Consultant BA/QA Resume NJ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Seasoned Professional with 20 years of experience as a Business Analyst/Systems Analyst/QA Analyst. Performing as an advisory resource on multiple projects, clarifying business requirements, performing application analysis and design, and creating application / system documentation of complex systems.
With an in depth understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) (including Waterfall and Agile/Scrum), help assess scope, resources, feasibility, cost and time estimates and lead or facilitate requirement sessions, technical meetings and functional specification reviews and communicate all pertinent documents and information to all levels within the team and organization.
Works closely with all team members including QA, Development, Support and End Users.
Experience creating documentation for trainers to use.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Consultant BA/QA

Responsibilities:

Member of the SQA team as a liaison to the business groups in order to provide requirements to meet user needs. FRD’s Documentation including process flows. Works with BSAs to define requirements and acceptance criteria.
Collaborate with business teams to elicit requirements and develop functional project artifacts including creating Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases in JIRA.
Assist in the business process design and documentation in Confluence and Jira.
Contribute to several concurrent projects and provide inputs on project status and task planning.

Confidential

Agile QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Member of an Agile/Scrum team developing a new platform for Law Schools to track their Prospect and Applicant data. Schools can also create online applications and assemble Applicants document information such as Letters of Recommendation and Transcripts.
Responsible for running test validations, developing testing cases, and estimating project resources
Work with Product Owners to define Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done.
Report defects and work with the team to resolve them.
Collaborate with developers and business stakeholders to clarify requirements.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Elicited and translated business needs into system and software functional and non - functional requirements and created requirements documents including use cases and process flows
Wrote requirements in Quality Center. Analyzed project documentation written by other team members to ensure requirements were testable
Business Systems Analyst on an Agile team eliciting and documenting requirements and use cases for project creating a new Global ETF Portal. Portal is an online method for registered firms to trade securities and shares of Vanguard ETFs
Business Systems Analyst in a group that developed applications and databases to collect, maintain, and distribute internally generated investment related data and externally acquired security reference data. Data was in Vanguard web sites, trade management, and fund accounting systems
Facilitated fact finding and requirements sessions, documenting results using Word templates and Quality Center

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked closely with multiple business units including Private Credit and FFELP loan servicing to understand their needs and challenges to identify opportunities and translate those needs into well-defined business requirements for new IT projects
Supported multiple projects of medium to high complexity; provided process/technology guidance to project teams
Member of team mapping legacy data and work processes to an outside 3rd party platform that required current vs. future state analysis of company processes and data needs
Member of the UAT team that performed User and Regression Testing on major releases, patches and fixes: included creating test plans and scripts to verify new and existing functionality using Quality Center
Reviewed defect fixes and test results for correctness
Researched and Resolved Production tickets