PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced Business Analyst with over 7 years of IT experience.
• In - depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/DesignDevelopment and Testing.
• Integrated Business Process Re-engineering, GAP analysis and Functional Specifications in the Project Life Cycle.
• Proficient in developing Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Behavior Diagrams
• (Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams), and
• Class Diagrams based on UML Methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Experienced in Requirements gathering using Rational RequisitePro, Data modelingSystem Architecture, Feasibility studies and Scope Documents.
• Experienced in conducting JAD sessions, project meetings, reviews and walkthroughs.
• Experienced in performing Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements.
• Good Experience in Business Analysis methodologies and Iterative Software Development
• Life Cycle (SDLC) using Rational Unified Process (RUP). Thorough knowledge of implementing RUP in all four phases of a project i.e. Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition.
• Experienced in all areas of project life cycle in a highly structured change management environment using proprietary methodologies, Agile Techniques, RUP (Rational
• Unified Process) and Water fall methodologies.
• Ability to interact with individuals at all levels with exceptional skills in forming and facilitating
• Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development
• (RAD) teams.
• Proficient with tools like Requisite Pro, Rational Rose and MS Visio, MS Office.
• Experience in tracking, tracing and managing requirements using Requisite Pro.
• Expertise in Business Modeling using MS Visio/Enterprise Architect/Rational Rose.
• Proficient in creating Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams using UML Modeling.
• Expertise in developing QA Test Plan, Test Conditions, and Test Cases; ensuring adequate testing of software both before and after completion.
• Excellent Team player to work in conjunction with other testers, developers and other team members in validation and testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.
• Strong experience in documenting existing process, analyzing business requirementsworking with requirements traceability matrix.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Processes/Technologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Use Cases and Workflow

Requirement/Application Management Tools: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power

Point, Visio), MS-Project, Share point Portal Server 2003/2007

Relational Databases: SQL Server 2005/2000, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS Access

Quality Assurance Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Quick Test ProQualityCenter, Rational Functional Tester.

Project Management Tools: MS - Project

Operating Systems: Windows server 2008/2003, Windows 2000 advanced server, XPUNIX, LINUX

Database: SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 MS Access XP/2000/97, Oracle 11 g.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Analyzed data and created class diagrams and ER diagrams for designing. Gathered the information from the competitor s websites.
• Conducted extensive requirement analysis using Rational requisite pro
• Thoroughly studied the requirements for the process re - engineering
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD s) after the collection of
• Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system
• Interacted with users for verifying User Requirements, managing Change Control
• Process, updating existing Documentation
• Created relationships in Requirement Traceability Matrix linking Business
• Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems
• Requirements.
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodologies and Unified Modeling Language
• (UML).
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT groups. Identified the Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them.
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Project and offshore resources to successful completion.
• Interacted and conducted meetings with the Marketing Team to discuss pricing initiatives.
• Created a Traceability Matrix to maintain the Traceability of the requirements.
• Created Impact Analysis documents after discussions with offshore development team which included roll back plan incase of any issues while being merged into production.
• Involved in preparing the content management plan with business users to use CA application in ATG. Held weekly meetings with developers and QA/testers (On site
• & off shore) to ensure project deadlines were being met.

Environment: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Visio, RUP methodology, RationalRose, Unix, Documentum, Windows NT/XP, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, Cognos, Sybase, VBScriptC#. DOORS, Java, C++, NET, ASP.NET, Business Objects

Confidential, NJ

Business/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering data requirements from Sales and Financial organizations to understand the forecasting techniques and practices. Utilized SQL queries for Data
• Analysis and Data Modeling.
• Extracted data from different department to flat files and load the data to the target
• Oracle and SQL server database.
• Created test scripts for all the test cases in PL/SQL and Configured the Data mapping between Oracle and SQL Server.
• Managed WBS, project sizing, and resource allocation.
• Performed data analysis using SQL queries in TOAD
• Written advanced SQL queries to test the database backend.
• Conducted JAD sessions with various sales teams, executives and developers to finalize the requirements and created a prototype of the important pages using
• Dreamweaver and HTML
• Captured the business requirements around sales and forecasting techniques and created
• Business Requirements and Functional Design Specification documents using Rational
• Requisite Pro
• Conducted GAP analysis to document AS IS scenario to understand current forecasting techniques and practices to get an agreement from all users to come up with a proposal for the TO BE system
• Used SQL for querying underlying database tables to analyze the forecasting data and worked with the Data Modelers to create Data model diagrams in working sessions.
• Conducted JADs and created Project Schedule using MS Project, and decided on realistic workload.
• Introduced web 2.0 concepts to the web platform like AJAX, Blogs and wiki
• Developed test plans and test cases for UAT testing and also helped in data scrubbing in the test environments
• Worked closely with the Project Manager and used MS Project to schedule and track the project activities.

Environment: Requisite Pro, SQL, Rational Rose, Toad, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Oracle 9i, QTP, Load Runner.

Confidential

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrated complex 2 - month due diligence and knowledge transfer for proposedtransition.
• Conducted detailed and comprehensive Business Analysis by working with the client
• IT staff, project managers, supervisors, SME s, and other stakeholders to identify the system, operational requirements and improvements.
• Assisted Senior Business Analyst in designing the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC methodology. Also developed project document model based on SDLC methodology.
• Identify research, realize, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Documented and delivered Functional Specification Document to the project team.
• Coordinated regular business requirement meetings with business users.
• Performed requirements analysis and delivered final requirement documents.
• Developed front-end functional specification documents based on reporting requirements.
• Worked with technical architect to deliver the functional design specification documents.

Environment: Microsoft Office 2003, Windows SharePoint