SUMMARY

• Good communication skill and good background in Data management.
• Extensive experience in Requirement analysis, Business Modeling, and Use Case development using UML methodology
• Extensive experience in gathering system requirements, defining business processes, UML modeling, sequence diagram and activity diagram.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including good knowledge of RUP methodology.
• Experience in developing project plans, identifying documents, and validating requirements and reengineering process.
• Extensive experience in structured products like Equities, Fixed Income, Options and Futures.
• Familiar with Value At Risk (VAR), Interest Rate Exposure (IRE)
• Identified various types of risks such as the Market Risk and Credit Risk
• A thorough understanding of the investment instruments like Stocks, Bonds, money market, mutual funds and Mortgage backed Securities (MBS)
• Experienced in complete AGILE, RUP, SDLC, Client /server architecture providing a well balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, worked for financial and technical solutions and help the team at all levels until final product release.
• Experience in applying Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology using Modeling and requirement documentation tools such as MS Office, MS VISIO, and MS Project.
• Conduction JAD Session and communicating with Stakeholders, Development team, SMEs, System Analyst, Business Analyst and Project Manager.
• Excellent analytical skills for understanding the business requirements, business rules, business process and detailed design of the application.
• Excellent skills in Business Analysis, Object Oriented Analysis, requirement analysis, Business modeling and Use Case development using UML Methodology.
• Extensive process analysis,Data analysisand analytics, Data mapping and Data modeling skills to develop solutions to complex application, business and operational problems, and by performing business process re - engineering and process improvements where necessary

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Tracking: Rational Requisite-Pro, Test Director, MQC and DOORS.

Operating Systems: MS Windows NT/98/2000/XP, UNIX

Databases: MS Access, SQL

Office Tools: MS Word, Excel, MS Project, MS Outlook

Methodologies: SDLC, RUP, UML, RAD, JAD and AGILE.

UML Diagram Tools: Rational Rose / Microsoft Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Worked with production staff to identify and map detailed current processes, identify gaps and failure points, perform root cause analysis and develop functional requirements that supported overall strategy, goals and objectives.
• Heavy interaction with Front Office traders directly to address issues or clarify requirements.
• Created mock-ups of client facing web portal screens
• Involved in analyzing relational databases and validating data using SQL queries in different source systems like DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server etc. and understood some programs written in Java, VB.NET, C++, VB macros, shell scripts etc.
• Wrote macros in VBA, analyzed data creating excel Pivot tables.
• For complex projects, acted as liaison between IT and business clients to accomplish credit card application enhancements and production bug fixes in support of company objectives.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements and analyzed the requirements using Rational Rose Requisite Pro
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes.
• Created a semi-referential integrity process to make sure that DB2 tables are in-SYNC across 3 databases
• Analyzed, designed and implemented ad-hoc programs to fix mapping issues for converted DB2 columns that were mapped from DW
• Solely responsible for testing ETL and Reports
• Participated in analyzing business requirements, Data Model Design, Data flow from various Sources to Target
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan for System Testing
• Prepared ETL and Reporting test cases for requirements
• Written SQL queries for testing ETL and Reports
• Tested mappings based on the business requirements

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirementsthrough interviews, meetings, and existing documentation and conducted UAT.
• Define specificationsfor automation of Property and Casualty insurance functions.
• Set up meetings, conductedWalkthroughs, JAD sessions with Management, SMEs(Subject Matter Experts), vendors, users and other stakeholders to flesh-out issues and to resolve open and pending issues and to develop specifications.
• Identified and refined scope -- developedscope documents.
• Analyzed and documented currentstate workflow and developed future stateusingMS Visio, Rational Rose
• CreatedUse Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, flow diagrams in Rational Rose and Visio.
• Analyzed and developed system requirements forUse Cases, Supplementary Specifications, UI specifications and other supporting documentation.
• Involved in coordinating SOX process flow and Risk Control Matrix (RCM) enhancements with internal auditors and SOX personnel.
• Responsible for gathering and managing the SOX evidences and perform pre-testing before the internal and external auditing is performed.
• Conductedgap analysis between existing and future state systems
• Created andmanaged project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Requisite Pro.
• DevelopedRequirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using Rational Roseto trace each software requirement to test case.
• Strong experience with Business Process/Workflow automation, Business Process/workflow modeling methods
• Business Process Redesign & Process Improvements like UML, Riva, BPMN, Lean Six Sigma, SOA, Enterprise Architecture Design, and CMMI.
• Maintained track record working within IB Financial Data related environments.
• Analyzed rate-books using proprietary rate-book compare software to identify changes, gaps in vendor s rate-book
• Translated business requirements into Design Document forfunctional coding.
• Tested the validity of the data cleaning done by the ETL by writing SQL.
• Great understanding of Business Object.
• Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.
• Facilitated UAT with the stakeholders and the business users and Delivered UAT

Confidential, BRIDGEPORT, CT

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As Project Lead Worked closely with cross-functional teams and with distributed system groups, including PMO, to capture financial advisory business requirements for FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Trade analysis (SDLC)
• Facilitated UAT with the stakeholders and the business users and Delivered UAT
• Maintained Program/ Project Plan, obtained project plan updates from Team Leads, monitoring project plan, setting up tasks, identifying potential project slippages, drafting weekly status reports, etc. using MS Project
• Completed risk assessments, data flow mapping, flow charts, and definedSOXcontrols
• Risk Management - Initiated and maintained risk register, contributed to mitigation strategies for SEC/FINRA regulatory risk assessment; worked with Compliance team leads to identify risk mitigation, etc.
• Status Reporting - Facilitated for status meetings, including creation of agendas and recording of action items from meetings, received, consolidated, and produced status reports for business constituents and steering committee, etc. using MS Word & PowerPoint
• Designed new AP Business Process Models to complete the Oracle Essbase BPM flow.
• Collaborated with Oracle Essbase programmers and Hyperion financial systems process owners to re-engineer and design new financial BPM processes.
• Worked extensively on Business Requirements, Functional Specification, Data-Integration, Data Mapping, and Data Warehouse access using SQL and Crystal Reports, ETL process, use cases modeling (UML) using MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Visio) and dashboards
• Designed ETL Process Models, Systems Diagram, Workflow, Activity Diagrams, Use Cases (UML) and Business Rules using MS Visio
• Maintained track record working within IB Financial Data related environments.
• Developed efficientSOXtest plans to validate the operating effectiveness of the general computer controls and IT entity level controls of the organization
• Worked closely with QA’s and Assisted Quality Management team to ensure that requirements documentation accurately translated into test plans and test cases, including Quality Assurance Verification and Validations
• Implemented Novell's SentinelSecurity Information & Event Managementsystem to provide "Dashboard" view of security event activity within for conducting its information security surveillance and correlating security related events
• Successfully coordinated System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Confidential, Washington D.C

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the requirements and detailed business policies and modified the business requirement document
• Analyzed systems specifications, requirements and developed use cases accordingly
• Prepared a detailed business requirement document
• Facilitated UAT with the stakeholders and the business users and Delivered UAT
• Assisted the customer in defining the high-level functional requirements and needs
• Involved in the data movement between systems, validated the business requirements
• Implemented numerous use cases based on test strategies
• Utilized RUP to create activity diagram, class diagrams and workflow process diagrams
• Prepared the business workflow using MS-Visio with input, output, pre and post conditions
• Analyzed team performance with the QA manager and implemented the changes if any with respect to raising the efficiency of the entire team
• Detected defects communicated to the developers using bug-reporting tools and tracked the defects
• Evaluated and implemented QA process improvements for ongoing testing
• Involved in maintaining the Test Matrix
• Participated in weekly meetings and walkthroughs
• Conducted detailed study of existing database and worked out a detailed migration plan for transforming disintegrated database from multiple platforms in to single integrated data source.
• Extracted data from different sources like flat file excel data sheet, access database and SQL & Oracle relational databases and processed data to upload in to the target database.
• Created data model that visually represents the nature of data, business rules governing the data, and how it will be organized in the database.
• Involved in validation of created data model to make sure that all data objects provided by the functional team are completely and accurately represented.
• Responsible fordata analysis, project plan, gap analysis, data mapping, all business analysis functions/artifacts, documentation and implementation.

Confidential, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Gathering Requirements from the Quantitative Risk Analysts (QRM Team) and Portfolio Managers to produce Business and Functional Requirements for a Risk Management Application.
• Conducted Various Research work on Financial Risk Assessments and Various Risks Associated in calculating the worth of Investments in it.
• Participated in Meetings with the management team and the Fixed Income and Derivatives team.
• Communicate Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and Made Recommendation.
• Participated in Primary and Secondary Research in the Identification of User’s Specifications needs.
• Produced System Diagrams, Business Requirements, Report Specifications, Workflows and other documentation as required for Project Analysis, Planning and Design
• Prepared and Reviewed Business Requirement Document and the Technical Specifications.
• Ensured that relevant UML diagrams and Tools (Requisite Pro) were used in all requirement documents e.g. User Requirements, Functional Specifications.
• Developed Process Model in MS Visio and detailed Business Policies.
• Prepare Use Case Models based on Business Requirement documentation gathered through interaction with users.
• Prepared Flow Diagrams, Sequential Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Created Prototypes using Axure tool
• Conducted JAD/RAD Sessions for understanding the workflow.
• Involved in writing Test Plan in accordance with the business requirements.
• Facilitated UAT with the stakeholders and the business users and Delivered UAT
• Created Technology Evaluation Matrices to provide best-fit solutions to customers.
• Assisted the development team during the second and third iteration using the RUP model.
• Increased process efficiencies and reduced development cycle time across department by spearheading the implementation RUP methodology.
• Dealt with all kinds of financial instruments such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, etc.
• Worked closely with the project Manager in planning, coordination and implementing methodology.
• Responsible for Documenting in each phase of RUP Methodology, in Risk Assessment, and in validation & verification of the Testing process.
• Made Presentations for Senior Managements and Business End Users regarding eRISK applications and risk assessment pertaining to Investments.