OBJECTIVE:

To emerge as a competent professional with technical knowledge, good management skills and determination for the organization I work for.

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• 7+ years of professional IT experience, with strong knowledge of B2B, B2C and Healthcare Domain, Business Analysis, Risk Analysis, Gap Analysis and Quality Assurance.
• Proven success as a business system analyst through the years, providing a well - balanced understanding of business relationships, requirements and technical solutions.
• Extensive experience in analyzing business need, requirements gathering and writing requirements and functional specifications.
• Proficient in Documentation, MS-excel Basics and advance and Computer basics
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle and SDLC methodologies like, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile with SCRUM, Spiral.
• Expertise in UML (class diagrams, object diagrams, use case diagrams, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams) as a business analysis tool for solution functional design.
• Ability to remove team impediments to allow for best-in-class solutions to emerge, and meet the business goals.
• Expertise on Agile/Scrum practice and values to meet the business goals and delight customers.
• Proactively track team velocity in order to report progress of sprint.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other Scrum Masters within the organization to align techniques, practices and approaches
• Assisted Project Manager on large-scale projects with a successful project delivery record.
• Hands on experience in design and implementation of web services / Integration Architecture
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with end-users, expert team development and QA team for project meetings, walkthroughs and customer interviews.
• Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), SQL and testing documents
• Research and understand existing AS IS system and develop the To Be system concept and prepare the System Process Maps using Microsoft Visio tool.
• Exposure to Client/Server, Web Application developmental tools and Software development and design.
• Consulted with key internal stakeholders to elicit business issues, determine root cause(s) and capture business needs, develop and refine Project Chater.
• Assisted Business Stakeholders perform end-to end testing as part of UAT effort.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Project, MS Visio

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Draw.io

Languages: C, C++, PL/SQL, JAVA

Operating Systems: MS Windows NT/98/95/2000

Web Technology: HTML, DHTML, HTTP, JavaScript

Database: SQL Server, MS Access

Utility: MS Office, Virtual UML

Automation tools: Rational Analyst Suite, RUP, Requisites Pro and Rose.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in meetings with developers, Project managers and Quality analysts to discuss business requirements, test planning, resource utilization and defect tracking.
• Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to create BRD and FRD.
• Worked with cross functional business teams and stored project artifacts using MS SharePoint.
• Developed business requirement and specification documents as well as high-level project plan and translated business requirements into Process models and Use cases using MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Managing complex software development and integration projects in a fast paced, constantly changing Agile Environment .
• Implemented Environmental Health and Safety System (EHSS) in claims processing system in order to prevent incidents that might result from abnormal operating conditions.
• Worked with the management for improving and giving new ideas for designing future process of the HIPAA format dealing with EDI Transactions on Facets platform.
• Processed EDI test files and verified system is able to validate certified and non certified trading partners. Created detailed level test scenarios on HIPAA Compliance testing.
• Reviewed relational database design of the application and conducted multiple SQL querying.
• Reviewed Test scripts, Test scenarios and performed UAT of the application.

Environment: RUP, UML, MS Office, MS Project, Test Director, Clear Quest Facets, SQL

Confidential, Lake Bluff, IL

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing gap analysis and documents them textually or within models.
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS) for the Web based application.
• Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Interviewing area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• User Rational Rose extensively to created Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration diagrams and Class Diagrams.
• Worked on CFR Part 11 validated and Regulated System.
• Worked as a User/ Customer Advocate and negotiated with user as well as with developers and management staff to resolve any requirement conflict to BRIDGE the gaps between IT and Business Client.
• Authored progress and completion reports which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis in MS project.
• Created Functional Requirements Document (FRDs), Functional Specifications Document (FSDs) and Traceability Matrices for application development.
• Involved in the stack sessions, and met with all stake holders to understand, articulate, and document the requirements.
• Worked on projects which used Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Assigned tasks among development team monitored and tracked progress of project following Agile methodology.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Agile Process to strategize the Implementation in different sprints of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Established a Business Analysis methodology around the Rational Unified Process.
• Worked extensively with MS Excel and MS access
• Created mock up diagrams using MS VISIO and provided the screenshots replicating the changes to the User Interface (UI) as per the requirements.
• Interacted with other Business Analysts for designing and development of Use Cases and Test Plans.
• Extracted the Business Requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) using Rational RequisitePro.
• Assisted in building a Business Analysis Process Model using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Performed extensive Requirement analysis and developed use cases and workflows.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and OOD
• Extensively worked on testing using Quality Center for defect management, reporting and requirements traceability.
• Analyzed User Requirement Document, Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
• Collected business requirements to set rules for proper data transfer from Data Source to Data Target in Data Mapping
• Developed business requirement specification documents as well as high-level project plan.
• Served as quality assurance/ quality control to ensure that the final product met all the clinical protocol requirements. Was responsible for user acceptance testing (UAT) of the final product.
• As a liaison between the Developers and Clients, was instrumental in resolving conflicts between user and technical development teams.
• Designing and reviewing different comprehensive data reports using MS Access and MS Excel.
• Involved in Project Management including documenting, implementation throughout the collector development lifecycle.

Environment: J2EE, Oracle Clinical, CSS, cGMP, FDA Regulations, Windows NT, MS Office (MS Access, MS Excel), Rational Rose, Requisite Pro

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed a structured approach to gathering and formalizing business requirements expressed by managers, process owners and operational users.
• Analyzed business requirements and system architecture/design.
• Utilized Rational Unified Process(RUP) methodology to manage requirements
• Maintain and track the overall project progress and testing status through MS Project.
• Conducted JAD sessions with end-users to identify user requirements and also to collaborate with developers for application development.
• Actively involved in designing User Interfaces for development prototypes helping to make developer easily understand the new/modification done on the front-end.
• Coordinated in distributing the workflow details to appropriate resources.
• Captured system requirements by writing Use Cases specifications.
• Analyzed the As IS system to prepare a To Be system concept.
• Captured core business process information, business rules, business entities and other relevant information.
• Assessed risks cost and potential benefits of alternative business process.
• Actively involved in doing the UAT to signoff the testing conducted by the testing teams for various phases of the testing cycle such as Functional, Regression, GUI, Backend, Integration and testing.
• Integrated Requisite Pro with Rational Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintaining traceability among requirements, use cases and change request.
• Efficient used SQL and PL/SQL for database/backend testing.

Environment: Erwin, MS Office, Java, J2EE, JSP, VC++, .Net, HTML, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Web Services

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as the channel of communication between the business user, project sponsor, operations teams, and the technical team throughout the project life cycle.
• Utilized Agile/Scrum methodologies to monitor steer and develop project objectives.
• Organize periodic meetings to discuss requirements, status, issues and risks between various stakeholders.
• Elicited business requirements by conducting structured interviews, JAD sessions and workshops to create various business documents such as BRD, SRS, FSD etc.
• Collaborated with project sponsor, project team and other stakeholders to determine project milestones and report on progress; prepared communication and status reporting plan.
• Involved in creation and reviewing of Functional Specifications and created a Functional Requirement Document.
• Participated in the logical and physical design sessions, assisted in developing high and low level design documents.
• Designed structured functional testing, including review of test scenarios, test cases and execution/support of User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS Project.

Environment: Agile-Scrum, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Rational Clear Quest, MS Access, Windows, Rational Test Manager, MS Office.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the scope, and defining business rules of the project, gathering business requirements, doing gap analysis and documents them textually or within models.
• Responsible for writing Functional requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS)
• Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews, and workshops and then convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Conducted and coordinated JAD session with different technical teams.
• Served as a liaison between Clients and Technical Staff to resolve any conflicts.
• Worked to BRIDGE the Gaps between IT and Business Client.
• Analyze Business Requirements, performed GAP ANALYSIS and segregated them into high leel and low level Use Cases. Activity Diagrams/ State Chart Diagrams and Robustness Diagram using Ration Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams/ State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams.
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements t analyze and document business data requirements.
• Using Business Rules, Business Use-Case Model and Business object Model participated in Requirement Analysis of the application and performed GAP analysis.
• Conducted the FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs with designers, developers and stakeholders. Also conducted feasibility and adaptability study.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro for Managing the Requirement Analysis effort.
• Involved in maintaining and managing different versions of Documents using Rational Clear Case.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans based on User Requires Document (URD) and prepared the Test Cases and Test Procedures.
• Tested the application Manually by executing Test Cases prior to Automation.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing and of the end users.

Environment: Windows 2000, JAVA, JSP, Oracle Clinical, SQL, Oracle, cGMP, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, and Proprietary protocols.

Confidential

Sustainability Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Data collection for Environment, Water, Energy, Soil and Waste management
• Report content writing based on the data collected
• Responsible for design selection for final report preparation