SUMMARY:

• 5+ years of extensive experience as a Business Analyst, possessing excellent technical writing and communication skills needed to create Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Non - functional Requirements Document and Use Cases Specifications.
• Document requirements using the following techniques: Brainstorming, Interviews, Observation / Shadowing, Prototyping method and JAD sessions.
• Excellent team player to work in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and testing of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of quality standards.
• Resourceful in solving complex problems. Striving to ensure that issues are resolved to the (stakeholder’s) satisfaction.
• Proficient at creating test plan, test scenarios, test cases and executing functional testing, system testing, integration testing, performance testing, smoke testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Good understanding of the software development process and methodologies (incl. Waterfall and Agile).
• Strong oral,business and technical writing skills that allow facilitation of meetings, presentations and requirements gathering sessions.
• Able to think abstractly and learn new technology quickly.
• Effectively manage multiple projects concurrently, adapting quickly to new technologies, teams and tools.Adept at reducing development costs and providing traceability of projects.
• Outstanding interpersonal communication skills, enabling alignment of priorities, resource balancing and consensus building with team members and stakeholders in developing and maintaining any complex Application/Systems.

SKILLS:

Business Skills: SDLC Methodology, JavaScript, HTML & CSS, Firebase, Media Queries, Application program interface (APIs) manipulation, AJAX, Microsoft Office Suite, Team work and people management skills, Excellent written and verbal communication skills, Ability to exhibit a consistent professional and positive attitude, Ability to quickly learn various processes and procedures.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in implementing loan origination module using Microsoft .NET Framework, Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation for easier interface use and increased scalability and configuration flexibility.
• Worked with stakeholders, management and implementation partners to gather, manage, and prioritize requirements, raise issues, identify obstacles, and recommend options, right from inception till maintenance to ensure successful system implementation.
• Studied, analyzed and documented as-is business process and performed the fit/gap analysis.
• Gathered comprehensive, detailed descriptive needs of user, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify software applications
• Work closely with enterprise architects and technical team to align designs that enabled strategic business outcomes
• Provide preliminary mock-ups to the UI designer as well as create data and system flow charts for projects assigned
• Work with a cross functional team of developers, QA, and documentation to ensure requirements were received and understood
• Assess IT impacts and risks and assumed a leadership role in the overall design and documentation of application / data / technical architectures
• Provide requirements for enhancements and ensured implementation into appropriate training materials for the documentation team
• Perform user acceptance testing to ensure developed software will meet business needs
• Provide editing and review of all documentation prior to release to external clients
• Actively participate in the development process - ensure timelines, updates, schedules and requirements were communicated clearly and all questions/issues were promptly resolved.
• Incorporated Out of the box (OOTB) functionalities into requirements to avoid gaps in requirements and keeping stakeholders’ expectations close to reality.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance testing) in both company and client sites.
• Worked with Tracer, Rules Inspector and Clipboard for troubleshooting.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering both business and user requirements
• Responsible for the creation of functional requirements for the web-based technology projects
• Played a key role in requirement gathering for the complete application during the various phases of its development.
• Worked with SMEs in gathering their experience with previous software version in order to better understand and outline scope, vision documents for the project.
• Datacleaning,DataVisualization, Detection of missingdataand skewness, correlation analysis, principal component analysis and model development were performed on thedata
• Analyzed Enhancement requests and Modification requests on a system that allows consumers to move a phone number from a wire line phone to a wireless phone Prepared departmental reports providing analytical framework related to the Corporate Actions.
• Involved in the below phases of Analytics using R and Python.
• Interacted with software developers and the rest of the technical team
• Analyzed, revised and created test plans according to business requirements.
• Wrote Use cases and Activity Diagrams
• Followed the RUP methodology for the entire SDLC process
• Analyzed consumer surveys and gave technical inputs in Business meetings.
• Gathered requirements from the customers so that the existing website could be improved and it could include portfolio diversification for decreasing market risk and doing risk management.
• Involved in the meeting with Business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and Marketing Team for Requirements gathering in definition stage
• Facilitated the customer in defining the high-level functional requirements and needs
• Participated in the team for User Acceptance Testing
• Used MS Visio to design projects
• Involved in Systems validation and the Business Requirements
• Wrote numerous test cases based on test strategies
• Validated the system end-to-end testing to meet the approved functional requirements.
• Comprehensive use of MS Visio to group project use cases into Sequence and Activity Diagrams based on UML methods thereby defining the business process model.
• Experienced in providing fiscal and economic solutions through financial modeling and cost-benefit analysis.
• Created test cases based on analysis of business requirements and system specification.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Rational Rose and UML to document requirements use cases and process flows like sequence, activity etc.
• Authored Meeting Agenda and Meeting Minutes for the meetings held with the Business and the technical team.
• Provided training to users, and involved in conducting UAT sessions to gain user confidence and approval.
• Worked closely with Senior Management to create Work-Breakdown Structure, Resource Breakdown Structure using MS Project.
• Assisted rollouts, tracked adoption and helped with production issues.
• Performed Root Cause analysis to identify and recommend test scope and test approach improvements
• Implemented ERM process frameworks for the organization to make sure risk are taken care of.