SUMMARY

• 8+ years of industry experience as Project manager, Scrum Master and Business Analyst in Financial, Banking domain.
• Experienced in working wif clients to implement requirements and in providing team leadership for development support teams comprising company as well as client and third - party contract staff.
• Excellent work ethics and analytical skills coupled wif excellent communication, written and interpersonal skills describing a committed team player.
• Hands on experience on software development methodologies (SDLC) such as Waterfall, SCRUM and a touch of Kanban.
• Experience and noledge of Scaled Agile framework (SAFE) 3.0 and 4.0 and Scrum framework including Scrum Ceremonies, Artifacts, various Prioritization and Estimation techniques.
• Impeccable work ethics and outstanding organization skills for Strategic Planning, Prioritization and Execution.
• Coached Scrum team and Product Owner teh three main pillars of scrum i.e. transparency, inspection, adaption
• Collaborated wif Product Owner to revise User Acceptance criteria, facilitated and worked closely wif teh team in all teh scrum ceremonies like Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Sprint Review meeting.
• Generated various reports like Sprint Burn Down Chart, Sprint Burn Up charts to keep track of progress and validated PSPIs using Definition-of-Done.
• Experienced in estimating user stories using different Estimation techniques like Planning Poker, T- shirt Sizing and Prioritization techniques like Moscow, Kano, and Walking Skeleton.
• Experienced in writing user stories and splitting user stories to satisfy INVEST criteria using various strategies.
• Experienced in handling requirements churn, establishing stretch goals, conducting backlog-grooming meeting, skillful in negotiating wif product owner.
• Extensive noledge in maintaining teh Scrum Task Board, Burn up/down charts, and tracking Team Velocity.
• Experience in conducting Scrum Orientation Workshops and User Story Writing Workshops as an Agile Coach to familiarize stakeholders wif Scrum Process Skeleton and Framework.
• Experienced wif Project Collaboration tools including JIRA, Rally, Version one and HP-ALM to capture teh User Stories and User Requirements.
• Experienced in conducting GAP analysis, Impact analysis, Feasibility study, Cost-benefit analysis, Risk analysis, Root cause analysis, SWOT analysis, ROI analysis.
• Highly skilled at gathering requirement using different elicitation techniques such as interviewing, JAD Sessions, Brainstorming, requirements workshop, Prototyping, Job shadowing, Document Analysis, Reverse Engineering and Benchmarking.
• Skilled in identifying teh data requirements, preparing teh data flow diagrams, designing Schemas, Fact tables, data analysis and data mapping, Proficient at Process mapping and Business Process Modeling (BPM).
• Experience in using various tools such as Rational Requisite Pro, Test Director, MS Project Clear Quest.
• Proficient in using MS Visio for generating Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Entity relationship (ER), Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Familiarity wif Black-Box testing techniques such as Load Testing, Regression Testing, Unit and Functional Testing, Integration, System Testing and Performance Testing.
• Knowledge and experience in conducting User Acceptance Test (UAT) and creation of dummy Data.
• Knowledge of Dodd Frank Regulation, SOX, FINRA, GDPR, BASEL, SEC compliance and Integration.
• Effectively gatheird SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) prerequisites and changing them into practical determinations concentrating on work process examination and outline, UI plan, Entity-Relationship (ER) Diagrams, information stream charts and process stream displaying.
• Good Knowledge of making SQL Queries to make Data Mapping and Data Warehousing. Broad learning of Entity Relationships and User Administration. Additionally, took a shot at Data Migration systems utilizing Informatica control focus device.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, ROI Analysis, JAD Sessions, SWOT analysis

Project Management Tools: MS Project (2013,2016), MS SharePoint (2010,2013), Confluence (v.6.4, 6.3, 6.2)

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, SAFE, Kanban

Requirement Management: MS Office, JIRA (v.6.3,7.0), HP ALM (v.11.5), HP-QC (v.11,12)

Modeling Tools: MS Visio (v.14, 15, 16), Lucid Chart, Balsamiq, draw.io

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center

Data Warehousing: Data Marts, OLTP, OLAP, Multidimensional Analysis, Data Mining, Slicing/Dicing, Drill Down/Roll Up

Databases: MYSQL, Microsoft SQL T-SQL, PL/SQL

Testing Tools: HP QC v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Load Runner (v. 11.5, 12.02), Selenium

Reporting tools: Tableau (v. 9.3, 10.0, 10.1), MS Excel (2010, 2013, 2016)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed good understanding of Financial Instruments like Commodities, Bonds, Alternate Investments, Options, Swaps, Derivatives, Money market instrument like Certificate Of Deposit and Treasury Bill, Fixed Income Securities.
• Ensured industry standards and compliances like of Dodd Frank, Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) Basel and GDPR are met.
• Handled multiple projects and Scrum teams as part of financial project management role, addressed blockers, impediments and deliverables of various releases.
• Worked along wif Director in defining KPI’s for teh project like resource estimation, effort estimation and feasibility study, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Gap Analysis and Risk Analysis.
• Track key project/program milestones and manage project plans and budget and resources to meet teh needs
• Created proposals and project budget allocations and worked on Project Charter and Work Break down Structure using MS Project to manage triple constraints
• Extensively used JIRA, QC and confluence to manage and track project tasks and action items.
• Assisted Developers in using Oracle data base + Apache Hadoop for storing existing as well as new tables and processing of large data sets.
• Assisted developers wif tools like Hive and Sqoop to script and manage backend Data flow from ORD to CDP
• Conducted Scrum Calls and various Scrum ceremonies for multiple teams, engaged teams and programs SME’s to understand, communicate status, priorities, risks and issues.
• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Retrospective, Sprint Review and Backlog Grooming meetings to keep backlog groomed.
• Prioritizing features using MoSCoW techniques and ensuring Features are divided to User story wif teh desired business value to fulfill INVEST criteria in order to prepare Product Backlog Increments (PBIs).
• Drafted and executed QA test plans and validation strategies on various environments including UAT and PROD along wif Performance testing.
• Led teh REST APIs development and testing for integrating wif teh 3rd party data sources as well as teh Cloud Infrastructure.
• Acted as an AGILE COACH and mentored teh teams on Scrum framework, practices and principles.
• Constantly tracking defects and bugs on Jira as well as on QC, coordinating wif team for defect remediation activities for various monthly deployments.
• Created weekly score card as our project status report, conducted demo sessions wif teh leadership to review teh same.
• Worked along wif Project’s Tech teams and support teams to resolve various technical issues and created PPMC tickets, Service now records as well as ACRs for teh same.
• Developed plan and worked wif UI developers for Upgradation activities, resolving Basis issues and ensuring its integration wif single container and various environments.
• Extensively involved in creating and executing Backend and UI install plans and activities, constantly coordinated wif offshore team, onshore team and release management teams to resolve issues during prod Install wif highest priority and generate reports.

ENVIRONMENT: Agile- scrum, MS Visio (v16.0), MS-PROJECT, MS Office Suite, JIRA (v7.0), Confluence (v6.4), MS SQL Server, MS Project, Tableau (v.10.1), HTML, Hadoop eco system, Cloudera Platform.

Confidential, Dover, NH

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Ensured compliance wif Business Owner wif various compliance regulations such as Basel Accord and SOX and also work wif agency like Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
• Conducted extensive GAP analysis by identifying AS-IS of teh project and TO-BE’s for process vision and process flows.
• Working in tandem wif Product Owner to effectively maintain and prioritize Product backlog and release plan.
• Served teh Product Owner in finalizing teh Minimum viable product and creating User Stories, also halped teh PO in prioritization of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) including teh process of making sure user stories follow INVEST Criteria.
• Created documents like Proposed Scope Statement (PSS), Cost variance threshold and Scope variance threshold along wif teh Project readiness document using Microsoft Project.
• Interacted wif SME’s, asking detailed questions and carefully recording teh requirements in a format that can be understood and reviewed by both technical and businesspeople.
• Used JIRA for allocating tasks, user story writing, backlog management, issue tracking and also user story management.
• Making sure complacency doesn't set in development team, at same timeavoiding overcommittingto stakeholders.
• Participated PI planning events and halped in understanding teh dependencies between different scrum teams.
• Monitored various scrum events while working to ensure that milestones are met and updated teh stakeholder for teh same.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum events to identify dependencies across team, removing impediments, collaborating wif scrum masters, providing status update to program stakeholders and business owners at weekly basis
• Helped teh team in understanding and implementing technique of Swarming to increase collaboration and work output.
• FacilitatingMid Sprint checkupto re-review teh acceptance criteria of all teh committed Product backlog items.
• Championed teh cause for Continuous Design, Integration andRefactoringto minimize code duplicity, complex logic etc.
• Held Requirement Churn during teh project by performing IMPACT Analysis in order to understand teh need and severity.
• Encouraged team to adopt pair programming, peer review, reusable components and best practice documents.
• Coached and mentored team to adopt agile practices, adopted agile games (Coin game, chair game, marshmallow challenge, ball game) and various practices to ensure team understand agile practices and values.
• Planned and Facilitated User Acceptance Testing, compiled results, reviewed them & formulated reports on their basis.
• Created multiple data visualization reports wif Tableau for teh executives to give variable analysis of business matrices.

Environment: SAFE, Agile-Scrum, Worked on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), MS Visio (v.16), MS-PROJECT, MS Office Suite, JIRA (v.7.0), MS-SharePoint, MS SQL Server, MS Project, Tableau (v.10.1).

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Helped teh Product Owner in prioritizing Product Backlog Items (PBIs), halped teh team in breaking PBIs into user stories using INVEST criteria, selecting teh user stories for teh current Sprint, and further breaking them into tasks.
• Assisted in creating teh Definition of Done (DOD) for teh entire process and Acceptance Criteria for specific user stories.
• Helped Scrum Master in tracking team’s velocity using Sprint Burn Down charts and achieve optimum velocity.
• Assisted PO, incase of requirement churn and if their is any need to re-prioritize user stories for teh current sprint.
• Timely assured development team had all teh necessary resources needed to perform to their potential.
• Reported status to Business owners on a weekly and monthly basis using tool like MS Project for project planning, project scheduling and also doing status reporting in-order to keep teh business owner in loop of life cycle of teh application.
• Conducted extensive GAP analysis by identifying teh AS-IS and TO-BE ‘s for teh process vision and process flows.
• Participated in teh initial Impact Analysis for all teh critical functions; worked wif internal team to build a high-level roadmap & timeline to achieve objectives and also making a report on any changes that were included in teh project.
• Identified Use cases from teh Functional requirements and created business process models, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, and Use Case Diagrams in MS Visio in order to understand teh structure of teh Applications process.
• Created workflows and flowcharts using MS Visio, which were used to diagrammatically represent teh process of placing a request and getting directions to do remote check deposits through mobile cameras, and how to do payroll processing.
• Assisted in analyzing, designing Graphical User Interface (GUI) by creating mock-ups to get better understanding.
• Maintained teh Referential Integrity of teh Data and Verified whether teh front-end values are correctly being storing in teh back-end database by writing SQL queries such as Stored Procedures, Functions, tables, join’s and views.
• Performed application testing along wif QA team - conducted Functional Flow Testing, System Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, Volume Testing Regression Testing, Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing.
• Participate in Triage meetings and documented teh User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Plan for teh project and worked wif teh UAT Team to ensure every acceptance criterion for teh requirements was included in teh UAT task plan.
• Kept a track of bugs/defects using JIRA also halped teh Testers to resolve teh issues and made a report of all teh defects.
• Used Tableau for data visualization to generate Internal Reports to Study and Analyze teh planned interfaces.

Environment: Agile-Scrum, Jira (v.7.0), SharePoint, MS Visio (v.16), SQL Server 2012, Tableau (v.10.1), Selenium, HTML5/CSS3, REST, XML, SoapUI, MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in identifying teh problem definition as part of continuous process improvement using Define, Measure, Analyze and Improve to support teh business continuity of teh organization.
• Conducted requirements gathering session using Elicitation Techniques like user Observation, Brainstorming, Client Interviewing, Document Analysis and JAD Sessions wif various stakeholders and project team.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace teh completeness of requirements.
• Developed high-level and low-level documents like Business requirements documents (BRD) and System requirements specification (SRS).
• Defined frameworks for Operational data store (ODS), Brokerage data warehouse (BDW), Central file distribution (CFD) and Data Quality (DQ) and created functional data requirement (FDR).
• Proficient in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Lineage, Data Cleansing and Data Verification.
• Coordinated wif teh Business Objects developers in building universes and developed various reports like Cross Tab, Master Detail and different charts including Line, Column, Area, and Pie Charts for analysis.
• Extensively interacted wif data analysts during teh ETL operations in identifying teh source files/databases from OLTP systems and implementing teh transformation logic for achieving data uniformity in operational data store (ODS).
• Defined target load order plan and constraint based loading for loading data correctly into different target tables.
• Designed and created Data Quality baseline flow diagram, which includes error handing and test plan flow data.
• Involved in teh design of Star-Schema methodology and converted data from various sources to oracle tables.
• Used various SQL commands like Create, Delete, Update, and Inner, Outer, Left, and Right Joins to update teh database and retrieve data for data analysis and validation.
• Involved in Data Mining, dimensional Modeling, ETL process, OLAP operations like rollup, drill down, slicing/dicing, pivoting using BI tools and Business Intelligence Reporting using Tableau.
• Coordinated wif QA to create test plan & Test cases for testing teh system and find bugs and defects.
• Developed teh training schedules, user manuals and trained teh business/end users.

Environment: Waterfall, Windows 7/Vista/8, MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), MS Project 2010, MS Visio (v.16), SharePoint 2013, SQL, HPALM, HPQC, SQL server services

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Captained meetings wif teh Project Managers, Subject Matter Expertise for analysis and prerequisites of teh project.
• Hands on experience in gathering interface requirements.
• Prepared GAP analysis and Risk analysis via Document Analysis and Interface Analysis to understand teh new business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated.
• Created Data Mapping Documents for teh source and target systems.
• Identifying & understanding financial and non-financial risk and opportunities in project by attending project reviews.
• Consolidating and analyzing financial data, taking into account company’s goals and financial standing.
• Supporting teh development across teh business, focusing around reporting, and business intelligence.
• Conducted a high-level requirement gathering sessions wif Business Owners for Requirement Elicitations via JAD Sessions, Interviews, Focused Groups and Brainstorming Sessions.
• Developed requirements and rules around IT Security, User Roles, Autantication/Authorization and Logging for integration; performed analysis to verify systems and validate systems compatibility.
• Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and System Requirements Specification (SRS) to enable teh team to better understand teh requirements and business needs.
• Actively participated in document reviews, plan setup, plan configuration and incorporated them in Business process re-engineering, Business process improvements, Business process modeling by using Activity diagrams.
• Created Use-Case diagrams, Activity and Sequence diagrams, ER Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Wrote test cases, test plans, and test scenarios and traceability matrices used by teh Quality team for UAT.
• Actively participated during Smoke testing, Black Box testing, Regression Testing, System Testing.

Environment: Waterfall, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Share Point, Web Services, SOA, HTML, API, SOAP.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews wif project managers, SMEs business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Identify research, analyze, define and document business processes.
• Created, Maintained, Mapped and Updated Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure all requirements are defined for a system and tested in teh test protocols.
• Created low fidelity diagrams like Wireframes showing markups for web pages.
• Created process flow diagrams for better process identification and clarity for development team.
• Worked wif teh developers closely to magnify success scenarios of Primary and Alternate flows.
• Developed PowerPoint presentations for monthly meetings wif upper management.
• Teamed up wif teh credit allocation department to perform market survey and learn client requirements to assist teh technical team in Software development.
• Assisted Engineers in coming up wif Technical Documents Functional design documents.
• Assist in selecting teh technology for teh application based on Cost-Effectiveness and Quality wif an eye towards teh future.
• Used for SharePoint content management and document management.
• Used UML to prepare Use Cases from teh gatheird requirements and created diagrams using Lucid chart.
• Assisted in preparation of UAT test plan, Test Cases, Testing Cycle schedules, Test Scenarios and implemented them wif QA team.

Environment: Waterfall, UML, SQL Server, MS Office (word, power point, excel), MS Project, DB2, Mockup Screens, SharePoint.

Confidential

Jr.QA ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed System Requirement Specification, Technical Specification and functional design documents to achieve better understanding of teh project.
• Participated in reviews, high level design walk through and evaluations of teh application at all stages of SDLC.
• Developed detailed Test Plan, Test cases.
• Performs all aspects of validation and verification, including functional structural, regression, load, and system testing to ensure hardware and/or software meets or exceeds standards and end-user requirements.
• Managed teh testing process, bug reporting, test results, track teh progress of teh testing and provided daily status to test lead/project manager.
• Developed SQL statements to query teh database for consistency of data, data quality, and data storage and data retrieval.
• Implemented Data-Driven framework using tools like JUnit.
• Timely and efficient entering, tracking, maintaining and updating defect logs in Quality Center.

Environment: Waterfall, HTML, CSS, MS SQL Server, Quality Centre, JUnit, MS Office