SUMMARY

• 9 + years of Professional Experience in requirement gathering, analysis, detailing, documenting and implementation of business systems
• Expertise in analyzing and designing business processes and systems in gathering business process information to create clear, concise and complete business requirement documents, use case specifications, process flow diagrams and functional specifications
• Strong Knowledge of software development life cycle in Waterfall,Agile,Scrum and RUP methodology
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office especially MS Excel, Power Point, Word etc
• Highly skilled in the use of UML modeling, drawing Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams using tools such as Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose
• Extensive experience in the development, implementation, deployment and integration strategies within a team oriented environment, utilizing quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
• Solid knowledge of various computer programming languages including C, C++ .
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. Experience working with business users as well as computer professionals
• Act as the primary point of contact between SME's and other business representatives
• Support the PM and technical team leads to ensure project deliverables are completed. Manages to scope and assists in the change management process when necessary.
• Has good knowledge on, Banking, Insurance and IT infrastructures.
• Creative and aggressive self - starter with integrate thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships with clients, user groups and cross functional teams
• Involved in the development, Enhancement and Maintaining of applications in Oracle 8i/9i/10g using SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Reports in windows and Unix environments.
• Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet deadlines, execute and deliver critical projects on time

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Process/Modeling Tool: SDLC, MS VisioMethodology UML, RUP, Agile

Databases: MS Access, SQL server, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g

Languages: C, C++, SQL

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 98/2000/NT/XP

Office Tools: MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access

Project Management: MS Project MS Dynamics, CRM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered functional business requirements from ORM process owners and developed functional specifications for application enhancements.
• Worked with development / technical team members to discuss the enhancements that would meet the defined business requirements.
• The SDLC Methodology used was(RUP) Rational Unified Process.
• Conferred with Business Users to Gather Requirements for the design and development teams.
• Involved in continuous Business Requirement scrubbing to ensure deliverability and clarity of each requirement.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, as well as conducted interviews of appropriate business/technical stakeholders.
• Analyzed Business Requirements to produce System Requirements for the technical team using MS Visio.
• Identifying and documenting UML Use Cases with Use Case diagrams.
• Work with business users to define Business, Process, and Data Models to understand the overall business.
• Worked with developers to test the iterations of the system under development (SUD) to ensure it met the user’s needs.
• Used SQL Queries for Data Manipulation.
• Interacted and assisted the entire team on the testing tools and processes.
• Worked directly with developers, Project Manager and Business contacts to produce Test Scripts and Test Conditions.
• Written and executed Test cases for the application when in (UAT) Environment.
• Involved in evaluation of the user request for new or modified program to determine feasibility, cost and compatibility with current system, and computer capabilities.
• Assisted in the analysis of the financial data and extracted relevant information.
• Analyzed the system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan using Rational Test Manager.
• Worked with QA tester to develop Test Scripts for Functionality, Security and Regression Testing.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared and stored in Quality Center.
• Web Portal has been developed using HTML and ASP.
• Work with QA Testers to perform, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Updating the QA manager on a weekly basis with Status Reports.

Environment: Requisite Pro, Quality Center, MS Visio, MS Project, ASP, HTML, Oracle, SQL, UNIX and Windows.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the business users and technical teams to build applications based on the business requirements.
• Created business use case scenarios, and documented system specifications with information obtained through subject matter experts, and stakeholders/steering committee meetings.
• Performed gap analysis to identify between business wants/needs and the requirements for the proposed system; maintained traceability matrix.
• Worked within software development methodologies to quickly achieve business process.
• Designed and documented process flow of new system functionality via diagrams, screen mock ups, use case, work flows, page layouts, and site navigation maps of the web application interface using iRise application simulator.
• Performing Business Process modeling (BPM) by using UML Activity diagramming.
• Worked with developers to map data to requirements.
• Worked with the project manager to estimate best/worst case scenarios, tracked progress for weekly estimates of remaining work to do, conducted informal meetings as needed.
• Created activity and sequence diagrams to provide direction to developers.
• Identified and managed project risk and scope creep, and communicated project status to management.
• Conducted JAD sessions to communicate expectations, and managed issues.
• Created test plans, identified and coordinated testers, performed user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Checked the database for Integrity constraints and Rolls
• Involved in Writing SQL Queries for back end testing.
• Checked the data flow through the frontend to backend and used SQL Queries to extract the data from the database.
• Involved in writing extensive SQL Queries for back end testing oracle database.

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS Access, UML, SQL, RequisitePro, Agile, Rational Rose, Quicktest Professional

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in interactions with SME’s, developers and other members of the business team.
• Created Use Cases, activity diagrams and state diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Interviewed end-users to create the business requirements and then to clearly relay the design requirements necessary to the development team.
• Prioritized Requirements to ensure timely reviews and availability.
• Created detailed workflow diagrams for the proposed new system.
• Provided clear documentation regarding requirement management plans, functional requirements, supplemental requirements, test plans and test cases.
• Functioned effortlessly and efficiently, as a liaison between the development, testing.

Environment: RUP, MS Visio, C++, Oracle 7.3, SQL, Windows XP,Unix

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in interactions with SME’s, developers and other members of the business team.
• Created Use Cases, activity diagrams and state diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Interviewed end-users to create the business requirements and then to clearly relay the design requirements necessary to the development team.
• Prioritized Requirements to ensure timely reviews and availability.
• Created detailed workflow diagrams for the proposed new system.
• Provided clear documentation regarding requirement management plans, functional requirements, supplemental requirements, test plans and test cases.
• Functioned effortlessly and efficiently, as a liaison between the development, testing.

Environment: RUP, MS Visio, C++, Oracle 7.3, SQL, Windows XP,Unix