SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of diverse and very strong experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Business Analysis, Project Management and substantial know - how of Project scope, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Business Processes, Business Processes Modeling and various SDLC methodologies. Possess outstanding client interaction and relationship management skills.
• Experience working as Business Analyst in diversified industries such as finance, travel and healthcare.
• Experienced in gathering user requirements and preparing Business Process Model (BPM), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Specification, and Product Configuration Specifications.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and interviewed Subject MatterExperts (SME’s), to uncover and document detailed functionality aspects of business process and carefully updating the information to the requirements in an easily understandable format.
• Excellent knowledge of standard industry methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process as per Rational Unified Process (RUP), CMM (Capability Maturity Models) and Rational Tools used during various phases of RUP.
• Skilled in Object Oriented Analysiswith experience in creating Use cases, Class diagrams, Activity diagrams, State diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Unified Modeling Language (UML) using MS Visio and Rationale Rose to extract business process workflows.
• Strong experience in creating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Project Schedules and Project Timelines using MS Project.
• Expertise in creating Business Context Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams, ImplementationChecklists and Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM).
• Proficient in creating Risk Management (Identification, Analysis, Response, Monitoring and Control) of potential risk factors.
• Good knowledge of Business Process Modeling and Business Re-Engineering (BPR).
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: RUP, UML, Agile

Testing Tools: Rational Enterprise Suite, Test Director

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Test Director

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio

Version Control Systems: Rational Clear Case

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office

Multimedia: Adobe Photoshop, Quark Express

Operating System: Windows XP/NT/98/200,Unix,Linux

Programming languages: C,C++,Java, VB Scripts

Markup languages: HTML, XML

GUI: Visual basic 6.0 and VB.Net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Glendale, CA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Initiate kick of presentation involving all the key stake-holders (Project Owners/ Sponsors/ Client Manager).
• Conduct workshops and document interview sessions with Business Users to gather requirements from Business teams.
• Design BRD template for Confidential based on the Project requirements.
• Create BRD and write detailed requirements extracting the documented information from the interviews.
• Provide product solutions to the client by evaluating standard portal products like Oracle Web-logic 11g, Microsoft Share point 2010, Team site.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architect in designing IT landscape and provide Architecture Solution for the portal.
• Create and work on Product evolution metrics / Product score card.
• Provide implementation plan to the IT delivery team using WBS methodology and provide with Project time line and cost.
• Participate in Project cost estimation - WIP assessment with PM
• Document and analyze the various user roles/ Content Owners/ IT Admin/ Systems Admin required for the Portal Implementation
• Provide content security solutions by working directly with Solutions architect
• Create RTM for product evaluation by mapping the Business requirements with the product features and abilities
• Create and drive requirement validation presentation(PPT) involving business users and key stake holders
• Identify and document required workflows using VISIO for various business units
• Create and document existing process flows
• Create high level screen mockups required for the Portal developers to design and code for Portal templates (Portal customization)
• Report directly to IT delivery manager and Offsite manager by participating on daily stand up calls

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detailed and comprehensive business analysis by working with end users, and other stake holders to identify the system, operational requirements, andproposed enhancements.
• Created Data Stage jobs to extract, transform and load data into data warehouses from various sources like relational databases, application systems, temp tables, flat files etc.
• Gathered business requirements from business users such as insurance policy managers, and drafted business requirement specification (BRS).
• Performed Requirement Analysis and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using UML
• Used Query Analyzer, Execution Plan to optimize SQL Queries
• Identified all necessary Business and System Narrative Use Cases from requirements, created UML diagrams including Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Understood the Business Logic, User Requirements and test-objectives to develop Test plans, Test cases, Use Case Scenarios.
• Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures thereby reducing the Number of database accesses.
• Incorporated Rational Unified Process (RUP) to create Requirement Document Specifications using Visible Analyst.
• Developed reports including line and pie charts, trend analysis and sub-reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Environment: Rational Rose, Requisite, Rational Clear Case, Visual Studio, Feasibility Analysis, Risk Analysis and Gap Analysis, RUP, Business intelligence or BI, UML, SQL, UNIX, MS-Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, ASP.Net, VB.Net, HTML, CSS, XML

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Under the RUP Methodology, I gathered business requirements by conducting user interviews and analyzing those requirements using Rational Requisite Pro
• Conducted GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing system enhancements
• Conducted JAD sessions with business stakeholders and technical units groups to determine user requirements and goals
• Organized system requirements meetings with the developers and system testers to analyze, define and document low-level Systems Requirements Specifications as part of the Systems Requirements Document (SRD)
• Assisted project management team in high level feasibility studies and risk mitigation
• Acted as a liaison between the business team and the Database provider, Autodata, by communicating and documenting the business needs.
• Helped the database administrators with database design to receive data from Autodata using DTP to Confidential ’s Oracle Database
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Helped with the harvesting of the mainframe system AS400 during the implementation stage

ENVIRONMENT: Java, HTML, Java Script, C++, MS SQL, and Gigaspaces, QTP, Quality Center, Appworx, Oracle

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed Business Requirement documents and functional requirements.
• Performed Business Process Modelling using Visio
• Interacted with users and developers to prioritize user functionality issues.
• Performed GAP Analysis between AS IS and TO BE workflow models
• Created Use Cases and activity diagrams and was involved in making test plans and testing with the QA team
• Rational Unified Process (RUP) was used to implement iterative SDLC.
• Used UML notations for Object Oriented Design and Documentation.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to assign defects and keep track of the defects.
• Organized and conducted JAD sessions with different groups of users.
• Actively involved in preparation of Entity Relationship Diagram.
• Prepared the screen layout of the various reports that was generated at the end of the month for different departments

Environment: J2EE (EJB, Java, Servlets, JSP), Rational Tools, Weblogic, Oracle, MS Office Suite, Windows 2000, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, PVCS, RUP.

Confidential

Jr.Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirement documents (URD), software requirement specification document (SRS) and prepared System test plan by dividing the application into manageable units.
• Involved in writing Detailed Test Plan for the Application under Test (AUT).
• Enhanced the Test Cases by analyzing the Specification Documents.
• Developed, implemented and executed test methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality as per the RUP methodology. Test some of the Extensions in Facets application manually.
• Developed reports based on the Clinical Trial protocol
• Perform Gap Analysis of the processes to identify and validate requirements.
• Collected and processed quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Prepared spreadsheets with the help of MS Office to show like specific geographic regions etc.
• Conducted several demos driven by MS PowerPoint Presentations.
• Reported status to the project manager weekly.
• Responsible for 24x7 coverage for various mainframe based Cobol applications using DB2, VSAM and IMS databases
• Involved with the business users, developers to make sure the reports were developed right to the specification.
• Documented existing applications with the creation of UML sequence diagram and class diagram to document.
• Involved in creating use case diagrams for the purpose of the team to understand the workflow of the system.
• Involved in the User Acceptance Testing to make sure the defects raised by the business users were resolved up to the Management Expectation by the developer group. Prepared documentation using MS Word.
• Created reports in MS Word for account processing of each client group.
• Worked with the quality assurance group through out the company identifying the major changes with the greatest opportunity for cost reduction. Involved in generating Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases manually in MS Excel.

Environment: Oracle, Windows, Pl/SQL, Rational Enterprise suite, RUP, UML, COBOL, Data Stage, Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, MS Project.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the requirements and design walkthroughs with designers, developers and management staff
• Analyzed and optimized the process by performing various kind of analysis.
• Involved in Creation of UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams/Flow ChartDiagrams, Sequence Diagrams etc.
• Analyzed the business and functional requirements and the master test plan. Created Test Cases forvarious forms of the application manually. Involved in executing and designing test cases manually. PerformedIntegration, Functional and Regression Testing of the UAT.
• Involved in various financial calculations and manual validation of the results produced by the application.
• Involved in booking different types of bonds and calculating the Present values of the bonds.

Environment: UML Diagram, MS Project, IBM Mainframes, Test Director 7.0