SUMMARY

• Experience as a Business Analyst in deployment of web - based, client-server applications, developing business processes and system solutions in Finance, Banking & Investment industries.
• Experience with developing and performing technical assessments aligned with a strategic plan of key stakeholders.
• Proven ability to utilize all available tools and resources that benefit both the project and the company.
• Extensive experience with the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Working experience with various SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, RUP and Agile.
• Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Experience of Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Class Diagrams.
• Handled risk management as defined by the organization.
• Facilitated and participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, user workshops, interviews, conference calls and white board sessions to keep executive staff and the team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues.
• Expertise in conducting requirement gathering sessions, feasibility studies, impact analysis, cost/benefit analysis and risk analysis.
• Experience with helping development teams to break down large user stories for execution.
• Actively involved in the acceptance and validation of the stories by testing the delivered stories.
• Extensive experience with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational ReqPro & SQL.
• Experience in creating and maintaining Excel reports, preparing the data in Excel files, as per business standards.
• Experience with preparing the test data in Excel for testing.
• Experience in the field of Manual Testing and Defect Tracking using different tools like Clear Quest and HP Quality Center.
• Experienced in testing methodology and the entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), including writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and executing the Test Scripts.
• Preparation of Test Data for positive and negative scenarios.
• Modeling the As-Is system and doing the complete Gap Analysis for the existing system in order to map it to the To-Be system.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Can perform well both independently and with a team, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Waterfall.

Modeling Tools/Languages: C++, R, Minitab, Dynamics GP, Mathematica, Rational Software Modeler/UML

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, Quick Test Professional

Case Tools: Clear Case

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Tele logic DOORS

Workflow Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server

Platforms: Windows (NT, 2000, XP), Mac

Reporting Tools: MS Excel- Vlookup Pivot Table

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business/Financial Analyst

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Users to get a better understanding of client business processes and gathered Business Requirements.
• Used Agile software development methodology in defining the problem, gathering requirements, developing iterations, business modeling and communicating with the technical team for development of the system.
• Involved in preparing Logical Process Model, which help users understand/analyze the various business processes.
• Performed security, regression, integration, and UAT using Quality Center.
• Wrote and maintained Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) defining new systems operations for the project using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Use cases, Use Case Diagram, Business flow diagram, Work and Navigation flow diagram using Unified modeling language (UML)
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project
• Documented processes and business requirements from identification, development lifecycle, and QA to achieve accuracy and adherence to standards.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve specific goals and objectives of a new application and/or application tools and made timely, detailed recommendations to upper management concerning products, methods, and technologies that would enhance utilization of information resources based on testing.
• Provided direction, support and feedback to project team to ensure the support and implementation of the new application.
• Performed root cause analysis with developers on reported bugs and various technical issues.
• Provided analysis, understanding and business perspectives on financial and operational issues.
• Functioned as primary liaison between the business, operations, and technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Made journal entries to record broker fee accruals for loans and record daily transactions.
• Processed terminations on lease or loans and analyzed appropriate accounting results for gain and loss.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, performed critical path analysis, and identified results for reference data.
• Utilized existing internal processes and improved those same processes for software problem identification, escalation, and resolution
• Continually reviewed and revised project processes to ensure accurate and timely results.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, System Analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project, MS Visio.

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, Rational Requisite Pro, Agile, MS Office, SQL Server, MS Project, MS Access, MS Visio, Business Objects, HP Quality Center, UML, WebEx, SharePoint.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Delaware, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations on process inefficiencies to management
• Developed, maintained and supported highly customized financial reports for vendors
• Took charge of all payable accounts, credits, write-offs and payment releasing
• Wrote and maintained Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) defining new systems operations for the project using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Use cases, Use Case Diagram, Business flow diagram using Unified modeling language (UML).
• Created User Stories to communicate requirements to the development team.
• Continually reviewed and revised project processes to ensure accurate and timely results.
• Updated project status to the Project Sponsor and Senior Management on a regular basis using PowerPoint presentations.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the Accounting staff and the technical team.

Environment: Windows Vista, Rational Unified Process, Agile, Dynamics GP, MS Office, Excel-Vlookup Pivot Table, SQL Database for Basic Testing, MS Project, MS Access, UML, SharePoint.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between internal and external customers for new architecture, engineering, and provisioning business changes, enhancements, and new implementations.
• Extracted and analyzed data from various sources, and integrated all data into a business operational plan aimed to allow for scalability of the business, and forecast revenue
• Communicated information in a clear, concise, and timely manner to optimize customer relations.
• Identified process improvements, gathered and analyzed business requirements, and produced detailed functional and/or technical requirement documentation and workflow processes; diagrams for implementation.
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project
• Created Use cases, and developed detailed Use Case Diagrams and Sequence diagrams describing how actions are to be carried out using MS Visio.
• Documented processes and business requirements from identification, development lifecycle, and QA to achieve accuracy and adherence to standards.
• Worked with the QA team to prepare test strategy documents which included testing overview approach, strategy, role, responsibilities and complete scope of testing.

Environment: MS Office, Excel-Vlookup Pivot Table, PowerPoint, Access, Rational Requisite Pro, HP Quality Center, UML, SQL.

Jr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served asbusinessliaison interfacing with all departments providing technical and expertbusinessknowledge in the design, development, implementation, maintenance and support of software system.
• Interviewed managers and stakeholder to elicit system analysis and documentation of system processes.
• Conducted Gap analysis and structured walkthrough of workflow within different departments to identify and fill the gap after the implementation.
• Interacted with business analyst, system staff and developers
• Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements.
• Created Use cases, and developed detailed Use Case Diagrams and Sequence diagrams describing how actions are to be carried out using MS Visio.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), HP Quality Center, UML, SQL.