SUMMARY:

• Around 5+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology as Business Analyst, Systems Analyst in Banking & Finance domain's.
• Strong knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies and Software Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall and Agile - Scrum.
• Expectations from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and defining business processes, identifying risks, performing Gap Analysis, Feasibility Analysis and Impact analysis.
• Experienced in all aspects of SDLC, such as Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Quality Control and Deployment.
• Responsible for creating and reviewing Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Project Schedules, Documentation and Test Plans related to commercial lending.
• Associated in defined the scope of the project and identifying the major actors, used various elicitation techniques to gather requirements. Developed business requirement documents, use cases, functional & non-functional documents, process diagrams including context, dataflow and decomposition diagrams.
• Responsible for decomposing High Level Business requirement into functional specifications.
• Used MS-Visio for model diagrams, MS-Word for documentation and used UML for visual modeling.
• Data Flow diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Business Process models with special detail to Sub-Processes. Design message formats, queues, systems interfaces, and worked with the Underwriters though interviews, Questionnaire and JAD sessions.
• Analyze, collected and prepared user requirements, definition, scope and expectations for deliverable plans. Delivered system documents, processes, diagrams, and test cases.
• Performed Risk Analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing. Liaise with all the stakeholders at all levels and worked closely with scrum teams of BAs, developers, testers and product control throughout the development.
• Extensively done GAP analysis in the project as there were numerous 'As-Is' and 'To-Be' conditions.
• Proficient in Quality Assurance Life Cycle like developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases (Manual / Automated), Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts in a non-technical manner.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, collaborative, diplomatic, and documenting skills.
• Expertise in Manual and Automation testing using Tools likeTestdirector7.x/Quality Center / HP ALM, Test Track Pro, JIRA.
• Excellent skills in Performance Management to support strategic planning, goal setting, strengthen accountability and enhanced decision making.
• Experienced in database testing for data validation, transaction verification and excellent
• Developed and executed test cases for various Client-Server and Web based business applications.
• Expertise in database querying, data manipulation and population using SQL & PL/SQL in Oracle.
• Strong communication skills in engaging project sponsors, business stakeholders, subject matter experts and business users in gathering the intricate workings of business processes.
• Software programming experience in C++
• Web Services testing using SOAPUI, XML, & WSDL
• Proven success in developing innovative solutions which considerably enhance productivity, profitability, and competitive positioning for clients and employers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential - Garden City, NY

• Follows up with project team members/leaders to determine task or milestone progress; communicates progress and issues to project manager.
• Proficient in understanding the Business Requirements and developing technology specifications accordingly.
• Expertise in Business Modeling and UML Diagrams (Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams).
• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews and plan configuration.
• Good knowledge in SQL.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, decision-making and project management skills.
• Proven success in Business Requirement Gathering, GAP Analysis, Business Process Flows (As-Is and To-Be), JAD Sessions, UAT
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project on Defined Benefit plans, Qualified Plans and Non-Qualified plans and gathering business requirements and doing gap analysis.
• Understood and articulated business requirements from user interviews and then converted requirements into technical specifications.
• Participated in the logical and physical design sessions in developing design documents
• Responsible for writing Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Conducted JAD sessions to discuss requirements and resolve conflicts among stakeholders.
• Actively involved in walk-through and meetings with development team to discuss related issues.
• Conducted Business Acceptance Testing (BAT/UAT) and collaborated with the QA team to develop the test plans, test cases, and test data to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and product knowledge.

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, JIRA, Quality Center, Rational Clear Case, Oracle 11, Sybase, WINDOWS, Informatica, MS outlook

Business Systems Analyst

Confidential - Hicksville, NY

• Involved in Project Management activities(PMO) like Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling and Drafting remedy procedures.
• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions with the business team to collect the business standards, security and service level requirements and studied the business process.
• Performed Gap Analysis to compare all elements of existing "as is" with desired "to be" processes.
• Created and maintained Business Use cases and System Use cases, Use Case diagrams, Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams throughout the SLC.
• Designing of different test scenarios to cover all features of data model to support Regulatory Reporting.
• Used HP ALM for defect tracking, facilitating and monitoring the testing process and bug reporting.
• Performed functional, regression and performance testing in user acceptance test (UAT) environment and approval of the application.
• Trained the end users group and documented the functional instruction and user guidelines for the same application.
• Working with Business to facilitate User Acceptance test(UAT) planning and execution.
• Used SQL Queries in performing data validation to ensure data accuracy and data integrity by testing back-end components of new data warehouse products.

Environment: MS Project, MS office suite HTML, Agile methodology ( SCRUM ), Rational Rose, UML, Primavera, UAT, Websphere, ALM

Business Analyst

Confidential - New York, NY

• Interacted with the project team to assign priority to Projects based on dependency and criticality.
• Conducted JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects,
• SME's (Subject Matter Experts) and Managers of various Business Units
• Documented requirements associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements with • Use cases.
• Involve in UAT Testing. Responsible in preparing personal and team' s daily and weekly status reports
• Regarding the process of UAT testing process.
• Developed a thorough and repeatable software requirements methodology utilizing the Rational Unified
• Process (RUP) and Unified Modeling language (UML)
• Defined the project methodology from RUP. Analyzed and redefined the business processes with specific UML documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Requirements Gathering Process Improvement User Journey Mapping Oracle ATG
• UAT Tableau Agile/Scrum/Waterfall/ Hybrid MS Visio/Project
• KPI Gap Analysis SharePoint Use Cases
• User Stories Wireframes/Mockups Process Flows API/Swagger
• Test cases JIRA SQL Data Analysis