SUMMARY:

• A Highly Versatile Business Analyst with over 9 years of experience in managing large scale projects from inception to completion in Finance and Investment Banking, exposure to a solid understanding of business process analysis and modeling, gather business requirements, and strong knowledge of various SDLC methodologies from conception to implementation.
• Ability to present complex processes to both technical and non - technical audiences at all levels in a persuasive and convincing manner.
• Strong Business Analysis and communication skills with a focus on bringing stakeholders together to view processes from front to back.
• Ability to partner with various levels of management within an organization to meet targets and assist in driving projects to completion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile

Applications: MS Office 2007/ 2010/ 2013/ 2016 (Word, Excel, Power Point, OneNote, Outlook, Access, SharePoint, MS Visio, SQL Server Ver. 2005/ 2008/ 2008 R2,Projects, HPQuality Center, CRM & Web applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements, defined the scope of the project, analyze and prioritized requirements, developed customized business strategies, and identified high potential business opportunities
• Automated the generation of Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhance Due Diligence (EDD) reports in compliance with AML regulation.
• Conducted JAD sessions, met with client and end users in order to accelerate the design of IT solutions and also depict the user s view of the business needs and to jointly develop a solution
• Created burn down chart of the whole project and also each sprint while conducting daily scrum meetings with developers.
• Involved in making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking
• Involved in Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives & Reviews, Daily Stand ups, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Developed UML diagrams (use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams) in order to validate entity reference data and verification of the customer records: legal name, address, business purpose legitimacy and analysis of transaction activity)
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for data warehouse, and did data profiling
• Created wireframes in order to help developers build the application in Visual Basic and held data modeling sessions by developing DFD
• Implemented layouts for Suspicious Activity and Pattern analysis under AML regulations
• Issued the Test Plan Document, Test Planning, Test Design and Test Execution and was involved in the Testing Process which verified and validated all the defined business requirements and associated functionalities
• Created the RTM in order to project the life cycle activities and work products to the project requirements
• Coordinated System Integration Testing (SIT), and Regression testing for the project implementation.
• Effectively led the effort and implementation of the Business User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked closely with Change Management team and attended Change Advisory Board meetings.

Tool & Technologies: Agile Scrum, Oracle, SQL, CRM, SOA, UML, Visual Basic, Erwin 7.1, MS SharePoint, IBM Business Objects, MS Visio, MS Suite, JIRA., SharePoint

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Business Analyst                                       

Responsibilities:

• Conducts reviews of client documentation/information obtained by client contacts within the business units.
• Ensures that information obtained is consistent with BSA/AML Policy and Procedures and satisfies regulatory requirements
• Assisted in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose and Visio
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and SMEs
• Assist in the administration and review of Client Risk Scoring, Client Identification and KYC documentation oversight/management requirements
• Communicated extensively with the clients and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes
• Managed all the requirements in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members
• Used the Unified Change Management from Rational to track changes to multiple artifacts by versioning artifacts, associating requirements to specific change request/defects to streamline the defect/change tracking process
• Studied the existing KYP/CIP system and prepared the test data for the CDD and EDD based on the inputs
• Tested the application manually by executing Test Cases in Quality Centre prior to Automation and Involved in automated testing and Performance testing using Selenium.
• Develop User Acceptance Testing and specifications with guidance from AML Compliances
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines
• Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews

Tool & Technologies: Waterfall, Erwin, Microsoft Office 2010 (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel Pivot and VLOOKUP, Outlook, Project, Visio), Rational Clear Quest, Selenium, Mercury Quality Centre, RequisitePro, NICE Actimize, Scenarios Analysis, Alert, Threshold-Setting.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified the key business metrics and determined business needs to document the business and functional requirements.
• Worked closely with stakeholders to determine the priority of specific requirements based on their value to the business.
• Contributed in the growth and maintenance of risk management strategies in accordance with Basel III accord.
• Conducted market analysis and feasibility studies, and developed the project plan
• Documented detailed functional and technical specifications based on agreed solutions.
• Organized and scheduled user interviews, user meetings, and JAD sessions.
• Modeled and reviewed all current operational data structures and recommended optimizations and reconfigurations to Data Architects for implementation.
• Conducted Daily scrum meetings to ensure that proposed changes went through the system as well as the project team produced solutions that meets established requirements.
• Attended and led the Sprint Planning Estimation meeting, Sprint Reviews Meetings and Sprint Retrospective Meetings.
• Participated in the development and maintenance of, and adherence to, corporate data architecture, data management standards and conventions, data dictionaries and data element-naming standards.
• Supported development of the business solution as part of the technical team. Provided coaching on Agile practices to other groups within the company.
• Involved in the regression, stress and integration testing of the application. Helped the testing team in tracing the requirements from RTM and involved in the UAT
• Evaluated and estimated the work effort required to meet a desired deliverable.
• Tested the application manually, participated in Bug-review meetings with software developers, QAs, managers and recommended improvement of the application
• Tracked pose-deployment progress and proposed resolutions to existing issues, addressed every detail to ensure a successful end-to-end business process.

Tool & Technologies: HTML, XML, HP Quality Center, AdobeLiveCycleSuite7.0, SAP Query Builder, TFS, UML, MS Project, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Visio)

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing customer data and understood the necessary information that needs to be captured for each existing customer and prepared missing values, anomalies for the completion of the CDD (Customer Due Diligence).
• Concept development, realization and implementation of a Customer Due Diligence-System.
• Conducted JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions and Gather Business Requirements, analyze and prioritize requirements, identified high potential business opportunities and developed customized business strategies.
• Development of specific’ Know your customer’ template (geared towards generic customers and specific customer groups e.g. beneficial Owner, political exposed persons)
• Prepared a Gap analysis of the existing data to fully comply with KYC/CIP as per AML regulations using Actimize.
• Propose solutions or alterations to remove inefficiencies and close gaps in existing process via process redesigning
• Develop UML diagrams like Use Cases Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram and Class Diagram using MS VISIO 2010.
• Utilized the SQL queries for report mapping, report layout and data flow diagrams.
• Defined and performed the Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Utilized Quality Center (QC) for requirement management, test planning, scheduling, test execution, log and track defects.
• Conducted UAT, to make sure that all the requirements are catered by the application
• Managed and executed customer due diligence processes for new/existing clients and training

Tools & Technologies: Rally, SQL Developer, UML, MS Project 2010, MS-Visio 2010 (UI Mockups), MS-Office, HP Quality Center

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted brainstorming sessions to extrapolate the requirements that are not stated.
• Extensively used Rational Requisite Pro to document, review and analyze the requirements.
• Used UML and RUP methodology to capture, analyze and translate business requirements
• Developed business Use Case scenarios, sequence diagrams and class diagrams
• Worked on writing functional specification for reporting module that handled credit and consumer risk management services.
• Prepared Rational Suite (Clear Quest and Requisite Pro) training materials for user and administrators in the branch office.
• Designed security privileges and authentication features of the application for mortgage broker access.
• Addressed all aspects of the loan life cycle, starting from identifying a prospective client to the loan closure
• Structured flexible test plans, test cases and test scripts to test entire application based on business requirements, technical specifications, product knowledge and use case scenarios.
• Revised existing documentation comprehensively to enhance the ability of the stakeholders to proceed with the next major phase of developing the application.
• Worked closely with QA teams to perform User Acceptance Testing on behalf of end-user to ensure that the user requirements are satisfied and properly tested.

Tools & Technologies: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, JAVA, Oracle, UML, Test Director, VB, .NET, Windows 2000, UNIX, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, SQL server 2005. Waterfall.