PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst and a Certified Scrum Master (SMAC)
• Experience in Requirements gathering, Business process analysis, documenting project artifacts and Testing/Maintenance.
• Experience in managing project teams in application analysis, design and implementation analysis.
• Proficient in leading Requirements Gathering sessions via different elicitation techniques such as client interviewing, conducting requirements gathering workshops, Impact Analysis, Prototyping, Survey/Questionnaire, Focus groups, and document analysis.
• Experience in performing gap analysis between as - is and to-be workflow models.
• Experience in Architecture Diagrams such as Business Process Modeling, Activity Diagrams, Use case Diagrams, Process work Flow Diagrams, Swim lane Diagrams.
• Expertise in creating project artifacts such as business case, project charter, Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Documentation, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Created Data Mapping Document, Systems Requirements Specification (SRS) and GUI Mockup Screens.
• Interacted with teh Developers to ensure functional implementation of business requirements and coordinated with QA Team in executing Test Case scenarios.
• Leadership skills and competencies including issue management, conflict resolution, team building.
• Assisted project manager in conducting meetings and a coordinated on various successful projects.
• Documented user story in product backlog and assisted teh product manager in prioritizing user stories through discussion with scrum teams
• Experience in grooming sessions for teh product backlog, planning teh Sprints with product owner, participated in sprint review and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Facilitated change management activities and suggested solution adaptability

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Sr.Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with project team members to ensure project needs are clearly understood and documented.
• Held meetings with cross-functional teams and departments to analyze and gather requirements.
• Prepared teh Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD)
• Successfully identified teh functional/non-functional requirements of teh data warehouse for generating BI reports and communicated teh same to architects and developers.
• Extensively interacted with data architect and supported ETL mapping activities in data warehouse as per established business requirements.
• Worked with users to create training manuals and help guides for teh dashboard usage.
• Coordinated with teh Product owners, SMEs in prioritizing teh user stories in teh Product Backlog.
• Worked with product owners and stakeholders to maintain teh Sprint Backlog
• Participated in Agile ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Daily Standup, Sprint review and product Backlog refinement.
• Developed use cases, business cases and operational procedures and plans.
• Developed business test cases, wrote test scripts and oversaw testing procedures
• Created and Coordinated in user acceptance test (UAT) test scenarios, supported training efforts prior to UAT.
• Analyzed data and identified issues to find solutions for better implementation of project.
• Established Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace teh completeness of requirements.
• Acted as a liason between various depatments to create and allocate teh cost centers for different category of general ledger accounts.
• Performed SQL queries against Data Warehouse to make assure accuracy of data displayed on reports.

Environment: Agile-Scrum- Jira, Fiserv, MS Excel, MS Visio, Balsamiq, SQL Server, MS Project, Tableau 9.2, HPALM, HTML, Rational Requisite Pro.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted document analysis to analyze and document requirements, understand key functions and recommended design approach and solutions.
• Develop a thorough understanding of teh AML team’s processes and operations
• Understood and effectively translated business requirements, policy and procedural requirements into business requirements document (BRD)
• Acted as a liaison between lines of business partners, AML team, technical team and vendors in teh analysis, design, configuration and testing of AML application.
• Explained project deliverables with system requirements into system requirements specification document (SRS) and proposed change for process improvement.
• Created workflows and activity diagrams and use cases for various Due diligence processes performed within teh AML landscape
• Made sure that system complies to regulations and guidance related to Anti-Money Laundering like Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA PATRIOT Act, along with policies and procedure of client.
• Conducted GAP analysis by analyzing teh existing system and recommended strategies to improve current processes.
• Mapped business requirements to test cases throughout teh development and testing process using requirement traceability Matrix (RTM) in HP ALM
• Conducted Triage calls, tracked, and prioritized teh defects based on teh severity and criticality.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with business stakeholders to ensure application meets their business needs and wrote teh user manual for UAT.

Environment: Agile-Jira, MS Visio, Balsamiq, MS Excel, SQL Server, HPQC, Firco

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Mortgage Servicers and SME’s to gather business requirements and with software team.
• Prepared Business requirement components such as Process Flow, Business Requirements, and Business Rules, Data element, Traceability matrix, use case model and textual use case.
• Evaluated teh data collected through task analysis, business process, surveys and workshops.
• Prepared BRS (Business Requirement Specification) and SRS (Software Requirement Specification). Also ensured teh requirements are frozen and teh Clients signoff on teh SRS
• Used SharePoint web application platform for content management, document management file management, business intelligence and process integration.
• Conducted weekly review meetings for teh development team to track development status and any risks. Ensured timely discussions with technical team lead and project manager to mitigate risks.
• Translated business requirement into Technical requirements and system specifications.
• Managed any change requests related to teh working project plans daily to meet teh agreed deadlines. Worked with business in documenting and tracking teh enhancements for teh system.
• Worked with teh QA team helping them create Test Plans, Test Requirements, Test Cases and Test Scripts with QA team and was involved with test execution, participated in System Testing and UAT process.

Environment: Waterfall, SQL SERVER, Balsamiq, Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint, HPQC.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Analysis to identify teh deficiencies of teh current system and to identify teh requirements for teh change in teh proposed system.
• Facilitated workshops to capture AS-IS requirements & design TO-BE processes
• Gathered functional and non-functional requirements in collaboration with end clients and internal project managers and createdBRDand SRS
• Conducted several requirements gathering sessions like one on one interviews, Focus Group, observation.
• Facilitated JAD sessions by inviting SME’s, tech leads and Architects to make sure that gathered requirements are feasible in doing.
• Assisted QA team in functional testing, integration testing and regression testing.
• Facilitated UAT sessions for end users and collaborated with business team to get UAT sign offs.

Environment: Waterfall, SharePoint, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro