This document summarizes the experience and qualifications of a Business Analyst with over 5 years of experience in banking and financial services. The analyst has significant experience preparing business reports, defining requirements, assessing problems and developing solutions, managing projects under tight timelines, and performing gap analyses and writing RFPs. Their education includes an M.S. in Software Engineering and B.E. in Computer Science, and they have certifications in SQL Server and healthcare IT.

1. Profile:
Business Analyst with over 5+ years of professional experience in the IT industry. Having
extensive experience as a Business Analyst in Banking and Financial Services domain.
Performed multiple functions that have enabled customer efforts in aligning with their
business and technology strategy involving business intelligence and management skills
with high standards .
Experience Summary:
 Significant Contribution to the preparation of Business Systems Analysis report
,Business Systems Design report , Test Plan report, Project Plan, Project Sizing,
Estimation and Phase-wise Resource Planning for the project.
 Defining the functional requirements for monitoring the merchant risk exposure
for domestic and international markets for large Financial Services, Cards and
payments.
 Assessed and analyzed problem definition and developed strategic solutions by
Involving in gathering, extraction of integrated data and developed several
comprehensive data views and metrics.
 Worked on functional defects which enable to check the BRD's and clarified the
queries on existing/new functionality and respond to Development/Testing team
on the analyzed defect.
 Experienced in managing critical issues under stringent timelines and took
responsibility for end-to-end functional process documents for risk mitigation.
 Performed gap analysis, written request for proposals(RFP’s) by addressing
business requirements by applying re-engineering, software application
integration concepts with use of multi-media and interactive system solutions.
Education / Certifications:
M.S Software Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science
(BITS), Pilani
B.E(Computer science)
Rajalakshmi Engineering College,
Chennai
Microsoft Sequel Server-2008
(Certified – MCP)
Cognizant Certifications:
AHM 250 -Introduction to Managed
Health care
MMIS-L0 Health Enterprise
Core Competencies:
Business Analysis and Requirements
Gathering
Gap Analysis and RFP’s (request for
proposals)
Use Case Design for Business Scenarios
Documentation of functional and Non-
functional Business requirements
Quality Reviews by Functional Unit
Testing & Defect Fixing
Geography/Countries:
Chennai, India
Business Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Gowdhaman Srinivasan