SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of Business Analysis experience accomplishing outstanding results with the Business Stakeholders, Development and Quality teams.
• Excellent performance acknowledged by team Project Managers, Business Analyst Lead and also peer Business Analysts in various industries, project types, project phases and project’s point of references. Accountable, Responsible and Results Oriented.
• Possess thorough experience in full end - to-end SDLC lifecycle (Scoping, Planning, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment).
• Proficient in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodology to manage and deliver projects.
• Proven track record of designing, integrating and managing complex technical processes within international, high-profile and deadline-oriented environments.
• Experienced in using Unified Modeling Language (UML) to draw Use Case, Swim Lane, Activity, Process Flow, Class, Entity-Relational (ER) and Sequence Diagrams.
• Detailed document deliverables included Gap Analysis, High and Low Level functional Requirements Documents (BRD and FSD), Wireframe, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Plan, Test case, UAT Script and UAT Sign-off.
• Extensive Facilitation and Scribe experience in Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) and Joint Application Design (JAD) Stakeholder Participant Scheduling, Media and Location, Role Definition, Scope and Agenda Setting, Meeting Minutes, feedback and sign-off.
• Experienced with Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and Visio which involves Requirement Management using Use Case modeling, and Dataflow process modeling.
• Strong project documentation skills, created High and Low level design documents, exception handling strategy doc, test plans, implementation plan docs, and other documents required for the project.
• Collaborated with Business, Development, QA and Operations for Release, Change and Configuration Management.
• Experienced in training users and developing training manuals
• Strong team building, conflict management, time management and escalation protocol skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well versed at managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working with Business Alignment Group to strategize the IT solutions for various business processes and business process re-engineering efforts.
• Extensive experience in process methodologies like feasibility analysis, scope and impact analysis of the software systems throughout the different phases of SDLC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: AGILE-SCRUM, RUP and Waterfall

PM Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint

Requirement Management: Team Foundation Server(TFS), Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Excel

Data Modelling Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio

Database: IBM DB2,SQL Server, MS Access, MySql

Operating Systems: DOS, Window 98, Window 2000, Window XP, Window 7, UNIX, LINUX

Test Strategies: Unit, Functional, User-Acceptance, Black-Box, Automated

Testing Tools: Team Foundation Server(TFS), HP Quality Center

Languages: Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Roanoke, VA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered User and Business Requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing Stored and modified requirements.
• Extensively worked with Project Manager to determine the current best practices for requirement gathering.
• Utilized Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to configure and develop process, standards procedures.
• Created Need Analysis Documents of the requirements gathered through JAD and JRP individual elicitation sessions using MS Word.
• Created User Requirement Specifications (URS), Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) documents.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams using MS Visio so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process.
• Involved in analysis of the technical specifications of the current system and the infrastructure needs performed Gap analysis.
• Experienced setting up test scenarios, executing these scenarios in Microsoft test director. Worked closely with testing team to make sure all the changes made to requirements documents are implemented in there Test Cases.
• Set up definitions and process for test phases including Product test, Integration test, System test and User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Conducted GUI testing, Functional Testing, Performance testing on the application.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables for a project.
• Created and maintained reports and documents on SharePoint.

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS-Project, Windows 2000, AS400, SPSS, TFS

Confidential, NC

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the project team to help define the business and system objectives, confirmation of scope, identify constraints and the measures of success for the system to be developed.
• Worked in analysis and design of as-is business process and to-be design processes (Gap analysis) using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
• Drafted Use Cases using Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
• Worked on creating Data Flow diagrams.
• Used batch control reports to upload data to the new system databases, to ensure no data was lost in the migration process.
• Participated in design sessions, data and systems analysis, created data map and development integration documents.
• Handled data from multiple sources both internal and 3rd party.
• Extensive experience in writing requirements for Source to Target Transformation for obtaining data from multiple data sources.
• Developed User Acceptance Testing BRD and perform interoperability, compatibility, and performance testing.
• Piloted an innovative supplier quality process that combined lean kaizen and six sigma principles, resulting in an 80% defect reduction from a long-time Toyota-certified supplier.
• Executed QA test scenarios and test cases on new hardware and software revisions of the wireless product releases/builds.
• Contributed to the development of Online Help System for users.
• Created User Manuals and conducted Training Sessions to update the end user of the latest enhancements and changes.
• Created Test Plan and Test Cases for User Acceptance Testing.
• Created and maintained the Risk Analysis document.
• Monitored client expectations at all phases of SDLC.

Environment: Lotus Notes, Business Intelligence, Linux, MS SQL, Pervasive SQL, IIS,TCP/IP, CDMA, and GSM, MS Visio, DB2, Microsoft Access, Mainframe, DB2

Confidential, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Held JAD sessions to collect the system requirement specifications (SRS) and used Requisite Pro to maintain the requirements and to produce traceability matrix to map business and system requirements at a later stage.
• Conducted GAP, Root Cause Analysis to discover gaps and recommended the alternatives to streamline the process flows.
• Developed Use Case Specifications, Systems Requirement Specification (SRS), and Data Dictionary along with the technical staff and developers.
• Involved in maintaining reports and necessary documents in SharePoint.
• Extensively used Rational Requisite Pro for developing Use Cases and creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Gathered Business requirements and developed use cases and test cases to conduct User Acceptance Testing.
• Developed test and executed test scripts using Test Director for systems testing and User Interface Acceptance testing.
• Involved with the QA team to develop and review Testing Strategies and Test Plans.
• Managed Change Control Requests (CCR) and updated the scope with the new changes.
• Performed defect logging and tracking the Rational Clear Quest tool.
• Extracted data from DB2 database and imported into Excel and Access for Validation process

Environment: Microsoft Visio, RUP, Rational Tools, HP quality center, DB2 (RDW), Rapid SQL, UNIX, MS Office 2000, Microsoft Access, Ab Initio

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed, documented, and analyzed current and proposed process flows covering all the functionality to satisfy business requirements
• Followed and applied Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodology in defining the problem, gathering requirements, business modeling and communicating with the technical team for the development of the system.
• Coordinated with stakeholders to bring consensus on requirements that will be translated into the IT solution. Acted as a liaison between the end users and technical team.
• Conducted user requirement analysis for the system and managed using Rational Requisite Pro
• Analyzed, documented, and managed all project requirements and changes to requirements throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
• Liaised with developers and users to clarify specifications as necessary
• Identified and resolved or maintain accountability for ensuring the resolution of issues identified during all phases of projects
• Supervised the development of the application by simultaneously interacting with the clients and the technical team
• Used SQL to query the database and performed data analysis
• Assisted in developing test case objectives for verifying the accurate functioning of the system
• Interacted with senior managers on issue like foreign exchange, corporate finance and exposure of securities to the global market
• Closely worked with financial analyst and forecasting team to identify the reports trends seen in actual results
• Interviewed SME’s to document Value at Risk (VaR), Variance-covariance, Standard Deviation calculation procedures to build computer models to be incorporated into the system