Project Development
Resume:
Aditi Chaudhuri
E-Mail: *******@*****.***
Cell : 732-***-****
OBJECTIVE
To contribute to the Business Analysis, Design & Development of enterprise level information systems for software applications that support excellence in related organizational activities and client focused systems. Over 5 years of diverse progressive experience in Information Technology, with emphasis on Business Analysis and Software Development. Expertise in working with Business Analysis, Business Processes, Business Process Models, Business Flow Diagrams and Business Requirement Documents.
CAREER SUMMARY
• Experience in creating and maintaining the Requirements definition documents that included
Business requirements and Functional requirements
• Extensive success in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Experienced with all the phases of SDLC throughout the project life cycle in Rational Unified Process (RUP) environment and the creation of artifacts and management of various roles specified by RUP.
• Solid background in Software Development Life Cycle methodologies such as the Traditional Waterfall Model as well as iterative approach to software development.
• Expertise in requirement analysis and designing Use Cases.
• Proficient in creating Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams etc.
• Ability to gather business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions utilizing a variety of software tools.
• Strong experience in Requirements elicitation techniques - conducting user interviews and JAD sessions and managing the requirements.
• Highly analytical in developing the methods and measures to meet requirements and solve any issues that arise during the project.
• Facilitating JAD sessions with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements
• Strong Documentation Skills for writing Use Cases and Functional Requirement Documents as well as for creating Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, State diagrams based on UML Methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio/Enterprise Architect/ Rational Rose.
• Writing specifications for enhancements by using existing legacy system documentation and procedures.
• Defining Test Cases, creating Test Scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with QA / dev teams in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experience in assisting the Development team during construction periods and assisting the QA team in test case design and performing UAT and provide presentations to the business team.
• Team player, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent communication skills with strong research capability.
• Understanding of PL/SQL,SQL queries, ORACLE Procedures, stored procedures, functions, packages
• Knowledge of Fixed Income in Mortgage Backed Securities, Security Master.
SKILLS
Methodology : Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall method, agile
Business Analysis : Enterprise Architect 7.0, Rational Rose 2002, MS Visio 2003,
Tools : Rational Requisite Pro., Aqua Data Studio, Axure
Team Skills : Coordinating, Facilitating, Project Tracking, Summarizing and
Reporting.
Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 98, Windows NT/2000/XP
Applications : Microsoft Office Suite 2003 (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint), Enterprise
Architect 7.0, Rational Requisite Pro, Axure. Unix
Database : Oracle 9.x/8.x/10.x, Sybase 12.x/15.x
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pershing Jan 2011 - Present
Business Analyst/QA
Pershing is one of the largest clearing firms. The project was for Securities Master(PROM) in the RDQA group which was responsible for maintaining security information using a mainframe system called PROM. The system received security information from various vendor files like S&P, JJK, VADS to update security information. Projects were initiated to enhance the system as well as to fix bugs for the PROM system. I was also involved in another effort for the Account Services under RDQA. The system netx 360, used by the clients and internal users to make all requests. The Account service customizes client accounts for compliance purposes.
Responsibilities:
• Conducted JAD sessions with traders and front office application support to understand and resolve new and open requirements and issues.
• Involved in preparation of AS-IS and TO-BE Business and System Process Maps.
• Remained available to the development team for any kind of clarification about the legacy system.
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Assisted QA team in creating Test Cases and worked closely with the Testing Team to help them understand Test Cases and answer any questions related to the business.
• Was part of the QA team to create and Test scenarios, Test Plans and Test Cases based on user requirements and functional specifications.
• Held weekly meeting with the development and testing team to relay any changed requirements.
• Assisted with User Acceptance Testing, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
Environment: MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, Sybase, Aqua Data Studio, HP Quality Center.
Citigroup July 2009 – Dec 2010 Business Analyst
The project was to enhance two existing legacy systems for better productivity in the current system as well as working on the system to replace the old ones. The system MDTS(Mortgage Desk Trading System) was used for trading Mortgage Backed Securities mainly TBA s. This was connected to another system called COMPASS that mainly did CMOs (Collateralized Mortgage Obligation). System was mainly used by traders to trade mortgage backed securities, the system was also used to match positions, generate daily reports which were used as feeds for other systems, and settle class days.
Responsibilities:
• Conducted JAD sessions with traders and front office application support to understand and resolve new and open requirements and issues.
• Understand the current system by doing JAD session with end users like traders, front office application support and developers.
• Involved in preparation of AS-IS and TO-BE Business and System Process Maps.
• Designed and developed Use Cases and UML models using RUP.
• Modeled the detailed design of the system using UML and Rational Rose, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and State Diagrams.
• Remained available to the development team for any kind of clarification about the legacy system.
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Assisted QA team in creating Test Cases and worked closely with the Testing Team to help them understand Test Cases and answer any questions related to the business.
• Partnered with QA team to create and Test scenarios, Test Plans and Test Cases based on user requirements and functional specifications.
• Held weekly meeting with the development and testing team to relay any changed requirements.
• Assisted with User Acceptance Testing, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Writing PL/SQL queries and easy stored procedures to extract data for clarification using joins.
Environment: UML, Use Case Analysis, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, Sybase, Aqua Data Studio, Requisite Pro.
Pfizer Feb 2008 – June 2009
Business Analyst
Pfizer Inc, caters to both clinical and non-clinical Research and development activities
including IT services. The IT division in which I was working was that for Pfizer IT Finance
division. The module name was Capital Reporting, which use to gather data from various
sources and various divisions and consolidate them on one single Oracle data warehouse.
Datastage and PL/SQL were primarily used for the ETL (Extract Transform and Load) purposes
and Business Objects was primarily used for generating Capital Budgeting Reports.
Responsibilities:
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) Sessions for communicating and managing expectations
• Helped developing the specification documents to replace hardcopy based reporting with excel/VBA
• Involved in QA/Test team for changes to the production environment within each monthly run.
• Perform Business Analyst function to ensure market definitions are accurate for 22 therapeutic classes supported aligned to 19 Sales Force spanning the whole of USA.
• Act as primary liaison to NDC and IMS Health for receipt of Retail, Mail Order, and Long Term Care datasets
• Liaison between Sales Operations/ Data Integrity organization to gather new reporting requirements and report project status updates
• Schedule files transfer and are distributed to the sales force
• Scheduled work with source systems and Information Architecture team to define data formats
• Involved in the overall System Analysis, Requirement specifications and design of the system
• Actively involved in QA of the system. Generated Unit and Integrated tests on the system
• Gathered user feed back to help developers understand possible performance enhancement of the reports
• Developed complex Sales Reporting specification
• Created Production turnover and user documentation for the TCR application
Environment: UML, Use Case Analysis, MS Visio, Enterprise Architect, MS Office.
Murex N.A. Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
Business Analyst
Murex develops cutting edge solutions for the world’s top financial institutions, hedge funds, asset managers and corporations. Their software is used to price, analyze and manage client’s financial transactions for foreign exchanges, interest rates, equities, commodities, inflation and credit derivatives. Their product, MX.3 are customized to address global trading, risk management and processing requirements across asset classes. The software MX.3 has several functionality, like it features the Structured Trade Builder (STB), a pricing and structuring framework covering all products and providing ability to define new structures on the fly. It also provides portfolio management functions for analysis and hedging. MX.3 features a generic risk viewer to create panels adapted to given activities. An FX derivatives trader panel may show net positions, overall position by equity, with a further breakdown by product type including stocks, convertibles and asset swaps.
Responsibilities:
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) Sessions for communicating and managing expectations
• Responsible for creating functional and Business Requirements Documents for different projects.
• Responsible for creating business artifacts such as the Project Scope & Objective Document, Functional Design Documents, Use Cases.
• Produced System Diagrams, Business Requirements, Report Specifications, Workflows and other documentations as required for Project Analysis, Planning and Design.
• As a liaison between the developers and management, was instrumental in clarifications between clients and technical development teams
• Identified Use Cases and created Use Case and Wireframe using MS Visio
• Followed the UML based methods using MS Visio to create Business flow diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, State diagrams.
• Facilitating daily requirements review calls, live meeting sessions with development team to provide an understanding of the current business processes
• Worked with the technical Test Scripts, Configuration and Management Plan documents
• Facilitating the UAT with the business users and providing feedback to the Development team
• Provide training to clients
• Set up test environment for client support and Demo
• Prepared and Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Expected Results, and coordinated the tests with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements
Environment: MS Visio, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, Sybase, Aqua Data Studio
Nomura Holding Americas Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Jr. Business Analyst
The Nomura Group, one of the largest global investment banking and securities firms, is represented in the Americas by Nomura Holding America Inc. (NHA). NHA's focus in four major divisions - Equities, Fixed Income, Asset Management, Investment Banking, which work with Nomura worldwide to enhance distribution of products and services.
Responsibilities:
• Understand the current system by doing JAD session with end users like traders, front office application support and developers.
• Involved in preparation of AS-IS and TO-BE Business and System Process Maps.
• Designed and developed Use Cases and UML models.
• Worked on EUC (End User Computing) remediation project of Equity & Fixed Income component. As-Is applications was developed using Access and EXCEL that need to remediate using ETL
• Analyzed the business processes to calculate Profit and Loss report the Equity and Fixed Income Division. All the PnL reports were developed in Access & Excel.
• Assisted ETL developer in providing all the test data and resource information.
• Worked on developing and writing detail Test Cases and Test Scripts using manual and automated testing
• Provided all required documentation and flowchart of newly created StockLoan PnL process
• Developed and wrote Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts to perform User Acceptance Test (UAT)
• Writing PL/SQL queries to extract data for clarification using joins.
Environment: UML, Use Case Analysis, MS Visio, Enterprise Architect, MS Office.
EDUCATION:
MS in computer Science from NJIT with 3.75 GPA
Bachelors in Commerce and Accounting from Calcutta University, India with First Class
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