PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of IT, Finance & Software Project Management experience working as Business Analyst/Project Manager/IT Consultant for very large clients’ viz., Confidential, e - bay Inc., Axis Bank of India.
• Extensive experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) using Agile-Scrum, Lean, PLM, Iterative SDLC Implementation, Waterfall, and Rational Unified Process (RUP), ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, Stage Gate, and Product Life Cycle Management (PLM).
• In-depth noledge and experience in IT, Finance, Banking, Investment Management and E-Commerce sectors.
• Experience in analyzing company SEC filings, financial reporting and analysis, Budgeting forecasting, building financial models, using valuation methods viz., discounted cash flow, etc.
• Ability to work upon accounting aspects like GAAP, IFRS, and TAX Rules in accordance with teh U.S.A policies and procedures.
• Great experience with accounting systems like Debit A/C, Credit A/C, Checking A/C, Savings A/C, Transaction Statements, Interest Rates, Monthly Statements, Security, and Equity.
• Highly experienced in Business Requirement Elicitation, Documentation and Project Management & Change Management.
• Excellent experience in acting as a liaison with development teams and translating business requirements to technical specifications.
• Proven noledge of leading development efforts using Waterfall and Scrum/Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodologies.
• Expertise in creating UI Mockups, wireframes, ER diagrams, Use Case Models and creating coherent user interfaces to realize business requirements.
• Strong experience in GAP and risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, financial analysis and financial reporting.
• Comprehensive experience in writing Unit Test Plans, Test Cases, Integration tests scenarios.
• Professional expertise in Structured Query Language (SQL) queries, and JQL.
• Highly skilled in using Microsoft Excel data analysis techniques viz., V-Lookup, Pivot Tables.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Areas: Finance, HR, Banking, Investment Management, e-Commerce

Languages, Software and Tools: SQL querying & stored procedures

JQL querying & stored procedures: JIRA project management/defect tracking tools

Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, Excel: UML-Unified Modeling Language

Agile Software development: Six-Sigma and Lean process improvement

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/7/8, Unix, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Business Analyst - Finance

Responsibilities:

• Identify teh key areas of data gathering for teh fixed income portfolio of Confidential .
• Create functional and design specifications for teh data assimilation and mining application.
• Create user stories and UML diagrams for requirements and work flow management.
• Collaborate with Confidential fixed income portfolio team in fine-tuning teh data gathering requirements, field identification, data profiling and validation.
• Document all teh above and presented in weekly milestone meetings.
• Work with DBA group to accurately design teh database.
• Create pilot dashboard using Excel/VBA and presented to teh business team with rapid tuning and enhancement of teh dashboard.
• Develop complex SQL queries and stored procedures for created data feed into teh dashboard application.
• Make buy, sell and hold recommendations, which led to teh generation of 20bps positive alpha.
• Assist teh investment team by conducting credit analysis and VAR analysis on all investment grade debt securities for Confidential ’s Fixed Income portfolio.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Visual Studio 2010, RALLY, SQL, MS Visio 2008, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Power Point, SDLC, STLC

Confidential, New York City, NY

Business Analyst-Finance

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely to prioritize and coordinate individual project tasks and assess time sensitive constraints on development tasks.
• Researched on IFRS, GAAP and TAX terms of teh United States and created teh detailed analysis.
• Maintained a bi-weekly status report for teh requirements teams.
• Analyzed and documented teh System specifications, Rating Engine, Business requirements, Functional requirements (BRD, FRD) and detail design of teh software for full understanding of teh business and used Requisite Pro for teh requirement tracking and analyzing.
• Created user stories and UML diagrams for requirements and work flow management.
• Use Visual Studio’s life cycle management tool to integrate solution dat halps team members to embrace an agile approach dat support backlog management, sprint planning, agile portfolio management, daily stand-up meetings, and lightweight requirements.
• Interacted with clients in gathering and managing website content and researched, designed, and documented content management procedures for collecting multilingual content from clients.
• Worked with teh business users and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications using teh Agile-scrum methodology for software development.
• Prepared and analyzed As-Is and To-Be workflow scenarios and performed Gap analysis.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with all levels of Management, covering topics such as forecast variance, call center performance, training needs and making staffing recommendations.
• Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Visual Studio 2010, RALLY, SQL, MS Visio 2008, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Power Point, SDLC, STLC

Confidential . San Jose, CA

Business Analyst - X.Commerce

Responsibilities:

• Generated $250K revenue by planning and implementing new Payment Vendor Partnership Program.
• Recommended monetization strategy with revenue generation potential up to $100M per year in Magento appstore.
• Interacted with all teh stakeholders - PayPal, X.Commerce and vendor teams and created Functional, Design and Architecture specs for teh appstore.
• Created use cases, use case diagrams, and UML diagrams for requirements and work flow management.
• Incorporated teh requirement of internationalization by working with PayPal managers across teh globe.
• Handled teh functional, technical reviews by teh eBay Architecture team ensuring dat teh development team follows best practices.
• Coordinated with different country service providers/vendors to integrate their services with X.commerce appstore.
• Designed and presented teh business model & user interface of “eBay home furnishing” app in PayPal hackathon.

Environment: Agile, SDLC, STLC, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, UML, Linux, SharePoint, UAT

Confidential

Business Analyst - Strategic Planning

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with MS- Visio to identify and depict organizational Swim lanes and created use case and workflow diagrams.
• Prepared Requirements Document for functional requirements and defined KPIs on service procedure details and customer centric data.
• Assisted data analyst in using MS Access to reconcile and validate teh correctness and completeness of data being exchanged between different groups and different databases.
• Performed gap analysis to define teh extra effort needed to achieve targets on schedule.
• Identified/documented Use Cases and User specifications per company templates.
• Responsible for coordinating project meetings, JAD sessions, publishing minutes/project updates and collaborating group efforts over Open issues/action items.
• Reviewed test cases, emphasized business rules for testing in Quality Center.
• Documented and simulated complex customer issues to find solutions to inquiries and problems.

Environment: JAD, Waterfall, SDLC, STLC, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, UML, Rational Requisite Pro, BAT

Confidential

Business Analyst- Finance

Responsibilities:

• Use Visual Studio’s life cycle management tool to integrate solution dat halps team members to embrace an agile approach dat support backlog management, sprint planning, agile portfolio management, daily stand-up meetings, and lightweight requirements.
• Served as a liaison between IT team and project management team.
• Involved in analysis of business requirements, Functional requirements, URS, FRS and SRS.
• Analyzed teh functional requirements and did functional break out.
• Designed all possible Screen Mockups for a better workflow.
• Performed Gap Analysis, and conducted walkthroughs.
• Created use case scenarios and sequence diagrams for each functionality of teh module assigned to my team.
• Involved in testing and post development support of teh application.
• Reviewed and assessed teh information gathered, defined key facts and issues, identified potential problems and facilitated problem resolution.

Environment: JAD, RUP-Rational Unified Process, Rational Requisite Pro, Linux, UML, MS Office