PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of IT experience as a Business Analyst in providing a well balanced understanding of business relationships at all levels until final solution release.
• Experience in Insurance & Banking Domain
• Experience in Agile/Scrum Environment.
• Strong Business Analysis Skills including in depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Implementing, and Testing.
• Emphasis on requirements capturing/gathering through research, formal - informal sessions and JAD sessions.
• Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement and analyzing workflow.
• Experienced in creating Business Requirement Documents, User Requirement Specification, Functional Requirement Specifications
• Extensively used MS Visio, Rational Rose for UML
• Proficient in using the UML to create Use Case, Sequence, Activity diagrams, diagrams.
• Demonstrated excellent analytical, organizational and time management skills to manage and deliver multiple projects with ever-changing priorities.
• Extensive experience in the development, implementation and integration strategies in a team oriented environment, in close coordination with team members to execute and deliver solutions to clients utilizing qualitative analytical skills.
• Conducted sessions with end users/clients to gather business requirements and translating the same to the development teams.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries
• Experience in preparing and documenting the User Acceptance test (UAT) plan and obtaining the necessary signoffs from the concerned business units.
• Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines.
• Proven ability to work under pressure, prioritize and meet deadlines. Open to dynamic work environment and ability to work collaboratively with business analysts, testers, developers and other team members in the overall enhancement of software product quality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Modeling: MS Visio, Rational Rose

Languages: Java,C,.Net,HTML,VB.Net

Testing Tools: Load Runner, QTP,HPQuality Center/ALM

Databases: Oracle9i,10g,11g, SQL Server2005,2008,2012,.

Operating Systems: Window,UNIX.

Microsoft: MSOffice,MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, IL

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating targeted questionnaires and interviews for SME’s, clients and business users to gather requirements
• Stood a strong liaison between process users and developers to ensure clarification of requirements and the changes and issues associated with those requirements.
• Implemented Agile(Scrum) Methodology
• Participated in JAD sessions for requirement, feasibility and risk analysis with various stakeholders, including designers, developers, QA and management to identify critical and high risk areas of the application.
• Organized and prepared documents by transforming the gathered requirements into use case specification documents and functional requirement specification documents.
• Created UML Diagrams using MS Visio
• Prepared UML diagrams with the help of use case, activity, sequence and diagrams to extract explicit information about the business process flows.
• Worked on a team environment to finalize use cases to develop functional and detail design specifications of the application.
• Analyzed business needs, created and developed new centralized back office system for specific area including mortgages and lending. Additionally analyzed incumbent systems and revised them for complete integration of the processes involved.
• Assisted the QA team in the validation of test cases and test objectives making sure the final application catered to the business and functional requirements.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Test (UAT) sessions and created test case scenarios to gain user approval and to test interface and end user functionality of the tool.

Environment: .Net,HTML,Oracle11g,MS Visio,QTP,HPQC/ALM

Confidential, WI

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the business team and the project team by gathering, analyzing, and prioritizingBusiness Requirementsand documenting them.
• FacilitatedJADsessions and interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations, e-mails, etc. to keep the executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, resolving issues and conflicts
• Worked in Agile (Scrum)Methodology
• Developed business requirementsSpecification Documents.
• ConductedGap Analysisbetween current system functionalities and the planned system expectations.
• Gathered and reviewedFunctional Requirements.
• Followed the UML based methods using MS Visio to create Use Cases, Activity Sequence,Diagrams.
• Interviewed SMEs including project managers and business system users to gain insight into the current environment and improve various processes.
• CreatedUse Casemodels, Analysis models, Design models, Implementation Models, Use Case diagrams, Behavior diagrams and Class diagrams using MS Visio.
• Worked closely with the application developers, programmers, and QA groups to obtain and maintain an understanding of the processes.
• Assisted the project manager in preparing the project schedules, milestone tracking
• Participated in weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve theQuality Assurance (QA)process for the application development.
• Played a key role in the planning,User Acceptance Testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.

Environment: Java,J2EE,JavaScript,Oracle11g,MS Visio,HTML,MS Project

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, analyzed, documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate the needs of the business stakeholders.
• ConductedJADsessions between the end users and the development team. Worked with the software architects / developers to ensure that the applications confirm to customer requirements.
• Conducted user interviews and documented business and functional requirements.
• Implemented Software development Life Cycle(SDLC)
• Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business process.
• Documented requirements associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements withUse cases.
• Wrote user requirements specification(URS)and Functional requirements specification(FRS)Documents as per the Business requirements and process flow.
• Created Use Case specifications, business flow diagrams, Activity diagram using Rational Rose, so the developers and other stake holders can understand the business process according to their perspective with possible alternate scenarios
• Involved in converting the User requirements into business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements and also created business process models from the requirement specs.
• Verified thebusiness scenarioson new builds for testing by QA team.
• Conducted User Acceptance testing(UAT) with the QA Team

Environment: Java,JavaScript,HTML,Rational Rose,Oracle10g

Confidential, AL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creation of the functional requirements specification from the business requirements. Participate in JAD Session with the business users.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.
• Project developed through Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC)
• Prepared logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and BRDs (Business Requirement Documents) supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language).
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, SAs (System Analyst) and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability
• Authored progress and completion reports which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
• Assisted with User Acceptance Testing with prospective users.
• Coordinated with the QA Team for the sign-off process before deployment

Environment: VB.Net,HTML,MS Visio,SQL Server

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Testing Phase of SDLC
• Involved in developing and implementation of Test Plan and execution of Test cases.
• Completed Functional, Regression, GUI,Integration,Security,Browser compatabilty Testing
• Responsible for executing the test cases and test scripts, documented defects in Test Director and reported it to development team.
• Interacted with Focused user groups during the UAT and participated in demos and training to users.
• Performed back-end testing by extensively using SQL commands to verify the database integrity.
• Reported the test summary report weekly.

Environment: Java,HTML,Oracle,Testdirector