Business Analyst Resume New Jersey - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Experience in Change Management, Process Improvements, SDLC, and Requirements Elicitation
Experience in Agile Scrum and Waterfall
Strong experience in working with stakeholders and gathering requirements through Discovery Workshops, JAD sessions, requirements analysis, prioritization and conflict resolution
Experience in creating and refining user stories
Experience in product backlog grooming and planning iterations in Scrum
Experience in delivering Business Cases, BRDs, FRD’s, and SRSs
Experience in Process Mapping and Gap Analysis
Experience UML and Use Case diagrams
2 years’ experience in Healthcare Industry
Strong experience with Information Systems
Experience in Data Analysis and Data Profiling
Strong experience with Microsoft SQL and Oracle SQL Developer
Experience in user research, user centric design, wireframes, prototypes, and screen mock ups
Experience in UAT: creating test plans, and validating critical business requirements
Strong verbal and written communication capabilities at all levels
Ability to forge long term relationships with business teams and external partners to deliver value
Customer focused team player, self - starter, championing user needs first

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile
Waterfall
JIRA
HP ALM
Microsoft Visio
MS Project
SnagIt
HP Test Case Tool
Project Workbook (Another tool for requirements, change orders, tasks, and defects)
SharePoint
Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
SQL
Java
JavaScript
HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Decomposing business requirements into user stories for the Managed Care Subsystem
Collaborating with key stakeholders to scope and shape requirements to the MMIS (Medicaid Management Information System)
Participating in JAD sessions with both the business and technical teams
Engaging in workshops with the customer
Leading and participating in Sprint meetings
Planning sprint backlogs in Agile Scrum and facilitating the Scrum team occasionally
Adjusting and reviewing any changes to the BDD/BRD
Producing Use Cases and Work Flows
Performing Gap Analysis and "As-Is" & "To-Be" to analyze changes/updates to the Managed Care Subsystem
Participating in Research, Data Analysis, and Data Profiling
Using SQL to create, retrieve, and analyze data and tables
Analyzing defects and identifying the root causes of failures
Participating in UAT, creating test cases, test plans and defect documents

Confidential, Salem, Oregon

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Collaborating with stakeholders to scope, gather, and analyze requirements and change orders for the MAPIR (Medicaid Assistance Provider Information Repository) Subsystem within the MMIS (Medicaid Management Information System)
Participating in workshops with stakeholders
Engaging in JAD sessions with business team and technical team
Participating in Sprint meetings
Processing, managing, and documenting change orders/change order requests
Devising and documenting BRD and FSD
Breaking down requirements into user stories
Supporting Product Owner in Product backlog grooming and Sprint planning meeting preparation
Retrieving data from Oracle SQL Databases
Working with Use Cases and Activity Diagrams
Researching, analyzing, prototyping and validating features for applications
Supporting the development team to ensure that they understand user requirements properly
Wire framing the portal functionality and designing prototypes
Analyzing the defects and identifying the root causes of failures
Participating in UAT, creating test cases and defect documents