SUMMARY

• Around 5 years of versatile hands - on IT professional with extensive experience working on issues related to Business Requirement Gathering, Requirements review, Design review, Project Management, Business Process flow, workflow data, system specifications, Business Process Modeling a Business Analysis, Solution Review, procurement tools, Functional Documentation.
• Hands on working experience in requirement gathering, reporting, documentation, process mapping, scheduling, planning, and data analysis
• Strong knowledge and experience of Project Management, Software Development life cycle and Software.
• Strong ability in establishing client and vendor relationships in gathering business requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to work actively in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and agile methodologies.
• Expertise in Financial Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting and utilization of variance analysis to manage project to completion on time and within budget.
• Excellent in performing GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Experience in conducting joint application development (JAD) session and Rapid application development (RAD).
• Successful background in Business Requirement Gathering, Requirements review, Design review, Project
• Worked in Bank Data Warehouse and Mortgage Data Warehouse projects and involved in the requirements and design of various modules like Bankruptcy, Collections and Recoveries
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and work in multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficient in UAT (user acceptance testing), Functionality Testing, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Ability to implore various negotiating strategies to gather resources for project implementation.
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Process Methodologies: - RUP - Rational Unified Process, Waterfall, UML,Agile.

Visual Modeling Tools: - Visio, Enterprise Architect

Applications: - Microsoft FrontPage XP, UML, SQL

Requirements: - Tools Rational Requisite Pro

Databases: - Microsoft Access, Oracle

Testing Tools: - UAT, Test Director

Office Tools: - MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook

Platforms: - Windows 95/98/2000Pro/NT/XP Pro, MS - DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Business Analyst / Finance Operations

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business users and reporting teams to understand the requirement and finalize the Business critical requirements for project.
• Key role in creating Business requirement document (BRD) and Functional Specification (FRD).
• Conducted JAD sessions with SMEs and technological experts to gather data requirements
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Design and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagrams. OOD using UML.
• Used both Agile/Scrum methodology as well as Waterfall methodology for the web application.
• Prepare documents (BRD, TDD / FDD) and comply with the SBA requirements.
• Guiding cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining processes and techniques; recommending actions.
• General office and administrative duties including meeting deadlines.
• Worked well with other departments and outside clients to complete projects.
• Been a part of special project called “NEXT” for HTC.
• Using Oracle,SAP,Congos and Qlikview.

Environment: BA, BRD, FRD, SDLC, MS-Office, JAD, HTML, Web Services, XML, Java Script, UML, SQL, Conogs, BO, Qlikview, Data Analysis, Requirement Management, Agile/Scrum, SDLC, Quality Center

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and wrote requirement documents for re-design of the Confidential Identity Access Management Portal as per user feedback.
• Use Case analysis in migration to Big Data Architecture.
• Translated Business requirements to functional and technical language with the help of Use cases and UML diagrams for developers.
• Review the High Level and Detail Level Design Documents prepared by the Development Teams and providing them with constructive feedback
• Validated Technical Designs created by Technical Lead, against functional specifications
• Created standards / guidelines for Business Process Modeling, Use Cases, Work Flows, Data Dictionary, and Requirements Specifications.
• Created, validated and redesigned cross-organization Future State processes in adherence to Business Process Modelling standards.
• Created and Conducted milestone reviews on iterative level using Jira.
• Contributed in End-to-End business process analysis for the business unit.
• Participated in transforming the user requirements into functional requirements and also created business process models from the requirement specifications
• Reviewed and provided inputs to the testing scenarios and test cases

Environment: Unit test, Data modelling, MS-Office, JAD, UML, SQL, HTML, Web Services, XML, Java Script, Qlikview, Congos, Data Analysis, Requirement Management, SDLC, Quality Center

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users for gathering requirements and then transformed them into Dimensions, Attributes and Members for Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning implementations.
• Protects operations by keeping financial information confidential.
• Provided telephone support and general administrative task and assisted the Project Manager, to prepare the vision and the scope for the project
• Worked actively with the QA (Quality Assurance) team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Monitored Defect Tracking system to prioritize defects and devise a plan for future enhancements
• Conducted walkthrough sessions with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product
• Documented the Functional Requirements (FRD) and the System Requirements documents
• Worked extensivelyto write use cases and functional requirement case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams based on UML methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Performed feasibility and adaptability study to identify the business critical areas from User perspective

Environment: Planning, Forecasting, Unit test, Data modelling, Jira, HTML, Web Services, MS-Office, JAD, SQL, Data Analysis, Requirement Management, SDLC, Quality Canter.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed the users, analyzed the amortization process, and documented the process flows and the underlying business process.
• Designed the new translator based on the specific requirement from the commercial clients.
• General office and administrative duties including meeting deadlines.
• Used theRational Unified Process (RUP)to build the different phases ofSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Prepared theFunctional Specification Document (FSD)andSoftware Requirement Specifications (SRS)
• Conducted theJAD Sessionswith stakeholders and developers to have a clear picture of a project
• Worked on improvement of Claims Reimbursement User Interface for a better experience and in corporate changes as per the guidelinesusing the gap analysis
• Developed use cases, workflow, screenmock-ups and conversion requirements
• Coordinated work plans between project manager and client using MSProject
• Helped in reviewing and editing of the test scripts

Environment: Agile/ Scrum Methodology, HTML, SQL, Web Services, MS SQL Server, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project Rational Requisite Pro.