SUMMARY

• Result Oriented Business Analyst with over 8 years of Information Technology experience in the Financial Services Industry, with in depth knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (Agile, Waterfall, RUP,) in capturing/analyzing Business, IT & Functional Requirements, Business Process Re - engineering, Object-Oriented Design/ Modeling, Service Oriented Architecture and Project Management.
• Accomplished in Business Analysis with extensive experience in business products, operations and Information Technology on the capital markets and investment banking and brokerage space specializing in Finance ) Derivatives, Fixed Income, Hedge Funds, Capital Markets, Energy Trading, FX, Futures, Options Commodities, Debt Equity and Structured Products, Mutual Funds, Swaps, Asset Backed Securities and Wealth Management Environment, Banking Software, Cash Management, Payments, correspondent Banking, Wire transfer, ACH Processing, Direct Debit and Mortgage with sound knowledge of broad range of financial instruments.
• Well versed with Risk Management (BASEL - Credit, Market, Operational), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX); Portfolio Risk (Credit Risk; Market risk across all assets, Obligor Risk Rating, Facility Risk Rating, Statement Forecasting, Stress Testing, PD); Trading (Trade lifecycle, Straight through Processing and SWIFT) concepts.
• Experienced in co-coordinating with business and IT across all phases of software development life cycle.
• Interacting with SMEs and Stakeholders to get better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Extensive experience in producing document like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Use Case Specification, Functional Specification (FSD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Proficient in using UML for Business Process Modeling views like Activity/ Use Case/Data Flow/Business Flow /Navigational Flow/Wire Frame diagrams using Rational Products & MS Visio.
• Extensively worked with the On-site and Off-shore Quality Assurance Groups by assisting the QA team to perform Black Box /GUI testing/ Functionality /Regression /System /Unit/Stress /Performance/ UAT's.
• Familiar with testing tools (QTP) to design as well as generate test plans and test scripts and their execution.
• Strong experience in database modeling and development of Entity Relationship Diagram ( ERD), SQL, Data Migration, Data Mapping, ETL, and Reporting Process.
• Adept in data modeling, creating star/snowflake schemas and fact/dimension tables in addition to designing E-R models, both logical and physical, using Erwin Data Modeler.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and excellent communication skills, with particular emphasis on working closely with end-users to define requirements, create functional specifications that meet business requirements, and communicating effectively with clients to define technology solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Analysis: Rally, RUP, Rational Rose, UML, Requisite Pro, Visio, UAT, Mercury.

MS Office: (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, FrontPage, Outlook, Communicator/Lync), MS SharePoint, Lotus Notes, VB 6.0, Mainframes, SWIFT, Rational Suite, Clear Quest), SSIS, SQL Server, Toad, Oracle 9i/10g, Adobe CS3/CS2 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver), HP Quality Center 9.2, QTP, Atlassian JIRA v3.12, Serena, IRise, Mobius.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered project business requirements (BRD) and created business process and test plans, detailed business test scripts and execution plans; Conducted business test results validation, business and test plans facilitation and coordination of user acceptance testing.
• Constantly partnered with project leads to ensure the team is producing solutions that meet established standards, procedures and practices, address issues, risks and mitigation plans.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Worked with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burn down chart, Release.
• Facilitating Scrum meeting for offshore Scrum teams in US states and India.
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional
• Facilitating sprint planning as Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams;
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• As Scrum Master, Proactively identified and removed blockers, facilitated frequent retrospectives sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements.
• Worked with Requirements Analysts and Subject Matter Experts to identify, understand and document business needs for the data flow to create market risk and credit risk module
• Performed data analytics with emphasis on credit scoring, credit risk, behavioral models, loan loss and general purposerisk/profitability models.
• As Scrum Master Maintained the capacity plans iteration board, Sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts.
• Facilitated Scrum Sprint Planning Sessions, Backlog Grooming, Sizing, Sprint Retrospectives & Reviews, Daily Stand ups, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• As Scrum Master created and prioritized the Back Log in Rally, coordinated Planning Sessions and maintained User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Designed Trade-Break, Aggregate report formats and evaluating COGNOS as an strategic reporting tool
• Documented Test Plan, Test cases and performed functional and regression testing.
• Facilitated UAT and recorded the user feedback for future changes

Environment: Agile Scrum, Rally, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, Cognos XAML, HTML, J2EE, SQL, Quality center

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements, Interacted with the Users, Designers and Developers, Project Manager and SMEs to get a better understanding of the Business Processes
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning daily stand up meeting, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Calculated team Velocity for each sprint, setting proper expectations for stakeholders.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/ release program.
• Remove impediments that cause delay in the sprint cycle.
• Analyzed and optimized the process, prepared Business Requirement Document and then converted the business requirements into Functional Requirements Specifications.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Scheduled meeting with developers, Systems Analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Identified the Use Cases from the requirements and performed use case realization, created UML diagrams including Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio thus defining the Business Process Model.
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify the business critical and high-risk areas of the application.
• Review, evaluate, and document underwriting procedures and processes.
• Prepare studies, reports, and related information for decision-making purposes; perform analysis and prepare recommendations regarding proposals for improving various processes throughout the organization.
• Analyzing credit automation feature and evaluating risk of the LOS application.
• Led the change requirements of XML schema for facility letter generation and preformed UAT
• Performed System analysis and designing of the Use cases.
• Participated in various testing related review meetings.
• Performed XSD validation for the XML messages generated.
• Conducted JAD Sessions periodically with various stakeholders at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to discuss open issues and resolve them.
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and to collaborate on the project
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to test the functionality of the application.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Rally, JAVA, Oracle, UML, OOD, Quality Center, VB, .NET, UNIX, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, Rational Jazz Suite - RTC and RRC tools, SQL server 2008,Fireworks

Confidential, Washington DC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with project manager to define project scope, risks and determined appropriate methodologies to apply based on scope/vision documents and developed project time lines for on time delivery based on SDLC methodology.
• Facilitated discussion involving key stakeholders from both business side and IT side to elicit high level requirements and estimate project feasibility, designed and conducted survey among different end users including institutional users, brokers to collect detailed requirements, and documented business requirements according to interviews and user surveys.
• Mediated users and stakeholders conflicts on requirements through JAD sessions.
• Identified and documented business needs and created detailed Use Cases using UML, and collaborated with production team to identify and map detailed existing processes, identify system gaps and developed functional requirements documentation (FRD) that supported overall strategy, goals and objectives.
• Derived functional specification using UML model including user case diagram, activity diagram, and sequence diagram, and collaborated with software architects and developers to ensure that the applications conform to the requirements and helped to understand the business flow and account relationships in accordance to the specific databases and tables involved in development.
• Wrote SQL Queries extensively against different databases, generated different reports and analyzed them as per the company requirements.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix for the current business processes and proposed changes.
• Assisted project manager in maintaining and monitoring project progress and status using MS Project, providing high level estimates of efforts for analysis, implementation and support of application, estimating delivery schedule and resource allocation.
• Established traceability matrix using Rational Requisite Pro to trace completeness of requirements in different SDLC stages, and managed changes requests, controlled, tracked and monitored changes requests using Rational Clear Quest to enable successful interactive development.
• Developed test plans with QA team and helped to develop test scenarios for system testing, integration testing and performance testing.
• Conducted UAT, documented and reported user feedbacks to management team, and developed training material for different and users and assisted in user Training for the new system.

Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest), RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, C#, .Net, Web Logic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Windows Forms, Web Forms, Load Runner, Win Runner, DOORS, Project Management.

Confidential, Princeton, New Jersey

Business Analyst / Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Bank Secrecy Act, US Patriot Act, Basel II agreement with help of SMEs
• Analyzed existing customer data and understood the necessary information that needs to be captured for each existing customer and prepared missing values, anomalies for the completion of the CDD
• Conducted JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions, gathered business requirements, analyzed and prioritized requirements using Rational Requisite Pro
• Identified /documented data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain data warehouse contents.
• Created job schedules to automate the ETL Process.
• Developed strategies for Data Scrubbing, Cleaning, and Enriching, transforming and loading Data in Staging / Data Warehouse.
• Developed scope documents, financial projections, budgeting and analysis for the project using IBM Cognos10
• Identified and validated high potential business opportunities for stakeholders and developed customized business strategies that are aligned with corporate strategic objectives
• Developed UML diagrams like Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and Class Diagram using MS VISIO
• Created Business Process Models which included the modeling of all activities of a business from the conceptual to procedural level
• Wrote SQL queries and assisted in extracting data for creating Data mapping document.
• Prepared a Gap analysis of the existing data to fully comply with CIP with regards to AML regulations using Actimize
• Created burn down and Gantt chart to monitor milestone achievement as project auditor
• Utilized several data mapping tools such as Actimize data mapper, for loading data
• Determined threshold parameters such as geography, customer source of income into Actimize along with the historical transactional data to categorize the customers with regards to AML standards of suspicion for monitoring purposes
• Assisted in translating the Dodd-Frank Title VI act requirements into executable tasks and developing defensible approaches to compliance against complex rules
• Defined and performed Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of all defined business requirements and associated functionality
• Reviewed and analyzed Use cases and created System design and Test plan Templates as well as developed test plans, test cases and test strategy
• Designed test plans and test scripts based on the user requirement specification and conducted UAT
• Provided training and assistance to business user

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Oracle SQL Developer, Nice Actimize AM suite, Software Development Life Cycle (RUP), SOA, UML, MS Project, MS-Visio (UI Mockups), MS-Office, Excel Macros, Erwin 7.1, MS SharePoint, IBM Cognos10

Confidential - New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in change management teams on derivative (OTC)/collateral management/margin calculation area
• Created business requirement document for VAR based independent amount calculations for Equity, Credit, Interest Rates and FX swaps
• Prepared requirement document for collateral posting and contingent liability reporting of derivatives SPVs due to credit rating downgrade by S&P and Moody’s
• Prepared BRD and test cases for consumption of margin calculations from risk based calculator in to back office collateral management system including feed specifications, dispute handling, and reconciliation and reporting
• Prepared current state and gap analysis documents and presented to senior stake holders for segregation of independent amount and third party custodian interface with help of business and technology partners including cash and securities settlement, reconciliation and reporting
• Integrated vendor pricing/reference data into the model to gain insight into market sentiment and trading transparency from a macro to individual stock level
• Prepared Test document including test scripts for enhancement in to Legal Documentation System (ISDA Master Agreement/CSA) and collateral management system with the help of business, operations and technology partners
• Coordinated QA and UAT including defects and its resolution by technology team in timely manner
• Responsible for the review of requirement documentation done by junior analyst and mentoring for their project management career paths
• Created collateral operations specific project plan and defined end to end work streams and stake holder matrix for target state collateral
• Prepared RFP document for custodian liaison and interface and participated in discussions with various Custodians (BONYM, JPM, State Street etc.) for automation and STP processing of collateral
• Prepared target state flow diagram for collateral at third party custodian including treasury, settlement and reconciliations system interface for cash and securities processing
• Evaluated regulatory impact on credit, and collateral provisions in ISDA CSA such as minimum transfer amount, threshold and rounding, eligible collateral, re-hypothecation, segregation of independent amount and compared them to current capabilities
• Conducted gap analysis and prepared BRD document for enhancement in legal documentation system and its feed into margin system
• Conducted data analysis with assumptions and prepared cost estimate for CSA / ISDA Master Agreement renegotiation efforts in light of Regulatory Reforms
• Utilized excel to create a requirement traceability matrix for project auditing
• Prepared Bilateral OTC derivatives matrix and Client profile decision tree for front to back workflow, collateral operations, legal documentation, margin calculations, reconciliation and reporting based on dynamically changing regulatory requirements

Environment: Rational Suite(Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case), Rational Unified Process (RUP),Java, J2EE technology, Windows Advanced Server, UNIX / Oracle Platform, Market data, MS Visio, SSIS, SQL server, Microsoft Office suite, Bloomberg, Reuters.

Confidential, New Jersey

Jr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Captured and analyzed requirements through interactions with stakeholders
• Conducted meetings and reviewed documents with concerned teams
• Adhered to underwriting guidelines; to enhance portfolio risk management reporting, to facilitate loan or servicing asset buy/sell/hold decisions, to improve portfolio risk management for a wide variety of strategic and operational activities, including loss forecasting and loss reserving, credit policy change, loan underwriting, financial risk management, stress testing, regulatory and rating agency reporting, and loan pricing
• Accumulated business requirements from various business users and translated them into business requirements document
• Documented all the discussions, stored the requirements and tracked the changes maintaining the versions of document
• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process with use case diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams with Rational Rose
• Utilized Rational Requisite Pro to analyze and review user requirements
• Facilitated weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process for the application development
• 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 and ensured that the developers were updated
• Facilitated UAT to ensure all applications were tested for functionality and were adequately accepted by user community

Environment: Windows 7, Java, Oracle 10g, HTML, MS Excel, MS Word, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest