SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Experience in translation of complex business concepts/strategies into deliverable product requirements and software requirement specifications.
• Experienced in creating Business Requirement Document (BRD) and other functional and non-functional documents.
• Expert in conducting Joint application development (JAD) sessions
• Experienced in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Requirement Analysis with Use case, Sequence , Activity, State, and Class Diagrams
• Managing reporting, analysis and decision-making for a change request
• Extensive experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases.
• Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models.
• Proven success as a data analysis through the years, providing a well-balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, and technical solutions
• Strong experience in AGILE, Waterfall, RUP Methodologies.
• Solid understanding of Business Process definition, Risk Analysis
• Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents.
• Professional experience in data analysis, operations management and development, design, documentation and testing.
• Excellent Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying and documenting root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long term business and system requirements.
• Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments ahead of schedule. Created and maintained effective budgets.
• Advised management on improvement strategies, Competitive & Profitability Analysis.
• Good Knowledge In SQL
• Outstanding written and verbal skills with explicit attention to detail during requirements elicitation.
• Excellent Leadership, Interpersonal, and Analytical skills, with ability to handle challenges with ease
• Excellent communication, facilitation and mentoring skills.
• Great understanding of Investment Banking including Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange and Equities
• Studied and assisted in Hedge Fund and Mutual Funds
• Expertise in trading of Stocks, Bonds and Currencies

CORE COMPETENCIES:
Requirements Gathering, Analysis and Management Monitoring & Control · Building & Managing Project Team · Liaison between Management, Business users, development, infrastructure and QA groups · Project Process Evolution · Status Reporting · Issue & Risk Assessment · Facilitating Problem Solving · Issue Resolution

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows.
Requirement Management Tool: Rational Requisite Pro
Tools : Rational Rose, MS Visio, Quality Center, QTP
Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, RUP
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server
Languages: C, C++, Java, .Net
Others: MS Office, MS Project, outlook

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts in Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY Jan 2010 - Present

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users to assess needs, identify key challenges, and define project scope and deliverables.
• Achieved results by addressing multiple project requirements concurrently with a focus on Client Workshops to gather critical information and establish strategic vision.
• Conducted status meetings with team members to discuss problem identification, prioritization and resolution, scope creep, and solution architecture.
• Created and transformed business requirements into Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and designed business models using UML diagrams such as Use Case Model, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in Rational Rose.
• Converted Business Requirements Documents into Functional Requirements Specification and Technical Specification.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues, and reach agreements.
• Organize and track activities ensuring project successfully completes on time and within budget.
• Facilitate business requirements-gathering and review. Ensured all project documentation is kept up to date and communicated to the relevant stakeholders on a timely basis.
• Created and maintained data dashboards and power point presentations that provided up to date results of project progress for project manager, team and VP sponsors.
• Coordinate and engage with the global, off-shore extended engineering team for development, server moves.
• Delivered excellent customer service and gained respect of management and end users.
• Coordinate web enhancements maintenance with periodic updates
• Delivered system to end-users with positive results that met quality standards & matched customer requirements.
• Facilitate testing & timely issue resolution, training and guidance to end users.
• Worked with Portfolio Management/Accounting system and handled Corporate, Municipal, Treasury, Agencies and High Yield Traders.
• Acted as the liaison between thebusiness(Fixed Income- General Ledger) and the technology area to implement software upgrades, create new reports, documentbusinessuse cases, conduct user acceptance testing, and design future enhancements for the trading platform.
• Worked closely with traders, portfolio managers, the equity and fixed income support team, project managers and developers to enhance functionality and to correct problems with fixed income, equity and derivative trade related systems

Environment: Rational Rose, HTML, Java, Oracle, Rational Requisite Pro

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT Jul 2008 - Dec 2009

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Users, Developers, Project Manager and Process Analysts to understand the business process, identify enhancements and gather Business Requirements.
• Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRDs) transformed into Functional Specifications.
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD) and classified them into User Interface and Business Process Specification, authored the User Requirement Specification, Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
• Followed Agile methodology with Scrum
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT groups. Identified the Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them.
• Conducted Use Case Modeling and Analysis, Created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Domain Object Modeling, depict process flows using Visio
• Formulated logical statements of business requirements research and evaluated alternative solutions to recommend the most efficient and cost effective solution for system design.
• Followed documentation guidelines in support of software development throughout the project lifecycle and maintained documentation standards
• Conducted UAT with the business users.
• Gathered and documented User Manuals and Business Rules.
• Coordinated monthly meetings and got user feedback at every step of the development process.
• Identified the Business risk, baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.
• Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)
• In depth involvement with the design for the strategic template for the CI system in features like Mutual Funds, Investment Portfolios including Equities and Fixed Income(Options, Futures, Bonds) Fees Distribution, Educational Services. SWOT Analysis, Product Features and strategic decisions.
• Analyzed various corporate statistics with the help of financial modeling and forecasting to predict potential risks factors.

Environment: Java, MS Visio, Oracle, MS Word, MS Excel

Confidential, New York, NY Mar 2007 - Jun 2008

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile (SCRUM) Methodology
• Created context, workflow models.
• Served as a liaison between mortgage specialists and the project team.
• Extensively involved in maintaining requirements traceability and communicating any changes to these requirements to different business groups and programmers.
• Provide innovative IT, business & e-commerce solutions to perspective and existing clients.
• Led and conducted JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design of the system.
• Created Usecase, Sequence, Activity, Statechart, Diagrams
• Responsible for writing detailed descriptions of user needs
• Actively interacted with different business groups to perform Gap analysis to identify the deficiencies in the system by comparing the actual objectives with the system objectives desired.
• Extensively involved in UAT during various phases of the application
• Knowledge of Fixed Income instruments including debt securities, Derivatives, FX OTC Options, Capital Markets, Bonds, Exchange-traded Funds, Asset-Backed Securities and Mortgage-Backed Securities.
• Worked on a project involving prime brokerage platform (supporting hedge fund clients globally) with a full suite of reporting, online queries. These queries include data, transaction management tools, risk reporting and a comprehensive range of financing products. The site is customizable for each user and provides one click access to research.

Environment: VB.net, Rational Rose, SQL, MS Project, Oracle

Confidential, New York, NY Apr 2006 - Feb 2007

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile(SCRUM) Methodology
• Collaborated with the offshore Equity swaps team to refine the future state vision for equity swap processing and translate business objectives in to building the system.
• Identified the deficiencies and worked on the improvement opportunities for the system.
• Developed Use Cases as per the requirements,.
• Prepared logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and BRDs (Business Requirement Documents) supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirements
• Created UML Diagrams using Visio
• Primary liaison between Business users, the Technology group during the redesign of the processing for decision support system, and conduct secessions resulting in Providing technical and business knowledge to internal and external clients. And process understanding and cooperation during testing and approval stages.
• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration and requirements and developed Requirement Traceability Matrix to find out if the current project requirements are met and ensured its timely update.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix to list all the requirements
• Scheduled meetings with developers, System Analysts, testers to collaborate resource allocation, project completion, managed workload, schedules and coordinated status review meetings with project managers, business managers,
• Maintained an Issue Log, troubleshooting all the issues, making sure it's being addressed, rectified and updated.
• Identified the key business processes to model by analyzing the requirements and Data modeling using MS Visio.
• Assisted with user testing of systems User Acceptance Testing, developing maintaining quality procedures, ensuring that appropriate documentation in place.

Environment: Java, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, SQL, MS Project

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the test plan, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.
• Developed and executed test cases.
• Conducted Functional, Regression testing, Compatible, testing, Integration testing, and User Acceptance testing for various combinations.
• Enhanced test cases when the functionality is changed in the application as per the new requirements.
• All the bugs that came up during testing process were reported through Quality Center
• Worked with the developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.
• Participated in meetings, walkthroughs and interacted with other development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.
• Maintaining status reports and communicating with the Management on progress of work.

Environment: Manual testing, VB, SQL Server, Oracle