OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a Business Analyst position that enables me to use my education, experience and project management skills to further enhance my career.

SUMMARY

• Six years of experience as a Business Analyst with diversified experience of working in projects in the Banking, Investment, Healthcare, Telecom and the Transportation industry.
• Experienced in requirements gathering, software analysis and design, using methodologies such as UML (Unified Modeling Language), OOAD (Object Oriented Analysis and Design) and APM (Agile Project Management). Experienced with Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Quest and Microsoft Project.
• Proficient in developing Analysis Model, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Behavior Diagrams, Class Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio for business process modeling and designing data flow diagrams (DFD).
• Proficient with various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology, the Traditional Waterfall Model and the Spiral model.
• Experienced in coordinating UAT user acceptance / QA testing and obtaining Production Verification sign - off.
• Experienced in configuring and maintaining the Defect Tracking System and working with tools like Clear Quest and Test Director.
• Experienced in writing SQL queries using joints to retrieve data from multiple tables using SQL editor and have good understanding of Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD).
• Experienced in inspection and attaining approval using guidelines critical in achieving the CMM (Capability Maturity Model) levels.
• Industry specific knowledge of certain SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) standards and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Able to communicate effectively with multifunctional teams, programmers, and the technical staff, strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable speaking to large groups and developing presentation material.
• Highly astute, energetic, and team spirited with a strong work ethic able to fill numerous financial and investment roles.
• Fast learner with high energy and a drive to exceed expectations.
• Outstanding comprehension of financial elements, analysis, investment strategies, money & capital markets.
• Experienced in balancing priorities.
• Able to co-ordinate multiple projects and meet deadlines under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Process/Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Rational RequisitePro, Microsoft Visio, DOORS 7.1, TrackWise, Crystal Reports

Methodology: OOAD, RUP, UML, CMM, Six Sigma

Languages: C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic, TSL, .Net, PL/SQL, Java

DBMS: Oracle 8i, MySQL, SQL Server 7.0, MS Access 2000, Progress 9d

Operating Systems: Windows (98, 2000, XP, NT), MS DOS

Testing Tools: Rational Robot 2002, Test Manager 2002, ClearQuest, WinRunner 7.5, Test Director, Quality Center

Project Management: MS Project 2003

Internet Tools: HTML, Microsoft FrontPage, and Macromedia Flash 6.0.

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Met with client groups to determine user requirements and goals. Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure and develop process, standards and procedures.
• Liaison between the developers and testers was instrumental in resolving conflicts between testers and development teams.
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, activity diagrams, State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Articulated business requirements from user interviews and then converted the requirements into technical specifications.
• Derived Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) based on User Requirement Specification (URS).
• Interviewed SME’s (Subject Matter Experts), asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that could be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to embrace a problem’s dimensions, possible causes, requirements, to propose alternative solutions and to reach a decision.
• Development of standard documentation package (Requirements, Specification, Design, Operations, and Quality Testing Plans).
• Frequently updated the requirement and defect status as per the current status of the testing project in the Clear Quest.
• Created Use Cases, Collaboration, Object Sequence and State Chart Diagrams for new features using Rational. Developed Vision Document and use case documents.
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues.

Environment: UML, J2EE, JBOSS, SQL Server, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created questionnaires to gather user specific needs out of the intranet system (In this case including all level of employees, so all departments would be able to use the system).
• Review and assess information gathered, define key facts and issues, identify potential problems and facilitated problem resolution.
• Analyzed, documented, and managed all project requirements and changes to requirements throughout the software development lifecycle using Requisite Pro.
• Conducted Testing and Evaluation of projects at established integration points to assess progress and identify key functionality issues using Test Director.
• Prepared project reports for management and others. Assisted project managers in the development of weekly and monthly status reports.
• Documented process flows, policies and procedures using Microsoft Visio.
• Tested system development, (for UAT) user acceptance testing and to obtain Production Verification sign-off.
• Developed training material and executed training.

Environment: UML, Windows 2000, MS Office. Rational Requisite Pro, Test Director, Microsoft Visio

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used RUP for application design and development, Captured and analyzed requirements through interactions with stakeholders.
• Developed RUP Analysis Model using Object oriented concepts that includes entity classes, use case diagram, sequence diagrams, object collaboration diagram that provided the development team a view of the requirements for construction phase activity.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
• Created use cases, vision documents and activity diagrams for low level requirements using Microsoft Visio.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, System Analysts and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion.
• Prepared comprehensive use cases and finalized them while interacting with business users and system architects.
• Created traceability matrices and traceability trees to trace all the Features with the Stakeholder Requests and to trace the Use-case requirements to the Feature requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created business requirement document, system specification document, functional and non-functional requirement document for application development.
• Developed test cases and test plans.
• Executed the test scenarios and compared the actual results with the expected results.
• Prepared the progress and tracking matrices to be reviewed by upper management.
• Participated in the Change Control Board meetings and provided the input on impact of change requests on the project timeline, cost and scope.
• Coordinated with the development team in bug tracking, bug resolution and acceptance using Rational ClearQuest.

Environment: UML, J2EE, JBOSS, Oracle, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Visio.