Professional Summary:

• Experienced result-driven business analysis professional with strong proven analytical problem solving capability, and proven competency in working in any environment. An enthusiastic professional with the ability to gel and work with a team.
• 8 years of work experience as a Business Analyst and Business Systems Analyst in Finance and Banking domain.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process includingWaterfall, AGILE, SCRUM and RUP.
• Strong experience in SDLC and project lifecycle including Analysis, Review and Design.
• Experience in using Sharepoint with implementation for document management and collaboration.
• Experience and knowledge in using Data Modeling Tools and various other Business Intelligence tools like TABLEAU, MS Visio, Lucid chart, UML, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, MySQL, etc.
• Significant knowledge of finance domain including but not limited to: Asset Management, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Exchange Traded Funds ETFs , Fixed Income, Portfolio Management, Investment Banking, mortgage amortization, loan amortization, arbitrage, Derivative products such as options, swaps, futures, and P C Property Casualty Insurance.
• Extensive elicitation abilities through SWOT Analysis, Surveys and well facilitated JADsessins to understand the As-Isbusinessodel to gather User and Business Requirements.
• Excellent organizational and presentation skills in directing the To-Be model of the business through proper GAP Analysis in order to generate the necessary Business Requirements Document BRD , System Requirements Specification SRS , Functional Requirements Document FRD , Change Request Processes CRP , and Contingency Planning CP . Knowledge and experience working on smoke testing, debugging.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills necessary to elicit requirements through observation, surveys, interviews, Joint Application Development JAD sessions and Brainstorming with Business Owners, Business Users, SMEs and other stakeholders.
• Experience in analyzing the risks involved through SWOT Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Tree Analysis and Fish-Bone Analysis.
• Significant knowledge of Data Warehousing and Data Mapping with implementation experience.
• Significant knowledge and experience in using ETL tools such as Informatica 7, Informatica 9.0.1, IBM Cognos.
• Experience in manual testing of GUI, Field Validation Client-side, Server-side and database .
• Experience implementing Unified Modeling Language UML and MS VISIO in creating Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Class Diagrams.
• Experience with ALM Application Lifecycle Management tools like Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case.
• Change Request Management experience including industry standard CRM tools.
• Proficient in creating static prototypes and dynamic GUImock-ups with HTML, MS VISIO.
• Experience in creating WBS Work Breakdown Structure with dependencies and project stakeholders using MS Project.
• Experience in tracing requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence to Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Significant experience in reviewing Test Procedures, creating Test Cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Maintaining automated and manual Test Scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors.
• Good knowledge and experience in defect management using HPQC Hewlett-Packard Quality Centre and experience in matching use cases to test cases in the QA environment with the Traceability matrix.
• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills:

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Elicited requirements using document analysis, observation and interviews to understand the As-Isand To-Be process.
• Conducted interviews with Business Owners.
• Identified stakeholders through stakeholder analysis for requirement gathering.
• Performed Cost-Benefit Analysis, SWOT Analysis to analyze the risks involved for requirements in scope.
• ImplementedRUP for the SDLC.
• Conducted JAD sessions to create the SRS and initiate the development phase.
• Conducted feasibility analysis, and product backlog planning with PO and PM Team.
• Expressed requirements through user stories, use cases, process flow.
• Helped project owner create product backlog and prioritize product backlog using MoSCoW technique.
• Assisted theProject Manager inresource and budget planning.
• Created visual modeling using UML, static prototypes using MS Visio, and dynamic prototypes inHTML.
• Acted as a ScrumMasterto createSprint Backlog, organizedSprint planning meeting, Daily Sprint Meeting, Sprint review meeting and Sprint retrospective meeting.
• Created Sprint burndown chart to track the progress of the project.
• Planned and conducted UAT with BO and employees of Merrill Lynch.
• Co-ordinated with the offshore BA and Test Lead for requirements analysis, UAT progress and evaluation.
• Logged and tracked defects using HP Quality Centre, created an error repository and managed the testing process with the QA.
• CreatedaUser Guide for the updated trading system at BofA using BofA standard guidelines on documentation.

Environment:Agile RUP, Agile SCRUM, MS Visio, SQL, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, Sharepoint, SSRS, HP PPM, HP Quality Center, HTML.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Elicited the requirements through shadowing the claims adjusters to understand the As-Is Current State process of Personal Lines PI claims handling.
• Conducted interviews with the Business Owners BO to understand the To-Be Future state process. Conducted Gap Analysis to identify potential opportunities of improvement and recommended them to the BO.
• Analyzed the risks involved in standardizing the claims processing system through SWOT and Cost-Benefit Analysis.
• Conducted JAD sessions, interpersonal interviews with SME Guidewire , BO, Sr. Developers, Architects to further breakdown the requirements. Conducted Feasibility Analysis and Product backlog planning with the Product Manager and PM team.
• Expressed the requirements through user stories, use cases, business rules, story boarding, future state mapping and process flow diagrams.
• Created the Product backlog with help of user stories preparedfromgathered requirements and gap analysis.
• Helped the PM team in resource and budget planning.
• Created WBS using MS Project.
• Created the data mapping for the integration of claims database with Guidewire.
• Acted as a Scrum Master, creating sprint backlogs, organizing and conducting sprint planning meetings, daily scrum meetings.
• Utilized SharePoint as an administrator for document management, creating customized project website, version control and creating team dashboards on the team site.
• Planned and conducted UAT beta testing with the BO and adjusters utilizing the help of the product manager.
• Logged and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center. Created an error repository and managed the testing process with the QA team.
• Approved documentation as need on SM9 in HP ALM.
• Created a Standard Work document based on Lean Management principles for the adjusters to use in the new claims processing system.
• Utilized Informatica to Extract, Transform and Load ETL claims data for stage 2 of the project Business Intelligence and Reporting .
• Conducted interviews, JAD sessions with the Business Corporate team, Predictive analytics team to understand the reporting and integration functionalities of SAS Predictive Modeling and Tableau Data Modeling, Visualization and BI and created the FRD.
• Assisted and participated in UAT by creating test cases, use cases and utilizing the RTM Requirement Traceability Matrix to track the errors on HP Quality Center.

Environment:Guidewire Claim Center , GScript, JavaScript, Eclipse, SQL, Informatica, SAS, Tableau, HP Quality Center, Lean Standard Work, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Outlook, SharePoint.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Elicited and documented the non-functional requirements in the Software Requirement Specification SRS document by collaborating with off-shore BA.
• Conducted JAD sessions with application owners and PSOs Product Sponsors and Owners .
• Used Agile RUP for undertaking this project.
• Created visual flow and UML diagrams for use cases, user interface, process flow and information flow using MS VISIO.
• Assisted the Project Manager in creating an engagement proposal BRD .
• Assisted the Project Manager in creating the WBS using MS Project.
• Involved in creating test cases and test scripts and coordinating UAT.
• Logged in errors in HP Quality Center on ALM and coordinated with PM and BO to prioritize the errors.
• Managed project documents and other deliverables on SharePoint.

Environment:Agile RUP, JAD, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, SharePoint.

RolesandResponsibilities:

• Elicitedrequirementsbyconductingstructuredwalk throughwithSMEs,scenariosandusecases.
• CreatedtheFRDafterelicitingtherequirementsusinginterviews,JADsessionsandenduserfeedbackdocumentation.
• ConductedGAPanalysistounderstandtheAs-IstoTo-Beprocessincorporatingthetimeandcostconstraintswithinthesystem.
• AttendedandfacilitatedJADSessions,InterpersonalInterviewswiththeStakeholders,SME'sandQualityAnalysts.
• ConductedRiskAnalysistocalculatetherisksinvolvedintheproject,including over-budgetriskanalysis.
• ExtensivelyutilizedMicrosoftSharePointastheartifact-trackingtoolformanagingtherequirementsdocumentation,andusedbreadcrumbtrailtodocumenterrorsandusabilityoftheapplicationwithteammembers.
• UtilizedandimplementedClarityPPMforprojectmanagementwithinrespectivemodulesintheproject.
• GatheredrequirementsandcreatedFunctionalSpecificationsDocumentasoftheInceptionPhase.
• Tookthe responsibilityfortranslatingBRDintouse-cases,andcontextdiagramsincorporatingallfunctionalrequirements.
• UsedUMLtovisualizetheuse-casescenariosandcreatedinformationflowandprocessflowdiagramsforfront-end.
• GatheredtheFunctional,Non-Functionaldata,andGUIRequirementsafteranalyzingBusinessArtifactsfrom2yearsofbusinessperformancereports.
• CreatedGUImock-upsusingMSVISIOincorporatingtheUIandUXrequirementsfromtheFRDwithpresenttemplate.
• ImplementedAGILERUPmethodologyfortheSDLCandidentifiedworkflowsinthefourphasesoftheRUP.
• OrganizedandreviewedBacklogsbroughtinbythestakeholderstobeusedintheproject.
• UsedDatamodelingtounderstandvariouselementsof datathatcouldbestored,thesizeofthese elementsandthekindofinformationeachelementcancontain.
• DeterminedanddiscussedthedailytaskstocomeupwithsolutionsofmaximumefficiencyduringdailyScrummeetings.
• Documentedandmaintainedbacklogofuserstories preandduringprojects usingScrumapproachinAgilemethodology.
• CoordinatedwiththeapplicationteamandQualityAnalystsinthecreationoftestplans,UserAcceptanceTestscriptsandRegressiontestcases forupgrade .

Environment:Rational ClearQuest, MS Visio, SQL, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Access, HP Quality Center, SOAP, Sharepoint, SSRS, Clarity PPM