SUMMARY

• 6 Years of IT experience as Business Analyst and SCRUM MASTER for a Fortune 500 Company.
• Proficient in Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, Risk engineering, Gap Analysis, Data mapping, Data Quality Analysis, Source Systems Analysis, Reporting Analysis and Design using UML - Visio and Rational Rose
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodology.
• Experience in all Scrum Events: Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting.
• Excellent Communication, Presentation and Coordination skills.
• Strong Documentation, Estimation and Planning skills.
• Exceptional Analysis skills and posses the ability to translate the customer requirements in to Functional Specification Document.
• Assessed problems and solutions from a business perspective with a focus on what the customer really needs.
• Well-versed in Business Process Engineering and stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance and Audit standards.
• Proficient in Java technologies, Progress 4GL and SQL.
• Familiar with testing tools, test plans and good at quickly learning technologies and systems that are organization/project specific.
• Business Analyst experience with Healthcare, Insurance and Banking & Financial Services industries.
• Experience in ICDW - Integrated Consumer Data Warehouse.
• Received promotions, awards and accolades for top notch performance at time critical periods.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Analysis: Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, Detail design using UML, Screen Mock ups, Data flow diagrams, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Process Flow Diagram, Collaboration Diagram, System Testing, and Team building.

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista

Tools: MS OFFICE 2007, Microsoft Visio 2007, IBM Rational Rose, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational RequisitePro, Dreamweaver 8.0, IBM Rational Clear Case 7.0, SVN 1.6.16, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM RAD 7.5,Eclipse Java EE IDE, SOAP UI, Service center, IT2B, Beyond Compare 3.0.

Databases & Tools: Teradata SQL Assistant 13.11, Oracle SQL developer 2.1, MySQL 5.0

Automation Testing Tool: Selenium 2.0

Programming Languages: Java 1.5, Progress 4GL

Reporting Tool: Business Objects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wilmington,DE

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Scrum Master, managed sprint planning, grooming, sprint execution, post sprint activities including demos and retrospective during the Agile phase of the project.
• In the Waterfall phase of the project, conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Created the Functional Specification Document and validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.
• Created design diagrams including data flow, process diagram, Activity and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Performed detail data analysis of both data elements requested by the business and data source and documenting data source definition, source-to-target mapping.
• Created the Data Element Specification.
• Formulated the business rules by gathering information from the client and the business teams.
• Reviewed the data models to check if it is accordance with the requirements.
• Helped data analyst analyze to existing reports and identify new areas of metrics.
• Well versed in writing SQL queries for data manipulation.
• Participated in Client Presentation and technical discussion with Business and IT teams.
• Performed Gap Analysis of Business Rules and Requirements.

Confidential, Woodbridge,NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Business Analyst held the responsibility of reviewing the requirements, Change Requests (CR), and understands if the CRs have been applied to the requirements correctly.
• Involved in the creation of the Functional Specification document.
• Worked with creation of as-is diagram and process flows.
• Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.
• Worked on requirement gap analysis.
• Worked on the high and low level design for the application.
• Took responsibility of analyzing the existing system and checked if the new requirements are backward compatible with the system.
• Mentored the team and managed onshore, offshore communications
• Helped with design walkthroughs with stakeholders for base lining architecture.
• Worked on Documentation of User Guide.

Confidential, Atlanta,GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Entrusted the responsibility of capturing the gaps, if any and updating the requirements appropriately.
• Performed the traceability with the Requirements, for the proper Design of the Code.
• Created Screen Mock-ups and Use cases for the requirements.
• Involved in detailing project mission, data process flow diagrams, and timelines.
• Ensured all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Participated in technical and Business discussions with SMEs.
• Participated in UAT and System testing activities.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Analyzed the existing framework and extracted the common functionalities.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created epics, user stories and managed sprint progress.
• On a daily basis, monitored burn down for the team effort.
• Developed workflow, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements.
• Reviewed each prototype resulting from the scrum process and added check points wherever required.
• Helped with Creation of UAT test case and also worked on System Testing.
• Coordinated onshore and offshore to facilitate clarifications, deliveries and support during testing. On a daily note, has been responsible for interacting directly with the client on daily basis to show team's progress.
• Assisted the developers and the tester with the business process through the stages of the application development.

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirements gathering activity.
• Analyzed areas of enhancement in the existing application.
• Created the Business Process and Functional Specification Document.
• Helped perform the UAT for the enhancements delivered.
• Helped in creating reports and trend charts for the tickets thus resolved as a part of the support activity.

Confidential Mason,OH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Held the responsibility for understanding all the applications available under Member Constituency.
• Additionally held the responsibility of supporting all production applications in live environment.
• Shouldered the responsibility of providing 24/7 support for Member applications and took action according to severity categorized as High, Mid and Low.
• Aided in UAT and risk analysis.
• Helped create status reports and client presentations.