SUMMARY:

• Engineering Management Graduate with 3+ Years of Professional Experience as Business Analyst
• Extensive experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases.
• Proven success as a business analyst and problem solver through the years, providing a well - balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, and technical solutions.
• Responsible for the coordination and execution of business process models and establishing, maintaining, implementing tools and methods for the business analysis process.
• Strong understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
• Solid understanding of Business Process definition, Risk Analysis and SDLC methodologies.
• Expertise in Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS).
• Facilitated Sprint Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective) for Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Expertise in Preparing Test Data sets and performed data testing using the PL/SQL scripts. Also, used MS excel for data mining, data cleansing, data mapping, data dictionary and data analysis using Tableau Desktop.
• Knowledge in the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) of data into a data ware house/date mart and Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Business Objects Modules (Reporter, Supervisor, Designer, and Web Intelligence.
• Experience in designing various Data Visualization Dashboards using Tableau desktop gathering customer requirements, writing test cases, preparing analytical reports to help users to identify critical KPI's and partnering with developers to ensure full understanding of internal/external customer needs.
• Excellent Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying and documenting root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business and system requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac

Business modeling and requirement management Tools: MS Visio, MS Office Suite, UML, Rational Requisite Pro, JIRA

Database: MS SQL Server, MS Access

Content Management: MS - Share Point, Office 365

Testing Tools: Software Application Testing Life Cycle

Other Tools: Share point, Tableau

Software Methodologies (SDLC): Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

Documentation Tools: JIRA, MS Office Suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Jr. BUSINESS ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating all aspects of multiple projects such as initiation, planning including budgeting, scheduling, task assignment, tracking, change Management, status reporting and risk management.
• Responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications of project
• Worked with production staff to identify and map detailed current processes, identify gaps and failure points, perform root cause analysis and develop functional requirements that supported overall strategy, goals and objectives.
• Co-author BRD with project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users and team members by facilitating JRP and JAD sessions.
• Prepared graphical depictions of Textual Use Cases, creating Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Business Flow Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Interacted with the developers to explain the proposed changes and understand the system requirements to handle these changes.
• Identify, research, Realize, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Assist with user testing of systems (UAT), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules, created detailed Use Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing.
• Developed the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Developed Timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Assisted the Project Manager in setting realistic project expectations, in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly, and conducted project related presentations.
• Provided technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that were cost effective and met business requirements.
• Intermediary for projects with other corporate departments, including Executive, Legal and Information Services as well as vendor relationships Extensively work on Access, MS Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SQL, and MS Project.
• Conducting user and stakeholder interviews at (including JAD, RAD sessions) both in-house and client locations to gather and analyze requirements using Requisite Pro and MS Visio as well as modifying requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.