SUMMARY

• Solution oriented dynamic Business Analyst, seeking to contribute critical thinking and planning skills to enhance quality, effectiveness, and productivity.
• With around five year experience in BA training and skills, in requirement elicitation through various methods; questionnaires, web exploring, interviews, JADs and daily scrum, and proficiency in identifying Actors and creating Use Case Templates (UCT), and Functional Required Documents (FRD)s, exudes exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts, with excellent communication, organizing, and interpersonal skills, and strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Around five years of professional experience in business analysis, business modeling, requirements gathering and technical documentation.
• Excellent experience in creating business required documents (BRD), use case specifications, process flow diagrams and functional specifications.
• Exceptional in writing business and system specification, designing and developing use case and test case scenarios, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams and activity diagrams.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, especially MS Excel, Visio and Power Point.
• In depth knowledge of SDLC( Software Development Life Cycle) involved in all phases from planning to the implementation stage
• Good knowledge of AGILE, RUP and WATERFALL methodologies in the SDLC cycle
• Expertise in defining scope of projects based on gathered business requirements
• Experienced with liaisoning between management and development team for requirements
• Expertise with documenting Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Use Case Specifications and Functional Specifications, and Unified Modeling Activity Language (UML) diagrams, Use Case Templates (UCT) and Requirement Management Tools
• Expertise in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Proficient in developing Use Case Diagrams, Flowcharts Behavior Diagrams (Sequence diagrams and Activity diagrams) based on UML methodology using MS Visio
• Experienced in facilitating and conducting Joint Application Design (JAD), interviews, workshops and requirement elicitation sessions with end - users, clients, and stakeholders.
• Proficient at documenting the business use cases based on requirements and objectives
• Experience in gathering requirements for off the shelf applications
• Collaborated with developers, quality assurance, production support, and end users to provide business direction on system analysis, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Successful as a team player to work in conjunction with members of the team, testers, developers and in validation and testing complex scenarios and projects, in the maintenance of quality standards in projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Front End Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS PowerPoint

Processes: Use Cases, Workflow, Dataflow Office ToolsMicrosoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Gathered functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions with process owners & stakeholders.
• Gathered requirements for software to be built in house
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions between technical, business and regulatory teams to ensure that requirements were being met, and to resolve issues during the development phase between business users and end users
• Responsible for Requirements gathering, Scope Analysis, designing and reviewing BRD Conducted sessions for understanding business expectations and gathering requirements from various SMEs.
• Followed Agile methodology for certain applications.
• Created Business Requirement Documents and Use cases and conducted walkthrough with the business owners and took sign-off.
• Created Process Flows and UML diagrams using MS Visio
• Identified and documented the Business Rules that would affect the application.
• Updated the requirement documents as per the Process Change Requests.
• Participated in Defect Review meetings as required to clarify requirements

Environment: Windows, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Project, UML, JAD

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD session with business, stakeholders and technology to understand business requirements.
• Created Business Requirement Documents (BRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Held requirement gathering sessions with Business Owners and SME’s along with risk managers to gather client specific business requirements and documented business requirements and functional specifications.
• Conducted various walkthrough calls for BRD & SRS with Business Team, technology team, design & testing team.
• Worked with Solution Architect and helped him to draft "Architectural Blue print" document.
• Created Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams using MS Visio and linked with BRD and SRS.
• Helped PM to schedule recurring meeting for stand up to stay on top of all actions/open items for the project.
• Created IAD logs and made sure to follow up & resolve with right set of people.
• Used SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodologies like the RUP and the waterfall.
• Performed review sessions and gathered BRD and SRS sign offs from Business, technology and other related work streams.
• Designed presentation on PowerPoint for conducting walkthroughs with entire team.
• Created data mapping worksheets to extract data from one data base and transport to another data base.
• Maintained an action log that get discussed/reviewed in the meeting.
• Created GAP Analysis documentation, Interfacing context diagrams, traceability matrix and other related documents for the business processes.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Waterfall Methodology