PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience in the IT field in all stages of SDLC from Business and Data Analysis, Data modeling and Project management in Financial services/Capital markets domain.
• Experienced working as BA/PM for projects driven by Regulatory mandates including Dodd Frank.
• Hands on experience with data analysis using SQL & PL/SQL and HQL for Hadoop ecosystem based IT infrastructure.
• Well versed with Agile methodology using Scrum and hands on experience using Agile tools like Rally for sprint planning, writing ser stories and Acceptance criteria.
• Proficient in Requirements elicitation techniques like JAD sessions, interviews, UML modeling and hands on experience creating artifacts like BRDs, mapping documents, User stories, Acceptance Criteria and FSDs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, SQL, UML, Quick Test Professional (VB Scripting), UML, MS ProjectFamiliar with Shell script(UNIX), C#, 4T Test language(Silk Test), ASP.Net

Database: MS Access, MS SQL server, Oracle 8i, Oracle 11g, Relational database concepts

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/ 2000/ 2003/ XP/Vista, MS - DOS, Linux, Unix.

Tools: Proficient in Quick Test professional, MS Visio, MS ExcelFamiliar with Visual Studio 2005/8, Silk Test, SAS e-minor, MS SharePoint 2007, Cygwin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

AVP - Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a BA/PM for DB’s Volcker regulatory department, I work closely with Business and Compliance stakeholders to elicit requirements around reporting of Dodd Frank - Volcker metrics (RENTD and Covered Funds) and develop technology solution to implement them.
• Perform feasibility analysis, scope projects, define and prioritize deliverables, recommend alternative solutions and project strategies, and engage in negotiations with stakeholders.
• Driving Project backlog meetings to assign user stories to Sprints and planning for upcoming sprints. Also, tracking the status daily in Scrum meetings with onsite/offshore team.
• Partner with business and operations stakeholders to convert high level business requirements into functional specifications and create related Use Cases, user stories and other artifacts.
• Responsible for data analysis, creating data mapping documents, data definitions and defining data transformation rules as they relate to project.
• Independently manage requirements definition, conduct scope meetings, document and maintain requirements artifacts in repository.
• Liaise with technical analysts to ensure that the delivered system module matches the functionality specified; Ensure business satisfaction with IT services and products
• Partner with QA/Testing team to convert Use Cases and User Stories to Test cases, review test cases and drive UAT and Regression testing phase.
• Communicate project status weekly along with demo of various implementations to Regulatory management to obtain feedback in timely manner and avoid scope creep.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Technical Architects, Quality Assurance team and others stakeholders to ensure effective cross-project communication and issue management.

Confidential

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a BA/PM for Confidential ’ Regulatory Surge department, I partnered with Compliance and Operations to elicit, understand and analyze various regulations (Volcker, CCAR, DFA) pertaining to data requirements and implemented systems and processes to ensure compliance with them.
• Collaborated with Business and development team to build HDFS based data hub for regulatory reporting.
• Successfully analyzed various workflows and the data flow from upstream as well as to downstream systems, performed Coverage analysis, Gap analysis and impact analysis on systems and processes and reviewed the findings with various Compliance and Business stakeholder to obtain sign off.
• Elicited and prioritized requirements translated high level business requirements into functional specifications in collaboration with business Operations stakeholders and converted them into project backlogs and FSDs.
• Led successful analysis to design and implement Feed health dashboard that was implemented using Qlikview and Confidential ’ internal ETL tool.
• Communicate project status biweekly along with demo of various implementations to data management to obtain feedback in timely manner and avoid scope creep.
• Created and maintained data mapping documents, user stories, screen mockups using Snagit as they relate to project.
• Thoroughly used SQL and excel to manage data quality and report/resolve any data conflict.
• Responsible for conducting functional testing for various implementations thus ensuring the requirements are met.
• Facilitated User acceptance testing (UAT) by working closely with system users and defining test scripts.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Technical Architects, Quality Assurance team and others stakeholders to ensure effective cross-project communication and issue management.

Confidential

Business Analyst Lead/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Techno functional BA Lead/Product Owner acting as a liaison between Business stakeholders and Technical team for SEI’s wealth management platform that supports US Banks and US advisor markets in a Scaled agile environment.
• Analysis of asset and other financial Data and other financial data using SQL to perform coverage analysis and to do root cause analysis for BAU issues.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, performing gap analysis identifying risks and dependencies and documenting them.
• Leading efforts to elicit and prioritize requirements for Asset data services team responsible for maintaining data and assets maintenance on wealth management platform.
• Vendor Management - Bloomberg Data License, Confidential Data Scope Equities and Data Scope Onsite, Investnet.
• Responsible for writing User stories and defining Acceptance Criteria for the team.
• Working collaboratively with Project Managers, Technical Architects, Quality Assurance team and others to ensure effective cross-project communication and issue management.
• As a Product owner, Responsible for facilitating backlog grooming and Sprint planning.
• Assists QA in test planning, test scripts and validating the test results.

Confidential

MDM Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Consults with and collaborates with various business stakeholders to assess and determine business specified requirements, perform analysis and recommend best solution to address the user needs related to Master data management and Data warehouse to support implementation of Healthcare Exchange.
• Responsible for creating data flow diagrams, data analysis using SQL queries and reports generation for business users using Crystal Reports.
• Work on the legacy integration and decommissioning projects by coordinating with global clients to gather requirements, translate them to the tech team and deliver the products back to the clients.
• Conducted JAD sessions, user interviews to facilitate cross functional requirements definition and analysis and determining scope of analysis to support implementation of modules involving ETL using Informatica.
• Creates test plans and participates in system testing of projects and in the evaluations and follow up of systems previously implemented.
• Responsible for product testing, product trouble shooting, product upgrades, and report development.
• Source to Target Data mapping and data modeling to support implementation of New York Healthcare Exchange.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix based on High/Detail requirements and Test Cases
• Impact analysis to determine the affected systems while implementing new functionality into business architecture and the users on new information system changes.
• Assist with efforts to demonstrate that Information systems are compliant with NY State guidelines, government regulations (HIPPA/HITECH) and contractual requirements.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from business users from Confidential and translated them to the technical team using UML diagrams and Functional design documents to support implementation of ETL based project in Informatica Power Center.
• Successfully analyzed requirements for decommissioning mainframe based legacy insurance policy administration application and migrating it to modern Java based platform.
• 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
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for all testing events such as System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Unit Integration Testing
• Managed and mentored a team of 8 quality assurance associates to deliver 24/7 support to 21 run and change applications supporting Customer Service Accelerator.
• Accurately estimated the efforts required for incoming work-orders and scoped projects to bill client
• 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.