SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst / Business System Analyst with diverse experience in Finance/Mortgage, Technology and IT Industries.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, RUP)
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) with Stakeholders, SME's, Business Users and Tech Lead to obtain domain level information of project.
• Experience in developing Business Requirement Documents (BRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS), Unified Modeling Language (UML) Diagrams.
• Proficient with GAP Analysis, Risk Analysis and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Proficient with high level logical data models, data mapping, data warehousing and data analysis.
• Extensive knowledge in data validation in Oracle and SQL by writing SQL queries.
• Expertise in System Integration Testing, Manual Testing, preparing Test Plans and Test Cases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server 2000, MySQL, MS Access

SDLC Methodologies: SDLC, RUP, Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), SOA

Requirement Management Tools: Requisite Pro, DOORS, HP Quality Center

Business Modeling Tools: BDMS, MS Excel, MS Project

Defect Tracking Tool: JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sparks, MD

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement elicitation sessions with business stakeholders to gather functional requirement.
• Facilitated sessions with business and IT stakeholders for planning and development.
• Attended backlog grooming session with product owner to prioritize user stories and also ensured sufficient acceptance criteria is mentioned for the user stories.
• Responsible for identifying business logic and documenting work products like activity flow, process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Interacted with onshore and offshore development team on a regular basis to provide an understanding of existing application.
• Conducted meetings with business users and SMEs to identify and gather various functional and non - functional requirements.
• Reviewed functional test cases and documented high level test scenarios for UAT and worked with UAT stakeholders to get approval.
• Facilitated sprint demos for the product delivered.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, Lotus Notes, Agile, Java, SharePoint 2003 & 2010, UML, Sybase, XML, Cold fusion.

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed verification on business rule families and decision models using BDMS tool, to test the accuracy of the business logic, achieving time efficiency for the business team to help meet deadlines.
• Conducted elaboration sessions with concerned business stakeholders for gathering requirements and development of business rules.
• Responsible for identifying business logic for future state systems by using gap analysis and documenting work products like activity flow, process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Documented functional requirement specification (FRS), system requirement specifications (SRS) using DOORS, to provide detailed information on how the To-Be system is supposed to function.
• Created UI screen mock-ups for the future state application using Axure and MS Visio.
• Conducted Demo (Lead, PEEK and PEER) review sessions with development, testing, user interface and business teams for approval, suggestions and sign off on the work products.
• Provided support to the testing team with creating test cases and actively participated in test case reviews, to provide feedback.
• Worked on analyzing the impact of change requests (CR) on existing requirements and incorporating them in the requirements.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, DOORS, Lotus Notes, Axure, Agile Scrum, BDMS, Java SharePoint 2013, UML, Sybase, MS Access, XML.

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Sr. Business Analyst/ QA

Responsibilities:

• Accumulated business requirements through interviews and joint application development (JAD) sessions to document high level scenarios.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Methodology for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business stakeholders, and assisting in the identification and definition of requirements, use cases (using Pega DCO), process flows and user interfaces.
• Documented, managed and prioritized user stories and write acceptance criteria’s for the same with regular interactions with the product owner and scrum master.
• Performed SWOT and Risk Analysis to Identify and estimate the scope of the major design, development and deployment of the application.
• Attended backlog grooming session with product owner to prioritize user stories and also ensured sufficient acceptance criteria is mentioned for the user stories.
• Conducted regular JAD sessions with offshore and onsite Shareholder's, SME's and Tech Lead to understand their product specifications/requirements.
• Worked with a team of consultants to create and maintain different documents like Requirements document, Process Flow diagrams, Wireframes, PowerPoint presentations and User Manual.
• Performed data analysis by executing SQL queries using query tools for such as TOAD, MySQL, Putty.
• Documented test cases and managed change requests and defects using JIRA.
• Worked as a UAT (User Acceptance Testing) facilitator.

Environment: MS Office, PEGA BPM, MS Visio, Agile Scrum, SQL, SharePoint, UML, Mainframe, .Net, MS Access, Soap UI, JIRA, HP Quality Center, ETL.

Confidential, New York, NY

Graduate Assistant (Business Analyst)

Responsibilities:

• Conducted brainstorming sessions with stakeholders to gather and prepare high level requirements, used in the creation of business requirement document.
• Accumulate system requirements from various departments through surveys and interviews
• Developed use cases, business process flow diagrams, activity diagrams & sequence diagrams.
• Manage web pages, spreadsheets and documents to provide timely and accurate information for data customers.
• Performed feasibility analysis and created project and budget plan with the project manager using MS Project.
• Maintain documents for change requests and track all changes using requirement traceability matrix.
• Ran and downloaded data to analyze reports in excel using vlookup, formulas and pivot tables.
• Prepare and distribute quarterly reports on student enrollments.

Environment: MS Office, UML, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Project, Oracle 9i, Java

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings for gathering requirements from business users of different departments for understanding the functionality of the business.
• Documented the user requirements, analyzed, prioritized and converted them to system (functional and non-functional) requirements.
• Attended sprint sessions with the project manager and build manager for knowledge transfer about the current system.
• Documented Business and Data scripts after understanding the system thoroughly and translating them to the developers helping them in corporate the current system features into the future system.
• Created wireframes for the self-service portal.
• Worked with the test team in testing the different reports across multiple lines of business.
• Involved in user acceptance testing (UAT), test planning, documentation of test reports etc.

Environment: SQL, MS Office, MS Visio, Windows XP