SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience as Business Analyst with concentration on Finance, trading and mortgage.
• Strong understanding of Dodd - Frank Act including global capital market instruments including equities, fixed income, derivatives & foreign exchange, back office operations and loan origination system.
• Good knowledge of Risk Management systems, Credit Risk management, Regulatory Compliance and Risk Data Analysis.
• Well experienced with Software Development life cycle and its phases using different methodologies like Waterfall and agile-Scrum.
• Proficient in gathering requirement and preparing BRD, FRD, SRS, Use case documents.
• Excellent skills in forming and facilitating Workshops, Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions and Scrum (Agile) meetings to discuss challenges and resolve issues
• Met with stakeholders and users to review / manage expectations and identify opportunities to improve ROI
• Experience in evaluating the cost/benefit analysis, gap analysis, impact analysis and system analysis on requirement requests and change requests.
• Proficient in creating UML diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagram, flow chart Diagrams using Microsoft Visio
• Proficient in extracting different databases using MS SQL server.
• Ability to create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for managing changes in requirements using MS Excel
• Created Test Cases in HPQC/HPALM, Excel and involved in Defect Tracking usingHPQC/HPALMand JIRA.
• Proficient in User acceptance testing as the end user requirement before deploying the application.
• Created Training manuals, Help manuals and User guide and conducted end user trainings
• Has a strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability and willingness to tactfully challenge assumptions, excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Mac OSX 10.3

TESTING/DEFECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: Win Runner, Load Runner, HPQC/HPALM

LANGUAGES: HTML, SQL

REQUIREMENT MANAGEMENT: Caliber RM, Caliber RDM

DOCUMENTATION TOOLS: MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: MS Project

METHODOLOGIES (SDLC): Scrum, Agile, Waterfall Model

DATABASE: MS SQL Server, MS Access

OTHER TOOLS: SharePoint, Balsamiq, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), business users, legal compliance department and equity business to gather the requirement for the platform.
• Interacted with the project manager, developer and other team members, along with the other application department team member and performed the gap analysis, performance analysis between the older application and new application for real time trading system
• Analyzed, documented, and managed all project requirements and changes to requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Translated high level requirements in Vision Document into detailed requirements inBusiness Requirement Document (BRD) and Use Case Documents (UCD)
• Created GUI Mock-ups to enter new trades and Trade Approval Blotter according to end user requirements.
• Created Context diagrams and UML diagrams like Use Case diagrams and Activity diagrams using MS Visio.
• Created UAT Test Cases using HPQC. Presented Test Cases to end users and got approval
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Validated requirements including Data Quality Rules for Trade Booking GUIs and Trade Process Flow
• Ensured the Test Coverage by collecting and documenting test results data from various releases using HPQC. Got approval on test results
• In order to expedite defect resolution, investigated defects by fetching data in tables using SQL
• Facilitated JAD sessions to resolve requirements and testing issues and develop an architectural solution that the application meetsbusinessrequirements, resolve open issues and change requests
• Logged bugs in HPQC. Assigned severity to issues
• Facilitated daily defect review meetings. Worked with development team to ensure defects are addressed according to severity
• Conducted reviews with team membersfor sign off at the end of each milestone like creation of BRD and Use Case documents, test cases and test results

Environment: Microsoft Office, HPQC, SQL.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed and applied Agile Methodology in defining the problem, gathering requirements,business modeling and communicating with the technical team for the development of the system.
• Involved in Functional Point Analysis and prepared the cost benefit analysis of the proposed application.
• Organized meeting and presented storyboards to ensure accurate comprehension of the existing situation with rewards to mismatched user story.
• Diagnosed and cogently defined the core problem - the lack of systematic procedure in matching the trades proposed solution to effectively take care of the issues and identified gaps, performed Gap Analysis.
• Analyzed the attributes of the Fixed Income Products.
• Depicted the flow of different kinds of user story through activity diagram using MS Visio.
• Developed use case diagrams for every conceivable story - such as use case to determine the sales credit mismatch, use case for the matched user story, allocation etc.
• Supervised the development of the application by simultaneously interacting with the clients and the technical team.
• Executed SQL queries for the creation of exception reports, trade data files and investigation files to support the traders/users
• Assisted in developing test case objectives for verifying the accurate functioning of the system with respect to various mismatching under different permutations of user story.
• Involved in performance testing, functional testing, GUI and navigation testing.
• Performed system testing for functionality andbusinesslogic and the test strategy involved documentation of test plans and creating test cases.
• Involved in UAT process before rolling out to production.

Environment: s: Windows/Unix, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Agile, Test Director, MS Project, MS Office, MS SharePoint.

Confidential, Tulsa, Ok

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared BRD, use cases, process flow diagrams, and other artifacts while analyzing the inception phase.
• Conducted JAD sessions during design and development phases of models to formulate payoffs on interest rate swaps and Credit-at-Risk (CaR) analysis module.
• Involved in the preparation of System Requirement Specifications (SRS) to in corporate models to value interest rate and equity options, measure options Greeks.
• Designed workflow charts and created rules relating to trading, post-trading management in order to automate and streamline back office operations to achieve STP.
• Managed (UAT) sessions and processes to review user feedback.
• Investigated, reviewed, and analyzed the current system.
• Analyzed Web Analytical data collected from Web Trends Analytics for the SEO requirement and made a recommendation and project plan based on the data trends.
• Lead on corporate and departmental Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project, as directed by the Business Change Manager.
• Defined problem domain by gathering requirements from business user and stakeholders and transformed functional requirements into system requirement specifications.
• Created Use Case model and Process flow diagrams.
• Developed and managed project plans and schedules. Managed resolution of project issues and conflicts.
• Managed resolution of project issues and conflicts.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing

Environment: Agile, Microsoft Visio, UML, JDBC, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Office, MS SQL Server.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited business requirements from the stakeholders and analyzed them for consistency, flexibility and completeness.
• Followed waterfall methodology for the project.
• Created target questionnaires for SMEs to gather requirements.
• Identified the key changes and conducted periodic walkthroughs with business users to communicate effectively with them.
• Performed GAP analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Acted as a liaison between the developers, clients and Line of Business (LOB) and was instrumental in resolving conflicts between user and technical development teams.
• Experience and knowledge in ACH and Check 21.
• Used Automated Clearing House (ACH) for the financial transactions.
• Created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams and Deployment Diagrams using MS Visio
• Prepared artifacts such as; Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD) for the team.
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications based on User Requirements.
• Conducted meetings with Project Manager, Business users and ensured that team is on the same page.
• Prioritized and ensured testability of all the requirements and mitigated any issues found by the stakeholders.
• Involved in maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables for a project.
• Used MS Project for scheduling timelines of the project.

Environment: Windows NT/XP/2000, UML, UNIX, MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, Mercury, Test Director.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, analysis of the requirements from thebusinessowners and users.
• Interacted with users for verifying user requirements, managing change controlprocess, updating existing documentation
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS).
• Planned and defined Use Cases created Use Case diagrams, Scenarios and Use Case Narratives.
• Created RTM (Requirements traceability matrix) mapping Requirements to Design Artifacts to UAT Cases.
• AnalyzedBusinessRequirements, performed gap analysis and segregated theminto high level and low level Use Cases,
• Activity Diagrams/State Diagrams and Class Diagram Documented and maintained requirements traceability matrix to ensure that all requirements are traceable from top to bottom and to provide a basis for test plan.
• Designed, developed, maintained and tested universes inBusinessObjects for supporting ad hoc queries and canned reports according to thebusinessrequirements.
• Extensive interactions with the client and the management teams to understand the requirements and report the status of the testing efforts on their applications
• Conducted JAD Sessions with the subject matter experts, stakeholders and other management teams in the finalization of the User Requirement Documentation.
• Responsible for the Designing and analyzing classes and objects by using theBusinessObject Designer.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing and training of end users.
• Resolved issues related to requirements during system testing and UAT.
• Participated in the planning and execution of the User Acceptance testing effort.

Environment: s: Windows/Unix, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Test Director, MS Project, MS Office, MS SharePoint.