SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of IT experience as a Business Analyst in deployment of web - based, client server applications developing business processes and system solutions for Banking and Financial Industries for various projects from conceptualization.
• Experienced in the Financial Industry with exposure to Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Capital Markets (Equity, Fix Income, Swap, Fund, Mortgage, MBS, Forward, Future, Option and other Securities).
• Knowledge and exposure working with various regulations and compliance such as; FINRA, FINCEN, PATRIOTIC ACT, BSA, AML and KYC. Designed and implemented solutions pertaining to regulations.
• In depth of knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies and Rational Unified Process (RUP), as well as data warehouse concepts such as OLTP, OLAP, ETL, Star and Snowflake Schema, data mapping, facts, and dimensions.
• Business requirement gathering from various sponsors and stakeholders by understanding business goals and priorities through research, formal-informal sessions, JAD sessions with teams, stakeholders and end users
• Drafting business requirements and functional requirements in the form of BRDs, FRDs, and SRSs etc. With great technical detail to support actual implementation of project. Hands-on experience with MS Visio and Use Case diagrams for creating data flow/process flow diagrams such as flowcharts, activity charts, sequence diagrams as per UML.
• Proficiency in designing and reviewing, Expertise in implementing Test Plans, Test cases, Functional testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing, UAT, as well as maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Technically competent and goal oriented with problem solving skills. Excellent team management and leadership skills. Additionally, great presentation skills in regards to communication with both business and technical teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Working with Nice Actimize team on issues, which have been reported by client.
• Working on the various activities involving SAM implementations from IT side (e.g. sizing of current system, hardware recommendations analysis, ETL changes to be made to in corporate the new
• SAM system, educating IT team on the various activities involving SAM implementation etc.
• My current engagement also involves the design recommendation of current system, heading weekly meetings with IT and support team on any Actimize issues.
• Also worked on resolving/ detecting any issues/ failures in the Actimize job and deep analysis before contacting Actimize support and try resolving any issues that can be at client end.
• CDD upgrade is another project which I am working as a BA and owner from IT, managing the activities, documenting the various design changes to be done etc.
• Configured RCM as per user’s entitlements and authentications.
• Configuration and setting up PEP list for watch list module to screen and monitor costumers who fall under any sanctions,
• Communication and interaction with IT, support and business partners for any AML related support.
• Training the IT team on various modules of SAM, CDD and Actimize in general with regards to current system and upcoming SAM-UDM and CDD upgrades.

Environment: Actimize AIS versions 4.12, 4.13, Actimize RCM versions 5.6, 5.7, Actimize UDM versions 3.1.2, 3.6.0, Actimize SAM versions 8.1.0, 8.2.3, SQL, Share point, MS office, Visio.

Confidential,NYC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied the need to develop and implement this project.
• Identified project stakeholders, their roles, identified major deliverables and collected business requirements for the project.
• Organized the project into phases to impose management control using stage-gate reviews such as high-level user stories, Business object, test scenarios, Dimension modeling, ETL Data Mapping, etc.
• Devised a work breakdown structure by decomposing the project deliverables and FRDs.
• Identified resource requirements i.e., business analysts, software developers, testers, etc.
• Developed project schedule by incorporating resource availability and milestones for reporting.
• Prepared communication and information distribution plan for the project.
• Coordinated development activities across various departments.
• Delivered presentations on prototypes of application to different groups in organization.
• Created wireframes and mockups for the dashboard improvement project.
• Designed business process flow, data flow diagram, to help ETL team in data migration.
• Provided technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: Scrum, Microsoft Office suites (Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio), MS SQL 2012, Quality Center, ALM5

Confidential,PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Client On-boarding systems of Confidential department, compiled Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Specialized Due Diligence (SDD) questionnaire and performed data analysis for further updates and development
• Conducted weekly requirement gathering sessions with Compliance, Client On-boarding and Risk Rating Team to understand the regulatory requirements along with user requirements for the system.
• Conducted data workshops on required data fields and grouping, and communicated to IT, supporting querying process
• Based on the workshops, conducted GAP analysis on both the systems and contributed to risk rating updates by identifying data attributes and supporting ETL process
• Performed business & functional analysis to create evaluation documents, workflow analysis recommendations, detailed system specifications and alternative future state depiction workflows & process diagrams.
• Conducted data mapping exercises and provided data mapping documents between legacy system and new system which was a crucial dependency for migration of the system.
• Supported firm wide Risk Scoring Methodology periodic reviews and impact analysis by conducting SME and technical meetings and editing documents such as Impact Analysis Reports and Change Management Release Notes
• Served as a consultant on Alert Generation mechanism, SAM module workflow, and Policy Manager usage
• Supported investigation team on AML Alert Generation enhancement review and dashboard reporting using Tableau
• Maintained and created test cases for Subject Matter Expert Testing, NICE Actimize testing and System Integration Testing (SIT).
• Validated functional specification documents at the workshops and gained sign-off from the users.
• Worked in hybrid environment with waterfall implemented in initial phase and Agile for development phase.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel), MS SharePoint, JIRA, Quality Center, MS SQL Server, Oracle Server, NICE Actimize, Tableau, Spotfire

Confidential,Boston,MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project initiation meetings with Purchase & Sales division and the middle office teams that coordinate with broker-to-broker traders.
• Documented the workflow and activities of the existing broker-to-broker trade and confirmation process using MS Visio.
• Worked extensively with trade middle office teams to gather the trade blotter details for various financial instruments and created detailed mapping diagram to link them to the new system.
• Involved in the creation of use case scenarios like the need for the middle or back office user to view and remark about deviations in trade between brokers.
• Involved in Sprint planning meetings to identify and prioritize product backlogs that included the development of Oracle based database for collecting trade information, algorithm to compare internal trade details with the counter-party trade details.
• Managed the project flow, backlogs, requirements and test traceability matrix using VersionOne.
• Coordinated with the development and testing team to conduct white-box testing on the new application and database systems using HP QC and LoadRunner.
• Involved with middle office and back office teams to conduct UAT test on the new Purchase & Sales application for broker-to-broker trade confirmation.

Environment: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, IBM Mainframes, VersionOne, HP QC, LoadRunner.

Confidential,Buffalo,NY

Business/data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a coordinator between risk management team and IT team to clarify the expected improvements in datasets/methodologies/approaches, and transfer them into functional requirements and specifications.
• Responsible for business requirement analysis, user stories documentation, data accuracy and quality check, process/approach/model verification and validation, defect management, and System Integration Test (SIT).
• Performed analysis of approaches and models for RWA calculation, as well as to assist in investigation, escalation and resolution of the data issues.
• Communicated the stress test process and scenarios to know the potential influences from any changes located in RWA calculation or PPNR forecast.
• Clarified and documented the user stories, the functional and nonfunctional requirements, and created the diagrams of relevant data flows and processes.
• Facilitated & leaded discussions addressing critical topics throughout the stress testing process, including enhancements of RWA Calculation and PPNR forecast.
• Collaborated in the implementation of a risk management framework to ensure the functions are in compliance with the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) regulatory requirements.
• Defined and completed acceptance test plans, test cases and scripts, system performance review report.
• Completed the System Integration Test (SIT) to verify that all related systems maintain data integrity and can operate in coordination with other systems in the same environment.
• Submitted the performance review report of the new system to product owner.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Microsoft Office 2010 suites (Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio), MS SQL Quality Center

Confidential,Jersey City,NJ

Jr. Business Analyst.

• Acted as the Liaison between Line of Businesses (LOBs), Technology Partners (Source Applications) and implementation team.
• Designed trade-related work flow for fixed income trading flow through to the settlement and accounting systems.
• Conducted JAD sessions with business and other Tech partners.
• Conducted meetings with business to gather the business requirements, review the requirements, understood the system and workflow and converted those requirements into functional requirements.
• Chaired and attended day to day project meetings to discuss the outcome of implementation processes, testing efforts, time lines etc. Wrote and distributed meeting minutes.
• Communicated the status of project to different line of businesses and teams.
• Lead the team in IST Testing, Defect Remediation and Solution Delivery.
• Proactively monitored project, identified scope/requirement changes. Identified project impact and escalated/notified management and project team as necessary.
• Involved in data mapping and data validation and created various data mapping documents.
• Followed Agile and Scrum methodologies for various project phases
• Functional requirement document’s approval and signoff taken from business and other lines of businesses.
• Lead both on shore and Offshore teams to deliver Business solutions in a timely and efficient Manner.
• Worked closely with development and QA teams to ensure the understanding of requirements and implementation meets business expectations.

Environment: QlikView, SQL server, Jira, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), MS Access, MS Excel, MS Visio, ITIL V2 Incident, Problem, Change, Release, Configuration

Confidential, NJ

Data Analyst Internee

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a business data analyst, helping analyze and design the solutions to extract the data from multiple OLTP systems into staging database, transform and load it into OLAP system.
• Responsible for business requirement collecting and analyzing, data flow clarification, data model documentation, data mapping, and test supporting.
• Gathered Business Requirements by constant interactions with Business Unit leaders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Product Owner (PO), and other stakeholders.
• Analyzed the functional and nonfunctional requirements, understood the design and structure of different databases.
• Established the data flows, and documented the conceptual/logic/physical data models.
• Completed data mapping to facilitate the conversion of risk analytic access.
• Wrote SQL data migration scripts and used data manipulating techniques to extract and process data into the core data warehouse from various data sources.
• Involved in reviewing test plans and test cases and ensuring test cases reflect user needs.