SUMMARY

• Experienced Business Analyst professional with over 7 years of solid experience. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Object - oriented analysis and Unified Modeling Language (UML) are key expertise area.
• Expert in documenting Business Requirements (BRDs), Functional Requirements (FRDs), Non-Functional Requirements, Systems Requirements Specifications (SRS), Data Mapping Document, Use Cases, Test Cases, User Interface Prototypes.
• Experience in using business modeling tools like MS Visio and Unified Modeling Language (UML) for creating Use Case Diagrams, Business Process Models, Process Flow Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, State Diagrams & work flow diagrams.
• Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners & stake holders and document analysis, represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in Gap analysis to compare As-Is with To-Be business processes and worked with technical resources to draft one or more solutions so that pros and cons can be presented to the business.
• Business Process re-engineering and analysis experience to develop solutions to complex applications.
• Strong experience in interactions with vendors and clients, understanding business applications and business data flow and experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions.
• Experience in SQL queries to extract data from various database for data analysis and generating reports per the formal specified Subjects Matter Experts (SME’s).
• Significantly experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issue.
• Excellent teamwork, verbal and written communication skills.
• Energetic, hardworking, responsible, individually capable to perform.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, RAD

Other Tools: UML, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, Word, MS-Visio

Testing Tools: QC, Jira

Languages: SQL, UML

OS: Windows, UNIX

Databases: MS-SQL Server, ORACLE, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minnesota

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements, Functional and Technical specifications with business analyst and QA manager in a Tightly Controlled Agile Scrum Environment and Agile Project Management Framework.
• Review Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Detail Design Document, and workflow documents in order to review test scripts and test cases using QA standards.
• Developed Test Cases based on the requirement documents, use cases and technical specifications.
• Facilitated (JAD) Joint Application Development sessions to identify business rules and requirements and then documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people for business domain areas.
• Responsible for scheduling and modulating kick-off meetings, review meetings, mid-checkpoint meetings and approval meetings with Product/Project Manager, SMEs and Business to identify requirements, document them in SR Specification Documents.
• Performed GAP analysis through extensive Workflow and Business Process analysis and documenting, leading to final approval and hand-off to the development team.
• Reviewed Technical Design documents, Requirement Documents, Project Specification documents.
• Used central repository for storing and tracing the requirements in the Requirement Management Module of Quality Center.
• Performed Data Analysis on the extracted data, data cleansing and scrubbing.
• Conducted weekly QA meetings on how to improve current processes and reduce the turnaround time.

Confidential, Albany, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed designs and prototypes for business domain application features, worked closely with software developers to ensure that business classes are developed properly.
• Used Visio to carry out the business modeling and object modeling effort to develop the information business architecture and workflow diagrams for the application for rapid and controlled Web Application development.
• Interviewing the Business and I.T. SMEs to gather critical data elements.
• Performing Pain Point analysis to identify the critical system anomalies.
• Working with Data Trustees to implement the enterprise data dictionary.
• Prepared BRD capturing requirements to build a user portal for accessing the Business glossary.
• Creating mockups demonstrating high level design of the data dictionary portal.
• Reviewing data profiling reports to identify the data related issues as a part of Data Quality Module.
• Creating use cases to capture business scenarios, identify gaps and ensure all business critical data elements are supported by the data model.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Balsamic, HP QC, Dot Net, Windows

Confidential - Basking Ridge, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used agile methodology for managing the SDLC for project.
• Excellent understanding of Basel II/ III models, methodologies and implementation aspects
• Provided new business & technological ideas related to Change Processes / business process improvements (SDLC based) / process re-engineering.
• As involved in multiple projects, worked on both Agile as well as traditional waterfall methodology for the project implementation cycle.
• Experience in creating QA Metrics (Test summary and progress report)
• Defined problem domain by gathering requirements from business user and stakeholders and transformed functional requirements into system requirement specifications.
• Created Use Case model and Process flow diagrams.
• Developed and managed project plans and schedules.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, and supervising the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Interacted with Users, Developers, Project Manager to write business requirement.
• Coordinated monthly meetings and got user feedback at every step of the development process.
• Used JIRA to track bugs and system enhancements.

Environment: MS Visio, HTML, SQL, Oracle, Windows, Jira

Confidential, Wellesley, MA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, analyzed and documented the technical requirements that were critical to the business mission and used those requirements to design application software using a Use case.
• Conducted JAD sessions for open and pending issues.
• Created detailed designs and prototypes for business domain application features, worked closely with software developers to ensure that business classes are developed properly.
• Used Visio to carry out the business modeling and object modeling effort to develop the information business architecture and workflow diagrams for the application for rapid and controlled Web Application development.
• Participated in the analysis of user interface design efforts; participated in design sessions, documented and validated recommendations.
• Analyzed Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using Visio. Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.
• Trained clients in the use of product definition tools and serve as a resource throughout the project implementation process. Involved in documenting Quality Assurance procedures and policies complying with rules.
• Developed test cases with different scenarios and aligned them to the Functional Requirements.
• Conducted, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and System testing.
• Schedule meetings with the development team to estimate time required for the new changes.
• Performed feasibility and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from User perspective.
• Documented project plans, process flow, timelines and other technical requirements.

Environment: MS Office, MS SharePoint, MS Project, HP Quality Center, MS Visio, Jira, VB.Net, SQL Server