Gaurav Jain

Current

• Business Analyst/Project Manager at Roehampton University

Past

• Business Analyst/Project Manager at PPL
• Business Analyst/Project Manager at ABN AMRO
• Business Analyst at ABN AMRO

• Business Analyst/Data Analyst at Fortis
• Data /Business Analyst at HDFC Bank
• Junior Business Analyst at ICICI Prudential
• Junior Business Analyst at Reliance Retail

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Education

• Birmingham International College

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Gaurav Jain’s Experience

• Business Analyst/Project Manager

  Roehampton University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  May 2009 — Present (9 months)

• Business Analyst/Project Manager

  PPL

  (Non-Profit; Music industry)

  October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)

  • Worked in partnership with key Business Users, identified potential ways of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of current business operations
  • Undertook detailed analysis (incorporating application, process, function, data and organization) of possible system solutions and ensured key business users understand and agree with defined requirements and priority. Responsible for identifying possible RFC’s and logging the changes.
  • Strongly represented the interests of business users by helping to keep the projects focused on meeting business needs and realizing business benefits
  • Ensured that business change requirements of project implementation are highlighted to the wider business community and put forwarded suggestions to address them.
  • Ensured projects delivered effective solutions to business requirements within agreed time, cost and quality constraints
  • Build and maintained strong working relationships with project stakeholders including key business users and external suppliers
  • Ensure that the change management system and associated documentation is kept up to date with the details and status of each RFC
  • Defined the project scope, cost and time scales and managed resources as required in the execution of project responsibilities
  • Responsible for setting up QA procedures, process for testing the applications and products involving different types of testing and the associated documents and test cases and signoff documents.
  • Helped in developing QA Test plans for Functional, Integration and System Testing
  • Enhanced the Test Scripts by introducing the conditional statements and checkpoints for GUI, Functionality and Regression Testing.
  • Responsible for creating complete test cases of varying complexity, executing tests, comparing expected and actual results
  • Assist and guide project teams to implement and document standards, procedures, artifacts, and plans consistent with QA and Test deliverables for the project team

• Business Analyst/Project Manager

  ABN AMRO

  (Public Company; ABN; Banking industry)

  September 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  •Project Management for Risk based systems for Equities & Fixed Income divisions across all asset classes.
  •Applied RUP methodology, created storyboards and conducted brainstorming sessions to understand the client specifications and requirements
  • Documented the business process through Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Specification Document
  • Extensively created use cases and activity diagrams using Rational Rose
  • Analyzed the various kinds of risks that had to be accounted such as the Market Risk and Credit risk.
  • Modeled the risks in Excel Spreadsheet and performed sensitivity analysis and shared this document with the Traders and the technical team to facilitate more efficient communication
  • Involved in Gap analysis around the identification of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, requirements and assumptions.
  • Responsible for setting up QA procedures, process for testing the applications and products involving different types of testing and the associated documents and test cases and signoff documents.
  • Helped in developing QA Test plans for Functional, Integration and System Testing
  • Enhanced the Test Scripts by introducing the conditional statements and checkpoints for GUI, Functionality and Regression Testing.
  • Prepared project documentation (proposals, SOWs, etc.) and data deliverables.
  •Coordinated work plan along with client using Microsoft Project, implemented and managed migration process and developer fixes, retested fixes, scheduled and tracked progress for team members of project through completion.
  • Develop project schedule based upon work breakdown structure (WBS), project milestones, dependencies, and project deliverables using MS Project 2003.
  • Coordinated the execution of Test Scripts validations to Business Unit requirements.
  • Ran risk assessment and mitigation strategies for contracts.

• Business Analyst

  ABN AMRO

  (Public Company; ABN; Banking industry)

  July 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  • Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including context, dataflow and decomposition diagrams.
  • Defined the data sources, data loads and data transformation using ER Diagrams. Used MS-Visio for model diagrams, MS-Word for documentation and used Unified Modeling Language for visual modeling.
  • Authored Data Flow diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Business Process models with special detail to Sub-Processes.
  • Developed a logical Integration model detailing the flow of information through the various components, including definition of external and internal message contents.
  • Developed an overall Logical Information Model for the architecture. This incorporates the reporting needs for Business, Clients and Corporate users.
  • Designed message formats, queues, systems interfaces, and worked with the business Users though interviews and JAD sessions.
  • Analyzed, collected and prepared user requirements, definition, scope and expectations for deliverable plans. Delivered system documents, processes, diagrams, and test cases.
  • Worked closely with teams of BAs, developers and testers throughout the entire development life cycle to elicit and manage requirements using Requisite Pro.
  • Written various technical manuals, help files, in-depth user training manuals, enhancement modules and product demo scripts and modules to prepare a detailed documentation of the product features
  • Used ERWin as a tool to define Activity flow diagrams in conjunction with UML diagrammatic representation to define various levels of data and control flow.
  • Responsible for creating complete test cases of varying complexity, executing tests, comparing expected and actual results, and reporting status ensuring accurate coverage of requirements and business rules.

• Business Analyst/Data Analyst

  Fortis

  (Public Company; FORB; Banking industry)

  September 2004 — June 2005 (10 months)

  • Interacting with users for verifying user requirements, managing change control process, updating existing documentation
  • Performing extensive data analysis and validations while creating reports from the SNAP application.
  • Involved in requirement gathering, analysis of the requirements from the business owners and users.
  • Planned and defined Use Cases, created Use Case diagrams, Scenarios and Use Case Narratives
  • Creating RTM (Requirements traceability matrix), mapping Requirements to Design Artifacts to SIT Cases to UAT Cases.
  • Creating Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams in MS VISIO
  • Analyzing, creating and formatting the Business Requirement Report
  • Performing report validation writing SQL queries using TOAD on an Oracle database.
  • Carried out the data migration of the data, extracted, loaded and cleaned the different operational database sources.
  • Involved with end user meetings to get requirements for new builds of the existing system
  • Involved in Configuration Management, Requirement management and analysis
  • Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including context, dataflow and decomposition diagrams.
  • Authored Data Flow diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Business Process models with special detail to Sub-Processes.
  • Developed a logical Integration model detailing the flow of information through the various components, including definition of external and internal message contents.
  • Analyzed, collected and prepared user requirements, definition, scope and expectations for deliverable plans. Delivered system documents, processes, diagrams, and test cases.
  • Analyzed the firewall security and authentication requirements and coordinated with the solution architect team and developers to implement system requirements.
  • Worked closely with teams of BAs, developers and testers throughout the entire development life cycle to elicit and manage requirements using Requisite Pro.

• Data /Business Analyst

  HDFC Bank

  (Public Company; Banking industry)

  December 2003 — August 2004 (9 months)

  • Worked with the PM and PDU (Program Development Unit) to create Project Charter, which covered high level objectives of the work to be done, strategic fit, key success factors and scope of the project.
  • Conducted a walkthrough session of the scope document to ensure that the project sponsors and stake holders understand the project scope and any associated constraints, risks and issues as early as possible.
  • Conducted the Functional Requirements and User Requirements Specification reviews and walkthroughs with designers, developers and stakeholders
  • Prepared a package of Process Flow diagrams to document the existing system and used UML notations for Object Oriented Design and Documentation
  • Assisted designing and developing workflow diagrams for different modules using Rational Rose
  • Responsible for identifying gaps in the software between core functionality and user defined requirements
  • Testing performed on a data warehouse platform, including data integrity and data validation
  • Data Analysis and Data validation was done by writing complex SQL queries using TOAD for the ORACLE database.
  • Worked with SQL and Corporate Data Warehouse systems for arranging Loan Data and Program Rules to build internal reports
  • Developed Data mapping documents for Data-Mart.
  • Provide estimates on Change Requests for Analysis, Development and Testing
  • Coordinated with Business Users and Development for setting up Test Environment, Test Data and Backend Interfaces
  • Assist and guide project teams to implement and document standards, procedures, artifacts, and plans consistent with QA and Test deliverables for the project team
  • Mentored QA Team by looking into different technical problems with development and helped them prioritize Testing tasks
  • Analyzed test progress and send weekly progress reports to the Project Manager.
  • Actively trained Business Users involved in UAT and helped them understand UAT procedure.

• Junior Business Analyst

  ICICI Prudential

  (Privately Held; Insurance industry)

  October 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 2 months)

  • Interacting with users for verifying user requirements, managing change control process, updating existing documentation
  • Performing extensive data analysis and validations while creating reports from the SNAP application.
  • Involved in requirement gathering, analysis of the requirements from the business owners and users.
  • Planned and defined Use Cases, created Use Case diagrams, Scenarios and Use Case Narratives
  • Creating RTM (Requirements traceability matrix), mapping Requirements to Design Artefacts to SIT Cases to UAT Cases.
  • Creating Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams in MS VISIO
  • Analyzing, creating and formatting the Business Requirement Report
  • Performing report validation writing SQL queries using TOAD on an Oracle database.
  • Participating in weekly meetings with developers and business units to discuss outstanding technical issues and deadlines that had to be met
  • Involved with end user meetings to get requirements for new builds of the existing system
  • Involved in Configuration Management, Requirement management and analysis

• Junior Business Analyst

  Reliance Retail

  (Public Company; Retail industry)

  November 2000 — September 2002 (1 year 11 months)

  • Interviewed clients to understand their business and functional requirements, gathering their future needs and transforming them to functional specifications.
  • Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specifications.
  • Used UML notations for Object Oriented Design and Documentation
  • Coordinated with the System Analyst and the Project Manager to setup the pre-validation and Validation environment to execute the scripts.
  • Involved in UML, designed Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State Diagram for project documentation.
  • Involved in integration of transaction data to ERP systems like SAP and Oracle.
  • Used RUP in the Business Modeling phase of the project
  • RUP process model was used for the different phases of the application development of the Software Development Life Cycle.
  • Conduct daily build validation and report status to product and QA team. Involved in meetings and walkthroughs. Responsible for weekly status.
  • Recommended and coordinated development efforts and enhancements

Gaurav Jain’s Education

• Birmingham International College

  MBA , Finance/IT/Marketing

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•    The Business Analysis Group
•    The Project / Programme Managers Group

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