SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled Senior Business Analyst with over 10 years of SDLC process execution experience on complex IT projects.
• Considerable knowledge of business analysis and business process engineering best practices and initiated their use on several projects.
• Agile experience includes; leading sprints through sprint planning and development, creation and prioritization of the product backlog, as well as user story and acceptance criteria development. Experienced in leading sprint review and sprint retrospective sessions.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating remotely with agile development teams and project stakeholders.
• My exceptional interpersonal skills include; being highly adept at facilitating discussions and negotiations with stakeholders.
• Proven ability to balance multiple demands in a dynamic environment. I also possess significant experience in all phases of QA/Test including; test strategy development, test planning, test script development and test cycle execution and reporting.
• Fluent in use and implementation of change control and configuration management best practices.
• 10 Years of Business Analyst experience includes; Reviewed, analyzed, evaluated business systems and user needs for COTS and custom Web 2.0 implementations in the financial, mortgage and government sectors. Working collaboratively with other team members, documented and managed requirements, defined scope and objectives, and developed systems to meet business needs.
• Developed and maintained requirements traceability matrices (RTMs).
• As an Agile business analyst, I have produced polished user stories and acceptance criteria. Prepared user interface design documents, user training guides, storyboards, wireframes and mock - ups.
• Helped define improvements to business processes, assisted decision-makers in gathering information to make decisions, helped quality assurance test solutions and products.
• Charged with implementing and configuring enterprise wide agile project management tools.
• Particularly fluent in Confidential and Rally implementations. I have also stepped in as a product owner, scrum master, or project manager as the occasion calls for.
• Conducted presentations and communicated product features to both technical and non-technical communities.
• 10 Years of QA Analyst experience includes; Test strategy implementation, test plan and test script development using Waterfall, Agile and RUP methodologies.
• Fluent in SQL queries using applications like TOAD. Developed and applied CMMI Level II and III practices.
• Applications tested included large enterprise, n-tier Web/Internet applications and COTS applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Tools: Balsamiq, DOORS, Drupal CMS, HP Quality Center, Confidential Rational ClearQuest, Confidential Rational ClearCase, Confidential Rational RequesitePro, JIRA, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Microsoft SharePoint 2010-2013, Microsoft Visio, Mercury Test Director, Pivotal Tracker, Rally, SnagIt, VersionOne.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed users stories and acceptance criteria.
• Participated in all aspects of the agile cycle.
• Reviewed present online user guides and made recommendations for improvements.

Confidential

Agile Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepare statements of work as part of proposal submission process.
• Consult with stakeholders to determine the best implementation of Agile practices.
• Research and recommend tools for Agile process management.
• Mentor business analysts on Agile processes and traditions.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned and led user review sessions to analyze current requirements and elicit potential new requirements.
• Responsible for training business analysts on the migration effort processes and procedures.
• Collaborated with the development team to break requirements solution into appropriate product backlog for release and sprint planning.
• Translated requirements into user stories using Agile methods and processes.
• Analyzed and elaborated user stories for upcoming development sprints and made them ready for development team analysis.
• Worked with development team on acceptance criteria.
• Performed backlog grooming tasks.
• Implemented and maintained JIRA for Agile project management.

Confidential

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed an in depth understanding of customer requirements, business processes, and application(s) functionality. Served as the go to person for any requirements related issues.
• Took proactive approach in requirements elicitation. Collaborated with development team to produce quality user stories and functional requirements.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to capture all incoming requirements and changes in the form of user stories.
• Mapped functional requirements into test cases and developed acceptance criteria(s) for all applications.
• Maintained product backlog, user stories and tasks in Rally.

Confidential

Senior Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3 member test team; developed test plans and test cases.
• Led JAD sessions to determine system and functional requirements
• Developed RTM and maintained requirements using Requisite Pro.
• Defined and tracked user requirements based on input from web tracking analysis reports.