SUMMARY:

• Senior Business Analyst, with 8+ years of strong experience in coordinating and managing teams in anOnsite - Offshore model.
• Experience in business requirement elicitation and converting user requirements into functional requirements, Developing Business Process Flows
• Developing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix and defining strategic solutions for business needs.
• Executed projects using various methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile, proficient in SCRUM framework.
• Ability to analyze input from enterprise architecture teams and identify interdependencies to meet end user needs
• Strong experience in conducting product research, market research and vendor analysis
• Experience in leading onshore-offshore teams and involved in maintaining overall test strategy, creating Test Plans, creating Tests Cases, executing Test Scripts, creating Test Closure memo
• Proficient in creating UML diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Entity-Relationship Diagram
• Proficient in conducting GAP analysis using AS-IS and TO-BE business, Impact analysis, Risk analysis.
• Proficient in business process development, client and project management, along with strategic planning and end user and Application Support
• Coordinated with the PMO group in defining timelines & schedules for the project
• Communicated status of efforts to management and business partners on a regular basis to ensure dat all stakeholders has accurate and current information throughout the process
• User and Onboarding, conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users and project stakeholders

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Scrum Ceremonies

Project Management Tools: Rally, Jira, MS Project, CLARITY, SharePoint, RequisitePro, BMC Remedy

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, UML, Balsamiq, Mockplus, JustInMind

Other Tools: HyperSnap, Adobe XD, MS Note, MS SQL, Confluence, SurveyMonkey, Google Documents, Google Spreadsheets,Excel,PowerPoint,SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with Clients and various Vendor teams for vendor evaluations
• Conducting Market and Product research
• Product Owner and Business Analyst for iFundWomen.com; crowdfunding platform for women entrepreneurs.
• Participated in Product Owner Team meetings, to elicit Business Process Model, User stories, Functional and Non-Functional requirements
• Documented and managed features, user-stories in Jira
• Lead System-Integration analysis, requirement analysis with key business and technical stakeholders
• Facilitated JAD sessions and interviews with product owners to understand their requirements
• Documented overall system architecture design and lead end-to-end system testing and verification for HIPAA implementation for Healthcare client.
• Developed wireframes and mockup-flows for mobile applications
• Researched on Payment gateway system integration and processes (Stripe API )
• Facilitated and Participated in Scrum Ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint planning, Demo, Retrospective).
• Responsible for collaborating with product owner/senior management on artifacts such as: product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint burn down, release burn down.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Product Owners, IT SME’s and Architecture team to document requirements to implement Mobility based on Agile methodology approach.
• Performed GAP analysis to list benefits of implementing mobility to deploy application on IPad(TO-BE) to existing system which used laptop(AS-IS)
• Define Product Backlog by Sequencing Stories in Product Backlog in RALLY
• Designed and documented the application wireframes and app-navigations in Visio for mobile devices (iPhone and iPad) and presented to Business users
• Active engagement with Business leaders and regular product preview demos
• Documented Usability feedback/reviews on the application to assess design decisions early in the process and re-prioritize the backlog for Agile Release
• Created Use-Case diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams after accessing the scope of the Project and understanding the business processes in RALLY through Visio
• Regular co-ordination with onshore-offshore team to Communicate time lines, to identify issues, track, report and co-ordinate to get issue resolved in a timely manner.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the stakeholders and business users
• Participated in the Quality Assurance process by validating reported defects/changes against requirements.
• Participated in User and Support of application

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business and IT SME stakeholders to document the requirement EMC-FAST functionality.
• Develop Technical functional specifications and system design specifications for client engagements.
• Created Use-Case diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams after accessing the scope of the Project and understanding the business processes in Visio to communicate system requirement
• Involved in the system workflow analysis and contributed to the overall work flow diagram through Visio
• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, sprint and release planning, demos and other SCRUM-related meetings.
• Worked closely with development team both on-shore and off-shore to review, walk through and clarify requirements.
• Communicated status of efforts to management and business partners on a regular basis to ensure dat all stakeholders has accurate and current information throughout the process
• Modeled the AS-IS system (manual storage tiering) and performed GAP Analysis

Confidential

Quality Assurance Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases and scenarios for Unit, Regression, Integration and System testing, Stress Testing
• Strategized testing based on customer issue. Created all the testing documents such as Test Plan, Test Model, Test Cases, and Test Closure etc.
• Mapped Test cases in Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Participated in Daily Scrum to provide status of Testing, defects logged and tested.
• Documenting Customer issues and solution provided so dat similar scenarios can be tested in next Regression Cycle.
• Responsible for analyzing and evaluating the criticality of issues and making decisions as to the appropriate level of escalation.
• Facilitated defect meetings and triaged defects.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed Test Script during regression, unit testing.
• Documenting and performing Non disruptive code upgrade on the VMAX & DMX
• Setting up testing environment by performing zoning from Host to Brocade switch and documenting the ports used on host and switch
• Setting up local replication environment on the VMAX & DMX.
• Logged defects and coordinated with Development team for bug fix and tested fix provided by development team to check if issue is resolved
• Assisted in installation and configuration of multipathing software like EMC PowerPath.
• Environment: PowerPath, RegressionX, CAT,OPT,MS Office