SUMMARY

• 5 years of experience working as a Business Analyst in the business domains such as Credit Union, Pharmaceutical, Retail and Information Technology.
• Strong experience working in conducting business analysis for Business Process improvement for Credit Union.
• Good experience working with Technical Teams and Project teams in the .Net 3.0, VB.Net, Microsoft Share Point Portal Implementations 2007/2010 Platform.
• Practical knowledge of Waterfall,Rational Unified Process (RUP) as iterative SDLC methodology with implementation of all four phases:Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition.
• Experience with AGILE software development paradigms and Scrum methodology to help drive projects and manage/co - ordinate multiple initiatives and development teams (including offshore/remote teams).
• Led group discussions and conducted one-one-one interviews to elicit requirements from business unit teams and external/internal clients and documented them in a Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Proficient in transforming BRDs into Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) using Rational Req. Pro.
• Experience in user requirements gathering, use case design and analysis, Use Case Specification Documents (USD), scenarios, business processes, work flow diagrams, process flows and technical documentation, using Unified Modeling Language (UML), MS Office Suite, and Rational Suite.
• Helped in the creation of project scope by facilitating communication between business and technology management and responsible for managing changes to project requirements by administering the company’s standard change management processes.
• Ability to implementChange Management and Defect Managementtechniques.
• Strong analytical aptitude and solid project management capabilities.
• Performed Feasibility analysis, Risk analysis and Gap analysis.
• Organized Joint Application Development (JAD), Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions, interviews, workshops and requirement elicitation sessions with business stake holders and the development group.
• Extensively interacted with the Core Technical and QA team to ensure execution of Business Logic, Test Plans, providing Test Data, and creating Test Cases.
• Strong organizational, prioritization and leadership skills with multi-tasking capability, good problem-solving and efficient time management skills.
• Used team-oriented interpersonal skills effectively and possess excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills with ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, SMEs, managers/executives.
• A strategic thinker, results-driven, detail-oriented and comfortable with taking ownership of all responsibilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, RAD, JAD,RUP, Agile, UML, Prototyping, Use Case

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Test Director

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio

Version Control Systems: Rational Clear Case

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office

Technology: Microsoft .Net 3.0, Share Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Madison, WI

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developing a clear plan for requirements management to include what deliverables will be produced.
• Eliciting requirements using brainstorming, document analysis, focus groups, interface analysis, interviews, observations and surveys/questionnaires.
• Assessing current capabilities, identifying high-level business requirements and conducting gap analysis.
• Decomposing high-level requirements into user, functional and non-functional requirements specified in an appropriate level of detail.
• Responsible for requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirements statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasibly unambiguous and verifiable and that they conform to standards, procedures, and best practices.
• Coordinate requirement work efforts to ensure all requirements are consistent across the project and dependencies are identified and addressed.
• Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models or visuals where appropriate (e.g. process models, process maps); Prepare requirements package for acceptance (sign off) from stakeholders.
• Negotiate requirement’s priorities and resolve conflicts among stakeholders.
• Identify requirements assumptions, constraints, risks issues and dependencies.
• Facilitate peer reviews of requirements documents; Ensure knowledge transfer where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrix and ensure requirements are being met throughout the project.
• Baseline requirements and manage changes utilizing established change control process.

Confidential, Amityville, NY

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Interacting with business users, understanding their business processes and current IT systems.
• Gathering requirements for business definition.
• Creating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Specification (FRS), and technical requirement specification for application development.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
• Assisted project manager in maintaining expectations within scope, including change request analysis/impact analysis and change control documentation using Clear Case.
• Used MS Visio to create Data Models.
• Performed manual front-end testing to check all functionalities of different modules.
• Worked with business users and technical team to monitor the deployment of the application.
• Designed the look - n-feel requirements of the application through wire framing using MS Visio, for better illustration of the application to research team and portfolio managers.
• Performed risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risks areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Have been involved with the project from its inception phase to transition and production rollout phase
• Project Manager to the Application Plan Design. Have also helped various other applications simultaneously.
• Updated and modified progress and resources allocation in MS project for the team.
• Have also helped the System architect with the design on the application.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Hands-on experience in Functional designing and customizing SharePoint Portal sites and responsible for ensuring optimal use of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) product.
• Wrote and maintained Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs) defining new systems operations for the Intranet project using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Developed business processes and functional specifications documents which incorporated technical solutions applied within the organization.
• Interacted with system developers to resolve questions and discrepancies in BRD.
• Interacted with the user community to enhance understanding of the solutions project timelines and impact.
• Worked on specifics of landing page, human resources portal and consulting portal.
• Conducted JAD/JAR and Elicitation sessions for user interviews to gather requirements.
• Performed GAP Analysis (between requirements and current or selected technology). Functional product comparisons from an “is-as” system to a “to-be” system.
• Wrote Use Cases for identity management system which enables the company to facilitate and control their users' access to critical online applications and resources.
• Involved in the preparation of the Iteration Plan in Elaboration and Construction Phases.
• Assisted project manager in maintaining expectations within scope, including change request analysis/impact analysis and change control documentation using Clear Case.
• Developed business use cases using Rational Rose generated UML based diagrams for a better understanding of the user community.
• Involved in the RUP methodology in all phases of the project.
• Responsible for creating a report on a weekly basis and publish it on SharePoint, listing committed dates, risks that impact project schedules and status information.
• Recorded project changes on a weekly basis using change data to update the project plan and provide up-to-date information for project status reporting.
• Worked on the integration of data from various sources, created comprehensive data mapping and dataflow diagrams.
• Used MS Visio to create Data Models and Data Network Charts.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Interacted with business users and understood their business processes and current IT systems.
• Conducted walk-through sessions for Business Requirement Document (BRD) and use cases to discuss certain issues with stake holders, architectures, and design and development teams and also did GAP Analysis.
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents for application development.
• Partnered with and engaged the project delivery team to ensure a strong architecture design and understanding the business vision, scope and business requirements.
• Prototyped the application, providing screen shots and creating wireframes for better visualization.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with management, development team, users, and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
• Created and managed project templates, use case templates, requirement type and traceability matrix in Requisite Pro.
• Knowledge of .NET Framework (1.1 and 2.0) and worked within an innovative custom framework built in .NET 2.0 to define, design, develop and guide implementation of Web applications.
• Conducted iterations and communicated results and milestone achievements to the stakeholders while keeping the developers closely updated on all documented refinements.
• Used RAD (Rapid application Development) Process to speed up the development process.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed UAT, test plans, test cases, test input data and test procedures using Test Manager.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the specifications for the product.