SUMMARY

Around 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst in banking domain

• Hands-on roles within Foreign Exchange Money Market, Swaps, Interest Bearing Securities, Discounted Securities, Fees, Equities and Options modules.
• Worked as Analyst and Test Lead for implementation and upgrade, Application maintenance and product development support of Unisys Treasury Product - URBIS.
• Strong analytical skills to convert business problems into Functional Design Specifications, Troubleshooting and Effective Problem Solving.
• Provided consultancy, implementation and support services to global customers such as HSBC UK, Arab Banking Corporation - NY, Mizuho Bank NY, China construction bank NY and State Bank of India
• Hands on experience with Clear case and Clear quest tools.

Work Experience

Senior Business Analyst
Confidential - New York, NY
Oct 2010 - April 2012

As a Senior Business System Analyst, I was responsible for providing URBIS Product support, enhancements support.

• Supported URBIS modules like Foreign Exchange, Money Market, Foreign Exchange Swaps, Interest Bearing Securities, Discounted Securities and Options for Treasury department.
• Gathered User and Business Requirements through discussions.
• Worked as an Interface between the Users and the different teams involved in the application development for better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Utilized Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to configure and develop process, standards procedures.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and report/ DATABASE validation.
• Actively participated in, group and individual based, problem solving and decision making throughout the different phases of the project. Authored progress and completion reports, which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst to track defects Set up definitions and process for test phases including Product test, Integration test, System test and User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Worked closely with testing team to make sure all the changes made to requirements documents are implemented in there Test Cases.
• Involved in maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables for a project.
• Conducted Training Sessions to familiarize users with system.

Analyst Lead
Confidential
Oct 2009 - Sept 2010

As an Analyst Lead, I was responsible for Upgrade of URBIS product and enhancement support

• Business requirements gathering for new changes.
• Fit-gap analysis and identifying the customizations required in the Urbis product for various functionalities
• Create requirement specifications and functional design document.
• Working with the development team to explain business scenarios and coordinating with the development team to develop the change requests/fix issues.
• End to end Testing.
• Assist business users during User acceptance test
• Implementation of new features, Design, Functional Testing
• Coordination with the development team for implementation of the new features.
• Assist the customer team in User acceptance test
• Communicating Weekly status reports to management.
• Updating the reports according to client requirements using SQL and PL-SQL.
• Testing of the code developed by the development team.
• Maintaining issue logs, working with business team to resolve and assigning it to development team.
• Up gradation of the LINC software
• Understanding the mapping requirements between frontend product (kplus), backend product (URBIS) and developing the mapping between the two

Business Analyst
Confidential, India
March 2009 - Sept 2009

As a Business Analyst, I was responsible for providing production and enhancement support

• Gathering of business requirements from the client for new changes through discussions.
• Fit-gap analysis and identifying the customizations required in the Urbis product for various functionalities
• Create/Update requirement specifications.
• Create/Update functional design document.
• Working with the development team to explain business scenarios and coordinating with the development team to develop the change requests/fix issues.
• Create Test plan for the testing phase.
• Assisting junior testers during testing phase and reviewing the test cases.
• Monitor the regression testing.
• Testing of the code developed by the development team.
• Assisting business users during UAT
• Analysis of bugs raised by clients.
• Coordination with the development team for closure of the bugs raised by clients.
• Testing of the bugs closed

Business Analyst
Confidential - India
Jun 2005 - June 2007

As a Business Analyst, I was responsible for implementing URBIS (Foreign Exchange, Money Market, Swaps, Interest Bearing Securities, Discounted Securities, Fees, Equities) functionality for Treasury department.

• Business requirements gathering, Fit-gap analysis
• Understanding the mapping requirements between frontend product (kplus), backend product (URBIS) and developing the mapping between the two.
• Understanding the new Instruments and Setting up the static setup and Accounting Models for the new Products (Instruments).
• Migrating Foreign Exchange from UNIX to URBIS.
• Interaction with business users in data mapping and data correction related activities
• Designing work flows for the deal flow between kplus and URBIS.
• Setting up static set-up and Accounting Models and Mapping for the Money-Market module for foreign currencies.
• Implementation and support for the Rupee Modules viz, Securities and Equities.
• Did the full static set-up and Accounting Models and Mapping for the Interbank Forex products.
• Designing workflows for Cancellations and Crystallization of the Merchant Deals.
• Testing
• Assisting business users during UAT

Product Development Analyst
Confidential
Jan 2005 - May 2005

As a Product Development Analyst, I was responsible for Implementing URBIS product functionality and develop custom module for CTS (Corporate Trust Actions).

• Coordination with design team to understand new functionality for custom module.
• Writing the test scripts for testing the functionality.
• Testing of the code developed by the development team
• Providing Testing support

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics Engineering

Professional Memberships / Certifications

Diploma In Banking - Welingkar Institute of Management - Dec 2009
Oracle9i Database Administrator Certified Associate (OCA). - Jun 2007

Additional Information

Technical Skills

Product: URBIS - Treasury banking product by Unisys Corporation
Databases: Oracle 8x,9i, Microsoft Access
Languages: C, LINC, SQL,PL-SQL