SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with more than 10years of professional experience in Banking, Insurance, Mortgage and Retail domains.
• Experience of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirements gathering, System Analysis/Design, Development, Implementation and Testing.
• Extensive experience in Iterative software development methodologies including RUP, Agile.
• Efficient in writing Business requirements document (BRD), Functional requirements document (FRD), Detailed System Specification (DSS), Business Process Document (BPD), Meeting Notes and Use Cases.
• Experience in developing project plan and estimating project timeline.
• Experience in performing Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies and documenting the enhancements to meet the end - state requirements.
• Extensive experience working in MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word, Access and Outlook.
• Experience in creating automated reports from SQL and MS Access.
• Proven excellent written and oral communication abilities and people skills and the ability to successfully influence and drive consensus across cross-functional teams onshore and offshore.
• Comprehensive experience in establishing pilot objectives and success measurements.
• Complete understanding of Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies as well.
• Experience in writing project initiation documents, use cases, including diagrams for end-to-end current/future businessprocess flows.
• Identify and assist in resolution of risks and issues that will adversely affect planned project milestones.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member to successfully achieve project goals and objectives.
• Strong understanding of RDBMS and hand on skills of executing SQL.
• Programming skills of Visual FoxPro 9 (VFP) as well as earlier versions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Rally, HP Quality center, Rational Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point

O/S: Windows8, Windows7, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP, UNIX, LINUX, MS-DOS

Database: Oracle 8i, SQL Server, DBASE III, MS Access

Languages: Java Script, Oracle J-Developer, Oracle Web DB, COBOL Language, C Language, XENIX, BASIC

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, XAML, Java Script, HTTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, FL

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering from stake holders and end users, using interviews, JAR sessions and requirement workshops.
• Performed scope analysis to make sure that the proposed solution is within the scope of the project
• Extensive experience in documenting requirements through effective user stories.
• Analyzed user requirements, procedures, and problems to improve business processes
• Enhanced and/or created project management processes & practices following Agile Methodologies.
• Apprised senior IT management and the IT Steering Committee of project status, issues and concerns.
• Identified strengths and weaknesses of the Business Process Modeling and suggesting areas of improvement

Environment: Agile, UML, MS Office- MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, Java, SQL Server.

Confidential, Melville, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct requirements elicitation using Interviews, meetings and JAD sessions for public facing web applications and case management platform for different products.
• Conduct walk through session and create success criteria for verification.
• Work closely with the stakeholders to ensure the accuracy and timely delivery of all project deliverable.
• Extensive experience in documenting requirements through effective Use Cases and user stories.
• Responsible for user training, writing user training manuals and all system training documentation
• Leading and facilitating requirement gathering sessions to develop preliminary high-level design of the system.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on expertise in the creation of an End-to-End project strategy.
• Collect business requirements and translate into systems requirements.
• Participate in and conduct planning and analysis sessions with customers to better understand customer’s needs.
• Review test cases and scenarios and meet all project deliverables and deadlines.

Environment: Agile-Waterfall Hybrid, UML, MS Office, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, JIRA, HP Quality Center, SharePoint, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering from stake holders and users, using interviews, JAD sessions, brain storming sessions and requirement workshops.
• Performed scope analysis to make sure that the proposed solution is within the scope of the project
• Decomposed Business Requirements into detailed Functional Requirements
• Mitigated requirements conflicts among different stakeholders and resolve requirements prioritization issues
• Participated in requirements walkthrough and closing the gaps within the existing requirements
• Lead meetings withbusinessarchitecture, project manager and IT to gather high-levelbusiness requirements.
• Participated in departmental strategic and budgetary planning processes; prepared and administered work unit operating budget; provided recommendations on policies and goals desired; and implemented new/revised programs according to established guidelines.
• Created project initiation documents, use cases, including diagrams for end-to-end current/future businessprocess flows.
• Oversee various systems projects of significant magnitude in terms of complexity, cost, time-constraints, internal and external staffing, and equipment including software and hardware.
• Responsible for user acceptance testing, report on reconciliation exceptions, project documentation and other project related responsibilities
• Acted as the key liaison across all functional areas, including business units, information technology and outside vendors.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Requirements for automatic utility bills payments from checking accounts.
• Created Use cases, activity report and deployment views to extract business process flows and workflows development involved in the project.
• Created User stories, Use Cases Specification documents, Business requirements documents (BRD), Functional requirements documents (FRD) and data dictionary.
• Developed and implemented processes for requirements gathering, analysis, planning, tracking and delivery using Rational Rose requisite pro - Structured System analysis and design.
• Analyzed the system from both Technical and Business perspectives and prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD), including downstream and upstream interface requirements.
• Dealt with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) in creating the criteria for the auditing of the TQR and Q-Gate review processes.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collected business requirements and translated into Functional requirements.
• Interviewed business and system users and researched current systems documentation to gather information for business analysis.
• Served as a conduit between the customer community and the software development team.
• Developed requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Created Use Cases Diagram using Visio. We followed modified RUP methodology.
• Worked with business analyst and users to develop test scenarios and test script based on Use cases and business rules.
• Converted Business Requirements in Use Cases, Software Change Request and UML Diagrams.
• Executed test scripts to understand current system and to write business rules for integrated system.