PROJECT SUMMARY:

• Project Manager /Sr Business Analyst with 8 years of IT experience in all phases of the systems development life cycle: analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of projects. Developed applications to track risk exposure.
• Entrepreneurial technology professional, project manager focused on maximizing ROI and product quality. Drive strategic initiatives, execute tactical plans, inspire team performance and shift seamlessly between technology, client and business perspectives.
• Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies; Strong experience in project management, agile software implementation methodology, business/technical analysis and business process design. Exceptional record of delivering cost effective, high performance solutions to meet challenging business demands.
• Excellent analytical, managerial and leadership abilities; my background demonstrates both depth and breadth of experience and reflects a balance of business and technical skills along
• Extensive experience in Investment Banking, Finance and Assets Management and ecommerce Domains.
• Professional Experience in IT Industry with Core competency in Areas of Manual testing and Automated Testing, UAT, End to End Test Coordination.
• Extensive experience in Business Process Flows, Case Tools and Business Analysis for Integrated Enterprise Business systems, Manufacturing, Services, and Inventory control systems.
• Experience in Requirements Gathering and Business Requirements Analysis
• Strong understanding of Business Process Management, Business Process Reengineering, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and System Analysis
• Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience including Analysis, Design and Review of Business and Software Requirement Specifications.
• Expertise in Unified Modeling Language (UML) and agile methodology.
• Proficient in Rational Unified Process (RUP), Strategy Planning, SWOT Analysis, and GAP Analysis
• Experience in building Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, and Sequence diagrams
• Experience in Load Testing, Performance testing, Functional Testing, and Unit Testing
• Experience in reviewing Test Procedures, defining Test cases, reviewing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced in working with Oracle, MS Access and SQL Server databases and query language.
• Working knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL and familiarity with relational database concepts and systems.
• Extensive experience in writing complex SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, functions and packages for reporting and data analysis.
• Experience working with Test Director, QTP and Win-Runner.
• Well versed in project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning.
• Experience working with end users to create business requirements. Experience working with development and testing teams to create testable system requirements, functional specifications and testing cases.
• In depth understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting requirements into technical specifications for preparing test plans.
• Possess excellent leadership, organization, communication, presentation, critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE, SQL Server and MS Access
• Expertise in testing Performance, Load and Stress for Web and Client/Server Applications
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Business Skills: MS Visio, MS Project, Clear Quest, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, Word Perfect, BRD, FRD, Root Cause Analysis, ER- Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Workflow Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Use case Document, Prototyping, Project Management, Change management document

TECHNOLOGY USED:

Business, Data Modeling Tools: MS Visio, ETL

Testing Tools: Rational Clear Quest, QTP, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center 9.2

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, Windows Vista, UNIX, Windows XP, Mac OS

Languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, UML, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server 2000/2005, RDBMS, TOAD, MS Access 2000, DB2

Business Applications: MS Office 2000 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project Suite

Methodologies: SDLC, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Joint Application Development (JAD)

Reporting Tools: Business objects X1 r2/r1/6.5/6.1x/5.1 (Reporter, Designer, Supervisor/CMC, Info View, Broad cast Agent, Application Foundation, Performance Manager) and Crystal Reports XIr2/10/9.0, SQL Server 2005 SSRS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

BA/PM

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of IT professionals to lead and support all technology solutions.
• Interacted with Team Leaders to identify and analyze the given information, procedures and decision flows.
• Responsible for new product configuration, metadata and content load using SQL.
• Contributed ideas towards building the project and implemented them into the business and functional requirements.
• Developed and executed test cases using black box manual techniques for unit and system test phases including extensive use of SQL Query Analyzer to validate application SQL and impacted data sets.
• Involved in preliminary schematic activity.
• Managed the technical design team in developing engineering solutions to satisfy the project need and alternative solutions for the same.
• Involved in improvement of processes and map the progress of processes during the entire project
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from source and target system.
• Involved extensively in formulating the QA strategy, QA plan, test scenario and test cases for datawarehouse, grading tool functionality’s.
• Created data mapping elements and between distinct models, which is widely used in Data Migration.
• Performed sizing, estimation, planning and tracking, UAT strategy preparation
• Involved in the implementation, system test planning, client interfacing and mentoring team members
• Designed and developed small/medium/larger change request using Java, JSP and J2EE framework.
• Involved with writing the user documents.
• Developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams
• Manage startup of team to design, develop and implement information security on Unix servers
• Assisting the business team in Business Case Modeling thorough understanding of whole SDLC.
• Project Deliverables such as Project Charter, Feasibility Analysis, BRD, FSD, requirement traceability matrix, QA strategy, QA plan, Test cases etc

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

BA/PM

Responsibilities:

• Managed project and inter-project resource plans; maintained project budget.
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and collaborate on the project.
• Coordinated with various off shore clients and customers to ensure smooth transition of the new process to the various impacted teams.
• Have acted as the Scrum master, organizing and coordinating meetings with the help of scrumworks pro.
• Developed and managed data mining procedures and methodologies to benchmark revenue, profit levels, exceptions trends and thereby providing insight into business metrics driven by specific criteria to support all functional areas of the business by providing continuous intelligence for optimal decision-making purposes.
• Reviewed and the already created User Stories in each sprint cycle also known as Business requirements document based on the inputs received.
• Built templates and dashboards for customized views of the data specific to each group and line of business
• Develop, deliver Agile training and practice what's preached - Scrum, XP, User Stories, team development, resource allocation and project launch,iteration and release retrospective
• Coach Product Managers with Enterprise backlog, Product Roadmap, Release backlog etc.
• Facilitated several discussions and meetings between business users, developers and QA analysts
• Validated best business practices and rules to implement with the new model along with appropriate user approvals and sign-offs.
• Served as a liaison for cross-functional knowledge transfer between developers and business users
• Utilized a variety of reporting tools such as SQL and ACCESS for querying underlying database tables and resolve data issues
• Ensured that all the specified requirements translate to appropriate test cases and test scripts
• Conducted front-end tool testing to verify requirements effectively map with business application.
• Identified areas of risks assessment, monitoring and having controls in place
• Ensured business application satisfied user and management expectations.
• Was actively involved in User Acceptance Testing throughout the project

Environment: Lotus Notes, MS Word, MS Excel. Business Objects, Microsoft Front Page, SQL, MS project, Citrix, MS Access

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Strong database integration experience. Worked on analyzing data needs, identifying relational databases and coordinating the modeling.
• Well versed in Requirements/Change Management, Impact Analysis and Gap Analysis.
• Interviewed SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Worked closely with project managers, business users to formalize a business idea and define requirements.
• Interacted with the business users and division supervisors to gather the requirements.
• Analyze gathered requirements data, verify requirements and create Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), business requirement specifications (BRS).
• Queried relational databases using SQL on a daily basis to resolve operational issues and assist business and IT in better understanding of business requirements.
• Created process flow diagrams using Visio.
• Conducted JAD and brain storming sessions with the business users and stakeholders.
• Managed daily aspects of the project including, process definition, goal documentation, facilitating meetings, gathering business requirements, issue management, user acceptance testing, vendor management and project team deliverables.
• Depicted the flow of different kinds of offerings, such as pass thru and non --pass thru through activity diagrams.
• Developed use case diagrams for every conceivable scenario -- such as use case to determine the eligibility of the offering for a pass thru/non pass-thru, use case for the same security scenario, matching the demand and supply process etc.
• Participated in the development of overall test strategies/test plans for manual testing including definition of test cycles and schedules.
• Worked in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and testing of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of Quality Standards of projects.
• Worked with SQL queries such as select, insert, update and delete for data manipulations.
• Worked extensively with client requirements to generate customized SQL reports.
• Conducted meetings with all the division supervisors to ensure that all the requirements are met.
• Implemented the approved suggestions and modified the current process flows.
• Worked to continually improve the quality and efficiency of business systems
• Aided in management and documentation of all project progress.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, SDLC, Rational Rose, XML, SQL Server 2008/2010, HTML, Visio, Quality Center.

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with functional experts and programmers to analyze business requirements and develop technical specifications.
• Participated and contributed in daily Scrums, Sprint meeting and Sprint review meetings.
• Developed and implemented application coding and development standards along with writing SQL queries, Stored Procedures.
• Developed, prepared and distributed periodic business reports to internal management.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of business enhancements or changes.
• Gathered customer needs and develops detailed business requirements.
• Examined existing data and made recommendations for improvement/efficiency.
• Resolved requirements and design issues.
• Participated in the testing process, ensuring testing verifies the user requirement.
• Provided technical support in developing new applications and improve existing applications.
• Performed code reviews and ensure that the developed code complies with best practices and standards with Nunit Testing and the required documentation for it.
• Identifying & Managing risks, Resource analysis, Cost analysis, Post project analysis & coordination among cross-functional teams & follow-up with clients for settlement of project based issues.
• Monitor and communicate the progress of project delivery and ensures timely and effective communication of project status in terms of cost, forecast, schedule and assessment of risks/issues.
• 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 using MS Visual Source Safe.
• Coordinated gathering business requirements, architectural specifications, corporate priorities, functional specifications and screen mockups/definitions.
• Analyzed high- level design requirements and solutions for new projects and change requests.
• Coordinated with stakeholders to collect and analyzed project requirement data.
• Coordinated with other programmers in developing technical design options and strategies.
• Analyzed and provided application design solutions and alternatives.
• Developed and maintained all project documentations.

Environment: HTML, SQL/PLSQL, Rational Rose, MS Visio, and Windows XP/2000, Rally, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook), Agile/SCRUM.

Confidential, New Jersey

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of Development life cycle and responsible for creating the Entity-Relationship diagrams, Class diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Flow diagrams and documenting the project architecture.
• Managed the full implementation of the project involving requirements gathering and analysis, development, testing and implementation.
• Interacted with Business Owners to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems and proposed alternate methods to increase efficiency.
• Worked as a team with other Business Analysts to make an object oriented model of the application and create Use Cases, Use Case Diagram using MS Visio.
• Facilitated JAD sessions for requirement gathering, analysis, and design.
• Participated in gathering user requirements, developing functional and non-functional requirements and technical specifications.
• Developed Use Cases/diagrams, conceptual model, behavior diagrams (sequence, collaboration, state chart, Activity) using MS Visio.
• Responsible for the delivery of Business Requirements Documents (BRD) within project timelines.
• Responsible for interacting with the developers to explain the proposed changes and understand the system requirements to handle these changes.
• Conducted GAP Analysis and formulated the TO-BE features based on the business requirements and pain points.
• Prepared detailed business, functional requirement specifications and use cases document.
• Prepared detailed data mapping interface document.
• Prepared reporting specification document for data reconciliation and exception reports.
• Prepared Testing plans and coordinated with Quality Assurance and Performance Teams.
• Involved in preparing the Database design and Product requirement document.
• Performed check for coding standards and code review for the application code.
• Wrote SQL Queries, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Backup and Restore Database, Defining roles, Creating database users, Assigning Roles to users using Sql Server 2005.
• Preparation and execution of Unit test cases.
• Used Visual Source Safe (VSS) for the purpose of version Control and source code maintenance needs.

Environment: Microsoft Project, HTML, SQL/PLSQL, MS Visio, and Windows XP/2000, Rally, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook), Agile/SCRUM.

Confidential, NY

Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved gathering requirements from different departments for report generation.
• Business Requirements were analyzed according to System specifications and to evolve a measurable Plan for the complete group.
• Heavily interacted with the Business Users to get a better understanding of client business processes and gathered Business Requirements.
• Wrote and maintained Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) defining new systems operations for the project using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Use cases, Use Case Diagram, Business flow diagram, Work and Navigation flow diagram using Unified modeling language (UML).
• Conducted many informal sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests.
• Created Use Cases, and developed detailed Use Case Diagrams and Sequence diagrams describing how actions are to be carried out using MS Visio.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives and perform critical path analysis.
• Utilized existing internal processes and improved those same processes for software problem identification, escalation, and resolution and facilitated project team meetings. Continually reviewed and revised project processes to ensure accurate and timely results.
• Led JAR sessions and JAD sessions with end user community ensuring that the software addressed all business needs and also involved in Rapid Application Development sessions.
• Responsible for organizing the Quality Analyst (QA) walk through to explain proposed changes.
• Coordinated with the test team to check the weekly status and report the same to the project manager and discussed project manager and other team regarding State Flow Process.
• Performed NUnit testing and system testing and prepared required documents for testing.
• Used Microsoft Team Foundation Server for the purpose of version Control and source code maintenance needs.

Environment: Microsoft Project, HTML, Rational Rose, SQL/PLSQL, MS Visio, and Windows XP/2000, Rally, MS Office Suite, Agile/SCRUM.