SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with dense understanding of Business Requirement gathering, Business Process flow, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis.
• Strong Knowledge of SDLC models such as SCRUM, RUP methodology and waterfall., and Agile.
• Knowledge in eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing business/system requirements across the lifecycle of the project.
• Hands - On experience in authoring various requirements artifacts such as epics, user stories, use cases, UML diagrams, Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), business rules document, mockups etc.
• Strong subject matter expertise in Medical Device, Risk Analysis, Mortgage Loan Origination, Processing and Loan Servicing, healthcare, and telecommunication.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Process Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Software Modeler, IBM Web Sphere Business Modeler, Proforma Provision, Savvion (BPMN), and Appian (BPMN).

Unified Modeling Language (UML) Tools: Rational Rose, Rational Software Modeler, Rational Software Architect, Visual Paradigm and Microsoft Visio.

Requirements Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and JIRA.

Office Tools: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Access).

Configuration and Changed Management: Tortoise SVN, Rational Clearcase.

Defect Tracking Tool: JIRA, Rational Clearquest

Wireframe tool: Balsamiq, BO reporting tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mansfield, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the product owner to define business requirements and groom the product backlog.
• Conducted user story writing workshops with the product owner to identify, document and discuss user stories
• Conducted business process diagram, as part of gap analysis, to understand the ‘Current State’. Derived system level requirements from business requirements.
• Designed and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams and assembled Spreadsheets, draw Charts, and Pivot tables to condense analysis and create visualizations of the data.
• Supported the team in generating business cases and financial reviews for cost savings advantage
• Facilitated requirements walkthrough sessions across various business areas.
• Developed and implemented processes and tools for requirements gathering, analysis, planning, tracking and delivery
• Consolidates the data analysis and provided creative and cost effective recommendations
• Assisted in designing and developing project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Assisted project managers on several small projects concurrently.
• Assisted with conducting UAT (User Acceptance Testing)

Confidential, Woburn MA

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in formulating and documenting business requirements to support new product initiatives that support strategic plan and customer initiatives
• Conducted business processes analysis as part of ‘Gap-Analysis’. Defined the ‘Future State’ from the ‘Current State’.
• Assisted ‘Project Sponsor’ in creating a detailed ‘Business Case’, conducted market research, and identified trends based on comprehensive analysis of the data.
• Created spreadsheets, draws charts and pivot tables to summarize analysis and create ideas from the data.
• Translated business requirements into various system level specification documents such as FRD, Use Cases, Business Rules, and NFRs etc.
• Marketed assessment/analysis including evaluation of competing products & development of long term product roadmap
• Assisted in implementing and managing data migration process from different sources.
• Assisted project managers on several small projects simultaneously.
• Identified and documented best practices for the product offering, and supported team with additional needs for data analysis.

Confidential, Quincy MA

Intern

Responsibilities:

• Worked with some team members to support team of analysts.
• Assisted in eliciting, analyzing and documenting business/system requirements using different methodologies, ranging from process flows, use case-based documents to user stories.
• Assisted in coordinating brainstorming sessions, requirements workshops, joint application development (JAD) sessions across different implementations.
• Assisted in created various project deliverables such as requirements management plan, functional requirements document, business process repository, use case, business rules repository, interface control documents, use stories etc.
• Participated in several ‘enterprise-wide’ modernization efforts such as process improvements, reverse engineering
• Assisted in reverse engineered requirements for a legacy application using use case methodology.
• Assisted with ‘Enterprise Requirements Engineer’ on various process improvement initiatives.

Confidential, Bridgewater NJ

Financial Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Processed Principal and Interest receipts on Bank Syndication Loans
• Research aged bank loan contracts, and assist in reconciliation process
• Responsible for the derivative accounting on the associated for bank syndication loans
• Initiated spot trades, and calculate and process recognized gain/loss entries on spot trades
• Determined validity of data and provides supporting explanations of conclusions reached.
• Uses data to project future short-and, long-term scenarios and anticipated results
• Performed cross-training and supported the SOP
• Supported financial analysis/reporting and financial data by developing the financial reports
• Established controlled financial contract processing through administrative systems, and
• Provided hands-on support in creating of reports/analyses for upper level managemen