SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst and Quality Analyst with over 8 years of experience in domains like Finance, Banking, Health Care and Retail industry. Currently seeking a Business Analyst/Quality Analyst Role.

• Extensive experience with Full Lifecycle Implementations, Project Coordination, Requirement Gathering, Fit - Gap analysis.
• Extensive Experience working with Agile teams and managing Product Backlog and Sprint Backlogs.
• Expert in business process engineering and software development life cycle, including analysis, design, testing and implementation of software applications.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases such as Requirements gathering, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Experienced as a Scrum Master and conducting all Agile Ceremonies.
• Experience with QA Methodology including defect tracking and management.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment.
• Extensive knowledge of converting functional requirement, Use Cases into Test Cases.
• Expertise in creating test plan test cases and defect tracking.
• Experience with IEEE standards and QA Methodology including defect tracking and management.
• Experience in writing SQL queries to fetch data and test applications

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, XML, SQL, HTML, Microsoft Office Suite
• (Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Share Point, Lotus Notes, Quality Center, Clear Quest.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst/Quality analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented requirements from a diverse user community.
• Conducted meetings with Database SME’s and Business Users to streamline requirements.
• Acted asLiaison between Business and the IT team to communicateuser needs and requirements.
• Produced High Level Requirements, Business Rules & Detailed Requirements.
• Created business use cases for the Expense reports
• Produced As-Is and To Be Process models to assist Requirements phase
• Performed Validation to map data from the existing database.
• Conducted extensive UAT
• Facilitated story grooming sessions to document the User stories.
• Facilitated the Scrum meetings and help resolve any known distractions.
• Maintained burn down charts to track the status of the Sprint throughout the Sprint cycle.
• Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
• Resolving cross-functional issues at project level.
• Providing status reports to the project sponsor.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to prioritize the Product Backlog.
• Facilitated Sprint planning meetings.
• Worked closely with the team members to estimate story size and track velocity.
• Conducted extensive UAT with the business partners.

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying project scope, defining project plan and workload, following up and report regularly to projects sponsors, escalate issues related to the Project.
• Leading co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.
• Responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Managing consultancy input within the defined budget Conducted extensive UAT
• Created functional specifications output requirements, and project issue log. Translate re-engineered business process flow diagram to system delivery diagram.
• Managed requirements, test cases and test scripts using Quality center.
• Created Test cases based on functional requirement and Use Cases.
• Performed end to end functional testing of the application.
• Involved in the testing phase which includes functional/SIT & UAT.
• Logged the defects using Clear Quest.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified the scope of the requirements and conducted the daily standup sessions
• Facilitated Story Grooming sessions to document the User Stories.
• Interpret business requirements and acceptance criteria for team members within an agile development process practicing daily Scrums.
• Worked on product backlog which involved working on different sprints, planning session, creating story points and committing on different stories.
• Participated in the planning sessions which involve the Product Owner, Scrum master, development/QA/Analyst team which involved discussing different user stories and committing on the stories of various sprints.
• Responsible for conducting everyday scrum meetings which focused on on-going task and roadblocks.
• Analyzed the existing system to understand the functionality and creating the Product Backlog to fulfill business needs.
• Created test plans and test cases (along with lead QA) based on the Acceptance Criteria and user stories.
• Developed new manual test scripts for testing Business areas & writing manual test scripts.
• Managed User Stories, test cases and test scripts using Quality center 10.0.
• Performed end to end functional testing of the application.
• Attended weekly meetings and walkthroughs for project updates.
• Facilitated User Acceptance testing (UAT) for the application as a Business User.
• Worked on multiple projects.
• Maintained burn down charts to track the status of the Sprint throughout the Sprint cycle.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to prioritize the Product Backlog.
• Facilitated Sprint planning meetings.
• Worked closely with the team members to estimate story size and track velocity.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/Quality analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Interview the Business users to gather the functional requirements and finalize the scope.
• Met with the Technical Solutions Architect to gather the Non Functional Requirements for the project.Derived Service Level Agreements (SLA) for business critical transactions after discussion with business stakeholders, and the Technical Solution Architects.
• Interfaced with business users to prepare theBusiness Process Requirements (BPR) and Software System Requirements (SSR).
• PerformedGAP analysisof business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements. Maintained theRequirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Analyzed the business requirements and involved inwriting/reviewinguse CasesusingUML.
• Worked on SQL queries to retrieve data from Oracle for white box testing.
• Coordinating in preparation of test strategy and test plan for the application after creating functional requirement
• Created test suites for Quality Center for regression testing of the application. Managed requirements, test cases and test scripts using Quality center.
• UsedQuality Centerfor managing and tracking the requirements.
• Structured and leadUATfor new features and enhancements being released into the production environment.
• Created theproduct backlogwith project timeline and priorities
• Didbacklog grooming.
• Created theuser stories.
• Prioritized and sized the user stories.
• Created and maintained thesprint backlog. Moved the sized user stories from product backlog to sprint backlog.
• Conducted daily stand up meetings with the team on the progress of the team.
• Attended end ofsprint review meetingwit the project team.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying project scope, defining project plan and workload, following up and report regularly to projects sponsors, escalate issues related to the Project.
• Researching and evaluating healthcare businesses under the supervision of senior bankers, contributing to the development of information for Investment Banking.
• Interpret business requirements and acceptance criteria for team members within an Agile development process practicing daily Scrums.
• Created the test cases based on the Use Cases. Wrote business requirements utilizing use case practice and including all process flow diagrams.
• Wrote several reusable scripts for common functionalities, test data set. There scripts had been used by different teams which resulted in huge time saving.
• Established as client/vendor liaison throughout plan, analyze and design phase. Created functional specifications, output requirements, and project issue log. Translate re-engineered business process flow diagram to system delivery diagram.
• Create graphic representation of business’ information needs; identify data base and data access.
• Wrote SQL queries to support testing of the back end. Performed back end testing using TOAD.
• Managed requirements, test cases and test scripts using Quality center.
• Coordinated with testing team for Regression & User Acceptance Testing.
• Working with line-area representatives, coordinated the collection and analysis of bi-weekly statistics for core projects and presented them in a report to Senior Management.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed test requirement, developed test plans, test data to test the business requirement for billing system enhancements.
• Was responsible for creating and reviewing functional requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Developed requirement reports for day-to-day trading management needs for opening new accounts.
• Assisted manager to develop test plan and test case Acceptance Test (UAT).

Confidential

Associate Business Analyst/Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client groups to determine user requirements and goals.
• Involved in reviewing the System Specifications, which includes functional specifications and the product requirements, and preparing the Detailed Test Plan on the basis of the Use Cases.
• Worked with the Business Users through interviews and (Joint Application Development) JAD sessions.
• Involved in weekly status meetings with the rest of the team members to discuss any enhancements in the system.
• Performed UAT testing of the requirements. Testing for checking the data flow of the application.
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues.
• Conducted highly interactive JAD session with project stakeholders such as users, BA analyst and project management team, identifying and resolving issues.
• Preparation and submission of the Daily as well as Weekly Status Reports on behalf of my team to QA Manager.
• Interacted with developers to report software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.