SUMMARY

• Experienced and goal oriented professional, who undertakes complex assignments, meets tight deadlines and delivers superior performance. Possesses practical knowledge in corporate IT, business and finance markets.
• Apply strong IT/Financial/business planning and analytical skills. Operates with a strong sense of urgency and thrives in a fast paced setting.
• Over three years of diversified IT/Business experience in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process including System Analysis, Design, Development, Testing (Automated & Manual), Implementation and Documentation.
• In - depth understanding of project lifecycle, including all phases of system and software development.
• Proven track record in testing, quality assurance, and networking.
• Business Analyst, Capital Markets, Derivatives, Commodities, FX, Equities and Fixed Income, Front-office, Treasury, Finance and Operations, and trading
• Skilled in performing Gap analysis and Impact Analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements.
• Extensive experience in requirement elicitation techniques like JAD sessions, Document analysis, Prototyping,
• Excellent Analytical skills in understanding and identifying the Business process and conducting feasibility studies to develop Scope and Vision Document.
• Thorough understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and their variants viz.
• In-depth working knowledge of Cost/benefit analysis.
• Experienced in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD).
• Proficient in interacting with Stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), System Analysts and Technical team with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration and Scheduling.
• Experienced with Manual as well as Automated Testing Strategies.
• Skilled in Unit/System/Integration/Regression/Smoke testing as well as Users Acceptance Testing (UAT)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database/Database Access Tools: Sybase, Oracle, My SQL, MS-SQL Server, MS-AccessOperating Systems Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OSX, Millennium

Testing Tools: IBM Rational Tools, Rational, Clear Case, Functional Tester, Manual Tester, Requisite Pro, Performance Tester, Test Director/Quality Center, Win Runner, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Microsoft Tools, Microsoft Visual Studio, Test Manager, SharePoint Server, Automated & Manual Testing tools, SDLC

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Clear Quest, Microsoft Excel

Source Control Tools: Clear Case, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, SSH Client

Office Tools: MS Office 97/2000-3, Outlook 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Thoroughly studied the inherent systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.
• Worked with financial/business users to define product feature requests, financial/business requirement specifications, and change requests;
• Documented requirements and transformed them into functional and technical requirement specifications.
• Analyzed and came up with suggestions providing consistent process for the communication, escalation, and resolution of issues.
• Managed schedules while working with multiple teams.
• Worked closely with software development team to avoid any technological issues of producing working software every two weeks. Constant communication with the stakeholders during development to provides less room for error and work within the guidelines and scope of the determined project.
• Documenting artifacts including, Functional Specifications, and the Use Case Specifications.
• Articulated business requirements from user interviews, and workshops and then converted requirements into technical specifications for developers.
• Working with other team members in reviewing requirements via the use of Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
• Conducted Daily Defect status and Progress meeting reports with QA team.
• Experience in reqirement gathering with the team
• Created test documentation for the execute test cases for error reports, failed test cases etc.
• Created different types of testing documents such as Test Progress report, Test Analysis Repot etc.
• Communicated with developers and project manager for detected defects as needed
• Wrote Test Plan, test case for manual test through the functional requirement using Mercury Test Director
• Manually selected the important features of the application before performing automation testing

Confidential, Effingham, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Providing Application support to Oracle Agile Applications within IT Engineering Supporting Troubleshooting, Testing, Resolving issues, problems directly
• Developed system test strategy, test plans, executed test cases, reported and tracked defects
• Developed and maintained QTP scripts to automat Regression and Integration Test Cases all in a WebLogic Environment
• Responsible for Requirement gathering, Business Process flow, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis with Document and Records Management.
• Interacted with the project team to define system objectives and scope, identified constraints and the measures of success for the system to be developed.
• Developed and managed Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)methodology
• Facilitated JAD sessions with management, users, subject matter experts (SME) and other stakeholders to define the project and to reduce the time frame required to complete deliverables.
• Prepared and presented Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into Use Cases. Created Use case diagrams, activity diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Created Screen Mockups using Visio.
• Maintained various versions of the documents generated during the project using Rational Clear Case.