SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience in project management and implementation of a variety of complex IT projects in Finance, Banking & Investment sectors serving in various roles as Project Manager, AGILE Project Manager, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, and Systems Analyst.
• Experience in all phases of Project Life Cycle (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closeout), Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies like: Waterfall, Waterfall SCRUM, AGILE SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe.
• Conduct feasibility studies and develop project proposals for evaluation by project sponsor.
• Manage project dashboards, change requests, issue escalations, resolutions and mitigations.
• Well - versed with end-to-end IT solutions while multitasking as a Project Manager/ Business Analyst or a Scrum Master/ Business Analyst.
• Documented Project Charter, Project Schedule, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and RACI matrix.
• Experience in monitoring project deliverables for given timelines, budget and resources.
• Experience in implementing enterprise wide GRC guidelines using COSO Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), COBIT and ITIL frameworks.
• Experience with HP PPM, Primavera 6, Time Entry Portals & other industry standard project management tools.
• Proficient in Requirement Gathering, JAD sessions, Writing Specifications, Testing, UAT, Implementation, Change Management, Defect Management, Issue Resolution and Support.
• Experience capturing all aspects of wealth management systems, credit risk assessment and loan processing systems through use cases & process flow diagrams.
• Extensive experience in conducting various business analyses like Impact analysis, SWOT analysis, Risk Analysis, GAP Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis as a business analyst.
• Experience in drafting business logic for implementing applications in 3-tier architecture, especially writing business rules for classes in the middle tier.
• Excellent understanding of financial instruments like Capital Markets, Fixed income instruments, Bonds, Loans, Mortgages, Equities, Derivatives, P&L and Risk analytics.
• Documented artifacts like Business Requirements Document (BRD), System Requirements Specification (SRS), Use Cases, Test Plans, UML diagrams as a business analyst.
• Demonstrated proactive leadership qualities and strong interpersonal skills in building high-performance teams.
• Experience in working with databases like Oracle Database, MS SQL, MS Access, MySQL and web servers like MS Internet Information Service (IIS), Tomcat Apache.
• Developer based knowledge of programming language like Java, J2EE.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Waterfall Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

Business Skills: Project Management, Risk Management, Requirements gathering, Impact assessment, Change management, Data Modeling, RAD, JAD sessions, UML, Use case diagrams, Test cases, COSO ERM, COBIT, ITIL

Project Management: HP PPM, HP Agile, HP ALM, Primavera 6, SharePoint, JIRA, VersionOne

ETL Tools: SSIS, Informatica, IBM DataStage, Business Objects

Reporting Tools: Spotfire, Tableau, SSRS, Microstrategy, IBM Cognos

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Load Runner, QTP/UFT

Operating Systems: Linux/UNIX, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, VMware

MS Office suite: Project, Visio, SharePoint, Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL, Access, MySQL

Languages: Java, J2EE, HTML, XML, CSS, Angular JS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed project charters, resource plan, and project schedule.
• Closely worked with the stakeholders on refining the requirements to avoid scope creep.
• Maintained SharePoint site for team building activities.
• Developed and planned various aspects of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) with resources, timeline and budget estimates.
• Drafted the Risk Management Plan in compliance with the COSO Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework.
• Prepared the Change Management Plan to handle future changes and the Quality Management Plan to ensure standards and meet customer requirements.
• Assisted the Resource Board Review team with resource allocation.
• Conducted project kick-off meeting and outlined the RACI matrix to the project team for corrections, updates, and timeline agreement.
• Closely monitored the initial on-boarding process for resources both onshore and offshore for efficient on-boarding and Knowledge Transfer process.
• Delegated task to different work streams, after resource allocation.
• Worked in a fast paced, challenging environment with multiple and competing priorities.
• Managed project dependencies, issues and risks with escalation where appropriate.
• Managed project scope and change control process.
• Created/maintained status reporting materials.
• Conducted weekly status meeting calls and touch-point meetings with On-shore team and shared meeting minutes with To-Do items, milestones and goals.
• Supported team members during design, development, testing and implementation phases.
• Executed best practices by collaborating with program managers.
• Acted as a point of contact for business users and global offshore technology/QA teams.
• Negotiated with the off-shore team to avoid scope creep and gold-plating of requirements.
• Effectively conducted Change Request Management by opening Change Requests on HP Quality Center, and assigned priority on each change.
• Prepared data reports with MS Excel and other Business Intelligence tools like Spotfire.
• Managed project go-live and support.
• Conducted project closure with milestones achieved, lessons learned, and project team member hours allocation review for business sponsor and product owners.

Environment: Agile Scrum, HP PPM, HP Agile, HP ALM, HP QC, SharePoint, Windows 7, MS Excel, Spotfire, Informatica, Oracle Database (PL/SQL), Tomcat Apache, JSP

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Enunciated the business opportunity precisely by developing the Project Charter.
• Developed the Project Schedule by defining the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and budget estimates.
• Generated the RACI matrix based on the Project Schedule to allocate budget and resources for tasks.
• Worked with SMEs to identify risks and drafted the response action in the Risk Management Plan in accordance with the organization’s governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) guidelines.
• Devised a Communication Plan based on the RACI matrix.
• Used Fishbone and Pareto diagrams for building the Quality Management Plan.
• Documented and communicated the procedure for Change Management process to all team members.
• Identified key deliverables with quantifiable KPIs to measure success criteria.
• Managed all aspects of Procurement including obtaining RFP for vendor evaluation, selection and contracting.
• Conducted project kick-off meeting and outlined the RACI matrix to the project team.
• Generated process flows to understand the various steps in the Loan Lifecycle and desired functionality of the new system by interacting with users, management, SME, stakeholders, lenders and underwriters.
• Tracked team velocity and provided immediate feedback to team members.
• Facilitated weekly status meetings and communicated meeting minutes to team members.
• Prepared Budget reports to track actual progress.
• Maintained SharePoint team sites for team building activities and storing operational materials.
• Provided Lessons Learned deck with other Project Actuals to business sponsor and product owners during project closure.
• Managed final product release and subsequent follow-up support.

Environment: Waterfall Scrum, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Access, HP Quality Center, Windows 7, MS Office (Project, Visio, Excel), Tableau, MS SQL, T-SQL, IIS Web Server, ASP.NET

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Scrum Master/ Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an Agile Scrum environment. Acted as Scrum Master: conducted daily stand up meetings, developed burn down chart, product backlogs and release backlog.
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements through requirement gathering and review workshops.
• Conducted an initial two week sprint for an agenda-driven requirements refinement session with all project stakeholders to finalize the requirements in scope.
• Authored & reviewed the Business requirement documents (BRD) and system requirement specifications (SRS).
• Conducted GAP analysis for legacy systems and current processes to map the future process to aid in requirements detailing.
• Involved in project management functions in preparing project plans, identifying major milestones and timelines.
• Conducted user meetings to gather business process flows, data flow & develop optimum business process models.
• Coached the scrum team on the team velocity and sprint progress.
• Drafted business rules for classes in middle tier application logic.
• Transcribed Service Level Agreements in XML/ WSDL formats for Web Services.
• Prepared Data dictionaries, Data requirement specifications and User Interface requirements specifications.
• Prepared requirement traceability matrices (RTM) and managed every change request effectively throughout the software development life cycle.
• Overlooked data mapping of important functionalities for client-server integration.
• Assisted in client and server side validation of various business rules.
• Extensively used MS SQL database with SSIS for data warehousing activities.
• Coordinated with end users, SMEs, development and QA team and monitored progress.
• Translated the functional specifications into test scenarios and test cases.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and developed the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements /use cases.
• Involved in developing & implementing deployment & user training schedules and conducted user training
• Formulated a user manual for the developers and user guide for the end users as part of a 1 week training session.

Environment: Agile Scrum, JIRA, UML, HP QC, Windows 7, MS Office Project, Excel, MS SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, XML/ WSDL, Apache web server, JSP.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Scrum Master / Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed business requirements analysis on the information gathered from Accounting and Sales departments through interviews and requirements workshop.
• Conducted JAD sessions for initial prototype deliverable for business sponsor, owner review and approvals.
• Wrote Scrum/user stories for the web application; and ensured that all the documentation is updated with all the requirements.
• Performed gap analysis and identified opportunities for enhancements.
• Developed Process Flow Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams, class diagrams, architecture diagrams (High Level) and Use Cases using MS Visio.
• Worked on creating the product backlog and the Sprint backlog and responsible for prioritizing user stories and product backlog items.
• Provided AGILE project management controls, project plans, timeline schedules, facilitate sessions, and reviewed software defect logs.
• Convened meetings with users and stakeholders to identify impediments to resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Extensively used SQL queries and MS Excel Vlookup, Macros, Pivot Tables etc for data reporting.
• Conducted client-side validation to study ETL operations on the databases and the data warehouse.
• Designed and developed low and high fidelity wireframes with rich and compelling UI components.
• Conducted weekly status meetings and project touch-point meetings with project stakeholders.
• Supporting cross functional teams to address business requirements.
• Worked extensively on HP ALM/ HP QC for requirements loading, creating/updating test cases and tracing them back to requirements, creating and closing tickets, test execution and defect logging/tracking.
• Ensured requirements compliance and testing using traceability matrix.
• Conducted a project closure meeting with the Program Manager for milestones, RACI status for resources, and costs to hours review followed by project sign-off with internal stakeholders.

Environment: Agile Scrum, HP ALM, HP QC, Windows 7, MS Office, Project, Excel, Access, Informatica, Ajax, Apache web server, Oracle database, JSP.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Client interfacing for requirement gathering, issue management, and testing life cycle monitoring.
• Performed current system study and AS IS analysis - produced Gap analysis documents.
• Deep Knowledge of Securities transaction life cycle.
• Analyzed business and functional requirement, working closely with business and technology leads to identify appropriate data for testing and design of quality system test cases.
• Developed UML Use Cases, Class diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Created Functional Specification Document (FSD) detailing in depth project functional requirements.
• Prepared a schedule and work flow following Waterfall methodology.
• Participated in meetings with the developer and the QA team to facilitate the requirements understanding process, data collection, and data analysis.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and system requests and prepared Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to track such requirements.
• Tested clearing and settlement flows (using SWIFT codes) between the clearing house and the trading house.
• Facilitated and Supported User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process.
• Attended Root Cause Analysis meetings to identify the root cause for bugs and helped determine best use of development and testing resources for risk management.

Environment: Waterfall, MS Project, Mercury Quality Center, Windows 7, MS Office, MS Access

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the customers and internal stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system.
• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements and developing System Specifications.
• Assessed business priorities, and advised business units on risks and Cost Benefit analysis.
• Participated in the development and preparation of the Test Plan with the testing team as well as ensuring testability, reliability, usability, maintainability and performance of the application.
• Did rigorous performance testing using Load Runner.
• Involved in incident reporting and change and configuration management procedures.
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the application.

Environment: Waterfall, UML, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, XML, HTML, Oracle, UFT/QTP, IBM Cognos

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed SME’s and stakeholders to better understand application requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions to gather business requirements from stakeholders, business user.
• Performed the business process modeling for the bank’s existing ATM transactions.
• Included features like check deposit and new account opening application on their ATM portals.
• Supporting product functional enhancement through requirement gathering, writing of business/functional specification.
• Generated wireframes to get consensus and approval of sponsors and business owners on the look and feel of the application.
• Identified and developedUse Casesfrom the businessand systems requirements. Documented high level anddetailed Use Casesto include all the functionalities of the new system.
• Followed the UML methodology to CreateUML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams for easy understanding of development team.
• Supervised theUser Acceptance Testing(UAT) to test the usability of the application.
• Performed regression and performance testing extensively with Test Director & Load Runner.

Environment: Waterfall, MS Visio, MS Excel, XML, HTML, Windows XP, Test Director, Load Runner, IBM DataStage

Confidential

Web portal Admin/ Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Use Case, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams for the modules using UML and Rational Rose.
• Used Spring Framework for dependency injection with the help of spring configuration files
• Developed the presentation layer using JSP, HTML, CSS and client validations using JavaScript.
• Used HTML, CSS and JSP to create interactive UI.
• Involved in Installation and configuration of Tomcat Server.
• Designed developed and maintained the data layer using Hibernate and performed configuration of Struts, Application Framework.
• Worked on tuning of back-end Oracle stored procedures using TOAD.

Environment: Core Java, Swing, JDBC, UML, NetBeans, SQL, Windows XP, TOAD, JavaScript, Linux/ UNIX, Tomcat Server, IBM Rational Rose

Confidential

Jr. Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• User interface is developed using Java Swing.
• Developed different forms for add/update/delete contact using JFrame.
• Developed various action listeners to capture user actions on GUI.
• JDBC is used for data manipulation in application.
• Apache derby is used as database.
• Developed SQLs to create the table, query the table for different operations such as add/update/delete the contacts and fetch list of contacts based on user criteria.
• Windows XP is used as an operating System for the deployment.

Environment: Java, JEE, JSP, Servlets, Swings, SQL, Web Services, Tomcat, Oracle 9i, ANT, and Windows XP