SUMMARY:

• Proficient in Management skills, Business Processes, Agile, SDLC, RUP, project management, Testing and Reporting Six Sigma Certified professional with over Ten years of experience as a Sr.IT Business Analyst/Project Manager, Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, Energetic, adaptive and fast learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Adobe AEM 6.0, Mingle, Jira, Quality Center, Rally Dev, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Jive, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, Docusign, Sharepoin t, Wordpress, Team site, Adobe Target,Adobe Analytics

Environment: WINDOWS 95/98/2000/NT/XP, MS DOS, Solaris and UNIX

Languages: SQL, H TML, XML, Java script, .Net, Java, Rest API

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, and MS - Access.

App/Web Servers: iPlanet, Tomcat, Apache, MS IIS

Microsoft Tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Power point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San jose, CA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements, analyzed the system and wrote user stories
• Led the program successfully from conception to launch
• Managed backlog and tested stories for acceptance
• Documented BRD, use cases, business cases and training manual
• Liasion between IT, business groups and external vendors.
• Planned project deliverables, resourcing, estimated budget and delivered on schedule.
• Resolve d problems by clarifying issues, alternative solutions; implementing solution, escalating unresolved problems and coordinating with other teams.
• Updated project status in the PMO
• Interacted with Devops and Release management inorder to plan Production launch.
• Worked with UX to create mockups, prototypes and wireframes
• Facilitated sprint planning, pre-sprint planning sessions and daily stand ups
• Facilitated UAT and bug triage session
• Resolved customer production tickets
• P erformed root cause analysis on system processes.
• Proficient in Modelling techniques, Risk Analysis, Gap Analysis, Use Cases, cause effect diagrams, Cost benefit analysis and optimized processes for efficiency.
• Managed a team of onsite and offshore team members
• Maintained excellent long term relationship with stakeholders
• Mapped and documented processes from AS IS to TO BE State
• Prepare status and tracking documentation including progress reports, team updates, status requests
• Reviewed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Specification Document for the application under test (AUT).
• Increased agility and maintained alignment of all stakeholders throughout the software development life cycle by understanding the motivations and concerns of the cross-functional teams, and communicating effectively across those teams

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system and wrote user stories.
• Proficient in Modeling techniques, Risk Analysis, Gap Analysis, Use Cases, Cause-effect diagrams and Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Implemented best practices for continuous improvement.
• Led cross-functional teams from conception through to launch. I'm the go-to person with the ability to adapt to change and the creativity to solve problems under business and technology constraints. I'm the communicator and bridge between design, technology, and business teams
• Maintained Metrics and KPI’s
• Part of Agile Transformation team for HP.
• Organized and conducted training programs for different teams located in different geographical locations for HP.
• Liasion between business, IT groups and external vendor.
• Routinely briefed executive management, articulating product strategy, release planning, key performance indicators,change management and lessons learned from retrospectives .
• Interviewed Stakeholders and business users to understand the requirements .
• Reviewed and created Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Specification Document for the application under test (AUT).

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions and presentations for approval from business
• Formed a link between Business users and IT Team.
• Analyze business requirements and maintained traceability, segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, activity diagrams/state chart diagrams according to UML technology thus defining the data process models.
• Met with Business users to get reporting requirements.
• Analyzed the User Requirement Document (URD), Software Specification Document (SRS) and prepared System Test Plan by dividing the application in to manageable units.
• Formed a link between Business users and IT Team.
• Documented the requirements and followed Agile methodology
• Conducted Functionality, Integration and Regression Testing.
• Prepare status and tracking documentation including progress reports, team updates, status requests
• Developed, implemented and executed test methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality
• Performed manual testing, reported defects, verified fixes and closed bugs during regression testing
• Interacted with developers, discussed the Specifications provided by the Analysts and eliminated discrepancies in the application.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and maintained Traceability, segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, activity diagrams/state chart diagrams according to UML technology thus defining the data process models.
• Conducted Presentations for approval from the Business
• Interacted with end users to understand the functional requirements of the application
• Analyzed the User Requirement Document (URD), Software Specification Document (SRS) and prepared System Test Plan by dividing the application in to manageable units. Version control of modules from Development to QA.
• Created Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Specification Document for the application under test (AUT)
• Documented the requirements in the Requirement Module of the Test Director.
• Conducted Functionality, Integration and Regression Testing an wrote automation scripts using QTP.