Sr. Business Analyst Resume TX - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 9+ years of diverse experience in Business Analysis and Project Management.
Certified PMP & Scrum Master (CSM).
Experience in various domains like Finance, Banking, Insurance, Mortgage and Infrastructure.
Excellent understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies/models including Agile/ Scrum & Waterfall.
Excellent skills in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), USE Case Specifications, Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and designing Wireframes & Mockups.
Experience in developing Use cases, Process Flow, Activity diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD's) and Requirement Tractability Matrix (RTM).
Expertise in conducting GAP analysis using AS - IS and To-BE business.
Strong Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), Business Partners, end-users, Development, Testing and QA teams.
Experience in supporting testing team in creating test plans, test cases and tracking defects.
Great understanding and practice of PABOK & BABOK.
Professional with excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
Great team player, experience working with culturally diverse teams and also with offshore-onsite teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, TX

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for gathering, documenting & defining business requirements at all levels in an easy to understand format.
Defining and breaking down Epic Requirement User stories into smaller stories to accomplish the task.
Documents and maintains Business Requirements Document (BRD) throughout the life cycle of projects.
Prepared Process Flow Diagrams, workflows and timelines using MS Visio & Gliffy.
Worked extensively the agile frame work.
Facilitated Daily Scrum meetings & weekly/bi-weekly review meetings whenever needed.
Supported Data architects/ETL team to establish the Data warehouse.
Conducts JAD Sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests.
Decomposed business problems quickly and work with the project team to determine the root cause and provide solution alternatives.
Provided demos and walkthroughs to various stakeholders.
Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with stakeholders and business users.
Participated in the QA process by validating reported defects/changes against requirements.
Ensured all tasks are managed to a successful conclusion and communicated to the customer.

Environment: MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, Quality Center 8.0, .Net, SQL Server, JIRA, Confluence

Confidential, CT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the process definitions and business requirements gathering and analyzing.
Liaison between the business team and technical team.
Gathered requirements through Interview, surveys and existing documentation.
Analyzed Requirements and created Use cases, Use Case diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
Provided input to metrics used to determine operational performance, staffing needs, productivity, or other measures deemed valuable to an organization.
Involved in designing User Interfaces for developing prototypes.
Participated in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users and stakeholders.
Created Use cases, Use Case Diagrams and Process Flow Diagram using Unified modelling language (UML).
Performed Gap Analysis for the existing system in order to map it to the To-Be system using interviews and surveys.
Used Rational Requisite Pro for managing the requirements.

Environment: MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, Rational Requisite, Quality Centre, UML, HTML, JavaScript and Windows

Confidential, NC

Jr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Liaison between stakeholders, system users, clients and managers, software development team and the QA term to gather requirements.
Scheduled and coordinated for meetings and conferences.
Participated (JAD) Joint application Development sessions to identify the business rules and requirements and then documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
Involved in Requirement Scoping and analyzing high priority requirements for the implementation.
Created Business Requirements Document (BRD).
Provided assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements.
Assisted QA Team in writing test cases, test plans and tested the final application for usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
Used Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking and change management request and reported them.

Environment: Windows XP, HTML,.Net, SQL Server, MS-Visio, Rational Requisite, MS-Project, MS Office Suite.