OBJECTIVE:

• 8+ years of experience in Business Analyst in Confidential .
• Seeking a Position as Business Analyst in a Company where I can apply my experience and efficiently contribute to the company’s growth.

SUMMARY:

• Experienced all phase of Software Development Life Cycle using waterfall, Rational Unified Model and Agile Methodologies including documenting Business Requirements, functional specifications identifying use cases.
• Efficient in conducting result oriented JAD sessions and act as a meetings coordinator with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Skilled in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML), drawing Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams, using Enterprise Architect & MS Visio.
• Defining and designing Test Cases, Test Scripts and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• A Good Team player, energetic, result - oriented, fast learner, excellent communication skills with strong research capabilities.
• Has Understanding on Medicaid, Medicare.
• Have worked on ERP Implementation in PeopleSoft for Confidential Project.
• Also Has a Good understanding of Business Process Management (BPM) Lifecycle

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodology: Waterfall, RUP, Agile (Scrum), ITIL Framework, Web Development Life Cycle.

Packages: MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook)

Tools: MS SharePoint, Visio, Enterprise Architect, Axure, PeopleSoft, JIRA.

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/7/8 and NT.

Languages: HTML, DHTML.

Technology: Understanding on Web Designing, WDLC, Web Services.

SDLC Methodology: Waterfall, RUP, Agile (Scrum), ITIL Framework, Web Development Life Cycle.

Packages: MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook)

Tools: MS SharePoint, Visio, Enterprise Architect, Axure, PeopleSoft, JIRA.

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/7/8 and NT.

Languages: HTML, DHTML.

Technology: Understanding on Web Designing, WDLC, Web Services.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Confidential, FloridaBusiness Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted brainstorming sessions with the business users and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to gather requirements.
• Created "As-Is Business Models", by meeting with subject matter experts from Various Insurance Departments like Auto Insurance, P & C Insurance, Claims & customer service.
• Documented the business requirements in the form of BRDs.
• Facilitated in designing the wireframes for the self-service portal and authored the Functional Requirement Document.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Conducted requirement workshops among all project stakeholders to verify and validate the business requirements.
• Worked closely with the web development team to help them understand the requirements and supported the implementation efforts by answering questions of the developers related to the requirements.
• Conducted Wireframe's and Functional Requirement Document walkthroughs with the Business Owner and took a sign-off.
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Review the user stories and reprioritize them along with my internal team. The highest prioritized goals were transferred to a Sprint Backlog.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings.
• Attended the Sprint Retrospective meetings with the scrum master and the scrum team to review what went well and what should be improved.
• Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Defined and implemented Change Management policies and procedures.
• Worked on SQL queries to extract and validate data from databases.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers.
• Involved in reviewing Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.

Environment: MS World, MS Excel, MS Visio, Jira.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Established a Business Analysis methodology around the Rational Unified Process.
• Researched the various steps in the lifecycle and then constructed the system in a way that the high risk customers would be easily identified and monitored.
• Conduct JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Systems Architects, Global Business Teams, Development, and Testing teams.
• Conduct business process reengineering and generate applicable Use Case scenarios for the technology functionality testing team.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams.
• Well versed in conducting different kinds of tests such as functionality, limit, positive, negative, integration, user acceptance, storage, performance, load, security, installation etc.
• Created Use Case Models, Analysis Models, Design Models, Use Case Diagrams, Behavior Diagrams and Class Diagrams based on UML methodology using MS Visio.
• Involved in preparing high level estimations for the Test case requirement for the different levels.
• Query optimization using SQL Profiler and performance monitors to enhance the performance of database servers.
• Used MS Visio for Process modelling, Process mapping and Business Process flow diagrams.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and Project directors.

Confidential, NY

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Organized JAD sessions with management, SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications
• Analyzed the process, gathered requirements and framed on a functional requirement documents with the senior Business Analysts.
• Acted as a secondary liaison between stakeholders: system users, clients and managers, who have a business problem, and software development team to gather requirements.
• Assisted in Creating Business Requirements Document and converting them into System Requirement specifications Document.
• Designed and developed Use Case Narratives, Use case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams
• Coordinated with the development team, database team, and QA team on project status as well as on functional testing.
• Coordination with SMEs on Use Acceptance testing.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functionality of the application.
• Participated in team meetings with development and business team.
• Gathering HR requirement and analysis of the requirement
• Monitor and control of various requirements of the company
• Co-ordination with development team and testing team to complete the requirement.
• Involved as a UAT in Agile methodology, arranged and be with Business user for UAT
• Creation of Test scenarios and Test cases by analyzing the functional specifications.
• Defect reporting and prioritize defects to be fixed using an understanding of the business requirements and the needs of the customer.