SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with over 3+ years of experience supporting business solution software and analyzing business operations
• Aiming to utilize my strong prioritization skills and analytical ability to achieve the goals of your company
• Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Extensive experience in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), and System Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Experienced in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Scrum, Agile, Rational Unified Process and Waterfall.
• Define rele ase plans for ecommerce platform with release managers according to gathered information from various IT departments.
• Experienced in using SQL queries for data extraction and back - end testing
• Security rules and standards for relational database projec t functions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, LINUX, IOS.

Methodologies: Agile, JAD, RAD, SDLC, Waterfall, Scrum.

Modeling & Analysis tools: UML (Unified Modeling Language) Rational Rose, MS Visio.

Office Tools: MS Project, Visio, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, SharePoint

Database: Oracle, Teradata, PL/SQL, MS Access, Toad

Programming Languages: Java, C#, .Net, XML

Software Tools/Utilities: SQL, SAS, ETL, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements from subject matter experts and documented the requirement in the BRD.
• Responsible for performing database and list pulls for strategic initiatives to support communication to Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) members primarily relating to formulary and benefit plan design.
• Scrum Master for two Software Development teams. Agile Coach for two Data Warehouse development teams.
• Create and execute structured SAS - SQL Teradata code to synthesize large amount of relational data to optimize complex member communications products to key audiences Perform quality assurance on list pulls for PBM members
• Involved in Data validations, content validations, file lay out validations and uploading the files into target systems.
• Using SAS node and informatica to get the data quality results and QC reports.
• Extensive use of SAS Macro’s to generate reports as per requirement.
• Worked on FileZilla to FTP the files from Windows to UNIX and UNIX to Windows
• Attend daily meetings and stand up calls with project manager and team members.
• Using SAS Enterprise guide to validate the data.
• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meeting.
• Created Teradata SQL Assistant scripts, Temp tables to be compatible for monthly segmentation and migrated tables depends on files.
• Developed and maintained various business unit reports using SAS EG and SAS Node.
• Performs quality assurance checks against the data with each level QC checks to minimize mistakes and errors also save time to avoid rework on tasks.
• Generating customer reports using MS Access.
• Identifies effective requirement data with different sources and different teams for completion of members pull from databases

Confidential, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created the Service Catalog Process Guide and Service Catalog Policy documentation.
• Built a business case for IT Service Management to obtain management and stakeholder buy-in.
• Managed dependencies between other scrum teams (Scrum of Scrums), third parties, and other non-agile waterfall teams.
• Provided support for integrated project management and planning using Agile and scrum models and status reporting for the sprints every month
• Providing non-functional requirements that support business functions such as quality of service, scalability, availability, ownership and usability.
• Provided the status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule to the project manager.
• Take part in daily scrum meetings and biweekly sprint reviews and planning
• Documented the Functional Requirement Document and Business Requirement Document.
• Involved in meetings with SMEs, Data Architect and Data modelers in getting the Business Requirements.
• Attended meetings which included Vendors, Directors and Managers.
• Worked with infrastructure architects to get information Security approvals for the vendor connectivity.
• Worked on Enterprise architecture standards team.
• Created Project Renovate reports to send bi-weekly updates to the Directors.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions developing use Cases, creating Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional
• Requirement Specification (FRS) documents
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and SWOT analysis
• Reporting requirements and reports mapping
• Tested and assisted in documenting Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Scenarios
• Software Development Life Cycle process, including RUP, Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Behavior Diagrams sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, activity diagrams), and Class Diagrams based on UML methodology using MS Visio

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the stakeholders by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Communicated Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and made recommendation.
• Participate in scrum to scrum to report overall project status, upcoming risks/dependencies, resolve dependencies, and suggest solutions.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing gap analysis and documenting them textually or within models
• Analyzed and documented Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business.
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Create Use Case using UML tools and Process Analysis tool such as Fishbone Diagram, and business process flow chart using MS Visio.
• Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business process.
• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose
• Used MS Visio for flow-charting, process model and architectural design of the application.