SUMMARY

• A competent professional with more than 8+ years of experience as a Certified Scrum Master, Certified Salesforce Administrator, Business analysis & Product Owner, in Investment and Banking,
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes including requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, testing
• Solid Agile experience with SCRUM teams and KANBAN teams.
• Excellent analytical skills to understand the business process functionality and to translate them to Business Requirement Specification and System Requirement Specifications.
• Hands - on experience with process modeling using Unified Modeling Language (UML) including use case, sequence, activity and deployment diagram.
• Experience in implementing Rational Unified Process Methodology using Rational tools, working with Agile Development methodology by implementing and delivering Business Processes in iterations
• Coordinated with QA team to ensure all testing materials including manual, performance, or load testing scripts are developed accurately and to ensure compliance to standards.
• Experience in leading successful JAD session for performing gap analysis, deriving functional/non-functional requirements and document decisions on the future state of the systems and processes
• Deep understanding of regulatory and compliance issues complements, leading technology and innovative solutions to help our clients achieve their business goals.
• Extensive working knowledge on web browsers, multiple interfaces with three tier architectures
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Facilitated end-user training for Intra organizational departments on the functionalities developed.
• Dedicated & Self- motivated, proven leadership capabilities and time management skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, Mockup Screens, Wireframes

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum, Waterfall-RUP, KANBAN, SAFe

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting, GAP Analysis, “AS-IS” “TO-BE” processes.

Requirement Management: MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM 11.5, Team Foundation Server

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint Server

Testing Tools: HP QC v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Load Runner, Fiddler. HedgeHog

Financial tools: MS Excel functions and pivot tables, Financial Statement Analysis

ETL Tools: Informatica, Data Stage

Reporting tools: Tableau Desktop, IBM Cognos, MS Office Suite, Spotfire, Tableau, SSRS, Power BI

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, Angular JS, CSS, jQuery, C#, .Net, Java, J2EE.

Databases: MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, PLSQL

Cloud Computing: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Salesforce

Customer Relationship: Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics AX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MD

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete project life cycle of various web-based project implementations.
• Served as a liaison between Business and the IT team.
• Facilitated the PI Planning, Sprint planning meetings, Review meetings, Retrospectives,
• Resolved Impediments and the daily standup and helped the team maintain their Burn down chart.
• Involved in creating custom objects on salesforce as a business analyst.
• Certified Salesforce Administrator.
• Coming up with standalone application on the communities’ section of salesforces.
• Involved in getting teams to apply an Iterative approach for software delivery.
• Hands on experience configuring Salesforce or similar CRM Product, including workflows, validation rules, and security controls
• Involved in coming up with the approval process using the process builder in salesforce communities.
• Heavily involved in setting up effective recurring status meetings with the product and delivery managers
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and Agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
• Eliciting requirements through grooming session and converting these requirements into user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Coming up with details user manual for OCEAN.
• Involved in getting the application 100% 508 compliant.
• Involved in develop a disciplined process allowing teams to practice Lean Principle of Build Quality in.
• Assisted in creating test plan, test cases UAT Testing and in System Integration Testing and providing support for User Acceptance.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.

ENVIRONMENT: S: Salesforce, JAWS 508 tool, JIRA, MySQL, MS Office, SharePoint (2010), MS Project, MS Visio

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Sr Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete project life cycle of various web-based project implementations.
• Served as a liaison between Business and the IT team.
• Walked through the product owners on the user stories with more technical details.
• Involved in gathering requirements and being the liaison between the business and the technology.
• Facilitated the sprint planning meetings, review meetings, retrospectives, resolved impediments and the daily standup and helped the team maintain their Burn down chart.
• Documented Business rule for the automated underwriting system to assist underwrites for decision making.
• Involved in working with Payment processing systems like ACH transfers, check payments, b communications (SWIFT and TELEX) and cash payments for 401(k) clients and third-party vendors.
• Involved in coming up a process for Asset Investment Bank for 401(k) Accounts for investors or clients.
• Involved in Scoping and created the Project Initiation Document (PID).
• Assisted in creating test plan, test cases UAT Testing and in System Integration Testing and providing support for User Acceptance.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL queries for testing the data and setting up data.
• Payment Processing application projects such as Product Amendments, compliance rules etc.
• Involved in developing test strategies and assisted in developing test scenarios, test conditions and test cases.
• Extensively worked on the SharePoint application especially on the Intranet Portal, Extranet site. Also managed the enterprise content and documents.
• Peripheral Application end to end testing with Payment Processing Applications.
• Interviewed the SME’s and carefully recorded the requirements by asking detailed questions and documented all the requirements so that they could be understood by both business people and technical teams.
• Prioritizing features from the business and Getting future work for the team ready.
• Involved in getting the features reviewed and having the business sign off on the work delivered by the teams.
• Acted as BA/PO for two teams and was the face of the business for the technical teams delivering the features

ENVIRONMENT: JIRA, MySQL, MS Office, SharePoint (2010), MS Project, MS Visio

Confidential , Johnston, IA

Sr Business Systems Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete project life cycle of various web-based project implementations.
• Served as a liaison between Business and the IT team.
• Walked through the product owners on the user stories with more technical details.
• Facilitated the sprint planning meetings, review meetings, retrospectives, resolved impediments and the daily standup and helped the team maintain their Burn down chart.
• Documented Business rule for the automated underwriting system to assist underwrites for decision making.
• Involved in working with Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure.
• Involved in Scoping and created the Project Initiation Document (PID).
• Assisted in creating test plan, test cases UAT Testing and in System Integration Testing and providing support for User Acceptance.
• Also worked with DocDB an AZURE based no-sql database.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL queries for testing the data.
• Involved in developing test strategies and assisted in developing test scenarios, test conditions and test cases.
• Extensively worked on the SharePoint application especially on the Intranet Portal, Extranet site. Also managed the enterprise content and documents.
• Working on setting up AZURE cloud application for users to buy and sell products.
• Working on creating AZURE financial views for users to understand the cost incurred on their products.
• Involved in setting up AZURE role-based security for user who could get into the application and perform suitable functions.
• Involved in coming up with ecommerce website for buying and selling of seeds for the Farmers for Pioneer.
• Growers/Farmers were able buy and sell their seeds to the client or external vendors through this website.
• Performed GAP Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis and summaries the current project scope
• Interviewed the SME’s and carefully recorded the requirements by asking detailed questions and documented all the requirements so that they could be understood by both business people and technical teams.
• Involved/Monitored the development of Mobile IOS version for Pioneer applications in May 2017 release.
• Analyzing of web services/API functional and design documents and prepared test cases based on User requirements.
• Involved in developing Test plan and Test cases based on Use cases and Functional Specifications Documented, reviewed, and verified testing procedures for compliance to Interface Quality Assurance and Development standards and policies
• Used Gantt Charts as Project Management tools to showcase the due tasks

ENVIRONMENT: TFS, MySQL, MS Office, SharePoint (2010), MS Project, MS Visio, Microsoft AZURE Cloud.