SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience as an Business Analyst with excellent strong understanding, analytical and implementation skills in Financial Services.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) aspects and Proficient in the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile (Scrum),Waterfall Models, Iterative methodologies.
• Experience with conducting ‘AS IS’ and ‘To BE’ analyses, gap analysis, and facilitating JAD sessions.
• Strong background in conducting user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzing, and documenting Business requirements.
• Proven analytical, critical thinking, project management and problem solving skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; listening, oral, and written communication/presentation skills with strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions.
• Expert in preparing Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), and creating Prototypes, Wireframes, User Interface Document and User Story.
• Strong experience in strategic planning with comprehensive knowledge of management, organization development, team building and project management.
• Proven experience in strategic business processes, business/risk management and analytical finance.
• Strong experience in financial products, for example, fixed income, futures, options etc.
• Carried out Gap Analysis, SWOT Analysis and Risk Analysis.
• Strong background in Technology and Business linkage planning, Business Process Research, Analysis and Reengineering.
• Managing requirements in Power Designer, MS Visio, SharePoint, MS Office Rational Rose & making requirements available to all team members.
• Working on Traceability matrix and tracking software development according to the Project Plan.
• Conducting meetings with business users, eliciting requirements to further define Functional Business Requirements.
• Creating test plan and test cases for user acceptance testing.
• Strong Experience in developing test plans, building Test Conditions and Test Cases, creating test data, analyzing bugs, interacting with development team members to fix errors.
• Involved in the design, review, implementation, testing, and release of databases, sign specifications, and application software.
• Defining system requirements to Use Case, Use case scenario and Use Case narrative using the UML Methodologies.
• Motivated self - starter with exceptional team building, leadership, Project Management, strong analytical skills in identifying client and server side bottlenecks. A quick learner, a great team player and able to work independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Modeling Tools: Power Designer, MS Visio, Rational Rose

Databases: Oracle, SQL server, MS Access

CASE Tools: MS Visio, SmartDraw

Programming Languages: Perl, JAVA, SQL/PL, Matlab, HTML, XML

Testing Tools: QTP, TestDirector, Silk Central

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7, UNIX/Linux

Other Software/Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Power Point, MS Access, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Bloomberg, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary Intermediary between the Subject Matter Experts, business user and technical SME’s to identify the business needs, Business Rules, Business Processes & Interface Specifications for the system and then documented them in Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), using MS Word.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Agile to strategize the Implementation of the project process effort in different phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Led and conduct JAD sessions to identify the flows and processes involved in the content.
• Perform GAP analysis and write application enhancement specifications detailing in scope/out of scope items, as-is/to-be process maps and critical test scenarios.
• Designed Use Case modeling, authored Narrative Use Cases and created UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Flow Diagrams (Business/System) using MS Visio.
• Gain expertise on Change Management by performing Impact Analysis for Change Requests obtained during project life cycle stages.
• Widely use Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for identifying and tracing the linkages among several connected project artifacts to analyze the impact of a desired change.
• Host Scrum meeting with technology team to discuss possible solutions for requirements from the business team, and review the work of current phase.
• Host every other day check-in meeting with business team to report project progress and gather new requirements and changes.
• Provide structured walkthrough to the developers and QA team to understand the Business Requirement Documents and work with QA teams to develop Test Plans, Test Cases and test scripts based on usability and functional performance criteria.
• Develop high quality documents and presentations for multiple audiences including business and detailed requirements specifications.
• Organize and Perform UI/GUI Testing, Progression, Regression testing and provided support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for multiple iterations involving the entire User environment setup.
• Participate in product release and deployment to end-users after successful development and testing of the product. Also participate in training the end-users and creating training documents.

Environment: JIRA, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Windows 2000/2003, Unix, Perl, SOX, PowerDesigner, Rational Requisite Pro, SmartDraw

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and synthesized business requirements and translate them into functional and non-functional requirements to be used as input to the functional design specifications.
• Created Business Requirements Documents and Functional Requirements Document.
• Modeled the detailed design of the system using UML diagrams including Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Use Case, and Data Flow diagrams.
• Participated in Audit reviews and oversee corrective action plans in conjunction with AML Compliance, Operations and Business Lines.
• Extensive experience worked with and influenced senior management to drive strategic decisions through conducting complex analysis, developing concise recommendations and preparing and delivering well designed presentations.
• Applied knowledge and understanding of the businesses to solving a great variety of business AML problems - by working directly with the senior business leaders.
• Proactively advanced integrated global AML vision, concepts and use of information technology.
• Coordinated requirements gathering, design review, test script creation, Integration/Performance/UAT activities as part of break-fix and enhancement requests.
• Maintained and enhanced effective interaction and communication with other units and business areas.
• Conducted brainstorming sessions with Business Users to gather raw requirements and facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to better understand business domain and project scope when any critical requirements come in.
• Extensively worked in Agile frame work throughout all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Reviewed controls for regulatory compliance and updated new controls when necessary.
• Conducted Gap Analysis of the features and functionality of current platform version and new version to determine the new functions to be added in, and when gaps existed
• I was responsible for corresponding with stakeholders to address these issues and implementing proper solutions.
• Responsible for working with project manager to prepare and obtain agreement for requirements, solutions and recommendations by meeting, presentations and workshops.
• Reviewed mandatory requirements relating to both US and Asia regulations.
• Created Wire frames, Activity Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagram by using MS Vision to outline the “To-Be” screens and “To-Be’ processes respectively.
• Worked closely with the Global Arbitrage &Trading, middle office, sales and IT teams to investigate and resolve any production issues.
• Maintained a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that all Functional Requirements were addressed at the Use Case Level and matched with the Business Requirements.
• Facilitated meetings with Development Team and Testing Team to walk through the BRDs and discussed feasibility of each requirement.
• Reviewed Test Plan and Test Cases provided by Testing Team.
• Tracked new business actions, project progress, reporting issues, and managed issue escalation.
• Had been extensively involved in formulating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of each of the UAT Defects by using various techniques like Fish-bone and Pareto Analysis.
• Worked as a team with developers and process analysts in preparing the requirements, writing workflows, process flows, and interact with system developers to resolve questions and discrepancies in BRD.
• Involved in design and implementation of Progression and Regression Tests of the new functionalities added in system.
• Managed bugs using Defect Tracking Tool like Silk Central, review each defect and assign development team to resolve problems.
• Generated User Manual and prepared Training Material to internal users.
• Planned and conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT).

Environment: SAS 9.2, Agile, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Project, Oracle, SQL, UNIX

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created BRDs and FRDs, define use cases and user flows and provide guidance to the developers tasked with building new front-end systems.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Dataflow Diagrams in MS Visio and Sybase Power Designer.
• Conducted Requirement walkthroughs with Developers and QA team to help them understand the requirements and identify feasibility issues, if any.
• Facilitated daily Scrum meetings, Sprint review meetings and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Conducted brainstorming sessions with Business Users to gather raw requirements and facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to better understand business domain and project scope when any critical requirements come in.
• Involved in GAP Analysis to determine and document the variance between business requirements and current capabilities of system with an understanding of Vision from the Business and Technology groups.
• Captured high level and detail level requirements and convey information using proven modeling techniques such as UML.
• Created Wire frames, Activity Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagram by using MS Visio to outline the “To-Be” screens and “To-Be” processes respectively.
• Maintained a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.
• Captured and maintained Repo trade activity.
• Worked closely with the Repo trading desk, middle office, sales and technology teams to investigate and resolve any production issues associated with the repo business.
• Had been involved in writing simple SQL statements and converting them into Stored Procedures for data analysis.
• Had been extensively involved in Creating and manipulating data using Pivot Tables.
• Dealt with direct and indirect risk in successfully conducting Impact and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Conducted Bug Triage with QA and Development team to go over the defects.
• Reviewed prototypes, wireframes, and development to ensure that they satisfy the stated business objectives.
• Lead client meetings to prioritize business requirements and assess the impact on existing systems and workflows.
• Worked closely with business unit leaders and cross-functional team members to ensure that the systems being developed are aligned with the requirements of the business community.
• Created burn-down charts to understand the possibility of finishing all work within the Sprint time-box.
• Worked closely with technologists to troubleshoot defects and, when appropriate, create workarounds and/or revise functional specifications.
• Created business flow diagrams, performed SWOT analysis, and assisted in designing the web structure.
• Utilized HP Quality Center for Bug tracking and defect management.
• Prepared project reports for management and others, assisted project managers in the development of weekly and monthly status reports, documented process flows, policies and procedures.
• Extensively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) along with the business users.
• Responsible for performing Smoke tests and supporting Trade flow applications and systems, which involve Financial Instruments like Securities, Fixed Income, Equities, FX, Money Market, Derivatives and its sub-types.
• Complex SQL back-end queries were written to determine run-times, CPU usage and internal tasks identified as a trade gets processed within the application.

Environment: Quality Center 10, Java, JavaScript, Heliograph, UNIX, HTML, SQL Developer, Putty 0.55, Beyond Compare, Win XP/2003, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, Outlook), Lotus Notes, UML, Power Designer.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build consultative relationships with senior management, becoming a trusted partner for thinking strategically about the risk management organization.
• Liaised interviewing and brainstorming sessions with the stakeholders and SME’s in understanding the requirements pertaining to the trading application process.
• Managed stakeholder relationships and change management requests.
• Ensured projects are within scope, budget and time constrains, and deliverables are of the highest quality.
• Worked on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) through all the phases of the project with Agile frame.
• Extensive experience in managing stakeholders, cross functional teams and integrating multiple business disciplines to implement developed comprehensive solutions.
• Liaison between business and technology team.
• Generated process/data flow diagrams, use cases, user guidances.
• Created Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirements Document.
• Interfaced with Compliance and Operations to develop and document business and functional requirements across all business lines.
• Responsible for creating various project reports for stakeholder, development and QA teams on scheduled basis using MS SharePoint.
• Reviewed Test Plans and Test Cases and work with testing team to implement all the tests.
• Interacted with front and back office technology groups and specifically ensure tight integration between product processors, customer master systems, etc. with AML platforms globally.
• Ensured that the system impact for any related systems are taken into effect in the change management process prior to implementation.
• Strategically defined the vision for AML systems and projects to be created related to these systems or having impact to these systems
• Researched data issues and identified the root cause in source systems, data warehouse,and data marts.
• Provided subject matter expertise related to the business context of the data.

Environment: Unix/Linux, Windows XP, Core Java, Python, Perl, Oracle Database, MS Vision, Rational Rose, MS SharePoint.