Senior Business Analyst Resume

SUMMARY:

5 years of experience in Business Analysis, Project management, Validation across different business verticals.
Experience in Facilitation, Requirement gathering, Follow Up for signoff, and Testing.
Experienced in preparing Business Requirements documents (BRD), Functional Requirements documents (FRD), to provide unambiguous requirements on Scope and Details.
Experience in all areas of project life cycles in a highly structured change management environment using various methodologies including: Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile Techniques.
Experience in Data services using SQL query tools and applications.
Experience in Business analysis course knowledge areas that includes Elicitation, Enterprise Analysis, Business Analysis Planning and monitoring, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management and Communication, and Solution assessment and validation.
Good Communication, Excellent Team Player, Highly Flexible, Pro - Active, Detail-Oriented, and Meticulous Planner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: MS Office Suite 2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Outlook), SharePoint, JIRA, Rally, Visual Studio Test Professional

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, UNIX.

Database: Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2005.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Served as a liaison between End-users and software architecture teams to analyze business requirements to determine solutions.
Created/reviewed Upgrade Functional Design Documents for new development and maintenance.
Wrote BRD (Business Requirement Documents) and FRD (Functional Requirement Documents), for upgrades of different modules.
Worked in Agile Methodology (JIRA) to Create Stories, Tasks and Burn down Charts (Rally).
Drafted scope of project, project plan, and work breakdown structure.
Designed and implemented simple workflows using Visio.
Responsible for working with Functional Leads, Technical Leads, Managers to fasten the process of getting the solution to defects that were raised during the testing.
Managed the defects, test progress and Defect Triage in SharePoint for bug Tracking.
Extensively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Performed data analysis and presented results using SQL, Excel.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Assisted with coordinating working group meetings, setting the agenda, preparing meeting materials, documenting minutes and ensuring clear ownership of action items.
Attended operational and client meetings and then collaborated with senior management to determine project scope, objectives and requirements for projects.
Negotiated and communicated with stakeholders and closed new business deals to achieve corporate goals.
Tracked change notices and orders in order to make adjustments as necessary, ensuring client and business stakeholder needs are met in a timely and cost effective manner.
Explored opportunities to add value to the Project Management and communicated ideas for improving company processes.