SUMMARY

• A diligent professional with 9 years of experience as a Project Manager, Scrum Master and Business Analyst in Financial & Healthcare domain.
• Successfully driven multiple projects from inception to deployment. Excellent understanding of all phases of SDLC: analysis, requirements gathering, documentation, design, development, testing and deployment of projects
• Experienced in making presentation to client and working with business users at various levels of the client organization
• Checking and Validating Requirements in conjunction with the stakeholders. Tracing and managing requirements throughout the development process.
• Strong experience with Iterative Agile Methodology & Scrum, Non - Iterative Methodology such as Waterfall.
• Strong experience with developing and managing project charters.
• Worked with various team size with onshore and offshore teams. Respecting the ideas and viewpoints of the teammates and able to mediate problems between team members.
• Highly motivated team player possessing strong analytical, inter-personal, excellent problem solving, conflict management and negotiations, team building, judgment and decision-making skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, listening, presentation, facilitation, mentoring and writing skills including user manuals
• Specialties in Equities, Fixed Income Securities, Forwards (Equity, bonds, interest rate, currency), Futures (interest rate, stock index, currency), listed and OTC Options (Stock options, bond options, Alternative investments (ETFs, mutual funds, hedge funds, commodities, structured products, private equity)
• Complete knowledge of Trade Life Cycle.
• Requirement gathering through structured interviews, workshops, JAD sessions with clients, developers and QA Analysts and referring to existing system documentation and procedures
• Elicitation techniques like interviewing, administering structured questionnaires, brainstorming, prototyping and facilitating JAD sessions
• Competent in Creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Process Flow Diagram, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams
• Business writing skills in writing Business documents such as, Use-Case Specifications, Business requirements document (BRD), Functional requirement specification (FRS)/ Functional Specification
• Worked extensively on defining product backlog, sprint backlog, writing epics and user stories.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JIRA, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HP Quality Center/ALM,
• Agile (SCRUM) & Waterfall
• MS SQL Server
• DevOps, JIRA and HPALM for defining project planning, product backlog, sprint backlog, writing epics and user stories, creating user story and defect management presentation, project management and project reporting skills
• Six Sigma & Smartsheets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Yardley, PA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading and monitoring several projects with varying levels of complexity, determining project scope, managing resources, managing requirements, identifying and mitigating potential risks to support Workday & MuleSoft integrations & internal software development projects.
• Wearing multiple hats, i.e., Scrum master & Project manager in order to successfully deliver the product.
• Managing and maintaining the Project Charters for multiple projects.
• Actively involved in managing tasks related to planning, scoping, identifying governance set up, setting up roles & responsibilities, tracking development activities, schedules & application functionalities, documentation, training, testing, deployment, transition activities and post production maintenance and support.
• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, effort estimations, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning.
• Facilitating daily agile ceremonies and other meetings for three teams involved in SharePoint site development, Roster report development and corporate website redesign.
• Compiled project requirements for the development of Software Applications to include documenting stakeholder requirements and tracking milestones until project completion.
• Monitoring integration tasks, i.e., requirement gathering, development, testing and deployment tasks using DevOps dashboards
• Providing weekly progress updates using project charter to the business & stakeholders
• Drive, execute & monitor key activities within each integration phase
• Coordinating tasks in fast-paced environment with multiple priorities for successful project completions on scheduled launch dates using Smartsheets.
• Managing test cycles and managing the vendor validations.
• Supplying management weekly updates using Six Sigma project management methodology with status of deliverables, Risk & issues, dependencies and action items to keep project progress on track for timely delivery.
• Facilitating integrations with Workday and all vendors associated with Amplity.
• Communicate Risks & Issues to senior level management and actively worked on contingency plans mitigate the same.
• Collaborate and internally strategizing with different functional areas within the company to make sure team goals are aligned with organizational needs.
• Working alongside technical leadership, putting together integration project plans, organizing client kick off sessions, and triaging integration issues
• Evaluate organizational readiness in advance of transition events and effectively define approach, tools and processes that will be used to successfully support transition events
• Identifying and tracking reliability issues impacting all integrations by creating reliability tickets and actively working with the PO’s and SME’s to mitigating the same by providing short term & long-term fixes.
• Above functionalities were implemented using technologies such as Workday, MuleSoft, Sql server integration services, Sql server reporting services, REST and Soap API’s, XML

Confidential - New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Guided multinational team through Agile Development Cycles to deliver Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP)
• Organizing and facilitating weekly stand-ups, sprint planning, Status Report meetings and release planning
• Maintained the project plan document, updated and escalated issues with high priorities to the upper level management
• UAT planning, implementation and expected results confirmation- Stakeholders sign-off
• Used MS SharePoint to manage documents and help ensure integrity of content.
• Provided updates in the meetings with the Steering committee and stakeholders
• Was involved in making PowerPoint presentations to the various teams involved.
• Liaison between developers, technology leads and process/product analysts to understand the business processes, and gathered business requirements.
• Extensive involvement in preparing and reviewing documentation including business and user requirements, functional requirement, product backlog, release backlog, sprint backlog, epics, user stories, project and status reports.
• Prepared various diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Process Flow Diagram and Activity Diagrams representing the upstream, downstream and risk flow processes

Confidential

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between traders, developers, project manager and process/product analysts to understand the business processes, and gathered business requirements.
• Trained developers for various financial products and help them understand the logic of operation of Fixed Income Securities.
• Our system was integrated with Bloomberg terminal which we used as our vendor to provide real-time data and live market news.
• Use MS SharePoint to manage documents and help ensure integrity of content.
• Extensive involvement in preparing and reviewing documentation including business and user requirements, functional requirement, product backlog, release backlog, sprint backlog, epics, user stories, project and status reports.
• Participated in various sprint and scrum meeting under Agile methodology.
• Captured process flows by preparing activity and sequence diagrams, wireframes, pre- and post-conditions, performance requirements, high-level business rules, issues, etc.
• Participated in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Conducted meetings/interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements. Performed role of facilitator, observer and scribe.
• Involved closely with the Developer during defect resolution phase.
• Developed user stories and specific requirements for new releases and worked closely with application development and data operations teams to ensure features and releases function according to user stories, requirements and product strategy
• Helped with product design, product development, implementation and internal product support
• Written Test Scenarios for the application when in (UAT) Environment and assigned users for User acceptance testing (UAT) and taking feedback from users about the system.

Confidential - Edison, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Met with decision makers, system owners and end users to define and document requirements and goals.
• Analyzed business functions, and drafted business process flows and procedure documents of as-is and to-be process.
• Conducted JAD sessions, interviews, personal observations, and administered questionnaires to gather business requirements, make presentations of issues and keep end users informed of priorities
• Collaborating with stakeholders, Business analysts, and Developers to ensure requirements were documented and a technical design is devised
• Communicated extensively with the clients and with different levels of management to identify requirements, user stories and to develop functional specifications.
• Continually assessed data integrity and processes to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Created Business Requirement Documents, test cases, traceability matrices, and Data Mapping documents
• Respond to business questions which usually involves technical investigation comprised of data analysis
• Created business process workflow using MS Visio, data and process modeling.
• Organizing and facilitating weekly stand-ups, sprint planning, Status Report meetings and release planning
• Actively working with SCRUM Master to prepare product backlog and sprint backlog and helped SCRUM master to monitor burn down charts
• Preparing Business Analysis deliverable for Agile (SCRUM) SDLC methodology; defining epics and user stories and created user story elaboration documents against identified user stories
• Managing assigned user stories in JIRA and preparing traceability of user stories taken in a sprint
• Involved in preparing Project Plans using Microsoft Project Plan and performed functional walk through of solution to various Business Team; Documented requirements associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements with User stories.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between traders, developers, project manager and process/product analysts to understand the business processes, identified enhancements and gathered business requirements.
• Through understanding of entire trading life cycle and extensively involve in front and middle office.
• Assisted Atlantic Partners to analyze and monitor client portfolios and other various aspect of managing a client relationship.
• Manage requirements using Quality center.
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications, including BRD, and FRD.
• Extensive involvement in preparing and reviewing documentation including business and user requirements, functional requirements, use cases, project and status reports.
• Actively involved in various sprint and scrum meeting under agile methodology.
• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills; Experience working with business users, developers as well as senior management.
• Provided leadership in process analysis, process and system design, and in the implementation of business systems that support functional goals and objectives.
• Involved in the production of Requirements Traceability Matrixes (RTM) using MS Excel and Quality Center (QC).
• Participated in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Conducted meetings/interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements.
• Performed data validation with extensive use of SQL queries.
• Involved closely with the Developer and Testing team during defect resolution phase; conduct and document UAT.
• Interacted with the software developers from time to time at each phase of the SDLC in creating test cases and designing test plans.