SUMMARY:

• Innovative and goal oriented analyst looking for a position leveraging my experience in a high performance Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP) or Waterfall organization and implementing innovative solutions satisfying business and company needs. Well - versed in direct and remote analysis with Strong critical thinking communication and people skills. Able to thrive in a fast-paced and challenging environment where accuracy and efficiency matters.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients and co-workers
• Skills in interviewing users to help analyze and resolve issues
• Strong organizational, analytical and planning skills
• Ability to read and interpret system security policies, rules and regulations
• Ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts to both non-technical and technical audiences
• Strong communication (verbal & written) and presentation skills

FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• Technical Writing
• Project Management and Support
• Impact Analysis
• JAD Sessions
• Flow Chart Diagrams
• Business Process Modeling
• Traceability Matrices
• User Stories
• Use Case Modeling
• Requirements Gathering
• Requirements Analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile
• Waterfall
• & RUP
• JIRA
• HP ALM
• Requisite Pro
• SharePoint
• Tortosie SVN
• SQL Server
• DB Visualizer
• PL/SQL
• XML
• Microsoft Visio
• Axure
• Rational Rose
• Microsoft Windows
• Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint
• Access
• Outlook
• MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential, Stealing, VA

• Serve as the customer proxy for the product owner on a SAFe Agile team and interface with government, internal, and other contractual staff, ensuring successful delivery of units of work.
• Analyze broadly-defined requirements and use functional decomposition to define high-level epics and stories to create a well-organized, value-driven framework that provides the required business value in a prioritized Product Backlog.
• Write individual user stories in a very clear and concise manner so they are easy to understand and easily implemented by the development team.
• Identify related user stories and epics, group them into themes as necessary and document the interrelationship and associated business process flows as necessary.
• Recognize when to integrate the needs of related projects as well as the needs of multiple stakeholders to produce an overall solution.
• Plan and perform analytical and engineering research, design development as well as other assignments in conformance with design, engineering and customer specifications.
• Interface daily with the scrum master to help set the direction of the Software Development (SW) team.
• Coordinate the activities of technicians assigned to specific analytical projects.
• Help with iteration planning, test acceptance, prototyping and team demos as well as retrospectives.
• Contribute to vision and product backlog.
• Establish story acceptance and accept stories into the baseline.
• Create and document full SDLC lifecycle artifacts based project applied methodology: Agile (Scrum) - Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, EPIC, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, Waterfall/ Traditional - Use Cases Documentation, Solutions Requirements Document (SRD)/ Functional Requirements Document (FRD) - Business, Stakeholder, Solutions (functional and non-functional), and transitional requirements in relation to overall organizational needs
• Interface daily with the scrum team and scrum master to help set the direction of the team through a variety of managerial and technical means, ensuring project velocity and quality of deliverables.
• Ensure the customer’s requirements are captured through a variety of methods such as interview/observation, document examination, Database Design Description (DBDD) and Interface Design Description (IDD).
• Requirements are captured with comprehensive, accurate user stories that are managed by the BA in Confluence/JIRA with a properly prioritized product backlog.

Business System Analyst

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

• Gathering business requirements, documenting them, writing scope documents and use cases
• Worked with various aspect of the Integrated Clinical User Experience (ICUE) clinical system like the Member, HSC and Advisor which involves Assessments UI (Builder, Conductor and Cloud conductor) of Behavioral health and Financial Decision Services UI (Dashboard).
• Participated in full software development life cycle implementations (SDLC) from project initiation to final deployment.
• Involved in the documentation of System specifications and Design and Configuration Table (DCT)
• Facilitated elicitation session to understand several inputs from stakeholder and alignments to their business goals and objectives.
• Created data mapping documents for the objects and attributes/ fields in relation to stakeholder in house PUMA application which is an Integrated Clinical User Experience (ICUE) product
• Technical specification writing and Functional specification writing on stories for the ICUE User Interface (UI)
• Gathered and documented functional requirements for testing of the ICUE User Interface (UI)
• Troubleshoot any problems found within ICUE and Tested defect with use of HP ALM, DB Visualizer and the ICUE UI to validated defects and provide solutions to the defect.
• Used Microsoft Axure for simulation and prototyping of stated unconfirmed required captured during elicitation session.
• Analyzed and evaluated User Interface Designs, Technical Design Documents and the performance of the application from various dimensions.
• Facilitated structured requirements walkthrough with stakeholder and team members so as to confirm and obtain signoff on the stated requirements/ functionalities that will be deployed in the application
• Produced functional & technical design specification documents
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix Table to uniquely trace the identified system specifications to ICUE designs to serve as proof for previous designs and recently added designs or changes

Business Analyst

Confidential, Washington DC

• Served as the Business Analyst on a Policy Development Project to be used by all Federal Government Agencies for Asset Verification and Validation.
• Created Process Flow Charts of “To Be” Data Verification and Validation process, highlighting various phases in the process to create greater understanding of expectations within government agencies and a standardization of the process on a high level.
• Re-engineered Data Verification and Validation Process for government agencies.
• Conducted One on One interviews with SMEs from five Federal Government Agencies to establish best practices.
• Worked with GSA data analyst to establish appropriate thresholds for the determination of outliers within the Data Validation and Verification Process.
• Delivered OMB approved policy document.
• Managed all system change requests from initiation to testing and implementation
• Worked with Information Systems Security Officer to ensure validated information system security plans to ensure NIST control requirements are met
• Worked with Development Testing and Evaluation team to ensure that test cases and scenarios are reflective of the
• Provided project management support by ensuring the awareness of all stakeholders of the status of tasks and action items

Business Analyst

Confidential, Bowie, MD

• Elicited requirements on the Loan Processing Application Project through requirements workshops, document analysis, surveys, site visits, and task and workflow analysis.
• Led interview and requirement sessions with business users, SMEs and end users to understand business and customer needs and translated them into requirements.
• Facilitated the Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with project stakeholders to capture business rules, processes and system requirements for Loan Application Systems.
• Managed the communication between internal and external customers during the needs and requirements analysis and documentation phases.
• Created and delivered Business and Functional Requirements Documents, Use Cases, Process Flow diagrams, and GUI interface designs (Mock - up screens).
• Utilized MS Visio to create flow charts, use case and sequence diagrams on the interaction of various system actors and components.
• Gathered and documented the architectural plans for migrating loan processing system from a legacy platform to J2EE architecture.