Business Analyst Resume Example Sun Trust Bank

BUSINESS ANALYST

Career Focus

Highly motivated enterprising business management professional with strong leadership qualities ,intense global curiosity with diverse industry background.

Summary of Skills

Operating System: Windows, UNIX
Language: SQL, C, Visual Basic, HTML
Database: Oracle SQL, Server, TOAD
CM Tools: SVN, Clear Quest

Software Testing Tools: JIRA, ALM, QTP, Quality Center, Load Runner and Clear Quest

Accomplishments

Organizational Development

Assessed accounting system structures and converted acquired company's accounting system to PeopleSoft.

Professional Experience

Sun Trust BankJune 2013 to July 2014Business Analyst

In-depth knowledge of creating use cases, functional design specifications, activity diagrams, logical, component and deployment views to extract business process flow.
Extensively used rational tools for UML, tracking and reporting and applied the Rational Unified process in all areas of a software development life cycle.
Interviewed SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
Conducted JAD sessions, created Use Cases, work flows, screen shots and Power Point presentations for the Web Applications.
Gathered and documented Non-functional requirements.
Experienced in preparing Business Process Re-engineering Models.
Conducting requirement gathering sessions, feasibility studies and Impact Analysis and organizing the software requirements in a structured way using Rational RequisitePro to track development.
Interacting regularly with the development team, creative services, database designer, system administrator and the higher management to meet the deadlines of Project milestones.
Gathered requirements, organized team meetings requirements from business users such as insurance policy managers, generated business process models, & use-case models, and created business requirements document (BRD) & functional requirements document (FRD).
Analyzed Business Requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
Facilitated joint application development (JAD) sessions acting as a facilitator between various teams.
Implemented requirement gathering & management using Rational RequisitePro, and business intelligence tools.
Conducted initial JAD session with business users, managers, system architects, data administrators, requirement auditors, production planners, and trainers for creating high-level process model of business.
Developed Project Status metrics for weekly evaluation of Project Status and impact of the Change Request on the Time line.
Contributing to software process-reengineering efforts aimed at evolving current software development practices to adopt Lean/Agile and Scrum practices.
Assisted in the development, design and implementation of new relational or multi-dimensional databases, including the analysis of user needs.
Created workflow diagrams, flowcharts, activity diagrams, and use-case diagrams using MS Visio.
Understood the business logic, user requirements, and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases, and use-case scenarios.
Co-authored business requirements specification (BRS), use-case specifications, traceability mapping / matrix, and systems requirement specification (SRS) with the business group, and the IT team members.
Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Unit testing and System testing.
Assisted in developing test scenarios, test scripts and test data to support unit and system integration testing.
Gap in Employment due to immigration from Africa to USA**.

STANBIC BANK AFRICANovember 2009 to June 2011Business Analyst

Involved in all phases of software development life cycle in RUP framework.
Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners & stake holders and document analysis, represented them in requirements traceability matrix (RTM) using Requisite Pro.
Performed user interviews and JAD sessions.
Documented the AS IS and TO BE business processes.
Made recommendations for Process improvement.
Developed initial drafts and narratives for Financial Reporting Data Storage Systems.
Assessed the flaws in the existing as-is system and made clear recommendations of Business process improvements and BPR, incorporated them in the future to-be system design.
Wrote user requirements specification (URS) and Functional requirements specification (FRS) documents as per the business requirements and process flow.
Designed and developed project templates based on SDLC Methodology.
Developed UML Use Cases for the application using Rational Rose and prepared the detailed work flow diagram based on the proposed enhancement for the system.
Performed gap analysis to compare the existing system with the proposed system and documented new requirements and features.
Responsible for Control Validation to ensure that the logic desired by the Business and the financial analysts has been correctly interpreted and applied by the ETL team into the Financial Reporting system.

Standard Chartered Bank GhanaNovember 2008 to November 2009Business Analyst /QA

Gathered, analyzed, documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate the needs of the business stakeholders.
Conducted user interviews and documented business and functional requirements.
Performed Requirement Analysis and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose.
Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data.
Analyzed the existing claims process and specific business rule logic will be applied in the ACP model.
Involved in creating business processes and modeling diagrams using Rational Unified Process (RUP).
Created use case scenarios and documented work flow and business process using Rational Rose.
Involved in project management using MS Project.
Documented requirements associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements with Use cases.
Responsible for creating test scenarios, scripting test cases using testing tool and defect management for Policy Management Systems, Payables/Receivables and Claims processing.
Involved with all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout theproject life cycle.
Served as conduit for managing system requirements between the business and the software development team.
Involved in UAT, test plans, and documentation of test reports.

Education

University of Ghana LegonMay 2009Bachelor: Business Administration (Accounting)Accra, Ghana

Business Administration (Accounting)

Skills

.NET, Agile, application development, BPR, business intelligence, Business process, business processes, Business Process Re-engineering, C, client, data modeling, databases, Database, documentation, ETL, feasibility studies, features, financial, Financial Reporting, Functional, HTML, insurance, Load Runner, logic, managing, meetings, MS office, Power Point, MS Project, Windows, modeling, Operating System, Oracle SQL, organizing, Payables, presentations, process-reengineering, Process improvement, project management, QTP, Quality, Quest, Rational Rose, reporting, Requirement, RUP, Rational Unified Process, SDLC, scripting, scripts, Software Development, Software Testing, specification, SQL, structured, system administrator, system design, system integration, TOAD, UML, UNIX, Validation, Visio, Visual Basic, Web Applications, workflow

Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

Sun Trust Bank
STANBIC BANK AFRICA
Standard Chartered Bank Ghana

School Attended

University of Ghana Legon

Job Titles Held:

Business Analyst
Business Analyst /QA

Degrees

Bachelor : Business Administration (Accounting)

Business Analyst Resume Example

Resume Score: 90%

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