SUMMARY

• 10 years of experience in Financial Advisory/Investment Management Services and Telecom domain with expertise in Project Management, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and IT Consulting
• Excellence in Scrum, Business Systems Analysis, Systems Design, and Agile Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Structured (Waterfall), RAD (Phase Development), Agile (Scrum, XP), Kanban

Agile Tools/Process: SCRUM certified, Backlog grooming, Velocity calculation, Story prioritization, Time boxing, JIRA, Rational Quality Manager, IBM Rational Team Concert, Confluence, SharePoint, ServiceNow

Tools: /Languages: MS Office (Visio, Excel, Word, Powerpoint), Quality Center, SoapUI, SAP Business Objects, Charles debugger, Rumba Mainframe, Camtasia, Google Postman, Jenkins, Xtrac work manager, Stash, XML, API modeling, SQL, SQL Plus, PL - SQL, Tableau, SQL Developer, Rapid SQL, JSON/Swagger Editor, Genesys, Karate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with Business Product Manager to layout roadmaps for all products supported. Continually grew the annual project portfolio (10%, each year) based upon customer responsiveness due to impeccable track record
• Managing the agile user stories backlog, epics and prioritizing them in Rational Team Concert and JIRA
• Providing day-to-day oversight and continuous coaching to all distributed (on-shore & offshore) team members and overseeing development of projects and facilitating the transition of requirements into user stories
• Performing grooming sessions, sprint planning in test driven development and managing velocity of the scrum team. Conducting business demos, story prioritization, and team reflections
• Lead an internal effort to build a replacement tool for ‘Oracle Enterprise Repository’
• Conducting business process automation, project budgeting, gap analysis, scope determination, estimating agile projects. Performing audits by regulatory compliance and managing PMO status as required
• Partnered with Business Product Manager and other Technical partners to layout roadmaps for all products/applications supported. Actively participating in agile/process improvement community
• Organized and facilitated grooming of business cases with non-technical & technical teams in order to deliver the highest return on business investment. Helping legacy teams convert from waterfall to agile

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering user stories from business and converting them into UI, wireframes, functional and systems requirements. Designing UI mockups/wireframe, process flow to support user requirements
• Managing Domain Model API, REST service schemas, and documents in SharePoint and Confluence. Worked on redesigning of legacy app from Soap to Rest architecture, service virtualization, 2 factor authentication (2FA)
• Providing financial advisory services and support Confidential financial institutions through SOA in the test driven development. Create functional/system test cases in quality center and RQM in the agile process
• Metadata analysis, debugging MQ, transactional logs & analyzing data for consultants, institutional, VIP clients
• Performed XML testing, functional testing, shakeout testing and project regression testing during UAT.
• Developed test report, test strategies, verifying quality standards, monitoring test progress and provided end-to-end impact analysis within the groups. Extracted fund feeds to retrieve ratings, NAV, POP thru Tableau
• Executed Business Object reports to interpret and analyze monetary/clerical data for the management
• Integrated Genesys telephony client with the trading app and replaced the legacy aspect contact center

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Business Transaction Model for functional modeling which includes mapping of functional/non functional specs, activity flow, data flow, user experience and systems requirements
• Provided time-cost estimates, work plan and captured logical data model, use cases, test cases which covered all combinations of the system requirements that cover the macro level of business needs
• Delivered system requirement specifications for B2C ecommerce sales and support which captured data flow, swim lanes, content design, XML schema, activity diagram and requirement traceability
• Conducted JAD sessions to interact with the business partners, performed business process automation and reengineering (BPA/BPR) and defined application interface solution to bridge the gaps
• Set up test case scenarios to ensure application aligns to business partners, business requirements and conformity to quality assurance standards

Confidential

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Created marketing campaign and organized the ‘Strategic Awareness on Sustainability’ workshop. Worked on process management, documented the processes and created records of the customers
• Involved in various activities like developing design mockups and gathering data on business sustainability
• Generated statistical analysis to understand Indian software industry outlook and its link to US economy
• Conducted a research study, which explores the IT aspects of Mergers and Acquisition

Confidential

IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided social media and search engine consulting for different clients. Managed website development through all the phases of project life cycle. Implemented search engine optimization for the websites
• Developed websites with standard compliant code and incorporated programming standards

Confidential

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Documented the functional/non-functional specs and created business process model, behavioral model, use case diagrams for Business Internet Banking B2B, Confidential US
• Validated technical design created by developer against business/functional requirements for TAMI a software representation of physical phone used by agents in Confidential call centers (Client: Confidential Hong Kong)
• Captured business requirements for the Personal Internet Banking ( Confidential US Bank) and collaborated with the stakeholders to understand the in-scope requirements and highlight the problems from the offshore
• Worked as a software configuration manager and collaborated with various IT groups within Confidential . Managed updating pareto chart, defect reports, risk registers, change requests, test cases, and project plans repository
• Prepared test cases and performed Confidential /functional specs to make sure the defects raised by the business users were resolved up to the management expectation by the developer group