Objective

• To obtain a business analyst position in one of the esteemed organizations in the industry and utilize my business skills and experiences.

SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in Insurance Markets, Banking, Financial, Analytics and IT domain.
• Strong production support application development experience having technical skills in JCL, COBOL, C, C++, TWS, REXX, EZYTRIVE, and efficient database abilities in DB2 and VCS - VSAM, on IBM mainframe & MF to Duck Creek migrations.
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews.
• Expertise in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Non-Functional Specification Document, System Design Specification, System Use Cases, screen mockups, and training manuals.
• 8+ years of experience in implementing Iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, Agile/Scrum, RUP (Rational Unified Process) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Proficient in using Agile Scrum methodologies, performed roles of Scrum Master
• Expertise in feasibility requirements analysis, design, construction, testing & implementation.
• Experienced in creating data dictionary having the business definitions of data mapping to map the logical data elements in use cases to physical data elements (record source).
• Proficient at coordinating various technical and managerial teams to develop process and verifying adherence using the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Well equipped with excellent communication and organizational skills to face clients.
• Expertise in change request management and developing configuration management documents.
• Experienced in developing test plans, cases, scenarios and strategies as per the business requirements to match the functional requirements.
• Knowledge of analytics and reporting using SAS.
• Experienced in SQL queries to extract data from various databases for data analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Office tools - Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

SDLC/Design Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall.

Modeling and Design Tools: Microsoft Visio, Adobe CQ.

Languages: Cobol, JCL, REXX, DB2, VBA, Python, SAS, SQL, VB .Net, Java.

Other tools: SQL Server,Fileaid, SCLM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Utica, NY

Senior Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively working as a BSA role in Mainframe to Duck Creek Migration Project.
• Requirement Gathering from different from business areas & associated applications pertaining to Policy Issuance & Claims.
• Co-ordinated and held significant business meetings with client to understand the new business requirements.
• Imparting knowledge on Policy admin cycle, policy processing & derivatives.
• Creating and maintaining web content for the policy processing application.
• Translating requirements into functional specifications and relative test cases.
• Database analytics (Creating SQL Queries).
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories
• Understanding of Business need and creation of ARA ( Application Requirement & Analysis Document )
• Co-ordination between business areas & IT Teams in case of Production Issues.
• Preparation of AFD (Application functional Diagram) by explaining the exact need of Business as well as IT developers.
• Helping developers by developing strong algorithms whenever needed.

Environment: /Tools: XML, Unix, MS Excel, Microsoft Visio, Agile, Visual Studio 2008, SQL,Mainframes,JCL,COBOL & Duck Creek

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements pertaining to fixed income and derivatives, converted the same into functional requirements by implementing the RUP methodology and authored the same in Business Requirement Document.
• Produced requested reports and ran analytics using SAS.
• Prepared slides using Microsoft PowerPoint and presented them at quarterly quality meetings.
• Manage documents from start to finish, publish reports and share information with others using SharePoint.
• Created process flows and use case diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Supervised the content design and development of a web portal for reporting, analysis and navigation of financial data.
• Proficient in using content management systems for site navigation and content management.
• Leading discussions with stakeholders to determine the best methodology for different work streams of the project.
• Developed test plans, test cases and test scripts based on the functional specifications.
• Coordinated and Developed QA activities with team members to support the methodology.

Environment: /Tools: HTML, Windows 2003, 2008, XP, MS Excel, Visual Studio 2008, XML, Unix, MS Excel, Microsoft Visio, SQL,Mainframes,JCL,COBOL,VSAM & DB2

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understood the existing environment and created Process flow diagrams for the new system.
• Understood the existing setup and created Data-Mapping documents for Data Migration.
• Responsible for technical design, analyses and production support. Help resolve clients’ issues, fixes and enhancements.
• Also, use SSR and SPR for fixes and enhancements.
• Conceive, plan, design and implement actionable approaches to resolve complex issues of diverse nature.
• We leverage CICS, DB2, COBOL, JCL, EZETRIEVE and REXX to accomplish team’s and clients’ goals on time.
• Collaborated with project manager in tracking and managing project development process based on SDLC methodologies.

Environment: MS SQL Server 2008, Windows XP, Microsoft Visio, JCL, COBOL, File-aid, CICS & DB2.

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manipulating, cleansing & processing data using Excel, Access and SQL and SAS
• Responsible for loading, extracting and validation of client data.
• Liaising with end-users and 3rd party suppliers.
• Writing MySQL scripts to manipulate data for data loads and extracts
• Performing Portfolio Analytics from complex financial source data.
• Advising on the suitability of methodologies and suggesting improvements.
• Carrying out specified data processing and statistical techniques.
• Supplying qualitative and quantitative data to colleagues & clients.
• Using SAS to extract, transform & load source data from system

Environment: Windows XP, JCL, COBOL, File-aid, CICS & DB2.