SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with 10 years of hands - on experience in the fields of Finance, Banking & Insurance, Retail and Travel Technology, with clear understanding of Business Process Flow and Business Analysis.
• Have demonstrated proficiency in areas of project management, technical and analytical support and assisting in gathering business requirements, Quality Assurance and the leadership of agile teams to implement new security, technology and re-engineered business needs.
• Expertise in creating high level designs, product backlogs, planning iterations and functional requirements elicitation. Good exposure to various Business Architecture frameworks of Object Management Group and Open Group Architecture.
• Certified Professional Scrum Master having specialized knowledge of Agile Frameworks, Scrum rules and artefacts.
• Business Analysis skills - Understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts (OOAD), Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Test Lifecycle, Data Modeling, Data Warehouse, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Prototyping, Agile and extreme programming methodologies.
• Business writing skills - Writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications across project deliverables.
• Expertise in Business Process Modeling and documenting cross product dependencies via workflow chart, use cases and activity diagrams.
• Expertise in working with technical as well as business teams to create, interpret and implement financial software systems for enterprise software involving trading and risk management within Wealth Management divisions.
• Proficient in requirement gathering and analysis, creating business requirements specifications and functional specifications, creating use cases and user interface designs, relational database models and data flow models.
• Involved in data mapping, data analysis and using SQL to query the database and get results, performing unit testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), integration and system testing
• Proficient in UML - Creation of Use case diagrams, Activity diagrams and Class diagrams using Microsoft Visio. Used productivity tools such as MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, and MS Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analysis Tools: OMG UML, BPM, TOGAF, Supply Chain Operations Reference

Enterprise Frameworks: JavaEE, Spring Framework, Apache Struts

View Technologies: Java Server Faces, Apache MyFaces, Tomahawk, JBoss RichFaces

Development IDE: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Eclipse, NetBeans IDE

Application Servers: JBoss AS, Apache Tomcat, Glassfish Server

Cloud Tools: Amazon Web Services

ORM Tools: JPA, Hibernate ORM

RDBMS: Oracle 10g, MySQL 5, SQL Server 2000, PostgreSQL

Web Designing: HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, Google Visualization

Operating Systems: Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / XP, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business Intelligence Consultant for Unified Desktop application covering various investment plans for TIAA-CREF.
• Understanding client requirements and creating UML use case diagrams detailing new features and system changes.
• Communicated extensively with stakeholders and different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to collect requirements from system users and prepared business requirement that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Developed and managed the formal Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology which includes Configuration Management, Requirements Management, UML Analysis and Design.
• Assembled and validated business requirement documents (BRD) and the technical specifications as per user requirements. Closely coordinated with both business users and developers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution.
• Created workflows and process flow diagrams to communicate cross product dependencies and documenting dependencies in detailed documents.
• SME on various CRM based business processes and documented processes via use case diagrams and activity diagrams.
• Maintaining the product backlogs and mapping requirements into salesforce platform. Documented detailed business requirements and process flow using Visio.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce.com Configuration of roles, profiles, user accounts, implemented role hierarchies, sharing rules and record level permissions to provide shared access among different users.
• Administered Salesforce CRM applications for Sales, Marketing and Support Departments. Involved in creating multiple analytical reports, with varying degree of complexity.
• Established a lightweight Scrum project management process and helped team meet sprint goals.
• Identified and documented the dependencies between the business processes. Also, assisted the customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs.
• Facilitated sprint planning meetings at the beginning of every sprint with an end result being a backlog of requirements/sub-requirements that the team anticipates completing at the end of the sprint.
• Prepared and managed sprint backlog that estimated the time it will take to complete that work with the entire team and put the incomplete requirements back to the product backlog at end of each sprint.
• Facilitated daily stand up meetings to collect requirements from system users and to keep track of what was done the day before and what is to be done that day and strictly enforced time-box approach for these meetings.
• Kept a check on Sprint burn down’s daily updating to reflect the progress of the sprint backlog. Estimated the items in release backlog in story points and created release burn down charts to reflect the work left to complete the target.
• Facilitated the sprint review meeting to review the completed work and presented it to the stakeholders.
• Worked on the development and changes to the look and feel of the web application and performed user acceptance testing (UAT) for errors and System Testing.
• Assisted the data analyst in resolving issues with Data modeling and Data Mapping (such as understanding the fields and its attribute).
• Performed requirement walkthroughs with the testing team to develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.
• Managed and controlled change requests/defects using Clear Quest and made sure members in the team followed the change guidelines.
• Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.
• Worked to build Strategic Web application to design a migration plan for applications to migrate Network zones and move into virtualization

Environment: RUP, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Access, SQL server, IBM Web sphere Modeler, scrum (Agile) implementation, IBM Rational Software Modeller, JAVA, J2EE, JSP, HTML, SQL server 2000, Oracle 11i, Informatica and Erwin, Business Objects 6.5, SharePoint Test Director, SQA Architecture.

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business Systems Analyst for various wealth management and branch health applications for UBS WM Americas.
• Creating functional requirements, high level designs and interfacing between business analyst and technology teams.
• Architecting branch health monitoring services and fine-tuning product performance towards cost and quality targets.
• Translation of client requirements into agile user stories and providing architecture analysis of business requirements.
• Followed and applied Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodology in defining the problem, gathering requirements, business modeling and communicating with the technical team for the development of the system.
• Organized meetings and presented story boards to ensure accurate comprehension of the existing situation with regards to mismatched scenarios.
• Prepared BRD, FRD and SSRS for the detailed expansion of the functionality and going over it with the technical as well as the testing team.
• Diagnosed and cogently defined the core problem - the lack of systematic procedure in matching the trades proposed solution to effectively take care of the issues and identified gaps, performed Gap Analysis and also used ETL for Data Warehousing.
• Managed the flow of simultaneous processes and ensured protection against any risks in the development process such as ensuring the iterative nature of development of various tool types in the application, so that they provide the desired functionality towards the end.

Environment: Windows XP, MS Office Suite, MS SharePoint, SOA, Test Director, MS Visio, Oracle, .Net, HTML, ASP, XML, Java/J2EE, MS-Project.

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the user experience and design teams to analyze and implement various business requirements.
• Helped increase visibility for the transformation project by providing accurate analysis of existing product capability.
• Helped reduce product transformation time for the shipping eCommerce product suite by re-organizing agile teams.
• Product Owner for Shipment Reports, Container Tracking, Invoice, Ocean Schedules and Ocean Metrics products
• Worked directly with Portfolio Managers and was involved in learning information about portfolio modeling, electronic trading, pre-trade compliance and unparalleled access to liquidity and other Investment and Operations professionals. These helped in defining and documenting system requirements (SRS) and workflows.
• Provided business and technical support to the Capital Markets Derivatives Trading and Operations Group- Interest Rate Swaps and Cross Currency Swaps (Basis Swaps, Currency Swaps, and Interest Rate Swaps), Equity Swaps (Total Return Equity Swaps, Total Return Bond Swaps), Credit Swaps (Asset Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, and Credit Linked Notes).
• Conducted feasibility analysis for new/ upcoming projects in the Derivatives space, drive requirements gathering by leading JAD sessions, functional analysis & design of end-to-end business work flow, work with the technical team to translate business requirements into technical design, perform business process analysis, design and modelling with UML, perform system integration testing and assist users throughout the UAT phase of the project.
• Delivered a consolidated Global Liquidity Risk Reporting view, along with the tools necessary to report the liquidity impacts of stress scenarios as well as performing data validation on the data which flows within the Global Liquidity data warehouse.
• Hands on experience with - Front Office Derivatives Trading ( Trade Capture, Trade Valuation, Swap Pricing and Valuation, Trade Execution, Deal Management, Position Management, Analytics and Trading), Risk Management (VAR, P&L analysis, Hedging), and Back Office (Trade Matching, Cash Management, Confirmation with Deriv SERV).
• Systems include interface with Wall Street Systems, internally developed mainframe FX trading /revaluation systems, margin, funding and Foreign Exchange hedging subsystem.
• Documented business specification (BRD) and data requirements and E2E data flow diagrams for derivatives investments to streamline downstream data flow for OTC Derivative for integration of each of the application interfaces - Central data warehouse, Derivatives Trade OMS, centralized reference and trade data, pricing, transactional data, trade match and confirmation.
• Actively participated in Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Implementation of a fixed income and equity performance/risk attribution system through the design, management and construction of an interface to fund accounting systems and market data (Factset/Datastream/Bloomberg) systems.
• Providing consulting to project team on SOA implementation like XSL Transformation, various protocols and retry scenario, dynamic endpoint look up using WSRR, Human Task customization, security role mapping using LDAP, WS-Security using LTPA token and User name password authentication.
• Performed detailed process design, data mapping and file formats for integrating with DTCC Deriv/SERV such that credit derivative, interest rate and equity derivative trades can be exported to SERV for trade matching, confirmation, trade confirmation, matching, allocation and reallocation, post trade analysis.
• Valuable knowledge in derivatives analytics - Risk & P&L, Options Spreads, Black-Scholes pricing and VAR analysis.
• Supported Operations area in reducing reconciliation breaks between front and back offices, by ensuring the data integrity and definition; generating ad-hoc Focus reports to monitor and assess operational and credit risks, and insuring the compliance of corporate policy.
• Performed and managed testing (Unit Testing, System Testing and Manual Testing) which involved Integration testing of multiple interfaces by working with users, QA Team and lead the UAT.

Environment: Windows XP, MS Office Suite, MS SharePoint, Test Director, MS Visio, Oracle, .Net, HTML, ASP, XML, Java/J2EE, MS-Project, VB .NET, MS Access, MS Visio, Clear Quest, Microsoft Office.

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for an eight member agile team performing transformation of an eCommerce product in four months.
• Co-ordinated discussions within functional and technical teams to deliver solutions that met business requirements.
• Performed regular client interaction ensuring adherence to client’s environment, development and quality standards.
• Liaison for strategic partnership research between Info-Media-Entertainment and Manufacturing-Logistics verticals.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in US states and India.
• Developed use case diagrams for every conceivable scenario - such as use case to determine the sales credit mismatch, use case for allocation etc.
• Supervised the development of the application by simultaneously interacting with the clients and the technical team.
• Assisted in developing test case objectives for verifying the accurate functioning of the system with respect to various mismatching under different permutations and combinations of scenarios.
• Involved in performance testing, functional testing, GUI and navigation testing.
• Used SQL on Oracle database to perform data analysis, and generating reports for management discussion.

Environment: Windows XP, MS Office Suite, MS SharePoint, SOA, Test Director, MS Visio, Oracle, .Net, HTML, ASP, XML, Java/J2EE, MS-Project.

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and analysed the user interface, product gallery, inventory management, and stock management modules.
• Lead systems analyst for requirements elicitation, application analysis and high level design of an iPad catalog app.
• Architected the payment gateway solution for an eCommerce web-store by integrating with Sage Pay systems, UK.
• Led a team of three members to develop an eCommerce web-store and integrated a payment gateway for the store.
• Documented use case specifications on the basis of requirements gathered from stakeholders.
• Prepared vision document for defining the scope of the project and the various functional and non- functional requirements involved in it.
• Designed sequence diagrams and use case diagrams in UML.
• Responsible for design, information architecture and user experience of newly proposed websites portals and web-based applications.
• Create new, user-interface designs, mock-ups, wireframes and prototypes .
• Analyzed and collected business requirements, identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.

Environment: RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Access.

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysed and designed various modules of the application and developed workflow masters for modules interaction.
• Mentored junior developers to upgrade skills by providing technology trainings and conducting product presentations.
• Developed cross-functional product functionalities helping client do away with costly third party software purchases.
• Collaborated with the core development team during research and analysis phase for finalizing the technology stack.
• Documented use case specifications on the basis of requirements gathered from stakeholders.
• Prepared vision document for defining the scope of the project and the various functional and non- functional requirements involved in it.
• Designed sequence diagrams and use case diagrams in UML.
• Responsible for design, information architecture and user experience of newly proposed websites portals and web-based applications.
• Create new, user-interface designs, mock-ups, wireframes and prototypes .
• Analyzed and collected business requirements, identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.
• Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including context, dataflow diagrams.

Environment: RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Access

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully negotiated official payroll transfer to Client Company after completing initial research and analysis phase.
• Co-ordinated with business and development teams to finalize the technologies used for developing the application.
• Team member for core technology framework development, created build scripts and designed user interface layout.
• Performed requirements gathering and created functional specification documents for the custom enterprise solution.

Environment: RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Access.

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed the technology stack and implemented multi-user interface for the online inventory management platform.
• Customized an online web-store for a bicycle dealer in Oss, the Netherlands, using various open source technologies.
• Helped founder of company set up an online eCommerce solution using open source technologies and reduce costs.
• Mediated discussion with two Dutch clients for setting up a bicycle online store and a law office management solution.

Environment: RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Access.