SUMMARY

• Dedicated and results driven Business Analyst with 8+ years of experience in Finance Industry
• Extensive knowledge in capital and money market instruments within investment banking and brokerage environments like Fixed income instruments, Income (Mutual Funds, Bonds, Asset Backed Securities, Hedge Funds) and Equities, ETFs & OTCs, FX, Derivatives etc.
• Experienced in Trading, Settlement and Messaging concepts (STP and SWIFT), Transfer Agency Services, Trade Lifecycle, and Hedge Fund strategies
• Expert in Anti - Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, USA Patriot Act (KYC, CDD), OFAC, FATF
• Excellent knowledge of Security Master, Account Master, Fund Accounting, Basel compliance using industry standards and regulatory guidance (Collateral Management)
• Proficient Dodd Frank regulatory programs, and FATCA
• Excellent understanding of reference data and transactional data of financial instruments like derivatives, fixed income, equities, etc.
• Expert in various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and RUP, excellent documentation skills in developing Business Requirement Document, Functional and Non Functional Specifications
• Extensive skills in Data Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Business Modeling, and use case developing using UML methodology including Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Wireframes prototypes and documenting them using Microsoft Visio
• Proficient inTest driven development & testing methodologiesfor performing UAT, System Integration testing (SIT),BusinessAcceptance Testing (BAT) and documenting test results
• Being actively involved with QA team in different phases of testing such as System testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and Integration testing for Quality Analysis
• Expert in Data quality Management, Data profiling, Data Cleansing, Data Integrity, Deference Data, Data Security, Document management and Identity Management.
• Deep understanding of Database management system, Data warehousing concepts, Business Intelligence technologies and Data mining.
• Experienced in Implementing Normalization/Denormalization techniques for optimum performance in OLTP/OLAP database environments for Business Intelligence’s function.
• Wrote SQL queries and assisted in extracting data for creating Data mapping document.
• User Acceptance Tests and creating & executing Test Scripts/Test Cases.
• Expert in facilitating all levels of management, developers, QAs, stakeholders, business users and off-site teams in JADs, brainstorm sessions, white boarding by conferences and WebEx.
• Strong leader and team builder with excellent analytical and communication skills with capability to handle new technologies and situations, dedicated to meet deadlines and provide necessary deliverables and resolve issues creatively by out of the box thinking.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements, defined the scope of the project, analyze and prioritized requirements, developed customized business strategies, and identified high potential business opportunities
• Automated the generation of CTR and SAR reports in compliance with AML regulation; made sure the reports were furthermore filed by the compliance officer to FinCEN
• Worked with KYC database, Transaction database and HR database
• Worked closely with Actimize team in order to meet all the requirements
• Conducted JAD sessions, met with client and end users in order to accelerate the design of IT solutions and also depict the user s view of the business needs and to jointly develop a solution
• Created burn down chart of the whole project and also each sprint while conducting daily scrum meetings with developers
• As Scrum Master involved in making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking
• As Scrum Master involved in Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives & Reviews, Daily Stand ups, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• As a Scrum Master created and prioritized the Back Log in Rally, coordinated Planning Sessions and maintenance User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Developed UML diagrams (use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams) in order to validate entity reference data and verification of the customer records: legal name, address, business purpose legitimacy and analysis of transaction activity)
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for data warehouse, and did data profiling
• Created wireframes in order to help developers build the application in Visual Basic and held data modeling sessions by developing DFD
• Implemented layouts for Suspicious Activity and Pattern analysis under AML regulations
• Issued the Test Plan Document, Test Planning, Test Design and Test Execution and was involved in the Testing Process which verified and validated all the defined business requirements and associated functionalities
• Created the RTM in order to project the life cycle activities and work products to the project requirements
• Conducted SIT, UAT, and Regression testing when needed
• Assisted business users and provided training

Confidential, Monterey Park, CA

Sr. Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of the project under scrum methodology, involving credit risk mitigation.
• Assisted Project Manager to develop Scope Document of Project and Project Plan.
• Gathered requirements by using JAD sessions in order to make fast decisions
• Created the BRD and FRD after gathering requirements
• Created a tool to analyze liquidity risk for cash equity trading system
• Issued Use cases and Business case scenario and designed the system as per requirements.
• Elaborated Functional and Non-Functional System Requirements for the Development teams.
• As a Scrum Master conducted Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings, Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming, Sizing, Daily Stand ups, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Generated LGD data element capture efforts to be in the sync with the Basel II Reference Data.
• Documented data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain data warehouse content
• Created job schedules to automate the ETL process
• Worked on data modeling and produced data mapping and data definition documentation
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for testing and data validation
• Used data warehousing for data profiling to examine the data available in a source database
• Developed strategies for data scrubbing, cleansing, enriching, transforming and loading data in data warehouse
• As Scrum Master created and prioritized the Back Log in Rally, coordinated Planning Sessions and maintained User Stories and Acceptance criteria
• Designed GUIs as per requirements, created UI wireframes and mapped UI fields to database.
• Involved in the Foreclosure and Direct Expenses forecasting of real estates and other than real estates
• Enabled the user to track the loan record in the commercial work stream for complete life cycle.
• Performed data analysis and data mapping to bring the data originating from different source systems in the commercial banking database to Basel II database.
• Interacted and worked with Process Engineering team to create process flow diagrams.
• Put together Requirement Traceability Matrix to view the coverage of Business Requirements to System Requirements and further till Test cases
• Maintained Traceability in HPQC and generated reports from QC as required.
• Created risk regulatory reporting specifications for business intelligence tools like Business Objects to generate periodic and ad-hoc reports.
• Developed Quality Assurance testing plan and assisted QA team in defects management, working with cross functional teams in multiple time zones.
• Performed GAP analysis, feasibility analysis and cost-benefit analysis and created reports using Excel modeling for successful execution of the project.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing plan, created UAT Test Cases and carried out UAT successfully.
• Created User Guide, and gave user training

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the Project manager to prepare project plans and analyzed the existing system and business process flow
• Conducted detailed business analysis by working with the client and end-users to identify system and operational requirements and improvements
• Assisted client in development ofbusinessrequirements, including identification of opportunities for improvement and optimization of businessprocesses
• Created the BRD of the software for full understanding of the business
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly
• Created specifications to be used by developers, project managers, quality assurance engineers, technical writers, and software architects in constructing the product
• Reviewed development plans, quality assurance test plans and user documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications.
• Maintained a close and strong working relationship with teammates, developers, testers and management staff

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Established the business case (success criteria, risk assessment, estimate of the resources needed, planned the major milestones) for the system and delimited the project scope
• Created the vision document and the initial use case of the project
• Conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders, SMEs and business owners to discuss the project scope and gather business requirements
• Worked with business users, mortgage agents, technical team, QA and PMO to scope and prioritize functional requirements and development releases.
• Analyzed the problem domain, established a round architectural foundation, developed the project plan, and eliminated the highest risk elements of the projects
• Identified all actors of the use case and 80% of the use case description had been developed
• Documented use cases, workflows, class and sequence diagrams according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models
• Issued a Software Architecture Description along with an executable prototype design and a revised risk list and business case
• Made a development plan for the overall project, including the coarse-gained project plan, showing iterations and evaluation criteria for each iteration
• Created an updated development case specifying the process to be used along with a preliminary user manual
• Analyzed the Business requirement and created the BRD
• Worked on writing functional specifications for reporting module that handled credit and customer risk management services
• Designed security privileges and authentication features of the application for mortgage broker access
• Analyzed business requirements for Black Box testing and performed Regression testing and created scenarios for Beta testing
• Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes
• Maintained Traceability Matrix for the current business processes and proposed changes
• Involved with reviewing defects for Beta testing efforts and analyzed for root cause and took actions based on the findings
• Conducted training sessions to make the users comfortable with the functionality

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full System Development Life Cycle of the project
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SMEs, clients and other stakeholders, designers, developers and DBA for open pending issues
• Gathered user and business requirements through interview surveys, prototyping, and UI
• Understood the portfolio dynamics and AS-IS and TO-BE scenarios
• Performed GAP analysis to decide criteria of investment vehicles
• Involved in designing UI for multiple trades
• Developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio
• Classified clients according to portfolios, requirements, risks, duration, and objectives
• Depending on TO-BE scenario finalized the criteria such as annuity rate, interest rate, discount rate, coupon payment etc. for expected return
• According to criteria set above, decided diversification strategies based on our goals and used functions like stop loss and gain profit to minimize the various risks associated
• Prepared input data feeds from various sources like Bloomberg, S&P etc.
• Performed Unit Testing using Team Track debugging tool, job monitoring and SQL queries supporting functional, UA, regression, and performance testing
• Created test cases and test scripts to check the functionality of application during UAT
• Conducted manual front-end functional testing of different modules
• Suggested measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Met business process owners, SME, and marketing team for requirement gathering
• Conducted JAD sessions which involved the customer in all development and design process
• Performed system and document analysis to the current systems in order to understand them better
• Prepared Use Case Narratives and User Stories
• Created UML diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams in order to describe the functionality of the system
• Prepared Wire frames, Prototype and Mockup screens and Simulations
• Involved in the Data Migration between Systems and validated the Business Requirements
• Performed manual back-end testing to ensure requirements were met
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing
• Defined the requirements to develop the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Conducted daily Scrum meeting, Scrum reviews, and Scrum retrospective
• Developed test methods for unit testing, integration, functional testing, load, and usability testing