SUMMARY:

• A result oriented professional with over 7 years of experience in diversified business sectors including Investment/Mutual Fund/Hedge Fund/Credit Risk/Banking/Financial, Mortgage. Well versed with all phases of SDLC, experience in business process redesign, defining vision documents, interacting with stakeholders, understanding user requirements and articulating them into User Requirements Specifications (Use Cases).
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using various methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Agile.
• Experience in identifying and documenting detailed business requirements pertaining to Fixed Income Securities, Equities and Equity Trading Cycle, Derivatives, Portfolio Management, and Wealth Management, etc., creating project and process specifications, working with development team to continually articulate requirements, and troubleshooting production issues including new investment products, applications, data analysis and QA report testing.
• Solid understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object Modeling Technique (OMT), and Object Oriented Analysis (OOA).
• Complete experience different phases of SDLC, such as requirements gathering (Use Case Modeling), Change Management (Clear Quest), Version Control (Clear Case), project planning (MS Project), and testing (QA Wizard Pro)
• Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business requirements document, USE Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Systems Design Specification (SDS), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), Business Continuity Plan (BCP), and Workflows.
• Excellent skills in Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, such as Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, and Sequence diagrams.
• Full understanding of RAD, Waterfall, Spiral Methodologies Rational Unified Process.
• Experience in Rational Requisite Pro and Agile Methodology.
• My strong project management skills allow me to successfully breakdown complex issues identify solutions and communicate these to the development and management teams. I have excellent interpersonal skills that allow me to interact across a complex corporate structure to build teams that work and communicate in an effective and transparent manner.
• Analytical, dynamic team player poised to leverage and professional experience to launch successful as a Business/Data Analyst or Strategic Planner for a company seeking diligent worker committed to supporting corporate missions and objectives.
• Financial Analysis: Presented findings of financing decision for all stages of development utilizing Decision Trees, and other financial analysis tools.
• Interacted regularly with the development team, database designer and the higher management to meet the deadlines of Project milestones.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross - platform environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, DOORS

Design Methodologies: Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, Mac OS X

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

Data Modeling and Other: ERWIN, MS Visio, Rational rose

Specialties: Mortgage, Loan, Banking, Technical Writing, Documentation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mc Lean, VA

Business Analyst /Reporting Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assessed business operations and processes of assigned office or business unit to understand procedures, information flows and handoffs, decisions, communications pathways and the like.
• Operated under limited supervision, manage and monitor loan and MBS pool transactions, including overseeing customer (lenders, servicers, and internal partners) performance, to ensure data accuracy, adhere to guidelines and mitigation of operational and financial risk.
• Conducted research and analyses, problem-solving and reporting. May train staff.
• Participated in meetings and projects with client staff, project managers, and developers to automate, upgrade, or expand applications that accomplish business operations of assigned work unit(s).
• Created, designed, and formatted technical specification documentation including architecture diagrams, process flows, and other information or processes needed to describe required system changes for development, QA, and other internal customers.
• Provided support to applications in production by tracking production problems and troubleshooting them to sustain application in production.
• Developed queries, analyses, or reports from applications for operations or management staff of assigned business unit(s).
• Provided guidance or technical supervision to less experienced staff performing similar functions.
• Reviewed technology interfaces and outputs of the organizations financial and operational processes to ensure compliance and best practices.
• Provided detailed feedback to business unit management and IT unit leadership
• Ensured that application/system products and projects meet defined quality standards
• Developed materials for presentation to the Audit Committee.
• Developed Management & Dashboard reports.
• Assisted with GRC tool implementation

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user/business requirements, functional specifications and Use Case System documents.
• Collected requirements for Credit risk calculation Engine.
• Consolidated all the databases from front, back and middle offices and Access to find the Exposure at default (EAD)
• Used the consolidated Databases from EAD to find the calculated Risk Weight of the bank.
• Conduct Risk Analysis and Credit Risk Estimation & Analysis like Regression Analysis.
• Prepared a package of Process flow diagrams to document the existing system.
• Responsible for defining the scope and business rules of the project, gathering business requirements and documenting them textually or using models.
• Voluntary Corporate Actions and SWIFT processing.
• Reconciliation of ACH Wire Transfer/Rejects, SWIFT Rejects, and daily processing files.
• Managed all requirements in DOORS, making them available to all team members.
• Worked on design list and documented requirements to meet industry regulations.
• Interacted with cross functional teams to facilitate gathering of business requirements.
• Conducted user interviews and organized workshops to understand and articulate business requirements and converted requirements into technical specifications.
• Conducted application testing for financial products markup language - an industry standard protocol for complex financial products.
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement and User Requirement Specifications.
• Served as a liaison between clients and technical staff to resolve conflicts.
• Performed GAP analysis to identify mismatch between system functionality and business requirements and segregated those into high/low level Use Cases and Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Maintained test notes and requirement using DOORS.
• Conducted the FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs with designers, developers and stakeholders, and performed feasibility and adaptability study.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and of the end users.
• Assisted with change, issue, quality and risk management activities, and generated management reports on weekly and monthly basis.
• Worked with the Business Users through interviews and JAD sessions.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used unified modeling language (UML) to create artifacts for the project related deliverables.
• Involved in interviewing Subject Matter experts (SMEs) and carefully recording the requirements in a Business Requirements Document (BRD) for the e-portfolio system integration.
• Performed gap analysis between the “As-Is” model of the legacy system and the “To-Be” model to identify the gaps, logged issues relating to the identified gaps and worked with the SME to get clarifications.
• Created RTM (Requirements traceability matrix) mapping Requirements to Design Artifacts to UAT Cases.
• Used Quality Center to get an easy interface to manage and organize activities like Requirements coverage, Test Case Management, Test Execution Reporting, Defect Management and Test Automation.
• Created Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams in MS VISIO.
• Analyzed Business Requirements, performed gap analysis and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams/State Diagrams and Class Diagram Documented and maintained requirements traceability matrix to ensure that all requirements are traceable from top to bottom and to provide a basis for test plan
• Worked with MS Excel and MS Visio graphs to represent the charts and data.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Product Prototypes, Use Case and Sequence diagrams that provided a view of the requirements
• Tasked to gather and document requirements to integrate 6 applications into a currently utilized COTS application.
• Designed, debugged, enhanced, documented, and tested software applications to meet business process requirements.
• Designed screen layouts, graphical user interfaces, printed outputs, reports, and interfaces with other systems.
• Collaborated with users on the definition of requirements and the design of applications.
• Prepared technical specification documents and test plans for user acceptance testing.
• Performing client presentations and .
• Acted as lead contact and coordinator for all tasks associated with the project assignments.
• Designed and implemented databases and report distributions based on functional area priorities and needs.
• Evaluated technical impact, proposed technical design, modified programs, supported system integration and implemented system in production on time and budget (Personal Loans, Collection System and Mortgages System).
• Investigated on-line and batch amends of any complexity and found solution in the shortest time possible for Loans, Mortgages and Collection systems.
• Providing production support, and problem analysis, with 24/7 on call. Successfully resolved on call issues under extremely stressful and time pressured situations. and mentoring of junior group members.
• Implemented and coordinate a new sub-system in Collection System: took the system through PSEUDO verification (UAT).
• Performed technical analysis in major modifications for Confidential and Collection System components.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote business requirements which involved market risk analysis and risk management like continuous time finance & asset pricing, derivatives, structured products, Documentation, value at risk, risk & return optimization.
• Identified processes for developing and documenting detailed business requirements.
• Data was collected from end-users, and analysts. I Created Use-Cases and Requirements documents to document business needs.
• Requirements were gathered through interactions and meetings and periodic walkthroughs with loan analysts, credit analysts and other potential users of the application.
• Conducted Use-Case reviews and identified gaps, leading to improvements/enhancements in the same.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Ensured Use-Cases were consistent and covered all aspects of the Requirements document.
• Maintained documents and the effect of proposed changes on the project schedule and costs.
• Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reports.
• Designed and developed scenarios based on business requirements.
• Followed the RUP methodology for the entire SDLC.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to strategize the implementation of Rational Unified Process effort in different iterations and phases (Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition) of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Interacting with other teams through walkthroughs, teleconferences, meetings, etc. to resolve various issues.
• Validated the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and meets the scenario description.