SUMMARY:

• Around 5 years of experience in IT with proven communication, analytical, and problem - solving skills to help manage the project development process, and to ensure that project deliverables are met according to specifications.
• Expert in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including MethodologiesincludingAgile Scrum, Waterfall, and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Extensive experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Business Modeling, and Use Case documentation using Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Highly proficient in interacting with business users, and using UML for Business Process Modeling, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Wireframe prototypes and documenting them using tools like Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.
• Experience managing conflicts, facilitating negotiation, and maintaining a degree of adaptability
• Proven expertise in preparing and presenting communications to all levels of management and staff.
• Facilitated and conducted Scrums, Joint Application Design (JAD) and Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions, interviews, workshops and requirement elicitation sessions with end-users, clients, stakeholders and development team.
• Got excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact with end-users, Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and Project Stakeholders.
• Skilled in translating business objectives into prioritized functional requirements and recommending feasible solutions to business problems using tools like Rational Requisite Pro and Quality Centre.
• Extensive knowledge of Design using Unified Modelling Language (UML) and skilled in creation of Use Case, Activity, and Class Diagrams using various tools.
• Designed and reviewed test strategies, test cases, test scripts with QA/Dev teams and facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Adept in Requirement Analysis and Design Specifications, and ability to prepare Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), User Requirements Document (URD) and User Requirements Specification (URS).
• Prepared Functional Requirements Specification (FRS) using Rational RequisitePro.
• Experience in analysis of AS-IS business process and TO-BE design process (Gap Analysis).
• Expert in test plans development and assisted in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Integration testing (SIT).
• Participated with QA team in different phases of testing such as System testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Progression testing and Integration testing for quality analysis.
• Able to effectively converse, relate and liaise with multifunctional teams, including business owner, stakeholders, managers, architects, developers and testers at all levels.
• Experience in Rally’s Agile Portfolio Management Solution.
• Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.
• Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: SQL Server, MS Access, My SQL, Teradata, Oracle

Project Methodologies: Joint Application Development (JAD), UML, Agile Agile/Scrum, Waterfall.

Bug tracking and reporting: HP Quality Centre, Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Hyperion, JIRA

Documentation Tools: MS Visio, MS Office Suite (Word/Excel/Power Point), DOORS

Modeling Tools: Rational Rose,RequisitePro.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Improved processes and methods around Data Analysis including defining standards and procedures, refining methods and techniques for information modeling
• Prepared Needs Analysis Document from online credit bureau warehouse after collecting requirements from Global Process Owners (GPO’s)
• Helped teams managing trade reconciliation process as well as providing metrics around trade confirmation data for all OTC Derivative products.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements also preformed Business Process Re-engineering.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD). Decomposed BRD into User Stories by conducting a story writing session with product owner and user Acceptance Criteria for PSPI (Potentially Shippable Product Increment).
• Incorporated Scrum Events Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, stand up meeting, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• As Scrum master facilitated Sprint Planning meeting, tracked team velocity and Sprint progress using Sprint Burn down Chart and Product Burn down Chart, conducted time boxed daily scrum meeting.
• Analyzed and designed customized data feeds to populate Perform with trade and securities data from diverse databases and the Security Reference Data Master.
• Engaged Scrum teams and programs SME’s to understand communicate status, priorities, risks and issues.
• Managed and monitored various scrum events through agile delivery process, worked closely with project manager, product owner and stakeholders to ensure their expectations are met.
• Handled requirement churn during the project by performing Impact Analysis by checking the feasibility in maintaining the triple constraint and discussing them in daily Scrum.
• Conducted Sprint Retrospective meetings creating the environment for each stakeholder to freely express their opinions and suggest improvement measures at the end of each sprint
• Defined Acceptance Criteria for User Stories to perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Designed Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Scenarios to perform Functional Testing, Smoke Testing and Regression Testing and logged down defects and systematically managed them in JIRA.
• Used JIRA for issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability
• Analyzed data from source table and figured out what the data points needs to be bought into staging

Environment: RUP, UML, Jira, MS SQL Server, MS Visio, MS office suite, Windows, MS SharePoint, Agile, Rational Requisite Pro

Confidential, San Jose CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all semi-annual and off-cycle releases by understanding project requirements, ensuring the business case is valid, and documenting the benefit according to the PDP. This also included comprehensive transition to production and certification teams .
• Performed extensive Gap analysis to identify the business rules and determine the risks and assisted the PM in budget and resource planning.
• Defined Acceptance Criteria for User Stories to perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Designed Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Scenarios to perform Functional Testing, Smoke Testing and Regression Testing and logged down defects and systematically managed them in JIRA.
• Involved in UI enhancement and made Wireframes and Screen Mockups/Definitions and Dependencies using Visio.
• Created extensive SQL queries for data retrieval, manipulation, and reporting
• Created and transformed business requirements into software requirement specification (SRS).
• Worked extensively in Agile methodology for effective software development to deliver business value while incorporating constantly changing requirements
• Managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including the review of requirements documentation, authoring, and executing test cases, tracking defects, validating test results and creating supporting documentation with a focus on detail transaction processing.
• Gathered and document requirements for to back-end data output related to Authorization, Settlement, Pricing & Reporting.
• Confirmed all client documentation revisions resulting from new developments. This included Technical documents and System Manuals.
• Ensure that all changes are communicated and agreed upon internally with BT and Client facing teams.
• Participate in all semi-annual release client training events by providing subject matter expertise during Webinars or live events .
• Participated and contributed in daily scrums, Sprint meeting and Sprint review meetings.
• Responsible for organizing the Quality Analyst (QA) walk through to explain proposed changes.
• Coordinated with the test team to check the weekly status and report the same to the project manager.
• Performed system and regression testing by creating test plans and test cases to ensure all the functional requirements are met and valid.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, SDLC, XML, JIRA, HTML, Visio, Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, Vision PLUS.

Confidential, Gurugram, IND

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD Sessions with the subject matter experts, stakeholders and other management teams in the finalization of the User Requirement Documentation.
• During business requirement gathering, conducted personal and telephonic user interviews.
• Participated in status meeting and requirement walkthroughs.
• Created sample Wire frames to make system better understood by Business and Technology teams
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business process using Six Sigma.
• Performed GAP analysis to meet the end state requirements.
• Created AS-IS and TO-BE business process flow diagrams, integrate process flow diagrams to show end-to-end business model and process mapping exercise including swim lanes.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams, using UML.
• Performed Data Analysis and Data validation by writing complex SQL queries using TOAD against the ORACLE database.
• Worked closely with Quality Assurance and development teams to clarify and understand the functionality to resolve issues and provide feedback in terms of the test matrices and to solve the defects.
• Participated in System Test reviews, development design reviews & usability studies.
• Helped in Manual Testing. Also, involved in Regression testing using QTP.
• Conducted UAT, developed quality procedures documentation adhering business rules.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system request based on business needs considering deadlines.
• Worked with database developers to identify/resolve Bottleneck and Performance issues.

Environment: SDLC (Waterfall), UML (Visual Paradigm), Clear Quest, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS SQL Server

Confidential, Noida, IND

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business and Data related high-level requirements and expanded them to low-level functional requirements.
• Participated in walk through and review of requirements.
• Conducted several JAD sessions with the SME to gather Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.
• Documented the minutes of meeting details and did follow-ups with the members as discussed in the session.
• Conducted one-to-one interview with other stakeholders in order to know the system requirements and functionality, what data needs to be extracted from the Line of Business (LOB), and what data elements should be present for Reporting purposes.
• Performed Impact Analysis on the system with variations in Stress, Load, and Performance and documented it.
• Performed GAP Analysis from the old system to the new and created a separate document for it.
• Performed Data Analysis, created data mapping and data interface documents and kept the documents updated with changes in requirements and functional specifications.
• Assisted Data Modeler in designing the System. Validated data in terms of its Completeness and Correctness (evaluating data's integrity, accuracy and range).
• Created process flow diagrams for better understanding and reviews.
• Documented all the Business/Data requirements in BRDs, FRDs, NFRDs, Use Cases and UML Diagrams.
• Documented high-level scenarios to guide the testing teams. Also created Requirement Traceability Matrix for Developers and Testers.
• Assisted the UAT team in developing the Test Cases, executing them and summarizing it for final sign off.

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS-Project, Windows XP/7, Rational requisite Pro, SQL, SahrePoint 2010.