PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Change requests and manage a projects scope acceptance, and installation and deployment.
• Business Analyst with 8 years of experience in the finance banking domain. Facilitating in a cost-effective implementation of technology solutions by determining requirements of a project, communicating in a clear and proficient manner to stakeholders, facilitators partners, drive design and review of test cases, process
• In-depth knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle includingWaterfall, Rational Unified Process RUP and Agile Scrum.
• Certified ScrumMaster with extensive experience managing sprints and change management.
• Experience with UML 2.0- Use Case diagrams Activity Charts, Activity diagrams, Site-Mapping,Sequence diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams and ER Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS-Visio.
• Experience defining the Business Process Model and preparing complex functional requirement documentation.
• Capable in prototyping documents, models and attributes for consistency, completeness and risk minimization.
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development JAD sessions, SMEs and stakeholders and Rapid application development RAD sessions.
• Experienced in Enterprise Business Analysis, Requirements Management, Software/Web Usability, Information Architecture, and Training Materials Development consulting services to corporate clients and maintaining SLAs.
• Knowledge ofarchitecture integration build for scalability utilizing SOA framework and the application of As-Is and To-Be process designs in order to identify any potential process gaps as well as improvement opportunities.
• Experience incomplex SQL Queries for Data Validation, Data Modelling, Data Integration and Data Warehousing.
• Experience with ALM Application Lifecycle Management tools like Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, HP ALM.
• Experienced in TABLEAU DESKTOP 8.2, TABLEAU, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS and SharePoint 2010, 2013.
• 6 years of experience inUAT user acceptance testing , Functionality Testing, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Expertise in developing Test cases, Test plans and Test procedures in manual and automated test environments.
• Created Test Plan and executedTest Cases based on Design document and User Requirement document for testing purposes reports in Business Objects.
• Conducted GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing UAT , SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Defects tracking prioritize outstanding defects in reporting system. Coordinate between development team and the management team to resolve any conflicts/defects in terms of requirements.
• Proficient in an array of continuous improvement tools centred on lean manufacturing and six sigma methodologies.
• Experience with implementation of Change Management, Content Management and Configuration Management effectively.
• Extensive experience in Tableau Administration Tool for Configuration, adding users, managing licenses and data connections, scheduling tasks, embedding views by integrating with other platforms like SharePoint.
• Extensive knowledge of finance domain including but not limited to: Asset Management, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Exchange Traded Funds ETFs , Credit risk management, Credit tracking, credit risk analysis, Trade Life Cycle, Fixed Income, portfolio management, Investment Banking, mortgage initiation, arbitrage, foreign exchange, options, asset allocation, SWIFT, amortization scheme, Derivative products such as Options and Futures, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, trading systems.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and written skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLSET

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Key Roles:

• Reviewed the business case and analysed the high level scope to create a process map.
• Identified the subject matter experts and project stakeholders before conducting a stakeholder analysis.
• Conducted scope review meeting followed by scope decomposition to be reviewed by the technical project stakeholders.
• Conducted requirements gathering sessions with the stakeholders Business Technical to create the high level requirements document BRD .
• Translated high-level requirements into high-level user stories and epics over two sprints on TFS Team Foundation Server .
• Documented the user stories to create the product backlog with the product owners input.
• Used the MoSCoW technique for prioritization of the product backlog items to move onto the appropriate sprints during the sprint planning meetings.
• Used the industry standard change request management tools Rational suite during requirement churns. Conducted backlog refinement meetings as needed for reprioritization and implementation in the current planned sequence of sprints.
• Converted the high-level process map To-Be into a detailed process map with integration points and gateways including alternate processes.
• Prepared and analysed the 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 on MS Visio.
• Prepared Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and creation of technical design UI screen , UI Wireframes and Mock-ups using Microsoft Visio.
• Utilized SharePoint 2013 to manage team website for document collaboration, authorizations and deliverables management.
• Worked with BI Team on SQL queries to pull systems data for data analysis and performed Data Validation.
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contained set of Entity Relationship Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams and supporting documents and descriptions of the Relationships between the data elements to analyse and document the Business Data Requirements.
• Took part in QA activities by writing the Test Plan followed by Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing UAT on JIRA.
• Worked on different Spotfire objects/visualizations like straight tables, line charts, bar charts and pivot tables etc. for dashboard design
• Extensively involved in Regression and Black Box testing, executing tests and tracking defects using HP ALM.
• Closely assisted the project manager during project closure by creating Gantt milestones, lessons learned, process presentation and a final end-user feedback overview post UAT and sign off.

Environment:MS Office Suite, SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Tableau, SQL Server, UML, MS Visio, Quick Test Pro, HPALM.

Confidential

Sr.Business Analyst

Key Roles:

• Once on-boarded, reviewed the business case and high-level scope. Conducted GAP Analysis to understand the As-Is and the To-Be state of the forward environment.
• Conducted interviews, requirement workshops, focus groupswith business stakeholders to gather high-level requirements.
• Documented the high-level requirements in the BRD and traced the requirements onto HP ALM.
• Conducted JAD sessions with the technical project stakeholdersDevelopers, Architects to further breakdown the business requirements into low-level requirements.
• Analyzed system-level process flowof Credit Card Transaction Server to identify integration points and alternate processes.
• Used Business Artifacts to analyze the Functional Non-Functional Requirements from previous years performance reports.
• Conducted a pre-planning meeting with the product owner to translate the requirements into an initial set of user stories.
• Prioritized the user stories through the Delphi technique with the input from the product owner.
• Conducted the sprint-planning meeting, daily scrum meeting, sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective.
• Created Sprint Burn Down charts and release backlogs for effective Project Management.
• Led impact analysis for requirement churns so as to conduct product backlog refinement meeting with the Product Owner.
• Coordinated and assisted the team through designing, coding, testing, deploying, maintaining and supporting client initiatives, by running sprint cycles.
• CreatedTest cases, Test Plans and performed UAT.
• Created an error repository and managed the testing process with the QA team through logging and tracking defects using HP Quality Center,maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Assisted the PM and the business team with project closure by presenting a complete progress chart with epics successfully completed, and end-user feedback followed by a lessons-learned process chart for project team review.

Environment:MS Office Suite, SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Tableau, HP ALM, SQL Server, UML, MS Visio, Quick Test Pro, HPQC.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Key Roles:

• Interviewed business users to gather requirements and analysed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the Project Manager and technology lead.
• Undertook Six Sigma best practises for the initial process analysis through DMADV Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, and Control .
• Contributed to the optimization of scope by identifying and removing redundant exception flows and duplicate flows.
• Used Rally for management of requirements user stories. Relayed processes and requirement tracing to the requirements within Rally by creating a tracker for user stories on excel.
• Undertook extensive requirement analysis on MS Excel and defined functional specifications in the initial FSD draft.
• Conducted business stakeholder review meeting to get approvals and agree on the backlog items before engaging the rest of the team.
• Involved in requirement scoping and identifying high priority requirements and the sequence during implementation.
• Developed Use Cases by analysing the business process to describe system interaction and functional requirements of the system.
• Designed use case diagrams, activity diagrams end user System , site mapping, UI/UX mock-ups.
• Created wireframes for UI/UX end-user facing front-end applications and demonstrated to the stakeholders and business users for feedback.
• Successfully administered users, user groups, and scheduled instances for reports in Tableau desktop.
• Performed data mapping using MS Excel and executed complex SQL queries to filter data from the MS SQL database.
• Generated visual reports for application traffic during peak times to identify outliers within the business process.
• Wrote the test cases, test scenarios, and traced the test cases to requirements onto QC using an excel sheet with requirements for tracking.
• Collaborated with end users during UAT, and opened tickets as the end users reported bugs. Documented the use cases accordingly.
• Tracked defects, conducted triage calls until defect resolution with QA team.
• Assigned problems to appropriate software development team for fixes.
• Worked with metadata management team and business data governance.
• Provided live support and training for the end users.

ENVIRONMENT:MS Office Suite, SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Rally, Tableau, SQL Server, UML, MS Visio, Quick Test Pro, HPQC.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Key Roles:

• Coordinated with SME's of Foreign Exchange Trading, Futures, and Options to capture requirements dependencies for enhancements in the application.
• Documented the requirements to develop the platform, which enables the user to monitor his/her accounts on-line, provide balances and positions, order status, and account reporting.
• Functional experience in FX Foreign Exchange processes, related applications based on technologies such as SWIFT. Also involved in applications for trade processing and Fund reconciliation.
• Documented existing and proposed process flow and conducted GAP analysis.
• Done Project planning requirements gathering by using RUP methodology
• Good understanding of trading process. Prepared Use Case Diagrams to explain the business requirements for Trading Customer with the options to buy or sell Foreign Exchange.
• Coordinated with system analysts Tech lead to create Software requirements document.
• Maintained and kept track of stakeholder's requests for enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest. Used Microsoft Team Foundation Server TFS to manage the team's software development lifecycle
• Used SharePoint for content management, and to share the information with the groups involved during the project.
• Coordinated deployment procedures, training guides, and monthly reporting procedures of STP activities for the management team.

ENVIRONMENT:Scrum, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, Use Cases, HTML, SQL, MS Visio, TFS, SQL, Rational Clear Quest, SharePoint.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Key Roles:

• Collaborated with Stakeholders, Subject Matter Expert SME's to gather requirements.
• Gathered functional requirements for cloud web application to meet the business requirements.
• Designed Graphic User Interface for mobile application with UI/UXteam with Page flows, wireframes, page business actions and screen mock-ups, and also created dynamic GUIs in HTML for better visualization and understanding of the software solution.
• Interacted with project managers, tech leads external teams and vendors to set the estimates for all the functional areas getting impacted.
• Participated in Data base design sessions, Database normalization meetings.
• Extensively involved in Data mining, Data mapping and Data modelling.
• Organized focus groups to discuss and ensure effective adoption of feedback to improve the usability of the mobile applications and web based applications.

ENVIRONMENT:Rational Requisite Pro, UML Use Cases, HTML, SQL, Use Case Documentation, MS Visio, TFS, Rational Clear Quest, SharePoint.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Key Roles:

• Elicited requirements by identifying SMEs and conducting interviews.
• Created the BRD, FRD, and SRS Artifacts after gathering input from the business owners and other stakeholders.
• Performed GAP analysis, cost-benefit analysis and feasibility analysis within the triple constraints.
• Created visual flow and UML diagrams for use cases, user interface, process flow and information flow.
• Updated the BRD with updated information as business owners approve Change Requests.
• Managed project documents and other deliverables on SharePoint.
• Created mock-ups static and dynamic prototypes of webpages and GUI, visualized process flows, information flow using MS Visio.
• Aided the development team in unit testing within the development environment.
• Employed a Triage decision-making in classifying the defects based on their priority and severity, usingHP Quality Center.
• Created SQL queries for extracting data as required by the PM and other business stakeholders.

Environment:Waterfall, SQL, HP Quality Centre, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Outlook, SharePoint.

Architecture/Frameworks

J2EE, MVC, Swing, JPA, Servlets

Languages

Java, XML.

Application Server

JBoss and Tomcat server

Script Languages

XML, HTML, ShellScript

Server Programming

J2EE, Java, JDBC, Servlets, JNLP, EJB, JavaBeans

Design Methodologies

Design Patterns

GUI /Visualization

JAVA, AWT , Swing, Applets, Html, Vaadin Toolkit, JSF

Tools/Technologies

Eclipse, Putty, Clear case, Clear Quest

Databases

MySQL, SQL, PLSQL

Distributed Objects

Java Beans, RMI

Frameworks

MVC, JPA, Spring, JSF.

Operating Systems

Windows 2000 and above, UNIX