SUMMARY

• 7+ years of Industry experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Requirement Elicitation, Business Requirements Gathering , Translating Requirements into Specifications, Application Design.
• Experienced in managing the entire SDLC Deliverables including Functional/Business and Technical Documentation .
• Strong Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Scrum and Agile methodologies.
• Actively used Joint Application Development ( JAD ) and Rapid Application Development ( RAD ) sessions, Interview, workshops and brainstorming session with Business users, SME’s and Stake holders alike in gathering requirements and analysing them to identify the real business need and facilitating the development of a customized solution which delivers maximum cost and usability benefit to the client and company.
• Extensive experience in writing User Stories , Business Requirements Document ( BRD ), Functional Require Document ( FRD ), System Requirement Specifications ( SRS ), and design and development of use case scenarios.
• Successful in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML), drawing UML diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and State Diagrams using Rational Rose & MS Visio.
• Experienced in developing and imparting pre and post implementation training, conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) , Cost - Benefit Analysis , SWOT Analysis and ROI analysis.
• Experienced in creating Key performance indicators ( KPI ), Enterprise Risk Management, Risk Mitigation and Business Continuity Planning ( BCP ).
• Effective negotiations and vendor management skills.
• Managed all phases of budget analysis, outsourcing strategies, contract management and change management.
• Proficient in creating and managing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for tracking and managing changes based on project's evolving needs.
• Experience in master project planning integration, and estimating data to develop cost reports for earned value management system ( EVMS ), which includes cost variance ( CV ), schedule variance ( SV ), cost performance index ( CPI ), schedule performance index ( SPI ) and key performance indicator ( KPI ) analysis.
• Good experience in maintaining the RACI matrix throughout the project cycles to assign tasks and establish accountability.
• Good experience as a Scrum Master in organizing and participating in Sprint Planning and Sprint review meetings for Finalizing the Sprint Backlogs and Verifying the Sprint Outputs respectively.
• Extensive experience in designing Test Strategies, Test Cases, and Test Scripts and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using HP Quality Centre, LoadRunner and Test Director.
• Good experience in querying database like Oracle using SQL.
• Well-versed with leading industry tools like Jira, VersionOne, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Project and SharePoint as well as Mercury and Rational tools to develop various project deliverables.
• Excellent leadership, communication and presentation skills. Experience working with business users as well as Senior Management.
• Strong work ethics, taking ownership of all duties and responsibilities and efficient time management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, JIRA, Rally, Rational Requisite Pro, Microsoft Visio, LoadRunner, Test Director, HP Quality Centre Active Process, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Office, Active Directory, Rational Suite Tools, SWOT analysis, Crystal Reports, Team Foundation Server, Visual Paradigm, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope, Created Business Analysis using Agile methodology.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Created project plans, style sheets and templates to analyse and estimate feasibility , cost, time and general guidelines for project team.
• Transformed the high-level business requirements into functional requirements and specifications based on specific inputs from the development team using Rational Requite Pro .
• Refined and input business requirements in HP Quality Centre for traceability to test requirements.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Dataflow Diagrams in MS Visio. Prepared functional requirements to define the system rules by creating Use Cases, Interface design.
• Created project schedule, Project plan, communication plan, RACI Matrix and UAT plan & RTP plan to track project timeline & delivery.
• Created templates for business process documentation, requirements, checklists, design specs, action trackers, defect trackers, risk registers, change control log, status reporting, pre-UAT checklists & UAT execution reporting.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning , Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Grooming (Product Backlog Refinement) sessions, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Managed Risks and Issues across multiple projects, escalated dependencies that required attention.
• Coordinated with the development and testing team to conduct white-box testing on the new application and database systems using HP QC and LoadRunner.
• Active involvement in gap analysis, SDLC (requirements, design, build, unit test, implementation and post-implementation), STLC (Test Analysis, Test estimation, Test planning, Test scenario identification, Test execution, and Test closure) & defect coordination (defect verification, defect prioritization, defect assignment and defect resolution and defect closure), defect status reporting & defect metrics ( KPIs ).

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Agile methodology to configure and develop process, standards and procedures and created a Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document .
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues and participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements.
• Perform GAP analysis between As-Is & To-Be process & design, risk analysis of existing system and evaluate benefits of new system.
• Incorporated User Stories in different release plans for the sprints in Scrum process.
• Maintained traceability matrix between requirements and test cases using HP Quality Centre .
• Designed and developed BPMN diagrams using Rational Rose for better understanding of the system.
• Introduced the Agile SCRUM process for the Risk Data team and utilized Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to manage the team's software development lifecycle including deriving product backlog items, assigning sprint work items to developers and conducting sprint planning meetings.
• Maintained various versions of the documents generated during the project using Share Point .
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance testing (UAT) and validation.
• Programmed in SQL to perform quantitative data analysis on the large amount of data and produce ad-hoc reports for various departments.
• Assisted Project Manager in day-to-day project leadership and decision making on critical project issues as they pertain to project scope, value, schedule, budget, methodology and resources at project, functional and task levels.
• Acted as a liaison between technical team and business clients to accomplish application enhancement and production.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyse the level of effort on project specifications
• Performed tasks within the requirements life cycle to gather high-level requirements via interviews and JAD sessions and filter those requirements into functional and non-functional specifications.
• Gathered Business Requirements Document (BRD), created Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and analysed data/workflows, defined the scope, financial projections and cost/benefit analysis; progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented designs. Prepared user guidelines for easy access of the application.
• Performed extensive Gap analysis to determine the risks and assisted the PM in budget and resource planning.
• Participated and contributed in daily Scrums, Sprint meeting and Sprint review meetings.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Assisted Project Managers for creating project stage-gate deliverables such as project charters, business case, ROI, stakeholder/ vendor management, PM plans, schedules, milestones, WBS, budget forecasting, cost/time estimates, performance metrics, status reports, project closure and lessons learned documents.
• Used MS Visio to create, analyse and implement UML diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams and Deployment diagrams.
• Reviewed test strategy and test plans using Test Director to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, user interface, performance, usability and security requirements.
• Used JIRA for tracking bugs and issues.