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Saurabh Ratra
Email: saurabh_ratra@yahoo.com
Mob: +917042332206
Career Objective
To obtain a challenging position as Business Analyst in Risk domain that would increase business productivity
of the organization and in turn enhance my competencies.
Professional Summary
 An action orientated and energetic Business Analyst who has an experience in identifying
effective & efficient solution to a business problemin TRM Domain.
 Successfully Completed three end-to-end implementation on trading platform – Endur for
commodities like Coal, Power, Gas etc.
 Experience in co-coordinating with business and IT across all phases of software development life
cycle.
 Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting Business Requirement Documents and Functional
Requirement Specifications.
 Expertise in writing and executing Test scenarios, Test cases,Systemtesting, Regression testing and
maintaining Traceability Matrices for baseline documents.
 Expertise in configuring Active Position Management pages,Handling PNL Detail & Explained
Calculations.
 Gained appreciable knowledge in various functional areas including Front Office – Trade capture,
PNL report analysis with timely utilization of inbuilt simulations.
 Facilitation and elicitation skills.
Professional Experience
Business Analyst – Jan 2015 till Present
Employer’s Name – Sapient Consulting India PVT. Ltd.
Accountable for collecting requirements for various functionalities like Cascading, APM and User Defined
Simulations including PNL Explained, Commodity Delta FX Exposure.
Key Responsibilities
 Performing Impact analysis.
 Working togetherwith the internal development team and the QA team for ensuring the end outcomes
works as expected.
 Engage client to get the requirements and ensure the alignment of QA and dev personnel.
 Acted as a Subject Matter Expert for APM to view various portfolio/desk level results.
 Draft and maintain business requirements and converging the same with Functional and technical
requirements.
 Participates in user acceptance testing programs for Market Risk including both the simulation
handling and the Middle office Exposure Reports.
 Designing test scenario for Regression on each level of trade life cycle i.e FO, MO & BO modules of
the business.
Major Accomplishments
 Awarded with the “You made the difference award” for domain expertise in APM and creation 47
configurable active pages design.
 Got promoted to next level within the least period of time.
 Appreciated by the business users forthe facilitation of monthly status meetings and to find out
potential solutions for the tangible deliverables

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Functional Analyst – July 2013 to Dec 2014.
Employer’s Name – Sapient Consulting India PVT. Ltd.
Accountable for Preparing High level and Detailed Test cases for various business requirements like
Cascading, APM Simulations like Commodity Delta, Physical Coal Nominations using CMotion,
Logging Defects and in Performing Root Cause Analysis for the defects logged during UAT.
Key Responsibilities
 Test Case Preparation and execution.
 Assist defects of the QA team during Full Data Cycles for testing and identifying and prioritizing
critical Functional.
 Negotiated with onsite team based out of Essen/Swindon for different business closures and for
any new Change Request.
 Assist the Release/Build team for all Major and Minor releases, and performing sniff testing on all
the releases.
 Preparing QA test data for different test cycles, script reviews, Defect Tracking and Retesting.
 Coordinating between teams in different geographic locations mostly based out of Essen and
Bangalore.
 Analysis of various customAccounting reports including Risk VAR Reports, PNL/MTM reports
and Nomination Candidate Deal Report.
Major Accomplishments
 One point SME for Cascading of Future products for both Developers and the Client End.
 Recognized to be a part of top 10% performers identified among the campus hire and awarded
with a cash prize of 1.5lkhs.
 Awarded with the rookies award for best Team Player at ETRM Gurgaon Level.
 Successfully completed oxford Princeton and Safari trainings for Trading and Risk Management
and QA.
Technical Skills
Skill Name Skill Level Last Used/Experience
Openlink Endur Proficient Currently used/3years
SQL Intermediate Currently used /1 year
Microsoft Excel Intermediate Currently used /2 years
C++ Beginner Graduation
Functional Expertise
 Presentable knowledge of Trade life cycle for customized and standard instruments .
 Hands on Experience with calculating the future and forward prices of instruments like Futures,
Forwards and Options using different models.
 Generating MTM and PNL figures for different desks/Portfolios and analyzing different risk valuation
reports.
 Working experience with commodities like COAL, GAS, POWER etc.
 Accountable for designing the EOD workflow and analyzing the End of day reports at desk level.
 Basic Knowledge of modelling a new product into Endur as a tool and using that for trade capture.

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Education
Education Category:Fulltime Graduation
Course: B.Tech Geo-Informatics (2009-2013)
University: University of Petroleum & Energy Studies Dehradun.
Geo-Informatics Engineering is a specialized engineering branch which includes the role of using
Remote sensing Techniques in identifying the petroleum reserves,managing logistics, using statistics
for finding out potential oil & Gas reservoirs etc. Successfully Graduated with a CGPA of 3.11 out of
4(equivalent to 82%).
Education Category:Higher Senior Secondary School.
School:Shree Guru Ram Rai Public School Dehradun (2009).
Board/University:Central Board of Secondary Education.
Education Category:Secondary School.
School:Carman Day & Residency School Dehradun (2007).
Board/University:Indian School of Secondary Education.
Additional Information
 Willing to relocate
 Willing to travel up to 50% of the time
 Holding a valid Indian Passport