PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

* **** ***** ** ******** experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications, Application Design.

Extensive experiences in Investment Banking projects specialized in Securities Trading (stock trading, fixed income trading, and derivatives trading), wealth management and risk management.

Acted as a key player in implementing the agile scrum methodology.

Have extensive knowledge and experience of agile environment.

Have extensively created epics and user stories in JIRA for every sprint under agile.

Played the role of agile specialist along with performing the role of business analyst at each SDLC phase.

Proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modelling, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.

Expertise in Project Management i.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures.

Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.

In depth knowledge Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, Use Cases, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D).

Competent in Creating Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.

Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, creating Screen Mock ups, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis.

Facilitated Change Management across entire process from Project conceptualization to Testing through Project Delivery, Software Development and Implementation Management in diverse Business and Technical Environments.

Experience working highly functional best-of-breed products such as green screen application

Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) which helped in controlling numerous artefacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a project

Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.

Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.

Interface with clients from Operations, Marketing, Sales, Technologies, and Outside Vendors and act as their customer interface point as the lead of the Projects.

Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Communication, Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.

SKILLS:

Programming Languages

C, C++, C#, VC++, VB, VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, Java, SQL, PLSQL

Operating Systems

UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux.

Databases

MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, DB2, Sybase

Application Severs

IBM Websphere, ATG Dynamo, BEA WebLogic.

Internet

HTML, XML, VBScript, ASP, JavaScript, JSP, J2EE.

Automation Tools

MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational RequisitePro, Documentum, Caliber RM, DOORS, Sharepoint

Bug Tracking Tools

Mercury TestDirector, Rational ClearQuest

Utility Tools

MS Office Suite, MS Project, TOAD, Adobe Photoshop

Reporting Tools

Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reports (SSRS)

Data Warehousing Tools

Informatica, Business Objects, Cognos, Erwin

Testing Tools

Quick TestPro (QTP), TestDirector, WinRunner, LoadRunner

Education:

MBA- Suffolk University, Boston MA

Ms IT – University of Dallas, Dallas TX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: JP Morgan Chase, Lewisville, TX Jan 15 – Present

Role: Business Systems Analyst

JPMorgan Chase & Co. one of the oldest and largest financial services firm in the world. JP Morgan has global impact in Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Banking, Private Wealth Management and Treasury & Securities Services. The projects list includes some regulatory project and some enhancement and upgrades to current applications.

Developed a thorough knowledge of the inherent systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.

Worked in an agile environment.

Created numerous Jira stories for development in the iteration sprint.

Organized and lead show and tells for each sprint.

Lead the sizing sessions and iteration planning sessions.

Implemented Agile methodology in the operations.

Coordinated and took ownerships of multiple projects simultaneously related to Mortgage Banking applications to enhance originations, servicing and underwriting operations

Worked with the business, program management team and developers nationally and offshore in all four phases of the requirements development including elicitation, analysis, high level and technical specification and validation

Worked with the project manager for iteration planning and planned the entire sprint.

Participated and organized scheduling and resource management under the agile process.

Involved with the application development team to create technical design document detailing the communication flow and data integration of multiple applications

Developed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) from business into Functional Specification Documents (FSD) for development effort purposes after conducting technical analysis and addition of detailed technical specifications

Created all the functional stories and groomed them with QA and Developers in as a part of agile process.

Created of Traceability Matrix documenting and one to one mapping of all BRD and FSD requirements with technical specifications, application details and associated iteration cycle details to facilitate Testing and Production effort

Involved in implementation of regulatory compliance like Dodd-Frank initiative, VA loan, HAMP loan, FHA loan programs into the internal Originations, Servicing and underwriting and downstream applications

Met with different Lines of Business (LOB) representatives to gather, verify or clarify User Requirements and receive approvals for initial requirement detail, Use Cases, Data Flow and Activity Diagrams

Presented FSDs for review to internal and external stakeholders and provide business and/or technical clarifications whenever needed. Updated FSDs as per recommendations and receive approval

Involved in all four phases of the requirements development including elicitation, analysis, specification and validation

Created Systems Requirement Specification by combining the functional and non-functional requirements

Worked as an interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes

Assisted on Data mapping for System Integration and coordinated and assisted implementation with migration process and developer fixes

Assisted in budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams

Assisted QA and Development team with preparing various Test Documents like Test Plans and Test Cases for Unit, Regression and Smoke Testing

Involved in identifying, resolving and fixing of production defects raised by business

Performed direct testing in different environments including Development, UAT and Production during IST and IUT phases of the project

Prepared various Training and Testing materials for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for clients

Updated and maintained Team SharePoint site with updated documentations, FSDs, TMs using built-in tools

Environment: Agile, JIRA, MS Project, TOAD, ALM, MS WORD 2010, MS Visio 2010, Excel 2010, MySQL, Blueprint, HP QC, Java.

Client: Wells Capital Management Minneapolis, MN Jan 14 – Dec 14

Role: Business Analyst

As the Investment Management Division of Wells Fargo & Company, Wells Capital Management has over $193 billion under management. The project aimed at integrating Bloomberg Order Management System to support Fixed Income trading (Corp. Bond, Muni Bond, US Treasury, ABS, MBS/CMO/Pass Through/TBA) and to support Equity and Derivative trading (Options, Futures, Forwards and Credit Default SWAPS) to realize Straight Through Processing internally from Front Office to Downstream Systems (e.g. ADP & PMR) and Custodian Agents. The new system helps portfolio and asset managers, financial advisors and traders gain a simple, cohesive and transparent view of service data and enable multiple specialists and bankers to collaborate more seamlessly to service customers with complex money management and investment concerns.

Role & Achievements:

Analysed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).

Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.

Worked with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction information related to Capital Markets - Online Brokerage, IVR trading, Conventional Brokerage, Orders, Trades Executed and SPS Orders for reinvestment agreement to write global specs.

Acquired extensive knowledge of financial products, services & terms during day-to-day tasks, such as - Exchange Traded Derivatives (Futures, Options, Single Stock Equities, Commodities & FX Currency)

Conducted market research and analysis in Capital Markets consisting of Stock Market and Bond Market

Prepared for GAP Analysis; identified and documented improving areas to meet capital requirement regulations.

Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to strategize the Implementation of RUP effort in different iterations and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Core responsibility involved complete manually testing of the User Acceptance Test (UAT)

Coordinated various kinds of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) including regression testing, system testing, integration testing, functional testing, alpha & beta testing.

Created UAT plans with several test cases for each project to ensure that the system runs smoothly after the proposed enhancements or changes have been made.

Coordinated testing efforts between SunGard and the client.

Utilized SharePoint and SharePoint Designer to create and manage team site, templates and workflows.

Used MS Access as a reporting tool.

Implemented numerous automated data collection systems utilizing MS ACCESS and Excel.

Followed a structured approach to organize Requirements into logical groupings of essential Business Processes, Business Rules, and Information needs that insures any Critical Requirements are not missed

Discussed with SMEs across different businesses units to gain solid knowledge of the existing Credit Risk Calculation System and assisted in preparing an advanced Risk Assessment and ROI Management.

Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the BPS Risk Management product with involvement through the whole SDLC

Developed multiple Functional Requirements defiantion (FRD) documents using the Microsoft standard structure and format (business sections only)

Followed the UML based methods using Microsoft Visio to create: Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.

Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of Entity Relationship Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams and supporting documents and descriptions of the Relationships between the data elements to analyze and document the Business Data Requirements.

Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.

Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing.

Responsible for providing analytical support in the Design, Development and Implementation of Project.

Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by the QA team.

Environment: MS Access, powerpoint, exel, word. Sharepoint, RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, C#.Net, WebLogic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, DreamWeaver, Adobe Photoshop, Windows Forms, Web Forms, Load Runner, Win Runner, DOORS, Project Management.

Client: MMC Systems, NY, New York Sep 11 – Dec 13

Role: Business Analyst

To implement Dodd frank Act on OTC derivative market Global Trade Repository was evolved to publish counterparty risk to market by providing global repository services for the commodity, FX, equity, credit, and interest rate derivative asset classes.

Role & Achievements:

Assisted PMO Leadership Team with the coordination and administration of the Project Management Office including but not limited to the following activities: managing and adjusting project timeline, IT development work efforts for standardization of project implementations, administration duties, monitoring deadlines, activity and issue tracking.

Updated and remediate existing Business Intelligence scripts and Teradata applications to reflect changing business data requirements.

SharePoint development with InfoPath and SharePoint Designer creating custom lists, libraries, workflows and forms.

Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.

Gathered and analysed data in support of SOP’s, business use cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements for mortgage loan origination system using RUP standards.

Involved understanding the Secondary Mortgage Industry business process through various sources and resources

Reviewed the data model and reporting requirements for Cognos Reports with the Data warehouse/ETL and Reporting team

Experience with derivatives clearing and/or new Dodd-Frank regulations.

Prepared design documents, ETL specifications and migration documents

Interacted with Business Owners, Users, and Stakeholders to identify Business System Needs, evaluated solutions for business problems, and prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD).

Represented the business requirements in various alternative views such as analysis models, process flow diagrams and user stories.

Suggested changes to the Physical Data Warehouse Model based on the ETL and Referential Integrity gap requirements.

Worked with SMEs of different groups to gain detailed knowledge of Treasury Services, Commercial Loans, and RSA SecurID Setup to understand the cross impacts of the system.

Involved in categorizing Mortgage Pre-payment risk, Risk Analytics for MBS, Loan Origination, Loan Servicing, MBS, CMBS, Secondary Mortgage Market, Non-Escrow Loans Collateral Inspection and Monitoring, Property Inspection, Income and Expense Statement Review, and Inspection Report

Conducted Gap Analysis to define the impact of the new requirements on the existing GUI and further prepared Business Impact Analysis Reports.

Extensively used tools such as Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, MS Access.

Implemented numerous automated data collection systems utilizing MS ACCESS, SharePoint, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat fillable electronic forms for reporting and analytics.

Designed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define the Business Process.

Analysed the Data Entity Relationships and worked on Functional Requirements Document (FRD).

Worked on multiple short term projects in between and co-led teams

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate with each other, resolve problems at an early stage.

Coordinated with the test team to check the Weekly Status and Report it to the Project Manager.

Responsible for Interacting with the Developers to explain the proposed changes and ensure understanding of the system requirements to handle these changes.

Developed and maintained Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance process costing models and metrics ensuring architecture compliance.

Generated reports using Crystal Reports.

Environment: SDLC, UML, User Count Tool, Rational Tools Suite, MS Project, MS access, Windows XP, SQL, Oracle, Teradata, Business Intelligence.

Client: Trigram Capital Management, LP, Stamford, CT Jul 10 – Sep 11

Role: Business Analyst

Trigram Capital Management (TCM) is a global asset management firm dedicated to Asian financial markets, including Japan. TCM provides many kinds of financial products for both its Asian and US clients, including fixed income, Mutual Funds, Asset management, portfolio analysis. TCM is competitively well positioned by virtue of its deep Asian market Experience, Skills, and Relationships.

The project was focus on redesign its online system to support automatic Fixed Income management. TCM required its system to be more client-friendly and user focus, as well as to provide more efficiency for its financial advisors.

Role & Achievements:

Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analysed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.

Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.

Ensure business requirements / application functionality is consistent with regulatory mandates from Dodd-Frank Act; SEC Issued Proposed Regulations; Finalized EU Regulation for CRAs; and the Financial Services Agency.

Prepared test Data sets and performed data testing using the PL/SQL scripts. Also used MS excel for data mining, data cleansing, data mapping, data dictionary and data analysis.

Reviewed the data model and reporting requirements for Cognos Reports with the Data warehouse/ETL and Reporting team.

Created customized report using OLAP Tools such as Crystal Report for business use

Experience with derivatives clearing and/or new Dodd-Frank regulations.

Developed business requirements and process flows for multiple areas under client on-boarding such as prospecting phase, KYC phase, investment suitability checks, investment proposals etc.

Worked as a business analyst to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management, risks and returns, Bond Pricing, MBS, ABS, Derivatives (repos, interest rate swaps), Money Market Instruments and used strong knowledge of financial statements, cash flow, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Budgeting, trade capture application, risk management, and Investment Accounting.

Created Source to target data mapping documents identifying key data elements and prepared Data Flow Diagrams.

Managed the post mortem and process improvement activity conducted by the Business Analysts and Project Business Leads.

Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.

Extensively used the PERT approach and Microsoft Project for project management

Interacted with database developers for formulating the ER diagrams and data flow diagrams.

Managed software artifacts for the suite of investment products such as Online Banking and Brokerage, BIDS, Insurance etc

Worked on data modelling and produced data mapping and data definition documentation

Develop, build and manage Reporting Services (SSRS) reports using both SSAS cube and relational database sources including distribution of reports using subscription services

Developed and managed the formal SDLC implementation using the Lean/Agile Methodology.

Performed requirements modelling and develop analysis diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, data models, and use-case realizations using RUP tools in Agile.

Analysed business needs, created and developed new centralized back office system for specific area including mortgage and commercial lending system.

Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the BPS Risk Management product with involvement through the whole SDLC

Performed requirements modelling and develop analysis diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, data models, and use-case realizations using RUP tools in Agile.

Worked with Data Warehouse in the development and execution of data conversion, data cleaning and standardization strategies and plans as several small tables are combined into one single data repository system MDM (Master Data Management).

Developed BRD documents for Securitized Inventory (CMO, ABS, MBS, and ABCP). BRD targeted new Basel II Compliance requirements.

Used MS Visio for Process modelling, Process mapping and Business Process flow diagrams.

Worked in detailed design for the use cases and developed detail class diagrams and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose implementing J2EE patterns in UML design.

Creating, Process Flow Diagram, Context Diagram and Activity diagrams using UML.

Worked on Risk analysis, Securities (Stocks and corporate bonds) and their valuation, Portfolio Management (risks and returns) and analysis, Asset Allocations Bond pricing, Financial Derivatives, Cash flows, financing structure, Capital Management, Stock Valuation, Amortization, etc

Evaluated Competitors offerings and products including fixed income and derivatives

Interacted with users for verifying User Requirements, managing Change Control Process, updating existing Documentation

Conducted UAT to confirm that all derivative products can be successfully processed through stages of the trade life cycle

Facilitated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Pega System Administrators and Business Users, documented any issues or defects and eventually got sign off from the right parties.

Created relationships in Requirement Traceability Matrix linking Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems Requirements.

Performed Data mapping, logical data modelling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data

Ensure business requirements / application functionality is consistent with regulatory mandates from Dodd-Frank Act.

Responsible to import the data from Crystal reports by using Business Objects Live office into Microsoft Excel and Word.

Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate AGILE Policies and guidelines.

Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing

Led and conducted JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design of the system.

Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion.

Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) using Microsoft Visio.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, MS Access, KYC Compliance, MS Visual Studio 2008, MS Visual Source Safe, Documentum, Windows NT/XP, Oracle, SQL, SAS, SQL Server, DOORS, Sybase, RDBMS,EVPN, RUP, VBScript, Dreamweaver, Sharepoit, Adobe Photoshop, Caliber RM MIS-IP, C#. NET, Crystal Reports,ASP.NET, UNIX, Business Objects, Test Director, Load Runner.

Client: GMAC Mortgage Corporation, Plymouth, MI Apr 09 – Jun 10

Role: Business Analyst

GMAC Mortgage Group is a part of GMAC Financial Services, the GMAC Mortgage Group - consists of GMAC Residential Holding Corp. and GMAC Commercial Holding Corp. The project was a web-based application involved enhancement of the automated Mortgage loan origination process beginning from origination/opening a mortgage application through funding/closing. The system performs all the Business functions of the loan process such as set-up Account information, New Loan set-up, Escrow Analysis, the Appraisal, credit, and income.

Role & Achievements:

Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.

Used XML for building and parsing of Application Configuration file.

Conceptualized primary process flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio and CaseWise tool sets.

Did project planning using Project Workbench.

Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas including Mortgage Servicing, Loan Monitoring and Asset Management.

Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.

Developed business process models in RUP to document existing and future business processes.

Performed extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and gap analysis.

Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.

Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Rational.

Developed Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML.

Established a business analysis methodology around the RUP (Rational Unified Process). Helped develop use cases, project plans and manage scope.

Developed requirement reports for day-to-day retail banking needs for opening account, online banking using rational SoDA.

Developed strategic partnerships with the business unit to develop a solid knowledge base of the business line, including the business plan, products, process and revenue streams.

Worked with marketing team in knowing what exactly bank’s client wants.

Used Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest as Configuration Management and Change control tools.

Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director

Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Full knowledge of most phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Environment: Windows NT 4.0, Erwin, XML, Dbase3, DOS and UNIX Sequential Files, MS Access, HTML, ERWIN

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