SUMMARY

• Capable of leveraging technology to help improve businesses
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid
• Skilled in managing large scale Agile Product Lifecycle Development (Agile PLM) based project/programs, based on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Kanban frameworks involving envisioning, planning, designing, defining project delivery framework, schedule development, resource management, project progress monitoring and delivery
• Comprehensive knowledge of XML schemas, WSDL, HTML, Ajax, SOAP & Web Services, API’s integrations and Mapping
• Extensive knowledge of Web Services Testing, API testing and API Documentation using SOAP UI, Swagger and Postman
• Designing Orchestration process and good knowledge in various architectural infrastructures used in projects
• Experience working with Microservices based architecture and identifying and maintaining services through ESB
• Lead Development team by ensuring that they have adequate Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and other Development test objects
• Experience in writing Client - side, Server-side and Database validations for projects
• Experience in using techniques like TDD, CICD, Automated Testing, Pair programming
• Extensive experience in gathering and analyzing Business Requirements, Data Challenges, Use Cases, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements, System Design, System Requirements and Change Management
• Experienced in creating and maintaining artifacts such as Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), System Requirement Document (SRD) and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Proficient in creating Structural and Behavioral UML diagrams using MS Visio
• Good experience in conducting requirements gathering sessions using techniques like Brainstorming, Workshops, JAR and JAD sessions with different stakeholders
• Managing and evaluating measures to ensure the security of the Data by working on SMTP, HTTPS, SFTP, SSL, SSH and Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Demonstrated critical knowledge on Accounting aspects such as General Ledgers, Accounts payables & Receivables, Reconciliation
• Strong ability to communicate Technical designs, Plans, Progress, Issues, and Alternatives
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing
• Gather/report all relevant Agile metrics such as Burn down and Burn-up charts
• Experience in successfully leading a team to achieve Project targets and Deadlines

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies and Frameworks: Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, CICD, XP, DevOps

Project Management Tools: Jira, Rally, HP ALM, TFS, Confluence, SharePoint Modelling Tools MS Visio, Rational Rose, Star UML, Lucid Chart

Prototyping Tools: Axure, Adobe XD, Balsamiq, InVision Testing Tools Postman, SOAPUI, Swagger, Selenium, Quick Test Pro

Web Technologies: XML, XSD, HTML, CSS, SMTP, JavaScript, SOAP, REST, API, AJAX, JSON

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server, MongoDB

BI Tools: SAP Crystal Reports, Tableau, XSL FO, Power BI, IBM Cognos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Senior Business System Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathered technical and functional business requirements from Business stakeholders through effective Brainstorming and Focus group sessions
• Created Technical User stories that adhere to the INVEST and SMART criteria’s by carefully analyzing the granularity of each functions along with Horizontal and Vertical slicing.
• Attended various Scrum meetings and acted as a Scrum Master for various ART teams.
• Identified and analyzed various Web Services and API’s that can be effectively used for various project functionalities
• Assisted the business in redesigning the process and created a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Diagrams, documented the business process flows through solving the complex business problems the organization and teams on values and principles of Agile and Scrum
• Major Involved in developing Web Applications and creating Web Methods
• Modeled complex Web Orchestrations involving multiple web services from distributed teams
• Worked Closely with team in Creating GUI using HTML, CSS and AngularJS
• Communicated with other management, engineers, SMEs product manager and support specialists on product issues
• Assisted in development of Web Services and tested the Web Services by creating test cases with stub requests and responses in the POSTMAN and validated on various assertions
• Conducted Automation testing using Selenium for the developed functionalities
• Helped in implementing practices like Test Automation, CICD, to achieve the DoD without Technical Debt
• Facilitated team for playing Planning Poker to help team define story points for the user stories during the Product Increment Planning and Sprint planning session .
• Extensively applied the best use of Jira tool features in keeping the track of User Stories, Tasks and progress of the work through tracking Velocity and Capacity of the team by constantly monitored Burn Down and Burn up Charts for evaluation.
• Created Release Planning for sprints by calculating the Estimated Velocity continuously.
• Played a pivotal role in setting up Test plans, recording test results for all the user stories.
• Worked with multiple ART (Agile Release Train) teams for effective product and solution demos enabling feedbacks from stakeholders
• Fostered everyone in the team to be their best by bringing transparency, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Experience with defining and implementing DevOps practices to drive automation, speed of delivery and quality
• Assisted the product owner in prioritizing the backlog item using MOSCOW technique
• Helped the product owner in writing the Acceptance Criteria for the technical user stories
• Managed the lifecycle of code development, from planning of sprints to deployment

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Data profiling for the source data, System analysis to map the target data and in creating Data Mapping document
• Worked closely with Data Architects in tuning queries for various data integrations and Data modelling
• Created bi-weekly project status dashboard report and participated in portfolio meeting to provide the project status
• Played a pivotal role in preparing Acceptance Criteria ’s for user stories to be accepted by business
• Conducted JAD sessions to write and present Technical User Stories to the team
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies including Daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Product Backlog Refining, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective and involved in every scrum ceremony
• Helped the Product Owner and Scrum Team to effectively estimate and prioritize various tasks and sub-tasks associated with each user stories using various techniques such as KANO and MOSCOW techniques
• Conducted Estimation Training Sessions for the scrum Development team to help them better estimate the efforts required for completing user stories based on Planning Poker technique
• Assisted business and the team by preparing various UML diagrams such as Business Flow Diagrams
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress through various artifacts
• Tracking project dependencies outside of the project team's control
• Responsible for resolving various impediments affecting the progress of the project with the help of Product Owner for improving the velocity of the team
• Facilitated, coached and guided the teams on the underlying values and principles of Agile
• Improves process efficiency and process enhancements through retrospective meetings and conducted retrospective games
• Managed Requirement churn by incorporating changes to product backlog items regularly collaborating with Product Owner
• Helped team in developing and maintaining the Scrum board

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Joint Requirements Planning (JRP) sessions with the Subject Matter Experts (SME) and the key stakeholders to understand business processes and the functionalities in detail.
• Conducted Walkthroughs and Meetings involving leads from Development, QA, Database and Technical Support teams to validate the Budget Planning.
• Conducted GAP analysis for identifying improvement areas from legacy systems to the current processes. Analyzed the risks involved by conducting SWOT and Cost-Benefit Analysis.
• Created Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams including Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Entity relationship diagrams and Use Case Diagrams.
• Created Static Prototypes using HTML and CSS for an overview of the Graphical User Interface.
• Developed high level requirement documents Business Requirement Document (BRD) and consulted the technical team and developed the detailed System Requirements Document (SRD).
• Stepped up as a Scrum Master and worked with the product owner and self-organizing and cross functional team members including Technical lead, Developers, Testers and Quality Analyst for project completion.
• Assisted Product Owner in converting Epics into small User Stories and tasks.
• Participated the Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Stand-Up’s, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Helped Scrum Master to keep a track of user stories and track project progress through Burn-down and Burn-up charts in Rally.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and reviewing business rules, business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans related to commercial lending
• Performed Document Analysis and conducted Stakeholder Interviews to elicit high level requirements
• Assisted with product evaluation, product customization, and system integration
• Analyzed the As-Is and To-Be state of the project and performed Gap Analysis
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams using Star UML
• Actively took part in JAD sessions
• Supported testing, Test Cases in HP Quality Center that would test various Test scenarios
• Authored Business Requirements Document (BRD) with the business users
• Performed Risk Analysis to identify the project critical success factors and prioritize requirements
• Performed UAT on business requirements, technical specifications, and product knowledge
• Performed Data mapping from Source systems to Target Systems

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Authored Business Requirements Document (BRD) with the business users.
• Reviewed functional requirement for the clinical data and validated the documents.
• Used legacy systems and Legacy Documentation to gather requirements.
• Monitored, Tracked and assigned defects to developers using the Defect Management System.
• Consulted with multiple teams to ensure that project requirements are met, and product delivered within the designated time frame during the project.
• Close Interaction with end users to gain domain knowledge to develop test conditions.