SUMMARY

• Object oriented Business Analyst for 8+ years along with 2 years as a Scrum master with extensive experience in requirements gathering, analysis and translating the requirements into clearly defined business requirement specifications and also implementation of complex IT projects in financial domain.
• In depth noledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Waterfall and Agile Scrum.
• Experience in managing and implementing business process modeling and requirement management in large financial systems.
• Experience in conducting JAD sessions with end - users, SMEs’ and development team for project meetings, walkthroughs and customer interviews.
• Strong project management skills including planning, project scheduling, work breakdown structures, size resource and effort estimates, monitoring and reporting.
• Skilled in identifying the data requirements, preparing Data flow diagrams, Data analysis and Data mapping, Process mapping.
• Applied the "As Is" and "To Be" process designs in order to identify any potential process gaps and as well as improvement opportunities.
• Proficient in using MS Visio and UML for generating Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Expertise in creating Business Rules, User Stories required for documenting Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and system requirement specification (SRS)
• Created Test Plan and executing Test Cases based on Design document and User Requirement document for testing purposes reports in Business Objects.
• Conducted GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Worked as a Scrum Master and conducted the Scrum Ceremonies which included standup meetings, sprint review and retrospective meeting.
• Experience in creating sprint burn-down charts conducted release backlogs.
• Good Understanding of OOPS concept and Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD)Ba
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL).
• Experience in assisting with implementation of Change Management.
• Certified Scrum Master.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Mac OS, Windows 7/8 Vista/XP.

Project Management: SDLC models, JAD, RAD, Cost and Time Estimation.

Business/Modeling Tools: MS Project, TABLEAU, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, IBM Cognos, TOAD.

Requirements Management: Rational requisite pro, Dashboard, Microsoft share point 2007/2010/2013.

ETL Tools: Informatica, SSIS

Web Technologies: HTML, XML

Test Tools: HPQC, JIRA, RALLY, VERSION ONE, Confidential Quality Control.

Database: MS Access, Oracle (ETL), SQL Server.

Financial and Financial modeling: Equities, Fixed Income, securities, bonds and derivatives, insurance, mutual funds and check processing, trading & risk environment, interest rates, equity, treasuries, Loan and Mortgage concept.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Sr. Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked along with Subject Matter Experts and recorded requirements in a standard format so that management and stakeholder can review and understand easily.
• Conducted GAP analysis to check as-is and to-be states, identified potential opportunities, scope of improvement and created targeted questionnaire’s for SME’s to gather requirements
• Involved in designing business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.
• Facilitated JAD Sessions with the concerned users, developers, and the design team to deal with backend synchronization issues.
• Created work break down structure to for the entire project to efficiently allocate the tasks.
• Created Process flow, Functionality flow for better understanding of multiple steps needed to be taken in portfolio management system by conducting board room meeting with SMEs, Product owner, business users and management teams.
• Created user stories based on the requirements and use to validate whether the user stories are Testable, Traceable or Measurable.
• Facilitated with product owner for prioritizing the user stories and creating repositories of the user stories in the product backlog.
• Strong noledge about portfolio management (Stocks, bonds, real estate, money market) and also has an In-depth noledge about how a proper asset allocation is done to a particular portfolio.
• As Scrum master conducted backlog grooming, sprint planning meeting daily standup meeting, tracked product backlog and documented the release backlog.
• Conducted Impact analysis for the business as well as technical impact if there were any requirement churns also me did feasibility analysis and Cost benefit analysis of those requirement churns and got the approval from the board.
• Worked on RALLY for bug tracking, assigning task for the team and also for creating the user stories
• Tracked defects using HPQC.
• Also use to extract data from the data warehouse using SQL queries.
• Communicated with the stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project, constantly updating them of the benefits and risks associated with the project.

Environment: Agile scrum framework, share point 2013, MS vision, MS office, HTML, SQL, Oracle Database, Windows XP, Ajax.

Confidential, BREA CA

Sr. Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business needs of clients and stakeholders to halp identify business problems and propose solutions
• Client interfacing for requirement gathering, issue management, and testing life cycle monitoring.
• Conducted various elicitation techniques using interview, market research, and brainstorming sessions.
• Performed current system study and AS IS analysis - produced Gap analysis documents.
• Analyzed business and functional requirement, working closely with business and technology leads to identify appropriate data for testing and design of quality system test cases.
• Assisted the development team in itemizing the necessary task to achieve a renewal of any particular asset.
• Developed UML Use Cases, Class diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Assisted in creating System Requirements Specification (SRS) documents detailing in depth project functional requirements.
• Reviewed Requirement Specification Approach documents in consultation with client and end users, then getting the sign off
• Prepared a schedule and work flow, following Agile Scrum framework.
• Prepared Clear High-level Process flow Diagram using MS Visio and MS Word.
• Resolved impedimentsof the team also conducted Planning poker for the estimation of product backlog with product owner and the team.
• Conducted all the Scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming meeting, sprint planning meeting, Sprint review and retro meeting.
• Conducted Daily Stand-up meeting Calculated team velocity and updated sprint tasks and Burndown charts during the sprint cycle.
• Worked on JIRA for Issue tracking and project planning.
• Participated in meetings with the developer and the QA team to facilitate the requirements understanding process, data collection, and data analysis.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and system requests and prepared Requirement Traceability Matrixes (RTM) to track such requirements.
• Created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams) in Rational Rose.
• Facilitated and Supported User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process.

Environment: MS Visio, Tableau, MS Suite, SharePoint 2007, Wireframes, MS project, JIRA.

Confidential, HERNDON, VA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed prior documentation and business processes for clear understanding of the project. Interviewed SME’s, asking them detailed questions while carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business users and technical users.
• Involved in converting the business requirements into functional requirements and also creating the business process models from the requirement specifications. Managed Requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Facilitated brainstorming sessions to identify business rules, requirements while documenting them in a format, which can be reviewed and understood by both the business users and the technical team.
• Created Use Case specifications, business flow diagrams, Use Case diagrams and Sequence diagrams using MS Visio, so the developers and other stake holders could understand the business process in their perspective with possible alternate scenarios.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate which halped in resolving issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Verified the business scenarios on new builds for testing by QA team. Assisted in creating Test Plans and Test Cases based on user requirements and functional specifications.
• Rational Clear Quest was used for defect tracking and prioritizing defects and for enhancements after base lining the requirements.
• Constantly kept myself updated with any changes in the development and testing teams
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing to improve the usability of the Loan Origination System.

Environment: MS Visio, Tableau, MS Suite, SharePoint 2007, Wireframes, MS project, UML, Clear Case, MS Access, MS Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Waterfall.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of Business/Functional requirement documents utilizing waterfall methodology to provide appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Analyze and prioritize requirements and use them to outline timeline for completion of goals.
• Performed GAP Analysis with system functionality and existing Business Processes.
• Used Waterfall process for analyzing the productivity in communicating specifications to design & development team.
• Analyzed and designed Use Case Diagrams using Visio.
• Managed scope and requirements throughout the project life cycle.
• Discuss and propose conversion / interface solutions with the clients and users.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System testing and Regression testing.
• Wrote Test cases, test scripts and test plans for UAT

Environment: MS Visio, Tableau, MS Suite, SharePoint 2007, Wireframes, MS project, JIRA.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the customers and internal stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system.
• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements and developing System Specifications.
• Analyzed monthly/quarterly performance against plans and forecast and recommended corrective actions.
• Did load testing using Load Runner.
• Assessed business priorities, and advised business units on risks and Cost-Benefit analysis.
• Used Rational Rose to generate various UML Diagrams.
• Organized cross training of team members and users to become more responsive.
• Participated in the development and preparation of the Test Plan with the testing team as well as ensuring testability, reliability, usability, maintainability and performance of the application.
• Involved in incident reporting and change and configuration management procedures using Clear Case.
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the application.
• Formed a bridge between the Project Manager and different teams with TEMPeffective presentations.

Environment: Load Runner, UML, Clear Case, MS Access, MS Office, ASP, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Waterfall.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC methodology.
• Conducted interviews with project managers, business users to collect requirement and business process.
• Formulated Test Plans from Business Requirements/Function Specifications documents.
• Created several Test cases that cover the entire Functionality of UAT using Test director.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test cases.
• Responsible for creation of test documents and procedures.
• Manually performed functional testing that includes Security, Systems Testing.
• Experienced in Black box Testing.
• Developed and executed test plan, test cases.

Environment: UML, Clear Case, MS Access, MS Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SDLC