SUMMARY:

• More than 12 years of experience in IT industry.
• More than 5 years of extensive experience as Business Analyst in Retail and Automotive domains with strong knowledge of SDLC Methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall.
• Resourceful Business Analysis skills in streamlining operations and maintaining schedules to ensure maximum customer satisfaction and business revenue. Expertise in coordinating diverse teams and resources to complete objectives.
• Good understanding & domain knowledge on web - based, Client-Server applications, developing business processes and system solutions for Automobile, Construction, Insurance, and Retail Industries for various projects from conceptualization to implementation.
• Knowledge of UML Methodology for preparation of Use Case Diagrams, Dataflow Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, ER Diagrams, Class Diagrams.
• Proficiency in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Test Case Document (TCD) and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Expertise in Business Requirement gathering, Business Process flows, Querying SQL databases and Testing.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in SQL and Relational Databases.
• Experience in the documentation of system and business requirements and specifications, design, and development of use and test-case scenarios and GAP analysis.
• Expertise in Resource planning, Scheduling, Requirements gathering.
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills; expert at managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to rapidly learn new concepts together with excellent verbal, written, interpersonal skills.
• Maintained all the stories and tasks in JIRA.
• Exposed to work with senior management and enabling functions to plan and implement programs to meet requirements supporting short-and long-term business needs.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the stakeholders, clients and business users.
• Create and leverage analytical approaches to perform analysis of domain specific source data to provide accuracy and if needed create new file formats of data according to client's requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the vendor data to finalize taxonomy.
• Conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders, end users and SME, QA Analysts to develop key functional and technical requirements.
• Maintained all the stories and tasks in JIRA, Implemented JIRA Safe methodologies in the project.
• Interfaced with key vendors to gather data and load that into the system to validate the data.

Business Analyst

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Documented Business Process flows, created "As-Is Business Models" by meeting with SMEs stakeholders from interfacing applications.
• Conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders, end users and SME, QA Analysts to determine the critical business processes and developed key functional and technical requirements.
• Identified opportunities for improving business processes through information systems
• Documented and tracked functional changes; wrote detailed use cases and requirements (BRD's and FRD's), maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix, Systems Design Document (SDD)
• Maintained all the stories and tasks in JIRA which was used to know the status of requirements. Implemented JIRA Safe methodologies in the project.
• Liaison between Business Users and Technical team in analysis & design. Oversee project across all phases of development.
• Work as part of a team to achieve project milestones.

Business Analyst

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

• Participated in redesigning a new portal and replacing old one.
• Worked with top management to understand the Business and Functional Requirements.
• Analyzed existing system to document processes and business rules.
• Used JIRA for User Story requirements management throughout the Agile Sprints and development life cycle.
• Documented and tracked functional changes; wrote detailed use cases and requirements (BRD's and FRD's), maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix, Systems Design Document (SDD).
• Reviewed test cases written by other team members.

Data Analyst

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed client data and prepared routines to load it into the system.
• Worked with the management to prioritize business and information needs of confidential data and information according to guidelines.
• Involved in translating the business requirements into data requirements across different systems.
• Collaborated across the organization from Product Management, Software Engineering, to Operations to deliver timely, high-quality data services.
• Worked with business analysts to understand the business specification requirement document and translated the requirement into Test Cases.
• Prepared different data files for testing import and export functionality.
• Identified different test scenarios and created appropriate test cases and test data to effectively test the application.
• Generated the test scripts for Functional, Data driven and Regression testing.
• Performed Data Driven testing by checking the behavior of the application and analyzed the results.
• Executed Integration testing and Regression testing for all critical transactions.
• Responsible for sending the status email to Test Manger and Developer team manager with the list of bug and sharing test document and test data files.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, System Testing and Acceptance Testing.

Business Analyst and QA Tester

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in discussion with client for customization needs they may have.
• Discussed with client, the requirements and translate them into business requirement document.
• Created Use Case document and was involved in converting them into test cases.
• As a Quality Assurance analyst, helped in documenting test strategy and test cases.
• Identification of environment specific Test Data.
• Executed the Test Cases for performing Smoke, Functional, Regression, System and Integration Testing.
• Communicated the bugs, testing status and testing issues with project manager, QA team, developers during the status and defect review meetings.
• Worked closely with development team while developing test cases, defect reviewing, analyzing and resolving bugs.
• Involved in QA team meetings

Business Analyst and QA Tester

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Cases for both positive and negative scenarios for functional and integration Testing.
• Understanding requirements and Preparing test plan and getting signed off from PM and client.
• Executed the Test Cases for performing Smoke, Functional, Regression, System and Integration Testing.
• Communicated the bugs, testing status and testing issues with project manager, QA team, developers during the status and defect review meetings.
• Worked closely with development team while developing test cases and scripts, environment setup process and defect reviewing, analyzing and resolving bugs.
• Timely and efficient entering, tracking, maintaining and updating defect logs.
• Involved in QA team meetings.

Business Analyst and QA Tester

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Attended Client meetings weekly and documented new requirements.
• Helped Development team in understanding new requirements.
• Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs and Use Case documents and helped in creating the Test Plans, Test cases for System testing
• Manually tested entire Business process of the application
• Involved in writing detailed test cases.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and provided the timely status feedback on progress of the testing activity.
• Performed validation of links, browser compatibility.
• Executed tests and participated actively in testing.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.

QA Tester

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing the Test Plan based on System Requirements Document.
• Prepared Test Plan to define testing schedule, test coverage, test procedures, and test data.
• Drafted, implemented, and reported status for test cases for new requirements.
• Developed Positive & Negative scenarios for the requirements.
• Attended Change Request meetings and made subsequent changes in test plan and wrote test cases according to change requests.
• Performed end-to-end testing for both data transformation as well as functionality testing.
• Involved in Smoke Testing for every new Build.
• Performed Regression testing over different builds and defects were reported accordingly.

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases for both positive and negative scenarios for functional and integration testing.
• Understanding requirements and preparing test plan and getting signed off from project manager and client.
• Executed the test cases for performing smoke, functional, regression, system and integration testing.
• Communicated the bugs, testing status and testing issues with project manager, QA team, developers during the status and defect review meetings.
• Worked closely with development team while developing test cases and scripts, environment setup process and defect reviewing, analyzing and resolving bugs.
• Timely and efficient entering, tracking, maintaining and updating defect logs.
• Involved in QA team meetings.