SUMMARY

• Almost 6 years of combined industry work experience as a lead business analyst and software developer. Holds comprehensive knowledge of “Trade and Confirmation” life cycle, workflow management and in - depth knowledge of derivatives products and asset classes. Experience of working on projects driven by SDLC and Agile software development methodologies.
• Acted as a Technical Business Analyst for more than 3 years and handled multiple projects end to end till go live phase
• 3 + years of work experience as software developer and largely worked upon core and advanced java concepts, XML, XSD, Mappers, java bean, HTML etc.
• Expertise in analyzing business requirements, documenting and recommending appropriate business and technical solutions
• Experience of creating the process flow chart and architecture diagrams using VISIO
• Capable of writing queries to extract data for analysis and troubleshooting of issues
• Experience of working with database tools and migration of data among different systems
• Capable of working with teams from upstream/downstream systems and vendors to get the solution delivered
• Experienced in hosting forums, working groups, update calls/meetings with technical teams and business stake holders
• Experience in performing both manual testing and through automation tools using Behavior driven development (BDD) framework, cucumber, selenium etc.
• Worked with environment and release teams to plan and perform activities for production releases
• Capable of working on both SDLC and Agile software development methodologies
• Developed the product backlog along with Product Owners and created user stories to assist with the development
• Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives and sprint reviews.
• Capable of providing comprehensive support to all end users and stakeholders through the project
• Initiated and crafted project charter by collaborating with senior business executives and technical team for approval of project time lines, resources and scope
• A well-organized, goal-oriented, highly-motivated effective team member with excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, VISIO)
• Experienced in working on tools like TOAD, SQL Developer, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• Work experience in both SDLC and Agile software development methodologies
• Worked on tools like IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), Eclipse, Intellij idea for code delivery and maintenance
• Experienced in using HP Quality Center for Bug fixing, defect management and prioritization
• Experience of using domino-based applications and exchange outlook
• Experience of using JIRA agile application for maintaining Epics, Stories and Tasks
• Worked on both Unix and windows-based applications
• Experience of using PUTTY and running “Unix” commands to check system and application logs
• Worked on IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) hosted applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Functional + Technical Business Analyst

Confidential

Role and Responsibilities:

• As a lead business analyst was responsible for planning, design, analysis, requirement gathering, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of project
• Gathered business requirement, documented and acquired all necessary sign-offs from stakeholders and IT.
• Assisted in creation of project plan, resource planning, release planning etc.
• Involved in brainstorming sessions with business and vendor to setup a new confirmation tool
• Proposed architecture solutions and worked with external teams to get the solution implemented and tested.
• Conducted requirement and architecture walk through session with business, vendors and other system representatives.
• Ensured smooth and on time project delivery
• Managed and performed various testing phases like Code Drop Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance Testing and Regression Testing
• Designed “User Profile System” for HSBC implementation of Xceptor making sure both IT and Business gets system access without any violation of “segregation of duties”
• Worked with Active Directory and Information Security and Risk (ISR) team to avoid any access violation issues and provided support for security testing conducted by ISR
• Worked with Global Identity and Access Management (GiAM ) team to on-board system for automated re-certification process conducted to review access and revoke access of leavers
• Experience of using SUMMIT, Murex, Apollo, GC, ICE front office systems for test trade bookings and thunderhead for confirmation templates
• Participated in entering and updating logs/Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto JIRA agile application.
• Performed sprint planning activity and conducted sprint review, retrospective meetings
• Conducted regular “Show and Tell” demo session with product owner and business stake holders

Software Engineer /Senior Software Engineer

HSBC Software Development

• Acted as a software developer later promoted to role of senior software developer and held responsibility of developing, unit testing the code, writing unit test cases, creation of technical specification documents, handling defects and production issues
• Worked on various projects during this time span and key one’s are listed below:
• On-boarding of derivatives “Interest Rates” asset class onto DM/WIM confirmation system
• On-boarding of “Interest Rates” asset class onto exception and workflow management system
• On-boarding of new product “CDS Index Options” for credit derivatives asset class
• On-boarding of various sites onto DM WIM
• Worked on regulatory project to include key regulatory indicators on PDF confirmations
• Handling WACK response from DTCC/DS Match for credit electronic trades
• Migration of Thunderhead template selection logic from DM to Thunderhead
• Worked on development of “Poison Message Strategy” as part of team’s “Work when No Work” initiative
• Largely worked core and advance java concepts, jsp, html, xml, xslt etc.
• Expertise in working with XMLs, transformation of XML to java object and vice versa
• Extensive experience of writing XML Schema Definition (XSD), Mappers, Transformers, java beans etc.
• Experienced in writing XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) for converting XMLS to PDFs
• Worked on HTML and have high level knowledge of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• Worked on different development tools Intellij, Rational Team Concert (RTC), eclipse
• Created DDL and DML queries and have got high level experience of stored procedures
• Extensive experience of working on SOAP web service calls request and responses
• Worked on IBM Messaging Queue (MQ), and SOLACE for interaction and data transfer with upstream/downstream systems