SUMMARY

• Close to 5+ years of experience as Business Analyst on large time boxed projects with strong domain knowledge in Retail, Commercial, Investment Banking and Health care industries.
• Excellent knowledge in Vendor Management, Inventory Management, Sales Forecasting, Sales and Revenue Management and Supply Chain Management.
• Actively used Joint Requirement Planning (JRP), Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions with Business users, SME’s and Stake holders alike in gathering requirements, collating and analyzing them to identify the real business need and facilitating the development of a customized solution which delivers maximum cost and usability benefit to the client and company.
• Extensive knowledge and working experience in converting business requirements into UML diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio and also managing and tracking those requirements.
• Experience in process modeling using Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams.
• Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Creating Request for Proposals (RFP), creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in developing and imparting pre and post implementation training, conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis and ROI analysis.
• Driven by creative ideas and backed by strong Analytical and methodical problem solving skills, identifying causes, corrective actions and providing innovative solutions, building strategic partnerships with senior business leaders and getting commitments to actions from individuals at all levels.
• Extensive experience on Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational ReqPro and SQL.
• Highly motivated self - starter with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, can perform well both independently and with a team, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Rational Requisite Pro
• Snagit
• Rational Unified Process
• UML
• Business Process Modeling
• MS Visio
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• PowerPoint
• MS Project
• MS Access
• MS Outlook
• ERWin 4.5
• SharePoint
• Crystal Reports Visual Basic 6.0
• Java
• Object Oriented Programming
• C++ .Net
• UNIX
• Windows NT/ 2000/ XP
• MS SQL Server
• Oracle 11i 10g

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Stakeholder Analysis and conducted interviews, worked with the SME’s (Subject Matter Experts) to identify the key players for project success and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them.
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the proposed system.
• Provided implementation assessment for Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions for communicating and managing expectations with Commerce bank whose customers were going to be the final users of the product.
• Created Process Work Flows, Functional Specifications, and responsible for preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Created and managed project templates, Use Case Project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Rational RequisitePro.
• Created Use Cases using UML and managed the entire functional requirements life cycle using Rational Unified Process and Rational Rose.
• Responsible for creating business flow diagrams and charts for E-commerce using MS Visio.
• Developed Test cases and Use Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional System Testing, Integration testing and resolving the various issues.
• Created product documentation, including online help, printed user manual, and training materials.
• Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements.

Confidential, Morris Plains, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Analysis to define gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes.
• Acted as a facilitator in JAD sessions to analyze and prioritize competing business needs.
• Determined traceability and dependability between the requirements using Rational RequisitePro.
• Assured that all RUP artifacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
• Used Rational Rose model the process using the UML to create Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, MS Visio Wireframes and Sequence Diagrams.
• Created BRD, Vision and scope and Functional Spec.
• Develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and product knowledge.
• Used Test Director to manage testing and defect life cycles, and map requirements to test cases. Performed role of administrator for Test Director.
• Liaison with customer’s business unit managers, stakeholders and functional subject matter experts (SME). Created project charter, scope and schedule.
• Performed change management system during change requirement