SUMMARY

• Around 7 Years of experience as a Business Analyst, Application development and System /Technical analysis on Confidential Platform.
• Excellent Problem - Solving, Communication, Interpersonal, and Technical writing skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency to be liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
• Extensive experience with complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) deliverable processes and creating documents required for specific methodology within Agile and Waterfall.
• Participated in Waterfall to Agile transition projects including Scrum meetings, XP programming and Interactions development. Proficient in writing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) Use Cases, Process Flows.
• Working knowledge of BASEL III, Confidential Patriot Act, KYC, Dodd Frank Act and SOX
• Create complex JIRA workflows including project workflows, field configurations, screen schemes, permission schemes. Technical knowledge of web services standards SOAP, UDDI and WSDL.
• Helping scrum master across the company to customize JIRA for their requirements.
• Proficient in MS Suite like Excel, SharePoint, Visio, PowerPoint and Tableau.
• Having exhaustive experience working in with Sprint Zero for multiple applications.
• Practiced various methods of requirement gathering like Prototyping, Storyboards, Modeling, State transition diagrams, and Document analysis.
• Take the overall responsibility for the JIRA config and be the go to person for any JIRA issues.
• Proficient in writing Vision Statements, Concept Models, Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Design Document (FDD), Technical Design Documents (TDD), Use Cases, Process Flows, Activity Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Cost-Benefit Analyses, ROI Analysis, Process Improvement Analysis, Impact Statements and associated Metrics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodology: Waterfall, Agile Scrum

Tools Used: MS Project, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Portfolio Manager, JIRA, BRD, FRD, RTM, Project Version Control Template, UML diagrams, User cases, Test Plan, Test Cases, Workflow Analysis, GAP Analysis, SWOT analysis. Lessons Learnt, Change Request Form, Defect report, Root Cause Analysis.

Frameworks: .NET

Financial Compliance: Dodd-Frank Act, Basel I, Basel II, Base III, SOX, BSA, KYC, Confidential Patriot Act

Process Improvement Tools: TFS, HP ALM, JIRA, Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, SharePoint, Requisite Rose,Tableau.

Languages: HTML, CSS, C#

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Operating Systems: All Windows OS, Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

Responsibilities

• Streamlining the process flow and automating the system especially like purchase orders, Invoices and check request. Good knowledge of Chart of accounts, Asset management, Accounts payable and A/R.
• Experience working with Microsoft's SQL Server (T-SQL), SSIS, SSRS, MS-Access, Excel and Tableau in database and applications development and report design.
• Hands on experience in debugging general database SQL code, dynamic SQL, stored-procedures, user-defined functions, SharePoint application and InfoPath forms.
• Reviewed basic SQL queries and edited inner, left, and right joins in Tableau Desktop by connecting live/dynamic and static datasets.
• Redesigning the accounting software for the accounting team involving GL accounts, P&L accounts and Balance sheets. Worked on Crystal reports.
• Scheduling JAD sessions with client to understand the existing Application.
• Created documents required for specific methodology with in Agile.
• Tested applications with Selenium IDE and Selenium Web Driver in various stage of development.
• Participated in Waterfall to Agile transition projects including Scrum meetings, RUP development, pair programming and Interactions development.
• Written Business Requirement Documents (BRD) Use Cases, Process Flows.
• Conducted GAP analysis to capture functionalities of existing systems and analysis requirements of the proposed system followed various SDLC methodologies which include AGILE Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Iterative, and Incremental and models to execute the proposed requirements.
• Project management - budget, resource and time management
• Experienced in working with Testing team, participated in writing Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, RTM, Test Reports, and conducting various forms of testing, which include Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing. Used Selenium IDE and Web Driver tools.
• Experience with managing and designing documents in SharePoint site.
• Perform in-depth analyses of workflows; conduct data collection and other analysis related to the system.
• Wrote PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Functions, and Packages to meet the business requirements.
• Knowledge of BPM and BPMN and Creating data visualization skills using Excel, Tableau.
• Deep knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA); Anti-Money Laundering (AML); Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Laws
• Knowledge of Dodd Frank, Basel I/II regulations for transparency of transactions.
• Working knowledge of Asset Management, Portfolio Management, Investment Banking.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Individually involved in development of modules in the project.
• Successfully engaged in performing Business Analysis/Business System Analysis for several projects.
• Lead in eliciting and document Business Requirements, Risks and Priorities to establish a clear understanding of the stakeholders’ needs and support for the solution development.
• Successfully performed SDLC tasks - Requirement gathering, Analysis and Feasibility, Creating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Transforming BRD to Functional Specification Documents (FSD), High Level and Low-Level Design documents etc.
• Successfully delivered documents like RD, FDD by capturing the Scope, Functional requirements. Lead the documents through the Review and successful Sign-off process.
• Lead in documenting environmental knowledge and leverage existing knowledge repositories
• Successfully engaged and lead through complex scope, requirements by performing Gap Analysis, Benefit Analysis etc. Involved in researching other internal/external approaches to solution design for similar business needs / requirements.
• Knowledge of Treasury (Bonds, Notes, Bill), Stocks, Mutual Funds, Interest Only (IO), Principal Only (PO), Municipal Bonds, Corporate Bonds, Junk Bonds, Commercial Paper, and Convertible Bonds.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting Digitization of Financial Centers project in an Agile environment that supports larger initiatives spanning across Online Banking authenticated applications, Customer and AML applications.
• Responsible for creating requirements, user stories, prioritize and ensure the product is developed and aligned with end user expectations within the eCommerce technology space.
• Work closely with scrum teams in translating high level requirements into actionable, groomed user stories and produce the product backlog.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance team in functional testing of components, Systems Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing and UAT Testing .
• Work with Portfolio Manager for prioritization, sizing and resizing of features before being locked into a Quarter. Worked with cost reduction and expense control.
• Responsible for Iteration Planning/Business and Technical grooming by closely working with Feature and QA leads. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects that supports business processes for Audit and AML Compliance.
• Work with vendor partner to design how business requirements will be handled on vendor system.
• Coordinate between Business stakeholders and vendor where design issues drove modifications to original requirements. Worked with Banking Products: Commercial Loans, Home loans, Car loans, credit cards.
• Collaborate and facilitate with the QA and Development Team for development of alternative solutions and defects resolution for Sparta web page responsiveness.