Rashedul Alam rabin Business Analyst
Phone: 347-***-****
: *****.******@*****.***
Resumes ID: 49094
Location:, Texas
Posted: 04.30.2012
Resume Details:
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Over all 7+ Years of extensive experience as BUSINESS ANALYST with solid understanding of Business Requirement Gathering,Business Process Flow,Business Process Modelling.
Extensive experience in Business Process Engineering and Software Development with expertise in Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation of applications.
Extensive experienceindiversified industry sectors including Credit Card, Mortgage Industry, and Investment Banking.
Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, and Project Life Cycle.
Strong Knowledge of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Business Architecture, Data Mapping.
Solid understanding ofRational Unified Process (RUP),designusingUnified Modelling Language (UML), Extreme Programming (XP)
Institutional fund accounting processes including preparing, reconciling and distributing reports to/from marketing, separate custodians and investment management
Proficient in the use of tools like Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, and MS Visio.
Experience in process modelling usingUse Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Data Modelling.
Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business, financial, and system requirements.
Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong analytical abilities, and can perform well both independently and as a Team Player.
PC Literate with proficiency in: Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Access/Project and strong experience in how to generate formulas in MS Excel.
Skilled in writing SQL queries/scripts for data and business logic validation
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Modeling Tools
UML, Microsoft Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, UML, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, SODA, Microsoft Visio, MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
Modeling Techniques
Use Case Modelling, UML (Use case, Sequence diagram, Activity Diagram, Class Diagram)
Methodologies
RUP, Waterfall
Operating Systems
Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Project Management
MS Project 2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Wellington management, Boston, MA 05/2009 – Present
Business Analyst
Fixed income Performance Attribution System (FIPA) was developed specifically to support wealth management Groups to provide most valuable advisory services to clients on Asset Projections, Executive stock option models, Portfolio Rebalancing, Investment Holdings, Liquidity needs and future goals. The systems solutions advise the clients on wealth management strategies, provide clear and complete picture of the clients assets in position and those that are held by other providers, full brokerage capabilities, access to IPO’s and other 3rd party products, research data and tax and insurance information.
Responsibilities:
Fixed Income, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Equities, Trade Cycle, Derivatives (Options and Futures), Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing.
Was responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements and analyzed the requirements using Rational RequisitePro.
Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes.
Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
Assisted with user testing of systems, developed and maintained quality procedures and ensured that appropriate documentation was in place.
Using detailed knowledge of application features and functions, assessed scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications.
Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvement.
Was responsible for all project documentations and served as a liaison between the business team and the project team by assisting in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs.
Participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements.
Assisted the Project Manager in setting realistic project expectations, in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly, and conducted project related presentations.
Provided technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that were cost effective and met business requirements.
Worked on MS Excel, office and PowerPoint.
Wrote SQL scripts to investigate various trading issues in equity and fixed income securities, options.
Environment:
MS Visio, IBM Rational Suite, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Use case Diagrams (USD), Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office and Windows NT/2000
ABN AMRO Bank, Chicago, IL 10/2007 – 04/2009
Business Analyst
ABN AMRO Bank provides financial services and offers the products and operations for asset management, commercial, investment, private and retail banking.
The Automated Mortgage Accounting Engine is a web-enabled financial management system that receives accounting data from a range of upstream mainframe systems and processes this data to produce loan level journal entries which are aggregated and posted to the ABN AMRO bank’s accounting system. This system will have strong reporting and reconciliation capabilities.
Responsibilities
Study and understand thoroughly the mortgage market and the different risks involved.
Thoroughly understand the accounting processes that ABN AMRO Bank uses from Loan Origination, Mortgage Servicing to Loan Payoff / Selloff.
Involved in documenting Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD (Object oriented Design) using UML and Visio.
Conducted user interviews (accountants) and interacted with the tech and development teams and SMEs to understand project scope analysis in order to prepare System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
Act as the primary liaison between the accountants and the development team.
Interact with the development team and insure that the developers clearly understand the business processes.
Created Mapping document to map the plans, products, rate keys, commissions, groups/sections and agreements.
Created Issue logs, Work request template, change request template and problem request template for the users.
Collaborated with the Project Managers in developing business processes and documentation of Business process flows using MS Visio.
Identify the business and accounting triggers that will initiate the automated journal entry and define the various business and accounting events.
Write SQL queries for balance conversions.
Document the different accounting calculations based on the data elements required to process them.
Experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Environment: Agile, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Rational Rose, MS Office, MS Visio, Project, Windows XP, SQL.
Alliance Bank Phoenix, AZ 11/2006 – 09/2007
Junior Business Analyst
Alliance Bank is one of the fastest-growing banks in the US founded in 2003 which offers personal and business services to its customers.
The Credit approval system aims at facilitating the credit approval for Credit cards and Loans. The system includes processing application from potential clients, evaluating their eligibility, approving them, and maintaining the records. It is developed as two sets of components: sever side component is based on SOA architecture and client component is based on Java swing technology.
Responsibilities:
Participated in requirements analysis using a Use case driven approach and produced detailed use cases and functional specifications for all the interfaces.
Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with Users, team members, business managers and SMEs to collect requirements 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.
Involved in designing the oracle reports for the Approval Process.
Involved in the Backend testing by executing SQL statements.
Maintained and kept track of stakeholders’ requests for enhancements and changes using Rational ClearQuest.
Worked in close collaboration with the Project Manager to create detailed project plans and scheduling and tracking project timelines.
Performed System, Integration testing and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the projects, system fixes and enhancements.
Environment: Windows XP, MS Office, RUP, UML, Rational Rose, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest.
OfficeMax, Naperville, IL 03/2005- 10 /2006
Business Analyst
OfficeMax is a leader in both business-to-business office product solutions and retail office products. OfficeMax delivers an unparalleled customer experience in service, in product, in time savings, and in value through a relentless focus on its customers. The company provides office supplies and paper, technology products and solutions, and furniture to large, medium and small businesses and consumers. The integration is to facilitate the customer as well as the sellers for the company to carry out transactions. Here the facility is provided to carry out transactions for enquiries, negotiation of orders, placing orders with the suppliers, notifying invoices, dispatches and payments etc to the concerned. Transactions like posting enquiries by the customer, placing and managing orders etc between buyer and the sales department.
Roles & Responsibilities :
Gathered Functional Requirements from users and the management. Managed all the requirements in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members.
Created Business Requirements Specification and System Requirements Specification documents and provided required information to developers.
Acted as liaison between the senior management and different teams with effective presentations.
Working knowledge of implementing software development projects using methodologies such as Waterfall, Rational Unified Process.
Assisted the development team with design and development of the application.
Involved in creating the conceptual design of the web application by defining all the fields, creating dataflow and cost estimation.
Provided constant maintenance support for the application.
Interacted with the project team to help define the business and system objectives, confirmation of scope, identify constraints and the measures of success for the system to be developed.
Conducted the JAD sessions, daily meetings
Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) for managing the SDLC for project.
Assisted in building a Business analysis process model using Visio.
Created the UML diagrams and Use Case Diagrams using MS Visio for the application.
Created Business Requirements Specification and System Requirements Specification documents and provided required information to developers.
Using Requisite Pro, monitored change requests and documented requirements, integrating them with Use ClearCases.
Created the test scenarios and test cases for the application.
Environment: Windows, MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, RUP,UML, SQL, GAP Analysis, Rational Clearquest
CareVoyant Technologies Private Limited, Chennai, India 01/2002- 01/2003
Business Analyst
An enterprise software company developing software products for the US Healthcare market, based out of Chicago. CareVoyant develops technology tools for physicians, home care and long term care organizations. Development of financial management systems and business intelligence systems for post-acute healthcare continuum. The projects include developing billing module, business intelligence portal, ETL packages, data warehousing solutions, dashboards and scorecards.
Responsibilities:
Managed complete SDLC processes using Waterfall methodologies.
Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
Coached, mentored and lead personnel within a technical team environment.
Defined and directed project goals, objectives, critical success factors, milestones, and risks.
Collaborated with customers, partners, and internal constituencies to ensure successful implementation of solutions.
Deployed project-management skills to bring projects under budget, on time, and with superior quality.
Facilitated user interviews to gather requirements and analyzed the requirements.
Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirement from business users and team members.
Conducted highly interactive JAD sessions with projects stakeholders such as users, QA analysts, and project management team, identifying and resolving issues.
Presented progress reports to clients in order to keep them current on the project status.
Coordinated QA and the user acceptance testing of the system with the users.
Conducted gap analysis to show current and proposed functionalities of the system.
Provided remote and onsite support to end users during and post-implementation.
Environment: Windows XP, MS Office, UML, SQL, Rational Rose, Ms Visio, Rational Clear Case.