SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with 10 years of experience in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and project management in various mission critical projects.
• Certified Operations Risk Management professional from New York Institute of Finance.
• Achieved certificate of completion on “Budgeting” from New York Institute of Finance.
• Possess good knowledge in Possess experience in Operational risks, Credit risk and Market Risk.
• Excellent analytical skills coupled with effective technical writing and verbal communication.
• Expert in business process engineering and software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications. Posess comprehensive knowledge of Waterfall, Agile and RUP methodologies.
• Strong domain knowledge in different sectors of industries such as Banking, Financial, Trademarks and Retail Services with extensive experience specializing in Intellectual property, Investment Banking and Wealth management. Also possess exceptional knowledge in project management.
• Expert in requirements elicitation and requirements management and communicating them effectively to various stake holders.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Sequence Activity diagrams in MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, surveys, interviews, brainstorming, joint requirements planning (JRP) and joint application development (JAD) sessions.
• Performed Feasibility Analysis, Impact Analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Gap Analysis, Data Analysis and Risk Analysis.
• Experience in project management, managed multiple projects and business analysts.
• Strong experience in conducting UAT and documentation of test Cases using HP Quality Centre 9.0., MS Excel.
• Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Management, Quality Assurance, Defect tracking, System integration and scheduling.
• Comprehensive at writing and execution of SQL queries and validation of data at backend.
• Experience in Business intelligence projects. Extensively worked data ware housing applications. Possess exposure in DW/BI tools such as Analysis Services (SSAS), Integration Services (SSIS), and Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Financial Services - Wealth Management/Investment banking/Regulatory Reporting/Risks/Trading.
• Trade Marks - Content Management Systems/Feasibility Analysis/Testing
• Retail Applications Credit Cards/Supply chain management/Vendor management/Project Cost & Budgeting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile methodology

Platforms: Windows/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS

Languages: SQL, UML 2.0, XML/HTML

Databases: MS-Access, MS SQL Server 2008 R2 management studio, Oracle11g

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Ms-Visio, Visual Studio

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Rally

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Centre V10.0., JIRA

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS Office: Excel (VLOOKUP’s, Pivots), MPP

DW/BI ReportingTools: MS-SSIS,SSAS SSRS

Tools: AXIOM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

IT BA

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on OCRR project for TIC B reports with regard to reporting of OTC derivates for cash margins as third party. Completed Initial Analysis, TSD and Development in progress.
• Simultaneously working on change requests raised by users for CCAR reports.
• Prepared Data Lineage Report (Table/Column/Data source) mapping for various System’s involved in the workflow for CCAR Reports.
• Worked on multiple projects/Reports for the client for submission of CCAR reports 2017. Reports include 14Q, TIC B, QPR, FFIEC002, BO to OBIEE migration. Performed GAP analysis for Class Vs Presentation table and column data for BO and OBIEE. Identified the GAP’s and performed Prod check outs for the fixes.
• Projects include - Cayman Repo, WP57, Country by Country, Evergreen, and other MRC items raised by users.
• Involved in change management processes and initiatives.
• Proficient at AXIOM tool. Adept at excel and development documentation.
• Drafted technical specifications document, functional specifications Document, Business Requirement document, Proof of Concept and delivered to Users/development team.
• Responsible for end to end delivery for each release, in the process coordinated with Users\change teams for requirements.
• Co-ordinated with developers for coding.
• Validated the code in each environment DEV, Dev2, UAT, IUAT, Performed Production checkouts after release.
• Perform System Integration Testing to ensure development is in line with functional specification.
• Supported Global Testing Team for functional testing and Users for UAT.
• Ensured on-time quality delivery of projects and activities assigned.
• Report on and monitor project status on regular basis (weekly) as to inform all stakeholders of ongoing program updates.
• Updated documentation required for audit purpose.
• Queried data in upstream systems for analysis using SQL, SAS Studio.

Confidential, New York

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Initiated the project from scratch by laying Scope, Project plan, Low level design working with offshore Project lead/Mangers (TCS Group).
• Organized project kickoff by assembling onsite and offshore teams.
• Identified SME’s in technology controls team for Risk and Control toolset and Service management toolset for integration/migration efforts.
• Extensively interacted with various stake holders throughout the project.
• Elicited requirements, interviewed several users across various zones India, USA, Ukraine for development effort.
• Managed Onsite and Offshore teams. Led several requirements sessions for offshore team to update requirements.
• Trained the team to understand the domain on operational risk management - Operation Risk Events, Actions, Reporting structure.
• Sound understanding of Operations governance tools such as OPUS and RSAM.
• Possess Sound knowledge of SSRS reporting tool.
• Instrumental in developing various documentation required for the project - Business Requirement Document, Technical Design Document, RNC Change Management Plan, UAT defect Log.
• Drafted Proof of Concept for RNC tool with the support from developers and got the signoff for critical requirements.
• Extensively used Ms Visio, Balsamic Mock up tool, and Project pencil for visualization of various use cases.
• Involved in technical analysis for RNC toolset. Prepared mapping document for source files and database columns. Ensured all the offshore queries are answered and development is advancing.
• Ensured project is meeting timelines specified to client.
• Laid change management process to handle change request.
• Co-Ordinated UAT and ensured all the issues are properly interpreted by offshore team and defect log is updated and issues are fixed.
• Worked hand in hand with offshore project lead.
• Completed various Barclays internal certifications(AML)

Confidential

Lead Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working on Data mapping, data analysis and mining with XMLs and search tools such as Corsearch UI and Edital POC required for trade mark applications.
• Performed detailed analysis on raw data which is in XML file’s and reported evaluation reports. Extensively worked in Access database, for querying. Also worked on Corsearch UI, Edital POC for raw data querying.
• Performed UAT, reported comparison reports on Client API's and Production API's in HTML. Worked in TFS on documenting Product backlog items.
• Involved in complete testing life cycle and periodically shared and reported the results with respective stake holders and tracked the status.
• Working on reporting, and data analysis validations on Corsearch internal applications for various projects. Co-ordinate with development and QA teams in clarifying the requirements and coordinating with business users and involved in all phases of the projects
• Worked hand in hand with respective project managers and provided value added solutions and timely support
• Performed feasibility analysis and performed GAP Analysis for an integration project. Performed post validation and pre validation during the release times and did the prod verifications/validations. and instrumental in framing and documenting business rules.
• Extensively worked on XSD's, data definitions on XML structures. Also worked on multiple tools such as MS VISUAL STUDIO, UML, and MS EXCEL for documenting USE Cases requirements and reporting.
• Attended multiple training sessions and documented training manual on validation error reports to help document the process on dealing with the reports and providing treatment on how to treat the errors.
• Responsible for projects across the systems bring in process improvements provided quality-driven, value added services and cost effective solutions. Vast Experience in on-site & offshore co-ordination. Managed multiple projects from Business side, providing end-to-end support including scoping, requirement elicitation, design/build and test and deploy.

Confidential

Lead Business systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented detailed business requirements document for Vendor Risk Management Program.
• Authored "road-map" and documented business rules in coordination with operations department.
• Involved in Risk assessment, Third-party due diligence, Contracting, Continued oversight for vendor risk assessment.
• Worked as a subject matter expert and involved in setting up the business rules and frame work for risk assessment.
• Involved in Mapping of vendors and laws and regulations that are applicable to the framework.
• Involved in Risk/impact analysis to identify high risk areas.
• Interacted with Various internal and external teams, resolving various issues with Customers related to the system.
• Liased with business and functional owner during risk engineering and high-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting timelines and standards.
• Worked in sync with financial advisors on RTB project on setting up back end processes and business rules.
• Worked in multiple projects for the client.
• Ensured all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Extensively worked hand in hand with project manager and teams from Scope to Post operations for dragon project.
• Supported QA team in Validations.
• Prioritized outstanding issues and ensured accuracy and timelines.
• Conducted UAT.

Confidential, Denver, Co

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with stake holders and facilitated communication between client and the IT department.
• Lead the team of business analysts to drive the requirements.
• Transformed user specifications into functional specifications.
• Documented various documents including the Business Requirements Document and the Use Case Specification Documents.
• Performed Feasibility and Risk Analysis to report critical and high-risk areas of the application.
• Developed use case documents and adept and UML in creating various diagrams to depict business process flows and workflows.
• Performed requirement walkthroughs with the Dev. and QA teams with the aim to develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.
• Conducted Gap analysis to understand new business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated into the new application.
• Conducted JAD sessions for better understanding and refining of requirements in coordination with multiple teams.
• Participated in Change control meetings recommending appropriate action after analysis of changing requirements.
• Provided project manager with regular status updates and provided assistance related to cost control and budget management for overall project.
• Involved in vendor management. Managed multiple projects from Business side.