OBJECTIVE

• Seeking challenging career in areas of Management and development, Service sector, Administrative & personnel work to use my skills and experience effectively which leads to ultimate growth of organization and at the same time enhancing my knowledge

SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with over 6 years of experience and strong understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Business Process Flows, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis.
• Practical understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), waterfall, iterative, joint application development (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD) and agile methodologies.
• Worked on Object Oriented Analysis and Design in UML with emphasis on use case, state, sequence, activity and collaboration diagrams.
• Been involved in the data - warehousing and retail field during this tenure which involves Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Application Support.
• Worked extensively on PowerBuilder 6.5, Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL Server 2005 during the development period. Have worked on Retail and DW domain projects for clients such as Confidential (SDM), Confidential (LRW) and Confidential .
• Have good exposure to .NET framework, Visual basic .NET and ASP.Net
• Sound knowledge in RDBMS concepts and Informix, MySQL, Oracle, TSQL and SQL Server
• Involved in generating business requirements, functional specifications, detailed design specifications, use cases and UML diagrams to communicate the intended system functionality to the development team.
• Involved in documenting test plans, test cases, scripts.
• Worked with project and business teams to develop business process models.
• Generated models to depict business processes and information flows.
• Provided support /assistance during project implementation and post go-live.
• Worked with business users to analyze and document business requirements and system functional specifications.
• Helped project testing team to formulate test cases from the use cases.
• Involved in Project Planning and Scheduling resources.
• Involved in determining project scope, requirements and estimation.
• Involved in Production Support and Defect Resolution process.
• Enterprising and self-motivated personality with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Good working knowledge of Ms Excel, Ms Word, Ms Access. Ms PowerPoint and Ms Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Rational Suite

Methodologies: Agile, RUP, Waterfall, Spiral, Iterative, UML

Applications: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PowerBuilder, Visual Basic 6.0, Vb.Net

Database: Informix, MS SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access, Oracle

Operating System: Windows NT/98/200/2003, Windows XP, UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirements Gathering from user groups and analyzed workflows and UI screen dynamics.
• Created Statement of Work (SOW) document for various capabilities in the initial requirements gathering phase.
• Created Use Cases based on the Business Needs and Features provided by the business team.
• Experience in using Microsoft SharePoint to centrally store, manage and access business artifacts across all platforms.
• Created Activity and Sequence Diagrams in UML using Rational Rose and also involved in creating the Business Process Models.
• Documented and reviewed high level and detailed requirements in Detailed Design Specification (DDS) document.
• Worked with the UI Prototypes in creating mock up screens to validate if the requirements are in sync with the prototypes created.
• Experience in UI level Data Mapping.
• Involved in the Defect Management process.
• Business Report generation in SSRS tool.
• Developed 10 Visual Basic screens from scratch that functions around the metrics and processes of DJ’s.
• Changed the complete outlook and functionality of the EDC application in Visual Basic
• The site was done in ASP.Net / SQL Server and made heavy use of web services to communicate with other internal systems.
• Involved in creation of unit test cases, creation of unit testing plan and reporting source code delivery plan to and execution of the same. Drafted Design Documents and Unit Test Cases
• Involved in the project’s development phase ensuring quality and compatibility of the code in keeping with quality standards and industry’s best practices.
• Have done Performance Tuning of the data base

Environment: UML, Visio2003, Visual Basic, MS Office Suite, SSRS, .NET, SQL Server and UNIX

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the business, data and the technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Extracted the business requirements from various sessions with business leads and maintained them using Requisite Pro, tracing them all the way to the system artifacts.
• Created activity diagrams, use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams and data flow diagrams in UML using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Involved in User Interface (UI) analysis with the business team to validate accuracy.
• Involved in identifying Functional and Non-Functional requirements and created the Functional System Design document (FSD).
• Involved in GAP analysis in the identification of business rules, business and system process flows, requirements and assumptions.
• Partnered with the technical team in research and resolution of system development issues and process problems.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and verified performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues.
• Commended for ability to multi-task on projects consisting of diverse set of people, platforms and parallel timelines via exceptional communicational, organizational and interpersonal skills

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), RUP, UML, SQL, Oracle

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, performed Gap Analysis for client’s requirements and generated system workflows.
• Business discussion with Onsite Counterpart to understand the requirements.
• Participating in the Client call with Offshore in Status meetings.
• Understanding the Business requirements.
• Providing access to the Business Users for various Power Builder applications.
• Handled 7 front end Power Builder applications that revolves around the entire billing system of SDM.
• Developed an application, VMS (Vendor Management System) from scratch which is the core application that handles all the vendor details.
• Developed 4gl scripts for Warehouse Management.
• Handling production support.
• Develop the SQL Code for generating the required reports
• Have knowledge on job scheduling and have scripted a few batch jobs.
• Validate the output using SQL Queries, Test, Review and perform the Quality Evaluation process.
• Conducting internal training to share the project experience to the team
• Systematically gained knowledge on the business process being followed in the project environment.
• Prepared and validated high-level and detailed requirements.
• Established RUP (Rational Unified Process) methodology and provided assistance in developing use cases and project plans.
• Facilitated walkthroughs with business SME’s
• Participated in documenting the requirements that were critical to the business process and used those requirements in system design based on a Use Case approach.
• Used Rational Rose to model the process using UML to create behavioral and structural diagrams.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to track required changes and Rational ClearCase to maintain different versions of the project documentation.
• Participated in transforming the user requirements into functional requirements and also created business process models from the requirement specifications.
• Reviewed and provided inputs to the testing scenarios and test cases.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, Clear case, Clear Quest, UML, PowerBuilder 6.5,Informix 4gl, Unix, SQL Server