SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of proactive IT experience as a Business Analyst /Business System Analyst/D Confidential Analyst with Automotive, Finance and Investment Banking exposure in business process analysis, design, development, testing, integration and maintenance with strong understanding of sequential and Iterative approaches like waterfall,
• Agile project management methodology/ Software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Excellent knowledge of banking industry (Automotive, Confidential, Investment banking, Private banking,
• Portfolio management, Asset management) and financial services especially in secondary mortgage market.
• Expert knowledge in with various capital market instruments and securities including Equities, Fixed Income Instruments,
• Risk Management (Credit and Market Risk), Mutual Funds, Derivatives (OTC market, Listed market), ETF’s, securitization (Mortgage backed securities, Asset backed securities).
• Excellent knowledge of Capital Market and Money Market securities such as fixed income securities, equities and derivatives how they are impacted by Dodd Frank Act, Basel II/III, MIFID I/II compliance using industry standards and regulatory guidance, etc.
• Experience in AML & Trade Surveillance tools such as Actimize and good understanding of related topics.
• Structured Investment products and OTC derivatives market experience with exposure to trade life cycle, pre - trade/post-trade processes, collateral operation/management, market risk & credit risk modeling, Product d Confidential .
• Strong Experience and knowledge of working with MD 20, MD50s and MD70s documents.
• Worked closely with project stakeholders, SME & staff to understand requirements and specifications for new applications along with re-engineering the existing application.
• Strong writing skills in preparing business requirements documents (BRD),process analysis, system requirements specifications (SRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and technical design document
• Defining project plans then translating business requirements/user expectations into detailed specifications like Use case diagrams, flow charts, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, use case document, test plans and test case documents employing UML.
• Highly proficient in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues.
• Moderate to high proficiency in SQL Queries and MS Excel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS: MS Windows, MS Office 2010/2007/2003/2000 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, FrontPage, Outlook), Markit pricing d Confidential, BPMN, Lotus Notes, VB 6.0, Mainframes, Rally, Rational Suite 2003/2001 (Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest), MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, HP (Quality Center 9.2, Quick set Professional 8.2/9.2), HP Unified Functional Testing, JIRA, Actimize.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of customers.
• Monitor project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
• Vendor management to ensure key components for development and production build are provided.
• Define and document business rules in conjunction with business process leads.
• Train and utilize the new Touchdown System using MS Project Server and SharePoint 2013.
• Involved in Requirement gathering, understanding and communicating the same to the QA team.
• Performed Requirement Gathering & Analysis by actively soliciting, analyzing and negotiating customer requirements and prepared the requirements specification document for the application using Microsoft Word.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams.
• Created Use Case Models, Analysis Models, Design Models, and Implementation Models, Use Case Diagrams, Behavior Diagrams (sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, activity diagrams) and Class Diagrams based on UML methodology using MS Visio.
• Worked closely with software developers and other project management personnel involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Actively involved in AGILE Development process.
• Entered the requirements in the ALM requirements tab, wrote the test cases in test plan tab, executed them in test lab and logged the defects in defects tab.
• Extensively worked on Perfecto for Mobile testing.
• Working with the Development team for process improvement and release planning.
• Analyzed application d Confidential using the SQL to identify the ETL processes.
• Wrote and modified SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs.
• Modifying and creating SQL Queries and stored procedures for quality assurance and analysis.
• Used Jira for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

Environment: MS Project, Metal (Meta D Confidential Driven ETL), BI Reports, MS Access, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Tableau, QTP, ALM, SOAP UI, Webservices, winSCP, SQL, SQL Server Management Studio, Sharepoint, Big D Confidential Hadoop, VB. SQOOP, Mobile Testing, GUI.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business/D Confidential Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Mapping/ Business requirement documents to capture the mapping between legacy and strategic d Confidential bases and other essential details for user to migrate onto CDDS platform.
• Conducted frequent meetings with the user to present the business cases to evaluate and resolve their pain points.
• Conducted presentations for our stakeholders to familiarize them with our product d Confidential systems and the strategic d Confidential flow and how the initiative will help in d Confidential integrity and d Confidential governance process.
• Worked with Bloomberg and Reuters d Confidential support team, analyzed and evaluated attribute request from users.
• Worked closely with the CDDS IT team to walk them through the Business requirement & solution from perspective of implementation to discuss appropriate as well as technology-based solutions for enhancing functional efficiency Preparing Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirement Specification Document.
• Worked closely with Product d Confidential Design Authority/Architecture team to raise a request and present the Business case supporting my request.
• Specified and documented the design to be implemented(HLD- High level design/Architecture document)
• Conducted JAD sessions involving all the stakeholders and presented the high-level design document to stakeholders to take their signoffs before moving to the implementation phase.
• Wrote test cases, created test plans, conducted internal UAT’s and followed the testing timelines for product d Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Languages: SQL
• D Confidential analysis tools: Squirrel SQL, SQL developer
• Web Technologies: HTML 5, CSS, AJAX, JQUERY, JSON, XML
• D Confidential bases: Oracle
• Designing Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Word, SharePoint, Adobe Photoshop
• Testing Tool: HP Quality Centre, JIRA

Confidential

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Business Analysis:

• Interacted with business partners and client to understand the problem statement, client business process and together formed the requirement and the functional specifications.
• Analyzed the Business requirement & solution from perspective of implementation to suggesting appropriate as well as technology-based solutions for enhancing functional efficiency of the organization and achieving business excellence.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirement Specification Document.
• Conducted JAD sessions involving all the stakeholders and discuss the design solution and implementation based on the BRD and FRD.
• Prepared the high-level design document to specify and document the design to be implemented (HLD- High level design document).
• Reviewed all the documents with stakeholders to take their signoffs before moving to the implementation phase. Software Development:
• Handled various technical aspects like project documentation, system design, API design and integration, monitoring critical paths and taking appropriate actions.
• Created SAD & related design documents.
• Break the application into modules and create the project plan.
• Prepared test d Confidential, test cases for internal unit/integration testing.
• Planned and Designed test plans and ensured that business requirements and functional specifications are fulfilled.
• Extended post-implementation and maintenance support to technical support team and client.
• Coordinated with the engineering team to resolve the environmental issues (if any).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Languages: C#.NET, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL
• .Net Technologies: ASP.NET 2.0/3.5/4.0, ADO.NET, C#.NET, WCF, WPF, Web Parts, Web Forms .Net Framework 2.0/3.5, Visual Studio Extension Framework
• Web Technologies: HTML 5, CSS, AJAX, JQUERY, JSON, XML
• Scripting Languages: JavaScript
• Debugging Tools: Fiddler
• D Confidential bases: DB2
• Designing Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Word, SharePoint, Adobe Photoshop
• Testing Tool: HP Quality Centre

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst/D Confidential Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied the need to develop and implement this project.
• Identified project stakeholders and their roles.
• Identified major deliverables and collected business requirements for the project.
• Drafted project charter, which included project goals, business case, opportunity statement, and high level timeline and team assignments for the projects.
• Worked with senior management to get approval on project charter and ballpark budget estimates.
• Organized the project into phases to impose management control using stage-gate reviews such as high-level user stories,
• Business object, test scenarios, Dimension modeling, D Confidential Mapping ETL etc.
• Involved in Object oriented designing using UML (sequence, activity diagram), Process analysis, and Translate business abstractions to object-oriented class representations in UML 2 notation.
• Devised a work breakdown structure by decomposing the project deliverables and User Stories.
• Identified major activities as per the Agile Scrum methodology.
• As Scrum Master created and prioritized the Back Log in Rally, coordinated Planning Sessions and maintained User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Created business process flow diagrams using MS (BPM) visio.
• Elicited Business/system requirements and business/system needs as part of an Agile Scrum team
• Identified resource requirements i.e., business analysts, software developers, testers etc.
• Developed project schedule by incorporating resource availability and milestones for reporting.
• Prepared communication and information distribution plan for the project.
• Conducted risk assessment of the project and trade surveillance for regulatory purposes.
• Delivered presentations on prototypes of application to different groups in organization.
• Created wireframes & mockups for the dashboard improvement project.
• Designed business process flow.
• Provided technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing.
• Improved team morale by conducting team-building activities.
• Managed the development of documentation pertaining to a project milestone.
• Measured project performance on time and budget as per the project plan.
• Managed changes to project scope using a change management procedure in coordination with Change Control Board (CCB).
• Prepared and monitored release plans.
• Controlled iterations and released spikes.
• Managed the software configure change management for code/ requirements/ design/ versions.
• Delivered an IT Recovery Plan, process integration and governance model for all changes.
• Managed project performance and reporting through project scorecards and milestone reports.
• Verified deliverables for each phase with project stakeholders, by executing the test scenarios.
• Delivered project documentation related to application design, testing results and operating procedures for the application.
• Documented lessons learned from project.
• Tracked testing issues, maintained test matrix, ran daily status meetings, and met the exit criteria for UAT.

Environment: PMBOK, Agile Scrum, Rally, Rational Jazz suite, HP QC, MS Visio, UML, Actimize, SMARTS, Subversion (SVN), MS Project, SSIS, SSRS,RDBMS.

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements pertaining to the pool of mortgages and their risk assessment criterion that are used to issue Fixed Incomes like bonds& Treasury, converted the same into functional requirements by implementing the agile scrum methodology and authored the same in Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Maintained advanced knowledge of fixed income markets.
• Aggressively involved in the process of understanding and creating Business process flow
• Being involved in dashboard designing using wireframes & mockups, created complex business rules to generate results in form of graphs which in turn helped the fixed income portfolio team to create credit enhancement strategies.
• Created requirements document and user stories for the development and test teams using the Rational Jazz Suite - RTC and RRC tools.
• Proactively identifying and removing blockers, facilitate frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements.
• Provided coaching on Agile values and practice to other teams within the company.
• Involved in Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming, Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives & Reviews, Daily Stand-ups, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• As Scrum Master created and prioritized the Back Log in Rally, coordinated Planning Sessions and maintained User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Elicited Business requirements and business needs as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Worked on creating Functional requirement documents, System requirement Document and business process flow
• Structured flexible test plans, test cases and test scripts to test entire application based on business requirements, technical specifications, product knowledge and use case scenarios
• Tested the application manually by executing Test Cases in Quality Centre prior to Automation and Involved in automated testing and Performance testing using QTP and Load Runner.
• Participated in Bug-Review meetings with software developers, QA engineers, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives, provided solutions to existing bugs.
• Addressed all aspects of the loan life cycle, starting from identifying a prospective client to the loan closure
• Participated in project review meetings to resolve defect related issues.
• Revised existing documentation comprehensively to enhance the ability of the stakeholders to proceed with the next major phase of developing the application.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing on behalf of end-user to ensure that the user requirements are satisfied and properly tested.
• Assisted in implementation and deployment of the best SCM processes with seamless integration among various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Change Request and Product Life Cycle Management utilizing UCM component of Rational Suite.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Rally, JAVA, Oracle, UML, OOD, Quality Center, VB, .NET, UNIX, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, Rational Jazz Suite - RTC and RRC tools, SQL server 2008,Fireworks.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the d Confidential for the Industry analysis, market share, Key growth driver in mobile services industries, Confidential services revenue, d Confidential | voice| Non-voice ARPU, Confidential
• Fed the d Confidential to the software that analyzes the sensitivity to see how the variance in the critical parameters changes the impact on revenue and effects the decision
• Studied the 5 year of forecast of ARPU taking into account the industry growth, the structure of the company, the market share and historical CAGR, as well as the projected demographics details.
• Gathered the syndicated historic d Confidential of ARPU of existing 4G businesses of USA. In order to develop the forecasting model, we take assumptions based on PWC report and FICCI,HSBC Global Research in order to achieve the same
• Documented specifications for calculating and analyzing of the BETA (systematic risk) using linear regression model, Sensitivity analysis for variance in factors mentioned earlier, hence highlighting the most critical factors. Measuring Skewness (how biased the d Confidential is towards one side) & Kurtosis of projected 4G ARPU.
• Created detailed sequence diagrams, class diagrams, business process and activity diagrams to elaborate the behavior, structure and process flow for the use-case models.
• Assisted in developing test cases to check the system functionality

Environment: UML, MS Visio, MS SQL, MS Office Suite, Mercury Quality Centre, UML,OOD Quality Center, J2EE technology, UNIX / Oracle Platform, waterfall.