SUMMARY

• To secure a position as an Agile Business Analyst/Consultant for an organization with complex business process within its phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), while implementing and managing end - to- end IT governance. Program leader with demonstrated skills in negotiation and facilitation; able to manage multiple projects and resources.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Strategic Planning
• Written and Oral Communication
• Analytics and Research
• Matching Actions to Goals
• Organization and Records Maintenance
• Crisis Intervention
• Project Management
• Economics
• Diplomacy and Tact

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HP Application Lifecycle Management - Requirement Documentation, Manual and Functional Testing
• Agile - VersionOne (V1), Agile Central (Rally Dev.), Jira Atlassian
• Process Modeling/Wireframe - Microsoft Visio, SnagIT, and Balsamiq
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Power point, Word, Outlook, Access), Microsoft SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating and documenting full SDLC lifecycle artifacts based on project applied methodology:
• Agile (Scrum) - Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, EPIC, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Agile (Scrum) - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Refinement
• Facilitating elicitation session to understand several inputs from stakeholder and alignments to their business goals and objectives.
• Waterfall/ Traditional - Using Cases Documentation, Solutions Requirements Document (SRD)/ Functional Requirements Document (FRD) - Business, Stakeholder, Solutions (functional and non-functional), and transitional requirements in relation to overall organizational needs
• Creating Use Case Diagrams, process flowcharts, and wireframes using UML/Visio based on stated and confirmed requirements.
• Coordinating with the development team and the business area to develop intuitive GUI/mockup screens adhering to the organization’s standards.
• Involve in performing GAP Analysis by identifying existing technologies and documenting enhancements to meet end state requirements.
• Onshore/Offshore collaboration with QA Lead and business SMEs to develop and review test scenarios, test cases as required.

Confidential

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Agile (Scrum) - Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, EPIC, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Agile (Scrum) - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Refinement
• Gathered business requirements, documented them, wrote scope documents and use cases.
• Facilitated in JAD/elicitation sessions with Business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and IT professionals for requirements gathering and documentation.
• Instrumental role in introducing and enforcing Scrum framework a new approach to requirements gathering, software development life cycle (SDLC) process and software testing life cycle (STLC).
• Worked closely with the project manager, business lead and technical lead to identify, research and escalate issues and risks to the appropriate work stream for resolution
• Met with Clinical SMEs, development team to understand the requirements for the clinical data migration.
• Involved in planning and implementing high-level-business requirements through the decomposition of solutions requirements i.e. functional and non-functional.
• Responsible for understanding the “As Is” business process and defining the “To Be” business process.
• Elicited, analysed and documented Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, System Specifications and corresponding Test Plans through JAD sessions.
• Facilitated customer meetings and Business design walkthroughs data mapping definitions and wireframe designs.

Confidential

RESEARCH Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with project stakeholders to discuss business requirements for their systems. Used various methods of communications to gather and refine stakeholder requirements to be decomposed to functional and non-functional requirements.
• Managed comprehensive project plan following the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Led the software development team through which testing, and development of requirements flowed. Also served as a conduit between the project stakeholders and the development team
• Defined resources and schedules for the project implementation
• Presented project status to the executive management identifying risk and issues, mitigation strategies and change management
• Elicited and documented Business, Stakeholder, and Solutions (Functional and Non-Functional) requirements. Developed Test Plans and Test Cases for Image processing systems.
• Presented various types of workflow diagrams to articulate stakeholder requirements using BPMN template in MS Visio.

Confidential

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted several meetings to interview end users, subject matter experts i.e. SME to gather and document business requirements and translate into functional requirement document i.e. FRD.
• Develop data models using MS Visio for OAM workflow processes in order to describe current state ‘AS IS’ and projected optimal/future state ‘TO BE’ business performance levels.
• Identify best practice benchmarks peers for organization(s) undergoing business process reengineering.
• Develop GAP analysis template for organization(s) to identify areas of improvement between their current operating business process and projected potential performance.
• Developed Strength Weakness Opportunities Threats and trend (SWOTt) analysis for OAM and ODI capability gaps and maturity model within the organization
• Analyzed current System(s)/ Technology(ies) using OAM for contractual and procurement purposes. Recommendations to implement trending technology(ies) used by best practice(s) agencies to NHTSA for efficient procurement practice(s).
• Developed relevant measures for CBN-OAM to monitor status, tracking, and employee(s) performance on workloads/assigned tasks.