SUMMARY

• 3+ years of industry experience as Business Analyst with excellent understanding of Business Requirement gathering, Business Analysis, Business Process Modeling.
• Solid understanding of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology (such as requirement, analysis, design, data modeling, business process modeling, implementation and deployment).
• Worked with different methodologies such as Waterfall, RUP, RAD and Agile/Scrum.
• Well versed in project management tools like MS Project for project planning, Project scheduling. Organized JAD sessions to gather requirements at various stages. Good understanding of Project Process and ability to analyze business problems and identify solutions. Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes and analyze workflow.
• Experience in creating Business requirements and Functional requirement documents and managing the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Skilled in using visualization tools like Tableau for creating dashboards and reports.
• Competent in analyzing and creating Narrative Use Cases, User Stories, Use Case Diagrams, Data Model, Activity diagrams, Data/Flow/Navigational flow diagrams using UML Tools like MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Experience in performing Business Process Re - engineering/GAP Analysis, SWOT analysis and Impact analysis to check compatibility of the legacy system infrastructure with new business requirements.
• Experienced in tracing requirements throughout the development process using the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in creating Key performance indicators (KPI), Enterprise Risk Management, Risk Mitigation and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
• Defined Test Scripts, created Test cases, analyzed defects, by interacting with QA /developer teams in fixing errors and writing simple SQL queries.
• Executed Test cases manually using HP Quality Center, Test Director. Good experience of using HP and Rational Tools for Functional and Performance Testing.
• Good experience of using document management tool like Confluence to ensure efficient cross-functional collaboration.
• Good experience with project management tools like JIRA, GitHub and SVN.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, can perform well both independently and with a team, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MySQL Workbench, MS Access, MS Visio
• SQL (Stanford mooc certified), Google Analytics, Tableau
• JIRA Software, Confluence, IBM SPSS, G*Power, Datavyu, MS Excel (Pivot Tables, Pivot Chart, Vlookup), MS Project
• Qualtrics, Oracle (PeopleSoft), Workday, Requirements Analysis, Business use-cases, Scaled

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used agile methodology and strategies to provide quick and feasible solutions.
• Worked closely with Product Owners in Product Backlog prioritizations, Perform Sprint analysis and reviews. Communicated with customers to identify business processes.
• Gathered and analyzed the requirements and converted them into User Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications for the designers and developers to understand them as per their perspective.
• Facilitated JAD (Joint application development) sessions with business users and development teams to drive out detailed business requirements.
• Used Rational Rose to carry out the Business Use Case Modeling and Business Object Modeling effort to develop the business architecture for rapid and controlled application development.
• Analysis the metric dashboard reports and identified the formulas and functionality of the dashboard reports and digitizing the dashboards to Tableau application.
• Helped in conducting Gap Analysis, System Integration testing (SIT) and SWOT analysis.
• Prepared a traceability matrix in HP Quality Center for tracking the requirement to software requirement specifications and test cases. Also maintained change management throughout inception phase to transition phase.
• Used JIRA as a version control tool for handling the requirements

Confidential

Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• Employed Agile and Waterfall methodologies for web and enterprise based project development.
• Involved in Requirement Elicitation techniques like interviews, surveys and maintaining requirements from Inception through Construction phase. Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software. Conducted Business Analysis and Data Analysis.
• Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
• Explained the solution model, defined user profiles, defined the supplementary requirements, defined assumptions, prepared the traceability matrix and validated the requirements.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams using UML tools like MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Performed Gap Analysis by identifying existing features and documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Developed Test plans and Test cases according to business requirements with the help of Test Director.
• Assisting business users in defining UAT test cases and plans; Established and maintained test cases and test data in Quality Center.
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Automated and Manual Black box testing using Win Runner.
• Used Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest as Configuration Management and Change control tools.
• Used GitHub for bug fixing and version control.