SUMMARY

• Analytical, innovative and enthusiastic business analyst with around Six years of professional experience in software validation, and business process re - engineering.
• Worked on Capital markets areas like Fixed Income Reference Data - Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures). Exchange-traded, Foreign exchange (FX) and over-the-counter traded securities, including restricted stocks, equity repurchases, commercial loans, money market loans, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities,Credit and Market Risk.
• Thorough understanding of Dodd-Frank rules and regulations.
• Have experience working in State Govt projects
• Skilled at business analysis, web development and deployment of system solutions and business processes.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and understanding of various developmental phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Experienced at following various techniques to elicit low level requirements including Gap Analysis, JAD Session Facilitation, Process Analysis and Documentation.
• Well-versed with RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodologies for Requirement Management. Strong experience in conducting UAT and documentation of test cases.
• Working knowledge of database tuning and developing transactional enterprise data models that strictly meet normalization rules.
• Analytical capabilities highlighted in roles requiring extensive data-gathering, analysis and reporting; also through Performance Evaluation in lead positions.
• Knowledgeable in different enterprise management scenarios like Use Case modeling using UML, Business Process Modeling, Data Modeling, Change Control, Defect Tracking, Quality Assurance, Scheduling and System Integration.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Sequence, Activity diagrams in Enterprise Architect, MS Visio and Rational Rose.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Development Methodologies: Requirement Management Methodology (RMM), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Agile Software Development, Scrum Methodology

Management Tools: Rational Tools Suite (Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case), MS Project, MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visual Studio, Top Team Analyst

Languages: SQL, XML, HTML

Databases & Tools: MS SQL Server, SQL Navigator

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, IBM-AI, Microsoft - Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003, Mac OSX

Other Tools: MS FrontPage, Outlook, Top Team Analyst

Version Control Tools: CVS, Rational Clear Case

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Scranton, PA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide a business context diagram that indicates the interaction between business entities in the context of the system being created or modified.
• Conducted High Level and Detailed Requirement meetings with appropriate System Matter Experts and upper level management
• Produced a logical data model, which consists of entity relationship diagrams, entity definitions, and attribute definitions.
• Held multiple JAD sessions, Executive Interviews, and focus Group meetings to gather high-level requirements and refine them into detailed business requirements, detailed technical requirements, business process flows, use cases, and traceability matrixes.
• Developed and submitted Requirements Specifications Documents, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Detailed Requirements Document and Domain Glossary.
• Extensively used Top Team Analyst for documentation and a requirements gathering tool. Also used Microsoft office suite of products (MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Power Point)
• Worked cohesively in groups within the team as well as with staff at the department of labor and industry.

Environment: Top Team Analyst, MS Word, Excel and Visio, SharePoint.

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Business system Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Fixed Income Reference Data - Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures).
• Worked on other aspects of Reference data like Entitlement, Instrument Groups Internal Books and Client Accounts.
• Responsible for developing and supporting requirements for service flow of Corporate Actions, Corporate actions response.
• Involved depth understanding of Bond Merge Process from various source systems - internal ( Confidential ) and external (BBG and MarketAxess)
• Created IT Application audit documentation (BRDS & OSD) to ensure a tight control environment in response to audit points and for Dodd Frank Title VII Regulations
• Conducted User Interviews and Work Shops to gather accurate Business Requirements
• Served as a liaison between the business team and the technical team by identifying, understanding, and documenting their needs.
• Analyze requirements utilizing various methods. (E.g. sample data from SQL queries, Screen Shots, reports, prototype screens, sourcing information, and other data models.)
• Experience using MS Office tools such as Microsoft Excel and SharePoint.
• Experienced in manual and automated testing for both front-end and backend. Extensively used automated test tools of Mercury like Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Test Director, Performance and Load Runner Testing.

Environment: Java, MS SQL Server, MS Word, Excel and Visio, SharePoint.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Obtaining a detailed knowledge of the business process being followed in the project environment.
• Prepared Business Object / Business Process Models that included modeling of all the activities of business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Extracted the business requirements from the stakeholders keeping in mind their need for the application and documenting them using Rational ReqPro.
• Involved in put or call options that protects an investor from foreign-exchange risk for a future sale or purchase of a specified foreign-equity portfolio.
• The Credit Risk Evaluator Project is an integrated customer - controlled platform for credit risk management. It is a powerful tool for measuring and monitoring and managing credit risk, thereby offering a broad range of analytical Capabilities and user control.
• The platform enabled institutions to estimate and stress credit risk measures and rating estimates by using scorecards/models.
• Analyzed Business Requirements performed gap analysis and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Extensively worked on the ETL mappings, analysis and documentation of OLAP reports requirements
• Interacted with database developers for formulating the ER diagrams and data flow diagrams.
• Created cross-functional flow chart using MS Visio.
• Experience with DB2in a completeSoftwarePackage, created, stored, updated and retrieved Data in aSystematic Manner.
• Effective communication made possible between the developers and the end-clients to guarantee that development efforts were within the scope of the project and the development was as expected.
• Supported traders for front office operations like order management.
• Held regular JAD meetings with the system architects, developers, database developers, and quality testers during the entire project to assure that the critical as well as the minute details of the project were discussed and issues were resolved beforehand.
• Carried out defect control and change control in ClearQuest.

Environment: Window, SQL, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint, Clear Quest, Rational Unified Process (RUP), RequisitePro, UML.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted management in defining requirements, possible implementations, and wrote a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the new process.
• Experience with Property and Causality -P&C Insurance solutions in environmental, risk management, workers compensation, property and general liability.
• Assisted with making claim services such as first party and third party claims easily accessible to both the client and the customer.
• Assisted Senior Business Analyst in planning, designing, programming, testing and implementation projects
• Created data standards for market data management and made modifications to system linking tables. These changes reduced the number of incorrectly classified products, thus reducing the need for manual intervention.
• Generated requirements specifications, use cases, process flow diagrams, user interface designs, user’s manual, training materials, and other system documentation.
• Developed specific plans and tests to ensure that proposed systems and business processes meet those requirements, as they are being planned, developed, delivered and supported.
• Proactively communicate to all stakeholders, with up to date, relevant information
• Worked with business partners to develop acceptance criteria and a plan to facilitate user acceptance testing to ensure that the solution meets the business requirements.
• Served as the point person for various stakeholders for all on-boarding related questions and issues.
• Gave demos and presentations to the business sales team and got their approval before go-live.
• Extensively used Microsoft office suite of products (MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Power Point) for documentation and data interpretation for reporting test status.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, UML, MS Project, Power Point, MS Visio, Java

Confidential, Park Ridge, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• My primary goal is to deliver requirements specification for enhancements to their online software to help determine pricing throughout the nation.
• Generated requirements specifications, use cases, process flow diagrams, user interface designs, user’s manual, training materials, and other system documentation.
• Developed/implemented short and long term solutions related to competitive changes
• Advance technical knowledge with good understanding of business processes
• Comprehensive knowledge and use of presentation software, word processing software and spreadsheets.
• Created and maintained pricing, planning, and competitive intelligence tracking systems, databases and facilitated knowledge sharing across function and geographic areas
• Implemented pricing strategies for products as well as key growth for products for a business segment.
• Excellent project management and critical thinking skills.
• Good communicator, excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with less supervision.
• Used strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Worked under pressure with multitasked skills.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, RUP, UML, MS Project, Power Point, MS Visio,