SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst/ Product Owner/ Agile Coach/ Scrum Master /Data Analyst/ Application Developer

• Confidential is an experienced IT professional with 17+ years of Business Analyst experience, which includes facilitating meetings, eliciting requirements, documentation, testing and project implementation.
• Confidential has experience in implementing Agile Methodology that includes facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, Stakeholder Meetings, Software Demonstrations and Release Planning, Confidential has stood up Agile/Kanban Teams and mentored team on Agile/Kanban methodology/Process.
• Confidential is a seasoned manager with a successful track - record of implementing several Agile process improvements.
• Confidential has excellent data analysis skills including a strong SQL background and over 20 years of Application Developer experience.
• Confidential has performed several roles in IT such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Data Analyst and Team Lead in addition to BA role.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE/SKILLS:

• Requirements Gathering
• Creating User Stories/Acceptance Criteria
• Functional Design/Database Design
• Agile, Kanban & Scrum Master expertise
• Release Planning & Iteration Planning
• Solid Collaboration, Facilitation, and Negotiation skills
• Data Analysis & SQL skills
• Superior Communication Skills
• QA Testing Experience
• Database level Testing Experience
• Outstanding Leader
• Ability to understand & mitigate risks
• Managerial Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirements Management Tools: RequisitePro, Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Rally, Rational Requirements Composer (RRC), HP Quality Center.

Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, UML, MS Visio

Utilities: MS Office Suite, MS Project

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, RUP, Agile, Kanban

Databases: Oracle, Informix, Sybase - System 10, MS Access, MS SQL Server, DB2

GUI/Tools: Rational Rose; ERWin, Hyperion

Defect tracking tools: Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center

Software Languages: Oracle SQL Forms/Report Writer, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, PL/SQL, COBOL, C, Unify, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential, Omaha

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for setting up and managing the User Acceptance Testing for over 25 projects and monitoring the UAT at the Program level.
• Co-ordinated with the project teams to define the Business Scenarios and Test Cases for UAT. Set up the JIRA configuration and Confluence Reporting for UAT.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Omaha

Responsibilities:

• Working as a senior BA in a project for enhancing the Portal user experience for intake of Policy Quote for products related to Workmen Compensation, Business Owners Policy and various Commercial Package Programs.
• Involved in process improvement with respect to Iteration planning, Release Planning and Estimation of Story Cards and Agile process/methodology.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Omaha

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering, User Story creation, creating Acceptance Criteria in Gherkin format for projects related to sending Notifications pertaining to SMS, Voice, Email, Fax and Push.
• Involved in process improvement with respect to Iteration planning, Release Planning and Estimation of Story Cards and Agile process/methodology.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Managed Requirements gathering, User Story creation, creating Acceptance Criteria in Gherkin format for projects related to Billing applications, Personal Lines and Claims Center application integrated with Guidewire.
• Led process improvement with respect to Iteration planning, Release Planning and Estimation of Story Cards and Agile process/methodology.
• Performed data analysis using SQL for claim research and identifying requirements for various claim related projects
• Thrived in their fast paced Agile environment.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked remote on a Scrum team which included a Scrum Master, .NET Developer Lead, (3) Senior .NET Developers and another Business Analyst.
• There were 7 total Scrum teams for this huge platform project which also included a Scrum of Scrums team.
• Responsible for gathering functional requirements on various projects which included the development, architecture and re-engineering of a participant platform delivering wellness programming to clients nationwide .
• Interacted with business stakeholders, subject matter experts and HealthFitness clients to effectively understand and create Business Requirement Documents.
• Worked closely with technical/development team to design and develop solutions to meet the functional requirements for various projects.

Lead Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining user requirements as Backlog of User Stories, documenting in RTC & RQM. Perform extensive testing in iteration.
• Extensive involvement in Release Planning and Iteration Planning. Performed role of Scrum Master.
• Responsible for gathering requirements from Business Users. Responsible for creating the Functional Design and Test Plans, writing SQL queries to be embedded in the Java Code, the enhancements of the Database Design and perform testing during system test phase.
• Work with several vendors in identifying a suitable product for Lead Management solution. Involved in business and technical analysis of the vendor products.
• Responsible for creating the technical design for data mart modeling. Created Data Mapping (source to Target Mapping) for the data mart.
• Performed the role of scrum master on an interim basis.

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Managed user/business/functional requirements.
• Created vision, scope and use case documents; business process models, case diagrams, activity diagrams, and state chart diagrams for various projects.
• Developed Functional Design on various projects.
• Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications for several projects.
• Worked with the QA team to design the test plan and test cases for Systems Test and User Acceptance Testing for project.