SUMMARY:

• Abstract: Accomplished, Results Oriented Business Analyst with experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including interpreting business needs, developing business requirements, creating plans, writing functional specifications, creating test case, design application mockups, and developing system analysis report.
• Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and business owners in developing and maintaining any complex Applications/Systems.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Waterfall Model, Agile Software Development.
• Expertise in Visualize rapid prototype and design to communicate complex ideas.
• Design Mockups and prototype to drive stakeholder and user consensus.
• Ability to learn quickly, take ownership of projects, multi-task and maintain high standard of service and quality control.
• Experienced in writing and maintaining the Requirement Definition Document that included Business and Technical Requirements, Use cases and UML Diagrams.
• Expertise in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD), Joint Application Requirement sessions (JAR).
• Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes and analyze workflows.
• Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams.
• Performed planning and development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenario to meet product’s business and solution requirements.
• Involved in creating and maintaining Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Performing early analysis of existing systems to help define integrations.
• Good knowledge of SQL queries.
• Conduct walkthrough and sign off procedures.
• Define project milestones, schedules, monitoring progress using MS SparePoint and update plans as required.
• Maintained and Reviewed Change Requests and documented all analysis
• Extensive experience working on MS Visio, Excel, Power Point, Word, Access and Outlook

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile (SCRUM),Waterfall development methodologies

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle

Applications/Testing Tools: AXURE Microsoft Office Suite, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), JIRA.

508 Compliance Tool: JAWS, WAVE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform requirements gathering from the business users of the system while adhering to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) industry best practices.
• Interact with business owners, Confidential SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications for Confidential .
• Visualize rapid prototype and design to communicate complex ideas.
• Design Mockups and prototype to drive stakeholder and Confidential user consensus.
• Work with the Confidential business users and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Interface with end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain sign off on business requirements.
• Report tracked defects with reference to severity and types using JIRA.
• Involve in Performance testing, Regression testing, System testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitate defect review meetings involving all Confidential stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.
• Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.
• Conduct surveys, interviews and facilitate Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with the Business Users and Confidential SME’s.
• Conduct JAD sessions for communicating with the project leads and stakeholders and proposed process workflows, functional specifications and project initiation parameters.
• Create workflow diagrams to validate the Basic and Alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases.
• Establish and maintain traceability matrix until all the Confidential business requirements are signed off.
• Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS SharePoint and XJIRA.
• Capture quality attributes, external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements.
• Prepare project related presentations and provide progress reports to the higher management and stakeholders using MS Office.
• Work with the Quality Assurance lead to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Suggest measures and recommendations to improve the current Confidential application performance.
• Interact with computer systems end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain sign off on Confidential business requirements.
• Participate in development of Training Materials for the new technology and organizing User Training.
• Work with business teams to understand the requirement and needs of the potential customers and the target market.

Environment: MS SharePoint, Visio, JIRA, JAWS, WAVE, UML, SQL, MS Project, MS Office.

Confidential

Jr. Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the functional owner, project manager, and technical teams to document the product's vision and the project's scope.
• Elicited requirements from senior management and end users; capture in a format that allows for easy review, approval, and implementation; eliminate guesswork by providing explicit, up-to-the-minute storyboards, logic diagrams, tables, and mockups; create UML use case diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, and sequence diagrams.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with Confidential stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications.
• Worked with the QA to develop Test Plans and Test Cases for functional and integration testing.
• Maintained the Confidential requirements traceability information to track requirements coverage.
• Worked closely with the Confidential stakeholders to analyze complex business processes and business requirements.
• Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on Confidential business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
• Worked closely with project manager, Confidential stakeholders and business analyst to define: test scope, gap analysis, risk analysis, and test dependency.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Performed UI testing on application’s web interface.
• Enhanced the existing or default test scripts by adding programming for custom testing and debugging the scripts.
• Coordinated UAT testing activities and report progress.
• Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings with team leads.
• Performed SQL queries to conduct back-end testing.
• Performed regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Maintained standard documentation to compliance with CMM Standards.
• Mentored junior test engineers.
• Attended weekly status meetings with Development Team, QA Manager, and created notes for meeting-minutes.