SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of broad experience in financial and telecommunication industries, analyzing business requirements, transforming the business processes and enhancing the business capabilities.
• Enormous experience with business process setup using Use Case Modeling, Business Process Modeling, Change Modeling, QA Testing, RUP, Agile and UML.
• Experience in various areas of Investment Banking, Portfolio Management, Mortgage backed securities, Credit Risk Management, and complex financial products such as Fixed - income Investments, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives and currency swaps.
• PMO experience in scoping, budgeting, time estimation to complete all tasks as captured by the WBS for all project groups, including stakeholders, users, developers, QA team, etc using MS Project.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and Joint Requirement Planning sessions with excellent inter-personal communication skills.
• Excellent requirements elicitation, analyzing, documenting and validating skills, and communicating these requirements to senior management and all project team members.
• Proven track record for interaction and mediation on individual levels with Senior Business Managers, Business Users, Project Managers, Technology developers using my inter-personal communication skills to create cohesive environment for effective team work.
• Strong experience using financial accounting systems, reporting systems and fund reconciliation applications, and compliance reporting on SOX, GAAP and SEC.
• Experienced in Root Cause Analysis, GAP Analysis, Feasibility studies, SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis using ROI, TCO methodologies, Financial Analysis deriving IRR, NPV and DCF.
• Excellent documentation skills creating Business Requirement Document (BRD) and translating the requirement into Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Experienced in creating Business case development, Process mapping, UML diagrams.
• Experienced in working on the launch of latest software implementation with good knowledge of SQL and Oracle database.
• Skilled in the use of SharePoint as well as the implementation process of the platform.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• UML
• SQL
• Java
• JavaScript
• J2EE
• .NET
• Unix
• HTML
• CSS 3
• Visual Basic 5.0/6.0
• MS Office Suite
• MS Visio
• MS SQL Server ( 2008/2005)
• MS Windows ( 2000/XP/Vista/7)
• MS SharePoint 2010
• Oracle 11i
• 10g
• ETL tools
• HP Quality Center
• HP Quick Test Professional(QTP) 10
• Test Director
• Win runner
• Load runner
• Erwin
• Rational Rose
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Rational Clear Quest
• Rational Clear Case
• Adobe Suite CS5
• Storyboard
• Wireframe
• User Stories
• Agile
• RUP
• Defect Triage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and processed business mapping, activity diagrams, functional software specification and requirements documentations.
• Worked closely with PM to analyze the feasibility of Business Case, produced User Stories, budgeting and time estimation schedules in MS Project, and the associated Risks and Mitigation action plans.
• Documented requirements to support the design and development for ETL process to support FOREX load automation for a new data mart.
• Created Class for interaction and general SharePoint site structural templates for varied business users using content management, business processes, collaboration and portal features.
• Co-ordinated, initialized and facilitated Joint Requirement Planning seminars for Business and Functional Requirement gathering and analysis and documenting them in Product Backlog and subsequently breaking up Feature Lists into User Stories, and drawing up Acceptance Criteria.
• Collected high level of requirement gathering by interviewing various stakeholders including investment bankers, fund managers to achieve basic information and to narrow down further requirements.
• Faciliated Defect Triage process for effective Defect management through severity and priority categorization.
• Developed Product Backlog, User Stories, Sprint Plan, Agile Sprint, and was the Product Owner in Scrum.
• Created Prototypes using screen mock-up design Wireframes and Storyboards using Adobe Firefox, Illustrator and Photoshop to make an efficient SDLC model.
• Actively partnered with system architects, technology developers for business and technical queries and coordinating with QA testers to ensure all specifications and requirements are correctly translated into solution and system designs; and worked with Release team on timely Releases of software versions.
• Developed Test Strategy and Test plan to ensure the Test cases reflect business user requirements.

Environment: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, HTML 5, CSS 3, Unix, Oracle 11g, 10g, SQL, Test Director, HP Quality Center, Agile, UML, MS SharePoint 2010, MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Visio, MS DOS, Load Runner, IRise 7.0., MS Project

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• GAP analysis for defining the current state of reporting practices and set of proposal to improve reporting tools and reporting metrics.
• Created Business Requirements Document (BRD) providing an outline explaining the Customer/Business requirements, People Model (Current/Target Environment), Process Model (Current/Target Environment), Business Use Cases, Information Attribute Requirements, Security Requirements, Non Functional Requirements (Capacity and Performance requirements).
• Performed the detailed data analysis to provide single/uniform Client Segmentation, Deal Status, Country/Geography and Product hierarchy across legacy BAC and ML (IB & CB).
• Facilitated review meetings, tracked and reported planned vs. actual. Drafted status reports and followed up with MOMs to all stakeholders.
• Performed detailed data analysis to construct Expense Data Bridge from Deal Accounting to allow sunsetting of legacy Confidential Expense Manager (EM).
• Achieved To-Be state for centralized integrated data source for all downstream reporting and performance dashboards (Banker Dashboard, Client Scorecard, Due Diligence Application, Comp Dashboard and Cognos Reporting).
• Created FRD, and System Requirement Specifications (SRS) detailing Software Requirements using Context diagram, Interaction Model, Logical Information/Data Model, Meta Data information, System Use Cases, Detailed featured requirements, Error and Exception Management strategy, Data Mappings, External System interface details, Batch Process and Schedule details, Security requirements, Operational Management Requirements.
• Worked with Testing team to review and finalize Test Cases and Test Plan addressing Test Objectives, Test Scope, Test Environment, Test Approach, Roles & Responsibilities, Test Scenarios, Defect Resolution, Capacity/Load testing, Performance goals and success factors.
• Coordinated the execution of Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Performance & Service level testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Worked closely with Release Manager on planned Releases.

Environment: Unix, Java, J2EE, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, HP Quality Center 9.2, MS Project, Oracle 10i, ToadSoft, Rational Unified Process, UML, SQL

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Impact Analysis to cover risk on the business operations, and produced a quantifiable dollar value and appropriate mitigation steps in event of a failure in the system or a change in a requirement.
• Interacted frequently via face-to-face meetings, conference calls, emails, workshops, and working sessions with various business, operational, system architects, and technical SMEs, and kept them abreast of project-related achievements/obstacles as well as any new and/or foreseen developments that could impact current or future clients.
• Defined the goals and strategized the execution of a debt management system that provided users with a seamless workflow, reduced manual processing, and increased efficiency of case specialists.
• Facilitated meeting discussions with high level city managers and fixed income staff Confidential numerous financial institutions and brokered issue resolutions, and articulated decision points.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Software Modeler to create: Use Cases (diagrams, scenarios, and narrative), Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Maintained traceability matrix and ensured that the project charter, BRD, design (HLD) docs, and test scripts are synchronized and are aligned with enterprise provisions.
• Developed user test plans and performed User Acceptance Testing to ensure developed code was in compliance with business standards.
• Conducted training sessions for the end users and documented various training manuals.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint 2010, Visual Basic, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Mercury Quality Center, UML, MS SQL Server.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating JAD sessions with business users to analyze the investment tracking system, application life-cycle, gather and define the key performance indicators, document and present the requirements specifications.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis and Re-engineered business processes, and implemented performance measures, presented project presentations to executive management.
• Achieved final approval and validations of business rules and processes with users and management.
• Managing Requirements and communicating with user groups and team members using Rational Rose and Rational Requisite Pro.
• Role involved extracting, analyzing, merging, and summarizing data/ data conversion and data migration aspects from the existing Financial Systems.
• Performed data analysis of wealth management transactions with centralized billing analytic, data conversion and performance reporting, repo and other fixed income financial products (Repo, Sell/ Buy backs, Coupons, etc.).
• Use Case Analysis using UML, which provided the framework for potential use case deliverables and their inter-relationships, and allow for maximizing software reuse.
• Documented User Requirements with MS Word as the editing tool and Rational Rose to develop the use cases.
• Authored design documentations: traceability matrices (RTM), functional specs and complex process and data flow diagrams.

Environment: Dot Net, XML, HTML, PL/SQL, Oracle, UNIX, Win NT, SDLC, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, UML, Use Case, MS Project, MS Visio, Caliber RM.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated JAD session with stakeholders and I was able to reach a consensus with them on key financial reporting metrics.
• Gathered, analyzed and documented requirement into various requirement specification documents.
• Communicated User, Business and Functional requirements with business user and stakeholders for sign off and approval.
• Managed gathered requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix to define and ensure that all requirements are completely captured all through the development phase of the reporting platform.
• Collaborated with the QA team to develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Conducted training sessions for top management on how to use the reporting platform and documented various training manuals.

Environment: RUP, MS Visio, Oracle, .NET, C#, DB2, SharePoint, Test Director, Clear case, HP Quality Centre, MS SQL Server 2003, XML, MS Office, MS Excel, Access, Win Runner, Load Runner.