SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in IT industry with expertise in Business System Analysis, Requirements Management, Process Management, Quality Assurance and Data Modeling.
• Expert in PowerPoint presentations in meetings to have a visual display of project status.
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) aspects such as product lifecycle, development, requirement management, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration etc.
• Experience in conducting JAD sessions for project definition involving analyzing requirements, creating prototypes, user interface, database schema, estimates and budget.
• Experience with use case writing, use case modeling and requirement analysis
• Extensive experience in Developing Process and Business rules and reserve engineering for the process documentation.
• Experience in requirement management in DOORS, IBM’s RepPro, JIRA, Excel and Rally.
• Experience in interpreting business requirements, recognizing impact on business processes, and making recommendations.
• Expert in gathering and documenting requirements.
• Expert in writing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Test Plan and Test Cases
• Ability to drive project timelines to completion with a cross - functional team
• Experience in project maintenance via Excel & MS Project.
• Strong technical, problem-solving & analytical skills.
• Exceptional communication, organization & client-service skills.
• Expedite in Agile adaption and cultural transformation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile, SDLC, ALM, Waterfall

Tracking Tools: JIRA, DOORS, IBM s ReqPro & Rally.

Process Tools: Rational Requisite Pro 2001, DOORS, Excel

Workflow Tools: MS-VISIO, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, and SharePoint

Databases: JIRA, MYSQL, MS-Access

Reporting tools: MS-Access, Business Object, Crystal Reports, and Hyperion

Operating Systems: Unix (HP, SCO, Solaris), Windows (95, 98, XP, 2000, NT), Linux (Red Hat, SuSE 7.x)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review, analyze and evaluate data/systems business requirements for existing and new development.
• Engage in scrum roles, Agile techniques, Lean thinking & Cultural transformation.
• Conduct sessions with legal team to gather/review pure business and Legal requirements.
• Participated in Agile ceremonies like Sprint planning, Daily scrum stand up & Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Groom and create user stories, define acceptance criteria, assign story points and add those to specific iterations in Rally.
• Elicit, validate, organize and document technical and business specifications and functional needs and modifies existing requirements
• Facilitate technical meetings with business partners, IT and project team to establish business rules.
• Re-organized business requirement methods to bring key project back on track
• Manage the transition &execution of project management processes in agile environment.
• Created RTM to make sure all requirements are completed and traceable.
• Create use Cases & process flows using VISIO
• Assist UI & technical team in analyzing and translating business requirements to ensure accurate understanding and provide support in application design.
• Evolved into Subject Matter Expert who could easily liaise between IT and other departments.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior Analysts on the team as needed.
• Provide regular status reports to clients, developers, and management as needed
• Track records of managing multiple projects across development lifecycle (analysis through implementation).
• Track progress of user stories and associated tasks in Rally during daily status meetings.
• Document & track project risks, changes & issues through resolution.
• Communicate changes to requirements and project to all stakeholders.
• Engage with business and end-user teams to understand pain points and solution issues in conjunction with the business partners and IT support administrators.

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interview business area experts, asked detailed questions and transitioned interview findings into requirements.
• Worked closely with the Client in defining requirements and translating them into functional and system requirements
• Assisted Project manager with plan.
• Responsible for Business, Functional, and Data Requirements for the customization and integration of the application.
• Involved in documentation management, schedule maintenance, status reporting, capturing & dissemination of minutes & action items
• Set up walkthrough meetings with Business Users/Directors
• Conducted business process modeling and created as is and to be processes.
• Became deeply immersed and knowledgeable about core business functions, processes, legalities & workflow
• Responsible to create detailed Process Flows Diagrams for end-to-end process.
• Conduct meetings with Subject Matter Experts to identify Business need.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to gather and verify requirements, change requests and resolve open issues.
• Gathered requirements using various elicitation techniques- brainstorming, interface analysis, focus group and prototyping.
• Indicated project from an agile way, emphasizing, and implementing agile methodology.
• Documented and regulated requirements in DOORS- requirement management tool
• Converted Epics down to user stories- involved in grooming, planning & moving user stories to backlog and development.
• Assisted QA team to research and understand defects.
• Conducted business process modeling and created as is and to be processes.
• Assisted technical teams in analyzing and translating business requirements to ensure accurate understanding and application design.
• Conducted requirements walkthrough meetings and reviews with Business Users/Directors to obtain approval.
• Used SQL quires to perform data analysis in order to understand and complete data requirements.
• Gathered compliance requirements needed for SOX testing
• Analyzed problems and applied innovative approach to solve technical issues by determining root cause, scope and scale of issues.
• Extensively researched, compiled, and documented business processes, and workflow.
• Conducted gap analysis and documented results.
• Have weekly meetings with upper management to discuss defects and issues that arise.
• Prepared and implemented test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Participated in User Acceptance testing by helping End User to perform UAT.
• Conducted UAT on behalf of user.

Confidential

Business/ Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Lead System Analyst
• Served as liaison between stakeholder teams at geographically dispersed locations and internal project delivery teams.
• Created AS-IS and TO-BE process flows.
• Translate business needs into System & Functional requirements.
• Met regularly with product owner to understand his vision
• Documented epic, feature and user stories
• Wrote functional requirements and business rules
• Made sure all the user stories were completed before sprint started
• Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings and sprint review sessions
• Defined the product backlog with high level themes epics and user stories and performed backlog grooming regularly.
• Conducted requirements walkthrough sessions with Development, QA and product teams to help understand requirements and document queries for clarifications
• Interviewed business area experts, asked detailed questions and transitioned interview findings into requirements.
• Responsible to create Business Requirements Document
• Conduct meetings with Subject Matter Experts to identify Business need
• Responsible to create detailed Process Flows Diagrams for end-to-end process.
• Identify Risks and suggested relevant Controls for entire process for SOX purpose
• Provided guidance to ensure that the processes are in compliance with SOX
• Responsible for creation of Project Charter and Scope of Project
• Responsible to identify GAPs and creating GAP Matrices
• Responsible for documenting discussion from meetings with Vendors and Business Sponsors.
• Created Business Procedure Documentation to depict Business process flow.
• Responsible for Weekly Project report of key project statistics mainly targeting weekly milestones reached and Gap incurred.
• Preparing Project plan, Status reports, traceability matrix
• Creating, Executing Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Designing and implemented test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing.
• Responsible for preparing the existing SQL platform for upgrades that were installed as soon as they were released.
• Assisted in creating and presenting informational reports for management based on SQL data.
• Created data trace map and data quality mapping documents.
• Performed Data Profiling and Data Quality.

Confidential

Business/ Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and reviewed requirements from the End Users to understand the application.
• Prepared the Test Plan and Test Cases based on the Functional Specifications.
• Design, Development, Implementation and Documentation of the application.
• Using Quality Center to Enter Requirements, Test Plan and record Defects.
• Conducting Meeting with developers and data team to talk about defects.
• Designed and implemented test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed end- to-end System testing on the release version of the software application and detected and resolved bugs/defects.
• Analyzed data requirements and controls, to develop technical requirements for the internal control and analytical reports.
• Interfaced with Subject Matter Experts to document business processes and systems features/function
• Determined user/business/functional requirements. Created vision, scope, and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and state chart diagrams.
• Using Rational Functional Tester to test the application and also to automate it.
• Scheduled and attended internal team meetings with developers and data team to talk about defects.
• Training User on how to operate the application and go through with the Functionality of the application.