SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of broad experience as QA Analyst analyzing business requirements, transforming the business processes and enhancing the business capabilities.
• Enormous experience with business process setup using Use Case Modeling, Business Process Modeling, Change Modeling, SDLC, RUP, Agile and UML.
• Proficiency with MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Access), and requirement management tools such as Requisite Pro and Quality Center.
• Excellent data collection skills, analyzing, communicating the requirement to senior management and documenting skills.
• Good experience in the Financial Industry with a good understanding of Fixed Income Assets, Investment Management, Investment Banking, Asset management and Risk Management.
• Understanding and in - depth experience of complex financial products such as Fixed Income Instruments, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives and currency swaps.
• Excellent documentation skills creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and translating the requirement into Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Experience working on the launch of latest software implementation with good knowledge of SQL and Oracle database with the ability to write SQL queries.
• Proficient in the development of Test Strategies and Test Plans, writing detailed Test Cases and developing and implementing complete software Test methodologies.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment.
• Bilingual with a good command of both French and English languages.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

UML, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS- office, MS Visio, MS SQL Server (2008/2010), MS Windows (XP/Vista/7), Oracle 11i, 10g, JAVA, ETL tools, Erwin, MS share point 2010/2007, Quality Center 11, Selenium Web driver. Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Albany, New York

QA Analyst Lead/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and developed BRD, FRD and system use cases, Business flow, artifact templates and procedures.
• Developed and processed business mapping, activity diagrams, and functional software specification and requirements documentations.
• Documented requirements to support the design and development of the SSRS Audit Reports
• Secondary business requirement model to understand and achieve need of end business users, establishing process workflows, diagrams and data mapping through MS Visio and MS Excel.
• Wrote SQL queries to filter and retrieve Criminal Inquiry data and created reports.
• Developed use case diagrams for the Criminal Justice Repository Data Management use cases Using UML Modeling through MS Visio.
• Developed Data mapping Document for ETL testing during the migration of the application form Forte to Java.
• Prepared use case scenarios using MS Word, PowerPoint for better presentation and understanding of the application.
• Designed Mockups screens for newly enhanced application, designed to perform DMV records search.
• QA lead for civil management project where I was in charge of developing the test strategy, creating the test case using QC.
• Created manual Tests scripts using MS Word or MS Excel and exported the Tests into Quality Center.
• Performed functional and system tests, including performance and regression testing. Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Identify and document defects and track to resolution, performing retesting as required.
• Created automated test scripts using selenium and java for regression testing.
• Resolved productions Tickets by assisting users through phone calls, emails or WebEx.

Environment: Forte, SOAP UI, Java1.5, Toad, HP Quality Center 11.00, Oracle, SQL, UML, SharePoint, MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Access, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Selenium, TestNG.

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst/QA

Responsibilities:

• Documented requirements to support International Equity Valuation processes to determine Absolute & Relative performance measurement of Equity securities.
• Gathering requirements for day to day management of investments, including the monitoring of endowment portfolio, execution of approved buy/ sell transactions, and regular cash and investment account maintenance.
• Performed manual testing of credit risk application using credit rating in evaluating the credit risk of a prospective borrower.
• Generated Return on Equity by application of mathematical models like CAPM & Multi factor model of estimating required returns.
• Documentation of the Valuation models to determine firm specific “Free Cash flow to equity & Free Cash flow to Firm”.
• Created test plan document for Quality Assurance (QA), developed tests scripts and test cases for UAT.
• Performed Data analysis using Oracle SQL developer and Interacted with developers to resolve application defects.

Environment: RUP, UAT, XML, GAD (Gap Analysis Document), Microsoft Office 2007 Professional (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access), Microsoft SharePoint 2007, SQL, Quality Center.

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst Intern

Responsibilities:

• Worked with all members of the project team, following the project through Waterfall methodology and ensuring business objectives are met as per the standards and drafted requirements
• Defined the goals and strategized the execution of a debt management system that provided users with a seamless work flow, reduced manual processing, and increased efficiency of case specialists
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including gap analysis.
• Documented the business process model using UML diagrams

Environment: Dot Net, XML, HTML, PL/SQL, Oracle, UNIX, SDLC, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, UML, Use Case, Visio, MS Project