PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst in diverse domains such as Banking, Finance and Healthcare.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and documenting Business Requirements, System Requirements, Functional Design specifications and Project Planning.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient in authoring Business Requirement Document (BRD), SMART Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Non - Functional Requirement Document (NFRD) and technical system requirements.
• Experienced in analyzing and creating narrative User stories, Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, documenting workflows, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Data Flow diagrams using UML Tools.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Interviews and Requirement Elicitation sessions with stake holders, Subject Matter Experts and technology groups.
• Extensive experience in conducting Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering and communicating the trade-off decisions on product features based on technology, budget constraints and customer requirements.
• Discussed and helped the management in complex problem solving, planning and implementing solutions.
• Proficient in SQL queries and writing database scripts. Worked on SQL developer and TOAD.
• Adept in creating Test plans and Test procedures/scenarios, defining System and Integration Test Cases, executing Test Cases and Test Data reviewing.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assisted in Postproduction support.
• Familiar with the concepts of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Business Architecture.
• Well experienced in prioritizing and managing projects deliverables from inception through release.
• Managed and removed impediments in projects, mentored and directed developers when required.
• Outstanding analytical, communications and presentation skills.
• Quick learner of new skills and effective performer in a team or autonomously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: Windows XP/ Vista/10, Mac.

Java: Spring, ExtJs, Web Services (SOAP/REST), Hibernate, Xml, Pl-SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Visual Basic, C/C++, Python.

Database: Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, MS SQL Server.

Programming Tools: Eclipse, Toad, SQL Developer, Visual Basic Studio.

Business Applications: Rational pro, HP Quality Center, Caliber RM, Star Team, JIRA

Microsoft Tools suite: Word, Excel, Power point, Visio, Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Requirement gathering sessions with the stakeholders and SMEs.
• Interacted with the developers and technology team for a better understanding of the Business Processes.
• Created the User stories, process flows, wire frames and other documentation.
• Acted as the scrum master and coordinated all scrum sessions and remove any impediments to the progress of the project.
• Handled all the communications between the management and the dev team and maintained a flexible working team environment.
• Followed the agile practices of product backlog grooming, Release planning, Deployment planning and Agile project management tool selection.
• Managed the Sprint planning, release and sprint burn down metrics, daily stand up meetings, Sprint reviews and retrospective.
• Provided estimation and blueprints for the projects and any further project requirements.
• Applied Business Process Reengineering and was responsible for deriving requirements, process flow from many sources and formulating them into concise requirements.
• Created artifacts that helped the stakeholders to focus on the product and blueprint, based on which the technical designs were formulated.
• Created AS-IS and TO-BE business process flow diagrams, integrated process flow diagrams to show end-to-end business model using swim lanes design.
• Worked with Process owners, Business Intelligence, IT and other stakeholders to create a content management solution for managing the information.
• Maintained and track the requested enhancements and changes and tracked different builds of the application with description about all changes and versions.
• Created Project management plans for managing on time delivery along with planning test scenarios, unit and systems integration test procedures.
• Generated Reports using Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts to show the attributes that are currently being developed.
• Used VLOOKUP’s to identify whether systems and processes are in place that capture, system of record, and report the data described by the attribute operational definition.
• Responsible for scheduling weekly meetings with different users and documenting meeting minutes.

Environment: ASP.NET, SQL, Toad, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, JIRA.

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Fixed Income and Otc Options part of the project. Involved in the Monte Carlo simulations using market data and to value the trades.
• Simulated yield curves with different spreads under various scenarios and used these curves to simulate the P/L path.
• Worked extensively on risk calculation and model development, path/scenarios generation and valuation model.
• Understood the financial systems and handled Requirements artifacts templates in Blueprint management system.
• Organized brainstorming sessions, meetings with Subject Matter Experts to define and document the concept of the project and business process.
• Worked with the technical team to discuss and review the business requirements, workflow, data availability and environment details and plan phases in development.
• Prepared, analyzed AS-IS and TO-BE of existing architecture and performed Gap Analysis, created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the Business Process and various Business Scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Led client facilitation meetings to gather Interface and Business Process Requirements from Subject Matter Experts in Trading shares, equities and Fixed Incomes like bonds, and converted them into functional requirements by implementing the RUP methodology.
• Created Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Activity diagrams to depict process flows.
• Assisted in developing project timelines, deliverables and strategies for effective project management.
• Assisted to Technical Lead in Analysis and Design of architecture using UML& Visio.
• Created SQL statements to validate the data tables. Developed test scripts in PL/SQL to check the data integrity from the databases.
• Involved in developing the test strategy and assisted in developing test plans, test case objectives and test cases.
• Developed Test scenarios, test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specification and/ or product knowledge.
• Tested application and reported bugs to development team. Streamlined and coordinated the bug and defect tracking and rectification effort.
• Helped in developing QA Test plans for Functional, Integration and System Testing. Performed Black Box Testing. Performed GUI testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Environment: Oracle, Windows, MS Visio, MS Office, SQL, PL/SQL, Load Runner, HTML, Java, J2EE, Java Servlets, Rational Suite, LINUX, Test Director.

Confidential, Milwaukee

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining and documenting business requirements; and leading the implementation of technology solutions to help the businesses achieve objectives.
• Provided effective and responsive operational services/support for the departments.
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology and helped the other members to implement the process.
• Worked with the Business team to prepare Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Systems Requirements document.
• Created Use cases, use case diagrams, Class diagrams, Sequence diagrams using Rational XDE & UML.
• Worked with the Business team to analyze various scenarios during the planning phase and the progress was analyzed to find the bottlenecks and efficiently handle them.
• Effectively facilitated regular project meetings and follow up with team members as required to focus on business and operational issues or technical issues.
• Used MS Excel for preparing the business logic transformation, which explains the logic, to be used while transforming the data between different systems.
• Conducted Unit testing of different components for business functionality for all possible scenarios and cases.
• Designed and developed Test case scenarios and Test Plan Strategies for the Finance module.
• Effectively managed the team to achieve the results within the tight deadlines set by the client.
• Prepared minutes of meeting for the team and had regular meetings to discuss team issues and effectively dealt with them.

Environment: Visio, Load Runner, Test Director, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, Rational XDE, Win runner, Visual Studio, XML, Rational Clear Case.

Business Analyst/ Quality Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to understand and extract the User and Business Requirements pertaining to clients’ account information.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with several groups of stakeholders, including Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), a management group, a user group, and the IT group.
• Prepared and analyzed AS-IS and TO-BE workflow scenario and performed GAP Analysis.
• Designed process flows for various business scenarios and activities of business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Worked on the data marts relating to pension plans, retirement plans and similar fields.
• Followed the waterfall methodology and created Business Requirement Document (BRD) and System Design Document.
• Created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio and revised functional specifications and other core materials throughout the System Lifecycle (SLC), making all necessary revisions for defect correction and requirement clarification/refinement/change.
• Maintained and tracked requests for enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest.
• Involved with the QA team to determine and develop test approaches and methods for unit testing, integration and functional testing.
• Designed and implemented SQL queries for QA Testing and Report/ Data Validation.
• Worked with the QA team to ensure adequate testing of application both before and after completion, maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation was being made pertaining to the test results.
• Collaborated with the QA team to develop the Test Plan, Test Conditions and Test Cases and conducted UAT.

Environment: MS Visio, HTML, MS Office, Oracle, Eclipse, Toad, Java, Java Servlets, JavaScript, JSP, J2EE, Windows, Rational Suite, Test Director, LINUX, UML.