SUMMARY

• Strategic and results - driven Business Analyst with 5+ years of broad-based experience in award-winning solutions for business solutions software and analyzing business operations
• Notable achievements include saving the company a total of $15M annually& reducing the labor cost by 15% annually. Expertise in client relationship management, data visualization, methodologies like Agile, Waterfall & Scrum
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including methodologies like Kanban and Requirement Gathering, Design, Development, Testing,and Deployment
• Proficient in Business Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Development, and delivered Use-Case diagrams, Flow diagrams, Activity diagrams for Systems Engineering
• Expert in documentation, creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Object Definition Document (ODD), Data Migration
• Strong experience with MS Visio for creating a visual representation of Software/Data Architecture, Use Case diagrams (especially in an Agile environment), Sequence diagrams, Class diagrams, Business Process Flows
• Experienced in tracing requirements throughout the development process using the Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Extensive use of rational tools including Requisite Pro, Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, and HP tools like HP test director (Quality center)
• Expert in Tracking and Managing the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) that controls numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables
• Skilled on tools such as MS Project, SharePoint, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Office

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SDLC, Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban
• Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio
• Requirements Elicitation, GAP Analysis
• Tableau, Power BI, MySQL, HP ALM
• RACI Matrix, RTM, Process Analysis
• LoadRunner, Balsamiq, Bugzilla
• Capacity Management, Root Cause
• Selenium, ReqPro, Test Director, Jira
• Analysis, Pareto Analysis, Critical Path
• Version1, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Rational
• Analysis, A/B Testing, Survey, Interaction,Flow Map
• ClearCase, Rational Soda, Rational Rose, Marketo, Sawtooth
• SQL, MS Access, Oracle
• R studio, SAS JMP, TableauGoogle Analytics, PowerBI, Jupyter, QlikView
• Rational Clear Quest, HP (MeBurcury) Quality center/Test

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirement gathering, Business Process flow, Business Process Modelling, and Business Analysis with Document and Records Management
• Implemented Agile methodology for rapid delivery of the high-quality application and also for development with customer needs and company goals and acted as a scrum master to organize sprint process
• Utilized Agile -Scrum methodology with Kanban visualization to configure and develop processes, standards, and procedures, to employ software development best practices, and hence to provide technical leadership and expertise in organizing entire software development
• Adept with different Requirement Elicitation techniques, JAD sessions, Document analysis, Reverse engineering, Observation, Role-playing, Market Survey, Interview, Brainstorming
• Identified dependencies and documented functional, non-functional, data, and user interface requirements in Business Requirements Document (BRD), and S ystems Requirements Specifications (SRS) documents
• Responsible for defining the Business Stories and acceptance criteria for each ScrumSprint and leading the scrum meetings. Responsible for project plan creation using Microsoft Project
• Responsible for managing the documented System Requirements, and Requirements Traceability Matrix using Rational Requisite Pro
• Worked with various teams to identify the right source to pull the data points, conducting JAD, Sprintretrospective, story grooming

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for introducing the Collaboration tool and revise procedures to managing the branch offices, and supervising the work of other employees
• Responsible for all aspects of Accounting Data Validation, including but not limited to: accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking, general ledger, credit card processing & reconciliation, forecasts/budgets, financial statements and reports
• Manage and supervise month-end close process: reconciliation & analysis of general ledger accounts which include inter-company accounts, ensured timely and accurate preparation of management reports
• Worked on Documentum for Version Controlling, to maintain the changes in the Document. Thorough working experience of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile and waterfall methodology
• Attended meetings with, business analysts, QA, and developers to discuss defects.
• Participated in development of timelines for project delivery and managing projects and resources to successful completion
• Facilitated JAD session and one to one interviews to understand and analyze the requirements

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The methodology used for these projects was Agile and required a deep understanding of requirement gathering techniques, Performed GAP analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and feasibility analysis within the triple constraints
• Gathered business requirements by participating in JAD sessions, brainstorming sessions with stakeholders,and interviewing business users. Conducted one to one sessions and consulted existing systems documents
• Provided support to the development team by utilizing the Rational Unified Process (RUP). Trained and mentored the IT staff in the RUP process, Rational Suite tools
• Authored BRD, FRS and URS for application development, Employed UML methodology and thus facilitated the creation of Use Case, Class, Object, Activity, State, Sequence, and Collaboration Diagrams, using Rational Rose / Rational Software Architect / MS Visio
• Ideated and presented project deliverables such as User Flows and Concept Designs to demonstrate new features, dialogs, and other visual elements of the project
• Involved in the overall requirements management and to build the Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM using HP ALM, Took part in QA activities by writing the Test Plan followed by Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing UAT on JIRAAct as the
• Act as the liaison between CMS, stakeholders, the executive team and Medicare-Medicaid Plans enrolled in the nationwide Encounter Demonstration Project.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and used Requisite Pro to manage, analyze, and convert business requirements into functional specifications.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling of Star Schemas, Snow-Flake Schemas Methodologies for building enterprise data warehouses.
• Assisted the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and plans accordingly and conducted project-related presentations.
• Assisted in designing test plans, test scenarios and test cases for integration, regression,and useracceptance testing (UAT) to improve the overall quality of the application.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Built visual analytics using Tableau to derive graphs and actionable intelligence from product clustering results, Expedited data flow charts, modeled data generation techniques by implementing Quest&Sybase
• Developed a simple database and ETL process to load the existing data to store the data for the business process,Applied advanced sampling & data analytic techniques to help with strategic initiatives, roadmaps
• Responsible for Generating Weekly ad-hoc Reports.Automated and scheduled recurring reporting processes using UNIX shell scripting and Teradata utilitiessuch as MLOAD, BTEQ, and Fast Load
• Worked in a Scrum Agile process & Writing Stories with two-week iterations delivering a product for eachiteration.Converted the DTS Packages into SSIS using Migration Wizards
• Involved in Testing and Debugging the Stored Procedures and T-SQL.Worked on Client/Server tools like SQL Server Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer to Administer Server.Designed models in Framework Manager and worked with parameter maps
• Worked with project team representatives to ensure that logical and physical data models were developedin line with corporate standards and guidelines.
• Involved in defining the source to target data mappings, business rules, and data definitions.
• Performed data analysis and data profiling using complex SQL on various sources systems including Oracleand Teradata.
• Migrated three critical reporting systems to Business Objects and Web Intelligence on a Teradata platform