SUMMARY:

• Data/Business Analyst professional with 7+ years of track record in requirements gathering, performing gap analysis, data analysis and document between 'As - is' and 'To-be' processes.
• Ability to work under tight timeframes. Capability to handle sensitive and complex issues with discretion and good judgment.
• Liaison between the cross-functional teams, top management clients, users and any stakeholder involved in the project.
• Dealing with processes, governance, policies, standards and tools as part ofMDMto consistently define and manage the critical data of the organization.
• Experience in creating BusinessProcess Models forbusinessfrom conceptual to procedural level i.e Designing a Project and Defining the Scope, managing the project until delivery.
• Skilled at gathering requirements by conducting one on one interviews, brainstorming sessions and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Extensively involved inMDMto help the organization with strategic decision making and process improvements. (Streamline data sharing among personnel and departments).
• Demonstrated ability to document business processes and write detailed Functional Requirement Document (FRD) orBusinessRequirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and Use Case Specification.
• Experienced in preparing process documents like Project plan (Scheduling and maintain the project timeline (Project planning/ tracking)), change request tracking, Project status report, Project issues and risk mitigation plan / reports.
• Involved inMDMProcess including data modeling, ETL process, and prepared data mapping documents based on graph requirements.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract related data from transaction record database.
• Extensive Experience with data analysis including data modeling, data mapping and data validation.
• Having involved in Full Implementation Life Cycle of the application (SDLC) and in post implementation support using Agile Methodology (Scrum Framework), Waterfall.
• Having experience in Documentation tools like MS Visio, Microsoft Office.
• Excellent technical writing skills and ability to peer review technical documents for grammar, content and style of writing.
• Effectively tested, logged and managed defects found during project system testing, functional testing using BRD with different browser for web applications and validating outputs generated.
• Validating data, mobile web services on various devices and platforms for mobile apps.
• Proficient in developing UAT plans, UAT cases, executing UAT.
• Skilled in end user and ensure readiness of the user for UAT and train the trainer.
• Having excellent communication, organizational and presentation skills, inter-personal relationship and ability to be part of team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MDM Business Analyst

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Defined accountability procedures governing data access, processing, storage, retention, reporting and auditing measuring contract compliance
• Gathered and documentedMDMapplication, conversion and integration requirements.
• Assist with managing all facets of project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Support Data and Analytics/Transformation Architecture teams who are building a data strategy aligned with global strategic direction - develop canonical and other models as required, implementing data architecture platforms and solutions and data services, developMDMfoundation, participate in the design and implementation of unified data warehouse; must be able to implement end to end solutions in support of the various data tracts and work streams
• Developed the Stone Soup Pharmaceutical Data Model. Assisted on the development of a proposal for a major client.
• Led development and documentation of data governance policy and procedures as well as Stewardship inventory and control set up processes forMDMprojects
• Implemented metadata standards, data governance and stewardship, master data management, ETL, ODS, data warehouse, data marts, reporting, dashboard, analytics, segmentation, and predictive modelling.
• Gathering the information about manual sources that are not captured in point of delivery (POD) Mappings.
• Work with users to identify the most appropriate source of record and profile the data required for sales and service.
• Broad technology background and comprehensive exposure to various capital markets research and electronic trading platforms such as BondDesk, Valubond, TradeWeb and Bloomberg.
• Defined frameworks for Operational data system (ODS), Brokerage data warehouse (BDW), Central file distribution (CFD) and Data Quality (DQ) and created functional data requirement (FDR) and Master Test Strategy documents.
• Involved in defining the source to target data mappings,businessrules,businessand data definitions.
• Interact with computer systems end-users and projectbusinesssponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff onbusinessrequirements.
• Utilized Informatica toolset (Informatica Data Explorer, and Informatica Data Quality) to analyze legacy data for data profiling.
• Support and development of medical research information systems for data acquisition and management; Database-driven Python applications; Migration, Data transformation and validation tool development; Technical lead for several projects.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Portland, ME

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development & documentation of Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and using Rational Rose.
• Responsible for analyzing and discrepancy resolution for the monthly trustee reports that are posted for investors. Furthermore, analyze portfolio metrics in correlation with the fund's indenture.
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Implemented thedatagovernancestandards, policies, and procedures for the control, protection, consistency and delivery of corporatedataand information assets.
• Collect, review and analyze system related changes to ensurecompliancewith department SLAs, policies, procedures, and/orregulatoryand risk requirements
• Performed the physical database design, normalized the tables, worked with Denormalised tables to load thedatainto fact tables ofDatawarehouse.
• Responsible primarily for CashEquities, Single Stock Flow Derivatives andEquityCapital Markets businesses
• Participated in defining and makingbusinessrules in terms of analyzing the pricing method of fixed income products (treasurybills/notes/bonds, e.g.) so as to have a concept of how the credit rating agencies rate the clients' credit
• Created test plans, test cases and conducted functional/non-functional testing as needed, defined and traced software defects in JIRA.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas including Credit Profiling, Treasury /Cash Management, and Marketing Analysis. Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.
• Researched and constructed communications to investors consisting of market data, fund data and statistics in regard to each monthly report and payment per fund.
• Performed requirement gathering and knowledge extraction about the Capital markets using both formal and informal sessions through JAD sessions
• Driven product development (PDLC) and management and highly collaborative across business and technology organization, by providing sound business analysis, process and change leadership within a scaled AgilePDLCframework
• Present each portfolio's status for discussion at monthly company meetings with senior executive staff.
• Hold bi-monthly compliance meetings with colleagues to ensure that each portfolio's compliance process is consistent, discuss potential and existing legal issues across all portfolios, and dissect and create strategies for reporting.
• Created financial models for new floating rate loan portfolios. Identify and resolve discrepancies across all warehoused asset data points.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of business from conceptual to procedural level.

Business Analyst

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying and analyzing various Wires and ACH payment initiation APIs that send payment transactions to the Payment processing systems such as ACI Money Transfer System and PEP+.
• Analysed all Outbound and Inbound payment flows for Domestic and International payments
• BNPP modeling convention was used to generate standardized modeling rules for Domestic and International payment channels to meet BNPP and Confidential compliance with audit requirements for KYPS.
• Examined the deliverable which included detailed documentation on Payment data flows for Outbound and Inbound transactions for Wires and ACH payments.
• Observing the transaction flows which included Actimize fraud analytics and fraud detection API for monitoring transactions in real time, allowing for targeted interdiction to minimize losses to improve customer experience.
• Gathered and documented the requirements that are critical to thebusinessmission and using those requirements to design application software.
• Interacted with the "Users" by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Working in Agile environment, documented Test Scenarios, and Test Cases after reviewing thebusinessrequirements, design document, use cases, and technical specifications documents.
• Analysed and documentedBusinessrequirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of thebusiness.
• Participated in capturing and analyzing the payment channels, payment types, message types and APIs between payment initiation channels and payment processing systems by interviewing the stakeholders of Payment channels in the North American IRB territories
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify thebusinesscritical areas from user perspective.
• Created webpage mock-ups to help the design team to get a clear insight of the user requirements.
• Tracked and maintained Stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest.