SUMMARY:

• A Proficient Business Analyst with more than 5 years on process analysis, data analysis and information management.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology, Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Facilitated and participated in Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions to elicit requirements effectively.
• Efficient in business requirement gathering techniques such as Questionnaires, Interviews, and Prototyping.
• Determine user/business/functional requirements and produced work flow processes and diagrams using Microsoft Visio and other Microsoft Suite Applications
• Strong analytical skills to convert business problems into Functional Design Specifications, Troubleshooting and Effective Problem Solving.
• Experience with Unified Modeling Language (UML) for developing, Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
• Experience in Data Modeling & Data Analysis, Logical Modeling, As - Is and To-Be Mapping, Feasibility- studies, vision-scope documents.
• Worked as Analyst for implementation and upgrade, Application maintenance and product development.
• Creating functional specification documentation for the technical team application understanding and creating technical specifications.
• Extensive experience of working with the End Users and the System team.
• Expertise in SQL server and performance tuning of the systems.
• Strong Object Oriented Analysis, Designing and Programming skills.
• Very strong in DB designing and implementation concepts.
• Aware of the Quality aspects of the Software Engineering pertaining to SEI-CMM Model.
• Have complete understanding of SDLC phases and have worked on all the phases such as Requirement Analysis, Designing, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance.
• Excellent writing skills in preparing business requirements documents (BRDs), system requirement specifications (SRS), system design specifications (SDS), functional specifications, and defining project plans.
• A self-starter willing to tackle new and challenging problems and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good exposure working with various development teams and fast learning on new technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills.
• Proven communication and presentation Skills.
• Working with different teams helped gain people skills and become a team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: MS SQL Server

Concepts: RUP,JAD, SCRUM methodology, AGILE methodologies

Languages: ASP.NET, C#, MVC, HTML, HTML5, XML, CSS, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery and JavaScript, C++, SQL, SSRS

Documenting Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio

Testing Tools: QTP

Reporting Tools: SSRS, Power Point, Report Viewer, MS Word, MS Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Monmouth Jn, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented Functional Requirements, including detailed data validations.
• Developed Use cases and activity diagrams for the user registration, subscriptions based on authority and inventory management.
• Participated in Design meetings and Brainstorming sessions to improve process flows. Created high level process flows for proposed options for the team to review.
• Interviewed key users and Subject Matter Experts to gather detailed requirements.
• Documented Business Process flows and Application Process flows (Current State Analysis).
• Reviewed and Analyzed Business requirements and communicated requirement gaps to Business teams.
• Documented Business Process flows and Application Process flows (Current State Analysis).
• Documented business proposes related to external partners. Documented existing proposes and presenting the analysis based on my research.
• Responsible for writing systems, enhancing existing functions and implementing new functions
• Worked with QA Team in writing Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Involved with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) before project deployment.
• Assisted in User Training for new functionality and created training documentation and training new personnel.
• Determine user/business/functional requirements and produced work flow processes and diagrams using Microsoft Visio and other Microsoft Suite Applications.
• Performed program analysis and process assessment by reviewing existing business processes and recommending modification to existing processes and implementation of new processes to meet the objectives of the business group. Recommended changes to Business Processes and Software Applications used were presented to the users with drawings and flow charts developed using Microsoft Visio.
• Created Stored Procedures, functions in SQL.
• Created customized reports for internal and external clients on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) which helped them for quick.
• Involved in complete SDLC life cycle - Designing, Coding, Testing, Debugging and Production Support
• Developed the detail and listing view, Module Classes, Properties, CRUD layer for data access
• Working in a team environment to get a group of bugs fixed
• Developed web pages with best standards
• Provide assistance in defining and managing transaction database requirements for ongoing and special projects. Provide recommendations for database and business process enhancements to support marketing and business needs.
• Investigate data issues within the transaction database to determine cause; develop and implement recommendations for short- and long- term correction.
• Tested the application as per Business POV.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mainly responsible for interpreting the client requests into business and functional requirements.
• Conducted Requirement analysis and Design Walkthroughs with the Business users, architect and developers.
• Determine user/business/functional requirements and produced work flow processes and diagrams using Microsoft Visio and other Microsoft Suite Applications.
• Responsible for rewriting systems, enhancing existing functions and implementing new functions
• Documented requirements using MS office tools.
• Performed program analysis and process assessment by reviewing existing business processes and recommending modification to existing processes and implementation of new processes to meet the objectives of the business group. Recommended changes to Business Processes and Software Applications used were presented to the users with drawings and flow charts developed using Microsoft Visio.
• Documented Business Process flows and Application Process flows (Current State Analysis).
• Documented business proposes related to external partners. Documented existing proposes and presenting the analysis based on my research.
• Interviewed clients to elicit requirements and determine validation for trained status.
• Documented the report requirements by various regions and managerial hierarchy.
• Interacted with designers and software developers routinely to understand functionality, navigational flow to have clear visibility.
• Assisted in creating and testing multiple Static and Interactive drill-down Business Intelligence reports.
• Developed work status and completion reports to submit to management office every week.
• Handled change requests effectively by performing impact analysis.
• Participated in the Business meetings with End users for Requirement feasibility and its technical implementation
• Worked with the development team to ensure technical requirements are clear and understood and interface between end users and development team.
• Actively mine data from our SQL databases to develop predictive models
• Created SQL Stored procedures, TSQL queries, and created database schema (tables, indexes, views, etc) for bug fixes and ADHOC updates in the production/development/test environments.
• Created a comprehensive set of non functional and functional requirements, prioritized requirements for all Sprint Meetings using Agile methodology with Scrum.
• Gather data and provide Agile metrics.
• Provide assistance in defining and managing transaction database requirements for ongoing and special projects. Provide recommendations for database and business process enhancements to support marketing and business needs.
• Investigate data issues within the transaction database to determine cause; develop and implement recommendations for short- and long- term correction.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Design meetings and Brainstorming sessions to improve process flows. Created high level process flows for proposed options for the team to review.
• Reviewed and Analyzed Business requirements and communicated requirement gaps to Business teams.
• Documented Business and Function requirements using Power Designer.
• Developed Use Cases and Activity Diagrams based on the obtained requirements.
• Reviewed existing business practices and procedures and developed an action plan to implement a client / server network environment and develop a software application to streamline current business processes into a single source data structure.
• Developed user specifications, use case statements and diagrams and documents to produce a statement of work. All data modeling and user interfaces were prototyped using Microsoft Visio.
• Documented Business Process flows and Application Process flows (Current State Analysis).
• Documented business proposes related to external partners. Documented existing proposes and presenting the analysis based on my research.
• Communicated User Requirements to developers and provided activity diagrams when necessary.
• Collaborated effectively with development team with Object oriented analysis and design from a Mainframe based application to a Distributed application
• Conducted Use Case walkthroughs in an effort to identify and realize the processes and flows involved in the new system.
• Worked with QA Team in writing Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Documented the report requirements by various regions and managerial hierarchy.
• Interacted with designers and software developers routinely to understand functionality, navigational flow to have clear visibility.
• Handled change requests effectively by performing impact analysis.
• Participated in the Business meetings with End users for Requirement feasibility and its technical implementation
• Worked with the team to create the User Interface screenshots to be presented to the Business
• Testing of SQL queries, test data creation and data analysis.
• Worked on the Straight Through Process (STP).

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from Client and analyzed the specifications.
• SQL procedures and triggers for various Banking reports.
• Preparing the Analysis & Design document.
• Handling & reviewing various modules of the system.
• Provided data modeling and migration data and developed user interface mocks using Microsoft Visio.
• Preparing the Unit / System test plan and executing the Unit / System testing
• Involved in full SDLC, requirement gathering, requirement sign off, design, implementation, test plan development, functional testing, training and support.
• Communicated Change Requests to Project Management Office for effective Change Management
• Assisted in manual functionality testing of the application to make sure the application behaves as per the business requirements.
• Testing of SQL queries, test data creation and data analysis.
• Participated in Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions to effectively elicit requirements