PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Senior Business Analyst with over 8 years of solid IT Information Technology background.
• Profound experience in analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications in Banking/ financial services, Telecom and Healthcare industries.
• Comprehensive knowledge in financial instruments such as Equity, Bonds, FX, Forwards, Futures, Options, Swaps, Mortgage Backed Securities MBS , To-be Announced TBA , and credit derivatives including Credit Default Swap CDS and Interest Rate Swap.
• Strong understanding in Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Stock Loans, Prime Brokerage, Mutual Funds, and Hedge funds.
• Possess strong grasp of Compliance and Risk Management regulations like Basel II III and

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed the Agile methodology throughout the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Conducted ABC Accelerated Business Case session with portfolio manager and technology group for vision definition and scope creeping.
• Directly interacted with the stakeholders/business users and served as a primary point of contact for Data Warehousing and Cognos reporting solutions.
• Interviewed various business users from different regions to gather user stories.
• Steered Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective sessions.
• Analyzed the existing client profitability data feeds for various regions including AMR, APR and EMEA to create data mapping documents.
• Designed assumption engine UI wireframe to serve as an input for the development team.
• Extensively used SQL queries for source and target data validations and verifying the ETL process Data Extraction, Data Transformation, and Data Load .
• Assisted testing team to develop and validate test plans and cases.
• Worked closely with Cognos reporting team to generate ad-hoc business reports.
• Used JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking and monitoring project progress.

Environment: UML, MS office, MS Visio, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, JIRA, Java, ETL, Cognos

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Followed Agile Scrum methodology from planning till implementation.
• Gathered user stories for Notification platform by conducting JAD Joint Application Development sessions with the business users.
• Acted as a single point of contact for the stakeholders while managing deliverables and providing progressive report to management
• Extensively worked with product owner in enriching and mapping the user stories.
• Actively involved in Sprint planning, Daily scrum, Sprint review and Scrum retrospective meetings.
• Created mockups for various notification layouts and sample report layouts for daily/monthly summary reports to meet business requirements and communicated the same to development team.
• Collaborated with QA team to ensure adequate testing of system while reviewing Test Plan, Test scripts and Test cases.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs with business users to help them understand the application and assisted them in performing User Acceptance Testing UAT .

Environment: UML, MS office, MS Visio, MS SQL server, JIRA, SQL, .NET 4.0, Java, XML

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Got Knowledge Transition from previous vendors for applications including Call Pricing, Mobile Number Portability, SIM management, TAP -Pricing the Roaming calls made by O2 customers, Bill Enquiry-Interface used to get the details of all the calls made by O2 customers.
• Transitioned the application knowledge to the resources working from offshore.
• Worked as an onsite-offshore coordinator to liaise between the client and the offshore team.
• Managed 9-membered offshore team ensuring timely delivery of projects.
• Conducted JAD Joint Application Development sessions with SME's for eliciting requirements.
• Actively involved in requirement discovery workshops for the Quarterly Releases along with marketing team, O2 Retail and O2 Prepay to launch new propositions.
• Captured the business logic and primarily responsible for creating Business Requirements Document BRD and System Requirement Documents with supporting Use Case Diagrams/ Data Flow Diagrams.
• Assisted Project Manager in estimation for various initiatives.
• Worked closely with Quality Assurance team in creating and validating test plans and test cases for various functionality, integration and performance testing.
• Presented CR's in the CRB Change Review Board for the necessary approval from the Change Management Team.

Environment VMS, UNIX, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Java, Pro Cobol, DCL

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing online Banking application called Abonee to conduct feasibility analysis of introducing the new payment protocol.
• Conducted requirement walkthrough involving development and QA team.
• Held intermediate brainstorming sessions to understand and resolve the obstacles for delivery.
• Actively participated in Design reviews and test strategy reviews.
• Used the Rational Requisite Pro for Requirement Management to maintain and track the stakeholder requested enhancements and changes.
• Assisted in formulating testing documents like Test Plan, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in functional testing, integration testing, performance testing and UAT.

Environment: MS office, Web sphere, Java, Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, ESDF, SCLM, Clear Quest

Confidential

Role: Business System Analyst

Responsibilities

• Analyzed 'AS-IS' claims application to perform feasibility and gap analysis for 'TO-BE' systems.
• Used Relativity-Modernization workbench tool for legacy application analysis.
• Prepared of Business requirement documents for the new claims application.
• Assisted in developing a central repository of the parameters, configuration items and business rules for HCSC's claims application such that all other applications can look up one database.

Environment - Modernization workbench, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel, COBOL, CICS, DB2