OBJECTIVES:

To take a challenging role on business operations as Business Analyst and give an efficient and effective solution that will help not only the organization to achieve the best solution in business but also would provide me with an opportunity to increase my knowledge and experience.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Software professional with over 3 years of varied experience in Healthcare, Financial and Software Development industry with emphasis on Business analysis, System design and Quality Assurance.
• Good experience in different phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) including Strategic Systems Planning, Designing, Programming, Testing, Documentation, and Presentation to user.
• Experienced in Web - based and Client/Server applications on Windows platforms.
• Successfully created Use Cases, UML diagrams, Functional Requirement Specifications ( Confidential ) and User Requirement Specification (URS) documents and implemented processes, procedures, guidelines and policies for the Development and QA Teams.
• Actively involved in gap analysis and business refinement process, including checking and validation of requirements in conjunction with the stakeholders.
• Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews, and workshops and then convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Experience in PL/SQL & SQL Tuning, experience working on Forms & reports.
• Good Management, Execution, Documentation skills and good exposure to QA procedures Experience in all areas of software development, including co-ordination with Customers, Project Planning and monitoring, Requirements Gathering and testing analysis.
• Have experience in designing, normalization, and data manipulation processes using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experienced working closely with clients, collecting the requirements and providing them the solutions in form of delivering products and services.
• Actively involved in Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design and Integration Testing and Production support.
• Expertise in Manual Testing using Quality Center (QC)
• Proficient in Test Design, Test Plan, writing Test Cases and Test Execution of Client/Server applications.
• Validation of requirements in conjunction with the stakeholders.

TECHINICAL SKILLS:

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, MS Project, UML Process Methodology SDLC, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Power Designer and MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project).

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint.

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Web based Technology: JavaScript, VB Script, .Net, DHTML and HTML

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP

Languages: VB, HTML, XML, UML, ASP, JSP

Microsoft Suite: MS Office and MS Project.

Testing Tools: HP Mercury Tool (Quality Center, & Quick Test Professional)

Reporting Tools: Business Objects X IR2, Crystal Reports, MS Office Suite

QA Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, Rational Requisite Pro, Bugzilla, Clear Quest.

Databases & OS: MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g, DB2, MS Access on Windows XP / 2000, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with project stakeholders throughout all SDLC phases to ensure timely delivery of specified business solutions.
• Implemented the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology of iterative software development and developed user stories and dashboard for the system.
• Participated in the development of project plans, assessing business processes, working with business users and IT to develop system solutions and implementing solutions on a FACETS Platform.
• Recognize scope limitations and raise potential scope issues while designing the customization of software modules and templates.
• Involved in making the Medicare patient profiles being compliant with the HIPAA regulations.
• Management of patient profile transfer (PPT) reports created by data team by verifying the associated data.
• Extensively used Quality Center, for Test Planning, Bug Tracking and Reporting.
• Uploaded Business requirements, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defects from MS Excel to Quality Center.
• Coordinated with development engineers, users and support groups to understand the application architecture, and current production issues to develop the best possible real time scenarios for Regression testing.
• Defined and performed the Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensured that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.

Confidential

Business Analyst and System Design Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in implementing software projects involving various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases
• Complete system design development of the Robot using Quantitative analysis tools and development of Custom Analysis System.
• Created and Transformed Business Requirements into software requirement specification (SRS) using MS Word and Rational Requisite Pro.
• Proficient in using UML to create Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Use case diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Class Diagrams etc. for analysis and documenting business and system functional requirements for the Upper Management.
• Worked with back end and Applications & creating Data Flow Diagrams and Data Mapping Documents for the IT team.
• Created requirements for numerous ETL Source to Target Transformations and for matching datasets.
• Skilled in using MS office applications for day to day activity, MS Visio for drawing flow diagrams and MS Project for prioritizing and managing individual tasks.
• Prepared and documented the User Acceptance test (UAT) plan and obtaining the necessary signoffs from the concerned business units.
• Experience in performing Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the change in the proposed system.
• Extensively worked on design and development of middle-tier data access components that are generic and is used in various applications.
• Coordinated with the design team and the programming team. Involved in the design of the database. Testing of the website periodically and providing the progress info to the management.
• Involved in full cycle of software development and database designing. Installation of application software, Creation of Servers, and Creation of Databases.
• Creation of login ids, Creation of users, roles, performance & tuning,
• Backup & recovery, Migration of old data.
• Thoroughly studied the inherent systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.
• Conducted JAD sessions for better understanding and refining of requirements in coordination with multiple teams.
• Clarified and prioritized requirements by conducting brainstorming sessions with the stakeholders and SMEs.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro as requirement gathering tool.
• Gathering business requirements and converting them into functional requirement specifications and user requirement specifications. Used Rational Requisite Pro for Requirement Document preparation.
• Carried out detailed and comprehensive business analysis with the RUP methodology.
• Prepared Business Process Models, which included modeling of all activities of the business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Participated in Change control meetings recommending appropriate action after analysis of changing requirements.
• Conducted multiple interviews to clarify requirements in order to identify use cases and document UC Specifications.
• Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.
• Provided project manager with regular status updates assisting the overall project management initiative.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, SharePoint, SQL, AFL, Easy language, PHP, ASP, SAP, MS Visio, Oracle, MS Office Suite, Mercury ITG, XML, XHTML.