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An accomplished Lead Business Analyst / Business Consultant with over 10 years of solid professional experience in requirements specifications and management in Financial Sector working with extensive domain knowledge of Capital Markets, Retail Banking & Commercial Banking, Mortgage Lending, Treasury, Wealth Management, Regulatory/Compliance (FATCA, CRS, BASEL II/III), counterparty credit risk, collateral, margin and Comprehensive Liquidity Assessment and Review (CLAR), Mutual Funds, Equities, Options & Derivatives, Fixed Income. Broad range of experience and strengths include: • Extensive knowledge and thorough understanding of various phases of Project Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like inception, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment.• Facilitating JAD Sessions (Joint Application Development)• High proficiency in creation of various scrum master deliverables like, collaboration plan, Epic(s) and Personas, prioritized product backlog, user stories, acceptance criteria, estimate sprints, sprint backlog, sprint burndown chart, managing Scrum Board, lesson learned document.• Documentation of Business and Systems Requirements • Use Case Modelling and Functional Design Specifications (Storyboards) • Expert level documentation skills - Project Charter, Project Plan, High Level Requirements, BRD, SRS, Use Case, Business Implementation Requirements, SRS, Process Maps, Work Flow Diagrams, Requirements Traceability matrix (RTM), Change Requests and user interface design documents.• Impeccable stakeholder management skills achieved through influencing, setting, managing and meeting expectations and collaboration to create winning situations.• Experienced in writing detailed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Strategy, Test Data Management Plan and managed all testing artifacts in HP QC/ALM, utilized the same for test execution and reporting.• Test Planning and Support for QA, SIT and UAT• Extensive knowledge on Swift messaging, ETNs• Experienced in creating Operational Readiness and OCM procedural process documentation for business • Expedite change management plans that minimize employee resistance and maximize employee engagement thus driving faster adoption, utilization and higher proficiency on the changes.