SUMMARY

• Dedicated result driven BusinessAnalystwitharound 8yearsof experiencein Finance Industry with extensive knowledge in different sectors including Banking Software, Cash Management, Payments, Correspondent Banking,Wire Transfers, ACH Processing, Standing Orders
• Strong experience with Direct Debits, Mandate Management, Check Electronic Clearing, Remittance,Security Trading,Derivatives,Fixed Assets,Risk Management,and Portfolio Accounting, Fixed Income, Equities, Trade Cycle and Derivatives (Options and Futures)
• Broad experience in investment banking, capital markets, mortgage loan, and technology, specialized professional experience in global reference data, securities lending, prime brokerage and fund accounting
• Expert in variousSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and RUP, excellent documentation skills in developing Business Requirement Document, Functional and Non Functional Specifications
• Extensive skillsin Data Analysis, Requirement Analysis,BusinessModeling, and use case developmentusingUMLmethodology including Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Wireframe 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
• Extensive experience in Data Analysis, database modeling and development ofEntity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), SQL, Data migration,Data mapping,ETL, OLTP/OLAP and reportingprocess
• Outstandinginterpersonal skillsin listening, mentoring, coaching, negotiation, mediation, influencing, conflict resolution and strong communication, written and presentation skills in both English and Mandarin Chinese

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• RUP
• UML
• JAD
• Waterfall
• Six Sigma
• Rational RequisitePro
• Rational Clear Case
• Clear Quest
• Agile
• Rally
• Visual Source Safe
• MS Project
• RAD
• C
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• .Net
• JAVA
• Oracle 8i/9i
• MS Access
• SQL Server 2008
• MS Windows 8/7/XP/NT/2000/98/95
• Sun Solaris
• GNU/Linux
• Unix
• MS Office Suite
• Adobe Acrobat Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions, and Gather Business Requirements, analyze and prioritize requirements, identified high potential business opportunities and developed customized business strategies
• Conducted daily scrum meeting with developers and clients, and managed the process and burn down chart of each sprint and the whole project
• Develop UML diagrams like Use Cases Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Class Diagram and Coloration Diagram on scenarios for validating Entity Reference Data and Verification of customer records: legal name, address, business purpose legitimacy and analysis of transaction activity
• Writing the SQL queries in Oracle SQL Developer and managing the database and assisted in making Data warehouse and doing Data Profiling
• Involved in UI requirements and creating Wireframes to help developers build the application in Visual Basic and data modeling sessions by developing DFD
• Developed report layouts for Suspicious Activity and Pattern analysis under AML regulations
• Defined and performed the Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of all defined business requirements and associated functionality
• Reviewed and analyzed the Use Cases and came up with System design and Test plan Templates and developed test plans, test cases and test strategy
• Designed the test plans and test scripts based on the user requirement specification and conducted UAT - Integration testing, Unit testing
• Provided training and assistant to business user

Environment: Agile Scrum, Oracle SQL Developer, CRM - SalesForce, SOA, UML, Siebel 8.1, Visual Basic, Erwin 7.1, MS SharePoint, IBM Business Objects

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in implementing Straight Though Processing (STP) of single tranche index trades and new credit products from the front office trade blotters to DTCC, improving STP rates and increasing flow to street-wide electronic matching platform
• Involved in one-to-one interview sessions and facilitated JAD sessions with stakeholders, SMEs and business owners to discuss the scope of the conversion and to gather Functional Specifications to make enhancements to the Trade settlement system
• Partnered with Technology, Sales, and Trading to redesign the in-house trade capture platform to reduce Operational Risk and increase STP and scalability
• Analyzed functionality and collected requirements from each global site by interviewing business users in the Front, Middle, and Back office areas and created appropriate BRD and FRD documentation
• Documented use cases, workflows and sequence diagrams according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models
• Created web workflows to integrate pre and post settlement processes reducing manual touches, with increased control and transparency
• Analyzedbusinessrequirements for Black Box testing and performed Regression Testing and created test scenarios for Beta testing
• Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes
• MaintainedTraceability Matrixfor the currentbusinessprocesses and proposed changes
• Involved with reviewing defects reported from 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

Environment: RUP, UML, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Windows 7, Java, SQL, HTML, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, Excalibur

Confidential, Oklahoma City, Ok

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detailed and comprehensivebusinessanalysis by working with the client, store managers, supervisors, 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
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Analyzed and documentedBusiness requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of thebusiness.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Create specifications to be used by developers, project managers, quality assurance engineers, technical writers, and software architects in constructing the product.
• Track and maintain Stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest.
• 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

Environment: HTML, Rational Rose, MS Word, UML, Oracle9i, PL/SQL, Test Director, WINDOWS7

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for meeting withbusinessprocess owners,SME’s(subject matter experts) and marketing team for requirements gathering in definition stage and also conducting JAD Sessions to discuss use cases
• Prepared Use Case Narratives and User Stories
• Have to ensure that relevantUMLdiagrams were used in all requirement documents
• Gathering the Requirements, Develop Process Model and detailedBusinessPolicies and modified thebusinessrequirement document
• PreparingWire frames, PrototypeandMockupscreens and Simulations
• Involved in the Data Migration between Systems and validated theBusinessRequirements
• Used Visio to createUse Cases, activity diagrams, class diagrams and workflow process diagrams
• Participating in User Acceptance Testing(UAT)
• Interacted with the developers and defined the requirements to develop theGraphical User Interface (GUI)
• Participating in weekly meeting and discussed modification request with management team.
• Involve with the QA team to determine and develop test approaches and methods for unit testing, integration, functional testing, load and usability testing according to application complexity and test requirements

Environment: MS Word (2003), MS Excel (2003), MS Visio (2003), MS Project (2003), Extranet, J2EE, Web 2.0, Erwin (7.1), Oracle (10g2), .Net, Oracle BPA, Team Foundational Server

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prioritized project efforts, developed project plans, process flows, Use Cases using RUP.
• Worked with business users, mortgage agents, technical team, QA and PMO to scope and prioritize functional requirements and development releases.
• Analyzed the Business requirements and created the BRDs.
• Facilitated Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) session with the business SMEs to finalize the business requirements. Extensive interacted with client and the management teams to understand the requirement and report the status
• Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and developed various test cases.
• Analyzed System and Functional Specification documents for the Web Portal System
• Worked on writing functional specification for reporting module that handled credit and consumer risk management services.
• Designed security privileges and authentication features of the application for mortgage broker access

Environment: Rational Tools suite, MS Visio, RUP, UML, Windows, Unix, Java/J2EE, XML, HTML, Manual and Automated testing using Mercury tools, GUI testing, functional testing, system testing.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with project manager to prepare project plans, budgeting, scope creep and feature creep and analyzed the existing system and business process flow
• Worked extensively in designing the database with the design team and created data flow diagrams, data analysis, and Process flow diagrams using Erwin
• Facilitated and managed Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Interviewed with subject matter experts (SMEs) from various areas and conducted surveys and brainstorming sessions while gathering requirements
• Excellent knowledge in Mortgage loan processing and good understanding of consumer loan process originating
• Worked with marketing teams to determine the target market and to find out what clients actually want
• Analyzed the AS-IS and TO-BE processes to understand the key findings, the short-term considerations, the long-term considerations and its benefits
• Created the project templates for Use case specification, Chang request form, functional specification documents, Business Requirement Documents and Defect Status Forms
• Involved with the technical teams during implementation such that right business requirements are being translated into the system
• Worked closely with QA teams to define test cases and execute test plans

Environment: Windows XP, Visual Basic, MS Visio 2003, MS Office Suite, Java, Client Server, UML, Test Director 6.0, MS Project 2003