SUMMARY

• 3+ of experience as a Sr. Business System Analyst.
• Experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirement gathering , Design, Development , Testing and Deployment.
• Experience in Waterfall Model, Agile Methodology ( SCRUM development processes).
• Experience gathering business requirements for integration points including downstream/upstream interface requirements.
• Experience in elicitation techniques like organized Joint Application Development (JAD), workshops, brainstorming and interview sessions .
• Designed and reviewed 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) and testing documents.
• Extensive exposure to unified modeling language (UML) tools such as MS Visio, Rational Rose and Requirement Management tools such as Rational Requisite Pro.
• Scheduled meetings and reinforced business analysis with developers, system analyst and testers to collaborate rescore allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Expertise in Requirement Management and Test Management tools: JIRA and HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management); created Requirement Traceability Matrix ( RTM ).
• Expertise in Documentation, Review of Software and Business/Technical Requirement Documents.
• Defined project milestones, monitored progress using MS SharePoint and updated plans as required.
• Facilitated various Scrum activities such as: Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews , and Sprint Retrospectives ; Facilitating other Scrum activities, e.g. Stand - Ups, updates to burn-down spreadsheets and charts, backlog reviews, impromptu meetings.
• Good experience in Utilizing JIRA for issue tracking, user stories management, estimation and backlog prioritization.
• Experience in conducting Gap Analysis, Cost Benefit and ROI Analysis.
• Written and implemented Process and procedures for project management change control, virtual team integration, customer reporting and end - user support.
• Exposure to testing tools including HP Quick Test Professional, HP Win Runner and HP Test Director .
• Team player, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong research capability. Excellent problem solving, conflict resolution, analytical and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, JAD, Workshop, Brainstorming session, Interview session
• RTM, RACI Matrix, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, JIRA, HP ALM
• MS SharePoint, Sprint Retrospectives, Gap Analysis, Cost Benefit, ROI Analysis, HP Quick Test Professional
• HP Win Runner, HP Test Director, MS Office, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed an Agile environment with extensive usage of collaborative requirements and the INVEST model for requirements' definition.
• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions and mapped requirements to product/system functionality.
• As a Business Analyst, have been responsible for managing cross functional teams and displayed expertise in leading requirements workshops and JAD sessions to garner stakeholder acceptance with conflicting requirements tied to multiple data sources and business users.
• Interviewing business 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.
• Analysed Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro for Managing and Configuring the Requirement Analysis effort.
• Worked closely with management to manage schedules, deadlines and to maintain draft for enhancements using MS Project.
• Performed Business Process Mapping and performed AS IS and TO BE analysis.
• Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates, Requirement Types and Traceability Relationships in Requisite Pro.
• Developed Functional Specifications and Testing Requirements using Test Director to conform to user needs.
• Actively worked with Project Manager to estimate realistic timeline of project deliverables (e.g. Requirement documents, Test Plan, RTM ).
• Facilitated various Scrum activities such as: Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews , and Sprint Retrospectives .
• Analysed a wide range of FACETS configuration change requests for the purposes of determining the technical scope of the change and its impact on existing systems configuration.
• Performed gap analysis and documented results.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all the phases of Waterfall with specific focus as it pertains to the software testing and used the guidelines, templates and Rational tools in all the phases.
• Responsibilities include gathering business requirements , developing strategy for data cleansing and data migration, writing functional and technical specifications, creating source to target mapping, designing data profiling and data validation jobs.
• Participated in project review meetings and gathering Business Requirement Documents ( BRD ).
• Facilitated JAD Joint Application Development sessions to identify business rules and requirements and then documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Created and updated project status, progress and completion reports in MS Project and shared it with stakeholders.
• Used Microsoft Visio for Business Process Modelling and Data flow diagrams.
• Interaction with client to assess needs, identify key challenges, define project Scope and deliverables.
• Analysed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low-level Use Cases, activity diagrams/Actor Lists and Robustness Diagram using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Used JIRA for tracking defects and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Developed the Requirements Traceability Matrix, prioritized and determined Impact of all applications.
• Performed Gap analysis for various existing product lines and operations with respect to HCR.
• Developed and maintained RAID (Risk Assumptions Issues and Dependencies) for all defects and outstanding issues with vendors, developer, testing team and configuration team.
• Frequently communicated with developers to resolve technical issues.