SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including RUP, RAD, Waterfall and Agile.
• Excellent understanding of complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and various software methodologies including Waterfall, Agile.
• Expertise in Class diagrams, Object diagrams, GAP Analysis, Use case diagrams, State diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Activity diagrams, and Collaboration diagrams.
• Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes and analyze workflow.
• Strong working experience with agile methodologies.
• Highly effective management and organizational skills with ability to prioritize.
• Demonstrated ability to identify root causes of problems considering both the long and short - term impact of proposed solutions and developed workable solutions.
• Ability to manage (Multiple) project tasks with changing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Ability to work well in a team. Open to team related tasks, team meetings, team interaction and conference calls.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML, Agile

Bug Reporting Tools: ALM/Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA

Operating Systems: Windows

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server

Project Management Tools: MS Office, MS Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assist both product and software engineering teams through the various phases of the agile development cycle.
• Coordinate and organize planning, design & retrospective meetings with the teams during the agile development cycle.
• Enforce the agile process work-flow and hold individual team members accountable for their responsibilities and commitments.
• Foster teamwork and communication between teams as well as help bubble up potential issues and slippage.
• Assess roadblocks and problem situations to identify root causes and work with stakeholders to come up with a resolution or recommendation.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution between as well as within teams.
• Document, communicate, and evaluate process changes, Risks and Issues.

Environment: SDLC, BRD, FRD, JAD, Agile, Waterfall, UAT, Microsoft Office, Windows, Toad, HTML, XML, MS Office, etc.

Confidential, Bethesda

Business Analyst/ QA

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with different business unit groups, end users and subject matter experts & conducted JAD sessions to gather requirements, prepare and update Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).
• Responsible for presenting the analysis findings of large projects in the form of presentations for business understanding.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Conducted JAD Sessions periodically with various stakeholders at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to discuss open issues and resolve them.
• Conducted daily scrum to get an update of what each team member is working on in an agile environment.
• Support Jira tracking of tickets and implementation on new task or enhancements.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.

Confidential, VA

Business Analyst/ QA

• Performed UAT testing with business owners and end-field users after the applications were all set.
• Support requirements gathering sessions with clients and other stakeholders by analyzing business and data processes, policies, and systems.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional and non-functional specifications.
• Assist with strategic training, communication and documentation efforts related to the system.
• Support client revenue goals by representing the voice of the customer and end users.
• Support implementation, customer support and issue resolution activities.
• Support Jira tracking of tickets and implementation on new task or enhancements
• Support project management activities such as providing input into schedule and/or cost management tools, adhering to and contributing to schedule and milestone management activities.
• Participated in daily scrum activities and also ensuring that daily task is completed by the developers

Environment: Jira, UML, MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, XML, SQL Server, Requisite Pro, Etc.

Confidential, VA

System Analyst

• Set-up, co-ordinate, conduct system & UAT testing with Business Analysts and end-field users after the applications were all set.
• Interacted with business and performed research to identify and interpret Basel-II requirements.
• Research, gather, and analyze content data and information, to include formatting and reformatting, reviewing, revising, cataloging, and electronically storing for future retrieval.
• Facilitated the weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process for the application development.
• Performed Process analysis and Gap analysis on large complex projects to document the existing AS-IS processes and create new, more efficient TO-BE processes using MS Office and MS Visio.
• Identified requirements and for business needs, communicated gaps and issues to management.
• Conducted JAD Sessions periodically with various stakeholders at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to discuss open issues and resolve them.
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and collaborate on the project

Environment: UML, MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, XML, SQL Server, Requisite Pro, Etc.