NIKITA GARG, CSM

acym7r@r.postjobfree.com

973-***-****

EXPERTISE HIGHLIGHTS:

Expertise in Business Systems Analysis and Requirements Management

Expertise in all the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, Agile Development and RUP methodology

Experience in documenting user stories

Experience in developing and writing functional business requirement and process flows

Proficient in creating UML Diagrams, Process Modeling and business process flow diagrams via MS Visio

Adapt in creating use case diagrams and activity diagrams using UML to make users and developers understand the system

Experienced in conducting JAD sessions for project definition involving analyzing requirements, creating prototypes, user interface

Experience with requirements gathering, planning, organizing, and change management

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including effective listening, customer orientation, strong presentation skills, and ability to convey complex information in easy to understand terms both in writing and verbally

Detail oriented and dedicated with the ability to create, manage, and maintain relationships at all levels within an organization

Developed implementation aids such as training manuals, and test scripts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

J.P. Morgan – NY Dec 2015 - Present

Product Owner / Business Analyst (Consultant)

Athenaeum is an enterprise document management solution to collectively create, manage, deliver and archive required to drive the business and store image and documents built on vendor tool Marklogic with 85 million+ documents and roughly 60 business groups with around 5000 users.

As one of the product owners:

Define product backlog, author epics and user stories, prioritize requirements, groom backlog, run stakeholder meetings, conducting surveys and creation of application roadmap.

Manage scrum ceremonies with technical feature teams- PBR, Sprint Planning and Sprint reviews.

Improve process used by feature teams. Establish and enforce standards (requirement templates, acceptance criteria.)

Interaction with business across US, Turkey, London, Glasgow, India, China, Singapore to understand their requirements, new on-boardings and discussing with feature teams for its feasibility, solving impediments.

Create process workflows for new on-boarding, discuss with taxonomy, DMO Policy management team.

Determine the correct application to host application as per policy mandate. Help in conducting UAT.

CAPTIS: (Capture Information System) is a strategic document capture system that focuses on providing key services for document and content storage, automated content extraction, image acquisition, quality control, workflow, tagging and management.

As a business analyst:

Interacting extensively with business users across Asia, North America, EMEA and LATAM regions to understand their requirements, participate in JAD sessions and creating as-is and to-be business workflows.

Interaction with remediation team to migrate documents from legacy system.

Working on compliance and regulatory reporting projects.

Creating JIRA’s, prioritizing stories, running PBR calls with feature teams and documentation.

Oskar: Onboarding Sponsorship KYC Analysis and Reporting (OSKAR) is used to generate a mixture of ad-hoc and canned MIS reports from various Reference Data Application like COLT, SKYC Datamart, WCOB, SCOT, AMS, CSP etc. Oskar provides reporting solutions to different streams within Reference Data Technology. The tool provides flexibility to the users to create their own reports, schedule and distribute the data with the desired community.

Responsibilities:

Coordinating with technical team for creation of custom extracts and reports for business users.

Extracting ad-hoc reports for business users from production via GUI or SQLS.

Dollar Financial Group, Berwyn, PA Jan 2012 – Oct 2015

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Interacted extensively with various business groups, stakeholders and users to develop the Vision Document that is aligned with corporate strategic objectives

Documented the “AS-IS” Business Workflows adhering to UML standards

Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions by convening project sponsors, end-user representatives, development team members, subject-matter experts, technical personnel, and different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to consensus

Identified use cases from the functional requirements, wrote use case specifications and created “TO-BE Business Process Workflow” diagrams (activity diagrams) in MS Visio

Created use case diagrams using MS Visio to show interaction between the actors and the use cases as well as to demonstrate the relationship between the use cases

Co-coordinated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the SME’s to make sure that all the business requirements are addressed in the application

Maintained the Traceability Matrix table to uniquely trace the identified business requirements to general design to testing as proof that requirements requested have been developed into a solution and that it has been tested and tracked

Vanguard– Malvern, PA Sep 2010 – Jan 2012

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Performed Business Modeling to understand their current business process and existing application

Identified Use Cases and wrote Use Case Narratives

Worked closely with the development team to help them understand Use Case Narratives

Conducted requirement workshops among all project stakeholders to verify and validate the business requirements

Handled the development of business requirement documents (BRD) resulting from JAD sessions

Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to release multiple iterations of the deliverable over the span of the project lifecycle; propounded early development and base-lining of a robust executable architecture

Created Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams using MS Visio

Assisted QA department to write and execute Test plans and Test Cases

National Penn Bank – Allentown, PA Aug 2009 – Sep 2010

Jr. Business Analyst (Consultant)

Functioned as a primary bridge between the business, operations, and the technical team throughout the project cycle

Involved in understanding current business processes as well as legacy systems

Created As-Is Business Process Models using MS Visio

Responsible for defining Functional Requirement Specifications following the Waterfall Methodology

Designed wire frames and activity diagrams using MS Visio to outline the “To-Be” screens and “To-Be” processes

Conducted requirement walkthroughs with developers and QA team to help them understand the requirements and proactively identified feasibility issues

Involved in creating test cases using HP Quality Center and participated in manual testing

Maintained traceability matrix between requirements and test cases

Conducted bug triage with QA and Development team to go over the defects

EDUCATION:

Scrum Alliance, USA

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

University of California, Berkeley

Certificate in Business Analysis

CFA Institute, USA

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level 3 Candidate

New Delhi, India

Masters of Business Administration- Finance

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