Business Analyst Resume Milpitas, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Experience working with key stakeholders and business users, developers and testers, to ensure accurate implementation of high level business requirements, functional and non - functional requirements.
Understanding of Business Process definition, Gap Analysis, and Use case narrative
Extensive experience in gathering, managing, documenting functional and non-functional requirements
Skilled in writing user stories and maintaining product backlog and Sprint backlog
Skilled in creating use case diagrams, activity diagrams and swim lane diagram using UML to make users and developers understand the system
Strong analytical, problem-solving skills with emphasis on clear, detailed business requirements and functional specifications, as well as reports for management
Knowledge of Project Planning, Project Schedule, Milestones, Check points, Pass/Fail conditions, Project Execution Support.
Experience in writing test cases, UAT and system testing
Team player, result-oriented, fast learner, independent with strong research capability
Excellent listening and communication, multi-tasking skills; Strong interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

Facilitate daily stand up, planning sessions, sprint retrospective for 3 scrum teams with 6-9 team members in each project
Actively involved with Product Owner and team in grooming of User Stories.
Analyze and evaluate Product backlog, define sprint goal during Sprint Planning meeting.
Work with Eng Leads in order to re-assign stories to ensure balance of work among team members
Actively assist in the acceptance and validation of the stories by testing the delivered stories
Facilitate team discussion to resolve any issue and remove or escalate impediments to team progress
Communicate and collaborate with internal and external customers as needed in regards to project deliverables including managing expectations, presenting and interfacing with sponsors
Serving as a primary interface between the developers, testing team, product owner and the project manager on system issues and change requests
Generate daily reports, sprint reports after sprint ends to determine health of particular sprint and other reports for management in Rally as per frequency required

Business Analyst

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

Conducted JAD sessions to gather business requirements, write project requirement documents, determine project timeline
Analyzed user requirements, organized complex data sets to develop and implemented a Data Management System for a health and fitness platform
Created User Stories that has good acceptance criteria and ensures it follows INVEST principle
Worked with product owner to define user stories during product backlog grooming session
Maintained and prioritized Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog
Involved in Sprint ceremonies, i.e., Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
Partnered with QA team to create Test scenarios and Test Cases based on user stories
Involved in system testing and coordinated with product owner for UAT for the new product
Developed user stories, use-cases, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, swim lane diagrams
Collaborated with developers to explain requirements, process and functional solution
Generated reports from Rally for management updates like Burn down Chart and Velocity chart
Analyzed the scope of the Ad source project and working with business and technical requirement