SUMMARY:

• Demonstrated ability to employ fact - based decision-making to resolve complex problems, by applying logic analysis, business and technical knowledge
• Demonstrated experience in Business Requirements Analysis and documentation, User Story development and Acceptance Criteria analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in using business drawing software tool Axure for creating mockups.
• Solid experience leading and carrying out all phases of full SDLC from planning, analyzing, designing, building and testing.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies
• Solid understanding and demonstrated experience in using Agile Project Management tools such as Jira, Rally and Trello.
• Experience in facilitating Scrum related activities, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective, and client demos
• Create and maintain product backlog
• Prioritize the backlog according to business value and stakeholder input
• Ability to negotiate scope and timeline with Product Owners and the team
• Monitor, track issues, risks and dependencies on analysis and requirements work
• Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision
• Ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives
• Ability to manage multiple project tasks with changing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Experience in identifying, mitigating, and managing project risks and issues
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders, mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and resolve conflicts.
• Ability to estimate impact changes of requirements on project timeline, resources and costs.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Demonstrated experience in defining and initiating projects, manage scope, cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
• Manage resource availability and allocation for all projects Manage onshore and offshore teams.
• Guide and mentor the scrum team and the Product Owners on how to use the Scrum Practices.
• Expertise in documenting the User acceptance testing (UAT) criteria, assist business teams in conducting UAT and documentation .
• Solid understanding and demonstrated experience in Microsoft Tools.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire the will to win.
• Demonstrated and applied experience in establishing and delivering complex projects Exemplary core Business Analysis skills and Project Management skills Strong presentation skills . Focused and versatile team player .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Tracking: JIRA, RALLY, TRELLO

Microsoft Office Applications: MS Word, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point, MS Visio and Microsoft Outlook Express.

Reporting Tool: SAP Business Objects Xi R3

ETL tools: Informatica 8.6

Testing Tool: Mercury Quality Center 9.0 / 9.2

Database: Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, SQL

Database Tools: TOAD, MySql

Other Tools: Bizagi, Axure, Asana, Ideaboardz

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston,TX

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interface with business owners to understand their business needs
• Communicate clearly and precisely with the Product Owners regarding requirements and discrepancies affecting systems and processes for technical deliverables.
• Recommend functional approaches to address business needs and requirements
• Perform GAP analysis and validate requirements by Brainstorming, Conducting JAD Sessions, Interviews...
• Elicit, Elaborate and Create detailed User stories, Acceptance criteria, Screen mock-ups, Flow diagrams, etc. outlining the solution to be implemented
• Update and maintain requirements based on change requests
• Perform scenario analysis and coverage within business OwnersWork with development and QA teams to facilitate knowledge transfer for effective coding and testing.
• Create scenarios to convey requirement complexity
• Analyze test cases to ensure adequate test coverage on requirements
• Facilitate and participate in user acceptance testing
• Mentoring and developing team members
• Escalate and make recommendations to resolve issues
• Work with business owners to conduct user acceptance testing and obtain sign-off to ensure all requirements are implemented according to business specifications.
• Communicate with management regarding project progress and decisions.
• Act as point of contact for the Product owners for all requirements related issues
• Create and maintain Product backlog
• Prioritize stories in the product backlog for a specific team, according to business value
• Identify product release content and timeline
• Develop project work plans to effectively implement change management
• Convey the vision and goal at the beginning of every release and sprint to Development Teams
• Coordinate all production releases including maintenance releases
• Facilitate and lead the Scrum meetings including Planning, Retrospective, Demo, PDCA and RCA .
• Manage all scrum activities
• Maintain product quality and timeliness of efforts
• Assist team in development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work
• Defining project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value Develop presentations for demos.

Management System

Responsibilities:

• Interface with business owners to understand their business needs
• Communicate clearly and precisely with the Product Owners regarding requirements and discrepancies affecting systems and processes for technical deliverables.
• Recommend functional approaches to address business needs and requirements
• Perform GAP analysis and validate requirements by Brainstorming, Conducting JAD Sessions, Interviews...
• Elicit, Elaborate and Create detailed User stories, Acceptance criteria, Screen mock-ups, Flow diagrams, etc. outlining the solution to be implemented
• Update and maintain requirements based on change requests
• Perform scenario analysis and coverage within business Owners
• Work with development and QA teams to facilitate knowledge transfer for effective coding and testing.
• Create scenarios to convey requirement complexity
• Analyze test cases to ensure adequate test coverage on requirements Facilitate and participate in user acceptance testing Escalate and make recommendations to resolve issuesWork with business owners to conduct user acceptance testing and obtain sign-off to ensure all requirements are implemented according to business specifications.
• Develop project work plans to effectively implement change management Communicate with management regarding project progress and decisions.
• Act as point of contact for the Product owners for all requirements related issues
• Create and maintain Product backlog
• Prioritize stories in the product backlog for a specific team, according to business value Identify product release content and timeline
• Convey the vision and goal at the beginning of every release and sprint to Development Teams
• Coordinate all production releases including maintenance releases
• Facilitate and lead the Scrum meetings including Planning, Retrospective, Demo, PDCA and RCA .
• Manage all scrum activities are tracked, and kept up-to-date, and reported on a daily basis
• Maintain product quality and timeliness of efforts
• Assist team in development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work
• Mentoring and developing team members
• Defining project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value Develop presentations for demos.

Business Analyst / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a liaison between the business community and the Technical team throughout the development life cycle, to help ensure technical solutions meet user needs.
• Participate in meeting with Product Owners to gather and define business requirements
• Analyze business requirements to present findings to internal teams and work with Scrum team to identify implementation solutionsDevelop detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, screen mock-ups, flow diagrams, etc. outlining the solution to be implemented
• Work with team members to complete all tasks throughout the project lifecycle, Act as point of contact for the Product Owners for all requirements related issues Assist QA in Regression and Smoke Testing.
• Assist QA with internal test preparation by creating test cases, test conditions, and test data
• Assist QA with internal test execution, inclusive of documenting results, tracking defects, and trouble-shooting defects and issues that arise out of testing
• Plan, coordinate, and execute User Acceptance Tests Maintain product quality and timeliness of efforts Manage User stories and update the backlog.
• Update and maintain requirements based on change requests
• Assist team in development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work
• Mentoring and developing team members
• Defining project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value
• Work with business owners to conduct user acceptance testing and obtain sign-off to ensure all requirements are implemented according to business specifications.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into operational requirement
• Present analysis results and transfer knowledge to the project members in an efficient way Act as a liaison between the business community and the Technical team Review, analyze and evaluate business and user needs.
• Update and maintain requirements based on change requests
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs and steps required to develop or modify the functionalities.
• Assist QA in Regression and Smoke Testing.
• Assist QA with internal test preparation by creating test cases, test conditions, and test data
• Assist QA with internal test execution, inclusive of documenting results, tracking defects, and trouble-shooting defects and issues that arise out of testing
• Plan, coordinate, and execute User Acceptance TestsAnalyze test cases to ensure adequate test coverage on requirements Escalate and make recommendations to resolve issues

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Initiated writing the scope of the project by conducting series of the meetings and workshops with the business owners and end users.
• Involved in writing the Business Requirement documents and getting the sign-offs from users and business.
• Engaged the business users to define the Future State.
• Participated in design review sessions with SME's and the Developers team.
• Update and maintain requirements based on change requests
• Assisted testing team in developing test cases and provide necessary subject matter support for the testing cycle.
• Performed user acceptance testing (UAT), interacted with users for execution of test cases in UAT.
• Communicated and interacted on a regular basis with the development team during different stages of the project
• Created documentation for training the end users.
• Participated in design review sessions with Project Managers and the Developers team.