PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with five (5) years of professional experience in business analysis and project management delivering technology solutions across several verticals. I have excellent technical, analytical and communication skills, a self - starter and a valued team player with proven ability to facilitate, execute and successfully close on complex projects. I have proficiencies with gathering functional and non-functional business and systems requirements, use case documentation, business process modeling, analysis and optimization and making data- backed recommendation to senior management. Hands on experience leading small teams and working on SDLC projects with various project management methodologies like Waterfall, Agile Scrum and RUP.
• Experience in facilitating requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders like Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions and Discovery Workshops and brainstorming sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design.
• Experience in Business Process Modeling (BPM) and re-engineering and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) through various project management methodologies (Agile, RUP & Waterfall).
• Experience in facilitating GAP analysis sessions to capture current as-is business processes and to-be business process and documenting both functional and non-functional business and systems requirements.
• Excellent documentation skills in developing Business Requirements Document (BRD), System
• Requirements Documents (SRD), Business Rules, Use Cases, Data Dictionaries, and other project artifacts.
• Experience with UML diagrams to model business processes like Activity diagram, Data flow diagrams using tools such as IBM Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio.
• Experience working with QA teams to develop Test strategies, Test plans and Test cases from functional and non-functional requirements and also facilitated User Acceptance Tests (UAT).
• In-depth knowledge and experience with financial derivatives and instruments like Stocks, Futures, Swaps,
• Options, Credit Default Swaps and Asset & Mortgage-Backed Securities (ABS/MBS).
• Experience with banking credit, market and operational risks and measures like Value-at-Risk (VaR) with respect to the banking and financial industries.
• Experience with equity and derivatives trading, investment and wealth management and trading life cycle for different Exchange Traded and OTC-Traded instruments.
• Experience leading small teams, assisting project managers and working with business users and clients to analyze, document and evaluating business requirements and develop them to functional and non-functional specifications

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Operating Systems:  Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX

Methodologies:  Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Kanban

Software and Tools:  MS Office Suite, IBM Rational Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, Excel VBA

Database Tools:  MS SQL Server, Teradata SQL, No-SQL, Oracle SQL, Toad, Cassandra

Requirement Management: IBM Rational Requisite Pro, Mercury Quality Center (QC) 10.0, HP ALM, Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, iLog JRules

Reporting & BI:  OBIEE 11g, Crystal Reports, Tableau, SpotFire

ETL Tools:  Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

Other: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Compass PPM, Soap UI, Sparkling Logic SMARTS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst / Professional Services Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stakeholders and other team members - daily scrum meeting and weekly project meetings meeting- to keep track of Product Backlog Items and utilized Rational Requisite Pro for reviewing and analyzing the requirements.
• Set-up and facilitate daily stand-up calls and project status meetings with onshore and offshore team members in line with agile scrum requirements.
• Act as both product owner and team agile scrum master for the team through each 3 week sprint for each release
• Estimate level of effort required for each release, project resource and timelines and make budget recommendations to program manager.
• Develop business process model in line with current OMG BPMN 2.0 specifications for very complex credit decisioning implementation.
• Designed and Created Activity Flow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Use case, Use case diagram,
• Sequential Diagram using UML Business Process Modeling in MS Visio.
• Updated and modified progress and resources allocation in MS Project for the team and facilitated weekly process for Project Manager
• Schedule and conduct sprint planning, brainstorming sessions with key stakeholders and Subject
• Matter Expert (SME) for User Stories gathering and documented Vision and Scope Document for the project.
• Engage with program manager with identifying as well as prioritizing, re-prioritizing User Stories, creating burn down chart to keep track of the product development process.
• Assisted with the adherence of Policy, Procedures and Best Practices for operations in alignment with the new system capabilities.
• Reviewed Test Strategy, Test Plan to ensure they were consistent with the project scope, and reviewed Test cases to ensure the overall test coverage.
• Coordinated with QA team in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), with stakeholders and the business users, trained users to use the system configured and assisted QA team in UAT test of each sprint.
• Provided production support to business & end users and successfully tracked defects to resolutionduring UAT while managing changes to the project.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements gathering and analysis, interacted with SME (Subject Matter Experts) and ensured that contributors and all key stakeholders completed assigned tasks.
• Collaborated with the Quality Assurance team to develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications.
• Called and participated in periodic Risk Analysis meetings with the project manager, developers, management, product marketing team, and the QA team.
• Developed Use Cases, State diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence diagrams, documented scenarios that enabled developers and other stakeholders to understand the business process using MS Visio.
• Set - up and facilitate daily stand-up calls and project status meetings with onshore and offshore team members in line with agile scrum requirements.
• Worked with the Stakeholders, Project Manager and senior Business Users in defining, documenting and diagramming the business needs and Business Process flow.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to strategize the
• Implementation of Rational Unified Process effort in different iterations and phases (Inception,
• Elaboration, Construction and Transition) the Software Development Life Cycle. Prepared various artifacts for all the phases of RUP.
• Facilitated and participated in JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions for requirement gathering, analysis and design, which helped in determining the functional specifications, writing use cases and creating screen prototypes.
• Called and participated in periodic Risk Analysis meetings with the project manager, developers, management, product marketing team, and the QA team.
• Developed Use Cases, State diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence diagrams, documented scenarios that enabled developers and other stakeholders to understand the business process using MS Visio.
• Assisted Project Manager in scheduling and setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Collaborated with the Quality Assurance team to develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications.
• Validated Test Cases by analyzing test requirements for acceptance, functional and integration testing. Trained users and end users on how to operate the system
• Participated in facilitating, executing and coordinating various testing tasks. Reviewed and evaluated the deliverables before delivery to users to confirm meeting the standard criteria.

Confidential

Project Engineer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated / conducted JAD sessions with business stakeholders, lead engineers and subject matter experts (SME) to better clarify clients requirements.
• Documented business requirements (BRD) and functional specification / requirements.
• Extensive project management, analysis and scheduling with Primavera and VOWD estimates
• Developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity and Data Flow Diagrams to model business and process flow to upper management and business stakeholders.
• Facilitated internal GAP and impact assessment meetings meetings to identify as - is business process and develop to-be business process model
• Worked with Quality Assurance (QA) team in managing requirements, requirements traceability, prioritization and implementation.
• Assisted project manager to generate regular and adequate project status reports for relevant stakeholders through the various project phases
• Assisted project manager with budget monitoring, level of effort (LOE) estimation, risk assessment matrix (RAM), estimation of value-of-work-done, change control and variation orders.
• Assisted project manager and project scheduler with project planning, assisted with developing work breakdown structure (WBS) along sides subject matter experts (SME).
• Assisted in revision monitoring, tracking and generating required project deliverables in line with contractual requirements.