Summary:

• Resourceful and dynamic Business Analyst with over 7 years of experience with strong business analysis skills and strong knowledge of the software development life cycle SDLC utilizing Water fall and agile methodologies.
• Highly experienced in various domains including Finance, Investment banking, Mortgage and Insurance.
• Highly experienced in broad range of technologies including business process tools such as MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Data Warehousing concepts, Reporting Tools SSRS, crystal reports , OLAP, OLTP and Web design.
• Strong experience in client interaction, understanding business applications and business data flow and experienced in conducting JAD Sessions, Interviews and client meeting to gather requirements.Confidential Extensive Experience in using business modeling and configuration management tools like Rational Rose, MS Visio for creating use case diagrams and work flow diagrams.
• Experienced in modeling Transactional Databases and Data Warehouses using tools like Erwin.
• Experienced in Implementing Normalization/De-normalization techniques for optimum performance in OLTP/OLAP database environments.
• Strong knowledge of logical/ physical data modeling, Dimensional/ER Modeling, Star and Snowflake schemas.
• Expert in facilitating and defining the entire Testing Life Cycle including Test strategy, Test planning, Test case preparation, Test execution and Defect management.
• Experienced in conducting Automation, Performance, User Acceptance Testing using various tools including Rational Suite and coordinating with the UAT participants
• Experienced in using Rational requisite pro for managing requirements throughout the application lifecycle.
• Adept in deploying the projects by involving in go-live processes and getting client feedback timely.
• Strong customer/user advocate, apt negotiator with excellent analytical, communication, decision-making, organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

Confidential

Skill Set:

UML Unified Modeling Language , Erwin 7.5 , Microsoft Office suites Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, SQL Server, pivot-tables, Outlook, Project, Visio , Rational Tools clear quest, clear case , HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro 9, Win runner and Load Runner.

Projects Summary:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is a diversified financial services company, providing banking, insurance, investments, as well as mortgages. The Project is aimed at creating a web application, to enable potential customers to perform searches for mutual fund performance, stocks ratings, bonds and market performance, along with enabling customers to search for information regarding recent events related to the investments.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Business Process Models that include modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Worked closely with the Project Manager to plan how the work can be broken down into logical components to facilitate focused and efficient requirements gathering
• In charge of creating and maintaining the Business Requirement Document BRD
• Used Requisite Pro to document requirements, associate change requests with requirements and connect requirements.
• Facilitated business requirements gathering sessions JAD sessions with the client, and overlooked the creation of Use Cases/Activity Diagrams and Functional Specifications using Visio
• Performed feasibility study and risk analysis to identify the most critical requirements from the user's perspective
• Conducted one-on-one meetings with the project SMEs in person or by phone to gather the requirements
• Assisted Project Manager and provided regular project communications to the project manager and business areas
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams State diagrams using Vision and forwarded them to stakeholders to review
• Created wireframes for the web application layout that could be understood by both business and technical personnel.
• Used IBM Rational Requisite Pro to manage a requirements traceability matrix, made in MS Visio
• Maintained test suites and performed performance testing using Load Runner
• Provided post-implementation support for the new web application used by the clients

Environment: RM Requisite Pro, Windows XP, MS Word, MS Excel, Microsoft Visio 2007, MS Outlook

Confidential

Business Analyst

A Business Analyst in LOS Loan Origination System involved in analysis, design, development, and implementation. The system will be a front end to the lending system of the retail finance institutions and banks involved in automotive, personal, credit card, Home Loans, and line of credit application processing.

Responsibilities:

• Lead business initiatives including brainstorming on new functionality for current systems.
• Gathered and documented the requirements that were critical to the business mission and used those requirements to design application software using a Use Case in Requisite Pro
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process.
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams State diagrams according to RUP, for the stakeholder review
• Analyzed and documented Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business.
• Expert in payment rejects and root cause
• Conducted FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs with the designers, developers and stakeholders
• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose
• Used Requisite Pro to document requirements, associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements with Use cases.
• Familiar with Cash positioning, debt management, and bank reconciliation
• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of strategic projects.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to the project manager and business areas.
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective.
• Extensively involved in gathering business requirements and system requirements and specifications. Provided conceptual solution. Translated conceptual solution into technical design. Extensively worked on system architecture. Used UML to create use cases, used case diagrams, classes sequence diagrams.
• Prepared test cases, test plans, test strategies, traceability matrix for QA team.

Environment: UML, MS Visio, Rational Rose

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Confidential is a Confidential providing investment banking, institutional brokerage, and private client services, focused on the growth sectors of the economy.
• The project dealt with designing and developing a technologically advanced platform incorporating software, information and communications systems designed to address the financial needs of individuals, corporations, institutions and high net worth investors worldwide. It included the development of an Investment Management System which allowed the users to get a view of the comprehensive account summary that shows the portfolio value, cash balance, and securities held in all of the bank's accounts. Furthermore, it gave detailed information for a particular account, such as portfolio holdings, realized gains and losses.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in working with a team of developers and partially responsible for allocation of work.
• Involved in project management activities, like project planning, development and execution.
• Analyzed Client requirements, generating workflow process and necessary documents for the project.
• Implemented Order management and Purchasing
• Responsible for Customer Service inventory organization transactions.
• Managed Requirements and communicating with user groups and team members using UML diagrams in Rational Rose and Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Business Required Document BRD detailing the solution of the project and the needs of client.
• Assisted Project Teams in preparing Software Requirement Specifications SRS , Software Design Documents SDD , User Interface Design, designing of Application Architecture Database Modeling.
• Acted as a liaison with the customer regarding the end user requirements.
• Was responsible for understanding business rules that drive system logic.
• Defined project milestones, schedules, monitoring progress using MS Project and updating plans as required.
• Initiated Use Case Analysis using UML, which provided the framework for potential use case deliverables and their inter-relationships, and allow for maximizing software reuse.
• Documented User Requirements with MS Word as the editing tool.
• Identified and resolved issues between business requirements and technical constraints, often involving other business analysts and technology staff.
• Conducted data analysis using SQL queries.
• Utilized knowledge of networking and for project integration requirements analysis.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and information needs, and ensure that critical requirements are not missed.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams.
• Weekly Status reporting to the product manager and director of IT.
• Using RUP provided technical leadership and expertise in reorganization of a complex End-to-End Testing effort and performed System analysis and organizational review of existing QA process.
• Conducted highly interactive JAD sessions with projects stakeholders such as users, QA analysts, and project management team, identifying and resolving issues.

Environment: RUP, Windows, MS Project, Rational Suite Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Case, SoDA , MS Visio and UML

Confidential

Business Analyst/ Data Analyst

Confidential is a global financial services group with over 30 trillion yen of assets under management. The objective was to migrate from legacy trade settlement system NTAPS to XENOS and to remediate the controller's process from manual to automate in order to comply with SOX compliance. The project involved extracting Equity, Fixed Income and Treasury data from NTAPS, XENOS and various outside feeds such as futures and options from R N, Bloomberg, Fed Rate, Japanese securities rates and populating into NCDI Data warehouse, and subsequently into EUC End User Computing . Maintain the Project plan for EUC Team objectives and project objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and identified business requirements from the business stakeholders, users, SMEs and translated into FRD, BRD, and system specifications. Interact with all levels of project development team.
• Produced Functional Specifications for large trading systems. Reviewed and analyzed the entire Batch Jobs schedule and provide the analysis to the Technology support team to meet the goal.
• Assisted the project manager in creating detailed project plan and scheduling and tracking project timeline using MS Project.
• Assisted in dimensional logical model and physical model as per business requirements.
• Validated the data by creating data validation scripts to verify the loading process.
• Assisted test lead and testers understanding business process and helped them for successful completion of Unit Testing, Regression Testing and Functional Testing.
• Played a key role in UAT and validating the source to target data mapping.
• Conducted training sessions for the end users and documented various training manuals.

Confidential

Business Analyst

The project involved developing an application using Servlets and JSP's under the Struts framework. This application serves the different varieties of Stock Reports produced by Standard and Poor's to the users. Clients use this tool to access Stock Reports of various companies.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews with the clients for gathering requirements and evaluation/analysis of their data. Converted the business requirements into IT specifications
• Created Use Cases, Workflows, and Screen Shots for the Application
• Developed the business and functional requirement specification describing and prioritizing of the requirements.
• Identified and implemented a small set of architectural mechanisms.
• Conducted regular walk-through with the developers and testers.
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective

Environment: Rational Suite