PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst/Scrum Master with 9 years of experience with a proven ability with the working experience in different frameworks such as Waterfall, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban. Has experience working in Finance, Banking, and Auto Insurance, Health Care, Retailor.
• Can collaborate with senior leadership and software development teams to identify needs, define strategy, and guide the delivery of tools, systems, and interfaces.
• Experienced in working with clients to implement requirements and in providing team leadership for development support teams comprising company as well as client and third - party contract staff. Business research, analysis, handling complex issues pertaining to the business process, assisting in depicting workflows, developing and managing requirements.
• Expertise in concisely decomposing business requirements into functional requirements & Business Rules
• Excellent work ethics and analytical skills coupled with excellent communication, written and interpersonal skills describing a committed team player.
• In-depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle in both Waterfall and Agile environments including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe.
• An accomplished Business Analyst capable of eliciting requirements using techniques such as Brainstorming, Brainwriting, Interviews, Questionaries’/Surveys, Requirements Workshops and Observation
• Proficient in analyzing the current state of the system and enhancing the system using techniques such as Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis, Document Analysis, Reverse Engineering and Interface Analysis.
• Knowledge of Service-oriented architecture, Microservice architecture and APIs. knowledge of web-services, APIs, microservices, docker, orchestration.
• Can design Business Process Modeling Notations (BPMN) and UML Diagrams (Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Component Diagrams), State Machine Diagramsusing MS Visio.
• Analyzing Business requirements and preparing artifacts like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Systems Requirement Specifications (SRS) and RTM.
• Experienced in converting Business requirements to Technical Requirements.
• Experienced in writing test cases and documenting them in Test Case Documents.
• Experienced in Writing User Stories and creating Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• An advocate for change, creating an environment of continuous improvement, challenging the status quo and developing a compelling case for change.
• Excellent analytical, coaching, mentoring, technical and problem-solving skills.
• Leveraging Agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable.
• Facilitating teams’ transition from traditional software development approach to CICD, so that high quality functionality can be rapidly deployed into production.
• Assisting Product Owners in developing EPICs, Features and User Stories which align with business vision and Product Roadmap.
• Assisting Continuous Exploration, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Experience applying: Pair Programming, Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Kanban Principals.
• Participated in Scrum and SAFe ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective, PI planning, Iteration Planning, Team Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Up, Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective.
• Worked as a proxy product owner.
• Highly experience in working in Finance and Banking, with high understanding concepts of Derivatives, Equities and Equity Derivatives, Commodities and Commodity Derivatives, loan securitization, AML.
• Experienced in lean management system for delivering value and optimizing work processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Scrum, SAFe, Scrumban, ScrumXP.

Estimation and Prioritization Techniques: MoSCoW, KANO, Poker Planning, T Shirt Sizing

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally TFS, MS Project, HP ALM

Documentation Tools: Confluence, MS Sharepoint, MS Office

Prototyping Tools: MS Visio, Balsamiq, LucidCharts, iRise or InVision

Reporting tools and Testing Tools: Power BI, Tableau, SOAP UI, Postman, Selenium, Swagger

Systems: Microservices, Web: Services, API s, SOA, UDDI, WSDL, XML, CSS, HTML, Angular.JS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvin, California

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the Product Owner in gathering requirements using Requirements Workshop, Observation and Interviews and Focus Group.
• Conducted market needs analysis to know the competitive market and needs of customers.
• Assisted Product Owner writing business User Stories which follow the INVEST criteria.
• Analyzed the current system using Document Analysis and Gap Analysis (As-Is and To-Be Process Flows) and provided efficient solutions using Impact Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Conducted Joint Application Requirements sessions to write draft Technical User Stories and gather development team’s input on technical needs to deliver the product.
• Created Dynamic Prototypes using HTML for better understanding of the GUI and flow of the application.
• Responsible for creating the Functional Requirement Document and the Non-functional Requirement Document.
• Conducted Triage calls for the testing team.
• Supported to design the System Architecture for the product in collaboration with the System Architect and the development team
• Participated in Daily Stand Up and delivered refined User Stories for the development team.
• Created User Interface wireframes, Business Process Flows and Mock-ups based on UML Methodology.
• Created Test Cases based on Acceptance Criteria and documented them in Test Case Document.
• Designed and developed UML Diagrams including use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using VISIO, to ensure that there was no scope-creep.
• To enhance the DevOps pipeline, encouraged automated testing using Selenium and deployment using Jenkins
• Designed the orchestration with the Development Team for generating report.
• Created test cases and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Coached the team on the importance of maintaining the Architectural Runway so that minimal Technical Debt is accrued.
• Mentored Product Management to develop EPIC/Feature/User Story that align with Business Vision & Product Roadmap.
• Participated in Daily Stand Up, Iteration planning, Team backlog refinement, Iteration review and PI planning sessions.
• Coached other development teams on writing User Stories and acceptance Criteria.
• Participated in PI planning sessions, resolved dependencies and coached the teams on conflict resolution.
• Involved in estimation of User Stories using Planning poker technique and Fibonacci Series.
• Encouraged continuous improvement in engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery.
• Collaborated with cross functional teams and build schedules and plans, helped to identify and manage dependencies with other internal or external teams to align deliverables.
• Thorough with financial compliance regulations including FINRA, DODD FRANK, SEC, SOX, BSA, AML, FinSEN
• Good understanding the concept related to BSA, AML and FinSEN.

Confidential, Brooklyn, OH

BSA/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements using Brainstorming, Active Observation and Interviews, Survey, Requirement Workshop, Focus Group.
• Analyzed requirements using Gap and Impact analysis and documented business requirements.
• Conducted Walk-Through sessions with the stakeholders to ensure transparency and clarity.
• Conducted Joint Application Development sessions to convert business requirements to technical requirements and documented them in System Requirements Specification document.
• Analyzed the current system using Document Analysis and Gap Analysis and provided efficient solutions using Impact Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Worked closely with PO and Scrum Master during RACI review process and release management for seamless integration.
• Used Epics and features to write Business User Stories and Systems Requirements Document to write Technical User Stories and documented them in the Sprint Backlog.
• Collaborated with the Product Owner and the development team to define Sprint Goal and Objectives and prioritized them based on the Business Value assigned by the business.
• During the sprint, worked on writing Technical User Stories for the next sprint.
• Participated in Daily Scrum to clarify User Stories for the team.
• Participated in PI Planning, SOS meetings, Breakout session.
• Designed the Service Oriented Architecture for the product in collaboration with the System Architect and the development team.
• Modelled complex Web Orchestrations involving multiple web services from distributed teams.
• Implemented Service-Oriented Architecture to make the system scalable and robust.
• Identified web-services using UDDI and API’s using internal repository.
• Used WSDL to identify the Request and Response of Web Services.
• Developed the conceptual model of the orchestration process.
• Incorporated AJAX in UI to enhance UX.
• Identified API’s and their functions and documented them using Swagger.
• Created Test Cases and documented them in Test Case Document and created and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Confidential. Hartford,Connecticut

BSA/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with decision makers, system owners, business users and SME’s to have clear understanding of the high-level requirements and goals.
• Performed GAP analysis and identified AS- IS and TO-BE state to identify business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, requirements and assumptions.
• Worked closely with end-users and stakeholders to develop a detailed understanding of the requirements and gathered requirements using Artifacts digging, Interviewing, Prototyping, benchmarking to prepare comprehensive set of documents and to define the specifications and business value of the systems and delivered them in the Business Requirements Document and the Functional Requirements Document.
• Created UML activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Used Mockup Screens to convey look and feel of the GUI screens for the end users to developers.
• Assisted system architect in writing client-side validations for the UI webpages and also assisted UI developers in creating Ajax for dynamic and interactive UI pages.
• Defined and suggested SOAP, XML based web services, web methods and Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) based on JAVA.
• Prepared Client-side validation and Server-side validation in SRD and provided to lead developers.
• Created Stub Data in XML and provided to UI developers to progress the web page development.
• Referred to UDDI to access external web services in WSDL and also assisted in SLA agreement.
• Facilitated the process of orchestration by providing process flow diagram in order to automate the business process.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for UAT process with business users.
• Facilitated Unit Testing for all the functionalities and performed Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing and Integration Testing.
• Conducted Triage Calls to analyze the status of defects and helped to prioritize them.
• Facilitated different Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective ceremonies.
• Used JIRA to maintain Scrum Backlog and to create and track user stories, created Burndown and Burnup Charts, and frequently monitored team progress. reviewedAMLInvestigations and Suspicious Activity Reports ("SAR") to determineeligibility of Client for the project.
• Interacted with Senior Management in Compliance, Legal and the business concerning theAMLissues which led to the account closure recommendation/decision.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master I facilitated Scrum events including Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Stand up meeting, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Highly proficient in coaching teams to write user stories and assist Product Owner in prioritizing user stories in Product Back Log
• Analyzed the Iteration Burn Down charts and reviewed defects.
• As experienced Scrum Master anticipated and removed Impediments from project team’s path and pushed them to deliver quality results based on schedule.
• Used Rally for issue tracking, user stories management and requirement traceability.
• Maintained Scrum artifacts like Sprint burn down chart, Sprint burn down up, and Impediment List.
• Worked on challenges and impediments like team issues where the team is supposed to be self-organizing, but the cultural background of the team members made hard for everyone to share responsibility without being authoritative.
• Assisted the Product Owner and the cross functional team in break down the epics into appropriately sized User Stories.
• Assisted the Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog using Kano, MosCoW.
• Facilitated the estimation of efforts required using Planning poker technique along with Scrum team.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted GAP analysis for AS-IS and TO-BE of the process to identify and validate requirements.
• Analyzed and reviewed the gathered requirement Business Requirement Document (BRD) and was extensively involved in the preparation of Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Created SRS document to describe all data, functional, non-functional and behavioral requirements of the system
• Created UML Diagrams like Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagram as well as created mock-up screens using MS Visio to provide Prototype to assist the development team.
• Worked with the QA team in designing Test Plan, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix for UAT.
• Involved in JAD sessions with stakeholders, SMEs and team for requirement gathering and refinement.
• Reviewed and updated existing workflows, IT systems, user profiles, groups and permissions, reporting needs and all processes end-to-end related to the function of the registries in Business Analysis Document.
• Involved in designing database schema and creating Entity Relationship (ER) Diagrams to the proposed database.
• Presented meeting agenda and communicated progress of the project to the management.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between business and team.
• Elicited requirements from stakeholders to create essential artifacts such as Business Requirement Document, System Requirement Specifications, Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Worked with the QA team in designing Test Plan, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix for UAT.
• Involved in JAD sessions with team for requirement refinement.
• Created UML Diagrams like Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagram as well as created mock-up screens using MS Visio to provide Prototype to assist the development team.