SUMMARY:

• Proficient decision - making, leadership, presentation, communication, problem solving and analytical skills with an ability to interact at all levels
• Excellent knowledge in AML/KYC & Trade Surveillance and good understanding of related topics
• Excellent knowledge of banking industry (Investment banking, Private banking, Portfolio management, Asset management) and financial services
• Serves as a point of contact/liaison for IT team on all the requirements and business questions.
• Excellent exposure of front/back office applications, client interactions, software management and project coordination
• Worked closely with project stakeholders, SME & staff to understand requirements and specifications for new applications along with re-engineering the existing application
• In depth knowledge of Agile, Waterfall methodologies.
• Good understanding of Project process and ability to analyze business problems and identify solutions. Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes and analyze workflow.
• Strong writing skills in preparing Business Requirements Documents (BRD), process analysis, System Requirements Specifications (SRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and technical design document
• Hands on experience in performing RTM test matrix, GAP analysis and SWOT analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with new business requirements.
• Defining project plans then translating business requirements/user expectations into detailed specifications like Use case diagrams, flow charts, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, State diagrams, Component diagrams, use case document, test plans and test case documents employing UML
• Highly proficient in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Integration testing, verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues and writing test cases and creating test plans
• Well versed with Object oriented programming (OOPS)
• High proficiency in SQL Queries and MS Excel
• Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments ahead of schedule.
• Strong image for dedicated teamwork, high energy, work ethics and commitment with capability to handle new technologies and situations.
• Team player and self-starter with excellent communication, coordination, documentation, project planning and interpersonal skills.
• Highly motivated and adaptive with the ability to grasp things quickly and possess excellent interpersonal technical and communication skills,

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

System:  Windows 98/XP, Windows NT 4.0,2000

Tools:  MS Office 2010/2007/2003/2000 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, Outlook, SharePoint)

Databases:  SQL Server, Oracle9i/10g, PL/SQL

Methodologies:  Agile, Waterfall Model, RUP

Defect Tracking Tools:  JIRA, HP Quality Center

Wireframe Tools:  MS Visio, Axer Pro, Balsamic

Development:  JAVA, C, C++, XML

Technologies:  J2EE, JSP, Servlet, JDBC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business System Analyst 

Confidential

 Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the Business Users and SMEs get KYC requirements and then analyzed and documented system requirements and procedural changes along with compilation and distribution of supporting documentation to facilitate the KYC process.
• Involved in the full SDLC life cycle of KYC Module starting from going through the specifications and documentation, Testing, Deployment, UAT and Production release.
• Facilitated JAD sessions and review meetings with the users and members of the development team to ensure understanding of the new functionalities and ensured selected Due Diligence forms meet compliance and regulatory standards.
• Responsible for writing the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) for the application.
• Followed UML processes and standard operating procedures in developing Use Cases, Use Case diagrams and other supporting documentation.
• Worked on various modules like KYC Module, Recertification Module, User Module and Reporting Module of the application
• Worked closely with Compliance to identify medium and high-risk customers and evaluated client AML/KYC risk, including conducting independent research, verifying appropriate risk profile, and making independent risk assessment recommendations.
• Performed Gap analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new requirements of the application.
• Performed Risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risks areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Performed requirement walkthroughs with the Development and QA teams with the aim to develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.
• Tracked and maintained user requested enhancements and changes.
• Written SQL queries to implement business logic and to generate reporting details.
• Effectively handled the testing, QA and UAT by coordinating with the QA and Business Users.

Environment: Core Java (JDK 1.5), J2EE, JSP, Servlets, SQL, Oracle 10g/11g, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, HP Quality Centre, JIRA, MS Office, Visio

Credit Suisse Sr Business System Analyst 

Confidential 

• Studied the need to develop and implement this project.
• Identified project stakeholders, their roles, identified major deliverables and collected business requirements for the project.
• Worked with senior management drafting and approval of project charter, included project goals, business case, opportunity statement, high-level timeline and team assignments for the projects.
• Organized the project into phases to impose management control using stage-gate reviews such as high-level user stories, test scenarios, Dimension modeling, Data Mapping ETL, etc.
• Devised a work breakdown structure by decomposing the project deliverables and User Stories.
• Identified major activities as per the Agile Scrum methodology
• Developed project schedule by incorporating resource availability and milestones for reporting.
• Prepared communication and information distribution plan for the project
• Coordinated development activities across various departments.
• Understood the compliance requirements by interacting with compliance department, and SMEs.
• Delivered presentations on prototypes of application to different groups in organization.
• Created wireframes & mockups for improvement and better understanding of the project.
• Designed business process flow
• Provided technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing.
• Improved team morale by conducting team-building activities.
• Managed the development of documentation pertaining to a project milestone.
• Measured project performance on time and budget as per the project plan.
• Managed changes to project scope using a change management procedure in coordination with Change Control Board (CCB).
• Prepared and monitored release plans and controlled iterations and released spikes.
• Managed the software configure change management for code/ requirements/ design/ versions.
• Verified deliverables for each phase with project stakeholders, by executing the test scenarios.
• Delivered project documentation related to application design, testing results and operating procedures for the application
• Tracked testing issues, maintained test matrix, ran daily status meetings, and met the exit criteria for user acceptance testing (UAT).

Environment: MicroStrategy, Oracle11g, XML, Java, Jira Issue Tracker, MS Office, MS Visio, Quality Centre.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

• Responsible for gathering requirements and coordinating with the development team.
• Worked with the Business users, tech Lead and third-party vendors in gathering their requirements and data transaction information for the various subscription plans and devices.
• Conducted JAD sessions with various teams to determine the new implementations in the projects.
• Functioned as primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Implemented an integrated solution with complete line of traceability for all the artifacts of web development projects. Responsible for continuous process improvement by using hybrid Waterfall - Agile methodology.
• Co-authored business requirements document, functional requirement document with project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users and team members.
• Designed and developed Use Cases with diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Attended business reviews and walkthroughs, test cases for sign off approval and design meetings to evaluate the requirements for Supply Chain Applications, Subscriber Management Applications, and Backend Billing system.
• Involvement in preparing master data sheet-MDS for integrating data from various spreadsheets.
• Performed UAT, End to End testing for the application based on the Oracle BRM - Subscriber Management System, which involved modules like Pricing, Billing, Invoicing, Email Notifications, Batch Processing.
• Liaised with Business and development team for issues resolution and ensure the quality of the software under test.
• Executed Unix scripts (jobs) to extract data from production dB and then performing validations on that legacy data.
• Performed test management with JIRA and HP Quality Center.
• Involved in stand-up scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review and change configuration management meetings.

Environment: Java J2EE, UNIX, XML, Oracle11g, JIRA, SharePoint, Oracle BRM 7.5, Web Services-SOAPUI, MS Office, Axure Pro

Confidential

Business Analyst/Developer

• Conducted interviews and brainstorming sessions with the key stake holders during the process of requirement gathering.
• Performed feasibility studies to check the compatibility of new system with various interfaces.
• Documented BRD using MS Word and stored project artifacts using MS Project.
• Analyzed business needs and played a key role in planning and implementing web based database.
• Planned and documented procedures for data processing and prepared data flow diagrams for the new web based database.
• Designed and developed use cases and activity diagrams using MS Visio to analyze and translate business requirements into system specifications.
• Identified test scenarios required for testing.
• Prepared and executed test cases as per requirement specification.
• Performed various Black Box testing methods such as Functionality, Regression and Usability testing.
• Defect reporting and tracking by using Bugzilla 3.2 and HP automation tools.

Environment: Agile Scrum Methodology, MS Visio, Java, SQL Server 2005, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, UML, Windows 2000, UNIX, Microsoft Office suite, Quality Center (QC).

 Java Developer, Business Analyst

  Confidential

• Gathered the requirements from Business users, stake holders and subject matter experts
• Developed Business User Requirement Documentation
• Created the Flow Diagram, UML diagrams like Activity, Sequence, Collaboration diagrams
• Developed website using Java, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, JDBC
• Created Web and HTML Controls to develop web pages and user controls
• Designed all necessary database connection classes
• Extensively worked on JDBC to talk to the SQL database
• Developed user documentation and program maintenance documentation
• Developed screens for user registration and authentication. Used Java Script validation controls for validating user data input
• Designed and developed screens for User Interface & Interaction, also developed various Search Screens for different strategies
• Developed triggers & stored procedures for automatic insertion & retrieval of Data
• Performed Unit and Tiered testing of the application

Environment:Java, JSP, Servlets, XML, HTML, MYSQL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and Development of application
• Performed Unit and Tiered testing of the application
• Enhanced the web version with some excellent Client side critical validations (Custom Validations) like Credit Card Validation, Phone Number validations etc.
• Integrate Payment gateway (PAYPAL)
• Take part in DB-Design & write several complex stored procedures
• Worked on extended custom & composite controls like extended List view control, Grid view, combo box & forms
• Use Java, JDBC to access the data from back-end SQL Server database

Environment:Java, JSP, Servlets, XML, HTML, MYSQL 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing, analysis and development of application
• Written use cases and designed various classes
• Developed class diagrams, flow diagrams and flow charts using UML
• Developed master pages in order to maintain consistent look throughout the system
• Database design, analysis and development in SQL Server 2005
• Designed, Created and maintained tables, views, wrote Store procedures
• Involved in integration and testing of all modules, bug fixing