Resume of Business Analyst

Title
Business Analyst

Primary Skills
RUP, SDLC, GAP Analysis, SQL, MS Project, Visio, Excel, Powerpoint, UML, Work Flow, Use Cases, Oracle 8i

Location
US-NY-Jackson Heights (will consider relocating)

Posted
May-06-08

SUMMARY
• Business Analyst with over six years of experience in the Financial Service Industry including Derivatives (Options, Futures, Swaps, Forwards), Bonds, Stocks and Insurance Services industry.
• Expertise in Hedge Funds with more on Financial side.
• Experience in business process engineering with expertise in Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation of software applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Methodologies and Techniques like Waterfall and Iterative. Extensive knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP), design using UML, Rational Rose, and Visio.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, ROI analysis, SWOT analysis and Cost Benefit analysis
• Experience in communicating and working with business users and senior management. Used MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Power Point, Outlook, and Project) for project tracking, documentation, and presentation.
• A solid base in gathering and documenting user and business process analysis and business requirement.
• Experience in process modeling using Use Cases Diagrams and Data Modeling.
• 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.
• Expert in writing complex queries using SQL and PL/SQL.
• Expert level skills in MS Office products like MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Front page, MS Excel and MS Project.
• Strength include organizing JAR, JAD sessions, ROI, GAP and risk analysis, Cost-benefit analysis, facilitated functional design meeting and documenting requirements, use cases, change management, system redesign, implementation.
• Involved in Black-box, Functional, Integration, User-acceptance Testing and defect tracking.
• Experience working in a team oriented environment and contribute effectively as a problem-solver. Attention to details and ability to prioritize tasks along with excellent communication, project management and problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong analytical abilities, and can perform well both independently and as a team player. Facilitated JAD sessions and Interviews. Adept in written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations, e-mails, etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools MS Visio, Rational Rose, UML
Languages C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL
Operating Systems Linux, Windows XP/2000/95/98, Unix
Documentation MS Word, Excel, Rational Requisite Pro
Databases Oracle 8i, SQL Server
Project Management MS Project


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Business Analyst Sept 2006 -- Feb 2008
Project: Investment Performance Measurement Desk New York City, NY
Client: TD Water House, NYC
Project: To design and develop a common Investment Performance Measurement Infrastructure for analyzing the performance of financial securities like Bonds and equities through applying the moving average strategy by computing measures like IRR, Market Value of Investment, Weighted time period, Cumulative investment etc. The system was integrated with the front office, middle office and back office databases to source input data like reference, Historical time series and high frequency market data. A reporting module was integrated with the system to generate reports on each securities group.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzed the current documentation in place and evaluating their use and scalability in developing this system
• Conducted the 'AS IS' study, design of the 'To Be' Processes and also carried out 'Gap Analysis' before Customizing.
• Worked with requirements gathering and produced initial requirements data to produce User Interface and Business Process Requirements
• Integration with existing applications/systems and analyzed the GAP.
• To identify, research, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes
• Used JAD sessions in gathering business requirements from various users and stakeholders to understand the needs of the business and various measure calculation strategies.
• Documented elaborate test scripts covering all the requirements.
• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.
• Managed the Change Control and Defect Processes and used SQL to get data from tables for every defect reporting.
• Created Context Diagrams, Functional Decomposition Diagrams and Dataflow Diagrams.
• Developed Use Case scenarios, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence diagrams
• Assisted database designers by continuous involvement in transition from business data to database design.
• Worked to prioritize tasks and objectives with strong organizational, administrative and analytical skills
• Assisted in preparing the Business and Functional Requirement Specification documents (BRD and FRS)
• Assist with user testing of systems (User Acceptance Testing), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Worked for Disaster Recovery situations.
• Created test plans for Business Continuity.
• Assisted in formulating testing documents like Test Plans, Test Scripts, Traceability matrix and Test summary report
• Involved in performance testing, functional testing and integration testing
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion
• Assisted in preparing the user manual
• Followed the RUP methodology at every stage of system development
• Used MS Project to schedule and track the activities in the project
• Participated in Change Management Control Plan and the Quality Control Plan for the QA team.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, UML, Rational Rose, MS Project, MS Visio, OOAD, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle.

Client: Harris Direct, Jersey City, NJ Jun 2005 -- Aug 2006
Business Analyst

Harris Direct, of Harris wealth management group, is a leading provider of online investing and advisory services to informed investors with long term financial goals as well as third party brokerage services to institutional clients. Harris Direct provides full range of online trading service (E-trading Platform) which includes online stock trading, bond trading, mutual funds, Derivatives (Swaps, Options, Futures, and Forwards), IPO sales etc. The scope of the project was to revamp the web application using HTML and Java which enables potential customers to perform searches for mutual fund performance, stocks ratings, bonds and market performance providing information regarding recent events related to the investments. It provided a clear and complete picture of the client's asset allocation, current investment portfolio, full brokerage capabilities, and access to IPOs, research data and tax and insurance information.
• Facilitated collection of functional requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Led client facilitation meetings to gather requirements (Inception phase), there after assisted tech leads in Analysis & Design of architecture using Visio.
• Participated and facilitated different levels of discussions through JAD sessions, conference calls and business workshops held to plan business strategy.
• Collected and documented business processes as well as business rules. Participated in the identification, understanding, and documentation of business requirements, including the applications capable of supporting those requirements.
• Used MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Power Point, and Project) for project tracking, documentation, and presentation to senior management.
• Used MS project for project management activities. Collaborated with development architect and the business to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet the business needs.
• Facilitated in the overall management of projects including risk analysis and mitigation, status reports, client presentations, defining milestone deliverables and establishing critical success factors.
• Member of the Process Team that was responsible for defining the company's software development process based on Solution Delivery Methodology.
• Facilitated business requirements gathering sessions with the client, and overlooked the creation of Use Cases/Activity Diagrams, Functional Specifications using Visio.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance) Testing.
• Involved deeply with client interaction.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, UML, Rational Rose, MS Project, MS Visio, OOAD, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle
Amica Insurance, PA April2004-- May2005
Business Analyst
Amica Insurance is one among the oldest mutual insurers in the United States. They provide Auto, Home and Life Insurance. Amica's Web Portal incorporates a wide range of features for Policy holders and new customers. Also, I worked for analysis, testing and support of Property and casualty insurance modules.
Responsibilities:
• Attended the seminars and workshops conducted by Amica Financial and understood the working of the different kinds of services they provide like Retirement Savings, Life/Property Casualty Insurance and other commercial and Industrial Insurance.
• Conducted the 'AS IS' study, design of the 'To Be' Processes and also carried out 'Gap Analysis' before Customizing.
• Reviewed and analyzed the business requirements document to derive the functional specifications document
• Configuration for special business process like Consignment stocks management which includes Consignment fill-up, issue and return.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to solve critical issues and to get useful suggestions from the group.
• Used MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Power Point, Outlook, Project) for project tracking, documentation, and presentation.
• Attend weekly change request meetings to document changes and implement procedures to test changes upon completion.
• Developed Use Cases based on the needs of Business Users
• Performed business analysis and use case generation to provide basis for test scenarios, which were used to define test system requirements.
• Used MS Project for project management, managed project resource allocations, planning and status updates to ensure efficient and responsive operations along with senior management
• Wrote various SQL queries for data manipulations.
• Served as the primary interface for the assigned projects and maintained good client relationships
• Facilitate weekly client and team meetings to discuss project status and resolve issues

Roche Inc, Nutley, NJ Apr 2002 -- March 2004
Business Analyst
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Roche), based in Nutley, N.J., is the U.S. prescription drug unit of the Roche Group, one of the worlds leading research-oriented healthcare groups with core businesses in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. The company provides innovative products and services that address prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
The project involved developing new state of the art e-business order management system providing unparallel service and shares its advantage of reduced transaction cost and smooth information flow with business partners. Set up Multi-Enterprise Service Architecture (MESA) which assured reliable exchange of invoice, purchase orders, and other e-business standard documents.
Responsibilities:
? Developed Functional Specification Document for MESA to be set up in a dynamic real time platform allowing instant flow of information without time lag.
? Met with client groups to gather user requirements.
? Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure and develop processes, standards, and procedures.
? Gathered and documented detailed functional specifications and system documentation.
? Interviewed Business Process Owner (BPO), asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both Business people and technical people.
? Involved in conducting JAD sessions with Business and Developer units.
? Communicated with Business Partners on status of issues, action plans, and timeframe for resolution throughout development cycle.
? Reviewed test plans, and test case scenarios for Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
? Implemented a structured system development methodology with emphasis on Rational Unified Process that dramatically improved productivity, reduced errors, and increased morale.
? Followed a structured approach (Traceability Matrix) to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, information needs, and ensure that critical requirements are not missed.
Education
BE - Electronics & Communication, MD University, India
MBA - Finance, Pace University, NY
College Projects
• Financial Analysis of UPS, Black and Decker
• SWOT Analysis of De Beers

Certifications
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