SUMMARY:

• Over 15 + years of Experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis/Data Modeling, Quality Assurance and Project Management with expertise in Requirements Gathering, Business Process Design Analysis, System Analysis, Data Analysis and Design, Process Modeling, Data Quality Assurance, software verification and validation.
• Estimation and Planning, Client/Business Interaction and Issue Resolution and Software Testing.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle with understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong analytical abilities to perform well both independently and as a team player.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Sr. Business Analyst / Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with Confidential Business stakeholders to in corporate their Fulfillment Assurance Report needs.
• Gathered and documented both business and functional requirements for Confidential Customer related Fulfillment Validation Report Requirements.
• Extracted and analyzed data from Data Warehouses for the Validation Reports.
• Subject matter expert in the enterprise fulfillment validation for both business and technical teams
• Tracked and monitored project progress and addressed road blocks.
• Communicated project statuses to the business stake holders.
• Guided and trained new team members.
• Provided business process and systems support.
• Involved in improving and updating existing processes.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing and user training.
• Performed ad hoc SQL queries and conducted root cause analysis.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with internal Confidential Business users to gather Business requirements and convert them into Functional System Requirements, Non Functional System Requirements and Data requirements..
• Worked with external vendor sources to gather high level business requirements and converted them into Detail Business, System and Data requirements
• Worked on Confidential integration project, to integrate Confidential direct banking data into Confidential Enterprise data warehouse, worked on detail Business, System and Data Requirements.
• Worked in an Agile environment and participated in Sprint planning and scrum.
• Interacted extensively with Confidential Business Users and Business Owners to address their Business needs.
• Worked closely with Data Modelers and DBA’s in LDM and PDM designs.
• Create and Documented Meta Data
• Documented Data Transformations and Data Mappings (Source To Target Mappings).
• Worked closely with Development team to review the requirements and participated in both High level and Detailed level design documents
• Worked with System test team to review the requirements and participated in Test cases creation and reviews.
• Communicated project statuses to the stake holders
• Used Quality Center to maintain and track requirements.

Environment: Teradata, Oracle, SQL, Ab Initio, Windows, Business Object, Quality Center, Version One.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Lead Business Analyst / Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Requirements Gathering, Business process flow, and business analysis.
• Worked extensively with Onsite and offshore teams.
• Produced documentation for business process, system analysis, business requirement, data and process flow diagrams.
• Trained remote Team members on the Systems.
• Worked with remote development and testing teams to ensure requirement accuracy and that deadlines were met
• Managed large projects as Team Lead.
• Worked on Projects in all cycles including time and cost estimation.
• Participated in various JAD and brainstorming session.
• Managed change requests and defects by resolving and tracking.
• Analyzed User requirements, translated logical specifications into physical design specifications
• Designed User Interfaces and created UI mockups.
• Created inter face documents for the system interfaces with data mappings.
• Designed data extracts and database corrections for testing and investigation purposes
• Actively participated in IT testing, System testing, testing modification requests (MR)
• Interacted with Users for support and training, trained users on the systems by giving demos and trainings.
• Frequently interacted with core groups including End Users, SME’s, development and testing teams to resolve the issues.
• Participated in test cases and test plan creation and execution.
• Participated in designing test plans, test scenarios and test cases creation and execution for integration, regression and user acceptance testing
• Worked closely with a diverse group of users, IT management, application developers and test teams in order to meet the release scheduling demands of the business and maintain a quality product
• Worked extensively with users during UAT’s (User Acceptance Test).
• Gave training and demos to the users on system navigation and functionality.
• Supported and Worked on Production issues.

Environment: Oracle, Sybase, Unix, J2EE, Servlets, Java Server Pages, Perl, XML, Web Sphere, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, Windows NT, Business Object, Rational Clear Quest, Remedy Tool.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Requirements Gathering, Business process flow, and business analysis.
• Participated in various JAD and brainstorming session.
• Designed Data bases for the systems.
• Managed change requests, Modification requests and defects
• Analyzed User requirements, translated logical specifications into physical design specifications
• Designed and created mockups for UI screens.
• Designed data extracts and database corrections for testing and investigation purposes
• Created various XML interfaces to extract and to load data between systems, created various validations on the interfaces.
• Created Business and system requirements to retire a Reporting legacy system that was in Visual Basic, worked on all cycles.
• Worked with International SME’s and Users on Business, Systems requirements and Data Base for a Financial System for accounting and Pricing.
• Actively participated in IT testing, System testing, testing modification requests (MR)
• Designed new systems to replace legacy systems.
• Created Reports and Charts for the upper management to analyze data on ordering.
• Generated Reports by querying the Data base with SQL queries.
• Interacted with both Domestic and International Users for support and training, trained users on the systems by giving demos and trainings.
• Frequently interacted with core groups including End Users, SME’s, development and testing teams to resolve the issues..
• Participated in test cases and test plan creation and execution.
• Participated in designing test plans, test scenarios and test cases creation and execution for integration, regression and user acceptance testing
• Worked extensively with users during UAT’s (User Acceptance Test).
• Supported and resolved Production issues

Environment: Oracle, Sybase, Unix, J2EE, Servlets, Java Server Pages, Perl, XML, Web Sphere, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, Windows NT, Business Object and Rational Clear Quest.