Summary

Extensive experience for *+ Years as Business Analyst and Sr. Quality Analyst with solid

understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process

Modeling.

4+ Years of Financial domain expertise and excellent exposure and experience with Banking

and Insurance domain application requirements.

Experience on Logical Data Requirements and Physical Data Mapping.

Experience in Asset Liability Management Module, Financial Reporting and Inventory

Management.

Experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications,

including BRD, FRD, SRS.

Certified IBM Mainframes professional.

Certified ISTQB professional

Strong knowledge of UML based methodologies and applications including, Rational Suite,

Rational Rose etc.

Experience in Quality Analysis and documenting test-cases and test-scenarios, interacting

with QA / development teams in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Exceptional Documentation Skills for writing Use Cases, Functional Requirement Documents

(FRD) and Business Requirement Documents (BRD) as well as for creating Use Case diagrams,

Activity diagrams, State diagrams based on UML Methodology, creating traceability matrix

and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio/Rational Rose/Rational Requisite pro.

Proficient in creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams,

Activity Diagrams etc.

Solid understanding of Business Process Flows, Case Tools, Business Analysis and

Performance Analysis.

Extensive knowledge of Traceability Matrices and Data Mapping between customer

requirements and test case.

Excellent communication skills, presentation skills, Business writing skills and a team

player.

Development of Test plans, work allocation sheets based on modular and system design and

preparation of release documents at completion of testing efforts.

Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies particularly RUP, AGILE-SCRUM, Waterfall.

Expertise in soliciting client requirements through interviews, JAD sessions, workshops,

and existing systems documentation and procedures.

Excellent Client relationship management, analytical, problem solving, written, oral

communication, & presentation skills

Basic understanding of Data Warehousing Concepts and ETL Processes.

Solid experience with SQL Server in constructing triggers, tables, user functions, views,

indexes, user profiles, relational database models, data dictionaries, and data integrity

Expertise in working on diverse aspects in project development with outstanding problem

solving and analysis skills.

Expertise in Software development Life cycle SDLC and Software test life cycle.

Experience in preparing the training manual, check lists for scripting best practices,

report generation and presentations.

Experience in working in PL/SQL and Mainframes environment.

Educational Credentials

MBA in Finance, Frank G.Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University, May 2013.

Bachelor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, JNT University May 2007.

Generic Skills

Technical Skills

Automation Tools: HP Mercury Center 10.0, Mercury Interactive Topaz 5.1 - SP1 (Business

Availability Centre)

Server side Operating system: Windows 2003/2000/NT

Client side Operating system: Windows XP, Unix.

Programming Language: C/C++, COBOL

Requirement Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Agile, SDLC

MS Office: Excel, Word, Visio, Power Point.

Databases: My SQL, SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access

Application / Web servers: WebSphere, WebLogic and IIS

Domain and testing Skills:

Complete working knowledge of SDLC and STLC.

Performance, Load, Stress or Volume Testing of different type of applications.

Experience in testing various legacy systems, client server and Citrix application.

Experience working in Finance/Insurance, and Service industry

Functional, Regression, Sanity and User Acceptance Testing.

Performance monitoring of various applications after going to production for SLA and

availability reports.

Professional Experience

Leviton Manufacturing Company Inc., Melville, Business Analyst Intern June 2012- Feb 2013

NY

Company Profile: Electrical Manufacturing Company

Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a manufacturer of electrical wiring devices, data

center connectivity apparatus and lighting energy management systems. It produces

electrical products: light sockets, receptacles, dimmers and other lightning control

systems. Leviton products include over 25,000 devices and systems, used in homes and

businesses. In 2011 Leviton partnered with Ford Motors to produce their ever-green

Electric Vehicle Chargers for Ford Electric Cars

Developed various use cases and Documented BTRD to come up with the front end application

design.

Gathered requirements during inception phase, documented and delivered functional

specification documents, and assisted architecture analysis and design using UML and

Visio.

Creating and updating the test plan.

Performed business analyst functions including: developed business logic, test matrices,

gathered business requirements via JAD and JAR sessions with clients, managed project

plans, resources, assisting developers with problems, documentation specialist and other

users on new processes resulting from Salesforce.com.

Flag the manual test cases, for which creation of automation scripts was required, to be

added to the functional or regression test suite.

Assigned tasks among development team monitored and tracked progress of project following

Agile methodology.

Worked in Agile using Rational Requisite Pro

Assisted with users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), developing and maintaining

quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place

Creating test plans which were mapped to respective Business requirements using test

management tools like Mercury Test Director and Quality Center.

Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with the Project directors and stakeholders.

Extensive use of MS Office tools like MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint MS

Project for data migration in to the CI System Knowledge Data Base in MS Share Point.

Logging and tracking any defects in the application using defect management tools like

Rational Clear Quest and Mercury Test Director.

Royal Bank of Canada, Bangalore, India - Sr. Quality Analyst June 09- Aug 11

iGATE Patni

Company Profile: Banking

RBC is Canada's largest financial service institution. In order to follow the US

Patriot Act, its US branch wanted to update its anti-money laundering (AML) system. RBC

was working on moving one of their core applications from mainframes to a rich web-based

application. The project involved Wealth Management Application which included many

complicated processes from Account opening to Credit Check with much compliance related

requirements. SoX compliance implementations took place during this project.

Involved in project as a QA Lead to understand the business needs and objectives of the

system.

Interacted with users and different teams, involved in the application development for

better development, understanding of the business and IT processes.

Worked with the customer, development team and QA teams to update and improve the QA

process, the SDLC process and the CH Systems process.

Assisted with users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), developing and maintaining

quality procedures, and ensuring that traceability matrix is in place

Analyzed system requirements to create Use Cases, Use Case Scenarios and Business rules.

Used MS Visio to create use cases, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration

diagrams and their interrelationships with Unified Modeling language (UML).

Work with all project participants to ensure that the application being developed meets

the requirements of the customer in terms of quality and schedule.

Involved in the project meetings with the project manager to finalize the QA schedules.

Developed checklists to Verify and ensure that the Functional specifications, Use cases,

UI specifications documents are written in line with the guidelines as specified by the

Client, and that the quality standards as specified.

Experience in performing data analysis, data mapping and used SQL for validating the data.

Analyzed Functional requirements & non-functional, Business requirements from the

functional specifications, Use case documents, and User Interface specifications and

performed white box testing.

Developed guide lines for Planning and writing & reviewing test plan, test cases for

functionality, User Interface, integrations with the other legacy systems & modules.

Maintaining, Monitoring, and documented the behavior of the application in different

phases of Testing.

Coordinating the set-up of QA test environment for different Modules with the release

engineer.

Report on testing progress, scheduling issues and project risks at review meetings and

escalate issues if necessary.

Involved in regression testing by reviewing the source code after each build.

Scanned the results log file, isolated the failures and tabulated the results for further

analysis

To test the system, created manual scenarios by creating groups and specifying scripts.

Responsible for providing Status Reports and Final Report of Testing to the Group Manager.

Union Bank of California (UBOC) - iGATE Patni Quality Analyst/Systems June 07 - May 09

Analyst

Company Banking/Investment

Profile:

UBOC The new system will have the ability to monitor every single transaction, discover

various types of unusual behaviors and alert officials to activities that represent true

risk to the enterprise. The project involves developing a Data Mart using enterprise data

warehouse and watch list as sourcing systems, and an alert reporting system. The new

system gives a single view of the customer's profile incorporating the affiliations and

financial relationships that the account has, thus enabling the behavior detection system

to identify high risk clients and provide corresponding information for AML analyst.

Technology: Rational Rose, Requisite, Rational Clear Case, Visual Studio, RUP, MS

Office Suite, C#.NET, SQL Server, Unix, Windows XP, Test Director, Load

Runner, QTP.

Roles: Quality Analyst

Facilitated discussions involving key stakeholders from both business side and IT side to

elicit high level requirements.

Worked with AML analysts, SMEs and high level regulatory managers to identify data

elements and report types.

Documented reporting system requirements and developed technical specifications.

Handled the internal audits held on a monthly basis with the internal audit team in

coordination.

Co-ordinate with team members, both off shore and onsite to prepare a daily status report

to keep a track of the testing efforts put in by the team.

Prepared the task allocation sheet and the test matrix on a weekly basis.

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