Objective :Seeking a position as a business analyst that provides me a platform to utilize my skills, knowledge and experience to contribute to the performance of the company as well as to my professional development.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• A progressive business analyst commensurate with a Master’s in Business Administration, and over 5 years of experience in business process analysis /modeling, business requirement gathering.
• Strong knowledge of different SDLC methodologies (Spiral, Waterfall, Agile, RUP) methodology and project life cycle.
• Extensive experience to analyze and document Business Requirements and Functional Specifications documents including use cases.
• Successful in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML) using Rational Rose & MS Visio.
• Hands on experience with IBM Rational software integrated tools like Requisite Pro, Rational Rose for requirements management and analysis, use case development and business modeling.
• Experienced in conducting requirement analysis, use case design and in creating UML diagrams.
• Organized interviews, workshops, and requirement elicitation sessions.
• Performed SWOT analysis, Gap Analysis and made changes in the next release accordingly.
• Good knowledge of MS Visio, UML, Rational Rose, MS Access, SQL and Data Warehousing.
• Strong communication skills when working with developers, project managers, subject-matter experts, stakeholders, system implementers, and application end-users.
• Participated in all the aspects of UAT Testing.

Technical expertise

MS Visio, Rational Rose, UML 2.0

Methodologies

Spiral, waterfall, Agile, RUP

Requirement Management Tools

Requisite Pro, Rational Rose

Office Automation Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, outlook)

Defect Tracking

HP Quality Center

Operating System

Windows 98/2000/2003, Windows XP, windows 2007

Testing Skills

Manual testing, UAT

Databases

Oracle 9i, MS Access

Education and Certification

Master’s in Business Administration

Career Path

Confidential, CT Nov2010 to Oct2011
Role: Business Analyst

Confidential,management system to automate the current manual process of reorder system. This minimized the daily work time spent by the company staff on tracking, checking and ordering inventory.

Responsibilities

• Performed GAP analysis to find the gaps in the current process.Also performed Activity based costing and Duration Analysis.
• Identified and communicated with various stakeholders to know the requirements.
• Conducted project kickoff meetings with team members to explain roles/responsibilities, relationships with other groups, deliverables, timelines, assignments, and status reporting.
• Responsible for delivering the business Requirements document (BRD).
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Worked with the Policy and Procedure team as required to define new and updating policies and procedures.
• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.
• Co-ordinate with the PMO, the software development team and the testing team to enable seamless working across work groups and ensure on time delivery of project objectives.
• Communicated and clarifying the doubts in Business requirement document to the IT team.
• Assisted in developing the test plan and the test cases and in performing the UAT.

Environment: MS Office, Spiral, UML, SQL, MS Visio, GAP, SWOT analysis,Cost Benefit Analysis

Confidential,CO Dec2009 to Nov2010
Role: Business Analyst

A Physician Support System was built to capture the out patients clinical data using an Electronic Medical Record Management System. The purpose of this system was to have a Paperless Medical Record and instant retrieval of data by the doctors. The patient’s medical record contained information such as physical examination and information specific to the medical discipline. The system could also capture information about the patient’s appointments with the doctors; the patient’s medical summary and also track the flow of patients throughout the clinic.

Responsibilities

• Identify the stakeholders and elicit requirements in sync with the scope of the project.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analysis to derive requirements.
• Validate and revalidate the requirements and align them with the specific business processes and business needs.
• Prioritize the requirements and also segregate them in terms of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Prepared Business requirement documents (BRD’s) and System requirements specifications document along with Use cases.
• Developed the requirements further in the form of use case diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams using UML.
• Maintained Requirements Traceability matrix.
• Document the changes to functional and business requirements and realign the priorities.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assisted in developing the test plan and test cases to be used in testing based on business use cases, functional specifications.

Environment: MS Office,Waterfall , UML, MS Visio, GAP, SWOT analysis.

Confidential, CA Nov2008 to Nov2009
Role: Business Analyst

Worked on document management system called HP project repository which was aimed at improving the process of maintaining project based documentation at one common place to make the documents accessible to the entire project team based on the user credentials.

Responsibilities

• Conducted interviews with different users to collect the business requirements, standards and user security.
• Authored progress and completion reports, which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
• Worked closely with management to keep track of the status of project and draft strategies for the near future.
• Prepared and recorded various Business documents to capture the process flows for various users of the tool.
• Conducted the JAD sessions with different project teams,Managers,Biz teams and various users to gather requirements,issues they faced with legacy processes and other details on usage and activities which were documented and published after the meetings.
• Conducted the meetings to go over requirements with IT teams and IT Managers to review the requirements to understand the technical challenges and technical glitches and strategies to be built to over come them before providing final solution.
• Provided the requirements to the IT teams to prepare the tool after all reviews with stake holders.
• Performed the UAT testing, Functional testing of the tool according to the requirements
• Identified many defects and reported accordingly to the team to rectify them.

Environment: MS Excel, MS Visio, Power Point, MS Word, MS Outlook,Agile

Confidential,India Aug2007 to July2008
Role : Business Analyst

Confidential, is one of the India’s largest talent acquisition and talent management network with operations across India and Middle East.
Project: The project was to implement an intelligent tool called Human Resource Empowerment that enables the company to get the information related to various industries, companies under each industry and the different job positions available at the click of the button. This enabled the company to provide the HR solution to the clients and to minimize the time required to source the profiles to the clients.

Responsibilities

• Worked with the stakeholders in identifying the requirements.
• Participated in gathering user requirements, developing functional and non-functional requirements.
• Developed use cases/diagrams, sequence diagrams, using MS Visio.
• Responsible for the delivery of Business Requirements Documents (BRD) within project timelines.
• Created Use cases for the functional requirements using UML and MS Visio.
• Worked with the Technical Analyst and development team to ensure that they understand the specifications.
• Created documents like the Business Glossary to facilitate the other teams in understanding client business.

Environment: MS Excel, MS Visio, Power Point, MS Word, MS Outlook, waterfall.

Confidential,India Aug2006 to July2007
Role : Market Research Analyst.

Confidential, is a company which is a leader in marketing the electronic weighing machines (EWM) to various retail and corporate customers. Worked as a market research analyst and succeeded in identifying a potential market that could generate revenue of 5, 00,000 USD to the company.

Responsibilities

• Analyzed the different markets for EWMs.
• Identified the potential markets and assigned them to the Sales executives to close the leads.
• Met the corporate clients and gathered their requirements.
• Suggested the appropriate EWMs to the clients.
• Negotiated and convinced the clients.
• Prepared the market research documents for submission to the management.
• Generated sales and purchase reports
• Created mock up templates for different reports.