SUMMARY

• Over all Six plus years of professional experience working as a Business Analyst.
• Experience in requirement gathering for Retail and Commercial Banking, Capital Markets, Regulatory Reporting, Risk Management, Payment/settlements processing with business groups and stakeholders
• Ability to define timelines for prioritizing work requests using tools such as MS Project.
• Ability to model business processes (BPM) in enterprise level projects using industry standard case tools.
• Experience in building an incremental, enterprise - wide SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementation
• Sound knowledge of concepts like Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis, Impact Analysis.
• Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business requirements document, USE Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Systems Design Specification (SDS), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Strong Knowledge of Iterative Methodologies such as Agile SDLC Practices & Principles.
• Thorough exposure of conducting JAD sessions and interviews with Subject Matter Experts (SME) and data stewards to understand the business process, business rules, and data requirements.
• Expertise in Agile, RAD, RUP, SCRUM, Waterfall, SDLC (Software Development Methodologies).
• Experience in Live Link Notifications and Workflow management.
• 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.
• Well versed with Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Act, Section 404 key controls as implemented through project management Methodologies.
• Proficient in using UML for Business Process Modeling, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Class Diagrams and document them using Microsoft Visio.
• Strong data modeling skills with an understanding of ERD process
• Ability to prepare RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) & performance requirements analysis & design.
• Expertise in creating Data Mapping Documents and Source to Target Transformation documents.
• Experience with ETL validation and writing requirements to enhance the ETL process and the validation and integrity of the migrated data.
• Experienced in development of automated and quick testing scenarios using Mercury tools Win Runner, Quality Center (Test Director)
• Expertise in Test driven development & testing methodologies for performing UAT System Integration testing (SIT), BAT (Business Acceptance Testing).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process

Business Modelling Tools: Microsoft Visio, MS Office Suite(Excel, Outlook, Power Point & Word)

Project Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Test Director

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/Vista/10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD session and interviews with stakeholders and SMEs.
• Involved in providing clients with business process management utilities so that it’s easy to manage information across various levels of hierarchy with the use of documentum.
• Used documentum Repository to store all contents securely under the Compliance rule.
• Experienced in customer communication management, web content management, digital asset management, forms processing, compliance management.
• Identified Use cases from the requirements and write Use Case Specification.
• Interacted with the stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams) using Rational Rose.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, perform critical path analysis, and identify opportunities for business process improvements.
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes
• Integrated Rational Requisite Pro with Rational ClearQuest and Rational Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintain traceability among requirements, use cases and change requests.
• Managed all the structured requirements using Rational Requisite Pro, make requirements available to all team members.
• Created test plan and test cases for user acceptance testing using testing tools.
• Conducted informal Sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests
• Use the Unified Change Management from Rational to track changes to multiple artifacts by versioning artifacts, associating requirements to specific change request/defects to streamline the defect/change tracking process.
• Performed Feasibility Analysis and Risk Analysis on vendor/third party tools.
• Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines also used CLM for better result.
• Coordinated and prioritize outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines.

Confidential, Wyomissing, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and coordinated SCRUM session for EDW project for customer data base, which would help market various incentive programs.
• Maintained various data feed validation for products and financial information for various asset classes.
• Assist client data inquiries and performing data edits required and performed multiple, complex assignments for market data enhancements with additional vendors.
• Wrote SQL queries in TOAD and excel to perform testing.
• Involved in schema development using IBM Rational DOORS.
• Involved in document template development and generation from DOORS using Rational Publishing Engine (RPE)
• Translation and transfer of requirements specification data from various softcopy formats into DOORS, ClearCase
• Analyzed synchronous Bloomberg feed to ensure data integrity and timely data enrichment.
• Manage changes inprojectscope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans, durations, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile,
• Created data required by vendor tools to update the tools with our initiative.
• Updated and documented Client proposal changes reviewed by Legal and compliance.
• Worked with the Risk management team to identify the key business risk areas of the project.
• Conducted meetings with the end users and stakeholders to collect the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.
• Created MS Project with detailed tasks for all stake holders, use-case scenarios in MS Word and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application.
• Created wire frames and screenshots for the application to easily communicate it to the users using MS Visio.
• Coordinated meetings with the QA team to improve the process.
• Worked with clients to define the scope targeted and specification of the projects.
• Managed multiple vendors and contractors in the context of the project.
• Followed structural approach and ensured no critical requirements are missed out.
• Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and test scripts
• Produced the visual models for the application using Rational Rose to create Use Cases, State Charts, Sequence Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams.
• Performed Risk Analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Maintained a project schedule using MS Project showing all of the deliverables target dates.
• Performed data validation between various systems and driven changes that ensure the integrity of financial data.
• Played an active part in the company as a whole including assisting in the training and development of junior analysts, and input and ideas on the company’s future growth.
• Ensured smooth implementation of the system by identifying training needs for users.

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with clients to finalize the Business Requirements for the application.
• Performed the Requirement Analysis and documented the structured requirements management and Business Process management.
• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality, navigational flow and updated them about end-user sentiments.
• Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and test scripts for testing the functionality, GUI and security.
• Produced the visual models for the application using Rational Rose to create Use Cases, State Charts, Sequence Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams.
• Performed Risk Analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process.
• Used PowerPoint presentations for conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules, information needs and insured that critical requirements are not missed.
• Monitored and analyzed the development of cascading style sheets in HTML at front end.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Initiated walkthroughs and interview with the Subject Matter Experts (SME) and stakeholders to keep track of user requirements and appropriate deadlines.
• Coordinated with data source providers such as Morning Star, Thompson Reuters, Bloomberg, and SunGard among others to get business data required of Credit Risk system.
• Developed Inception and Elaboration artifacts relating to Credit Risk data streams along the established Publish-Canonical-Subscribe integration model. The artifacts include business process models, use cases, visual models, functional & non-functional specifications, feed & reporting data message mappings, data tables, system & technical specifications, schema definitions, and XML data tags.
• Documented workflow processes in MS Visio across alternative asset classes and functional teams for Private Equity, Real Estate, Fund of Funds and Managed Futures.
• Written business rules, requirements, functional and non-functional requirements in Doors.
• Conducted and participated in JAD Sessions, requirements meetings, Change Requests (CR) meetings.
• Involved in data mapping for Committing and Loan Delivery.
• Used Bloomberg professional to retrieve real time data to perform analysis.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for data analysis and data validation.
• Wrote SQL queries to compare data in test and production environment.
• Created consolidated data mapping document including upstream and downstream systems.
• Worked with the traders to evaluate, understand and create functional excel model for pricing the fixed rate products.
• Managed and documented changing requirements and implemented procedures for testing changes.
• Delivered the following artifacts; Business Requirement Documents, Use Case Specifications, along with screen mockups and an prototype end report after analyzing artifacts with SME's and Controller.
• Worked on designing the screens and developing screen shows, and prototyping of the user interface and usability testing using Snag It.
• Involved in designing, reviewing and documenting System Test Plans, Defining Test Procedures and Creating Test Cases to ensure the exact accuracy of output due to report sensitivity.
• Prepared business process models and used Visio to create process flows and sequence diagrams.
• Conducted Requirement analysis and Design Walkthroughs with the designers, developers and management staff.
• Used MS Office suite components for project tracking, documentation, and presentation to senior management.