Business Analyst

• Qualified, goal oriented professional with 6+ years  of experience as a Business analyst, working with technical staff to implement business requirements into the software application in the Finance domains.
• Acted as a liaison between the business and the technical team in the areas of Software Design and Development Life Cycle and Web based technologies.
• Extensive Experience in auto mobile and financial domain.
• Excellent understanding of Business Requirements Gathering or Elicitation, Translating Requirements into Specifications and Application Design.
• Experience in developing FRD, BRD, SRS for multiple financial projects
• Created Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Unified Modeling Language (UML)to provide better view of the project to the stakeholders.
• Excellent understanding of Data services, Data ETL using SQL query tools and applications.
• Created business rules, business vision document, business glossary and implementation up to functional and technical specifications.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint Application Requirements (JAR) sessions with end users, SMEs, and stakeholders.
• Defects tracking prioritized outstanding defects in reporting system. Co-ordinated between development team and the management team to resolve any conflicts/defects in terms of requirements.
• Proficient in conducting Business process modeling (BPM), feasibility studies, Impact Analysis, Cost/Benefit analysis, Gap Analysis and Risk analysis.
• Experience creating DDL scripts for implementing Data Modeling changes
• Hands on experience in Waterfall, Agile (scrum) methodologies and thorough understanding of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA&D) concepts.

Responsibilities:
• Requirement gathering with the business team and Product owners based on the scope of the Project
• Involved in Data Modeling (Logical and Physical Design of Databases), Normalization and building Referential Integrity Constraints
• Bridge the gap between Users and Technical resources from the start to the finish of Projects.
• Making new recommendations to business through Flow Charts, Power point, and excel reports.
• Assist in develop frame work, approaches, and process using well designed requirements or user stories, supporting screenshots and documentation.
• Formulate and define project scope and objectives using knowledge of information technology and industry knowledge or requirements
• Validate XML files using XML Notepad to ensure data type and data formats aligns with the XSD Schema validation rules
• Debug any issues encountered in the XML files to find out the cause of errors and work with corresponding teams to resolve the issues
• Writing, testing and executing SQL queries to access data from database
• Develop acceptance criteria that can be easily adapted to modern commercial rules engines and structured in a manner that is scalable and sustainable.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and Information Technology team, using strong communication skills to elicit, document, analyze and validate business process, systems and solution requirements.
• Used Command Line tools SQL*PLUS for writing Complex SQL Queries and export, import
• Direct or participate in studies of new and existing programs and special projects to determine feasibility, resolution of problems including organizational, procedural, technical and fiscal research and analysis.
• Used Agile software development methodology in defining the problem, gathering requirements, developing iterations, business modelling and communicating with the technical team for development of the system.
• Assisting the application team in determination and clarification of business data requirements and also identified problems at the data modeling/design level and recommend solution to problems.
• Develop policies and procedures to improve efficiency, cost - effectiveness, and / or to improve internal and external customer service.
• Assist with use case development and ensure that development team understand and incorporate business requirements in their development
• Expertise in developing and maintain overall Test Methodology and Strategy, Documenting Test plans, Test Cases, executing Tests Cases and Test Scripts based on baseline requirements
• Review and provide written comments for deliverable designed by the development team and ensure the deliverables address all business and functional requirements as expected.

• Assisted with online banking issues such as error messages or technical troubleshooting.
• Attended weekly line of business status meetings and provided status reports.
• Strong record for delivering on IT and Non-IT projects for Home Lending / Mortgage Banking, including process improvement, strategic projects, Government projects, audit / risk projects, modification solicitation programs, and reporting requirements with primarily waterfall methodology.
• Maintaining functional relationships with various business unit stakeholders in order to gather information, understand stakeholder interests, and managing their expectations.
• Identifying subject-matter experts from business users' end and driving the product backlog meetings. Generating user stories with the business users.
• Participated in functional design sessions, creates and executes SQL test scripts, and aids in the solution of data issues.
• Created Logical/Physical Data models in 3NF in the Warehouse area of Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Performed Impact Analysis to determine the impact of the enhancement on the business and organization.
• Documented the requirements to meet end-state requirements and complied Business Specification Document, Software Requirement Specification Document and Use Case document
• Performed SWOT and GAP Analysis to discover new functionality requirements, prioritized them based on actual business needs. Involved in Risk Analysis and auditing business processes.
• Effectively handling sign off process with stake holders at different levels and executing good conflict resolution approaches.

Business Analyst (Intern)

• Assisted with online banking issues such as error messages or technical troubleshooting.
• Attended weekly line of business status meetings and provided status reports.
• Strong record for delivering on IT and Non-IT projects for Home Lending / Mortgage Banking, including process improvement, strategic projects, Government projects, audit / risk projects, modification solicitation programs, and reporting requirements with primarily waterfall methodology.
• Maintaining functional relationships with various business unit stakeholders in order to gather information, understand stakeholder interests, and managing their expectations.
• Identifying subject-matter experts from business users' end and driving the product backlog meetings. Generating user stories with the business users.
• Performed Impact Analysis to determine the impact of the enhancement on the business and organization.
• Documented the requirements to meet end-state requirements and complied Business Specification Document, Software Requirement Specification Document and Use Case document
• Performed SWOT and GAP Analysis to discover new functionality requirements, prioritized them based on actual business needs. Involved in Risk Analysis and auditing business processes.
• Effectively handling sign off process with stake holders at different levels and executing good conflict resolution approaches.

• Working with clients to develop individual financial plans for their savings, retirement investments and personal insurances plans. Catering their financial needs and services.
• Branding the bank products and services to onboard new clients.
• Spending much of the time in marketing the business and onboarding new clients.
• Working as a Floor Manager managing subordinates and guiding them to achieve the targets.
• Manage customer record and KYC of branch and region to update with central bank.
• Cross selling of banks products such as credit cards and car finance.
• Develop and maintain deep understanding of customer's financial condition and needs.

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