PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Expertise in Business Analysis, Gap Analysis, JAD, QA, Proven expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements and developing BRD.
• Proven expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements and developing BRD, and assisting in design FRD &TSD
• In depth knowledge of financial instruments including Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives. Risk Management, Forwards, Futures and Options
• Good understanding of Trade Life cycle. Front - Middle- Back Office systems,
• Good Understanding of Market Data and Reference Data., Security Master, Transaction Data, New Client Boarding, Data Migration, Data Analysis, Data Mapping,, ETL, Workflows, Business Rule Engines, Interfaces, Trade Workflow, Approval Workflow
• Experience Base Regulatory Compliance and Policies. Trade Reporting, MI Reporting, STP, Compliance Global KYC AML (Anti-Money Laundering Know Your Customer), Compliance monitoring and Trade surveillance
• Risk Management (Market & Credit risk) - Measuring Market risk using VaR, Historical Simulation, Variance-Covariance and Monte Carlo Simulation methods
• Measuring Credit risk using industry standard methodologies using Duration and Convexity analysis, Scenario analysis, Stress Testing and Back Testing . Obligor
• Credit Derivative Market - Credit Default Swap (CDS), Total Return Swap (TRS) and Interest Rate Swap (IRS), Forwards, Futures
• Good understanding of Charles River Trade order management system and Trade Life cycle
• Hands on experience on Data Analysis, Validation and Data Remediation Process using Recon Tools. Market Data feeds Bloomberg & Reuters terminals for data extraction and verification
• Expertise in QA Testing, created Test Plans and Test Cases and assisted UAT
• Good understanding of datawarehouse and SQL scripting,. Developed and executed SQL scripts for data validation and reporting
• Experience in Excel, PPT & Word, SharePoint and HPQC portal administrator for group portal projects
• Strong project management skills including strategic planning, problem solving and decision making abilities. Quick Learner and can work independently

PROFFESTONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Documented the business requirements through BRD and FRD. Understanding the client specifications and requirements. Updating the requirements in JIRA and providing details to user.
• Worked on day to day user’s issues and request raised. Identifying the issues performing analysis and updating issues in JIRA and raised QC in HPQC and following up issues with development teams.
• Organized JAD Sessions to verify consensus in the team, to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open matters, and change requests.
• Organizing BA and user meeting with client globally to identified request and documenting requirements.
• Developed Test plans, Test cases and Test scenarios and performed requirement based Testing in Dev/ QA and UAT environments and assisted user in user acceptance testing (UAT) to Signoff Test cases
• Executed SQL Queries for QA testing and performed data analysis to identifying issues and provided Ad Hoc report to users and have done data validation
• Worked with different cross functional teams for development testing and Data validation.
• Developed Source to Target (STM) mapping documents and Worked with Development and Testing team in data extraction, verification and validation globally to Trigger different P&L exceptions in different time zones
• Performed System, Functional, Regression, UAT and End to End testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement
• Prepared user manuals for the components and features which were released by providing insights and navigation of all features and new components which was implemented

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Made detailed business and technical analysis and documented Business Requirements Document (BRD) and assisted to develop TSD and Test Cases
• Coordinate with Reference Data group, Traders and Managers in different regions to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems and improvements.
• Worked with various cross functional teams and made detailed business analysis and workflows and identified bottlenecks and proposed solutions
• Performed rootcause analysis for different asset classes including Equities, Debt, Options, Futures and identified solutions and fixes.
• Wrote business process management workflow that documented how new asset class and attributes has to be activated or deactivated for enterprise application with approval process and consumer notification.
• Worked with Client in developing their enterprise Global Database dealing with Master Data Reference Data and Market Data Project for various assets classes of Barclays
• Analyzing Reference Data and Market Data performing Gap Analysis, Data validation co coordinating with various teams
• Used Bloomberg, Reuters terminals for data extraction and verification
• Worked with Client Proprietor clients and analyzed Reference data attributes for various asset classes like equities, Debt and options for Data Migration process 
• Performed new client on boarding Reference data upload (using XL upload) to Client application and performed database validation and fixed issues.
• Collaborated with various team in identifying, gathering and verifying Trade data for Equities and Debt securities and involved in reporting.
• Worked with Offshore development team in analysis the SQL scripts and data model and data migration process and assisted them in implement complete data migration process
• Designed and executed SQL Queries for QA testing and report / data validation. Actively involved in Data Mapping of the entire module
• Developed Source to Target (STM) mapping documents and assisted in Data model and architecture development.
• Created the Test requirements, Test scenarios, Test cases and executed test cases. prepared test suite and performed UAT

Contractor

Confidential, NYC, NY

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing BRD and obtaining approval for the requirements and prioritization of implementation plan
• Ensured timely and quality development of capability / process / infrastructure support for reporting lifecycle, i.e. data sourcing, aggregation / reconciliation, governance and control checks, substantiation, attestation, review & challenge, assumption / input / results overrides, management briefing / signoff, and documentation
• Worked with Global teams to gather and developed AML KYC documentation, KYC Policy and Standards, to understand key KYC requirements and prepared development documents.
• Developed Source to Target (STM) mapping documents and Worked with Development and Testing team in data extraction, verification and validation for Reporting
• Lead identification of current state future state sytem and resolution of issue / risk / dependency by promoting collaboration with SMEs and other stakeholders
• Worked alongside Technology teams in Systems Business Analysis, UAT support, and Production support
• Prepared and developed Test cases and Test scrips and assisted User Acceptance Testing as part of the end-to-end process

Contractor

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Documented the business process through BRD and FRD. Understanding the client specifications and requirements.
• Made detailed business and technical analysis and documented Business Requirements Document for dynamic Credit Risk measurement - Standardized Approach, portfolio return distribution,
• Worked with Front Office/ Middle Office to make detailed business analysis and workflows on Fixed Income Products
• Made detailed business and technical analysis and documented Business Requirements for dynamic for Market and Credit Risk measurement using Standardized Approach, portfolio return distribution
• Developed Risk Analysis calculation for Derivatives and Mutual Funds and Pension funds depending on Tenure, client rating and NAV. and defined risk values Obligor Grade and Client Grade for Risk monitoring
• Worked with development team in new client on boarding to Risk Management systems.
• Documented and worked on workflows models and notifications emails to credit officers from Risk applications.
• Documented Base Regulatory Compliance and Policies in defining requirements for clients Mutual Funds, Pension funds and Fund of Funds
• Worked with Front Office/ Middle Office to make detailed business analysis and workflows on Fixed Income Products
• Designed and implemented SQL Queries for QA testing and report / data validation. Actively involved in Data Mapping of the entire module
• Created the Test requirements, Test scenarios, Test cases and executed test cases. prepared test suite and performed UAT
• Developed and conducted Internal Training Programs and created User Manuals for developed applications

Contractor

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Primary Liaison between Stakeholders, System Users, Clients and Managers to gather requirements.
• Gathered requirements, for new features for the end user interface of the Trading Platform with the purpose to support the acceptance, execution, allocation and communication of the trades to update client positions.
• Facilitated and participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering
• Interfaced with Reference Data group Traders and Managers to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems and improvements.
• Responsible for regular interaction with the Fixed Income Division to gather requirements.
• Hands on experience with - Front Office Trading ( Trade Capture, Trade Valuation, Trade Execution, Deal Management, Margin Management, Position Management, Analytics, Trading, Term Sheets Back Office (Trade Matching, Cash Management, Confirmation/ Affirmation)
• Created Business Requirements Document and converted them into System Requirement Specifications Document.
• Analyzed Requirements and created Use Case Models, UML Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams.
• Completed logical Data Modeling and Normalized Data Model for RDBMS. Used ETL for data mapping, data extracts
• Used Defect tracking tools and change management request and reported them.
• Prepared Test plans, Test cases and Test scenarios and performed requirement based Testing and assisted in user acceptance testing (UAT), Defect Reporting and resolution.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Organized JAD Sessions to verify consensus in the team, to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open matters, and change requests.
• Involved in analysis of the technical specifications of the current system and the infrastructure needs, based on performance measurement tool performed Gap analysis.
• Developed Source to Target (STM) mapping documents and Worked with Development and Testing team in data extraction, verification and validation
• Performed new client onboarding reference data upload (using XL upload) to Client Metric Stream application and
• Executed SQL Queries for QA testing and report / data validation
• Developed Test plans, Test cases and Test scenarios and performed requirement based Testing and performed user acceptance testing (UAT)

Confidential

• MFund ISS is a web-based application developed for providing the solutions and services to the Insurance Companies. The application has modules for investor, agent and insurance provider.
• Involved in analysis of the technical specifications of the current system and the infrastructure needs, based on performance measurement tool performed Gap analysis.
• Created the Test requirements, Test scenarios, Test cases.
• Performed UAT of the web based applications and defect management
• Developed Test cases, Test scripts and Test scenarios based on high-level and detailed designs documents.
• Performed System, Functional, Regression, UAT and End to End testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement using Quick Test Pro.
• Participated in the Test Case Peer Review to ensure test cases appropriately translate and map to requirements.
• Conducted Back-end Testing using SQL queries from Oracle database using Toad
• Implemented Test Case and Test Process with project time frames