Vidhya Narayanasamy - IIBA-ECBA™ — Business Development Executive

• 8 years of professional IT experience in Finance, Banking, BFSI, E-commerce sector. • Certified Business Analyst, ECBA certification from International Institute of Business Analysis. • Strong experience with various SDLC Methodologies, Agile, Scrum and Waterfall. • Proficiency in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and detailing into system requirement specification (SRS). • Developed business process diagrams such as Process diagram, Flowchart, Activity diagram, UML workflow diagrams, data flow models (sequence diagrams & activity diagrams) • Rich agile experience and Implemented agile practices across teams using JIRA. • Involved in working with multiple squads to deliver business analysis on requirements within different line of businesses and at times facilitating the role of a scrum master. • Experienced in analyzing and creating Use Cases, data models, Data Flow Diagrams using various software tools like draw.io and confluence. • Experienced in managing business requirements through Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). • Orchestrate backlog grooming by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models broken down into epics & user stories with well- defined acceptance criteria and definition of done. • Expertise in creating functional test case/scenarios to ensure coverage in all levels of testing specializing in edge cases using Xray. • Experience in performing functional/API testing using Postman and Insomania tools. • Experience in facilitating Agile ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Retrospective, Sprint Review and Daily scrum meetings. • Experience in creating Prototypes using tools like MSVisio, Draw.io • Experience in capturing AS-IS process into To-BE process in Business/Functional requirement documents. • Excellent communication skills, including interpersonal skills and stakeholder management. • Training junior BAs in the team and conducting knowledge transfer sessions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Business Analyst with strong expertise in payments and algorithmic trading.

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Experience: 9 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Business Analysis
Payments
Algorithmic Trading
E-banking
E-commerce

Career Highlights

8 years of experience in Finance and E-commerce sectors.
Expertise in Business Analysis and Payments.
Proven track record in algorithmic trading improvements.

Work Experience

CMC Markets

Business Analyst (1 yr 5 mos)

Paydock

Business Analyst (6 mos)

Fidelity Investments

Senior Business Analyst (2 yrs)

Synechron

Business Analyst (Client: Wells Fargo) (2 yrs 2 mos)

Cognizant

Business Analyst (Client - Walmart & Comcast) (3 yrs 7 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Sri Venkateshwara college of engineering, Chennai, Tamilnadu

Vidhya Narayanasamy - IIBA-ECBA™

Business Development Executive

London, England, United Kingdom9 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

8 years of experience in Finance and E-commerce sectors.
Expertise in Business Analysis and Payments.
Proven track record in algorithmic trading improvements.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Business Analyst with strong expertise in payments and algorithmic trading.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business AnalysisPaymentsAlgorithmic TradingE-bankingE-commerce

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile CeremoniesAgile MethodologiesApache KafkaAsset ManagementBPMNBacklog GroomingBusiness Continuity PlanningBusiness PlanningBusiness Process DocumentationBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness RequirementsData AnalysisDocumentationE-commerce Optimization

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Experience

Cmc markets

Business Analyst

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Proactively engaged with stakeholders across Payments, Compliance, and Technology to elicit,
document, and validate requirements, securing sign-off within governance frameworks.
Defined AS-IS and TO-BE payment processes, conducted impact assessments, and
recommended Target Operating Models (TOM) for payment system upgrades.
Partnered with developers, QA, and product owners to translate business requirements into
functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Created and executed end-to-end UAT scenarios to validate deliverables against agreed
specifications, ensuring seamless integration of payment solutions.
Produced high-quality documentation including BRDs, process flows, and gap analyses to
support decision-making and system improvements.

Business AnalysisPaymentsFunctional SpecificationsUser StoriesUAT

Paydock

Business Analyst

Sep 2023 – Mar 2024 · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

 Worked on payments sector and orchestrate backlog grooming by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models broken down into epics & user stories with well- defined acceptance criteria and definition of done.
 Contributed to the documentation of business processes and requirements for payment system upgrades.
 Conducting functional specification review sessions with cross functional team members for review of requirements
 Coordinating with the stakeholders to translate the business requirements into actual project plan.
 Tools – Postman, Jira, Miro, Mural, Google sheet, Google Docs, Confluence, Paydock dashboard (internal)

Backlog GroomingDocumentationFunctional Specification ReviewStakeholder CoordinationBusiness AnalysisPayments

Fidelity investments

Senior Business Analyst

Mar 2021 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs · Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Worked on sector solutions for Equity Trading, Fixed income (Asset Management-Capital Markets) dealing Front office and Middle office. Majorly I have responsible for the design, operation, and improvement of high‐performance algorithmic trading strategies deployed on electronic trading venues of our project.
 Designed and implemented an automated trading algorithm in the Trading sector, resulting in a 25% increase in trade execution speed and a 20% reduction in manual errors.
 Conducts functional test case reviews to ensure coverage in all levels of testing specializing in edge cases using Xray.
 Leads the client demo presentations to collect feedback from stakeholders ensuring project deliverables as per specification.
 Facilitate Agile ceremonies and works on User story Mapping, Acceptance criteria, create user story in Product Backlog in JIRA and perform UAT.
 Capture AS-IS process and convert it into TO-BE process in Business Requirement Document and Functional requirement document including the regulatory requirements from draft through sign-off from the stakeholders.
 Assists in conducting 3+ levels of testing including scrum, integration, regression, user acceptance, and performance testing to verify the API connection and manage the backlog by facilitating the requirement prioritization.
 Worked on Kafka tool connection with the shared Kafka connection.
 Experience in working with Brokers for requirement gathering, testing and demo presentation.
 Automated the manual process of submitting orders through Order Management system and implemented in Market Axess, Bloomberg.
 Worked on the hand-made FIX message that include repeating groups tested in the Kafka topic and verified the brokers.
 Tools: JIRA, Xray, Trader workstation, Bloomberg, Market Axess, Postman, Insomania, Offset Explorer, SharePoint, SQL, Note++, PowerPoint, Confluence, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Visio.

Algorithmic TradingFunctional TestingAgile CeremoniesUser Story MappingBusiness Analysis

Synechron

Business Analyst (Client: Wells Fargo)

Sep 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

Worked on sector solutions for e-Banking Loan. Majorly I have involved on projects as Home Loans, Student Loans, Tablet & Mobile Bank.
 Functional support of the implementation phase, especially with management and analysis of functional issues, service implementation and documentation.
 Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement a user-friendly interface, resulting in a 15% increase in the number of successful customer account creations.
 Extensive experience in complete Software Development Life Cycle (Agile) including System Requirements Collection, Architecture, Design, Development, Testing. Maintenance and Enhancement in variety of technological platforms.
 Writes DML SQL queries to fetch data from DB for studying the existing behavior and performing gap analysis
 Tools: JIRA, SharePoint, SQL,Ms Word, Note++, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Pac2000(Internal tool)

Functional SupportUser Interface ImplementationSQL QueriesBusiness AnalysisE-Banking

Cognizant

Business Analyst (Client - Walmart & Comcast)

Feb 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Chennai Area, India · On-site

 Assisted in the development and documentation of business processes for e-commerce and Retail operations.
 Implemented user-friendly features and collaborated with the development team to optimize the checkout flow, resulting in a more seamless and efficient purchasing experience for customers..
 Conducted comprehensive requirements gathering sessions and managed the end-to-end requirement lifecycle, ensuring alignment with business objectives
 Creating detailed Business Requirement Design Documents (BRD).

Business Process DocumentationRequirements GatheringE-commerce OptimizationBusiness AnalysisE-commerce