PROFILE

• A detail oriented Business Analyst with six years of experience in various domains including insurance, mortgage, health care, and government service industries.
• Excellent track record of delivering cost effective and high performance technology solutions to meet challenging business needs.
• Strong skills in gathering requirements, identifying business problems, transforming user needs into functional requirement, system requirement specification, use cases, backlog documents and user story documents.

SUMMARY HIGHLIGHTS

• Well versed with various Agile - Scrum and Waterfall model development methodology.
• Solid knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Specialized in business process engineering and software development life cycle (SDLC) including: analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of all software applications.
• Experience in Warehousing Concepts, Dimensional Modeling, OLTP, and OLAP
• Strong skills in business solutions including business needs, requirements, risks, options and limitations.
• Expertise in facilitating and coordinating Joint Application Requirement (JAR) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with excellent inter-personal and conflict resolving skills.
• Experience in writing and maintaining the Requirement Definition Document that included Business Requirements and Functional Requirements, Use Cases and User Story
• Expert in writing detailed system Use Cases, developing business Test Cases and working with QA teams during testing phase, thereby facilitating acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users.
• Exhibit strong analytical ability during Functional Testing, Regression Testing and UAT Testing.
• Experience in developing and maintaining and Review Change Requests (CR) and related documents for the CR.
• Strong leadership, excellent technical, communication, and customer service skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks independently, as well as collaboratively with team members in testing complex projects.

RELEVANT TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application: MS Office, SharePoint

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS, WAVE

Operating System: Windows and Linux

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

CM/Requirement Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA

Testing Tools: JIRA, SOAP UI

Programming Language: JAVA, SQL

WORK EXPERIENCES

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements using techniques such as interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and workflow analysis.
• Develop detailed functional requirements based off of the business requirements
• Conduct kickoff meetings with business owners, stakeholders as part of the requirements gathering process
• Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced and retired applications
• Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify the scope of the project and to prepare a
• Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications
• Provide guidance to project managers, product owner, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting
• Facilitate and manage meeting sessions with business owners, business system owners, development team, testing team, and process control team
• Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines
• Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS Project and HP ALM.
• Capture of quality attributes external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements
• Participate in the development of training materials for new technology and organizing User Training
• Coordinate the development, design and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Environment: JAVA, HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, SVN, MS Windows, SharePoint, Visio

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Business Requirements, Use cases, and Business Rules
• Interacted effectively with peers, management and cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Developed and maintained project timelines with necessary project objectives documented.
• Assisted with User Acceptance Testing (UAT), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation were in place.
• Developed & executed Test Scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with the QA managers for the regular update of the project
• Created test cases executed and recorded results of test cases using Quality Center
• Developed Test Result Metrics for Test Execution Phase
• Worked closely with Software Developers to isolate, track, and troubleshoot defects

Environment: JAVA, HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, SVN, MS Windows, SharePoint, Visio

Confidential, VA

Requirement Analyst /QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirement and developed test cases
• Identified financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Reconciled transactions by comparing and correcting data.
• Investigated system bugs and Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and reporting the bugs to all concerned.
• Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases
• Created, Maintained and Executed Manual Test Scripts in Quality Center.
• Worked extensively with SQL queries for database integrity and data validation.
• Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Actively participated in Review meetings and walkthroughs and prepared the defect progress reports during defect meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP, MS Visio