Business System Analyst / Scrum Master Resume
Pennington, NJ
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- An organized goal oriented individual with 8 years of experience working on several large - scale software and Web development projects. Worked in a variety of roles including Business System Analyst, Data Analyst and also a Certified Scrum master and
- Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM me). Experience developing, managing and coordinating software projects covering all phases of development lifecycle in multiple domains including Finance, Banking (BFS) and Telecom Domain.
- Extensive experience in implementation of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using various methodologies and frameworks like Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Extreme Programming (XP) and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
- Good inter-personal and communication skills.
- Skillful implementation ability of SCRUM, Kanban, DevOps (CICD), Extreme programming, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) Rapid Application Development (RAD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Pair programming, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Experience in Business System Analysis, Data Analysis, Software Design, Development, Implementation and Quality Assurance of business applications with noledge of teh Software Development Life Cycle.
- Excellent Understanding of Financial Markets, Capital Markets, Money Market, Derivative Market etc.
- Profound noledge in Investment Banking and Wealth Management. Understanding of teh trade life-cycle and in-depth noledge of Trading Market.
- Extensive experience with MS SQL server Integration services 2008/2012 in teh areas of Master/ child SSIS packages, SSIS transformations, ETL, Store procedures, queries and Triggers in SQL.
- Thorough with regulations like Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council(FFIEC), Fair Credit Reporting Act(FCRA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act(SOX) and Consumer Protection Bureau.
- Hand-on experience in implementing regulations such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act(GLB), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority(FINRA), National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) and General Data Privacy Regulation(GDPR), Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board(MSRB) Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI- DSS).
- Excellent understanding of SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and Hybrid Model.
- Well Experienced in creating Work Breakdown Structure and creating, reviewing Budget Plans.
- Proficient in Eliciting Requirements using techniques such as Document Analysis, Stakeholder Interviews, Brainstorming, Joint Requirements Planning Sessions(JRP), Joint Application Development Sessions (JAD).
- Proven success performing Risk Analysis, Impact Analysis and Interface Analysis on multiple projects.
- Expertise in Business Process Modeling Notations (BPMN) and UML Diagrams (Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Component Diagrams) using MS Visio.
- Analyzing Business requirements and preparing functional requirements document (FRD), business requirement Document (BRD), project initiation document and Systems Requirement Specifications (SRS).
- Experience in prototyping and UI/UX designing with basic programming languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript’s. Prototyping tools hands on in Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Macaw and Axure, and coding in IDE’s like Visual Studio and Eclipse.
- Hands on experience working with Mobile development working on responsive designs.
- Hands-on experience in handling Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) management systems.
- Extensive experience performing Data Mapping and creating Data Requirement Documents for different projects.
- Strong experience with Data Analytics and Data Visualization using MSBI tools. Hands-on experience with SSIS and SSRS.
- Proficient in SOA implementation, with a good noledge of webservices, web methods, XML, WSDL, SOA, XML.
- Hands on experience identifying and documenting with Client side, Server side and Database Validations.
- Involved in various Testing Methods such as Functional Testing, Regression testing, Performance Testing, Integration testing as well as User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Hands on experience Tracking, prioritizing defects using HPALM based on criticality and severity and tracking teh progress of testing by creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Worked closely on Data Modelling activities and ETL processes for various projects.
- Comprehensive noledge of Data Warehousing with implementation experience.
- Thorough understanding of Data Consolidation, Data Profiling and Master Data Management (MDM).
- Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, Backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, project integration planning.
- Efficient at facilitating Estimation Techniques sessions such as Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing and Prioritization techniques such as MoSCoW, Kano and Business Value-Based methods.
- Hands-on experience with AWS tools throughout teh career.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid.
Frameworks: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, FDD, DevOps, XP.
Prototyping Tools: Adobe XD, Macaw, Axure, iRise.
Modelling Tools: MS Visio, Balsamiq, Mock plus, Lucid Charts, MS Access.
Web Technologies: XML, HTML & CSS, SOAP, Web Services.
Web Server: GitHub, Jenkins, Eclipse, Visual Studio.
Databases: SQL server, ORACLE, IBM DB2, MS Access.
Data warehousing: Data marts, OLAP, OLTP, Query/Reporting and Data modeling.
ETL and BI Tools: Informatica PowerCenter 9.0+, Talend, Tableau, Power BI, MicroStrategy, Pentaho, SSIS,SSRS, TOAD, WebFocus.
AWS Tools: EC2, S3, EMR and Redshift.
Project Management Tools: Rally, Jira, Visio, HPALM, Confluence, TFS, SharePoint, AEM.
Reporting Tools: Tableau, MS Office 365, Crystal Reports, SSRS.
Testing Tools: HP QC, Load Runner, SoapUI, Postman, Swagger.
Programming Languages: JavaScript, Angular, Python, Ajax, JSON, PHP, Drupal.
Version Control: GitHub, Clear Case
MS Office: Word, Outlook, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, MS Visio.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Pennington, NJ
Business System Analyst / Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Conducted GAP Analysis to understand teh previously existing project (As-Is) and compared it to teh proposed system (To-Be).
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies including Daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective and involved in Product Backlog Grooming.
- Conducted JAD session with my development team and SME’s.
- Assisted product owner in converting high level requirements (EPICS and Features) into User Stories dat adheres teh INVEST criteria, and in prioritizing those product backlog items using MoSCoW technique.
- Played a pivotal role in setting up Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Test plans for all teh tasks and user stories.
- Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules. Wrote rules for server side validation and client side validation.
- Referred to teh UDDI to access web services from WSDL, also assisted in writing Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- Created Screen mock-ups using MS Visio, collaborated with teh developers to get a better understanding of teh process flow.
- Created Data Flow Diagrams using Lucid Chart by collaborating with Architects to identify process improvements.
- Used JIRA to keep track of teh User Stories, tracked teh progress of teh sprint by tracking teh Velocity and Capacity of teh team by maintaining Burn Down and Burn up Charts.
- TEMPEffectively handled teh Requirement Churn during teh sprint cycle and added teh PBI to teh next sprint.
- Improved teh Teams efficiency through retrospective feedback by conducting Happy Histogram, Teh Wheel, Mad Sad Glad Technique and made sure dat teh necessary Improvements are been made for further sprints.
- Worked with Product Owner on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint and Release Burn down.
- Implemented teh Service Oriented Architecture(SOA), with hands-on experience of using enterprise service bus (ESB).
- Worked with API and web services. Implemented SOAP webservices in teh project.
- Facilitated in Functional, Integration, GUI and Usability testing. Facilitated Regression testing for all teh functionalities and also performed ad-hoc Smoke Testing.
- Conducted UAT testing where teh business had some test case and me created my own test cases as due diligence.
- Implemented Single-Sign On(SSO) and data sharing using microservices in teh application for ease of use.
- Conducted Triage calls to analyze teh defects and prioritize them accordingly.
- Updated teh existing User Manuals based on teh enhancements.
Environment: Agile-SCRUM, JavaScript, MS Visio, Oracle, SQL Server, Excel, SoapUI, Web Services, MS-Office, Tableau, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, GitHub, Altova XML Spy.
Confidential, Overland Park, Kansas
Business System Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Performed Feasibility, Options, Cost-Benefit and GAP Analysis to identify teh Business value add for teh organization through dis project.
- Identified teh Business Requirements from teh stakeholders/SME’s and prepared Business Requirement Documents(BRD) along with Functional Requirement Document.
- Gathered teh business requirements and understood teh goal of data warehousing.
- Organized and facilitated JAD sessions and conducted document analysis to TEMPeffectively write use cases and use case narratives.
- Used tools like MS Visio to created screen mock-ups, activity diagram and class diagrams.
- Extensively interacted with data analysts during teh ETL operations in identifying teh source files/databases and implementing teh transformation logic for achieving data uniformity in teh operational data store (ODS).
- Coordinated with teh DW architects and developers to identify appropriate dimensional modeling measures and sizing.
- Successfully analyzed teh functional/non-functional requirements of teh data warehouse for generating BI reports and communicated teh same to architects and developers.
- Designing Proof of Concept (POC) to identify baseline, adverse, and serve scenarios.
- Involved in identifying and suggesting teh different dimensions required for generating teh reports and OLAP cubes to facilitate teh multi-dimensional view of teh data to generate slicing/dicing, roll-up/drill-down reports.
- Used various SQL commands like Create, Delete, Update, and Inner, Outer, Left, and Right Joins to update teh database and retrieve data for data analysis and validation.
- Create SQL stored procedures, Data Models like Attribute Views for master data, Analytic Views for Transaction Data and Calculation Views Graphical and SQL Script to Join/Union teh various Attribute and Analytic Views for report consumption with time dimensions.
- Hands-on experience working with Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBI tools).
- me was involved in creating Data marts dat supports teh Business Intelligence Data Warehouse.
- Developed Conceptual and Logical ER diagrams identifying teh entities, constraints, relationships and cardinality.
- Hands-on experience on performing SQL queries for data analysis and validating data results at teh same time.
- Responsible for performing Data Profiling and Data Mapping. Created ER Diagrams for one-to-one and one-to-many mapping relationships using SQL Server.
- Assisted in increasing Data Integrity by performing Data Normalization and adding Data Verification and Validity to maintain accuracy and TEMPeffectiveness of data.
- Acted as a liaison between Business management and Data Warehouse management team.
- Worked with teh QA team for drafting test case, testing requirements and test plans.
- Worked on teh Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) throughout teh project to track and manage requirements.
- Facilitated Triage Calls for my team to overcome teh impediments.
- Used Jira for TEMPeffective defect tracking and to solve those defects conducted triage calls on a regular basis.
- Facilitated collaborative KT sessions with teh team to halp them understand Tableau for report generation.
Environment: MS SQL Server, SQL Reporting Services, Informatica, Visual Studio, MS Excel, Oracle database, MS Project, Tableau, ERWin.
Confidential, New York, NY
Business System Analyst / Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Conducted Brainstorming sessions, one on one Interviews along with other elicitation techniques to gather requirements.
- Hands on experience in writing teh Client Side validation and Server Side Validation as well.
- Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for Quality Assurance Testing and Report / Data Validation.
- Implemented AJAX in teh UI as an enhancement to improve teh user experience.
- Involved in API integration and creating new API for teh application making it an shared API.
- Hands-on experience working with Swagger tool with respect to API’s.
- Hands on experience with Restful API Modelling language as well, non as RAML.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies Daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Product Backlog Grooming Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective and involved in every scrum ceremony.
- Implemented Web Service Orchestrations for retrieval and checking teh drift threshold.
- Assisted product owner in converting high level requirements EPICS into User Stories as well as tasks.
- Played an important part in writing Acceptance criteria for teh user stories.
- Used estimation techniques like poker planning to estimate teh user stories.
- Assisted Product owner using MoSCoW technique for product backlog prioritization.
- Facilitated team Scrum Games to halp build a better collaborative environment within teh scrum team.
- Tracked project dependencies outside of teh project team's control by attending Scrum of Scrum Meetings and halped in prioritizing user stories dat were dependent, escalated teh issues as necessary.
- Used Rally keep track of teh User Stories, tracked teh progress of teh sprint by tracking teh Velocity and Capacity of teh team by maintaining Burn Down and Burn Up Charts.
- Worked with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint and Release Burn down.
- Planned for sprints by calculating teh Estimated Velocity using Commitment driven planning and Velocity driven planning techniques as per teh requirements.
- Helped improving teh process and practices by identifying improvement areas through retrospective meetings.
- Responsible for resolving various impediments effecting teh progress of teh project with teh halp of product owner for improving teh velocity of teh project and halp team members work in a faster manner.
- Facilitated teh testing, performed Functional testing and Regression testing.
- Performed web service testing using Postman Tool.
Environment: SAFe, Rally, UML, MS Project, Visio, TFS, MS SharePoint, Excel, MS SQL.
Confidential
Business System Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans related to commercial lending.
- Worked extensively with SMEs and all levels of stakeholders in understanding and documenting their requirements.
- Assisted with product evaluation, product customization and system integration. Conducted GAP analysis around teh identification of business rules, business process flows, user administration, requirements and assumptions.
- Created data mapping documents along with process mapping to understand teh existing application and teh proposed application.
- Assisted teh Product Owner to create User Stories (from EPIC and Features).
- Supported testing, Test Cases in HP Quality Center dat would test various Test scenarios.
- Authored business requirements documents with teh business users. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users and team members.
- Coordinated activities between business unit and technical staff, developed new methods, policies, and procedures. to meet teh business needs, as well as acted as primary trainer in educating teh business unit.
- Performed UAT on business requirements, technical specifications and business objective.
Environment: .Net, Agile- Scrum, Rally, Rational Clear Quest, MS Excel, SQL Server.
Confidential
Junior Business System Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Served as a liaison between business and team by identifying, understanding, and documenting business needs.
- Created SQL stored procedures and Implement Standardized Data Quality Processes including Data Profiling and Cleansing.
- Collected and documented business processes as well as business rules and Performed GAP analysis.
- Participated in teh identification, understanding, and documentation of business requirements, including teh applications capable of supporting those requirements.
- Translated teh business needs into system requirements, communicating with teh business on a non-technical level, and with teh System Analyst on a more technical level.
- Collaborated with development architect to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture.
- Documented and delivered Functional Specification Document to teh project team.
- Performed SQL queries to access databases.
- Assist teh PM in setting realistic project expectations and evaluating teh impact of changes on organization.
- Provided technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures dat are cost TEMPeffective and satisfied teh business requirements.
- Developed test scenarios and implemented test plan providing key input in working with users in defining project and system requirements involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Worked with enterprise resource planning(ERP), assisted my project manager to re-design teh business process.
Environment: Waterfall, Rational Clear Quest, Oracle, UNIX, MS Excel, MS Access, MySQL, SSIS, SSRS
