SUMMARY

• Analytical, detail - oriented and problem-solving Business System Analyst wif 9+ years of experience.
• Highly experienced in Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall and SCRUM-fall project lifecycle implementation.
• Inherent ability to related Project Objectives wif tasks has enabled me to excel in my role and assist in successful implementation of Projects.
• Over 9+ years of experience as a Senior Business System Analyst and Product Owner in frontline leadership roles.
• Highly experienced in working in end-to-end project lifecycles including Waterfall, Agile-Scrum and Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid methodologies.
• Highly experienced in various areas of Investment Banking, Portfolio Management, Fixed Income, Annuities, Trading Life Cycle, Mortgage, Loan Orientation, Stocks, Bonds, Futures, Options, Hedging, OTC derivatives, Bill Payment, Equity Research, Mutual Funds, Securities trading and Commodities.
• Experienced in documenting Project Scope, Statement of Work (SOW), Project Charter, Business Requirements Document (BRD), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Knowledge of data integration for enterprise wide Application Using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus ESB Platform.
• Worthy understanding of concepts like Data warehousing, data structures, Schemas, Data Marts, Data-Entity Relationships and User Administration. Worked wif data warehouses for migrating data from OLTP’s to OLAP cube using ETL tools such as Informatica power center and SSIS.
• Adept in using various elicitation techniques such as JAD sessions, Interviews, focus groups, and Workshops in Gathering Comprehensive Requirements.
• Managed Executive level communications, Created Executive Dashboards, Reports and Project status updates for Senior Management and Project teams.
• Exceptional communication skills and sresult oriented professional who combines formal education/certifications wif experience gained from research and hands-on opportunities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7 Macintosh

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Mockup Screen, Mule ESB (Mule Runtime Engine), Anypoint Studio

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, RUP

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, and JAD sessions, SWOT Analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling and Project Budgeting

Requirement Management: JIRA, HP ALM, Rally, Mule Management Console

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint Server, Rally, Projector PSA, Clarity, HP PPM, TFS, SharePoint 2013,2010, 2007

Testing Tools: HP QC v10.0, HP ALM v11.5, Load Runner

Financial Tools: MS Excel functions, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial trackers

ETL Tools: Informatica, Tableau, SQL Server Data Tools, SAP Data server, SSIS

Reporting Tools: Tableau Desktop, IBM Cognos, MS Office Suite

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, jQuery, DataWeave

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Estero, FL

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for communicating the program vision and managing the product backlog; additionally, facilitated requirement workshops wif Source and Target SMEs to gather non-functional and functional requirements.
• Collaborated wif program managers, development team, and customers to define features and user stories.
• Used T-Shirt sizing for estimation and MOSCOW for prioritization of User Stories.
• Work closely wif counterparts in Product Management team to align on the vision, program backlog, and roadmap.
• Facilitated mapping session to capture source to target attribute level mapping, along wif documenting Business Rules as and where required.
• Collaborated wif Architects to discuss program architecture and implemented use-cases wifin each program.
• Facilitated the brainstorming session to resolve any discrepancies in requirements between stakeholders and technical folks.
• Proposed initiatives to track the progress of implementation across the programs and use it as a reporting tool for Project Stakeholders.
• Represent team in Scrum of Scrums to highlight team achievements and any impediment that is impeding the team.
• Involved in defect tracking lifecycle - conducting daily defect tracking meeting, reporting and reviewing the defects, assigning the open defects to developers, and re-testing the fixed defects.
• Coordinate the testing and resolving the impediments as well as dependencies wif other teams as per the requirement / Project.
• Coordinated go-live/ production related knowledge transfer to respective teams by providing system overview and detailed use-case information.
• Communicated wif senior leadership and provided recommendations on team improvement and more efficient approach.

Confidential - Hopewell Campus, NJ

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Conducted multiple Interviews, Brainstorming, Requirements Workshop and JAD sessions wif business owners, development teams, DB admins, financial analysts, and Subject matter experts to elicit requirements regarding scenarios, business rules, compliance and regulations.
• Created Business Requirement document (BRD) for high-level business requirements, and Software Requirements Specification (SRS) for functional, non-functional and Data requirements.
• Involved in creating wireframes, mock-up screens, Data flow diagrams, use case diagrams, sequence diagrams and Activity diagrams for To-Be system, and Reporting UIs using MS Visio
• Involved in Data Integration using Enterprise Service Bus - MuleSoft (Mule ESB); Designed Mule flow in a SOA environment wif Mule ESB.
• Responsible for creation of ER diagrams like Conceptual and Logical diagrams and Collaborated wif database developer in developing physical diagram for database that stores Alerts
• Assisted the team in defining the migration approach and method for the MuleSoft implementation which drove the required architecture, design and framework
• Used Anypoint Studio to connect the API to backend applications and services.
• Assisted in preparation of UAT test plan, Test Cases, Testing Cycle schedules, Test Scenarios and implemented them wif QA team.

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/ Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed various stakeholders, and elicited requirement by conducting requirements gathering workshops wif Business Users, Functional Managers, and Financial SMEs.
• Developed Product Roadmap and communicated vision to team; groomed and prioritized product backlog.
• Decomposed the scope from the BRD into user stories by conducting a story writing session wif the Product owner and tan the acceptance criteria for the PSPI.
• Used Relative Mass Evaluation for estimation, and MOSCOW for prioritization of user stories
• Created Use-Case Diagrams, Workflow Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of the Project are complying wif the Business Requirements.
• Designed Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Scenarios to perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and defects logging using JIRA.
• Managed Requirement churn during the project by performing Impact Analysis by checking the feasibility in maintaining the Triple Constraint and discussing them in Daily Scrum Stand-up.
• Logged and tracked defects using JIRA and created an error repository along wif the QA team.
• Facilitated team engagement activities to encourage self-organization among the team.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Business System Analyst/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the prior documentation and business processes for full understanding of the project. Interviewed area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements hereby building a bridge between the business people and technical people.
• Developed good knowledge of Financial Instruments, Asset Allocation, Commodities, Bond Pricing, Corporate Bonds, Fixed Income, Credit Risk and Market Risk.
• After being on boarded, conducted GAP Analysis by understanding the AS IS business process and the TO-BE business process
• Conducted JAD sessions, document analysis and one-on-one interviews wif the stakeholders for the requirements elicitation.
• Assisted project manager in creating proposals and project budget allocations and worked on Project Charter and Work-Breakdown Structures using MS Project.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document.
• Decomposed the scope from the BRD into user stories by conducting a story writing session wif the product owner. and tan the acceptance criteria for the PSPI.
• Assisted Scrum Master in facilitating Sprint Zero and communicated to team about Product vision, goals and milestones.
• Conducted Impact Analysis, Feasibility Study, Cost-Benefit Analysis and ROI calculation in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks to the system.
• Responsible for creating, maintaining and sorting the Product backlog and Sprint backlog in Jira.
• Participated in Grooming meeting and prioritized the backlog using MOSCOW technique and forced ranking.
• Constantly updated senior management & stakeholders regarding Product progress, Project Performance and Time-lines.

Confidential, Fort Lee, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Captured business requirements using various elicitation techniques such as research, formal-informal interviews, focus groups, brainstorming and JAD sessions wif SMEs, Project Teams, and Project Stakeholders.
• Assisted Project Manager in creating the Project Charter, Project Budget Allocations and Work Breakdown Structure using MS Project.
• Collaborated wif associate Business Analysts in preparing the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Managed and monitored various scrum events through agile delivery process, worked closely wif Project Manager, Product Owner and Stakeholders to ensure their expectations are met.
• Created Data Mapping Document in excel along wif Business Rules to assist in Data Migration.
• Tracked and Managed the requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), which controls numerous artifacts produced by the teams and I also handled requirement churn.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Execution and Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of the Project are in Compliance wif the Business Requirements.
• Logged and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center. Created an error repository and supported the testing process wif the QA team.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif the customers and internal stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system
• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements and developing System Specifications
• Analyzed monthly/quarterly performance against plans and forecast and recommended corrective actions
• Did rigorous load testing using LoadRunner.
• Assessed business priorities, and advised business units on risks and Cost-Benefit analysis
• Used Rational Rose to generate various UML Diagrams
• Organized cross training of team members and users to become more responsive
• Participated in the development and preparation of the Test Plan wif the testing team as well as ensuring testability, reliability, usability, maintainability and performance of the application
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the application

Confidential

Financial Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review financial statements and analyzed sales revenues, costs, expenses, and tax rates for all business units of leading portfolio companies.
• Develop detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and develop forecasts. Consolidate and analyze monthly results and budgets.
• Gathered requirements using different varying elicitation techniques from various stakeholders.
• Documented and verified requirements to ensure consistency in understanding of requirements.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Established new forecasting tracking and management reporting system to improve availability and accuracy of financial data, triggering 15% increase in accuracy.
• Conducted quantitative analysis of financial data to forecast revenue, identify future trends, and assess risk associated wif capital expenditures, acquisitions, and joint-venture projects for large real estate investment firm.
• Prepared budget reports for potential investors and provided clients wif asset management and financial investment advice.