SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ Years Professional Experience as Sr. Business Analyst.
• Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents
• Expertise in UML (class diagrams, object diagrams, GAP Analysis, use case diagrams, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and collaboration diagrams) as a data analysis methodology for application functionality designs using IBM’s Rational Rose.
• Excellent Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying and documenting root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long term business and system requirements.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases.
• Professional experience in data analysis, operations management and development, design, documentation and testing.
• Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments ahead of schedule. Created and maintained effective budgets.
• Have a good knowledge & experience in UNIX system in configuring and developing Shell Scripts which was used to build data for RPAS structure.
• Involved in Developed use case and test case documents from the business requirement document. Experience in Compliance and Risk Analysis.
• Skills in developing Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Activity diagrams, and BPMN Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and also with Six Sigma, and Lean methodologies.
• Good experience in integrating REST, SOAP web services using IBM BPM.
• Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models.
• Proven success as a data analyst through the years, providing a well - balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, and technical solutions.
• Develop and improve on the personnel security process, implement proper security regulations and policies, and establish functional standing operating procedures.
• Analyzed potential security risks in order to prevent or mitigate security infractions or violations through spot checks and self-inspections.
• Solid understanding of Business Process definition, Risk Analysis and SDLC methodologies.
• Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models.
• Proven success as a data analyst through the years, providing a well-balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, and technical solutions.
• Exposure to Client/Server, Web Application development tools and Software development and design.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies : RUP, Agile, Waterfall

Operating Systems: Windows … LINUX, UNIX, MAC OS/OSX

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, Enterprise Architect, MS Excel.

Key Skills : Requirements Document, Business Process Analysis & Research, Use Case Modeling & Analysis, JAD/RAD Sessions, Conte Management, Risk Management, Requirements Gathering, Gap Analysis, Traceability and Impact analysis, SharePoint, MS Visio, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Requisite Pro, FX- derivatives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in automation of Investment Portfolio report, Repo Report, FX report for Market Risk group.
• Understood the geeks and calculations involved in the Market Risk space.
• Worked with the Senior Business Analyst to conduct (JAD) sessions with business and technical units.
• Prepared Test plans, Test Cases based on business requirements.
• Worked with the Senior Business Analyst to develop test cases for (UAT)
• Followed established formats and procedures, created new formats, as well as researched, created, edited technical and business data documents
• Investigating and analyzing risk engine requirements from risk managers and other stakeholders
• Work with the front office and middle office to translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Analyze trade level, market, and reference data to define requirements for new product onboardings. 
• Conduct research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible. 
• Analyze impact of proposed solution across the overall Risk space. 
• Documented regulatory rules regarding KYC, AML, OFAC process.
• Some of the current projects include new product implementation, process improvement within the system, as well as cross-system initiatives between different groups in the Risk infrastructure space. 
• Identify, assess, and create business requirements, data mapping documents, recommend business priorities, and advise business on options, risks, and costs.
• Liaison between global technology, risk managers, and front-office business end-users 
• Work with the front office and middle office to translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications. 
• Used UML diagrams to visually express the core functionality of the system under development.
• Exposed to Security Testing and Regression Testing using Win Runner.
• Exposed to Functionality Testing and GUI Testing using Win Runner
• Assisted the QA testers in determining the application's response time using Load Runner.
• Interacted with the developers to report and track bugs using Test Director.
• Follow up with developers on defects status on a daily basis.
• Coordinated activities between business unit and technical staff, developing new methods, policies, and procedures to meet the business needs, and acted as primary trainer in education of the business unit as it relates to business applications.
• Organized meeting and send agenda of the meeting, draft minutes to keep all invitees of the meeting on the same page.
• Organize weekly status meetings with the team to promote open discussion of business requirements and other system functionalities.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Process Modeling Sessions & JAD Workshops Lead efforts in identifying Analyzing, defining, documenting and translating High-level business requirements into clearly articulated, detailed functional specifications, Lead efforts in Creation of Business Process
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases and Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database.
• Interviewed stakeholders and users to discover and document their business processes and performed domain analysis.
• Elicited requirements for Agile projects by documenting User stories, Product Backlog and Acceptance Criteria.
• Conducted in Scheduling, organizing Number of business Requirements & Process mapping Sessions.Leading efforts in gathering and documenting of high-level and detailed business and functional requirements, Analysis of an existing process flows, review and measure the Process Variations.
• Conducted Business Review meeting and IT SME review meeting. Created Customer Requirements and Functional Requirement Documents.
• Creating weekly JIRA status reports and tracking status of enhancements, defects and tasks weekly.
• Use Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generating various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Collaborated with development architect and the business to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet the business needs.
• Write SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Coordinated meetings between the developers and the QA team in creating the Test Plan and Test Cases. Conducted testing using Cucumber technique.
• Used MS Visio to develop wireframes and user flows for business processes.
• Organized and facilitated JAD sessions as required with fellow Analysts, decision makers, users, key member(s) from the development team, system architect thereby developed the vision/scope of the system.
• Created Traceability Matrix, attributes for the requirements utilizing RequisitePro
• Played crucial role in all the stages of the Rational Unified Process including testing and system integration. Assisted the testing team in User Acceptance Testing and heavily involved during business validation and user sign-off.

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering user requirements and specifications for designing a mortgage based loan system using and documenting the same.
• Involved in the design phase of the migration/enhancement, furthermore, worked on creating integration layer mappings and summary layer mappings.
• Performed Gap Analysis for new functionality requirements, as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs so as to align them with the product release roadmap
• Provide innovative IT, business & e-commerce solutions to prospective and existing clients.
• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.
• Designed the system, prepared UML and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Collaborated on creation of documents such as the Vision, business requirements (BR) and business systems design (BSD) documents.
• Created context and workflow models, information and business rule models, Use Case and Object Models during the analysis using rational tools.
• Conducted Business Requirements, Functional and Technical meetings with Business groups.
• Extensively involved in maintaining requirements traceability and communicating any changes to these requirements to different business groups and programmers.
• Performed the requirement analysis and documented the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Expertise in development of High level design, Conceptual design, Logical and Physical design for Database, Data warehousing and many Distributed IT systems.
• Worked closely with the Enterprise Data Warehouse team and Business Intelligence Architecture team to understand repository objects that support the business requirement and process.
• Developed UML Use Cases using Rational Rose and developed a detailed project plan with emphasis on deliverables.
• Created the Business Process Flows and flow actions.
• Understand the As Is system and develop the To Be system concept and also prepare the System Process Maps.
• Responsible for writing detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and steps required for developing or modifying software programs using Rational Rose (UML).