SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst with expertise in transforming business process requirements into Functional Requirements, Functional Specifications, Business Process Mapping and Modeling for application development.
• Experience in working with different SDLC methodologies like Agile, RUP and Waterfall.
• Strong understanding of financial valuation concepts and various capital market instruments and processes including Equities, Fixed Income Derivatives.
• Extensive experience in developing and enhancing applications for financial processes including Hedge Funds Pricing, Trade and Settlements operations.
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development JAD sessions with project sponsors, SMEs, end users, development and testing team to understand business needs and facilitate documentation of business requirements and product backlogs.
• Performed GAP analysis and documented the existing AS IS process in comparison to the required TO BE process.
• Expertise in creating UML diagrams like Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Data Flow Diagram and Wireframe Prototyping using MS Visio.
• Proficient in developing Use case scenarios to enable design and development of applications using tools like Rational Requisite Pro, JIRA and VersionOne based on the SDLC methodology.
• Excellent business document writing skills including Business requirements document BRD , Use Cases, Functional Requirements Document FRD and Functional Specifications document FSD .
• Proficient in creating and managing Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM for tracking and managing changes based on project's evolving needs.
• Working knowledge in writing SQL query for identifying databases involved in the application development.
• Created defect tracking using HP QC and JIRA and reviewed them in subsequent iterations of the application development process.
• Experience in creating test cases using HP QC and participated in QA and User Acceptance Testing.
• Created training manuals, help manuals and user guides to enable smooth deployment of applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project scope meetings with the Pricing manager to understand the type of requests and issues handled by the pricing team and documented the high level business requirements to the product backlog using JIRA
• Worked with SMEs to gather functional requirements and application features and documented the specifications.
• Coordinated with the Pricing manager, SMEs and development team to refine the product backlog based on different user inputs and their priority.
• Developed UML activity, workflow diagrams and created wireframe prototype for the HTML based issue management application.
• Coordinated with the development team and database administrators to identify the relevant and affected data systems using MS SQL and identify the new databases to be created for the Resolve-It application.
• Involved in Sprint planning meetings to prioritize backlogs for design and development. Also, participated in Sprint review and retrospective meetings to identify gaps in project and address them in subsequent sprint cycles.
• Planned test cases for the application and implemented them on the interfaces to ensure that requirements were met.
• Documented and managed requirements traceability matrix for project review purpose and to ensure that the business requirements are met.
• Coordinated with the pricing team users to plan and execute the User Acceptance Test UAT and documented the results and feedbacks.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, MS SQL, JIRA, SharePoint, HP Quality Centre and LoadRunner.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project scope meetings with the product owners Directors of Settlements Divisions to understand the settlements workflow and the systems involved.
• Coordinated with the product owners and SMEs to create the Product Backlog for the Agile-SCRUM based application development.
• Documented and refined the product backlog using VersionOne agile tool based on the product owner's priority.
• Co-ordinated with the back-office settlements processing team to document exchange coding system used for settling various financial instruments.
• Acted as SCRUM master and coordinated with the development team to prioritize backlogs for each Sprint cycle based on technical and work flow priorities.
• Created use case scenarios and prototypes using MS Visio to assist the development team in creating user stories and epics for the Sprint backlogs in VersionOne.
• Coordinated with the DB2 database administrators and documented the Data-Flow-Diagrams based on the new requirements.
• Documented requirement dependencies to create the Requirements Traceability Matrix and used in the Sprint Review meetings to identify the backlogs for the subsequent Sprint cycles in consultation with the Settlements product owner.
• Created test cases for the working output of each sprint cycle and performed functional testing using testing tools and documented them as Testing-to-Product Backlog traceability matrix.
• Conducted UAT and filed defects in the QC and coordinated with the development team to fix them in the subsequent sprint cycles until the work and data flow were in-line with the baselines set by the settlements management division.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, IBM Mainframes, VersionOne, DB2, HP QC.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with a committee of SME's to understand the various steps in the loan lifecycle and desired functionality of the new system
• Reviewed business process flows and enterprise architecture diagrams to depict the key flows for the system using UML diagrams like Use case diagrams, sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle. Partnered with the technical areas in the research and resolution of system and process problems.
• Involved in Sprint planning meetings to identify and prioritize product backlogs that included the development of Oracle based database for collecting trade information
• Documented test plans, test cases, test scenarios and also performed the functional testing as per the requirements of the system.
• Managed the project flow, backlogs, requirements and test traceability matrix using VersionOne.
• Coordinated with the development and testing team to conduct white-box testing on the new application and database systems using HP QC and LoadRunner.
• Analyzed research on operational procedures and methods and recommended changes for improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency. Conducted benchmarking activities to identify best practices.

Environment: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Oracle, VersionOne, HP QC, LoadRunner.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Firstly involved in meetings with product managers to understand the existing website and the scope criticality of the new business needs
• Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting Joint Application Development meetings with the SMEs and development team
• Conducted User Interviews and Work Shops to gather accurate Business Requirements.
• Transformed the high level business requirements into functional requirements and specifications based on specific inputs from the development team using Rational RequistePro
• Facilitated JAD sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets business requirements, resolve open issues and change requests.
• Created UML diagrams including activity and workflow diagrams using MS Visio and created wireframe prototypes
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT to ensure all requirements are satisfied by the application. Got sign-off from end-users on UAT results
• Creation and development of key documents such as Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis and Requirements documents via Caliber RM
• Assisted the QA team in reviewing test cases, test plans and tested the final application for usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application
• Coordinated with the QA team to develop test cases and performed testing using HP QC

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Quality Centre, SQL Server, Rational Requisite Pro

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in project scope meetings with GSM-Pricing manager to understand pricing flow and business requirements for new application.
• Involved in Joint Application Development sessions with SMEs and development teams and documented functional business requirements as product backlogs using JIRA
• Performed business process analysis including Data Mapping and GAP analysis of the existing legacy pricing system and the proposed new GSM pricing system.
• Created UML diagrams including pricing data flow diagrams, activity diagrams and application wireframe prototypes using MS Visio.
• Coordinated with the development team and database administrators to create the required pricing data structure in Oracle database platform.
• Assured the integrity of project data, including data extraction, storage, manipulation, processing and analysis.
• Collected appropriate data for usage in databases and conducted related research.
• Planned business intelligence initiatives with Sr. Managers.
• Delivered instructional documentation utilized by Senior Level Managers for training purposes
• Participated in ongoing decisions concerning data collections, study design, methodology, and data analysis
• Assisted the Project Manager in setting project expectations and evaluating the impact of changes on other related pricing systems.
• Coordinated with development team to conduct daily scrum meetings and Sprint planning meetings, which involved creating user stories and epics for chosen sprint backlogs.
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements for the pricing application are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.
• Conducted Project status meetings to apprise the product owners and other stakeholders about the project's progress and roadmap.
• Performed Functional and GUI Testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria are met. Created User training materials and carried out the User acceptance testing UAT in coordination with the SMEs to make sure that all the Business Requirements are addressed in the new GSM pricing application.

Environment: MS Visio, Oracle, MS Suite, SharePoint, JIRA, HQ QC, Load Runner, Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC.