SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in IT industry with expertise in Business Systems Analysis, Requirements Management, Process Management, Quality Assurance and Data Modeling.
• Expert is PowerPoint presentations in meetings to have a visual display of project status.
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) aspects such as product lifecycle, development, requirement management, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration etc.
• Experience in conducting JAD sessions for project definition involving analyzing requirements, creating prototypes, user interfaces, database schema, estimates and budget.
• Experience with use case writing, use case modeling, requirement analysis, and test case writing
• Extensive experience in Developing Processes and Business rules and reverse engineering for the process documentation.
• Experience in requirement management in DOORS.
• Experience in interpreting business requirements, recognizing impact on business processes, and making recommendations
• 5 years of diverse experience as Business Analyst / Quality Assurance Analyst and Process Development.
• Expert in gathering and documenting requirements.
• Expert in data analysis, data requirements and reconciliation’s.
• Expert in writing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Test Plan and strategy, Test Cases and Test Scripts

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, SDLC, ALM, Waterfall

Tracking Tools: JIRA, ClearCase & ClearQuest

Process Tools: Rational Requisite Pro 2001, DOORS, Excel

Languages: TSL, PL/SQL, SQA BASIC, VB Script, C++, C, Java, J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, XML, UNIX shell script

Workflow Tools: MS - VISIO, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, SharePoint

Databases: JIRA, MYSQL, MS-Access

Reporting tools: MS-Access, Business Object, Crystal Reports, and Hyperion

Operating Systems: Unix (HP, SCO, Solaris), Windows (95, 98, XP, 2000, NT), Linux (Red Hat, SuSE 7.x)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mclean VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interview business area experts, asked detailed questions and transitioned interview findings into requirements.
• Worked closely with the Client in defining requirements and translating them into functional and system requirements
• Responsible for Business, Functional, and Data Requirements for the customization and integration of the application.
• Set up walkthrough meetings with Business Users/Directors
• Conducted business process modeling and created as is and to be processes.
• Responsible to create detailed Process Flows Diagrams for end - to-end process.
• Conduct meetings with Subject Matter Experts to identify Business need.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to gather and verify requirements, change requests and resolve open issues.
• Gathered requirements using various elicitation techniques- brainstorming, interface analysis, focus group and prototyping.
• Documented and regulated requirements in DOORS- requirement management tool
• Created RTM to make sure all the requirements are completed and tested.
• Assisted QA team to research and understand defects.
• Conducted business process modeling and created as is and to be processes.
• Assisted technical teams in analyzing and translating business requirements to ensure accurate understanding and application design.
• Used SWOT analysis to resolve issues
• Conducted requirements walkthrough meetings and reviews with Business Users/Directors to obtain approval.
• Used SQL quires to perform data analysis in order to understand and complete data requirements.
• Gathered compliance requirements needed for SOX testing
• Analyzed problems and applied innovative approach to solve technical issues by determining root cause, scope and scale of issues.
• Extensively researched, compiled, and documented business processes, and workflow.
• Conducted gap analysis and documented results.
• Have weekly meetings with upper management to discuss defects and issues that arise.
• Prepared and implemented test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Participated in User Acceptance testing by helping End User to perform UAT.
• Conducted UAT on behalf of user.
• Created test case using given-when-then method and maintained those on Jira.

Confidential, North Carolina

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Lead System Analyst
• Served as liaison between stakeholder teams at geographically dispersed locations and internal project delivery teams.
• Created AS-IS and TO-BE process flows.
• Met regularly with product owner to understand his vision
• Documented epic, feature and user stories
• Wrote functional requirements and business rules
• Made sure all the user stories were completed before sprint started
• Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings and sprint review sessions
• Defined the product backlog with high level themes epics and user stories and performed backlog grooming regularly.
• Conducted requirements walkthrough sessions with Development, QA and product teams to help understand requirements and document queries for clarifications
• Interviewed business area experts, asked detailed questions and transitioned interview findings into requirements.
• Responsible to create Business Requirements Document
• Conduct meetings with Subject Matter Experts to identify Business need
• Responsible to create detailed Process Flows Diagrams for end-to-end process.
• Identify Risks and suggested relevant Controls for entire process for SOX purpose
• Responsible for creation ofProject Charter and Scope of Project
• Responsible to identify GAPs and creating GAP Matrices
• Responsible for documenting discussion from meetings with Vendors and Business Sponsors.
• Created Business Procedure Documentation to depict Business process flow.
• Responsible for Weekly Project report of key project statistics mainly targeting weekly milestones reached and Gap incurred.
• Creating, Executing Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Preparing Project plan, Status reports, traceability matrix
• Provided guidance to ensure that the processes are in compliance with SOX
• Created Macros in Excel to automate day to day operations
• Created Data Management modules to ensure proper Input Process.
• Designing and implemented test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and reviewed requirements from the End Users to understand the application.
• Prepared the Test Plan and Test Cases based on the Functional Specifications.
• Design, Development, Implementation and Documentation of the application.
• Using Quality Center to Enter Requirements, Test Plan and record Defects.
• Conducting Meeting with developers and data team to talk about defects.
• Designed and implemented test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed end- to-end System testing on the release version of the software application and detected and resolved bugs/defects.
• Analyzed data requirements and controls, to develop technical requirements for the internal control and analytical reports.
• Interfaced with Subject Matter Experts to document business processes and systems features/function
• Determined user/business/functional requirements.
• Created vision, scope, and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and state chart diagrams.
• Using Rational Functional Tester to test the application and also to automate it.
• Scheduled and attended internal team meetings with developers and data team to talk about defects.
• Training User on how to operate the application and go through with the Functionality of the application.