PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with around 5 years of experience in Systems Development Life Cycle. Proven ability to motivate and enforce agile principles and remove impediments.
• Result driven servant leader with skills in delivering projects by efficiently collaborating, coaching and counselingmultiple Scrum Teams.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and thorough understandings of various phases like requirements, analysis/design, and development/testing.
• Expertise in using Scrum, Kanban, Agile, Waterfall methodologies for SDLC.
• Working experience in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Strong experience in Finance, Telecommunication, Retail, Insurance and Healthcare Domains.
• Extensive experience in facilitating Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Daily Stand - ups, Backlog Refinement and Sprint Reviews.
• Expertise of Agile Backlog Grooming, Release Management & Sprint Planning, Estimation Velocity and Change Management.
• Experience in prioritizing Product backlog using techniques like 100 Dollar test, MOSCOW, Business Value based etc.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and thorough understandings of various phases like requirements, analysis/design, and development/testing.
• Experience in decomposing EPICs into smaller user stories for effective utilization by Considering and identifying SMART tasks with the help of the team.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) session with Stakeholders, Business users, technical teams.
• Extensive experience in Business Requirements Gathering and writing skills with expertise in developing and documenting Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), and Software Requirement Specification (SRS) across the deliverables of a project.
• Proficient in creating Risk Analysis documents, Risk Management Plan.
• Experienced in Issue and Risk Management using JIRA, ALM tools for tracking and mitigation.
• Experience using MS Visio for workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams including Use Cases, ER Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Charts, State Diagrams and Object Diagrams.
• Expertise in using Balsamiq for creating wireframe mockups.
• Highly experienced in system, integration, regression, user acceptance testing UAT .
• Expertise in using MS Project, MS office suite, Rally and Atlassian Products- Especially Jira and Confluence.
• Accustomed to handling multiple tasks simultaneously, often within stringent time and budgetary constraints.
• Enthusiastic learner and rapidly assimilate and in corporate new technology/trends.
• Successful as a team player to work in conjunction with SME, developers, testers and other team members in validation and testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.
• Strong communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new Technical concepts quickly and utilizing them in a productive manner.
• Strong analytical and Problem-solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban.

Business Modeling Tools: Smart Draw, gliffy, Erwin, Balsamiq, MS VISIO.

Requirement Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Rally, MS project

Databases: MYSQL, SQL server, Postgres SQL, Oracle 9i/10g

Languages: SQL, XML and HTML

Operating Systems: Windows OS, LINUX, UNIX

Documentation Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint MS Project, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on gathering requirements from business and SMEs and provide input for various features and services required.
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specification URS. Conducted user interviews, understood and articulated business requirements and further converted requirements into technical specifications.
• Responsible for translating Business Requirement Documents into functional specifications and test plans. Closely coordinated with both users and developers for arriving at mutually acceptable solutions.
• Created user stories with detailed acceptance criteria pertaining to the functionality desired.
• PerformedWebservice integration testing with QA to ensure the data formats and the data populated in the UI were working coherently.
• Performedbackloggrooming in JIRA during Sprint planning and review sessions to discuss new user stories discovered and old ones that were stale and needed removal.
• Assigned user stories to team members in Jira and allocated their points with team during Sprint Planning.
• Created the XML and JSON mapping for request and responses and documented them in the ICD.
• Validated the XML/JSON web services with QA and technical team in acpt environment before proceeding with UAT.
• Created documents of the use cases and created the use case, activity, logical, component and deployment diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose to communicate clearly with the development teams.
• Redesigned web services methodology for the application while implementing reusability from different servers. Liaised with the technology team to derive Functional Requirements.
• Wrote SQL queries in TOAD and executed them to perform CRUD operations and validate the data with the webservice data(XML/JSON).
• Documented workflow, Designed UI and results of business analysis and obtained sign-off from client on specifications.
• UsedAxureRP for creating the prototypes and workflows for native app screens and functionality. Also, worked with team for google support for financial advices.
• Createduserstories for native app screens, functionality and back end services required for support the apps.
• Worked with the technical team to ensure that varied changes including configuration change requests submitted by the test team are logged, cross environment impact is assessed, and cross environment migrations are managed.
• Worked with the Information Technology teams on coupons, shortfalls and reimbursement reports for the entire team.

Environment: Java, MS Office Suite, Visio, Quality Center, SharePoint, Java, MS Project

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively engaged client and third-party integration partners in requirements gathering and validation. Conducted and lead requirements elicitation meetings with client end users to document system requirements and used Requisite Pro for management of these requirements.
• Developed business use cases using UML for new product functionality after conducting requirements elaboration sessions with client teams.
• Used tools such as Visio, Rational Rose to define business use cases, activity diagrams, state and sequence diagrams.
• Maintain the data architecture activities. Responsible for creating and maintaining multi-dimensional data models.
• Experienced with Software development life cycle (SDLC) methodology, framing out Business Transaction rules and related Documentation, creating Test Plans based on Functionality and Business rules, creating Test Cases, Test scripts out of Manual Test Scripts/Test Cases.
• Responsible for working with the manager and other users and creating Work flow diagrams as per the data analysis.
• Involved in generating Test Plans and Test Specifications as per Business requirements
• Involved in conducting Manual and Automated testing at various phases of the project development.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios as per application specifications and application requirements and wrote test plans.
• Performed Integration testing, Build Verification testing, System testing manually.
• Responsible for defect tracking and reporting.
• Participated in the bug review meetings, updated requirement document as per business user feedback and changes in the functionality of the application.

Environment: MySQL, Java, SOAP(Webservices), XML, XPATH, Ms Visio, Load runner,Win runner, QTP.