PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Results - driven, versatile consultant wif over 7 years’ experience as a Business Analyst wif good understanding of all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from inception phase to production and experienced in different methodologies like Rational Unified Process and Agile wif good understanding of Business Requirement gathering, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Flow, and Business Analysis.
• Interface wif business users and key stakeholders to understand pain points and assist in identifying solutions; liaise wif technical teams to maintain alignment wif expectations.
• Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, creating Screen Mock-ups, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis.
• Strong knowledge using Business Process Modeling through Swim Lane Diagrams and Entity - Relationship Diagrams
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) wif the stakeholders and the business users as well as trained users to use the system configured
• Experience of working on tools like MS-Visio, MS-Access, MS-Word, MS-Project, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite pro and Enterprise Architect.
• Proficient in using Agile Scrum methodologies, performed roles of Scrum Master following sprint/standup sessions and used Excel extensively to write user stories, analyzed the Iteration Burn Down charts and reviewed defects
• Managed requirement changes using traceability matrix, Rational Clear Quest and Rational Clear Case.
• Excellent in organizing, planning, presentation, consensus building & interpersonal skills. Under minimal supervision, me suggested executives on a variety of business processes and risk management services that will halp identify, assess, manage, and measure the risk exposure wifin a variety of operational areas

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Windows 9x-XP, UNIX

Software & Tools: Oracle, Enterprise Architect, Microsoft SharePoint, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio Pro, Business Objects, Test Director, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, SQL, HTML

Methodologies & Processes: Agile / Scrum, SDLC, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Use Case Analysis, Joint Application Development (JAD), Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS), Business Process Modeling, Business Process Flow

Testing: Manual and Automated Testing, Functional Testing, Database Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Test Scripts, Test Cases

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential Texas

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing from portfolio managers and UI (User Interface).
• Involved in Inception Phase and 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.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications
• Gathered specific requirements and prepared standard and robust requirement documents
• Worked wif SharePoint to create & share the documents and also keep the record of different versions of the data prepared by different users.
• Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD session wif management, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.
• Scheduled meetings wif developers, System Analysts (SA) and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Facilitated discussions, presentations and preparation of the burn out charts and estimated the schedule of the project timelines.
• Present recommendations for process and application performance improvements.
• Authored progress and completion reports, which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, SQL, SDLC, SharePoint, RUP, Rational Rose, Rational Pro, MS Visio Professionals, UML, JAD session, Test director, Use Case Analysis.

Confidential, WA

Business Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif the SMEs to get a better understanding of client business processes and gathered business requirements from stakeholders.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating wif Stakeholders and Project directors.
• Created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams) in Rational Rose.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Worked extensively through Agile development methodology by dividing the application into iterations
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, performed critical path analysis, and identify opportunities for business process improvement.
• Communicated extensively wif the clients and wif different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes
• Complete project documents required for SDLC compliance
• Analyzed system requirements and created test plans / cases for functional and security testing; performed regression testing on new builds; and coordinated defect tracking and resolution.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, SDLC, XML, Java, HTML, Visio

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Business Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif clients to gather all requirements to formulate business specifications and translate those into application functionally, decide when to advocate and when to compromise to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution.
• Documented workflows and results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from client on specifications.
• Prepared Transaction Reply Report process (TRR) along wif different Centers of Medicare Services (CMS)
• Worked at different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) wif business users, developers, and stakeholders.
• Performed GAP Analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end - state requirements.
• Experienced RUP’s development cycle wif four consecutive Phases - Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition.
• Assisted the technical team in translating application functionality into application architecture and the production of a system functionality document.
• Responsible for the design and execution of test plans to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) from functional specifications.
• Complete understanding of the long term business objectives and suggest technical strategies to meet those objectives.
• Participated actively in assembling the JAD team and in conducting the weekly sessions from requirements gathering phase to the sign-off of the application.
• Correlated Requirement to test script in Test Director.
• Corrected and Updated the Requirement Traceability Matrix after completion of the UAT testing phase.
• Created a complete test bed for Users Acceptance Testing (UAT) in Test Director 8.0.
• Design specifications and Test Cases usages for the HIPAA 837i, 270/271, 276/277, 835, 824, 275 and others.
• Used HIPAA regulations to prevent the changes made to the insured rates.
• Verified the functionalities of the application manually.
• Documented Test Plans that contains test scripts, test cases, test data and expected results for the Users Acceptance testing.

Environment: Requisite Pro, RUP, UML, Rational Rose, TRR & CMS, JAD, MS-Office 2003, Test director, MS Visio, Guide Wire, HIPAA.

Confidential . MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing logical model of data and in analyzing the data structure and supported indexing of information and data mapping.
• Requirement gathering and documentation of critical business processes. Wrote User stories, functional specifications and business rules.
• Followed SCRUM to complete the project in an efficient and timely manner.
• Extensively worked on Analysis using Use Cases and Captured complete Use-Case models.
• Designed Use Case diagrams, activity diagrams and process flow diagrams to analyze the system.
• Extensively involved in the Analysis, Design and modeling of data.
• Designed Requirements Traceability Matrix in Rational Requisite Pro.
• Worked wif General Ledger to analyze data and created class diagrams and ER diagrams.
• Led & conducted JAD sessions to identify the flows and processes involved in the content.
• Prepared project reports for management and assisted project managers in the development of weekly and monthly status reports.
• Used FrontPage wizard to create pages wif a predefined set of elements.
• Visually reported the status of all files in a given website and previewed the portfolio before publishing it.
• Used layout tables to arrange the content of web pages. Formatted and modified the text, tables and other elements of the site wif Cascading Style Sheet styles.
• Provide inputs to test planning and execution.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed Test cases for testing the functionality and security.

Environment: Windows NT Server, Agile, Scrum, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, MS Visio, Outlook, UML, HTML, MS Project 2000, MS Excel, Test Director

Confidential, Columbus OH

Jr. Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Managed Software development, Requirements Analysis & Design using Rational Rose and Requisite Pro.
• Created numerous Business Requirement documents and converted those into use cases, functional & system requirement specifications
• Conducted RAD sessions for communicating and managing expectations wif the all clients.
• Created Process Work flows, Functional Specifications, and responsible for preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and final Design Document.
• Participated in Test Plan creation to provide details of the scope and details of the testing effort and participated in planning the testing environment.
• Used Rational Rose to model the process using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to create use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams.
• Provided implementation assessment and mentoring services for Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, UML and RUP.
• Incorporated the best practice methodologies as advocated by the Rational Unified Process (RUP).

Environment:Windows 2K/XP, Agile, Oracle, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, UML, RUP, HTML, Quick Test Pro, Use Case Analysis, MS Team Foundation Server