Business Analyst Resume
Bloomington, IL
SUMMARY:
- 7+ years of Professional Experience in requirement gathering, analysis, detailing, documenting and implementation of business systems
- Expert in complete SDLC processes from requirements gathering, development, testing, production release and support proven track record in delivering results on time, utilizing formal software development methodologies, both Agile and Waterfall
- Experience in authoring BRDs and FRDs, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using UML modeling.
- Technology savvy with strong skills in SQL and data warehousing concepts and Data modeling techniques like dimensional data modeling, star schema modeling and snow - flake modeling
- Excellence in performance tuning, query optimization, client/server connectivity and SQL profiler
- Immense testing experience in creating test plans, test cases, integration testing, functional testing, user acceptance testing (UATs)
- Managing the requirements traceability matrix through the lifecycle of the project.
- Hands on experience on RDBMS including SQL programs and stored procedures with thorough understanding of ETL procedures and functions
- Expertise in System analysis development and quality assurance including functional, regression, integration, system and performance testing of client/server and web based application
- Experience and knowledge of mergers and acquisitions in terms of technology and business processes.
- Extensive documentation skills for use in standardization of testing and programming procedures and guidelines
- Solid understanding of financial products such as equities, fixed income, bonds, hedge funds, derivatives like options, futures, forwards, SWAPS including the brokerage, custody trading capital markets and credit risk methodology & calculations.
- Experience in performing in-depth GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, risk analysis, ROI analysis, PEST analysis, including good knowledge of process work flow tools and techniques
- Possess good ability to build and analyze workflows, identify opportunities for improvement within the project life cycle, and thrive under work pressure with minimal supervision
- Extensive knowledge in concepts of strategic project management and risk management & assessment
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Methodology: Waterfall and Agile
Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, UML
Project Management: MS Project, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), JIRA
Languages: SQL, HTML
Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, JSON
Database: Oracle, MySQL, MS Access
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Business Analyst
Confidential, Bloomington, IL
Responsibilities:
- Created business requirements document (BRD), functional requirement document, traceability matrix and documented the meeting minutes.
- Participated in the kickoff meeting of the project with business lead, project manager and project coordinator.
- Created and maintained use case realization document for the development and testing teams to track the activities with the business scenarios for each sprint.
- Conducted SME review sessions to gather the requirements for creating the ledgers.
- Documented the business requirements in use cases, created use case process models using MS - Visio and generated workflow processes, business rules.
- Was involved in discussions with the developers and architects and assisted them in understanding the business requirements and to answer any of their business questions.
- Participated in System test reviews and suggested changes or missing test scenarios to be included in the list, development design reviews and usability studies.
- Effectively used sharepoint to stack all the business artifacts and SME touch points for the entire team.
- Identified the deliverables at the end of the inception and elaboration phase of the software development life cycle in terms of business modeling and requirements analysis.
- Acted as a liaison between the SME's and user experience team. Conducted meetings with user experience team on getting the approval for the created screens.
- Involved in designing a process to Sign Off business deliverables including Use cases, business rules, wire-frames and detail requirements.
- Underwent change control board for the modified requirements from the business team.
- Hosted the meetings and discussions with task management and correspondence team to provide the gathered business requirements from SME's and to work around for not feasible requirements.
- Involved in meetings with the interfacing team (Employer common) to provide the requirements which affects the other sub domains.
- Presented user demo to business team after the first phase of requirements gathering process.
- Worked with data migration team by providing business requirements for migrating the data from mainframe to oracle database.
- Conducted sprint planning meetings and participated in daily scrum and stand up meetings.
- Presented weekly stat
Environment: .Net, MSSQL Server, Sybase, Unix, RUP, HTML, UML, MS Office, Use Cases, Requisite Pro, Jira, Sales Force (CRM), Quality Center, MS Visio, UAT.
Business Analyst
Confidential, Minneapolis, MN
Responsibilities:
- Converted business requirement documents into functional requirements specification and technical specification.
- Data mapping was the tool used for gathering the information on the website so that customers have an ease on access to the information.
- Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues, and reach agreements.
- Worked with photoshop to customize diagrams as needed and implemented complete SDLC using RUP.
- Responsible for all web development, E - commerce and optimization and web strategy and corporate website and self-service intranet site.
- Extensively used MS Visio for business process modelling
- Perform quality assurance of test scripts, including progress reporting, defect tracking and risk assessments.
- Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from user perspective.
- Developed the business and functional requirement specification describing and prioritizing of the requirements.
- Performing Gap analysis for both previous and current business requirement document and designing business rules and requirements for on HIPAA compliancy basis.
- Successfully used RUP analysis model for gathering requirements by facilitating use case workshops and sessions.
- Lead design and status meetings with team members to discuss problem identification, prioritization and resolution, scope creep, and solution architecture.
- Developed (UAT) user acceptance test plans to validate the installed configuration and operation against detailed technical specifications.
- Communicated status updates in a concise and timely manner to management.
Business Systems Analyst
Confidential, Richfield, MN
Responsibilities:
- Systematically gained knowledge on the business process being followed in the project environment.
- Conducted document analysis and one - to-one interviews with the stakeholders and area experts to carefully record the requirements and build a communication bridge between the business and technical team members.
- Documented PCI-DSS compliance requirements and created traceability matrix with given functional requirements. Oversaw design, test and user acceptance of software and ETL with adherence to PCI standard.
- Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE in the existing architecture and performed Gap analysis. Created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
- Used detailed knowledge of application features and functions assess scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications
- Formulated user stories by conducting a story writing session with the product owner and the acceptance criteria for the PSPI (Potentially Shippable Product Increment).
- Used share point to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources and collaborate on the project and JIRA for requirements management, allotting tasks, issue tracking and for requirement traceability.
- Handled requirement churn during the project by performing impact analysis. Conducted detailed and comprehensive process analysis, business rules analysis by working with the client IT staff, project managers, supervisors, SME's, and other stakeholders to identify the system, operational requirements and improvements.
- Identified all necessary business use cases from requirements, created UML diagrams including use cases diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams and web page mock-up using MS Visio and mock-up screens.
- Understood the business logic, user requirements and test-objectives to develop Test plans, test cases, use case scenarios, test case execution using HP QC.
- Performed REST web services testing using SoapUI. Defined XSD schemas for the various restful services/web services after detailed analysis of the customer requirement.
- Provide support in developing and maintaining ETL processes that extract data from PDF template that contains the transaction information then transport the data to various delivery points such as data marts or data warehouses in order to maintain the client bill payment information
- Performed various SQL queries to obtain data from multiple databases for QA testing.
- Created documents like the Business Glossary, Actors Catalog, Data Modeling and Data Dictionary to facilitate the other teams in understanding client business.
- Participated in bug-review meetings with software developers, QA engineers, managers, and suggested enhancements to the existing application from business perspectives.
- Used test case distribution and trend reports to track the progress of test case planning, implementation and execution results. Performed smoke testing to evaluate builds.
Environment: Agile - Scrum, My SQL, MVC model architecture, IBM webSphere application server 8.0, postman, HP load runner, HP QC 10.0, SOAP UI, Jira, sharepoint, Jenkins, Selenium v3, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Project, DB2, Oracle 11g, MS Visio, mock-up screens.