SUMMARY

• With over 11 years of diverse experience in innovative implementation of business process improvements and re - engineering in financial domains.
• Extensive knowledge and experience across the project life cycle in Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model such as Water Fall, Agile, RUP and RAD
• Well versed with Agile sprint planning, Cycles, Product backlog and user stories.
• Consistent experience in the following areas: Ability to Elicit, Analyze, Gather and Document Business Requirements, and experienced in writing Use Cases.
• Highly analytical in developing the methods and measures to meet requirements and solve any issues that arise during the project.
• Strong knowledge of Project management skills such as resource planning, time estimation, task identification, and scope management.
• Experience in customer / client interaction, deep understanding of business systems functionality and technicality.
• Involved in extensive use of UML/RUP for modeling views in Microsoft Visio.
• Requirement gathering through interviews, workshops, JAD sessions with SME and clients, developers and QA Analysts and referring to existing system documentation and procedures.
• Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams.
• Performed planning and development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenario to meet product’s business requirements.
• Experience in creating and maintaining the Requirements definition documents that included Business requirements and Functional requirements.
• Skilled in developing Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, State Chart diagrams, and Class diagrams.
• Involved in maintaining Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis.
• Good knowledge of SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures.
• Experience in writing test plans, defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts.
• Highly self-motivated, positive attitude and excellent team player to excel in cross-functional environment and leadership roles in motivating and supervising teams to consistently exceed business goals.
• Great learning skills to adapt the rapid changing technologies and implementing the same at work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, RUP

Testing tools: Quality Center, QTP, Clear Quest

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest

Documentation Management Tools: Requisite Pro, Doors, MS SharePoint, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

UML Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Enterprise Architect

Project Management Tools: MS Project

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose

Database: SQL / Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the higher level requirements and created ‘product backlog’ by meetings with product owner.
• Divided releases in to ‘cycles’ as a part of release management
• Created ‘cycle backlogs’ along with estimate for each feature.
• Updated and tracked the progress using ‘Burned-Down’ chart.
• Performed as scrum master in scrum team setting.
• Managed and kept track of Project Status, Deadlines, Environment Request, and Compliance Issues.
• Establish processes and develop templates that streamline project tracking and reporting
• Actively communicate with external vendors and clients as well as various internal divisions to ensure that business objectives are appropriately identified, pursued and reported.
• Conduct post implementation analysis to determine if the project met the expected results. In corporate lessons learnt into the overall PMO processes by collaborating with other members of the PMO.
• Identified processes for developing and documenting detailed business requirements. Data was collected from end-users, and analysts.
• Played an active role in gathering, analyzing and writing business requirements.
• Extracting the business requirements from the end users keeping in mind their needs for the applications, and documenting it for the developers.
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Microsoft Visio.
• Implemented the entire RUP methodology of application development with its various workflows, artifacts and activities.
• Developed business process models in RUP to document existing and future business processes.
• Performance extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and Gap analysis.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology. Identified internal and external system requirements, design and configuration set-up, also created User Documentation and conducted training classes.
• Developed business requirement specification documents as well as project plan.
• Translated the business needs into system requirements, communicating with the business on a broader scale and with an in-depth view too.
• Documented and delivered functional specification document to the project team.
• Played a key role in planning, testing and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Partnered with the technical areas in the research, resolution of system and User Acceptance testing (UAT).

Environment: Rational-Requisite Pro, MS-Office Suite, Java, Oracle, Rational - ClearQuest.

Confidential, JERSEY CITY, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated JAD sessions to collect requirements from system users and prepared business requirement that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the proposed system.
• Conducted Business process reengineering to build a new version of the existing system.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Created Use-Cases and Requirements documents to document business needs.
• Created use-case using UML.
• Requirements were gathered through interactions and meetings and periodic walkthroughs with loan analysts, credit analysts and other potential users of the application.
• Conducted Use-Case reviews and identified gaps, leading to improvements/enhancements in the same.
• Ensured Use-Cases were consistent and covered all aspects of the Requirements document.
• Maintained documents and the effect of the proposed changes on the project schedule and costs.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for bug reporting.
• Designed and developed scenarios based on business requirements.
• Followed the RUP methodology for the entire SDLC.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to strategize the implementation of Rational Unified Process effort in different iterations and phases (Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition) of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Interacting with other teams through walkthroughs, teleconferences, meetings, etc. to resolve various issues.
• Validate the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly meets the scenario description.

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, RUP, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Test Director, SQL.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the Insurance Analyst process, which included detailing the rating requirements using Advance Quality System (AQS) for all types of Commercial Line.
• Help end users in creating User stories through interview and questionnaire.
• Interacted with business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the Auto rating application.
• Used MS power point presentations for conduction JAD sessions with the stakeholders.
• Create interactive simulation for end users using real time data. Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Business user’s sentiments.
• Interacted with group to facilitate for timely and effective requirement translation.
• Developed Use case, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process.
• Wrote full functional and technical specifications and communicated requirements to development teams.
• Created and maintained a project schedule using MS Project showing all of the deliverables target dates.
• Created and maintained complete development plans that included functional specifications, requirements engineering, Use case modeling, risk assessment and mitigation, internal and external workflow.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro for overall Requirements Management and to build the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Performed Defect Tracking and Change Control Procedure using Rational Clear Quest and Configuration Management and Version Control using Rational Clear Case.
• Involved in the development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Expected Results, and coordinated the tests with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.
• Conduct manual Black Box Testing to better understand the functionality of the AUT.
• Was involved in the Functional System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Test using the test cases before releasing the application.
• Created UAT plans with several test cases to ensure that the system runs smoothly after the proposed enhancement changes have been made.
• Executed UAT Test Scripts and recorded defects in Rational Clear Quest.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the account managers, managements, and report requestors to gather requirements, get report requests.
• Wrote Business Requirements, analyzed them and tested them.
• Owned the entire reporting process. Interacted with the ETL team, developer(s), management, and account holders to get the requirements, document them, design templates, and write specifications.
• Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain data warehouse content.
• Reverse-engineer several databases, such as research, business, and clinical in order to extract metadata to leverage it for ETL design and reporting.
• Prepared an analysis report based on the COTS evaluation.
• Consolidated the analysis of multiple business lines after the COTS evaluation.
• Used MS Project to manage project time lines
• Prepared Need Analysis Documents of the requirements gathered through JAD sessions.
• Documented all the changes in the initial templates and was responsible for Release Management.
• Reviewed Requirements & deliverables for delivery timeline.
• Used MS Visio to create Flow diagrams and Use Case Diagrams.
• Designed and Administered Teradata Scripts, Tables, Indices and Database Objects.
• Reviewed Stored Procedures for reports and wrote test queries against the source system (SQL Server) to match the results with the actual report against the Data mart (Oracle).

Environment: TOAD, DOORS, Designer, Crystal Reports XI/XI R2, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, Agile, Rational Suite, XML, Windows, Clear case, Clear quest, UML, MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio.