PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years’ experience as a results oriented Business/ System Analyst, eliciting requirements, business process modeling, technical documentation, software testing, project management and scrum master
• Strong Financial industry experience at Confidential.
• Extensive knowledge of Financial products and services, such as Fixed Income investments, Equities, Derivatives, Mutual Funds, Brokerage, portfolio management, Cash Management, Fund Accounting, Regulatory Insights, Transfer of Assets, Trading, DOL, 401K, Hold Fund Accounting & Asset management
• Experience working as a Scrum Master with strong knowledge and certification in Agile Methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Design & Modeling tools: MS Visio, UML, Data flow Diagrams and ER Diagrams

Requirement Management Tool: Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Caliber, Windows Share point

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 6.5/8.0/8.2/9.0, Quality Center 8.2/9.0, Clear Quest, Winrunner7.0/6.0, LoadRunner8.0/7.

Internet Technologies: VBScript, JavaScript, XML, HTML, API s

Database Technologies: Oracle 8i/9i, MS - SQL Server 2000, SQL Developer

Process: SDLC, Agile, Use Cases, BPM Workflow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Business/System Analyst

• Formulated daily/weekly work plans for 5 BAs that included requirements gathering with a keen focus on resolving system errors arising during conversion and JAD sessions
• First point of contact as Business/System Analyst lead for 5 business analysts fielding inquiries regarding system implementation, client policy/procedures, and technical questions
• Designed and developed training program for new hires ensuring consistent knowledge transfer, incorporating a rigorous performance evaluation process for resource assessment
• Mapped data elements between existing database and proposed new data elements and wrote SQL statements to query data for data validation
• Mentored team of Business Analyst on scrum / agile methodologies and in writing technical specification document on web services
• Supervised team of Business Analysts in performing analysis in multiple projects such as MAS TOA Trading / Billing, Regulatory Insights and Guided Advisor Experience platform
• Mentored team of Business Analyst in developing requirements and best practices documentation for internal and external clients that was instrumental in streamlining implementation of projects, reducing inefficient practices and increasing productivity

Lead Business Analyst

• Responsible for leading a team of Business Analyst in requirements gathering for the different integrations in the HR System
• Conducted interviews and developed business cases to implement process changes, create training materials and coached clients on new processes and procedures
• Coordinating defect triage meeting to ensure defects are assigned to the appropriate teams and timely resolution is provided
• Managed direct relationship with off shore development teams, created communication channels, and project’s review for management.
• Worked with business stake holders to standardize business process for process optimization

Sr. Business Analyst E-licensing

• Responsible for gathering and documenting requirements, author functional design and training documentations for testing and training manuals for an Agile system upgrade project
• Co-ordinated with the product owners for sprint planning and requirements. Participated in sprint demo meetings and retrospective meeting
• Participated in and contributed towards the design and testing phases of the project by performing product research, analyzing solution alternatives, drafting recommendations and helping drive customers to decisions
• Involved in documenting requirements for web services (REST API’s)

Lead Business Analyst

• Lead the scoping and analysis effort of various initiatives such as CRM project and automation projects
• Responsible for coaching BAs for analyzing and creating business and system functional needs into Business Requirement Document (BRD) and functional specification document
• Worked with the information architect and developers on the data models for the new CRM enhancements and on the physical and conceptual data models
• Led planning meetings, JAD sessions, analysis development, test inspection and other project meeting throughout the product life cycle
• Used UML for gathering requirements and creating use case diagrams for stakeholders in the team to understand the workflow of the system
• Involved in assisting QA’s in writing test plans, defining test cases, test scenarios and creating data sets
• Provided training to the end users in using the website and explained the basic functionality and features of the site developed

Sr. Business Analyst

• Tracked statuses (development efforts) of all the associated gaps to their deliverable dates in SharePoint and worked with business and SME’s to gather requirements
• Created use case narratives and activity diagrams, identified functional and non-functional requirement and documented them in Requisite Pro
• Performed detailed data mapping between the legacy accounting system and financial operations accounting system and created as-is and to-be process flows to identify any potential gaps
• Involved in back end testing writing SQL queries in TOAD against Oracle database information about the customers

Sr. Business Analyst

• Involved with the following financial products: Foreign Exchange, Market data, pricing, value date, trade date, cancellation of priced and Unpriced trade, prior day trades, SWAP, future, TOM trade, forward trade, bid, ask, spread, market conventions, Derivatives, OTC etc.
• Designed and developed Use Cases and UML models and documented business and functional requirements
• Involved in front, middle and back office applications and teams to provide solution to move from legacy systems to new platforms
• Involved in extensive test case creation and testing in large-scale multi-platform systems development, testing included end-to-end, regression, smoke and user-acceptance testing across multiple platforms/systems

Business Analyst

• Involved with the following financial products: Portfolio, Stock, and Fixed Income (Bonds, Money Market Instruments), Derivatives, SWAP, Options, Equities, trading life cycle, Ticker symbol etc.
• Helped design scope document and interviewed various personnel including broker dealers and traders to understand the current process and the future requirements
• Authored various Use Cases and activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and used UML methodology to define the work flow and created functional requirement document
• Involved in the user acceptance testing (UAT), SIT and documented test scenarios and outcomes

Business Analyst

• Acted as the primary liaison between business units and information technology teams
• P repared business requirement document (BRD), functional requirements (FRD), and technical specification document and created requirement traceability matrix (RTM) to ensure all requirements were covered.
• Involved in QA testing by writing test plans, test scripts and reporting defects in Quality Center and involved in backend testing using SQL queries to extract information for data validation.