SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in Information Technology with specialization in Business System Analysis and expertise in Trade Lifecycle and Loan Lifecycle.
• Excellent business writing skills required for documenting Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), and Non - Functional Requirements Document (NFRD).
• Experienced business analyst for a number of areas within the portfolio management module working with software engineers to maintain and enhance the product.
• Good understanding of Change Requests and experience in Documentation and Requirement Communication.
• UAT signs off and Release Sign Offs and experience creating Statement of Work (SOW).
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, Acceptance Testing, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit analysis, and ROI analysis.
• In-Depth knowledge and working experience of Equities, Derivatives and Mutual Funds.
• Sound proficiency in UML for creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams.
• Experience in SAP-CRM Finance Modules.
• Experience in conductingJoint Application Development (JAD)andJoint Application Review (JAR)sessions to develop and agree upon a system that focuses on the business requirements.
• Experience using Informatica to capture and transform data out of the RDBMS and into a usable format.
• Excellent logic skills for understanding and developing system workflows and well suited for communicating with both technical and non-technical professionals.
• Worked on creating SOP's based on standard supply chain functionality as well as simple to complex customer enhancements.
• Comprehensive technical knowledge of HTML programming and SQL Reports.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently and also perform as part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Win Runner 7.5/7.2/7.0, Load Runner 7.8/7.6/7.5 Quick Test Pro 8.0, Rational Suite.

Bug Reporting Tools: Test Director 7.6/8/0, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, PVCS and PCRTS.

Operating system: Windows NT/2000/XP, Red Hat Linux 7, Solaris 8, Mac OS X, HP-UX.

Enviornment: SaaS - Bloomberg, IBM- Maximo

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Oracle 8i, DB2, Sybase, MS Access2000.

SQL Utilities: SQL* SSAS, SSRS.

Platforms: J2EE BEA WEBLOGIC.

Formatting: XML, HTML, DHTML, VISIO, WORD, EXCEL, and POWERPOINT

Network Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, and Telnet.

Business: Project Management, SDLC, MS Office & Visio, and Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from different stakeholders and successfully completed various requirement communications to the internal team.
• Interacted with internal partners including staff members, business partners, stakeholders, clients and other third parties as well as some external client interfacing. Involved in defining the source to target data mappings, business rules and data definitions. Worked on data modelling to create RDBMS.
• Responsible for defining the key identifiers for each mapping/interface.
• Responsible for defining the functional requirement documents for each source to target interface.
• Designed and implemented data integration modules for Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) functions.
• Work under limited supervision, using personal knowledge, experience, and initiative to meet commitments time lines; coordinates with internal and external resources.
• Assisted the team's Lead Business Systems analyst with determining agile workflows, and assisting getting the JIRA tool to match their development cycle.
• Performed Root Cause and Trend Analysis on negative impacts to system resources to help establish and maintain Service Level Agreements and increase corporate revenue.
• Used TOAD to write SQL Queries to perform Data validity and data integrity as a part of Grey box testing.
• Used data analysis techniques to validate business rules and identify low quality missing data in the as is process.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather, prepare & package documentation & information on a diverse group of customers, accounts & monetary transactions in accordance with Federal regulations & specific bank requirements, standards & processes - AML.
• Interviewed SMEs, stakeholders and asked detailed questions and carefully recorded the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and project management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Produced Master, System and UAT Test Plan for Releases and Defects fixes.
• Generated and executed Test Plans for sub projects using XML.
• Wrote code as needed for development of reports, analytics and visualization using SQL.
• Used Informatica to capture and transform data out of the RDBMS into a usable format.
• Performed Manual testing for System and UAT Testing for Application Under Testing.
• Performed System testing for components with in application and integration with all modules in the system.
• Performed UAT testing for all critical business processes partner with Business Users.
• Developed user stories, Functional Requirement documents (FRD) and System requirement specifications.
• Reviewed identified defects in the Change Control Board and decided its resolution process.
• Developed flows diagrams in MS Visio.
• Created Test Execution Matrix for System and UAT communicated to required all parties.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used various techniques and Interacted to gather information from trading managers, traders, find managers, to perform the actual transaction.
• Created process flows, presentations and reports to document recommendations and delivered them to the business stakeholders
• Performed detailed data analysis in order to Provide detailed business and data requirements including complex data.
• Worked with business leads and users to ensure alignment to industry data standards and identify any potential data gaps
• Used SQL for gathering data, data verification, manipulating data and testing for System conversion.
• Performed detailed analysis of complex business processes, data requirements and proposes solution.
• Performed various kinds of black box testing including functional, non-functional, performance, integration, regression, system, usability, scalability, load and batch testing.
• Used Quality Center to track and report system defects and bug fixes.
• Written modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developed developers to track and resolve the problems.
• Created and managed help desk webpage through XML, HTML.
• Developed automation test scripts with QTP
• Performed Regression testing by executing the scripts developed with QTP
• Assist ERP system users with data conversion, data validation, and development of test/UAT scripts.
• Performed gap analysis with as is to process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Developed and implemented complex excel based financial waterfall models which in turn reduce the risk to clients according to legal documents and client specifications for standard product deals and transactions.