SUMMARY:

• 7+ years Experienced in Business Analyst all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment as well as software engineering methods like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile and Waterfall Method, Retail web site Experience
• Expertise in Business Modeling using MS Visio/ Enterprise Architect.
• Traveled internationally, to meet with SME’s in order to understand their “As - Is” Business and Gather Requirements.
• Experience in Financial Domain
• Expertise in Requirements Gathering through direct user interviews and workshops.
• Facilitating JAD sessions with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements.
• Exceptional Documentation Skills for writing Use Cases and Functional Requirement Documents as well as for creating Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, State diagrams based on UML Methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio/Enterprise Architect, Z Analytics Experience /Rational Rose., BPM (Business Process Management)-BPMN /IBM Software
• Experience in Oracle in 10g and 11g
• Defining Test Cases, creating Test Scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with QA / dev teams in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Experience in client / server and OO programming, Experience in Customer Master Data Experience
• Using project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning.
• Experience in Unix -Shell Scripting, LAN
• Experience in RDBMs
• Excellent Team Player with ability to think analytically and troubleshoot issues
• Software Requirement Specification(SRS), Business Requirement Documentation (BRD)
• SOA(Service Oriented Architecture), Data Base/Application Integration (web based)
• Effective Verbal and Written Communication Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirements Management: Rational Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect, HP Quality Center, Irise

UML Diagrams: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect

Test Cases: HP Quality Center

Defect Tracking: HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, TRAC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Environment: MS Visio and MS tools, Star UML Software, Enterprise, RUP, Irise, IBMRational Rose. Agile /Waterfall, SQL, Informatica Power Center, Informatica MDM, Server MDM b) Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding Confidential current business as well as their current systems.
• Managed a team of 4 Business Analysts, identified Best Practices for the team to effectively manage business needs.
• Created As-Is Business Process Models using MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Sales Rep, Sales Manager, Campaign Analysts and Analysts Managers to identify business rules, functional requirement and non- functional requirements,
• Interviewed SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client, Middleware- SOA
• Business processes and gather business requirements.
• Created Functional Requirement Specifications following the Agile Methodology using HP Quality Center.
• Experience in Analyzing business processes, master data and systems related to Customer Master Data Hierarchies, Hierarchy Manager
• Experienced in Software Requirement Specification (SRS)
• Created Wire frames and Activity Diagrams using MS Visio to outline the “To-Be” screens and “To-Be” processes respectively.
• Participated in Daily Scrums to report the daily work status.
• Conducted Requirement walk throughs with Developers and QA team to help them understand the requirements and identify feasibility issues, if any.
• Involved in creating Test Cases using HP Quality Center and participated in Manual Testing.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix between requirements and test cases using HP Quality Center
• Used Rational Clear Quest to report defects.
• Conducted Bug Triage with QA and Development team to go over the defects.
• Created Release Notes to support the monthly releases.
• Usage of Irise Software
• Usage of BPMN IBM Software, BPM
• Organizational Change Management relating to business Process
• Gap analysis
• RUP, OO Models and UML Methodologies,.
• Worked with Release Management team in deploying and monitoring code push into Production and providing Post Production Support (SDLC), CRM (Customer Relationship Management) -Sales Page.

Environment: HP Quality Center, MS Visio and MS Tools, Star UML Software, Enterprise, RUP, Irise, IBM, Rational Rose. Agile, Informatica Power Center, Informatica MDM, Server MDM

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created As-Is Business Process Models using MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Sales Rep, Sales Manager, Campaign Analysts and Analysts Managers to identify business rules, functional requirement and non- functional requirements,
• Interviewed SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client, Middleware- SOA
• Business processes and gather business requirements.
• Created Functional Requirement Specifications following the Agile Methodology using HP Quality Center.
• Experienced in Software Requirement Specification (SRS)
• Created Wire frames and Activity Diagrams using MS Visio to outline the “To-Be” screens and “To-Be” processes respectively.
• Participated in Daily Scrums to report the daily work status.
• Conducted Requirement walk throughs with Developers and QA team to help them understand the requirements and identify feasibility issues, if any.
• Involved in creating Test Cases using HP Quality Center and participated in Manual Testing.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix between requirements and test cases using HP Quality Center
• Used Rational Clear Quest to report defects.
• Conducted Bug Triage with QA and Development team to go over the defects

Environment: Mercury software, IBM software, Data Base, MS Visio, Star UML Software, Enterprise Software, MS Tools, Agile/water fall, Informatica MDM, Server MD