SUMMARY:

• To acquire a full time position as a business analyst for an organization offering challenges and career advancement in a stimulating, innovative environment, with opportunities for ongoing professional education.
• Strong ability to communicate ideas/concepts to a diverse audience of business, management, technical team members to facilitate business and IT stakeholder discussions
• Proficiency in requirement elicitation by coordinating and facilitating JAD sessions, brainstorming, interviews and conduct document analysis
• Well versed in documentation of Product Definition Document (PDD), Business Requirements Document(BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Functional System Document (FSD)
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously using different metrics - burndown chart, test case progress, defect detection percentage, defect disposition and defect aging
• Expert in developing strategic business solutions which include project tracking & management, gap and risk analysis, process reengineering, facilitating functional design meeting, documenting requirements, use case analysis, business process mapping, change management, application redesign and managing UAT
• Experienced in writing use cases, use case model, analysis model, behavior diagrams (e.g. sequence diagrams, activity diagrams) and class diagrams based on UML methodology & business process flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Solid experience in quality assurance with manual/functional testing, review/creation of test plans and execute Use cases/Test cases
• Expert in working on different types of platforms/applications for analysis and quality assurance such as Unix, Solaris, Windows based, web application technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle - Toad

Tools: Jira, Rally, HP ALM, QTP, Share Point, TSS Software, Aim, Asset Works

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio

Environments: Microsoft Windows, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential, Bowie, MD

Responsibilities:

• Work independently with end users to define concepts and clarify functional and non functional requirements.
• Develop and document business requirements and functional requirements.
• Attend daily scrum meetings to update day to day activities.
• Conduct frequent meetings with different customers and vendors to ease changes to the different applications.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with the Subject matter experts (SME) to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: requirement specification document (RSD), training approach and the requirement traceability matrix (RTM).
• Gather and document the architectural plans from a legacy platform to a web based application.
• Serve as the conduit between the internal and external customers and software development team through which requirements flow.
• Participate in JAD sessions with project stakeholders to capture business rules and elicit requirements.
• Administer requirement change request process for effectively managing all software change requests.
• Utilize MS Visio to create various flow charts, use cases to provide detail outline of the various actors of the system and how the various components interact.
• Perform defect tracking and management in ALM and perform user acceptance testing (UAT).  
• Develop and maintain the business questions tracker and the comments and progress document to the project team, as well as support team members to ensure project success.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for eliciting requirements using interviews, document and business analysis on the Federal Financial Management Training Curriculum for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
• Facilitated the Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with the directors of the Finance Office in order to capture business rules, processes and requirements for the Federal Financial Management Training Curriculum.
• Worked with the project team to define concepts and clarify Functional and Non Functional requirements on a weekly basis.
• Gathered and documented the architectural plans for migrating different courses and vendors from a legacy platform to a web based curriculum.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings and utilized the agile process for streamlining the team’s development activities.
• Conducted frequent meetings to interview subject matter experts (SME) to gather and document business needs and translate them into functional requirement document (FRD).
• Proactively communicated and collaborated with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: deployment/implementation plan, requirement specification document (RSD) and the requirement traceability matrix (RTM).
• Utilized MS Visio to create various process flow diagrams and use cases to provide detail outline of the various actors of the system and how the various components of the system interact.
• Administered and developed the change management plan in order to effectively manage all change requests by the customer to the curriculum.
• Collaborated with the Finance Office training team to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Provided weekly reports on the project schedule, the business questions tracker to the scrum master and the comments and progress document to the subject matter experts (SME), as well as support team members to ensure project success.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Joint Application Development Sessions (JAD) with project stakeholders in order to capture business rules, processes and system requirements for the Medicaid Part D prescription enhancement.
• Solely responsible for eliciting requirements using interviews, scenarios, requirement workshops on the MARx D.
• Manage Requirements in DOORS.
• Administered requirement change process (RCR) for effectively managing all software change requests.
• Participated in sprint planning meetings and writing user stories.
• Effectively collaborated with stakeholder to analyze information needs, for user stories’ acceptance criteria and process flow diagrams.
• Assisted in developing test plans and performed user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Planned and conducted meetings including, but not limited to: documentation review meetings, gap analysis sessions, application development sessions.
• Communicated with stakeholder to define concepts and clarify functional and non functional requirements.