SUMMARY:

• A goal - oriented professional with over 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst with expertise in requirements gathering, business analysis, data analysis, user acceptance testing and business process modeling. Ability to work independently and as a team player, a customer enthusiast and quick adapter with a passion of working in agile environment
• Part of Business Analysis efforts to deliver value-added IT products and services in a fast and efficient way.
• Participated in creation and deployment of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) based on Agile Framework (Scrum) and Waterfall for the Project Management Office (PMO).
• Proficient in running project Kick-off meetings, Daily Stand-ups, Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions.
• Excellent in performing Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Gap Analysis, Data Analysis, Schedule-Budget estimation, Reporting and removing impediments for Agile Teams.
• Excel in creating Product Backlogs, Prioritized backlogs and Estimated User Stories using Techniques like Planning Poker.
• Expertise in developing templates and writing Business Use Cases and Business Rules.
• Strong experience in transforming Business requirements to detailed Functional Specifications and Non-Functional Specifications.
• Experience with process modeling using UML, Flow charts, state-chart diagrams, activity diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams and Use Cases.
• Experience in UAT and creating Test Plan, Test Cases and backend testing.
• Experience in all types of SDLCs including Waterfall, Iterative and Agile Methodology with thorough understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives via daily stand-ups, status reports, Burn-down charts and weekly tech meetings.
• Excellent problem solving skills for root cause identification.
• Ability to lead and interact with multi-cultural teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AUTOMATED TESTING TOOLS: WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director, HP Quality Center, LSMW, Solution Manager

GUI TOOLS: MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project, SAP R/3 Version, 4.7, ecc 5.0.ecc 6.0

REQUIREMENT MANAGEMENT: Requisite Pro, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Visio

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: MS Project 2010, SharePoint, HP Quality Center 10.00

DEFECT TRACKING TOOLS/CHANGE MGT. TOOLS: JIRA, Rally, CMIS

METHODOLOGIES: Scrum, Agile, Waterfall Model

DATABASE: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

• As Is system assessment by conducting requirement workshops and gaining insight into planning and approval data and data flow.
• Compliance reporting requirements and map the requirements to the product being developed.
• Facilitate and moderate discussions with Business & Development teams and coordination with other Project work streams for timely resolution of dependencies.
• Work with Data engineers to help design the data pipelines.
• Excel in creating Product Backlogs, Prioritized backlogs and Estimated User Stories using techniques like Planning Poker.
• Expertise in developing templates and writing Business Use Cases and Business Rules.
• Strong experience in transforming Business requirements to detailed Functional Specifications and Non-Functional Specifications.
• User stories documentation and management through sprint delivery using JIRA.
• Experience in UAT and creating Test Plan and Test Cases
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives via daily stand-ups, status reports, Burn-down charts and weekly tech meetings.
• Provide the risk outlook and weekly status updates to Project sponsors, ensure the achievement of milestones on schedule and in budget.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders for a smooth go-live.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

• Collaborated with business stakeholders, responsibly gather and specified requirements and managed the release.
• Transferred user stories into technical requirements for the development team, writing the functional specification documents, logging them on to JIRA and using agile methodologies on the entire SDLC process.
• Created detailed deliverables including use cases, wireframes and workflows to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas; used Sketch as the wireframing tool.
• Creating test scripts and test data for programmers. End to End testing of Functional User Testing. Creating and maintaining Data and scenarios in User Acceptance Testing environment and support the business in UAT phase.
• Successfully logged the defects and resolve them as per their priorities
• Product walkthroughs and presentations based on client’s business requirements and business domain.
• Suggested feature enhancements to the current application after doing a thorough competitive and market research. The research aided in creating successful partnerships with complementing companies.
• Day-to-day management and welfare of the product and clients at all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Managed scope and project components, critical timeline, and milestones.
• Led meetings, daily stand-ups, weekly updates, knowledge transfer sessions and signoff meetings.
• Managed testing team, developed test cases, approved all test plans and managed UAT.