SUMMARY

• A Proficient Business Analyst with more than 8 years on process analysis, data analysis and information management in Securities, Accounting, Asset Management and Banking domain.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology, Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Facilitated and participated in Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions to elicit requirements effectively.
• Efficient in business requirement gathering techniques such as Questionnaires, Interviews, and Prototyping.
• Hands - on roles within Foreign Exchange Money Market, Swaps, P&L, Equities and Options modules.
• Strong analytical skills to convert business problems into Functional Design Specifications, Troubleshooting and Effective Problem Solving.
• Experience with Unified Modeling Language (UML) for developing, Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
• Experience in Data Modeling & Data Analysis, Logical Modeling, As-Is and To-Be Mapping, Feasibility- studies, vision-scope documents.
• Worked as Analyst and Test Lead for implementation and upgrade, Application maintenance and product development support of FX Market risk applications.
• Creating functional specification documentation for the technical team application understanding and creating technical specifications.
• Extensive experience of working with the End Users and the System team.
• Expertize in DB2, legacy modernization projects and performance tuning of the systems.
• Have excellent experience on other mainframe tool like Xpeditor, UNICA, Endeavor, Spufi, Fileaid, Platinum, IBM Debugger, Visual age Generator, Serena Dimensions, Changeman, Inter test etc.
• Have excellent knowledge on COBOL, JCL, SQL Queries, DB2, Stored procedure and CICS on IBM DB2 V10.
• Strong Object Oriented Analysis, Designing and Programming skills.
• Very strong in DB designing and implementation concepts.
• Aware of the Quality aspects of the Software Engineering pertaining to SEI-CMM Model.
• Have complete understanding of SDLC phases and have worked on all the phases such as Requirement Analysis, Designing, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance.
• A self-starter willing to tackle new and challenging problems and able to work in a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: MS SQL Server, DB2

Concepts: RUP,JAD, SCRUM methodology, Waterfall methodologies, OOAD

Documenting Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Power designer

Languages: SQL, COBOL, JCL, DB2, STORED PROCEDURES, TELON, VGEN, VSAM, CICS,XML, Cobol XML parser, FTP

Testing Tools: QTP

Reporting Tools: Power Point, Report View, MS Word, MS Excel, Mobius

Tools: Used: XPEDITER,FILE-AID, UNICA, IBM DEBUGGER, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN, SPUFI, SERENA DIMENSIONS, QMF, IBM DEBUGGER, VISUAL AGE DEBUGGER, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented Functional Requirements, including detailed data validations.
• Developed Use cases and activity diagrams for the user registration, subscriptions based on authority and inventory management.
• Documented Accounting engine for the Spectrum migration and the P&L function.
• Participated in Design meetings and Brainstorming sessions to improve process flows. Created high level process flows for proposed options for the team to review.
• Interviewed key users and Subject Matter Experts to gather detailed requirements.
• Documented Business Process flows and Application Process flows (Current State Analysis).
• Presented Process flows to Key Business Users to help evaluate proposed options(Service contract Management Future State)
• Reviewed and Analyzed Business requirements and communicated requirement gaps to Business teams.
• Documented Business and Function requirements using Power Designer.
• Developed Use Cases and Activity Diagrams based on the obtained requirements.
• Communicated User Requirements to developers and provided activity diagrams when necessary.
• Collaborated effectively with development team with Object oriented analysis and design from a Mainframe based application to a Distributed application
• Conducted Use Case walkthroughs in an effort to identify and realize the processes and flows involved in the new system.
• Worked with QA Team in writing Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Involved with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) before project deployment.
• Assisted in User Training for new functionality and created training documentation and training new personnel.
• Responsible for Traiana project, which give BBH the ability to create and process Give-up arrangements executed by Clients to their Prime Broker.
• Responsible for CLS project, which enable Custody Client Transactions executed by clients, to settle in CLS.
• Responsible for the MUGC project to handle the special instructions form the Mitsubishi client to settle their trades.
• Responsible for the on-going FSS SPECTRUM project, which is the migration of the FX system from mainframes to distributed platform and migrating the complete accounting engine
• Conformance to the quality procedures of the organization

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mainly responsible for interpreting the client requests into business and functional requirements.
• Conducted Requirement analysis and Design Walkthroughs with the Business users, architect and developers.
• Documented requirements using MS office tools.
• Interviewed clients to elicit requirements and determine validation for trained status.
• Documented criteria for various dealer certifications, requirements for Business Intelligence reports.
• Documented the report requirements by various regions and managerial hierarchy.
• Interacted with designers and software developers routinely to understand functionality, navigational flow to have clear visibility.
• Handled change requests effectively by performing impact analysis.
• Assisted in creating and testing multiple Static and Interactive drill-down Business Intelligence reports.
• Developed work status and completion reports to submit to management office every week.
• Created & tested reports using Business Objects functionality using SQL Queries, Slice and Dice. Created graphical representation of reports such as Bar charts, Pie charts as per End user requirements.
• Prepare the Analysis & Design document involving VSAM to DB2 Migration.
• Participated in the Business meetings with End users for Requirement feasibility and its technical implementation

Confidential

Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full SDLC, requirement gathering, requirement sign off, design, implementation, test plan development, functional testing, training and support.
• Participated in Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions to effectively elicit requirements.
• Designed and articulated the application based on the specifications.
• Worked with the team to create the User Interface screenshots to be presented to the Business.
• Outlined specifications for diverse programming scenarios employing object-oriented programming concepts. That was developed using the FOXW, Mainframes, UNICA and JAVA.
• Communicated Change Requests to Project Management Office for effective Change Management
• Assisted in manual functionality testing of the application to make sure the application behaves as per the business requirements.
• Testing of SQL queries, test data creation and data analysis.
• Worked on the Straight Through Process (STP).
• Single handedly took over all the Applications in ACRE and Redesigned them with new functionality and access paths in ACRE
• SME ( Subject Matter Expert ) of VGEN for the ACRE team

Confidential

Analyst / Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from Client and analyzed the specifications.
• SQL procedures and triggers for various Banking reports.
• Preparing the Analysis & Design document.
• Developing/Reviewing the new codes using COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS and UNICA
• Handling & reviewing various modules of the system.
• Preparing the Unit / System test plan and executing the Unit / System testing