SUMMARY:

• Over 19 years of experience in Business Architecture, Process Analysis, Business Analysis and Design, and SQA
• Experience in aligning of IT Strategy and Planning with Business Mission
• Extensive experience in creating UML artifacts and Business Process Models (BPMN 2.0 standard)
• Experience with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler, and Enterprise Architect as BPMN diagramming tool
• Experienced in drawing Process, Collaboration, Conversation and Choreography diagrams based on BPMN 2.0
• Experienced in writing Use Cases, User Stories, Requirements and business and technical specification
• Experienced in analyzing Mission Level, Project Level, Capability Level and Solution Level requirements
• Extensive experience in eliciting, analyzing, communicating, mitigating, validating, and optimizing business process
• Expertise on gathering requirements, supporting transaction processing, conducting requirements analysis
• Acquired knowledge of business model canvas, value stream, strategy mapping, capability mapping, and other BA artifacts and techniques
• Experienced in COTS - based solution architecture, SOA and OOAD based environment
• Experienced in enterprise-wide web-based, Client-Server and cloud based applications
• Practical knowledge of RUP, SCRUM as Iterative SDLC along with Waterfall implementation
• Experienced with mission critical software development projects in various industries including Financial, eGovernment, ISP, Retail and Customer Care, Home Mortgage, and eCommerce B2B
• Basic understanding of e-TOM framework (Business Process, Information, Application, Integration Framework)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Consultants

Confidential, Suitland - MD

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated across different business units and branches to find opportunities for improvement and showcase innovative and emerging business idea
• Created business canvass model for current decennial model
• Created ad-hoc business architecture models demonstrating how operations and systems interoperate within the scope of the function
• Conducted analysis to determine the best path for solving business problems including process improvement, systems enhancement, and software procurement
• Partnered with IT architecture team in developing an IT Framework that aligns with the business plan.

Technical Consultants

Confidential, Suitland - MD

Responsibilities:

• Led an initiative to capture the “As-Is” business process and designed “To-Be” Process diagrams (BPMN 2.0)
• Implemented BPMN 2.0 standards in order to achieve acceptability and readability among different stakeholders
• Ensured simplification, standardization, and increasing automation opportunity across the enterprise level
• Worked with Requirements Analysts to make sure they captured requirements from the various BPM diagrams
• Conducted research on the existing process to identify key processes
• Delineated operations and identified process owners in order to interview them for process discovery
• Decomposed strategy into different First Level Core Process model for achieving strategic goals and for providing traceability
• Mapped the strategic goals to metrics that provided ongoing evaluation of how successfully the organization is achieving its Mission Level objectives
• Worked with Architect and business teams to evaluate new and emerging ideas, vendors and business models

Technical Consultants (Business Architect)

Confidential, Melville - NY

Responsibilities:

• Led a benchmark initiative on existing product process against the “To-Be” product process
• Led an Agile Scrum team in order to capture User Stories for Product Backlogs and grooming of Product Backlogs
• Facilitated Requirements Gathering Sessions to elicit requirements from different stakeholders
• Took initiatives and introduced Scrum framework for this B2B Configurator project
• Participated in every step of the way from Sprint Planning to Sprint Review
• Participated in technical meetings with IBM WebSphere and WEF SMEs in order to determine the right solution

Lead Business Process Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore - MD

Responsibilities:

• Performed scope analysis to make sure that the proposed solution is within the scope of the project
• Decomposed Business Requirements into detailed Functional Requirements
• Created requirement traceability (Forward and Backward) as a requirement management process
• Mitigated requirements conflicts among different stakeholders
• Collaborated with SMEs to resolve requirements prioritization issues using MoSCoW analysis
• Elicited Requirements to develop Use Cases for DCPS and edited Use Cases according to stakeholders demand
• Reviewed User Interface Specification to provide feedback to Wireframe Developers
• Participated in requirements walkthrough and closing the gaps within the existing requirements

Requirements/Business Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore - MD

Responsibilities:

• Created Use Cases for ROME RCS application and edited Use Cases according to the DFR
• Created UML artifacts (Sequence, Collaboration, State and Activity) and suggested possible improvements
• Wrote Business Rules and traced them to Use Cases to verify if BRs are implemented into the system
• Conducted JAD sessions to determine the granularity of Business Rules and creating the Business Rules repository
• Documented Non-Functional requirements and constraints from Business Process Document and Activity diagrams

Senior Business Process Modeler/Business Analyst

Confidential, Alexandria - VA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted stakeholder interviews to analyze business needs, gather and document business requirements
• Conducted planning by mapping scope to each release and formulating LOE grouped by functionalities
• Led and facilitated requirements gathering sessions to develop preliminary high-level design of the system
• Identified strengths and weaknesses of the Business Process Modeling and suggesting areas of improvement
• Created different level of Business Process models using IBM WBM
• Participated in deployment process and in regression testing to verify requirements compliance
• Conducted UAT to get approval from business groups before going to production
• Worked with different Stakeholders (technical and non-technical cross functional team) to build up consensus

Business Analyst Team Lead

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted walk-through of requirements with the stakeholders to ensure the right delivery of business needs
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Use Cases, Requirements Specification and Detailed Design Requirements
• Created different UML diagrams (Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, State Diagram, etc.) using Visio
• Provided periodic project status reports, progress, and accomplishments, trends and significant risk items
• Documented business processes and determined business process improvement needs
• Worked with business owner to prioritize current requirements with new change requests
• Provided technical leadership and hands-on expertise in the creation of End-to-End project strategy
• Coordinated with internal users for UAT test execution, and reviewed results
• Managed an Off-Shore team of QA/Business Analyst and provided them with day to day basis directions

Senior Business Requirements Analyst

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities of the requirements management for a project based on RUP methodology
• Evaluated information gathered from multiple sources, reconciled conflicts, decomposed high-level requirements
• Communicated with Stakeholders, Business Group, and User Group to elicit and to analyze Business Requirements
• Wrote Business Specification Document, Business Rules, and Business Process Documents
• Executed Test Cases on Rational Test Manager to validate the business requirements
• Reported defects along with QA team and follow up with the Development lead to resolve any outstanding defects

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions to elicit requirements and transform them into Use Cases and UML diagrams
• Communicated and collaborated with external and internal customers to analyze NFR and functional requirements
• Worked with users to define concepts and communicated with PM to determine the scope of the project
• Worked with BA, QA testers, calculated amortization and compare this data with the TMO generated data
• Worked with Users to develop test scenarios and test script based on Use cases, UML artifacts and business rules
• Worked closely with mortgage analyst to understand secondary mortgage market

Business Analyst

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Collected business requirements and translate into Functional requirements
• Interviewed business and system users and researched current systems documentation to gather information
• Served as a conduit between the customer community and the software development team
• Developed requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language
• Created Use Cases, Activity, State, Collaboration, and Sequence Diagram using MS Visio
• Executed test scripts to understand current system and to write business rules for integrated systems

QA Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Reported to Cross Functional Team for Project Progress and outstanding Issues
• Served as a liaison between the business units, QA group and support group
• Conducted weekly meetings with QA group and reporting to my project manager
• Automated the manual Test Cases using SQA Robot and reported bugs through SQA Manager
• Created Test Plan and Test Cases for Y2K Compliance
• Performed Integration, System and back-end Testing