OBJECTIVE

• To contribute in a team environment utilizing my proven ability as a Business Analyst by working independently and as a team member in designing, developing, and implementing innovative business process and system solution using new approaches, technologies and trainings.

SUMMARY

• An Experienced Financial Services Professional with 6 Years of proven expertise as Business Analyst in BFSI (Banking and Financial services industry) and strong experience in Financial Services domain. Played role of Business analyst in various projects and having good exposure on SDLC, RUP.
• Good Knowledge in Banking and Financial Services for Banking, Telecom and manufacturing industry.
• Extensive experience in business requirements gathering and analyzing using techniques like Brainstorming, JAD, Focus group.
• Expertise in preparing various documents such as Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and System Requirement Documents (SRS).
• Created UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, to communicate the Business requirements.
• Advanced analytical and project management skills, in - depth knowledge of various phases and methodologies of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Rational Unified Process (RUP) project management.
• Good knowledge on industry tools like Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, to develop various project deliverables.
• Involved in formal review meetings with project teams and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution of issues discovered during testing.
• Excellent time management, communications, decision-making, leadership and planning skills with the ability to learn quickly and multi-task in a fast paced environment.
• Expertise in Financial Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting and utilization of variance analysis to manage project to completion on time and within budget.
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Extraction, XML, Transformation and Loading (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Microsoft Office-MS-Word, MS-Excel,& MS-PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Oracle.

Business Modeling Tools: XML, UML 2.0, Visio, Enterprise Architect, HTML

Documentation Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office

Models: Waterfall, RUP,Agile.

Databases: Microsoft Access, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading project segment or work stream. Prepare a plan for the work stream plan, including the creation of a work breakdown structure, task assignments, timelines, phases, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Acting as a SPOC for Client and Counter parties.
• Being as a SME, finded out the space for unsettlement issues and providing solutions for system enhancement.
• Gathering requirements for enhancement of existing applications for end users.
• Documented the Functional Requirements (FRD) and the System Requirements documents (SRD)
• Coordinating requirements for new and existing applications.
• Assists in testing, training plan development and training, support for users, and developing user documentation
• Storing, sending, and receiving data between systems that may contain data in incompatible formats using XML.
• Preparing templates to integrate the system with live problems relates to unsettled trades.
• Analysing the root cause for problems and giving the solution to the management from system perspective.
• Simplifying data sharing by using XML.
• Arranging meetings with development team and client for discussing gathered requirements.
• Preparing a plan for the work stream plan, including the creation of a work breakdown structure, task assignments, timelines, phases, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Ensure thorough testing of all system changes, including user acceptance testing, regression testing, client testing and parallel/pilot testing as require.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a SPOC for all branches handled by Confidential .
• Explaining the complete Big Data process to the managers of all branches by conducting JAD sessions
• Communicating defects to Systems developers. Track delivery dates for defect fixes and maintain status reporting.
• Helping the developers in gathering requirements for preparing questions and integrating the same to web portal.
• Used XML for transporting and storing data.
• Working with the project team to manage project scope and timeline, from conception to implementation.
• Participated in QA process; identified test cases; explained complex processes; aids in developing test plans.
• Giving training on overall process to the end users.
• Preparing project status reporting and other project communications for internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Preparing templates on the big data process.
• Monitoring the responses received from the branches and updating the same to reporting authority.
• Sending the feedback of process to all branch heads
• Concentrating on the problems faced in the process and doing route cause analysis on the same.

Confidential, New york,NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users for gathering requirements and then transformed them into Dimensions, Attributes and Members for Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning implementations.
• Protects operations by keeping financial information confidential.
• Provided telephone support and general administrative task and assisted the Project Manager, to prepare the vision and the scope for the project
• Worked actively with the QA (Quality Assurance) team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Monitored Defect Tracking system to prioritize defects and devise a plan for future enhancements
• Conducted walkthrough sessions with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product
• Documented the Functional Requirements (FRD) and the System Requirements documents (SRD)
• Worked extensivelyto write use cases and functional requirement case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams based on UML methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio

Confidential, Columbus OH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed the users, analyzed the amortization process, and documented the process flows and the underlying business process.
• Designed the new translator based on the specific requirement from the commercial clients.
• General office and administrative duties including meeting deadlines.
• Used theRational Unified Process (RUP)to build the different phases ofSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors.
• Followed UML based methods to develop use cases and activity diagrams; assisted developers in creating sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams.
• Worked on improvement of Claims Reimbursement User Interface for a better experience and in corporate changes as per the guidelinesusing the gap analysis
• Clarified QA team issues and reviewed test plans and test scripts developed by QA team to make sure that all requirements will be covered in scripts and tested properly.
• Coordinated work plans between project manager and client using MSProject