SUMMARY:

• 6 years of professional experience as a business analyst in the Financial Industry
• Successful track record of translating business requirements into technical specifications for projects executed on - target, on-time, and within budget
• Particular expertise at facilitating interactive cooperation, consensus, collaboration, and commitment with stakeholders, business users and team members.
• Proven skills in Business Analysis, Planning, Process Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Change Management, Software Development
• Extensive experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies including RUP, Agile and Waterfall Model
• Expertise in serving as a liaison between business team and the project team by assisting the business in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs
• Proficient in Requirement Gathering Techniques ranging from Interviews, Questionnaires, Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions, Job Shadowing to Storyboarding and Prototyping
• Experience in defining and initiating projects, and working with Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program
• Facilitating Integration, System & Alpha Testing and planned UAT and Release Testing with the QA testers, stakeholders and the business users
• Developed QA Test Plan, and assisted QA team in System Testing to ensure the new system satisfy all User requirements
• Checking and validation of requirements in conjunction with the stakeholders
• Experience with Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram and Deployment Diagram using Visio and Rational Rose
• Expert in data analysis using various tools and writing SQL queries
• Strong analytical and product management skills including thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), iii. Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs)
• Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business, financial and system requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Rational Tools: Rational Rose, Rational RequisitePro, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational SoDA.

Project Management: Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) Tools/Methodologyusing Unified Modeling language (UML), Rational

Unified Process:(RUP), SDLC, MS Project and Visio

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports

Testing Tools: Test Director, Winrunner and Load runner.

Operating Systems: Windows95/98/00/XP/NT and Mac OS.

Other Tools: MS Office Suite, Caliber RM, DOORS, SharePoint 2.0 and iRise 5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MN

Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between business team and the project team by assisting the business in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs
• Gathered and documented business processes as well as business rules
• Assigned the task of User Acceptance Test (UAT) coordination which involved monitoring of business’ UAT and interact with the development team for defect status and the monitor the availability of the testing environment on a daily basis using Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions
• Worked with the development team to ensure they understand the specification and identified roles impacted and assisted to develop change management
• Used MS-Visio to carry out the Business Use Case Modeling and Business Object Modeling effort to develop the business architecture for rapid and controlled application development
• Organized and Documented Business Requirement Documentations and developed functional specification documents
• In depth involvement in modeling the trading system for Equity Trading, requiring complete understanding of the trading life cycle for existing systems, including how trade is executed and the data flow from front office to back office
• Understood in depth the FIX Engine software including how to start, stop; connecting from the source, connecting to testing simulator, reading log files etc.
• Worked extensively with the in-house equity central depository system for data mapping using MS SQL server/ORACLE of static data, counterparty data, data, FIXML etc.
• Defined and initiated projects, and worked with Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program
• Collaborate with development team, and the business to develop both high-level and detailed SOA architecture including business logic, data and interface to meet the business needs
• Performed GAP analysis
• Comprehensively work with requirement gathering for Enterprise reporting system using Rational Requisite Pro
• Document and deliver Functional Specification Document on screen prototypes, optimized system flow and report specifications
• Prepared Project deliverables which included documentation of current and future environments, the development of business process and procedures, user guides, support processes, test plans and scripts for user acceptance testing, deployment plans and other required project deliverable
• Develop test scenarios and implemented test plan. Providing key input in working with users in defining project and system requirements

Environment: Microsoft.NET, MS SQL Server, LINUX/UNIX, Rational Rose, Microsoft Office Suite, Business Objects, ITG Mercury, MS Project and MS Visio

Confidential, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented System Requirements and supplementary requirements like complying with Industry regulations ofISDA (International swaps and derivatives association), (Commodity futures trading commission)and NFA (National Futures Association)
• Demonstrated strong analytical andproject management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application andoperational requirements
• Responsible for managing and maintaining relationships with clients as they pertained to new enhancements, GAP analysis, monthly reporting, and current expectations
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent
• Created UML activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, use case diagrams, Gantt charts, flow charts using MS Visio and MS Project
• Asked all the right questions up front to determine key issues and foresee potential show-stoppers that might arise later and in-depth understanding of OTC derivatives operations
• Worked onAgile methodologyfor the successful implementation of the project
• A strong knowledge of Interest Rates, Credit and FixedIncome Bond products,Interest rates swapsalong with the trade flow for each of the instruments
• Working knowledge ofstructured products,interest rate swaps,Credit Default swaps, covering Forward Rate agreements (FRA), U.S.Treasury & Agency securities, Futures, Options on futures,Foreign exchangeand Forward FX
• Worked on Implementation of variousrisk management toolsand concepts; valuing Bond /Derivative trading portfolios; accounting guidelines applicable to derivative trading practices
• Workedon Options & Swaptions (Caps, Floors, Digital and Bermudan options), Exotic products (Range Accruals, Spread Options) designed to hedge risk.
• Provided comprehensive hands-on to the client’s project team up-front on Fidessa, to engage them in the process of bringing to light all issues that needed to be addressed during the implementationand to reduce the risk of a show-stopper
• Usage of communication protocol FIX (Financial Information exchange) for transferring various financial information.
• Created “to-do” lists over the course of the with the project team, which contain follow - up items for both parties that enabled the work to proceed quickly and efficiently once the implementation begin
• Thorough understanding ofOTC Derivativescomplete Trade life cycle from Pre-trade to Trade and Post trade
• Performed and coordinated the analysis and design of business systems
• Assisted QA team to devise the test plan for the application by explaining the business use cases
• Provided estimates of resources required for assigned projects as well as contributing to the development and support of staffing plans and funding requests
• Developed test plans and strategies and conductedUser Acceptance Testing(UAT) of systems

Environment: SQL, JAVA, Javascript, Microsoft DTS, Microsoft reporting, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, IBM Websphere, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, MS PowerPoint

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the business, data and the technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Met with decision makers, system owners and end users to define and document requirements and goals
• Used business process reengineering strategies to make the new system scalable to both web and mobile
• Worked with appropriate stakeholders to determine specific back office functional requirements for Profit & Loss (PnL), Margin & Risk calculations and Value at Risk (VAR)
• Conducted JAD sessions, interviews, personal observations, and administered questionnaires to gather business requirements, make presentations of issues and keep end users informed of priorities
• Communicated with developers for various financial products and their risk management tools requirement including complex securities such as Forex, Futures and Options
• Worked with FIX (Financial Information Exchange) to establish communication between two trading systems
• Documented Test Plans with test scripts, test cases, test data and expected results for the User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Used the Agile methodologies during the project life cycle and ascertained deliverables on a per sprint basis
• Was involved in gathering requirements regarding protocol and communicate it to developers
• Created UML activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, use case diagrams, flow charts using MS Visio and MS Project
• Worked with internal team and end users to effectively manage and engineer changes
• Maintained meeting notes and presented weekly status reports on the project using Business Object Crystal Report
• Performed data analysis and cleansing guided by the business rules and source data
• Helped setting up QA procedures, process for testing the applications and products involving different types of testing and the associated documents and test cases and signoff documents
• Gained consensus for business requirements being fully met and attainable technical development expectations

Environment: Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project and MS Visio

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with clients for gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements.
• Served as liaison between business team and various other project groups.
• Followed an iterative approach to organize requirements into logical groups of business processes, business rules and information needs and ensured that critical requirements are focused upon.
• Used UML to model use case diagrams for functional requirements.
• Created functional specification document which includes use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams that provide the developers a view of the requirements for the system development.
• Utilized Rational ClearQuest for defect tracking.
• Generated documentation for the development team using Rational SoDA.
• Used MS Access and Excel to extract, administer and manipulate large data.
• Worked closely with software developers to isolate, track and troubleshoot defects.
• Participated in knowledge transfer and co-ordination with the off shore development team.
• Assisted in user acceptance testing, performed client presentations and demonstrations
• Involved in designing a plan for application rollout.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, RUP, UML, Rational Rose, MS-Visio, MS-Project, Rational ClearQuest, SQL Server and Windows.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst/ Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as business analyst team to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Securities and their valuation, Asset Management- risks and returns, Bond Pricing, Financial Derivatives, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Stock Valuation, Amortization, Capital Structures and Budgeting, Value Based management.
• Implemented the full project lifecycle phases including requirements gatherings, development and quality assurance.
• Conducted user interviews at both in-house and client locations.
• Used Rational RequisitePro to analyze and document requirements.
• Monitored and assisted in designing and development of Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio
• Identified, researched, analyzed, defined and documented Business Processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Responsible for data mapping of feeds from several data systems, including Bloomberg, to a number of in-house applications.
• Performed Gap Analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing, developing and maintaining quality
• Developed the test plan, test conditions and test objectives to be used in testing of the system.
• With application features and functions, the scope and impact of business needs were assessed.
• Have good technical writing skills.

Environment: J2EE, DB2, RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Access, Rational RequisitePro.