SUMMARY:

• MBA in International Finance and MIS (Management Information Systems) with close to 12 years of extensive and diversified experience in mostly Financial and Pharmaceutical Industries as a Agile Scrum Master, Product Owner and Business Analyst/QA. IT Business professional known for a natural entrepreneurial spirit and ability to develop and implement processes that control and positively impact financial results of various projects. A Leader who offers in - depth experience in project management, investment management, financial management, asset management, Risk management, operations.
• Experienced in SDLC and Project Management, and possess expertise in Requirements Gathering, Object Oriented Analysis, UML, Process Engineering and Modeling from problem statement, High Level Requirements to Application Use Cases.
• Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) or Collaboration sessions; acted as liaison between the business and development teams for several projects.
• Proficient in working of Trade Settlement Process and Reconciliation Process
• Strong experience in RUP and Agile Business Modeling process, complete UML artifacts related to Business Modeling and Requirements, including MS Visio and Rational Rose
• Proficient in planning and execution of projects in time critical environment
• System Methodologies AGILE, SAFE (Scaled Agile framework) Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and RUP
• Good Knowledge of ROM (Retail Order Management) for trading flow, Rally, Jira, Confluence.
• Good knowledge of Mobile App and Browser testing for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices and UI (User interface testing), and Web Application testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analysis: SDLC, Requirement Analysis, detail design, Business rules, Data flow diagrams, data definition tables, Data modeling, System Integration, and Team building.

Processes/Technologies: Rational Unified process (RUP), Clear case, Use case, Workflow, and UML

RDBMS/DBMS: SQL Server, MS Access, and Oracle 8i, 9i, Mainframe.

TESTING TOOLS: ALM, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Test Director, and HY5 Mobile automation Tool, UI, JIRA, Team track.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oaks Pa

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate PI (Program Increment) and sprint planning processes, as well as all other scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitment to PI and sprint delivery.
• Involved in monitor and track PI milestones, and facilitate mitigation of issues and risks for every sprint and PI’s.
• Mentor and coach the teams on agile methodology and scrum values and process.
• Participate in long term roadmap for product backlogs planning, manage monthly capitalization process and change management process.
• Monitor and track PI milestones and facilitate mitigation of issues and risks.
• Collaborate with team to identify and resolve problems and remove impediments/barriers for the team and escalate to RTE as in when needed.
• Ensure that release deliverables are submitted and that quality standards defined by the team are consistently met (per acceptance criteria and definition of done)
• Prepare and present bi-weekly PI performance reviews.
• Responsible for facilitating PI (Programme Increment) and sprint ceremonies like Mid PI planning, Release day1, and day 2 planning, Sprint planning, Retrospective, Inspect and adopt, facilitate daily scrum, SoS (Scrum of Scrum), facilitate demos with team to stakeholders,
• Responsible for helping team maintains daily burn down, load team and individual velocity in Rally, and maintains the same for all sprints or PI.
• Responsible for maintaining the team roster on confluence for Train level, track maintains team holidays, dependencies, cross team track.
• Responsible for maintaining, team’s sprint backlog objective and delivery assurance to update in bi-weekly SoS (Scrum of Scrum)

Confidential, MALVERN, PA

Agile Scrum Master/PO

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitate PI (Program Increment) and sprint planning processes, as well as all other scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitment to PI and sprint delivery.
• Involved in monitor and track PI milestones, and facilitate mitigation of issues and risks for every sprint and PI’s.
• Mentor and coach the teams on agile methodology and scrum values and process.
• Participate in long term roadmap for product backlogs planning, manage monthly capitalization process and change management process.
• Monitor and track PI milestones and facilitate mitigation of issues and risks.
• Collaborate with team to identify and resolve problems and remove impediments/barriers for the team and escalate to RTE as in when needed.
• Ensure that release deliverables are submitted and that quality standards defined by the team are consistently met (per acceptance criteria and definition of done)
• Prepare and present bi-weekly PI performance reviews.
• Responsible for facilitating PI (Programme Increment) and sprint ceremonies like Mid PI planning, Release day1, and day 2 planning, Sprint planning, Retrospective, Inspect and adopt, facilitate daily scrum, SoS (Scrum of Scrum), facilitate demos with team to stakeholders,
• Responsible for helping team maintains daily burn down, load team and individual velocity in Rally, and maintains the same for all sprints or PI.
• Responsible for maintaining, team’s sprint backlog objective and delivery assurance to update in bi-weekly SoS (Scrum of Scrum)
• Involved closely working with the Product Manager to share “Content Authority” responsibility for the solution.
• Responsible for the Team backlog and implementation.
• Drive iteration content via prioritized stories and Acceptance criteria.
• Responsible for accepting user stories into the baseline; including validation that the story meets acceptance criteria and persistent acceptance tests.
• As a PO responsible working with the Scrum Team during the ART ceremonies by providing story definition and providing clarification as necessary to assist the teams with story estimates, sprint loading, story sequencing and drafting specific objectives for upcoming PSI.
• Responsible for the execution/coordination of the Sprint/ PSI artifacts such as Release Notes, User Guides, Rally updates, etc.

Confidential, PARSIPPANY NJ

Lead Business System Analyst/QA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Business Flow Diagrams, Dataflow diagrams, UML Activity diagrams and USE cases diagrams using MS VISIO.
• Analyzed Business Requirements performed gap analysis and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Responsible for creating - use cases, system architecture document using UML, supplemental requirements document, architecture diagrams; verifying technical production infrastructure; designing and executing performance tests and documentation.
• Developed project proposal, capturing all aspects of solution for the requirements established.
• Enhanced business requirements documentation with UML diagrams, as and where necessary.
• Responsible for generating periodic reports using Report Builder Tools like Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Performed research on incoming user requirements/modifications and suggested improvements for the second release of the application. Rational Requisite Pro was used in the change management efforts.
• Effortlessly performed as a liaison between the management and the development team for requirements and Quality Analysis.
• Loaded data into an Oracle database and did database testing through SQL queries
• Participated in product presentations, walk through and design workshops.
• Helped coordinated with QA team design, and enhanced QA/testing plans for the Application. Coordinated closely with the System Administrator while setting up a QA & testing environment.
• Recorded the business process by inserting Check Points to verify the Business Logic with different Test Cases, Transactions and Data.
• Created documents like the Business Glossary to facilitate efficient understanding of the business process amongst the other teams

Confidential, MALVERN, PA

SR. Business System Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducts and participates in analysis sessions with SMEs and business owners to gather client business requirements, functional requirements, and processes, and in the preparation of appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information.
• Used Elicitation techniques like interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming, JAD, observation, and document analysis for requirement gathering.
• Responsible for defining, documenting and publishing FRD-Functional requirements documents and BRD-Business Requirements Documents.
• Involved in creating Features, Stories, and Acceptance criteria’s in Agility and cucumber.
• Analyzed Business Requirements performed gap analysis and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Responsible for creating - use cases, system architecture document using UML, supplemental requirements document, architecture diagrams; verifying technical production infrastructure; designing and executing performance tests and documentation.
• Used SQL to query the database and for Data mapping from source to target, create a Mapping document.
• Conducted the FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs with designers, developers and stakeholders. Also conducted feasibility and adaptability study.
• Interacted with database developers for formulating the ER diagrams and data flow diagrams.
• Held regular JAD or Collaboration session with the system architects, developers, database developers, and System testers during the entire project to assure that the critical as well as the minute details of the project were discussed and issues were resolved beforehand.
• Collaborated with project manager in tracking and managing project development process following Rational Unified Process (RUP) based SDLC methodologies.
• Interacted closely with developers and stakeholders to make sure that all the milestones of the different phases of project are accomplished and the project dead line is met.
• Worked on Agile Team with following ATDD (Acceptance Test driven development) strategy. With creating Acceptance criteria’s as part of Test plan in Agility tool.
• Worked with the SAT Team to gather information necessary to perform coordinate testing activities for UI (User Interface).
• Helped coordinated with testing team to perform SAT, UI (User Interface) and Regression testing of the test region to ensure no functionality was broke and that the region was stable for deployment for every release. Maintained status reports for bugs and regression testing.