SUMMARY

• 8 years of comprehensive experience in Business Analysis, running the gamut from Project Inception, Product Backlogs and Scrum Meetings to Project Completion
• In-depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Rational Unified Process RUP , and Agile
• Adept at using MS Office applications for day to day activities, MS Visio for drawing flow diagrams, and MS Project for prioritizing and managing individual tasks
• Thorough understanding of account reconciliation, accounting policies and procedures
• Skilled in documenting Business Requirements Documents BRD , Functional Requirements Specifications FRS , Business Requirements Specifications BRS , Systems Requirements Specifications SRS , Use Cases, Workflows and Unified Modeling Language UML diagrams using MS Visio
• Strong analytical grasp of Financial Statements, Portfolio Management, Stock Valuation, and Budgeting
• Expert in conducting GAP Analysis, Strength Weaknesses Opportunities Threat Analysis SWOT , Risk Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, and Return on Investment Analysis ROI
• Experienced in Testing Life-cycle including Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Case Preparation, Test Execution, and Defect Management
• Experienced in preparing and documenting the User Acceptance Test UAT plan and obtaining the necessary signoffs from the concerned business units
• Extensive experience in planning, team-coordination, work allocation, work review, mentoring, addressing training needs, and generating status reports for higher management tiers
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, adaptability to a wide range of work environments by acquiring new relevant skills with ease within a time-sensitive window

FINANCIAL DOMAIN EXPERTISE

Mortgage Backed Securities MBS , Mortgage Obligations CMO , MBS Futures, Options on MBS, Treasury Bonds, Notes, Bills , Collateralized Mortgage Obligations CMO , Asset Backed Securities ABS , Interest Only IO , Principal Only PO , Whole Loan Mortgages, Derivatives Options, Futures, Swaps , Convertible bonds, Municipal Bonds, Corporate Bonds, Junk Bonds, Commercial Paper, Credit Hedges, Commercial Loans and Trade Finance.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8, Microsoft Office, Windows 2003/2008/2010 Server, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Oracle SQL,DNS/DHCP, Backup Exec 2012, Printer Drivers, Network configuration, Firewall configuration, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Backup software, Wireless networking, Mobile phone synchronization, Remote working, SharePoint, Teamviewer, Java, VMware, Imaging, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

DESCRIPTION

The primary objective of this project was to develop a dashboard to manage fixed income assets. This new dashboard would offer a more simplified and organized view, designed to provide the business users with comprehensive market information. The dashboard had a three pane view which could be accessed and adjusted in accordance with user preferences. The dashboard had initial panes or sections under fixed income such as Money Markets, Bonds, Credit Derivatives and Repos which, once selected, would provide detailed information pertaining to the aforementioned fixed income instrument. The detailed information for the panes selected included an asset class view, a client view and a status report view. The dashboard had an in-built type ahead feature, which enabled users to select from the panes with more efficiency. The dashboard also featured a user preference search, associating key search words with the current user of the system, based on an intelligent user verification system. This user verification feature, combined with other aspects of the design, further allowed the dashboard to display a customized or favorite view of the panes based on the current user, thereby enhancing the user-experience substantially.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Fulfilled the role of a senior business analyst and drove the entire project
• Interviewed Business Users, Product Controllers, Managers, and Operations staff to understand and generate BRS and FRS documents
• Gathered detailed knowledge of application features and functions
• Analyzed systems and data to identify functionality requirements
• Evaluation of the data collected through task analysis, business process, surveys and workshops
• Coordinated meetings with business users for detailed requirements and documentation
• Implementation of agile methodology as the SDLC method
• Conduction of meetings with developers and testers to ensure understanding of the BRS and SRS by all the parties involved
• Developed SQL queries to retrieve data for validation purposes during test phase
• Participated in Bug Review meetings to discuss any outlying issues
• Tracking the project plan and delivering project status updates to management as needed

ENVIRONMENTS MS Project, Windows, Visual Basic, UML, Oracle SQL, J2EE, MS Visio

DESCRIPTION

The initiative for this project was to create a centralized data warehouse system which would assimilate Confidential databases. The idea was to design a new data infrastructure that would accommodate new data sources as well as additional volume of data. This new system would eventually be able to generate data for static and interactive reporting which would be customizable by region.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collection and analysis of the project's business requirements and transference of the same to development team
• Worked in close conjunction with SMEs to analyze all the parameters involved
• Implementation of agile methodology as the SDLC method
• Used a thorough Extract, Transform and Load ETL process to ensure data integrity
• Organized JAD sessions for sign-offs and approvals on the progress of development periodically, throughout the development life cycle
• Documented and designed system test strategy, approach and system test plan to ensure all the functionalities were thoroughly tested
• Developed SQL queries to retrieve data for validation purposes
• Participated in Bug Review meetings to discuss any outlying issues
• Analyzed Data, generated ad-hoc reports on SQL Database, prepared user manuals, provided training to end-users in open item section which included all the up-to-date open items. and provided corresponding solutions for the business

ENVIRONMENTS Oracle SQL, MS Visio, ETL, MS Project, MS Office, Windows/Unix, J2EE

DESCRIPTION

The primary objective of this project was to create a rugged trade notification system. The developed application gave the traders a better control for overall trading process, starting from customer initiation all the way up to title transfer. The system performed all the major business function aspects of trade notification. The span of this project was to build a Trade Notification Management Application to send out various notifications to traders in order to achieve operational competence and improve the execution of securities trading. Some of the important notifications of this system include Duplicate/ Contra, Negative cash, Over Sell and Min Piece. This Platform was built on client-server architecture with Java programs in conjunction with SQL server as the back-end database, and .NET as the front-end user interface. The entire process of notification generation was event driven.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drove planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions
• Implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing, data validation and reporting
• Gathered requirements for Enterprise reporting system
• Performed extensive requirement analysis, including data analysis.
• Developed business process models based on Scrum meetings to document the existing and future business processes.
• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology
• Fulfilled the role of a senior business analyst and drove the entire project
• Collection and analysis of the project's business requirements and transference of the same to development team
• Analyzed research on operational procedures and methods and recommend changes for improvement, with special emphasis on automation and efficiency

ENVIRONMENTS Java, Oracle SQL, UML, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Visio

DESCRIPTION

The objective of this project was to develop a full-fledged Document management system that would enable the investment bank to automate their existing manual document management system. This project entailed the gathering of functional, non-functional and technical requirements for document processing. The ultimate goal was to propose a solution for the document processing business requirements in its entirety. As such, a robust application was created to simplify the handling of the documents, update the status of these documents, create automatic rejection alerts to specific branches, produce scanned documents and generate daily and monthly reject reports for the management. The application was built using Java and SQL. A three-tier architecture was used to embody the document management cycle: document capture, document processing and document tracking modules.

RESPONSIBILITIES Assessed the scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis using detailed knowledge of application features and functions Collection and analysis of the project's business requirements and transference of the same to development team

• Maintained a 'big-picture' view of the direction of development, factoring in a vision of the overall strategic firm-wide architecture
• Involved in developing test case objectives to ensure accurate depiction and computation of the system, reported errors to the appropriate team and performed testing after the technical team corrected these errors
• Implementation of agile methodology as the SDLC method
• Submitted status reports to the higher management on the progress of the project on a regular basis
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions

ENVIRONMENTS UML, MS-FrontPage, Visio, MS Office, MS-Project, MS-access, J2EE, XML, Oracle