PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 7 years of Industry experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications and Application Design.
• Extensive experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.
• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong experience with Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile system development methodologies.
• Strong experience in business process flow review and implement the operational systems, processes and policies required to improve logistics, order efficiency, and reduce cost.
• In - depth knowledge of creating use case, activity, logical, component and deployment views with rational tools to extract business process flows and workflows there by helping development and quality assurance teams in understanding the requirements.
• Consistent success in translating business requirements, reporting requirements, and user expectations into detailed system specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Experience in documenting the business requirements that have been acquired from end users and stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of UAT/Black-Box Testing.
• Good knowledge of SQL and PSQL
• Good Knowledge of database management tools like Oracle and SQL server.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with both business and development teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ProgrammingLanguages: C,C++,HTM,PHP, ASP, XML, J2EE

Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Rose, SharePoint

Operating Systems: MS Windows NT/98/95/2000/XP, UNIX

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access.

Reporting Tools: Business Objects, Cognos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sandiego, CA

Bussiness System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements by collecting information from the users and internal stakeholders through interviews, workshops, one on one meetings and JAD sessions.
• Prepared project scope, project vision documents and communication plans.
• Prepare Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document and then convert these requirements into SRS. This constitutes the functional requirements.
• Involved in various phases of SDLC.
• Identified Use Cases from the requirements and created UML Diagrams in MS Visio, including Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams and Class Diagrams.
• Conduct GAP Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis and Business Impact Analysis.
• Authored business and functional requirements with supporting use cases (data modeling) and traceability matrices.
• Worked on As-is and To-be models to enhance the existing situation. Ensure data consistency between the legacy system and the new system.
• Conducted the requirements and design walkthroughs with designers, developers and management staff.
• Created use cases, activity diagrams using Rational Rose. Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Data Analysis, Re-design/Re-modeling using for the Production databases and data warehouse under Oracle; determining the new database architecture. Interacting with business users to understand the new business requirements.
• Helped project managers and executives attain better visibility into project status and risk in rder to make more informed decisions. Coordinated their work around project tasks and deliverables as well as leverage best practices

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements by collecting information from the users and internal stakeholders through interviews, workshops, meetings and JAD sessions with end users.
• Prepare project scope, project vision documents and communication plans.
• Used RUP for streamlining the team’s development activities.
• Use MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and collaborate on the project.
• Organize, coordinate, and facilitate weekly status meeting, migration update meetings and prepare meeting minutes. Coordinate and facilitate conference calls.
• Act as a liaison between the technical department and the business customers.
• Conduct GAP Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Business Impact Analysis.
• Worked on As-is and To-be models during the planning and analysis phase.
• Identify Use Cases from the requirements and create UML diagrams including Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams and Class Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Author business and functional requirements with supporting use cases and traceability matrices.
• Conduct requirements and design walkthroughs with developers / configurators, Testers and management staff.
• Self-starter with exceptional time management, team building and leadership skills with excellent verbal and written communication.
• Involved in interviewing with the end clients and gathering requirements and documenting them in the form of a Business Requirement document and Functional Requirement Document.
• Prepared a Business Workflow model that covers "How" business processes are accomplished.
• Prepared Workflow diagrams analyzed AS-IS and TO-BE scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios.
• Major focus was on Gap Analysis in Business Processes and resource requirements both at manual point of integration and automated processes.
• Interacted with department heads to finalize business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements.

Confidential, Integrated Mortgage, VA

Bussiness System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed business SME’s to solicit requirements and remediate gaps in business requirements. Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC methodology.
• Analyzed and documented business requirements for Internal Controls, FAS91 exceptional and analytical reports requirements for Whole Loans.
• Enhanced existing business requirements document and incorporated business use cases as part of the Functional Requirement document.
• Created process flow and use case diagrams using MS Visio.
• Created business use cases and incorporated them as a supplement in the Business requirements document.
• Facilitated business review and IT walkthrough of the business requirements.
• Documented software requirements as Functional Requirements and Business Rules per ELSIF templates.
• Specified the procedures to be used for sign-off and Tax Accounting Catch Up release.
• Involved in the daily status meeting to report the progress of the team and discuss issues and risks involved related to the subject.
• Prepared UAT plan based on the business requirements document to test each and every requirement from an end user perspective. Interacted with tech managers & developers and performed control monitoring and recommended solution to the gaps.
• Created UAT scenarios and built UAT cases corresponding to the business requirements. Used RTM to verify that the UAT cases covered every business requirement.
• Identify, analyze, document, and track defects in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom applications.
• Tested system interfaces to perform data quality check between the interfacing applications.
• Was responsible for the defect management for the Business team and conducted weekly meetings to discuss the already logged defects, possible defects and progress on the resolution of the defects.