PROFILE:
- Six years experience as Business Analyst with in - depth knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Through understanding of software development methodologies like Agile and Waterfall
- Conducted joint application development sessions (JAD) with subject matter experts (SMEs) and Stakeholders to capture and analyze requirements
- Experience in documenting requirement using Unified Modeling Language (UML) and flow diagrams
- Proficient in creating use cases and swim lane diagrams using MS Visio
- Ability to break down complex requirements into simple requirements
- Elicited, analyzed, validated and documented user, functional and non-functional requirements, business rules, and business process models (workflows and use cases)
- Extensive experience with writing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD)
- Ensured all functional and non-functional requirements are captured successfully by obtaining sign offs
- Performed data mapping activities and data analysis
- Acted as a liaison between the Stakeholders and Business
- Experience in writing test scripts for user acceptance testing (UAT) and traceability matrices
- Worked on change and defect management
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to understand both business requirements and technical needs
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Windows XP, Windows7, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, SharePoint, SQL, Oracle 11g, HTML, UML, iRise, MS Project and Mercury Quality Center
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, MA
Business Analyst (Consultant)
Responsibilities:
- Assisted project manager and senior executives in writing investment proposal and re-sanctioning paper for a Governance, Risk and Compliance project
- Involved in all phases of SDLC
- Provided all required BA deliverable(s) for each Solution Delivery phase
- Created use cases, workflows/process flows and swimlane diagrams
- Conducted preparatory sessions, joint application development sessions and workshops with SMEs and Stakeholders to capture and analyze requirements
- Authored BRDs and FRDs and obtained approval from all Stakeholders
- Responsible for maintaining traceability matrix to ensure all requirements are met and tested
- Responsible for creating user list for all modules of the project
- Developed and managed data to be utilized for user acceptance testing
- Received signoffs and approvals for all business analysts documents like business requirements document, traceability matrix, data imports and user acceptance test cases
- Acted as a liaison between the Stakeholders and Developers
- Assisted with the development and execution of change management process
- Performed lead business analyst responsibilities
- Assisted and trained old/new junior business analyst on the project and project related activities
- Allocated work to all business analysts and provided them with an estimated time they should take for their tasks
Confidential, NJ
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Prepared use cases and swim lane diagrams of the existing and “to be” process
- Documented project plans, process flow, timelines and other requirement using MS Project
- Gathered, analyzed and translated, business and system requirements into BRDs
- Document requirements associated with change requests
- Communicated results and milestone s for each iteration
- Acted as a liaison between the developers and the testing team
- Developed test scripts and test cases as per the functional requirements specifications
- Identified and documented business rules and assisted in UAT testing
- Schedule meetings with the development and QA team to estimate time required for the new changes
- Conducted JAD sessions with SMEs and other stakeholders for open and pending issues
- Performed gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements
- Supported project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisted in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines
- Maintained traceability matrix to ensure that the requirements are met and tested
Confidential, NC
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Conducted JAD sessions and interviews with various departments to documents them into BRDs
- Implemented UML methodologies to design use cases, workflows and swimlane diagrams
- Provided recommendations to improve the current application
- Responsible for meeting with the SMEs and Stakeholders to identify problems in the existing system and resolve issues, improve the process to ensure a stable and an accurate system
- Designed paperless features and e-bill feature to enhance business process
- Designed mockup forms for better understanding of the application
- Updates and modified progress and resource allocation in MS Project for the team
- Responsible for facilitating UATs and test strategies
- Performed front end testing to check all functionalities of different modules
Confidential, AR
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Worked closely with the relevant business partners and personnel to collect, define and document detailed business requirements into a business requirements document
- Acted as a liaison between the business and the developers and vendors to ensure that the application meets customer needs and integrates with other applications
- Worked with business and project team to track and document project risks and issues
- Created use cases to understand the system
- Responsible to gaining approvals for all business analyst documents
- Met with personnel and vendors to resolve issues and problems efficiently
- Created UAT template of the business
- Assisted the Stakeholders in writing test cases
- Developed user manual and trained selected personnel who in turn educated others to effectively use the system
Confidential, NY
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Attended business and technical subject matter experts presentations of the existing system, it’s functionalities and shortcomings
- Designed the existing workflows for the system
- Created the to be process flows of systems (including swim lane diagrams)
- Conducted JAD sessions with subject matter experts, gathered requirements
- Documents requirements in the business requirements document and obtained approval
- Documented screenshots of various functionalities
- Maintained the traceability matrix to ensure all requirements are captured and met
- Maintained an issue log to document and maintain all risks, issues and open items
- Designed the User acceptance testing template for the business
