Profile

• Highly skilled and experienced Business Analyst with extensive consulting experience in product, system development and project management in a fast-paced business environment.
• Account Payable Financial Reporting and Regulations Anti Money Laundry AML Principles of Financial Markets and Instruments Equity, FX, Repo, Cash management, Derivatives Fixed Income/Bonds Market Basel Risk Management and Portfolio Risk Credit Risk, Market risk and across all assets Banking Treasury Management with Swift, Banking Retail front and back office operations.
• Joint Application Development JAD Rapid Application Development RAD Unified Modeling Language UML Diagrams Activity Diagram, Use Case Diagram UCD Data warehousing Data Sub setting and Normalization SDLC Waterfall, RUP, Agile, Scrum .

TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND

• DATABASES: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, MS SQl Server, DB2
• TESTING TOOLS: Mercury Quality center, Quick test pro, Load runner, Win runner, Rational Clear Quest, Test Director.
• OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows XP/NT/2003/2000/98/95, Mac OS, UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, Reuters.
• SOFTWARE TOOLS: MS office Suite, Balsamiq Mockups, Pencil, Rational rose, Requisite pro, Rational Clear Case, MS Visio, MS Project, TFS, MS Access, UML, TOAD, SQL PLUS.
• LANGUAGES: C, C , Java, .Net, SQL, PL/SQL.
• WEB TECHNOLOGIES: XML, HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Led JAD sessions and User interviews productively to review and specify requirements and to understand client existen business process.
• Gathers requirements for the forex and money market system by interacting with the end users and subject matter experts.
• Creates the forex and money market business requirement specification document BRD and the functional specification document FSD based on the specified requirements.
• Develops forex and money market business process model through a data flow diagram as per client request.
• Manages all the requirements in Requisite Pro, making requirements available to all team members.
• Responsible for designing a test plan and worked with the QA team to implement and monitor the entire QA process.
• Co-ordinated UAT session to facilate stakeholder final sign-off.
• Performed unit testing and regression testing to ensure all functionalities are working efficiently.
• Performs extensive gap analysis on the system migration process.
• Renders extensive examination of the accounting schema designed for all forex and money market transactions in compliance with GAAP and International financial reporting standards IFRS .
• Prepares monthly progress reports on the system migration process to head office in Paris.
• Created power point training manuals and trained end users on the new application.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Interviewed functional area users and subject matter experts SMEs to collect requirements as well as business rules through meetings.
• Led JAD session and Rapid Development session to determine requirements and to review User interface designs to meet end user usability and performance criteria.
• Developed screen mock-up to prove the AS-IS current system and the TO-BE new system .
• Interfaced with business users to prepare and update business requirements document BRD and Software requirements specifications SRS .
• Created use case scenarios and business process using Rational Rose.
• Facilitated change management across the entire process from project conceptualization to testing. Documented requirements associated with change requests and connected requirements with Use cases.
• Developed test plan, created test cases and test scripts, tested and monitored testing outcomes.
• Assisted the QA team in integration testing to ensure all functionalities are working in uniformity to meet client expectation.
• Coordinated the UAT session to seek final sign-off and system approval from stakeholders.
• Created user manuals, training materials, and provided post implementation support for different phases of the project.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Conducted stakeholders' interviews, gathered requirements, and analyzed the requirements using Rational Requisite pro.
• Prepared and authored Business Requirements Documents BRD and FRD for the detailed expansion of the functionality and going over it with the technical as well as the testing team.
• Conducted various JAD Sessions with different stakeholders in order to get a better understanding of ongoing activities and to assign every party their tasks and duties.
• Used UML to model business requirements and logically convert them to functional requirements. Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Created interface screens shots and mock-ups.
• Performed GAP analysis to identify enhancement to the existing system.
• Maintained and kept track of stakeholders' requests for enhancements and changes using Unified Change Management tool UCM such as Rational Clear Quest.
• Executed test scripts coordinated UAT testing.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Interfaced with portfolio managers and risk analysts to understand the business process and the risk measures involve with the existing application.
• Developed business process models as part of the requirement document to cover the various high net worth client accounts and investments.
• Played a vital role in validating test plans, test scripts and coordinated UAT session. Collaborated with the QA team to ensure adequate testing of software.
• Performed SWOT and GAP analysis for new functional requirements as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs.
• Facilitated JAD sessions and conducted peer review meetings periodically to keep track of project milestones.
• Undertook project risk management and business process analysis, review of the implementation of different stages of the applications.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information for the loan process, including set-up Account Information, New Loan set-up, and Escrow Analysis, Appraisal, Credit, income and Title functionalities.
• Developed strategic partnerships with the business unit to develop a solid knowledge base of the business line, including the business plan, products, process, and revenue streams.
• Developed business process models to document existing and future business processes.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis, including data analysis, data conversion and gap analysis.
• Developed business requirements specification documents as well as high-level project plan.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Worked with internal and external users to define requirements.
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different objectives of stakeholders and helped the developers' comprehend user requirements.
• Collected and documented business processes as well as business rules.
• Created business process flow diagrams, performed SWOT analysis, and assisted in designing the web structure.
• Designed use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams to analyze the system using UML.
• Assisted the Data Analyst in analyzing existing reports.