Sr. Business Analyst/ Project Co-ordinator Resume
NY
SUMMARY
- Over 10 years of experience in Information Technology
- Experience as Project lead & Sr. Business Analyst in the federally regulated domains like Finance, Insurance, Telecom and Medical. Experience in Investment Banking IT development & Analysis & Leadership experience in front line Investment Banks with expertise in Equity, Derivative trading, Algorithmic trading & Risk analytics, short term, long term disabilities of insurance domain
- Experience as Business Analyst in Requirements Gathering, Analysis, developing and evaluating Business Process Models, creating the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents, solution assessment & validation, co - ordination & liaising among cross-functional groups, UAT & QA support, User Training.
- Experience in working on Linux and UNIX environments
- Experience in executing shell scripts
- Very good knowledge of SQL for querying databases
- Implemented Agile and Waterfall PM methodologies
- Experience as Project Lead in developing Project Scope, Work Activities, Effort Estimation (3-point estimates), Cost Estimation, Prioritizing the work and Resource management, Performance monitoring, offshore coordination & liaison.
- 4+ years of total experience as Oracle IDM/Java/J2EE Developer in installing OIM/OAM and integrating with Active directory and other LDAPs, Customizing and developing web applications using Java/J2EE technologies like JSP, Struts, JDBC, XML, HTML, CSS.
- XMLs are validated against XSDs.
- JAXB was used heavily for marshalling and un-marshalling XML files into Java Objects and vice versa
- Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, design and also holding Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions.
- 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.
- Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
- Involved in GUI testing, Functionality Testing of Client/Server & Web based applications and creating test cases, analyzing bugs, interacting with QA/Dev teams for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Documented Requirement Traceability Matrix in Requisite Pro, Test Director and MS-Excel for traceability of requirements through test cases.
- Reviewed Test plans, Test cases and test case execution using specification documents with Test Director
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris
PM Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall
Security Management: Oracle Internet Directory (LDAP),Active Directory, Oracle Access Manager/Oblix CoreID, Oracle Identity Manager/Xellerate, Oracle Virtual Directory
RDBMS: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS SQL Server, MySQL
Software: OOAD (OOA/OOD), JAVA/J2EE, JSP, RUP, UML, SDLC, Waterfall, JIRA, ServiveNow, WAP,CVS,TEAMMATE, MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel, Visio, Powerpoint, MS Project, Publisher.
Web Server: IIS, Oracle HTTP server, Apache Tomcat.
Application Servers: Oracle Application Server, WebLogic, WebSphere 6*,Oracle Portal, Domino
Development Tools: Oracle Forms and Reports 10g/9i/6i, Eclipse, JDeveloper
Web Technologies: HTML, XML, JavaScript, JAVA, JSP, J2EE
Tools: /Applications: SalesForce CRM, Service Now, ComplianceWare, Eclipse
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential - NY
Sr. Business Analyst/ Project Co-ordinator
Responsibilities:
- Interviewed Business Users to gather requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead
- Develop and Document timelines for Project Delivery.
- Manage Projects performance and Resources to successful completion.
- Create Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams.
- Create relationships in Requirement Traceability Matrix linking Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems Requirements.
- Responsible for analysis and documentation of functional requirements for CRM application enhancements in support of day to day business operations
- Provide analytical expertise during requirements, design, testing phases and data flows development
- Business process flow documentation and review for all CRM business processes.
- Prepared Logical Data Models using Rational Rose that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data requirements
- Used Google Analytics and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data for both consumer and effective marketing analyses with the objective of increasing revenue efficiently
- Conducted requirements analysis and facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
- Create use case scenarios and document work flow and business process.
- XSLT, XSD and Xpath are used heavily for presentation layer.
- Conversant with the tools, large schemas and am comfortable manipulating/transforming XML documents for various needs via XSL/XPath or similar techniques
- Direct programmers and analysts to make changes to database management system
- Actively participated in almost all the phases of SDLC beginning from requirement until implementation and user training and training manuals.
- Used ServiceNow to track issues
- Created weekly BA/QA team status reports for management team and Program office (PMO).
- Supported QA team in creating test cases to test the functionality of the new and enhanced application, performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, XML, Service Now, XSLT,Erwin 4.1.2, Toad, Unix, SQL
Confidential - Okemos MI
Sr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Created Project scope.
- Organized status meetings and submitted project reports/status to the management
- Closely monitored project health and performance
- Co-ordinated different groups like IT, Network and Security for successful completion of project.
- Developed XSL transformations to convert the incoming xml to the required format using XPath expressions
- Worked on the Java based application using XML for parsing
- Involved in Team selection and resource management
- Analyzed through SQL Queries and documented the data mapping requirements for several commodities data feeds following methodologies.
- Captured pricing data and implemented and maintained a strategic repository of global pricing for both internal and vendor sources; wrote Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), and Use Cases for same.
- Prepared procedure manuals for System analysis and development processes to be used as reference and for training purposes.
- Facilitated JAD/RAD Sessions; handled change management; created Use Cases & Process Flow Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
- Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.
- Performed requirement walkthroughs with the Dev. and QA teams with the aim to develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.
- Organized and oversaw QA testing and UAT
- Documented all the issues and bottle necks
- Created project/tasks in Jira, documented progress and issues in JIRA
- Organized Lessons learned after successful completion of the project.
Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, XML, Service Now, XSLT,JIRA, Toad, Unix, SQL, UML
Confidential
Sr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with users and gathered requirements
- Organized status meetings and submitted project reports/status to the management.
- Involved in designing Dashboards and publishing reports.
- Created BRDs and FSDs to create scorecards, dashboards, Heat maps using show me functionality
- Co-ordinated different groups like IT, Network and Security for successful completion of project.
- Understood Mutual Funds Performance and Pricing reporting, and reporting system and also understood Invest Smart Reporting Systems.
- Worked on Data Mapping and prepared Functional Requirements Document (FRD).
- Analyzed and documented information system requirements and the corresponding impact on business processes.
- Designed and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams (DFD’s) to define the Business Process.
- Worked as a team with other Business Analysts and developers to make an Object oriented model of the application.
- Identified the various table level changes required to implement the new products and changes.
- Analyzed Business Requirements Documents (BRD) to get a better understanding of the system on both Technical and Business perspectives.
- Used project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and Requirement traceability Matrix to capture the requirements.
- Involved in UAT, test plans, test scenarios, test cases and documentation of test reports Queried database using SQL to retrieve data
- Organized and oversaw QA testing and UAT
- Documented all the issues and bottle necks
- Involved in testing of interactive reports and dashboards.
- Involved in execution and support phases of the application as well.
- Organized Lessons learned after successful completion of the project.
Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, XML, XSLT, Erwin 4.1.2, Unix, SQL
Confidential - NY
Business Analyst/ Project Lead
Responsibilities:
- Organized Requirements sessions with users and documented Business Requirement documents
- Involved in System Design documentation and Functional Design Documentation along with Development Team
- Closely involved in Development process using Java/J2EE technologies
- Queried Oracle Database using SQL in TOAD for data retrieval and analysis
- Organized status meetings and submitted project reports/status to the management
- Closely monitored project health and performance
- Co-ordinated different groups like IT, Network and Security for successful completion of project.
- Prepared procedure manuals for System analysis and development processes to be used as reference and for training purposes.
- Facilitated JAD/RAD Sessions; handled change management; created Use Cases & Process Flow Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
- Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.
- Performed requirement walkthroughs with the Dev. and QA teams with the aim to develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.
- Organized and oversaw QA testing and UAT
- Documented all the issues and bottle necks
- Used shell scripting to access production logs and filed in Linux
- Organized Lessons learned after successful completion of the project.
Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, XML, Service Now, XSLT,JIRA, Toad, Unix, SQL, UML
Confidential
Sr. Security Analyst/ Oracle IDM Developer
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate JAD sessions with management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
- Coordinate participation and sign-off of various business partners and customers.
- Thoroughly study the requirements for the process re-engineering
- Perform Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
- Design and develop use cases, activity diagrams.
- Gather system requirements from various departments through surveys and interviews.
- Prioritize the defects and writing business requirements to resolve them.
- Work with systems area to translate business needs into system requirements.
- Make sure the test cases and test process guarantee accountability to business and systems requirements.
- Installation and configuration of Oracle Identity Manager 9.1.0.1, Oracle Identity Manager 11g (11.1.1.5) on Windows Server 2003 R2
- Installation and Configuration of Weblogic Application Server 10.3.0, 10.3.3 in a clustered mode
- Actively participating in improvement of project to enhance Identity Management offerings, developing secure solutions and providing risk assessments