Professional Summary

• Creative and aggressive self-starter with integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships in internal, external, independent and team environments
• Dynamic Business Analyst with 8 years of experience in Financial Domain Middle Office Back office trade processing , Data Warehouse and CRM.
• Highly experienced in working with wide array of financial products including Equity, Hedge Funds, Fixed Income Bonds, Treasuries etc. , OTC Derivatives Options,
• Excellent experience in RDBMS and data warehousing, experience in design, implementation and support of enterprise data warehouse.
• Experience with regulatory bodies such as CFTC, SEC and Dodd frank regulation.
• Excellent at capturing, managing and tracking the project requirements.
• Expert Understanding of Electronic Trade Life cycle from trade origination to settlement in diverse environments including different Trade Locations, Currencies Security Types
• Strong business analysis skills and understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC utilizing Rational Unified Process RUP , Agile: XP, Scrum and Waterfall
• Extensive success in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language UML Techniques like Use Case diagrams Business Objects Process Flow Diagrams
• Experience with working on Front office trading applications.
• Excellent in designing Mockup Screens, GUI, Wire Frames to enhance the functional understanding of the application.
• Hands on experience using SQL and T-SQL to access databases like MS SQL Server.
• Performed GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system/infrastructure with the new business requirements
• Excellent knowledge of six sigma and lean operations methodologies.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr.Business Analyst/PMO

Responsibilities

• Implemented multiple projects within post trade division using RUP and Agile software development methodology.
• Responsible for creating UML use case, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams etc for as a part of requirement and design.
• Experience in directly dealing with the business users and stake holders to provide a product demo , capture requirements and feedbacks.
• Authored business and technical requirement documents or BRD for various application enhancements within post trade division
• Designed and managed multiple SharePoint sites for the various practice areas within CPT group
• Planned and conducted SDLC/PLC audit cycle and audited a sample of projects from the compliance standpoint
• Coordinated daily meetings with the PMO's and project managers to review the ongoing projects and their statuses
• Conducted UAT testing and responsible for providing testing results and signoff on the test items
• Conducted monthly project reviews with the project managers reviewed project milestones, issues, risks, deliverables etc. for their practice areas
• Experienced in producing executive level reports and presentations from the project management standpoint
• Excellent experience in working with Microsoft office tools such as excel, project, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Closely managed risks and ensured that the projects are complaint with the project plans, resources and that all issues and risks are being tracked
• Conducted project/portfolio reviews, exception reviews and actively audited/monitored the projects

Confidential

Sr.Business Analyst

Worked as a Business Analyst in Merrill Lynch Research Data Warehouseteam and created a Broker vote tool CRM reporting platform to be used by Bank of America Financial Analysts FA's , Managers and Research COO's across AMRS, EMEA and APAC regions. The tool enables the Research Management to track the performance of FA's using automated votes scores that they receive from the clients, analyze the data from the reporting standpoint and track the readerships.

Responsibilities

• Worked with the development team to define the new SQL logics and stored procedures required by various research applications.
• Used Waterfall and AgileSDLC methodologies to implement various projects in Global Research.
• Conducted a high level analysis of the Business requirements with an objective of identifying major roadblocks, estimation the resources required to meet deadlines divide the work into multiple tranches.
• Worked on an client/user facing research application which involves dealing with the users of research applications in North America and EMEA regions.
• Conducted JAD sessions and meetings with the stakeholders to gather the requirements and executed the BRD.
• Responsible for managing research data warehouse, decommissioning and building new applications on data warehouse.
• Skilled in implementing data warehousing and business intelligence solutions by analyzing the client feedbacks and results and supporting the business.
• Created gap and impact analysis document for the migration of reports from the legacy to the new reporting platform.
• Implemented strategic reference data feed and worked with the development teams to ensure the data quality.
• Strategic coordination amongst Development Q.A. groups to facilitate value for postproduction issues, potential system enhancements business related expertise specific to reference data.
• Created detailed specification documents for each downstream recipient to mimic the custom report format built in Compass Desktop Reporting Platform
• Prepared the Design mockup, User Interface diagrams GUI and wireframe diagrams to mimic the to-be application.
• Collaborated with clients, Front, Middle and Back office teams to structure fetch the data for Broker vote tool and reporting platform.
• Managed the research team, worked with institutional Internal/External clients, applications to prepare mapping documents.
• Responsible for signing on the Test plans prepared by the QA teams as well as well as coordinating with the development team to resolve and defects raised in Quality Centre.
• Initiated and led through signoff process and resolved outstanding issues on the way.

Tools and Technologies

Entire MS Suite MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Share Point, MS Outlook , MS Project.

Confidential

Sr.Business Analyst

The scope of the project was in Exchange traded derivatives Dodd frank regulatory reform to design the CRM limit and position monitoring tool- LDM3 for prop desk, compliance and market surveillance teams within Confidential. The business need was to track the position limits and ensuring that the active accounts don't cross their limit as it results in hefty fines and warnings from the exchange.

Responsibilities

• Worked as a business analyst to build the position-monitoring tool to be in line with Dodd Frank for compliance and prop users.
• Gathered requirements for Proprietary, Market Surveillance and Compliance in order to have two separate instances of the product for the user groups and executed the Requirements document BRD .
• Created a Proof of concept of the business solution, overview sessions of the product were scheduled with the stakeholders.
• Wrote the test plan, test cases and conducted UAT for theProof of concept as per the business requirements.
• Quarried Databases to fetch relevant data using SQL for troubleshooting during the development and testing phase.
• Developed SQL scripts to fetch the data for analysis and management reporting.
• Daily testing call was scheduled with the users and maintained the issue log. Log was submitted to the vendor on the daily basis for issue resolution and testing.
• Coordinated with the software vendor as well as CITI development to resolve any issues logged in JIRA during the product development phase.
• Worked with the various teams to capture requirements for the reports in Business Objects BO reporting platform.
• Prepared the RFC request for change and created the deployment checklist to ensure the smooth production release.
• Provided knowledge transfers and worked along with the operations team to manage daily files data for the Front end tool.
• Created various GUI designs and Mockup Screens using MS Office tools for compliance and market surveillance and the prop desk departments.

Tools and Technologies

MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Share Point, Adobe Acrobat, JIRA, SQL, HP Quality Center

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Worked as a Business analyst to create an application usedfor online life insurance quoting system and claim processing. The application provides a wide range of options relating to choice of policy.
• Used Agile software development methodology
• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts such as Prudential's Investment Managers, Loan originating Managers, and Process Analysts to gather requirements and goals through interviews, surveys to understand the business process. Conducted a controlled brainstorming sessions with project focus groups.
• Developed and maintain a Traceability Matrix RTM to track weather all requirements were covered or not.
• Prepared Use Cases, Use Case Scenarios and elaborated those using UML diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Process and Data Process Model using MS Visio
• Facilitated Joint Application Development JAD sessions for communicating and managing expectations with SME's and to understand thoroughly the business process and the interface requirements, which need to be incorporated in the application.

Tools and Technologies

Windows 2000, SQL, PL/SQL, MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, HP Quality Center, Mercury Test Director.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Worked as a Business Analyst on project to develop an IVR Interactive voice response application for routing the customer calls, accelerate speed to answer, manage peak call volumes, reducing average hold times and delivering quality customer care to millions of callers.
• Authored Business Requirements Document after conducting JAD sessions with the several stakeholders from the Business Area, Capital Markets IT group and the Application Development team.
• Authored Functional Requirements Specifications document after successful meetings with the Capital Markets business heads and the Application Development team.
• Work closely with project managers, technical leads, information architects, and SQL developer team.
• Responsible to track, document, capture, manage and communicate the requirements using rational requisite pro which helped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by teams who are working on the same projects, by keeping track of, - simultaneous update, change notification, multiple versions.
• Played a key role in planning the UAT, and implementation of system enhancements.
• Assisted with user testing of systems User Acceptance Testing , developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.

Tools and Technologies

Windows XP, Rational Test Suite, Rational Requisite pro, MS-Project, MS-Visio, MS SQL 2005,SSIS.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Worked as a Business Analyst to support the mortgage closing process.
• Interviewed clients to understand their business requirements, functional requirements, future needs and transformed them to functional specifications
• Designed the application in UML using Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State Diagram for project documentation and interpreted them using Rational Rose.
• Analyzed user statement of requirements to develop new reports.
• Used RUP process model for the different phases of the SDLC.
• Recommended and coordinated development efforts and enhancements with help of Rational Clear Case.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test the changes using Rational Clear Quest.

Tools and Technologies

Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Windows XP, MS Office Suite, MS Project, RUP, UML.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The project involved building a web based application, and was created to provide online access to the components of disease management programs and staging process. This system recommended a treatment based on patients staging information, and then matched the patient with appropriate clinical trial as recommended by practice guidelines.
• Analyzed data and created class diagrams and ER diagrams for designing databases.
• Planned and defined Use Cases created Use Case diagrams Activity, Sequence, ER , Scenarios and Use Case Narratives using the UML methodologies.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Quality Centre for User Acceptance Testing.
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Automated and Manual Black box testing.
• Helped in creating end user manuals and procedure manuals.

Tools and Technologies

Windows 2000 Advanced Server, MS Visio, RUP, Rational Rose 2002, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Rational requisite pro, HIPAA.

Confidential

Project Engineer/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Change Analysis for the improvement of the existing system and recommended the required changes using Rational Clear Case.
• Implemented lean operations such as Takt time, pull, flow, value and non value added processes, future value stream map
• Implemented the six-sigma methodology and 5S tools to make the process more efficient.
• Reduced the cycle time by 63 , lead-time by 1 day, saving in inventory cost by 50 and rejection of components to 0 .

Tools and Technologies

Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS office Suite, MS Project