SUMMARY:

• Senior Business Analyst over 10 years of experience in Business Requirements, System Analysis, Data Analysis, Design, Development, Testing of business critical enterprise applications
• Specialist in analyzing business needs, support requirement documentation and translate into functional and non - functional specifications.
• Designing conceptual diagrams, Use cases, and Sequence diagrams.
• Experience in Data Analysis, Data mapping, current and future state workflows, activity and transition state diagrams, traceability matrices, data dictionaries.
• Worked with top Notch financial companies like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential .
• Currently working with Confidential, Confidential as a Senior Business Analyst involved in developing / automating the Equity Compensation management system. Equity Compensation is a part of rewards suit.
• Proven track record of project initiation, requirements definition, collaborate with Quality Assurance Team to ensure testing efforts align with release schedule and provide support throughout the testing lifecycle to analyze issues, determine root cause, proactively research and apply knowledge to resolve the new issues and system testing & implementation.
• Experience in creating SQL queries, running Autosys Jobs, checking job logs
• Conducted numerous brainstorming sessions to discuss the objectives of the project to draft the finer points of the requirements.
• Trained and Mentored Business Analysts that joined the program that I was working and helped in getting up the curve in a very short time by preparing transition plans and presentations..
• Unique combination of technical and business acumen with an ability to liaise with clients and development teams; leads business requirement gathering and application feasibility, technical testing, detailed plan development improving institutional performance operationally, while increasing efficiency. Skilled at effectively fostering cooperation between providers and suppliers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical Skills: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Sybase, IDMS, SQL, MVS/JCL, FILEAID, SAR, XPEDITER,IBM zOS, OS/MVS, OS/390, SYBASE, Endeavor, MS Office, TSO/ISPF, FTP, NDM, VSAM, AUTOSYS, SQL,SDLC, Agile, Windows 9X / NT / XP, MS OfficeTools: Aqua Data Studio, Fitneese, Signavio, Blueprint, TFS, Business Objects, Visio, Web UI Tool Kit Ver2.2, JIRA, Confluence, Share point, File share portal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Sr Business Analyst

• Worked on Agile Framework
• Worked with the business to identify and understand future business
• Coordinated regular meetings with the Business to have JAD Sessions to understand requirements
• Walked the business through the FRD, and get the sign-offs to make sure the requirements are complete.
• worked closely with developers to gain a full understanding of all new changes and translated that into UAT documents
• Crafted test scripts and project plans for each release.
• Based on agreed upon scope, developed and executed testing scripts that fully exercise all functionality
• Utilized Tools like Fitnesse, Aqua Data studio, Autosys for testing and insured that end to end cycle testing is completed for each initiative
• Performed as-is and To-be analysis.
• Provided End to End support to the business during Year End Deliveries of equities to the employees in Production.
• Effectively Re-Designed UI Screens for the New Award Acceptance (NAS) site.
• Escalated the issues in timely and appropriate Manner, whenever required.
• Worked and coordinated across multiple teams to make sure everything is going as planned.
• Worked on PMD Delivery statement generation, which are sent to the PMDs through PDF’s detailing about their Equity Details.

Confidential, MONTVALE, NJ

Sr Business Analyst

• Worked in Agile framework
• Identify the client an organizational needs and provide suitable solutions
• Communicate with the clients and inform the organization about the customer business needs and specifications
• Acted as a primary contact for any partner track related inquiries, requests, enhancements, and production issues.
• Make certain that the user stories are clear and comply with the acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate activities with software developers, stakeholders, project managers and QA
• Break down complex and large user stories into small simplified stories.
• Conduct daily standup meetings, sprint planning, story grooming, sprint review and retrospection meetings.
• Prepare and send weekly status reports to the client about the application functionalities under development.
• Write use cases for requirement gathering.
• Work on various complex problems related to Taxation, allocations, apportionments
• Preparing mock-ups to demonstrate the various functionalities and the new requirements for the various tax related web pages.
• Designed batch uploads for various tax forms of different Jurisdictions, which the user could leverage and upload data for the forms in one attempt.
• Worked on requirements for printing and sourcing data for the tax forms for different years, making sure all the forms are as per the Government rules and specification specifications.
• Develop training materials and provided trainings to the team members

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst

• Responsible for working with various business units to analyze and define requirements to develop the service/product that meets the strategic needs of the Business.
• Worked on various annuities projects like death benefit, client correspondence letters, Fund mergers, Surrender processing and riders
• Collaborate and define solutions for each project.
• Use SQL extensively for data analysis and data mining
• Entering financial transactions in the VANTAGE system to test the functionalities.
• Closely working with the SME’s during the requirement elicitation process
• Generated critical data extracts and reports for the management and business users
• Coordinated and supported UATs (user acceptance testing); support contact for production issues
• Consolidated requirements from business users and performed impact analysis
• Document Functional Flow using Visio tool and preparing Use Cases.
• Document the Functional Requirement Document using Microsoft Word tool as per Insurance standards.
• Understanding the claims process and calculations for various annuities products
• Assigned to work in the client office (New York, Confidential ) for more support and knowledge transfer

Confidential, New JERSEY, NJ

Business Analyst

• Key analyst as a member of the Agile SCRUM team directly interfacing with the business
• Worked with the stakeholders in analyzing “Key Business Requirements” and mapped them to Epics, Feature and Sub-features
• Worked on story grooming and building acceptance criteria for mobile applications
• Helped clarifying acceptance criteria for developers and testers
• Provided support to the SCRUM team during sprints
• Process flow diagrams, data maps, data dictionaries
• Involved in defining and scoping the project gathering business requirements and documenting them
• Participate in daily stand-ups and coordinate between technical team and business users to provide quick solutions.
• Interact with business users, applications development teams and third-party vendors to discuss about the business requirements and defect resolution

Confidential, BOSTON, MA

Business Analyst

• Preparing business documents and getting approval from the business managers.
• Worked in the waterfall model.
• Preparing Functional requirement document, Traceability and test plan documents.
• Preparing use case diagrams, process flow diagrams and data flow diagrams.
• Gathered user and business requirements through open-ended discussions and conduction detailed interviews with business user’s stakeholders and subject matter experts (SME).
• Providing assistance (post deployment sanity checks) during Production Releases
• Monitoring daily jobs and verifying generated reports during batch.
• Involved in defining and scoping the project gathering business requirements and documenting them.
• Leading daily status calls and coordinating between technical team and business users to provide quick solutions.
• Interacting with business users, applications development teams and third-party vendors to discuss about the business requirements and defect resolution.
• Testing online CICS screens and backend tables or files data flow.
• Verifying and validating rejected and exception reports.
• Performing UAT testing QA.
• Creating, reviewing and approving business requirement documents, use cases, issue logs, project status documents, scope change documents, mapping specifications.
• Developed new Insurance fixed and variable annuity products
• Providing death claim benefits to the users of the Confidential by developing the Vantage Software
• Worked on complex Enhancements to modify the software
• Provided Vantage Software training to the client Confidential .

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Programmer Analyst

• Collect policy level historical premium and loss data passed from MAX and Closing to be store in Record Code Files
• Create Reports and special files.
• Delivering data to Users via SAR, SAS files, EXCEL and paper.
• Providing a Menu Driven System for the users to select data from Record Code files.