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Jersey City, NJ

SUMMARY

  • 17+ years of experience and expertise in IT Project management/Business Analyst, software development with hands on experience in software project planning and management data and statistical analysis quality process management and requirement management.
  • Excellent presentation and relationship management skills.
  • Experience in Supervising/ guiding project team to ensure delivery of project on schedule.
  • Managing/leading project team resources; coordinating with operation and business team.
  • Act as liaison with the IT Senior Leadership to ensure the needs of infrastructure are prioritized and aligned with both enterprise and line of business plans.
  • Conducting status meetings, tracking deliverable ensure deliverable meets project deadline.
  • Manage IT capital and expense budget, ensuring accurate forecasts and tight financial management.
  • Manages project risks and provides risk mitigation plans, including conducting project design reviews to minimize risk.
  • Manage risk, create risk management plan, and mitigate risk to project.
  • Create quality plan and change management plan; create defect fix plan.
  • Experience in managing resources, schedules, allocations and prioritize deliverables.
  • Experience in track project deliverables and oversee Implementation.
  • Excellent research, analytic skills and risk management skills.
  • Very Strong Demonstrated skills in Project management and Business analysis.
  • Exceptional analysis skills with an ability to transform the needs of business users and stakeholders into functional/technical requirements.
  • Expertise in Project Planning gathering requirements creating high - level design artifacts like functional specifications data flow diagrams supporting quality assurance activities and User Acceptance Testing UAT.
  • Expertise in performingGAPanalysis, creatingBRD, FRDconductingJADsessions
  • Expertise inproject managementin defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals, liaise with project stakeholders, manage project dependencies, quality control and status report
  • Proficient inUML diagrams- use case diagrams, activity diagrams, swim lane diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state diagrams and business workflow diagram using MS Visio, Rational Rose.
  • Experienced in conducting Joint Application Design JAD sessions brainstorming session’s reviews walk-throughs and customer interviews for various business processes.
  • Strong project experience of all phases ofSDLCapplication developed process, software development methodologies Waterfall, RUP, Agile Scrum
  • Strong visual modeling and business process modeling skills using tools like MS Visio and Rational Rose.
  • Expert with conducting Requirement Gathering and Analysis High-level Design co-coordinating development creating Test Plan and Test Case and supporting UAT.
  • Strong experience inquality assurance- performed functional testing, integration testing, GUI testing, performance testing,stress testing, regression testing,smoke testing, and supportedUAT.
  • Excellent Knowledge of Business Analysis Body of Knowledge IIBA BABOK actively implemented in routine work.
  • Proficient in Quality Assurance Life Cycle like developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases Manual / Automated, Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts.
  • Highly skilled to translate high level business requirements business rules and stake holders request into functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Strong expertise in documenting existing process analyzing business requirements working with requirements traceability matrix and GAP analysis.
  • Strong experience in writing SQL queries to generate reports, data analysis, and retrieving data, combine data from multiple tables.
  • Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building leadership and interpersonal skills. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and quickly master new concepts and subjects.
  • Firm understanding of Financial Instruments and regulatory and compliance reporting.
  • Strong knowledge of financial instruments such asStocks, Corporate Bonds, Treasury Bills, Treasury Notes, andTreasury Bonds, Municipal Bonds, Asset Backed SecuritiesABS
  • Experience in compliance product like Actimize SAM, RCM, WLF, Hotscan.
  • Expert in AML transaction surveillance/Monitoring system support for review alert/escalation.
  • Oversee development through AIS, implementation of Actimize solutions, XSL development for alert details and RCM Designer development.
  • Excellent understanding of financial risks, such asCredit Risk,Market Risk,Operational Risk,Interest-Rate Risk,Volatility Risk, andCounter-party Risk, associated with securities and measuring risk using metrics such asVaR, Duration, Convexity, Yield,andYTM
  • Strong knowledge of Security Data Financial Analysis,Basel II III Accordfor Compliance / Risk Management,GAAP, andDodd-Frank for financial regulations
  • Hands on experience dealingmarket data, reference data, counterparty datato create customers report for clearing and settlement purposes

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Technologies: Project, Excel, Power point, Visio, Share point and Word

Languages: SQL/T-SQL, JAVA, C#, C++, C, NoSQL

Compliance Tools: Actimize- SAM, Actimize-RCM, Actimize-WLF, Hotscan

Web Technologies: C#.Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net/MVC, HTML, and XML

Platform/OS: Windows/Unix /IBM Mainframe/Hadoop

Databases & OLTPs: ORACLE, DB2, MS SQL, VSAM, ADABAS and CICS

Business Intelligence: Business object, INFORMATICA, TIDAL, TOAD, SSIS/SSRS/SSAS

Automated Testing Tools: TestDirector QualityCenter, QTP, WinRunner, ClearQuest

Middleware & etc.: MQ Series, XML, web service, clod computing

Big data concept: Hadoop, Hive, Pig

Mainframe skills: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, NATURAL and ADABAS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Jersey City NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Supervise/ guide project team to ensure deliver of project on schedule/cost.
  • Managing/leading project team resources; coordinating with operation and business team.
  • Managed team size of 8+ resource; including oversees location Japan and India.
  • Managing resources, schedules, task allocations and prioritize project.
  • Conducting status meetings, tracking deliverable ensure deliverable meets project deadline.
  • Act as liaison with the IT Senior Leadership to ensure the needs of infrastructure are prioritized and aligned with both enterprise and line of business plans.
  • Allocate resources based on merit.
  • Provide presentation/status on various project to senior management.
  • Guide project manager/project team to deliver project and support align with organization business need and direction from senior management.
  • Communicating with various stakeholder both internal project manager/ sr. Management/ team and external vendor consulting company
  • Acted as a liaison between business owner technical team
  • Performed theGAP analysisby identifying existing technologies, mapped the existing processes and the expected processes, also facilitatedJADsessions to analyze prioritize business requirement
  • Organized executed requirement gathering session with business users and stake holders to identify and document thebusiness requirementsprepared clear and concisefunctional specifications
  • Followed the principles of Rational Unified ProcessRUPmethodology during software development life cycle progressing through different phases - inception, elaboration, construction, and transition
  • Worked on MS Project to assistproject managerPM with developing project plan, milestones, and deliverables management throughout the project life cycle
  • Identified differentsecuritiestypes anddata sourcefor securitiesABS, MBS, Corporate bond, Treasury bonds
  • Analyzeddata source, identified various data attributes Such asReference data, client data,etc.,
  • Prepared theUse Cases,Sequence Diagrams,Process flow,Cross functional flow Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams in MS Visio to signify the system workflow and to find out any bottleneck in the system
  • Participated in data modeling session withdataarchitectsanddata modelersto understand logical physical data models, defineentity-relationship
  • Extensively usedSQL queriesto conduct data validation testing, data load testing, and generating user reports
  • Created Requirements Traceability MatrixRTMto identify end-to-end association between business requirements and test cases to meet the expected results
  • AssistedQA teamto documenttest plantest cases; performed various types oftestingfunctional, regression
  • Involved inUAT,defect tracking, coordinating Change Control; worked with users to prevent scope creep and conducted walkthroughs with the end users and project stakeholders

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Followed theAgile Scrummethodology to manage project schedule, team coordination and deliverables throughout the software development process
  • PerformedGAP analysisto study the current business process, documented the characteristics factors of the present situation, factors needed to achieve future objectives, and highlighted the gaps that exists and need to be filled
  • Facilitated severalJADsessions all through the software development lifecycle scope management, prioritize project needs, identify deliverables, and address critical issues
  • Identified and interviewed project stakeholders to elicit business requirements, captured user stories in product backlog
  • Liaisedbetween product owner, scrum master, development team, and QA team throughout the project to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines, and organization standards
  • Assisted Scrum Master in project management with developing project plan, project milestones, project charter,product backlog,sprint backlog, andburndown metrics; participated and leaded daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings, and sprint retrospective meetings
  • Designed UI for various screens such as new order entry, blotter, allocation, merge order, split order etc.,
  • Created front end Dashboard to generate reports display with updated information
  • CreatedUML diagramsto define clear system's visual structure using use cases, swim lane diagrams, class diagrams, activity diagrams, business workflow, and data flow diagrams inMS Visio
  • Performed data analysis data validation by executingSQL queriesto validate database dependencies and constraints, to create custom user reports, and to conduct data load process testing
  • Conductedfunctional testing, system integration testing, performance testing, stress testing, smoke testing, and regression testingalso helpedQA teamto prepare test plan, test cases, and test scripts
  • Extensively involved indefect tracking and managementopen defects, prioritizing defects, assign to the concerned developers, track status, ensure fixes and summary reporting
  • FacilitatedUAT processfor project stakeholders - identified test group, prepared test environment, tracked defects, managed status updates, and generated summary reports

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • LedQA teamin developing test strategy, test plan, test cases, and test scripts; and conductedfunctional testing, integration testing, system testing, and regression testing
  • Involved in business requirement analysis and design, prepared functional and technical design document
  • Involved in creating logical, physical data models for cleansing model
  • Involved in data profiling, data quality and data cleansing and metadata management
  • Extracted data from Oracle, excel, data files using Informatica ETL mappings/SQL PLSQL scripts
  • Created complex Informatica mappings using Unconnected Lookup, joiner, Rank, Source Qualifier, Sorter, Aggregator, newly changed dynamic Lookup and Router transformations to extract, transform and load data to Cleansing area
  • Wrote complex PLSQL functions/procedures/packages
  • Developed Informatica workflows/worklets/sessions associated with the mappings using Workflow Manager
  • Wrote Test cases and executed test scripts in Cleansing area
  • Involved in performance tuning of Informatica code and PLSQL scripts
  • Supported during QA/UAT/PROD deployments
  • Wrote UNIX Korn shell scripts for file transfer/archiving.
  • Involved in Reviews as per ETL/Informatica standards and best practices
  • Created Autosys JIL files and executed to generate Autosys Jobs.
  • Scheduling of Informatica workflows/sessions using Autosys

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Production Support.
  • Coordinating different issues/project activities with operation and business user’s team.
  • Resolving different issues in the system and Provide solutions.
  • Conducts meetings/discussion with different stake holders to resolve issue.
  • Requirement gathering, interacting with users/representative and documentation.
  • Business analysis of various phase of Project life cycle.
  • Design system work flows for each product and system design with enhancement.
  • Created various functional requirements/specification and business flows.
  • Analyzes business work flows for different banking product/flows with business and IT teams.
  • Provide business analysis recommendation for Implementation and Testing strategies.
  • Performed data and quality analysis, data mapping/impact analysis/validation etc.

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