Deepa Shah

I have experience of 5 Plus years as Business Systems Analyst and Business Analyst in Wealth Management, Capital Markets and Banking. Excellent written and oral skills enabling me to communicate clearly, precisely and specifically to the business requirement derived from the organization and stakeholders. Ability to comprehend a given situation and taking it forward to its logical conclusion, thereby ensuring bottom line growth in terms of profits.

• Professional knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, Agile and Scrum
• Skilled in requirement gathering, documenting User Stories, Use cases, Business requirement Documents BRD, Functional Requirements Document FRD, Software Requirements Document SRD
• Experienced in using tools like MS Visio for Unified Modelling Language UML diagrams like Workflow diagrams, Use case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Mind-mapping.
• Specialized in Agile and Waterfall methodologies with Financial Analysis (Wealth Management and Risk Management) skills.
• Experienced in facilitating JAR/JAD Sessions with project leaders and stakeholders.
• Worked with UX/UI professionals for front end interface development. 
• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Highly developed knowledge & skills in requirements management (gathering, analysing, refining and prioritizing requirements and their delivery).
•  Good knowledge & experience in data analysis and creating user interface wireframes/prototypes using MS Visio Professional.
• Extensive experience in GAP Analysis and Process Mapping 
• Expert in Jira and Confluence for capturing User stories, Acceptance and Evaluation criteria.
• Familiar with FIX (Financial Information exchange) connectivity solutions for trading systems in capital markets.
• Experienced in enhancing internal applications to comply with FINTRAC, STR (Suspicious Transaction Reporting), and LCTR (Large Cash Transaction Reporting) regulations.
• I understand and can provide information on various financial concepts and regulations, including Potential Future Exposure Calculation using CEM, Collateral Management, Regulatory Netting Based on Netting Agreements, Financial Netting – CME and LCH, BASEL III, OSFI Regulations, RMR, Volker and Canadian Securities Institution.
• Worked on Scrum activities like daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, sprint and backlog grooming, retrospective sprint review, decomposing EPICs into smaller user stories to be completed in single sprint.
• Worked with Quality Assurance QA teams to prepare test cases and performed User Acceptance Testing UAT for clients.
• Expertise in troubleshooting technical issues and working with vendors.
• Strong presentation skills, reported and gave presentations, on PowerPoint, of key components and milestones to Top Management
• Supported the development of the IT strategy, system plans and IT process improvements which includes doing Performance analysis of excel based data, created charts/graphs representing trends and data summaries. 
• A Proven Team player and demonstrated ability to support multiple projects concurrently, balancing deliverables and ability to prioritize deliverables across projects
• Excellent communication and people skills, ability to take decisions, handle multiple-tasks and work well in a team environment.

Scrum Master Certified