hemnath Kulasekaran

Email: abqsb4@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** * ********* **** *** 2003

City: Irving

State: TX

Zip: 75063

Country: USA

Phone: 410-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $100,000

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Job History / Details:

Hemnath Kulasekaran410-900-7970 (cell) abqsb4@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Senior IT BA with over 9 years of industry experience

Vast Financial industry experience including Mortgage, Banking, Credit Cards, and investment banking

Proficient in Requirement gathering and UML tools (Use Case and Activity Diagrams)

Extensively worked in Waterfall, Agile and modified waterfall methodologies

Skilled in various stages of testing unit testing, system/integration testing and user acceptance testing

Extensive knowledge in Change and defect management tools

Excellent presentation, documentation and communication skills

Experience working with Global Implementation with development team and testing team located globally.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHT

Client Start Date End Date Role

Fannie Mae, USA Aug 2011 Till Date Senior Business Analyst

Bank Of America, USA Aug 2009 Aug 2011 Business Systems Analyst Lead

Vanguard, USA Jun 2008 Jul 2009 Business Systems Analyst

Citi Mortgage, USA Jun 2007 May 2008 Business Analyst

Citicards, USA May 2005 May 2007 Business Analyst

HSBC, UK Aug 2004 May 2005 Developer/Business Analyst

Deutche Leasing, Germany May 2003 Jul 2004 Developer

Client: Fannie Mae TX, USA Aug 2011 to Present

Title: Business/Systems Analyst

Project Description:

The project is for development and implementation of increasingly complex software to automate business functionality. The software tool will help automate the loan review process flow and utilize the workflow tool (IBM Lombardi) across various business units underwriting, valuation, credit remittance and fraud, utilizing agile methodology for development cycle.

Role:

Constant communication and Interaction with stakeholders through performance reporting and status meetings

Define project scope, goals, timeline, and deliverables

Prepare and present key business issues and resolutions to management

Identify and coordinate additional staffing requirements

Guide the Development Team to define workflow system, Solutions, User Interface and training requirements.

Liaison between all Stakeholders, Development and QA team to review the progress made and facilitate any issue meetings

Manage all change requests

Conduct Gap analysis

Build cross-divisional relationships to enable consensus on strategy for future workflow functionality

Gather and analyze information and provide recommendations to address and resolve business issues for a specific business group.

Review and provide inputs through the finalized detail design and test cases associated with the deliverable.

Resolve and/or escalate issues that arise during testing

Document and publish lessons learned

Environment: IBM Lombardi, QAS (Fannie Mae in-house Java application), MS suite (including MS office, MS project and MS Visio), Clear quest, DOORS, Share point

Client: Bank of America-Merrill Lynch NJ, USA Aug 2010 to Jul 2011

Title: Business/Systems Analyst Lead

Project Description:

The project comprises of a suite of modules, collectively referred as Tax Reporting Statements system. The objective of the system is to generate the necessary Tax Forms, which are requirement of IRS (Internal Revenue Services) for its customers and subsidiaries as well. Apart from the necessary forms, this system is also capable of generating the Fiscal Statements which assist its clients to understand their financial positions by capturing and maintaining purchase and sale information and provide them with the capital gain/loss information.

Role:

Analyze and understand the business requirements and create systems specification document

Maintenance of RTM(Requirement Traceability Matrix)

Plan business analysis approach

Conduct stakeholder analysis

Estimate requirements activities (e.g., milestones, work units, level of effort, duration)

Identified project risks

Create the project plan using MS project

Conduct project team meetings

Conduct BA team performance reviews

Plan operational support activities based on business analysis deliverables

Study the inherent systems thoroughly to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow using MS Visio

Analyze and maintain business reports created via SAS, EZYTRIEVE and DYL

Work with development and testing team to clarify the questions in the requirements

Clarify the defects for requirements raised through SIT and UAT

Assist the Project Manager in various project management activities

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, QMF, DB2, MS Project Plan, REQPRO, Test Director, SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, DOORS, Erwin, OS/390, Share point, Clear quest, Rational Rose, CSF printing tool

Client: Vanguard, Malvern, USA Jun2008 Jul2009

Title: Business/Systems Analyst Lead

Project Description:

The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages approximately $1.4 trillion in assets. It offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to individual and institutional investors in the United States and abroad.

Role:

Facilitated requirements workshop

Analyzed Requirements and create Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.

Conducted Gap analysis to understand new business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated into the new application.

Conducted JAD sessions for better understanding and refining of requirements in coordination with multiple teams.

Created Business Requirements Document and the Use Case Specification Documents.

Created and maintain SAS and DYL Reports

Used Rational Requisite Pro as requirement gathering tool.

Identified all use case components including basic, alternate and exception flows.

Prepared Business Process Models

Conducted several discussions with business to clarify requirements in order to identify use cases and document UC Specifications.

Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.

Coordinated with development and testing team to resolve any gaps in the requirements

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, QMF, DB2, MS Project Plan, REQPRO, Test Director, SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, DOORS, Erwin and OS/390

Client: Citi Mortgages, NA, USA Jun2007 May2008

Title: Business Analyst

Project Description:

All the legacy system Mortgage applications such as Loan origination system and servicing system were considered to be moved to the new web based applications.

Role:

Involved in creating targeted questionnaires and interviews for SMEs, clients and business users to gather requirements.

Performed Feasibility and Risk Analysis to identify the business critical and high-risk areas of the application.

Worked as a liaison between business users and developers to submit requirements and changes, clarify questions and issues.

Developed data flow diagrams, illustrating the flow of data from the Legacy systems into the Application database Tables, along with checkpoints for testing / verification.

Prepared use case documents and utilized MS Visio to create UML diagrams including use case, activity and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows

Participated in JAD sessions for requirement, feasibility and risk analysis with various stakeholders

Collaborated with the QA team in reviewing and validating test plans and test cases, ensuring that the final application catered to the user requirements.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, QMF, DB2, MS Project Plan, REQPRO, Test Director, SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, DOORS, Erwin and OS/390

Client: Citicards, USA Jun 2005 May 2007

Title: Business Analyst

Project Description:

SM10 was developed in 1992 by TEXACO to process its oil cards. Citi Supports more than 60 % of the oil cards including Shell, BP, Conoco, Sunoco, and Citgo. The project comprised of 6 Oil portfolios and approx 50 vendors on Cross sell products. Each portfolio had its own DB2-Sub system, CICS, and Batch schedule.

Role:

Enhanced and maintained legacy systems using DB2, CICS and IBM/MVS environment.

Prepared Analysis and design documents for the release.

Created functional specification document

Planned business analysis approach

Identified and documented project team roles and responsibilities

Identified project risks

Planned operational support activities based on business analysis deliverables

Analyzed Requirements and created change requests (ECRs)

Worked with development and testing team to clarify the questions in the requirements

Clarified the defects for requirements raised through SIT and UAT

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, QMF, DB2, MS Project Plan, REQPRO, Test Director, SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, DOORS, Erwin and OS/390

Client: HSBC, UK Aug 2004 Jun 2005

Position Title: Developer

Project Description:

This project was intended to provide product enhancement support for HSBC Personal Internet Banking website. It was developed for HSBC Bank at Buffalo, USA. It completely deals with the personal Accounts and Company accounts.

Role:

One time load of data to the newly added columns.

Creation of new COBOL programs and batch Jobs to satisfy the business needs

Modified the existing programs to process the enhanced business logic

Created test plans and updated the same in Test directories

Involved in unit testing for both batch & online programs

Involved in system test plan creation

Environment: OS/390, VS COBOL II, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, Endeavor, Easytrieve, QMF, DB2 Platinum tools, File Aid, SQL, Changeman and Test Director

Client: Deutche Leasing, Germany May 2003 Jul 2004

Position Title: Developer

Project Description:

This is a part of long term Maintenance project for Deutche Bank, Corporate Applications. Maintenance covers production support, changes to existing system for new functionality, updating applications with the new ones.

Role:

Responsible for coding new programs and modifying the existing programs based on the business requirement.

Code walkthrough with the clients on critical components.

Created the unit & system test cases/test data for testing the programs

Maintained quality standards and documentation.

Generation of weekly status reports and attending status meeting.

Analyze programs of the existing system and prepare analysis document.

Environment: OS/390, VS COBOL II, CICS, DB2, JCL, Changeman, ESP and SAR

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & communication from Chennai, India

CERTIFICATION

Certified IBM DB2 Expert

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