SUMMARY

• 10+ years’ work experience as a Business Analyst/ Project Manager with a focus on teh Financial Services Domain.
• Excellent Financial Services domain noledge with an in - depth understanding of Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Fixed Income and Bonds.
• Working noledge of Derivative Products such as Futures, Options, Swaps and Swaptions involving Credit and Interest rate and other OTC derivatives.
• Proficient at Business Analysis, Project Management, Software Design, Development, Implementation, Testing and Quality Assurance with hands on experience with teh Software Development Life Cycle and teh Quality Assurance Life Cycle.
• Strong Project Management skills including Planning, Project Scheduling, Work Breakdown Structures, Size Resource and Effort Estimate, Monitoring and Reporting.
• Sound understanding of Business Requirements and developing Technology Specifications accordingly.
• Proven success in Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flows (As-Is and To-Be), JAD Sessions, UAT, Cost Benefit Analysis and Workflow Management Tool.
• Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Creating Request for Proposals (RFP), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in creating Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Functional and Non-Functional testing.
• Functional noledge of Data Warehousing and ETL tools.
• Understanding of KANBAN, Lean Six Sigma and SCRUMBAN.
• Strong working noledge of Work In Progress Limits within teh KANBAN framework.
• Experience working on projects where System Designs have had Loosely Coupled Architecture as well as Tightly Coupled Architecture.
• Worked on System Integration projects involving Source-To-Target Mapping.
• Proficient in implementation, maintenance of Database Security (Users, Roles, Privileges), space management of logical structures (me.e. table spaces, rollback segments) and auditing of users.
• Adept at SWIFT Management and Pega Smart Investigate as well as drawing synergies from these platforms.
• Practical application of teh HP ALM software to halp Agile and traditional teams to gain real time traceability.
• Sound Oral and Written Communication Skills enabling teh transformation of teh needs of various Stake Holders into Functional Requirements.
• Extensive Knowledge of Financial Analysis, Forecasting, Valuation, Planning and Budgeting.
• Working noledge of software engineering practices such as System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile enabling precision in teh delivery of requisite Artifacts pertaining to Requirement Analysis.
• Experience in Use Case Analysis, creating Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity Planning (BCP), and Change Management.
• Worked on software architecture patterns involving a Three Tier Architecture.
• Know how about web services along with concepts like WSDL, SOAP, XML and HTTP.
• Understanding of Client Side Validation and Server Side Validation from a security perspective.
• Adept at Deployment Planning and troubleshooting Production Issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business/Reporting Tools: MS Project(2007,2010,2013), Tableau Desktop 8.2, MS Visio(2010,2013), MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS SharePoint (2010,2013), IBM COGNOS

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center(11.5,11,10), JIRA

Processes/Technologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), SDLC, AGILE, SCRUM, Use Cases, Workflow

test Tools: HPQC, Mercury Quality Control, Bugzilla

ETl Tools: Informatica 7.0, Informatica 9.0, SSIS, Data Stage, Kettle Pentaho, Teradata

Project Management: SDLC Models, RAD, JAD, Project Scheduling, Cost and Time Estimation, Requirement and Business Analysis, Quality Assurance

Tools: MS Access, SQL Server, SWIFT messaging system, HP ALM

Statistics: Financial Data Modeling and Analysis, Regression, Risk Analysis, Regression testing

PM Tools: Lean Management, SWOT, Impact Analysis, GAP, JAD sessions, Liquid Planner, MS Project Professional, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Created a Project Charter defining Project Objectives, Customer Needs and Scope.
• Responsible for Resource Planning, Revenue Planning, Budget Allocation, Work Breakdown Structure and Reporting.
• Created Weekly Status Reports for teh Product Capability Manager to track variances in order to avoid Over Burn.
• Established teh Baseline Scope of teh Project while avoiding any potential Scope Creep from a Resource and Budget perspective as well as teh Technical front.
• Created Milestones to be achieved on a Quarterly basis.
• Facilitated Tech Feasibility Studies in order to ensure teh availability of adequate Resources, Infrastructure and Capital.
• Extensively used MS SharePoint and MS Project to keep various stakeholders to document and display Artifacts and Plans.
• Forecasted Budgets between CAPEX and OPEX enumerating each line item of teh Capital Cost.
• Authored Statements of Work (SOW) and responded to RFP’s as and when necessary.
• Performed Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis to check teh compatibility of teh Legacy System and Server Technology with new business requirements.
• Helped prioritize END USER requirements as System Requirements to be included while developing teh AML Risk Rating system.
• Conducted teh sprint-planning meeting, daily scrum meeting, sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective.
• Supported other ongoing miscellaneous projects such as SWIFT Instruction Release management.
• Conducted Sessions to develop an architectural solution dat teh application meets teh business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests.
• Oversaw Black Box Testing based on test scenarios and test cases developed to eliminate gaps between requirements and functionality
• Used HPQC to track defects and while Test Cases and Test Scenarios were run.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and developed teh test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirement/use cases in conjunction with teh Business Owners.
• Trained teh future users to coordinate their activities vis-à-vis teh new system.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

PM/Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Subject Matter Expert in areas including project management, scope definition, risk identification, project methodology, resource allocation and facilitation
• Filled in for teh Project Manager Forecasting hours for Resources to be filled in PPM.
• Created Swimlanes to illustrate teh Timeline of Deliverables using MS Project for teh Development team as well as teh Quality Assurance team.
• Based on teh Scope of teh project created Budgets maximizing ma hours based on teh resources available.
• Liased with teh UI and UX team in creating GUI mockups using Mockup Screen and Wireframes using HTML, XML
• Performed teh Scrum Master duties vis a vis teh daily stand up, backlog grooming, Planning meeting, Review Meeting and Retrospective meeting
• Calculated Velocity based on teh Burndown to be used in Estimation for forthcoming Iterations.
• Conducted Planning Poker to Estimate T-Shirt Sizes.
• Designed detailed Workflow Diagrams using MS VISIO.
• Used teh ETL tool Informatica for source to target mapping of teh historical and real time data in teh data repository.
• Drafted high level TEST PLANS with teh assistance of teh QA Lead to define a road map for testing at different phases.
• Helped teh Quality Assurance team in writing Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
• Used HPQC to track and log bugs and defects in teh system.
• Helped conduct Market Research, feasibility studies, data analyses, systems analyses, GAP analyses and Risk analyses.
• Interacted with various cross functional teams to build use cases.
• Created a traceability matrix post testing to assure compliance with project goals.
• Trained teh business end for new functionality of teh application.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Sr. Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Reviewed and defined teh business case from a high level scope perspective.
• Assessed teh As-Is and teh To-Be state of teh system to perform a GAP analysis.
• Compiled high level requirements by conducting focus groups and requirement workshops with teh involved stakeholders.
• Initiated JAD sessions to break down teh business requirements in order to list low level requirements.
• Created functional and non-functional requirements based on teh requirement artifacts.
• Assessed system-level process flow of real time transactions to identify sourcing needs for data warehousing purposes.
• Liaised with teh Product Owner to translate teh product backlog into an initial set of user stories.
• Helped prioritize teh product backlog based on teh needs of teh project.
• Developed Sprint Burn Down charts to calculate teh velocity of teh scrum team for improved Project Management.
• Conducted backlog refinement meetings based on impact analysis.
• Created Test cases, Test Plans and performed UAT.
• Maintained a Requirement Traceability Matrix, logged defects using teh HP Quality Center to assist teh QA through teh testing process.

Confidential, New York

Sr. Business Analyst/Waterfall

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gatheird Analyzed, Validated, and Managed and documented teh stated Requirements.
• Interacted with users for verifying requirements, managing change control process, updating existing documentation.
• Created Functional Requirement Specification documents - dat include UML Use case diagrams, scenarios, activity diagrams and data mapping. Provided End User Consulting on Functionality and Business Process.
• Acted as a client liaison to review priorities and manage teh overall client queue. Provided consultation services to clients, technicians and internal departments on basic to intricate functions of teh applications.
• Identified business directions & objectives dat may influence teh required data and application architectures.
• Defined, prioritized business requirements, Determined which business subject areas provide teh most needed information; prioritize and sequence implementation projects accordingly.
• Provide relevant test scenarios for teh testing team. Work with test team to develop system integration test scripts and ensure teh testing results correspond to teh business expectations.
• Used Test Director for GUI, Performance, Stress Testing
• Perform Data Validation, Data Integration and Backend/DB testing using SQL Queries manually.
• Created Test input requirements and prepared teh test data for data driven testing.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gatheird user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing from account managers.
• Stored and modified requirements in MSWord.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements dat must be included while developing teh software.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using teh UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Conducted sessions with management, SME (Subject Matter Expert), vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.
• Scheduled meetings with Architects, Developers, and Testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion.
• Assigned problems to appropriate software development team for fixes
• Authored progress and completion reports, which were tan submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Confidential

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performed business analysis including process re-engineering and requirements elicitation for integrating all teh disparate systems into one synchronized system.
• Conducted walkthroughs with teh different department heads to have a deeper understanding of teh requirement.
• Created project plans taking into consideration projects’ mission, process flows, timelines, and requirements to document them.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Played a key role in teh planning, User Accepted testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development sessions to identify business rules and requirements and tan documented them in a format for inter and intra departmental review.
• Documented teh User Manual and trained teh end users for teh application.
• Involved in full Software Development Life Cycle.