• Work with Citi Security Coding and leverage external vendors and standards organizations
• First point of contact for existing clients as a SME subject matter expert to address concerns and to investigate scenarios that require remediation and data quality improvements at systemic level
• First point of contact for New clients as a SME subject matter expert to onboard them on to the application
• Providing domain and technology training to new resources in the Price Master Central team
• Conformed with issue tracking JIRA and escalation process
• Familiar with Corporate actions and have thorough knowledge about financial products

Confidential

• Interview third party Content management and BI tool providers to help LR dept. to purchase the best suited tool to support their business
• Designed the logical hierarchy of categories, after studying Disney LOB thoroughly, and categorized thousands of LR data files into a searchable containerized content on SharePoint 2007
• Designing and developed the LR module of Disney website using proprietary tool-GoPublish

Confidential

Architecture Graduate Assistant

• Gathered and reviewed business requirements from Dean, SA P, CFO-UB and administrative staff to develop use cases for the accounting system of SA P
• Designed the conceptual and ER model of the database for accounting system supporting financial data of 4 verticals of SA P
• Accounting system development: MS Access front end with the centralized Oracle SERVER to implement a multi user DISTRIBUTED system.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Gathered requirements from business users in OH, Colorado and UK and translated them to the technical team using UML diagrams and Functional design documents
• Created and delivered full sign-off project documentation starting from Development and ending at post-Production deliverables by working with Key Stakeholders to elicit information and gain agreement
• Managed and mentored a team of 8 quality assurance associates to deliver 24/7 support to 21 run and change applications supporting 70 of the vertical clusters of Bank of America
• Accurately estimated the efforts required for incoming work-orders and scoped projects to bill client

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

• Helped Infosys to reduce testing efforts by 85 and resources by 66 by designing an automation tool, using Shell script, for automating a batch processes supporting a legal advisory app
• Influenced client and brought business to the company by proactively designing and presenting a proof of concept prototype to simulate the functionality of a standalone Java app. using QTP and VB scripting
• Anchored 3 cross functional geographically separated teams to successfully deliver a data migration project resulting from BoFA acquisition

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Top scorer in a two month training program on core technologies at Infosys including .Net technologies C , SQL server, ADO.Net and test automation
• Identified and replicated intricate and inconsistent issues, analyzed them, prepared root cause analysis RCA reports, found the root cause and fixed them after proposing the solution to client
• Developed a fully functional travel portal, using .Net, as part of the training plan

TECHNICAL SKILLS