SUMMARY:

• 6 year’s industry experience as a Business and QA Analyst with solid understanding of Business
• Requirement gathering, Business Process flow, Business Process Modeling, SDLC and STLC.
• Extensive experience in diversified industry sectors including Utilities, Investment banking, Equities, Mortgage and Credit Cards.
• Good knowledge of industry standard methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Iterative Software
• Development Life Cycle Process as per Confidential ( Confidential ), Used Rational Tools during various phases of Confidential
• Good Business writing skills in writing Business requirements document (BRD), USE Case Specifications,
• Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS).
• Created testing related documents, such as Test and effort estimates, test strategy, test plans.
• Proficient in interacting with business users to identify information needs and initiating process changes, gathering requirements and authoring
• Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Collaboration diagram, Class diagram, State - chart diagram, Component diagram,
• Deployment diagram based on UML methodology using CASE tools like Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Extensive experience in the development, implementation and integration strategies within a team-oriented environment, utilizing quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Conducted Joint application design (JAD) sessions and interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations and email, to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts.
• A good Team player to work in conjunction with other testers, developers and other team members in validation and testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.
• Good communication skills and ability to work effectively with technical teammates to translate business requirements into an effective technical solution and serve as an effective communication channel between the key IT personnel and business contacts.
• Experience in performing Backend testing by writing and executing SQL Queries on Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Cost benefit analysis.

Software/Hardware: Windows 7, UNIX, C, SQL, HTML, MS SQL server, MS Word, Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, ClearQuest, HP ALM Quality center, SharePoint, Citrix, Oracle SQL Developer

EXPERIENCE:Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducting user interviews with Record Managers, legal department and leadership to gather functional, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Translating these requirements into technical and security requirements.
• Vendor management including vendor demo sessions, vendor communications, preparing RFQs and vendor scoring mechanism.
• Communication with senior management, business stakeholders and technical team members, including consultants, vendors & geographically distributed resources
• UI design for the Records manger user group.
• Ensuring the functional and technical requirements including access control, cyber compliance,
• Authentication (Single Sign On) / Authorization, password management, identity management, security controls, monitoring, eDiscovery and mobility requirements are met.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering detailed business requirements from various divisions and producing a Functional specification document.
• Preparing BRD, business process flows for vendor portal, purchasing requests (PR), budgeting the Purchase requests, procurement, purchase orders, inspections, receiving, warehouse, and construction.
• Designing the required fields for the Purchase order (PO) report, SLED report, Products shipped report and Inventory reports.
• Working with the SMEs, design architects from SAP, Supplier Quality Assurance, Warehouse management, Construction etc.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews to gather requirements and build sequence diagrams.
• Providing walk through of all the requirements the technical and QA teams.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as an IT Business Analyst and End to End integration lead, in implementation of ENOS-SAP migration Project.
• Understood and articulated business requirements from user interviews and then translated requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Interacted with SMEs of different divisions (Information Technology, Risk and Operations) and established a business analysis and design methodology around the Confidential ( Confidential ).
• Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRD supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Analyzed the existing system and process gaps in context of new business changes (Gap Analysis).
• Conducted JRP sessions with management, SMEs (Subject Matter Expertise), vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Designed Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams in UML methodology
• Involved in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with the IT Group.
• Worked closely with the UI team to model the screens, which met user defined requirements, organizational and regulatory standards.
• Held group meetings, walkthroughs and supervised/trained other analysts.
• Responsible for the completion of projects within specified time and budget dealing with financials, project workflow, change management and dealing with vendor relationships.
• Performed System and Integration Testing along with testers. Conducted UAT with the business.
• Assisted with Test Cases and developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement them. Efficiently responded to client inquiries and resolved discrepancies.
• Identified, prioritized, tested and proved essential business functions to assure compliance with vendor and internal auditing.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst and QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements through interviews, surveys, and observing from account managers and UI (User Interface) of the existing ESRI ArcGIS system.
• Gathered Integration requirements with Disaster management, material management (SAP) tools.
• This included mainly managing Purchase requests (PR), purchase orders (PO), inventory management (IM).
• Performed gap analysis to ensure requirements met needs of both front/back end systems and solidified Business requirements
• Fulfilled some PM related activities, providing IT LOE’s and project schedule estimates
• Developed and maintained product testing documents, detailing file structures and processing requirements
• Created test strategy, test plans for cross application integration testing. Worked closely with Development and Migration teams.
• Developed training materials and diagrammed workflow processes for other testers and users
• Trained and supported users during UAT
• Worked closely with business and technical teams to ensure systems adhere to business and technical requirements
• Utilized traceability matrix to ensure testing of all functional requirements

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted user interviews at both in-house and client locations and gathered and analyzed requirements using RequisitePro Confidential .
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML.
• Identified, researched, investigated, and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies and subsequently documented the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Exposure to Calls, Loans/Depos, Terms, Repos, Securities, CDs, FRAs,
• Futures/Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Cash Pay/Receivables, FX Arbitrage, Futures contracts, forward contracts, options and swaps.
• Assisted with user testing of systems (UAT), with developing and maintaining quality procedures, and with ensuring that appropriate documentation was in place.
• Undertook responsibilities for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Case and Conducted User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Used detailed knowledge of application features and functions to assess the scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Was responsible for all project documentations.
• Extensively worked on Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• For this project Oracle was used as a backend database. Websphere was used as a middleware and the platform used was J2EE.
• Cognos BI tool was used for reporting.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for continuous process improvement and for identifying and maintaining a clear and measurable
• Development Process that is deployable throughout the enterprise using Confidential .
• Developed prototype of new information processing application. Facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents using Rational RequisitePro that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Gathered Business Requirements, analyze data/workflows.
• Defined the scope, financial projections and Cost/benefit analysis.
• Progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented designs.
• Assisted Project Teams in preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Software Design Documents (SDD), User Interface Design, designing of Application Architecture & Database Modeling.
• Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Proactively transformed the textual-based platform-specific architecture requirements into stable platform independent model products.
• Analyzed Business Requirements from Black Box testing perspective.
• Reviewed Test Strategy and Test Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, User Interface, Performance, Usability and Security requirements.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and information needs, and ensure that critical requirements are not missed.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams.
• Involved in generation of test data inputs for both positive and negative data to enhance Recovery/ Failover testing.
• Coordinated work plan between project manager and client with Microsoft Project; implemented and managed migration process & developer fixes; retested fixes; scheduled and tracked progress for team members of project through completion.
• Established Incident Reporting and Change Control procedures using ClearQuest.
• Using Confidential provided technical leadership and expertise in reorganization of a complex End-to-End Testing effort and performed System analysis and organizational review of existing QA process.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the primary liaison between the Business users and the development team.
• Assisted the Project Managers in the development of standard project documentation.
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed the requirements using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro - Confidential .
• Collaborated with the Project Managers in the development of weekly and monthly status reports and documentation of process flows, policies and procedures.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML and Business Process Modeling.
• Extensively worked with Risk Management, Mortgage Loan Servicing, and Commercial and Residential mortgage, CMBS, MBS.
• Was Integrally involved in categorizing Mortgage Pre-payment risk, Risk Analytics for MBS, Loan Servicing, Loan Ordination, MBS, CMBS, Secondary Mortgage Market, Escrow and Reserve Administration, Escrow processing, Escrow Analysis, Non-Escrow Loans Collateral Inspection and Monitoring, Property Inspection, Income and Expense Statement Review, and Inspection Report.
• Analyzed the existing reports, reporting system.
• Stayed updated on SEC changes and adjusting financials and/ or reporting procedures accordingly to stay in compliance with GAAP and SEC requirements.
• Assisted in the preparation of timely and accurate SEC financial reporting information so that important business decisions can be made based off the results.
• Assisted in the preparation and support of the complex and detailed quarterly and yearly financial statements and review.
• Assisted in the maintenance of historical financial statements and most other financial information for the company.
• Also developed training materials and executed user training.
• Used Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest as Configuration Management and Change control tools.

Confidential

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete QA Life Cycle of the project.
• Analyzing and writing Test plans based on BRD and Test cases based on Test Plans.
• Involved in DB team meeting discussions to get test data before iteration starting.
• Requirements gathering and use case creation by using Agile Methodologies.
• Actively participated in scrum, Iteration planning, Retrospective, review meetings.
• Worked in an Agile environment, with an ability to accommodate and test the newly proposed changes at any point of time during the release.
• Involved in Black box, functional, integration, regression and System testing.
• Prepare and execute SQL Queries for retrieving the data from the DB to do back end testing.
• Writing test cases based on Use Cases and stored in GIT repository.
• Actively involved in performing functionality, Configuration, unit and integration testing.
• Performed End-to-End testing and was associated with User Acceptance Testing on multiple application servers like JBOSS and Web Sphere application server
• Actively involved in Production deploy release meetings to test production builds.
• Verified logs in Prod and QA environment to find the RCA for failed test cases.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers and track and generate defect reports and graphs

Confidential

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing, Understanding and Estimating requirements.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts based on Business Requirements.
• Performed Integration testing to check the flow of application.
• Planning, Preparing and updating scripts using Quality Center.
• Performed User acceptance testing in the final phase of software development process to check the functionality of the software.
• Involved in writing SQL Queries to check Data integrity.
• Tested the application on different browsers as a part of Workstation compatibility testing to maintain cross browser functionality.
• Written Both Positive and Negative Test Cases.
• Generated Weekly Reports, Defect Reports and Customized Summary Reports.
• Defect tracking using Bugzilla.
• Prepared Defect Reports, weekly status Reports, and Bug Tracking.