SUMMARY

• Sr. Business Analyst/ Business System Analyst with experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and release on Agile - SCRUM and Waterfall Development Environment.
• Strong technical skills in definingconcise documentation including Product Business Requirements, System Requirements, Technical Specification, User Stories, Use Cases, Test Plan, Test Scripts and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Expertise in facilitating and coordinating Joint Application Requirement (JAR) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
• Experience managing product backlog of requirements to support development activities related to organizational roadmap.
• Work extensively with the team to meet business requirements, create prototypes and analyze workflows.
• Strong experience in creating Use Cases and Activity Diagrams.
• Experience translating Business Requirements into Technical Requirements.
• Write and maintain Requirement Definition Document (RDD) that include Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Use Cases and UML Diagrams.
• Plan and develop Test Plans, Test Cases and test scenarios to meet business and requirement solutions
• Experience supporting multiple projects in QA and UAT phases: halping to write, execute, and obtain signoffs
• Expert in writing detailed system Use Cases, develop business Test Cases and work with QA team during testing phase, to facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with stakeholders and business users.
• Exhibit strong analytical ability during Functional Testing, Regression Testing and UAT testing.
• Develop and conduct internal training programs for developed applications.
• Strong Knowledge of CMMI, GDP, HIPPA, FDA CFR 21 Part 11 and Quality Assurance (QA) standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group, clients, managers, and subject matter experts

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools/Requirement Management Tools: MS Visio, HP ALM, Quality Center

508 Compliance Tools: JAWS, WAVE

Databases: SQL Server, SQL, Oracle, SQL Developer

Operating System: Microsoft Windows, UNIX

Languages: JAVA, SQL, XML

Applications: Cerner Millennium, MedHost System, Siemens Soarian, Meditech and Keane Imed.MS Office Suite, SharePoint

Requirement Management Tools/ Testing Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA, Selenium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business System Analyst Consultant

Confidential, McLean VA

Responsibilities:

• Defines detailed stories with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Owners and technology team.
• Works with clients, stakeholders andbusinessowners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze requirements and recommend design solution options.
• Analyzes and identify problems, research alternatives, create presentations, test to confirm, and implement solutions for definedbusinessprocesses.
• Assists with product backlog grooming and Sprint Planning
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
• Elaborates Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced and retired applications
• Assists Product Owner with user story prioritization before sprint planning meeting.
• Performs demos for the stakeholders of new functionality that was created in current sprint.
• Coordinate with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Documents, Use Cases, User Stories, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical Requirement and/or Functional Specifications.
• Ensures that all artifacts comply with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
• Provides guidance to project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve outstanding issues and actions items taken in review meetings.
• Facilitates defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.
• Prepare Mapping Documentation for all stages of data flow from Source to Target.
• Performs task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using HP ALM.
• Assesses data extraction, report generation, and bugs appearing in operations involving the data warehouse.
• Participates in development of training materials of new technology and organize user training.
• Coordinate with Admin System DBAs on identification and extraction of Source data

Environment: MS Office, SharePoint, Visio, HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, JAVA, SVN, JAWS, WAVE

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Franklin TN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of business and user needs, documentation and translation into proper system requirement specifications.
• PreparedBusinessRequirement Documents and communicated with clients for sign-offs or changes to the document.
• Interacted with system testers and developers to ensure business system features are properly implemented.
• Performed Gap Analysis of existingsystemto identify drawbacks, bottlenecks, and improvements.
• Created and verified User Stories and Use Case Specifications with activity and state diagrams.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for Backend Testing.
• Involved in proactively communicating with development team regarding the status and potential impacts on the delivery date and/or expected quality of the tasks and/or the projects.
• Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-functional team on issues and decisions.
• Participated in Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Functionality Testing.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting. Also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Performed task decomposition, delegated tasks, and monitored project milestones using MS Project and HP ALM.
• Assisted in overseeing User Acceptance Testing to execute, and track defects found.
• Prepared daily and weekly status reports by summarizing activities on the project.
• Confirm data was loaded and transformational rules were properly applied

Environment: HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, JAVA, MS Windows, SharePoint, Visio

Sr. Business Analyst II/Associate PM

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Performed resource estimations analysis for implementing the system requirements and charted out a project plan for execution involving all the stakeholders and assigning responsibilities.
• Interacted TEMPeffectively with peers, management and cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues.
• Developed Business Requirements, Use Cases, and Business Rules.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix for mapping requirements with Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Performed Backend Testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Participated in weekly meetings with management team and walkthroughs.
• Developed and maintained project timelines with necessary project objectives documented.
• Assisted with User Acceptance Testing (UAT), developed and maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation were in place.
• Developed & executed Test Scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with QA managers for regular update of the project.
• Created Test Cases executed and recorded results of Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Developed Test Result Metrics for Test Execution Phase
• Worked closely with Software Developers to isolate, track, and troubleshoot defects

Environment: MS Visio, Quality Center, JIRA, Oracle, Windows, SQL, .Net

Requirement Analyst / QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Investigated system bugs and Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and reported the bugs to all concerned.
• Investigated requirements and interfaced with developers to resolve issues and reported the issues to all concerned. Outstanding issues are documented and managed through Quality Center.
• Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases
• Created, maintained and executed manual Test Scripts in Quality Center.
• Worked extensively with SQL queries for database integrity and data validation.
• Used Quality Center as test repository and used it for executing Test Cases and Test Scripts. Logged and generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Actively participated in review meetings and walkthroughs and prepared defect progress reports during defect meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP, MS Visio