PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Skilled in managing full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) projects, Global implementations, Multiple initiatives, engaging client participation, managing Vendor Relationships, leading diverse, On - site & Off-site team members and meeting project objectives.
• 3+ years' experience in JIRA & Confluence involving creation and management of custom, complex projects, workflows, security schemes, custom fields, dashboards, and reports configuration.
• Managed all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in agile framework across envisioning, development, release testing and release & deploy, and warranty & closure.
• Successfully conducted scrum ceremonies like Release Planning, Sprint planning, Daily Stand Up (Daily Scrum), Backlog grooming, Sprint Review and Retrospectives.
• Managed projects in most popular methodologies, such as, Waterfall and Agile/Scrum.
• Managed/participated in several Custom Software Implementations, large complex projects in multi-tier environments in integration of cross functional, distributed environment, process automation, enterprise, and E-Commerce applications.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline by working closely with project owner in backlog management with continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and re-in force Scrum framework and agile methodologies to team members and stake

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted closely with stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts (SME) for requirements gathering, clearly documenting, and holding joint application delivery sessions across functional areas to ensure requirements covering on business values, story points and acceptance criteria on Loans.
• Created Business Requirements Documents and Functional Requirements Documents by conducting workshops on Mortgage Loans and 1:1 meeting with the business users and Stakeholders. Experience in SQL queries to retrieve and validate data, prepared for data mapping document.
• Gathering requirements and documentation of Business Requirements documents. Organizing meetings with stakeholders and discussing the requirements, documenting, and analyzing Testing the application in the User Acceptance level for the Loans created.
• Tracking of all required high-risk logs counts on weekly basis and reporting them to the higher management. Tracking of important project requests and their status to the concerned department officials.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders for and UAT. Delivered weekly project status to senior and executive leadership.

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Scrum Team, resolving impediments; ensuring team progress towards successful Sprint completion. Facilitating scrum ceremonies, daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint retrospectives Working with Product owner in identifying Feature List, Building Product Roadmap, Product backlog and creation of Sprint Backlogs and Release Backlogs with the entire team. Tracking and Reporting team performance using Task board and publish Sprint and Release Progress using Burn-down and Burn-up charts Managing JIRA/Confluence to customize the requirements, the go-to-person for any
• JIRA issues, enhancements, or best practices. Create team specific agile process flow in JIRA/Confluence to move tasks from once activity to another. Identify, Monitor and Manage Risks using Risk Radiators and Risk Burn-down graphs. Mentor and coach team on Agile Practices, help teams to collaborate and establish clear communications channel within and outside. Guide team in aligning with Business Strategy and Project Goals using Kanban Development of overall scope, timeline and execution strategy with key business and technical partners. Define, establish, and communicate processes around
• Requirements, Technical Development and QA. Presenting Dashboard reports on a set frequency to the leadership team is updating the scorecards and program is on the right track in terms of Schedule, Cost, and Scope while maintaining the optimum quality of the product being delivered. Established strategic partnerships with the business units to develop a solid understanding of the business line, including the project plan, products, and process and revenue streams. Worked on SharePoint to communicate discovery questionnaires to stakeholders and lines of businesses to receive updated priority data.
• Streamlining the team's development activities and conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility determination to prioritize resolution of outstanding defects and system problems and ensured accuracy. Implemented Risk Management and impact analysis, understanding and business perspectives on many remediation and operational requirements and issues. Conducted post-launch review meetings (Sprint Review) to revisit project strengths and liabilities, and to build out better processes for future projects.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained team focus throughout sprints on priorities and business Works closely with the Product Owner and Team member for Backlog grooming, Release planning Used key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work
• Empowering the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings and building the Team's Agile Knowledge Responsible for business change, defined roadmap, and project charter to include strategic planning, execution & control, and budget estimates.
• Leading the Team's effort to improve continuously Responsible for coordinating client software upgrades to include meeting facilitation, testing, acceptance and rollout. Helped team members, product manager to understand User stories, Product Backlog, Business logic and rules
• Collecting, analyzing data and creating reports by doing various surveys and studies, scheduling and providing daily supervision of food pantry volunteers. Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings. Performing requirements analysis.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts. Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross - functional team members and management. Interacted closely with Subject Matter Experts (SME) for requirements gathering. Allowed the
• User Stories into the Sprint based on team velocity and individual capacity. Consulted the business users and SMEs, helped to create Product Backlogs to prioritize features and subsequently created Sprint Backlogs. Facilitated the sprint planning, retrospective, daily stand up meetings for status updates and grooming meetings periodically. Understood and performed the AS-IS and TO-BE business process and developed the GAP Analysis. Created User Stories to implement product enhancements and monitored Burndown charts on daily basis during sprint.
• Handled communication between business and technology.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with teams, through agile events, coached on performing the activities, played the roles and generated artifacts based on Agile best practices Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Agile and ensure team adopt agile way of working Trained teams in Agile, Kanban, Confluence, and
• JIRA tool implementation Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders Functioned as a primary liaison between business, operations and technical Domains through the course of the project. Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog while prioritizing resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives Participated in Agile Planning Sessions. Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility which ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise Helped the team to create clear and concise epics/stories Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks. Focus on the current sprint and ensured that the team is focused on current sprint deliverable. Participated in the identification, understanding of Business Requirements and authored the Business Requirement Document (BRD), documented business processes and business rules. Created and maintained User Stories by workshop, interviewing, brainstorming and met with the business users to communicate the requirements to development and testing teams. Understood and performed the AS-IS and TO-BE business process and developed the
• GAP Analysis. Consulted the business users and SMEs, helped to create Product Backlogs to prioritize features and subsequently created Sprint Backlogs. Played lead role in JAD/JAR sessions, got requirement specification documents including Project Objectives, Business Requirements, and Business
• Rules sign off. Conducted Daily Stand-up Meeting, created stories/tasks, assigned tasks to developers and updated the Burn-Down Chart on Jira. Removed impediments, if any.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Business meetings with Business Owners to gather high-level requirements for Loans. Worked as Business Analyst in Agile environment to document BRD & FRD documents for Loans and all customer based banking operations. Created User stories in Jira Board based on team velocity and individual capacity. Consulted the business users and SMEs for Mortgage loans to create Product Backlogs to prioritize features and subsequently created Sprint Backlogs. Facilitated the sprint planning, retrospective, daily stand up meetings for status updates and grooming meetings periodically. Created User
• Stories to implement product enhancements and monitored Burndown charts on daily basis during sprint for Loan Origination. Maintained minutes of meeting (MoM), meeting agenda and communicated them with SMEs and stakeholders on timely manner using MS Word, MS PowerPoint and created reports using MS Excel. Acted as an efficient communication channel between business and Technology teams. Participated in Sprint review meetings to present developed product to the Business users. Assisted in Test Planning, Test Case development, Functional and Integration Testing. Gathered and transformed the business requirements into meaningful User Stories for developing SSRS reports. Created process flow diagrams based on the business requirements. Worked closely with the implementation specialist and resolved the production issues. Assisted development team in understanding the requirements and
• Answered heir queries from business users. Performed project tracking and utilization rates of resources to generate and present quarterly report to clients and senior leadership. Functioned as a back-up to the project manager to Coordinate project deliverables and execution Summarized and document meeting notes. Strong experience with T-SQL (DDL & DML) in Implementing & Developing Stored Procedures, Triggers, Nested Queries, Joins, Cursors, Views, User Defined Functions, Indexes. Ability to work in all stages of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Expertise in SQL Server 2012 Reporting
• Services (SSRS). Created and published SSRS reports as per business requirements. Created standard reporting templates for standard to use across the business domain, worked on loan originating applications from which loan application data gets loaded into the database. Using SSIS, Integrated day to day Operational Data present in Excel sheets / CSV files into the database. Scheduled Business meetings with front office to understand customer requirements. Organized Daily meetings with Front & Back Office teams to get the daily updates as part of the SDLC. Worked on SQL Server 2008: Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions and Joins.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding the application. Creation of detailed test cases by understanding the user requirements for manual testing. Attending review meetings and walkthroughs to better understand the requirement documents and the application Identified & analyzed questionable functions, errors and inconsistencies in the Functionality/UI/Data in the application and documented defects using the defects module of Mercury Quality Center. Involved in software testing. Performed manual testing as per the functionality, reported and documented the defects.
• Creation of test cases and execution of test cases in Mercury Quality Center. Done Test case Review. Performed Regression testing on each build. Verified fixes and closed bugs during regression test cycle. Writing Test Reports, Defect lists, Test Results. Bug Report generation Attended weekly status meeting and provide detailed status report. Experience in Free - mind software used in identifying scenarios. Drawing Mind maps using Free-mind Tool.