SUMMARY

• A results - driven Senior Business Analyst wif over 7 years of superior performance in application development projects, implementations and improvements of business processes.
• Possess large spectrum of experience in dealing wif a variety of industries including public and private sectorsCore Competencies include:
• Implemented complex projects using various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and RUP
• Expertise in defining scope of projects based on Business Requirements including Documentation of constraints, assumptions, business impacts, Project risks, scope exclusions and user interface applications
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) and propose changes as per various internal and external requirements gathered for process improvement
• Proficient wif wireframe using tools like Azure.
• Traced requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence using the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Capable of functioning wif equal efficiency as an individual contributor or a team leader/player
• Proficient in UML, SharePoint 2013, MS Project Management 2010, M.S Visio 2010, PowerPoint 2010, MS Excel, BPMN and Access and wireframes
• Efficient in requirements gathering, analysis, eliciting, prioritizing and documenting business requirement and conducting JADD sessions and control group settings to achieve meeting objectives
• In Depth understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting these requirements into technical specifications for preparing test plans
• Business Operation Process re-engineering, Developed and implemented new processes for efficiency
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black box, Functional, Integration, Regression testing and verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues
• Self-motivated, capable of setting up useful priorities and take instant decisions and apply them to meet given deadlines. Adjust easily to innovative concepts and tasks. Can undertake difficult mandates and meet tight deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP/2000/NT/98,UNIX

TESTING TOOLS: HPQC, Win Runner, Load Runner

BUG TRACKING TOOLS: Clear Quest

FRONT - END TOOLS: Adobe Photoshop, MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project

LANGUAGES: C, C++, SQL, TSL, Visual Basic

REQUIREMENT MANAGEMENT: Rational Requisite Pro, Caliber RM,TFS

MODELING TOOLS: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Caliber RDM, Snag IT

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: MS Project, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

WEB TECH: HTML, UML, Dreamweaver, Wireframe.

METHODOLOGIES (SDLC): Scrum, Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall Model

DATABASE: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Maryland

Sr. SharePoint Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering the requirements for the Intranet and Extranet portals from the stakeholders for SharePoint 2013
• Reviewed, analyzed, and created detailed documentation of business systems and user needs
• Created flow charts diagrams for documenting the business process
• Analyzed the Site collections, current Sites, team sites, document libraries, sub sites, and documented the current layout
• Reviewed use cases and other technical documents wif IT project staff to ensure business requirements are adequately reflected in technical planning documents.
• Developed and delivered progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations in order to implement the SharePoint 2013 portal
• Defined, developed and implemented quality assurance practices and procedures, end user test plans and test cases for test
• Tracked the bugs by conducting testing and reported the same to technical team for fixing defects
• Scheduled online meetings wif on shore and offshore teams in order to communicate the requirements obtained via Requirements gathering process for SharePoint 2013
• Created the requirements traceability matrix and tracked all the requirements to make sure they are captured
• Works wif IT to conduct testing to meet project timelines and ensures that all tests are conducted and documented according the standards agreed upon by the business unit and IT.
• Involved in dealing wif cross functional teams in order to escalate project implementation for SharePoint 2013 portal
• Worked wif off shore team to communicate the users needs, technical issues
• Advocated the appropriate level of quality by the resolution of important defects; and working wif the IT project manager to ensure the software development process has an appropriate level of testing.
• Coordinated groups of business personnel who test, evaluate and validate new functions and applications, and identify issues in software or services.
• Involved in working wif SME and Site owners for the UAT (User acceptance testing ) and monitoring the performance of the system
• Created user guides, reference guides, training materials and conducted in class training on SharePoint 2013 for all the Intranet and Extranet users.
• Understood the organization’s SharePoint Governance Plan and assist in user acceptance and adherence
• Provided after support to the users in resolving any queries related to SharePoint 2013 portal

Environment: MS Office, Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Metalogix Migration tool, Extradium, Power Point, SQL server 2007, Visio 2013, Mock up/Wireframes

Confidential, Mclean, Virginia

Sr. SharePoint Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Obtained, reviewed, gathered and documented use case and requirements pertaining to our SP2013 Portal Page Configuration project efforts
• Illustrated the alignment (or lack thereof) between strategic goals and key business decisions regarding portal layout, design and functionality of each stakeholder team as it pertains to SharePoint 2013
• Analyzed the intranet /extranet portal sites/Information architecture/team sites for SP2010 to upgrade it to SP 2013
• Responsible for the use case / requirements life cycle for user interface SharePoint 2013 project including but not limited to: creation of project plans, research and analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, training, and documentation.
• Conducted thorough analysis of business objectives and business operations, through the use of frameworks to create use case models and related documents, process flows that link these aspects of the enterprise together.
• Created models using and diagrammatic presentations using BPMN
• Developed an integrated view of the business unit, in the context of the enterprise, using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques as a part of dis team you will be integral to the user interface SharePoint configuration process
• Assisted into the Business and IT process to deliver high quality SP2013 configuration roadmap requirements

Environment: Rational Tools, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office (MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, MS Power Point), MS Outlook, MS Visio, MS SQL Server 2007, SharePoint library, SharePoint Defect Tracking Tool, Wireframes, storyboards

Confidential, Texas

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements by driving workshops, JAD sessions, user-group meetings and working wif global, cross-functional, stakeholders and virtual teams for SharePoint 2013 Portal configuration
• Teamed up wif both internal and external software development groups to provide functional requirement specifications in form of Use Cases, Business Process Flows, and Prototypes and Management Reporting requirements
• Worked on creating Functional Specifications, wireframes, UI specifications and UI prototypes for SP 2013 Portal configuration
• Worked to develop an integrated view of the business unit, in the context of the enterprise, using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques
• Synthesized User Interface and Business Process Requirements and translated it into the Business Requirement Document (BRD)/FRD to be used as input to Functional Design Specifications
• Demonstrated experience in the elicitation, formulation, articulation of business requirements
• Familiarity wif requirements management tools, data capture and traceability matrix formulation

Environment: AXURE, XML, Rational Rose, project management, UAT, UML, GUI, JADD sessions, BPMN, Visio, SDLC- Agile (Scrum), MS Office, wireframes, Windows 2000/XP, SharePoint 2013 Content management tool, HPQC, TFS, SQL /ORACLE

Confidential, Ohio

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Eliciting and defining system and user requirements through observation, interviews, JADD sessions and analysis for Human Resource department of Public safety
• Working directly wif end-users to define requirements and provide technical advice and assistance in a large-scale environment
• Translating business requirements into functional requirements.
• Utilized MS Share point 2010 as a collaboration tool for management of requirements.
• Interviewing non-technical end users to determine and document current business process flows
• Used Visio to create business process flows including standard flowcharts and swim lane diagrams.
• Created test conditions, test cases, and test scenarios, wireframes, use cases and use case diagrams and business cases
• Experience analyzing end-user needs, root cause analysis and conducting fit gap analysis.
• Involved as a tech. BA from project initiation through completion on two software development projects
• Used PM software (e.g. MS Project) as Content management tool a to develop and maintained a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) on projects Experience using a business requirements tracking tool for recording and prioritization of business requirements.
• Documented experience in systems process and data mapping, requirements, gathering, and analysis as well as proficiency in the creation of detailed documentation, Business requirement Document using user stories Conducted UAT sessions for the end users.
• Managed off shore team and on shore team for clearly defining the requirements

Environment: AXURE, M.S office Suite, BPMN, UAT, UML, wireframes, SDLC, M.S Visio, Agile method - Scrum,.Net, QTP, Oracle, MS Windows XP, SharePoint 2010, M S Project, RTM, HPQC, TFS, SQL /ORACLE, Project management, Wireframes, storyboards

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated JAD sessions wif SMEs’, Product owner, and Development managers to understand the business process, gather Business Requirements and identify enhancements for the application.
• Involved in complete cycle of SDLC and followed AGILE methodology viz. Scrum throughout the project.
• Assisted in release plan and iteration plan for the project working wif the stakeholders
• Maintain the prioritized Sprint backlog
• Worked on EDI transactions: 270, 271, 834, 835, and 837 (P.I.D) to identify key data set elements for designated record set. Interacted wif Claims, Billing, Adjudication and Payments and Enrollment and also on ICD 9 and 10 procedure code sets and hence analyzing and documenting related business processes.
• Developed the strategy for developing and implementing new EDI (HL7 and X12) interfaces and converted historical and clinical data
• Researched/Analyzed the various steps involved in claims processing life cycle and then wrote the BRD in such way that developers could construct the system to identify riskier claims
• Documentation mainly done using user stories to facilitate understanding to the technical team in order to design the software
• Conducted requirement sessions, identifying business needs, getting sign-off on requirements and capturing requirements in Caliber RM and Rally (SDLC-Agile Scrum)
• Facilitated pre-planning meetings, demos and daily stand ups and road map creation

Environment: Windows XP professional, Share Point 2010, JADD sessions, COBOL, UAT, SIT UNIX/Oracle Platform, XML, Agile (Scrum) load runner and win runner, UML, MS Visio, Quality center, Clear quest, clear case, TFS, SQL /ORACLE, Project management, XML, Wireframes

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif Business users and Product group to identify various data elements that were required for risk assessment and reporting.
• Worked closely wif the SME’s and Risk Professionals to identify elements that contributes to default risk.
• Interacted wif Business users to understand the business rules involved in assessing counterparty diversification and data rules applied to trigger alert for credit ratings or exposure.
• Presented system prototypes to the business stakeholders during JAD sessions.
• Presented business solution document walk-through to the Business, Product and Developer to help them understand the future state of the system.
• Provided project status to project owners in weekly meetings and kept track of project using MS Project for status reporting and project planning.
• Created current and future process models by using Microsoft Visio and identified existing gaps that required to be addressed.
• Documented requirement change requests and technical change request for stakeholders for any requirement or technical changes that came up after business solution document sign-off.

Environment: Agile, MS Visio, Rational Clear Quest, MS OfficePL/SQL (Oracle), SharePoint 2005, TFS, Project management