PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 10 years of experience in project management and implementation of a variety of complex IT projects in Finance, Banking Investment sectors serving in various roles asProject Manager, AGILE Project Manager, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, and Systems Analyst.
• Experience in all phases of Project Life Cycle Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closeout , Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies like:Waterfall, Waterfall SCRUM, AGILE SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe.
• Conductfeasibility studies and develop project proposals for evaluation by project sponsor.
• Manageproject dashboards, change requests, issue escalations,resolutions and mitigations.
• Well-versed with end-to-end IT solutions while multitasking as a Project Manager/ Business Analyst or a Scrum Master/ Business Analyst.
• Documented Project Charter, Project Schedule, Work Breakdown Structure WBS and RACI matrix.
• Experience in monitoring project deliverablesfor giventimelines, budget and resources.
• Experience in implementing enterprise wide GRC guidelines using COSO Enterprise Risk Management ERM , COBIT and ITIL frameworks.
• Experience with HP PPM, Primavera 6, Time Entry Portals other industry standard project management tools.
• Proficient in Requirement Gathering, JAD sessions, Writing Specifications, Testing, UAT, Implementation, Change Management, Defect Management, Issue Resolution and Support.
• Experience capturing all aspects of wealth management systems, credit risk assessment and loan processing systems through use cases process flow diagrams.
• Extensive experience in conducting various business analyses like Impact analysis, SWOT analysis, Risk Analysis, GAP Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis as a business analyst.
• Experience in drafting business logicfor implementing applications in 3-tier architecture, especially writing business rules for classes in the middle tier.
• Excellent understanding of financial instruments like Capital Markets, Fixed income instruments, Bonds, Loans, Mortgages, Equities, Derivatives, P L and Risk analytics.
• Documented artifacts like Business Requirements Document BRD , System Requirements Specification SRS , Use Cases, Test Plans, UML diagrams as a business analyst.
• Demonstrated proactive leadership qualities and strong interpersonal skills in building high-performance teams.
• Experience in working with databases like Oracle Database, MS SQL, MS Access, MySQL and web servers like MS Internet Information Service IIS , Tomcat Apache.
• Developer based knowledge of programming language like Java, J2EE.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Confidential

Role: Agile Project Manager

Project: Managed an Confidential Project that enables the investors to take critical decisions on diversifying and optimizing their portfolio allocations. The project revolved around developing an UI for the Confidential whose modules can be described with respect to 3 core aspects i scenario creation/management ii scenario processing, modeling and analysis and ii scenario report generation

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managedproject charters, resource plan,and project schedule.
• Closely worked with the stakeholders on refining the requirements to avoid scope creep.
• Maintained SharePoint site for team building activities.
• Developed and planned various aspects of Work Breakdown Structures WBS with resources, timeline and budget estimates.
• Drafted the Risk Management Plan in compliance with the COSO Enterprise Risk Management ERM framework.
• Prepared the Change Management Plan to handle future changes and the Quality Management Plan to ensure standards and meet customer requirements.
• Assisted the Resource Board Review team with resource allocation.
• Conducted project kick-off meeting and outlined the RACImatrix to the project team for corrections, updates, and timeline agreement.
• Closely monitored the initial on-boarding process for resources both onshore and offshore for efficient on-boarding and Knowledge Transfer process.
• Delegated task to different work streams, after resource allocation.
• Worked in a fast paced, challenging environment with multiple and competing priorities.
• Managed project dependencies, issues and risks with escalation where appropriate.
• Managed project scope and change control process.
• Created/maintained status reporting materials.
• Conducted weekly status meeting calls and touch-point meetings with On-shore team and shared meeting minutes with To-Do items, milestones and goals.
• Supported team members during design, development, testing and implementation phases.
• Executedbest practicesby collaborating with program managers.
• Acted as a point of contact for business users and global offshore technology/QA teams.
• Negotiated with the off-shore team to avoidscope creep and gold-plating of requirements.
• Effectively conducted Change Request Managementby opening Change Requests on HP Quality Center, and assigned priority on each change.
• Prepared data reports with MS Excel and other Business Intelligencetools like Spotfire.
• Managed project go-live and support.
• Conducted project closure with milestones achieved, lessons learned, and project team member hours allocation review for business sponsor and product owners.

Environment:Agile Scrum, HP PPM, HP Agile, HP ALM, HP QC, SharePoint, Windows 7, MS Excel, Spotfire,Informatica, Oracle Database PL/SQL , Tomcat Apache, JSP

Client: Confidential

Role: Project Manager

Project: Worked on a project for the Confidential Mortgage Processing System that provided a unified operational environment for the entire loan processing system. The project involvedcustomizing off-the-shelf software called Confidentialt for meeting the business needs of the bank by creating a fully automated mortgage processing system that included all processes - mortgage application, handling, administration and approval.

Responsibilities:

• Enunciated the business opportunity precisely by developing the Project Charter.
• Developed the Project Schedule by defining the Work Breakdown Structure WBS and budget estimates.
• Generated the RACI matrix based on the Project Schedule to allocate budget and resources for tasks.
• Worked with SMEs to identify risks and drafted the response action in the Risk Management Plan in accordance with the organization's governance, risk management and compliance GRC guidelines.
• Devised a Communication Plan based on the RACI matrix.
• Used Fishbone and Pareto diagrams for building the Quality Management Plan.
• Documented and communicated the procedure for Change Management process to all team members.
• Identified key deliverables withquantifiableKPIs to measure success criteria.
• Managed all aspects of Procurement including obtaining RFP for vendor evaluation, selection and contracting.
• Conducted project kick-off meeting and outlined the RACI matrix to the project team.
• Generated process flows to understand the various steps in the Loan Lifecycle and desired functionality of the new system by interacting with users, management, SME, stakeholders, lenders and underwriters.
• Tracked team velocity and provided immediate feedback to team members.
• Facilitatedweekly status meetings and communicated meeting minutes to team members.
• Prepared Budget reports to track actual progress.
• Maintained SharePoint team sites for team building activities and storing operational materials.
• Provided Lessons Learned deckwith other Project Actualsto business sponsor and product owners during project closure.
• Managed final product release and subsequent follow-up support.

Environment:WaterfallScrum,SharePoint, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Access, HP Quality Center, Windows 7, MS Office Project, Visio, Excel , Tableau, MS SQL, T-SQL, IIS Web Server, ASP.NET

Client: Confidential

Role: Scrum Master/ Sr. Business Analyst

Project: Worked on a credit scorecard development project for risk assessment of student loans thereby assisting educational institutions in providing financial aid to prospective students and admission decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an Agile Scrum environment. Acted as Scrum Master: conducted daily stand up meetings, developed burn down chart, product backlogs and release backlog.
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements through requirement gathering and review workshops.
• Conducted an initial two week sprint for an agenda-driven requirements refinement session with all project stakeholders to finalize the requirements in scope.
• Authored reviewed the Business requirement documents BRD and system requirement specifications SRS .
• Conducted GAP analysis for legacy systems and current processes to map the future process to aid in requirements detailing.
• Involved in project management functions in preparing project plans, identifying major milestones and timelines.
• Conducted user meetings to gather business process flows, data flow develop optimum business process models.
• Coached the scrum team on the team velocity and sprint progress.
• Drafted business rules for classesin middle tier application logic.
• Transcribed Service Level Agreements in XML/ WSDL formats for Web Services.
• Prepared Data dictionaries, Data requirement specifications and User Interface requirements specifications.
• Prepared requirement traceability matrices RTM and managed every change request effectively throughout the software development life cycle.
• Overlooked data mapping of important functionalities for client-server integration.
• Assisted in client and server side validation of various business rules.
• Extensively used MS SQL database with SSIS for data warehousing activities.
• Coordinated with end users, SMEs, development and QA team and monitored progress.
• Translated the functional specifications into test scenarios and test cases.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT and developed the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements /use cases.
• Involved in developing implementing deployment user training schedules and conducted user training
• Formulated a user manual for the developers and user guide for the end users as part of a 1 week training session.

Environment: Agile Scrum, JIRA, UML, HP QC, Windows 7, MS Office Project, Excel, MS SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, XML/ WSDL, Apache web server, JSP.

Client: Confidential

Role: Scrum Master / Sr. Business Analyst

Project: Project involved working on a cookie-free ecommerce platform that provided a positive, customer convenient experience and was compliant with the Confidential cookie law. The platform incentivized the buyer by maximizing cash back for each purchase and enabled a more secure online purchasing model while maintaining customer loyalty for the ecommerce website.

Responsibilities:

• Performedbusiness requirements analysis on the information gathered fromAccounting and Sales departments through interviews and requirements workshop.
• Conducted JAD sessions for initial prototype deliverablefor business sponsor, owner review and approvals.
• WroteScrum/user stories for the web application and ensured that all the documentation is updated with all the requirements.
• Performed gap analysis and identified opportunities for enhancements.
• Developed Process Flow Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams, class diagrams, architecture diagrams High Level and Use Cases using MS Visio.
• Worked on creating the product backlog and the Sprint backlog and responsible for prioritizing user stories and product backlog items.
• ProvidedAGILE project management controls,project plans, timeline schedules, facilitate sessions, and reviewed software defect logs.
• Convened meetings with users and stakeholders to identify impediments to resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Extensively used SQL queriesand MS Excel Vlookup, Macros, Pivot Tables etc for data reporting.
• Conducted client-side validation to studyETL operations on the databases and the data warehouse.
• Designed and developed low and high fidelity wireframeswith rich and compelling UI components.
• Conducted weekly status meetings and project touch-point meetings with project stakeholders.
• Supporting cross functional teams to address business requirements.
• Worked extensively on HP ALM/ HP QCfor requirements loading, creating/updating test cases and tracing them back to requirements, creating and closing tickets, test execution and defect logging/tracking.
• Ensured requirements compliance and testing using traceability matrix.
• Conducted a project closure meeting with the Program Manager for milestones, RACI status for resources, and costs to hours review followed by project sign-off with internal stakeholders.

Environment:Agile Scrum, HP ALM, HP QC, Windows 7, MS Office, Project, Excel, Access, Informatica, Ajax, Apache web server, Oracle database, JSP.

Client: Confidential

Role: Sr. Business Analyst

Project: Implemented a suite of advanced real time transaction processing services that automate the securities transaction life cycle. These include services from desktop productivity tools, portfolio management, order capture and execution, trade confirmation, clearing, settlement and accounting functional solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Client interfacing for requirement gathering, issue management, and testing life cycle monitoring.
• Performed current system study and AS IS analysis - produced Gap analysis documents.
• Deep Knowledge of Securities transaction life cycle.
• Analyzed business and functional requirement, working closely with business and technology leads to identify appropriate data for testing and design of quality system test cases.
• Developed UML Use Cases, Class diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Created Functional Specification Document FSD detailing in depth project functional requirements.
• Prepared a schedule and work flow following Waterfall methodology.
• Participated in meetings with the developer and the QA team to facilitate the requirements understanding process, data collection, and data analysis.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and system requests and prepared Requirement Traceability Matrices RTM to track such requirements.
• Tested clearing and settlement flows using SWIFT codes between the clearing house and the trading house.
• Facilitated and Supported User Acceptance Testing UAT process.
• Attended Root Cause Analysis meetings to identify the root cause for bugs and helped determine best use of development and testing resources for risk management.

Environment:Waterfall, MS Project, Mercury Quality Center, Windows 7, MS Office, MS Access

Client: Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

Project: The project involved developing a Mobile Banking Application that will help customers accessing their bank account details and perform money transfer transactions via mobile internet telecommunication.

Responsibilities

• Interacted with the customers and internal stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system.
• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements and developing System Specifications.
• Assessed business priorities, and advised business units on risks and CostBenefit analysis.
• Participated in the development and preparation of the Test Planwith the testing team as well as ensuring testability, reliability, usability, maintainability and performance of the application.
• Did rigorous performance testing using Load Runner.
• Involved in incident reporting and change and configuration management procedures.
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the application.

Environment: Waterfall, UML, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, XML, HTML, Oracle, UFT/QTP, IBM Cognos

Client: Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

Project: The project was aimed at adding new transaction features to their existing Confidential.

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed SME's and stakeholders to better understand application requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions to gather business requirements from stakeholders, business user.
• Performed the business process modeling for the bank's existing ATM transactions.
• Included features like check deposit and new account opening application on their ATM portals.
• Supporting product functional enhancement through requirement gathering, writing of business/functional specification.
• Generated wireframes to get consensus and approval of sponsors and business owners on the look and feel of the application.
• Identified and developed Use Cases from the business and systems requirements. Documented high level and detailed Use Cases to include all the functionalities of the new system.
• Followed the UML methodology to Create UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams,Sequence Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagramsfor easy understanding of development team.
• Supervised the User Acceptance Testing UAT to test the usability of the application.
• Performed regression and performance testing extensively with Test Director Load Runner.

Environment: Waterfall, MS Visio, MS Excel, XML, HTML, Windows XP, Test Director, Load Runner, IBM DataStage

Client: Confidential

Role: Web portal Admin/ Java Developer

Project: The system provides users ability to add, update and delete contacts from database. Also display list of contacts currently stored in database.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing Use Case, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams for the modules using UML and Rational Rose.
• Used Spring Framework for dependency injection with the help of spring configuration files
• Developed the presentation layer using JSP, HTML, CSS and client validations using JavaScript.
• Used HTML, CSS and JSP to create interactiveUI.
• Involved in Installation and configuration of Tomcat Server.
• Designed developed and maintained the data layer using Hibernate and performed configuration of Struts, Application Framework.
• Worked on tuning of back-end Oracle stored procedures using TOAD.

Environment: Core Java, Swing, JDBC, UML, NetBeans, SQL, Windows XP, TOAD, JavaScript, Linux/ UNIX, Tomcat Server, IBM Rational Rose

Client: Confidential

Role: Jr. Java Developer

Project: Worked on the development of on-line application processing and premium tracking system.

Responsibilities

• User interface is developed using Java Swing.
• Developed different forms for add/update/delete contact using JFrame.
• Developed various action listeners to capture user actions on GUI.
• JDBC is used for data manipulation in application.
• Apache derby is used as database.
• Developed SQLs to create the table, query the table for different operations such as add/update/delete the contacts and fetch list of contacts based on user criteria.
• Windows XP is used as an operating System for the deployment.

Environment: Java, JEE, JSP, Servlets, Swings, SQL, Web Services, Tomcat, Oracle 9i, ANT, and Windows XP