SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT Business Analyst and Project Manager Experience in the Banking and Financial sector
• Project Managed AGILE teams through Sprint Planning Sessions and leading SCRUM Meetings
• Extensively interfaced with Leadership to review Weekly and Monthly team performance
• Managed PMO and Portfolio Governance for globally diverse and cross - functional teams
• Excellent communicator capable of effectively and efficiently interfacing with stakeholders, business users and senior management.
• Well-versed in BA activities like requirements gathering, writing functional test cases and use cases, translating business problems to technical requirements, as well as documenting critical project deliverables and hosting meetings between business and development teams.
• Expert in conducting Gap Analysis and Use Case Analysis.
• Proficient in working with stakeholders and team members to elicit, analyze, document, and validate business requirements using JAD, JAR, and brainstorming sessions.
• Resilient team-player with practical experience in planning, managing, and controlling projects within a business while focusing on time, cost, scope, and resource management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Business Process Analysis and re-engineering, including cost/benefit analysis, risk and impact analysis, and requirements analysis.
• Experience in writing SQL queries, stored procedures and triggers.
• Highly experienced in Rally, CA-PPM (Clarity), BlueLight, and Microsoft tools like Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Rational Unified Process and Waterfall

Modeling and Design Tools: Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, UML, MS Visio

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 12c/11g/10g, MySQL, Microsoft Access

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB, HTML, CSS, XML and Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7, Mac-OS, Linux, UNIX

Other Tools: Rally, Jira, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe Photoshop, Tableau.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst /Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and track Project schedules and milestones, facilitate Sprint Planning meetings, daily stand-ups and Sprint Reviews
• Work with the business partners from Project inception to Closure through the various processes of SDLC via the Project Management function
• Collaborate with various Cross functional teams located across different geographical locations for the Portfolio governance and PMO organization
• Design and maintain Project Road Map and Project Prioritization Presentations for review with Senior Management.
• Report weekly, monthly Project Status and metrics updates to senior Leadership teams.
• Functional Lead for the Portfolio Governance team that manages Portfolio resources, Budget, SOW, PMO, Resource exits etc
• Maintain and own SharePoint for compliance and audit purpose.
• Gather requirements during the requirements gathering phase and work with the development team to convert them into BRDs and technical requirements.
• Develop Functional test cases and Use cases for the testing process.
• Create, track and monitor Change and Release requests and coordinated CAB meetings.
• Create project documents like Project Charter, Design Document, Test document, User acceptance Test documents and ensure they are compliant with the organization standards.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst /Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the completion of projects within specified time and budget dealing with financials, project work flow, change management and dealing with outside vendor relationships
• Interacted with multiple cross-functional teams ensuring that all business requirements are captured correctly; reported progress to all levels in the organization.
• Involved in Risk and Impact Analysis to identify the critical business and high-risk areas of the application. Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop.
• Documented and Wrote User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Wrote requirement specification, user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases and used JIRA as ticket management tool and confluence for documentation.
• Queried relational databases using SQL to resolve operational issues and assist business and IT in better understanding of business requirements.
• Used Rational Rose for Use Case Modeling.
• Executed SQL queries using Oracle 11g to create daily reports.
• Actively solicited, analyzed, prioritized, and negotiated customer requirements from scope definition through detailed system requirements.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration to be used for the new merged platform.
• Prepared, analyzed AS IS and TO BE of existing architecture and performed Gap Analysis, created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the Business Process and various Business Scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Worked in close cohesion with the business partners and application capability domain owners to ensure application availability targets are met as per the service level agreement (SLA).
• Managed WBS, project sizing, and resource allocation by analyzing triple constraint trade-offs.
• Conducted JAD and brainstorming sessions with the business users and stakeholders.
• Conducted weekly working sessions which included all the stake holders to highlight the key escalating issues.
• Worked with the User Experience team to design the GUI for the reports.
• Performed risk and impact analysis, developed solution options, and influenced the organization to adopt recommended solutions and tradeoffs.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the development of a project plan using Microsoft Project to schedule and assign work and manage the project.
• Worked closely with project managers and business users to formalize a business idea and define requirements.
• Acted as a liaison between the technical, business, and testing groups.
• Analyzed the gathered requirements using business requirements documents, functional specification documents.
• Created process flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.
• Conducted JAD and brainstorming sessions with the business users and stakeholders.
• Developed an impact analysis report using Microsoft Office.