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Business Analyst/QA

Location:
Marlborough, MA
Salary:
60 -70K/year
Posted:
July 06, 2011

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Sangya Padhi

Phone: 978-***-****

E-mail: qm7prj@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

• Over 6 years of hands-on experience in Business Process Modeling, Mapping, Requirements management using SDLC and RUP Processes, UML Modeling, Prototype design, Rapid prototyping, JAD sessions, RAD and Quality Assurance of client server and web-based systems with focus on Mortgage, Finance, Banking industry.

• Very good experience with Data warehousing

• Experienced in all areas of project life cycle in a highly structured change management environment using both proprietary methodologies, Agile Techniques and RUP (Rational Unified Process).

• Wrote test cases and test scripts and executed tests.

• Business process modeling using UML.

• Excellent knowledge in SQL, Stored procedures, triggers in Sybase and oracle.

• Emphasis on requirements capturing/gathering through research, formal/informal sessions and JAD sessions with SMEs and end users

• Gap analysis, data analysis business process improvement and systems integration. .

• Excellent Team player to work in conjunction with other testers, developers and other team members in validation and testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.

• Good experience in making the business users learn about the newly implemented system during the implementation stage and maintenance.

• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, solving and delivering solutions under high stress environment.

• Can handle Risk Systems.

• Strong experience in documenting existing process, analyzing business requirements, working with requirements traceability matrix, re-engineering business processes and

designing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools Rational Rose, MS Visio, Requisite Pro, Documentum, MS Project, MS Word, Power Point, Excel, Project, Outlook, Rational Unified Process (RUP), SDLC, Use Case methodology

Operating Systems Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

Languages SQL, HTML, UML

Multimedia Adobe Photoshop

Experience:

Sovereign Bank,Isban,Boston,US Jan 2011 – Current

Business Analyst

Worked as a Risk Analyst in credit card portfolio monitoring project. Our risk team was responsible for all possible risk assessment of credit card.

Responsibilities:

• Helped developing all risk management policies, initial credit line assignment and ongoing risk management activities.

• Coordinate marketing activities in order to target and capture profitable customers.

• Forecasts delinquencies and losses to support provisioning and all other risk management processes.

• Participate on project teams. May occasionally lead a project or portions of a project.

• Development of reporting to track the performance of risk management policies and strategies and make appropriate adjustments.

• Work with business team to evaluate the risk/return profile and identify key performance drivers to meet the corporate established return requirements. Assist Finance team by providing loss forecast assumptions leveraging the historical performance and planned strategy changes for each targeted segment.

• Communicated and document processes and analysis results. Prepare and deliver presentations to senior management and to various business groups including finance, marketing.

• Responsible for creating services DDR(business documents) and making changes as needed specific to the business needs.

• Responsible for providing updates and status reports to manager.

• Responsible for communicating with team and business people in designing, testing and implementing solutions.

UBS, Connecticut Dec 2006 - August 2010

Business Analyst

Worked as a Business lead in LOS - Loan Origination System and involved in analysis, design, development, and implementation. The system will be a front end to the lending system of the retail finance institutions and banks involved in automotive, personal, credit card, Home Loans, and line of credit application processing.

Responsibilities:

• Lead business initiatives including brainstorming on new functionality for current systems.

• Provided SDLC support for IT programs, projects and maintenance and enhancement of exitsing applications/systems.

• Support solution delivery team production and change management processes and oversight ,business customer service and project logistics.

• Analyze metrics to identify trends and make recommendations for improvement and or staffing changes.

• Gathered and documented the requirements that were critical to the business mission and used those requirements to design application software using a Use Case in Requisite Pro

• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

• Created use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process.

• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams (State diagrams) according to RUP, for the stakeholder review.

• Analyzed and documented Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business.

• Conducted FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs with the designers, developers and stakeholders

• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose

• Used Requisite Pro to document requirements, associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements with Use cases.

• Supported IT unit creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of strategic projects.

• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.

• Supported project governance and provided regular project communications to the project manager and business areas.

• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective.

• Extensively involved in gathering business requirements and system requirements and specifications. Provided conceptual solution. Translated conceptual solution into technical design. Extensively worked on system architecture. Used UML to create use cases, used case diagrams, classes & sequence diagrams.

• Prepared test cases, test plans, test strategies, traceability matrix for QA team.

Environment:

Oracle, Windows NT, Windows 2000, MS Visio, MS Word.

St Mary’s Credit Union Jan 2004 - Aug 2006

Systems Analyst

The goal of the project was to streamline the mortgage process with Web-based tools. The company needed to develop a Web-based lending platform with business process management and integration capabilities, enabling it to incorporate both best-practice business rules and third-party technologies into their processes. Modules cover origination through settlement, plus workflow management tools.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client groups to determine user requirements and goals. Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure and develop process, standards and procedures.

• Created Need Analysis Documents of the requirements gathered through JAD and individual elicitation sessions using Rational RequisitePro.

• Analyzed business requirements into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / Sate chart Diagrams using Rational Rose following UML methodology.

• Created URS-User Requirement Specifications and FRS- Functional Requirement Specifications documents

• Suggested the indexing requirements based on the querying columns.

• Created the specs for the stored procedures and triggers, based on the business logic.

• Assisted in preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP)..

• Followed RUP quality Assurance and Testing Process. Interfacing with program management and executive teams regarding quality assurance goals.

• Wrote extensively SQL scripts for validating the data generated by the UATs.

• Set up definitions and process for test phases including Product test, integration test, system test and user acceptance test (UAT).

• Participated in entering, tracking system defects in Rational ClearQuest.

Environment:

Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, ClearQuest, Test Manager, MS Visio, MS Project.

Reliance Standard Life Insurance, Newton,MA April 2003 - Aug 2004

Business Analyst

The project involved the extraction of data from different source systems and loading the data into data warehouse. Data marts were then developed for specialized areas in the company that extracted the data from the central data warehouse repository.

The major job involved the cleansing and normalization of the data in the staging area then loading data to the data marts. The data mart enabled an insight into the current and future policy needs, based on the information received from the data warehouse.

Responsibilities:

• Studied the existing Corporate Information Factory (CIF) and the Operational Data Store (ODS) relating to the subject area of the Life Benefits Data Mart.

• Gathered Business Requirements from the users through use of questionnaires, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, one-on-one interviews/Group interviews, examination of current reports.

• Analyzed requirements in terms of the dimensional data elements and measurable facts.

• Identified source systems, their connectivity, related tables and fields and ensure data suitably for mapping.

• Collected information about different entities and attributes identified primary keys and foreign keys for the entities. Mapped surrogate key tables to the required dimensions.

• Created dimensions model star schemas involving Kimball methodology using Erwin.

• Prepared Gap analysis report outlining the deficiencies in source system extracts and requirements for the Operational Data Store (ODS).

• Presented the models and their advantages to Stakeholders and the Project Manager and logical database design.

• Knowledgeable in the ETL process used by the Data Stage System designers used for extracting data from heterogeneous source systems, transforming and loading the data into the data warehouse/ data marts.

• Liaised between business users and the development team in translations of requirements and business process explanations, resolving communication issues and differences.

• Provided user test cases and collated and track defects. Communicate defects to development team.

Environment:

MS Project, MS Visio, MS Word, Database (Oracle)

EDUCATION:

JAGGANATH INSTITUTE OF TECH, INDIA

Bachelor of Comp Science

Series 6 license…

REFERENCE: available upon request..



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