SUMMARY

• Accomplished Business Analyst with 7+ years of experience in all phases of SDLC. Significant hands - on experience in diversified business sectors including Financial, Insurance, Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Wealth Management, and Gaming Software. Effective communicator, excellent team player, quick learner and creative problem solver with fine-tuned analytical skills.
• Well-versed with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using various methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Spiral and Agile.
• Experienced in Business Process Redesign, defining Vision Documents, interacting with stakeholders, understanding user requirements, and articulating them into User Requirement Specifications (Use Cases).
• Expertise in identifying and documenting detailed Business Requirements pertaining to Portfolio Management, Equity Trading Cycle, Wealth Management, and Transaction Processing.
• 7+ years of experience in creating Project Specifications, working with development team to continually articulate requirements and troubleshooting production issues.
• 7 years’ experience in design and development of Use Case and Test Case scenarios, developing test plans, reviewing and maintaining Test Scripts, Analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and conducting User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in Use Case Modeling, Change Management, Project Planning using MS Project, and MS Visio.
• Excellent writing skills in preparing Business Requirement Documents, Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, System Design Specifications (SDS), System Requirements Specifications (SRS) and Workflow Diagrams.
• 7+ years of experience in Unified Modeling Language (UML) Diagrams, such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Experienced in utilizing Rational Requisite Pro for effective Requirement Management and Tracking.
• Known for meeting and delivering Project Deliverables as per the set deadlines and a Go-Getter.
• Dynamic team player poised to leverage education and professional experience to the benefit of the Project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Scrum, UML (Class Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams etc.)

Tools: MS Office (Word, Power Point, Excel, Access), MS Visio, MS Project, Rational Robot, Win Runner, Clear Quest, Photoshop and Rational Requisite Pro

Languages: Java, C/C++, TSQL, PL/SQL Java Script, HTML, XML, .NET, Visual Basic 6

Operating Systems: Windows 7/VISTA/XP/2000, UNIX/LINUX, MACINTOSH (8.x, 9.x, 10.x)

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005 & 2008, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: Windows 10, Windows 7 Enterprise, Microsoft Office 365, JIRA, Angular JS, JavaScriptSharePoint, Selenium IDE

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand the requirements for the new Vital Events Registration and Information System
• Understand and document the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) regulations and validations for reporting birth and other vital statistics data
• Document the Confidential regulations and validations for collecting demographic data, medical data and child birth information for issuance of birth certificates
• Documenting and maintaining System Development Life Cycle artifacts including Business Requirements Document, Flow charts, Sequence Diagrams, Use Cases, and process flows
• Create user stories for the functional requirements of the system based on the business needs acquired through requirement gathering sessions with both internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in Sprint Planning to identify the high priority requirements that need to be developed and tested at the end of each sprints
• Participate in Daily Scrum stand ups to report and assess the work being done, understand the work status of the development team
• Document the acceptance criteria based on the user stories and test the product completed during the sprint to ensure all features have been delivered
• Assist the scrum master in updating the product backlog in JIRA after each sprint, create tickets for the bugs/improvements that were noticed during testing of the application
• Develop test plans, test cases, test scripts (manual and automated) and perform Functional and User Acceptance Testing of the application to ensure the application is developed as per the business needs
• Analyze the bugs and interact with the development team to fix the errors.
• Assist the development team in documenting the business rules for creating business rules engine to validate the business logics for successful implementation of the application
• Identify, document and share repeatable processes and process improvement opportunities for use with other Confidential Programs

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: Windows 7 Enterprise, Microsoft Office 365, JIRA, JavaScript, SharePoint, Selenium IDE

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting a detailed analysis of the current process and legacy system to document the difficulties and restrictions.
• Interact with business users and the Subject Matter Experts to understand the requirements in detail and determine the process to be established to overcome the current difficulties and restrictions
• Responsible for scheduling JAD sessions with business users and SME’s for requirement elicitation, preparing meeting agenda and documenting meeting notes
• Responsible for creating the Business Requirements Document, Functional Requirements Document based on the business needs
• Creating flowcharts, process flows, sequential diagrams using MS Visio to depict the various scenarios involved in the business process
• Responsible for creating Use-Case Models using MS Visio to depict Actors and Use Cases in various Business Processes and identification of Basic/Alternate flows
• Defining test cases, analyzing bugs, interacting with dev teams in fixing errors and performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Business Analyst

Environment: XML, Visual Basic 6, Windows Presentation frame, MS-Project, MS-Visio, MS SQL 2008, .Net 3.0, Clear Quest

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst to Support the company’s up gradation of the existing system to Service Oriented Architecture.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios.
• Translated business requirements into usable functional requirements.
• Worked closely with project managers, technical leads, information architects, and developer team.
• Prepared Business Process Models for modeling the business activities from Conceptual to Procedural Level.
• Responsible to track, document, manage and communicate the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Used MS Visio for developing UML diagrams like, Sequence and Activity diagrams from Use Cases.
• Assisted with user testing of systems (UAT), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.