SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with around Six (6) years of experience in business process analysis/modeling, business requirements gathering, database design and development of Web Based and Client/Server applications.
• Exceptional ability to build Client relationships through frequent meetings, one on one interaction and ability to converse with all facets in the client organization by utilizing elicitation techniques like interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming, focus groups, prototyping, cost/benefit and risk analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Full understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Test Manager, Unified Modeling Language (UML), SDLC and Object Oriented Analysis /Design (OOAD).
• Experienced in conducting Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to converge early towards a design acceptable to the client and feasible for the developers and to limit a projects exposure to the forces of change.
• Proficient in Documentation of requirements as Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and conducting meetings with Business people to give a walkthrough of final BRD to get their concurrence and approval. Preparation of the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) based on the approved Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Proficient in developing Analysis Models, Use Case Models, Design Models, Implementation Models, Use Case Diagrams, Context Diagrams, Dataflow Diagrams, Functional Storyboards, Behavior Diagrams (sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, and activity diagrams), also Class Diagrams based on UML Methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• 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.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, Portfolio Analysis and ROI analysis.
• Well versed in different management scenarios like change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration and Scheduling.
• Develop User interfaces and requirements sessions. Requirements gathering, data modeling, System Architect. Feasibility studies, Scope Documents, Requests for Proposal.
• Strong understanding of the business process, Definition of the Scope of the Project, User and system requirements, and implementation to functional and technical specifications.
• Expertise in understanding and supporting the client with project planning, project definition, requirements definition, analysis, design, testing, system documentation and user training.
• Strong experience in developing appropriate test scenarios and test cases to validate the business and functional requirements for SIT/UAT tests.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution and Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.
• Extensive experience using MS Visio, MS Project and MS office tools like Ms-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access.
• Process Improvement, Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, Change Control Process, Quality Assurance Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) &Training.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, analytical, problem solving and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Rational Rose
• Rational Enterprise Suite
• MS Visio
• Telelogic System Architect
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Rational ClearCase
• Rational ClearQuest
• MS Project
• UML
• JAD
• RUP
• Waterfall
• Agile
• Loadrunner
• Test Director
• Mercury Quality Center
• MS Windows NT/98/95/2000
• UNIX
• SQL
• UML
• JAVA
• Oracle 8i/9i
• SQL Server
• MS Access
• MS Office Suite
• Word
• Project
• Excel
• Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Whitehouse Station, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client groups to determine user requirements and goals. Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures and create a Business requirement Document (BRD).
• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Followed Agile Iterative development approach and was involved with all iterations of the development life cycle in ASP.NET.
• Prepared Business Process Models that included modeling of all activities of business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Understood and articulated business requirements from user interviews and then converted requirements into technical specifications.
• Extensively worked with Project Manager to determine the current best practices for requirement gathering
• Used Rational Clear Case as Version Control System for any changes to documents related to project like Use Case documents, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams etc.
• Created and participated in JAD sessions to analyze and prioritize competing business needs.
• Involved in reporting the schedule and the plan of the project using Business Intelligence.
• Managed business requirements in Rational Requisite Pro while making them available to all team members.
• Examined, analyzed and modeled test plans, test scripts, test procedures and use case scenarios based on RUP methodology.
• Used Quality Center to coordinate and manage the master test plan, test scripts, testing resources, pass vs. fail cases and the entire testing process.
• Wrote clear, concise detailed system requirements specification (SRS) documents and user documentation in accordance to guidelines and standards of a level where developers can interpret, design and develop the application with minimum guidance in Microsoft .NET.
• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC methodology.
• Defined program and project goals, objectives, products, services, constraints, assumptions, risks and facilitated processes by working with the project team, sponsor, and stakeholders to baseline the scope of the work and enable development of the plan.
• Responsible for extensive level of project documentation.

Environment: Agile, UML, Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest, MS Visio, MS Office, SQL Server 2005/2008, Windows.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Project Manager, to prepare the vision and the scope for the project.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document for the gathered requirements.
• Worked with the Stakeholders, Project Manager and senior Business & SQA (Software Quality Assurance) Analysts in defining, documenting the business needs and Business Process flows.
• Facilitated JAD workshops to identify project objectives and limitations and identification of key performance indicators.
• Used RUP and SDLC methodology, and managed the iterative cycles through an effective project plan created using MS Project.
• Participated in and contributed to as-Is and To-Be Process Modeling Sessions, and build process models responsible for analysis and reporting.
• Conducted walkthrough sessions with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.
• Worked extensively to write use cases and functional requirement case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams based on UML methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Performed feasibility and adaptability study to identify the business critical areas from User perspective
• Documented the Functional Requirements (FRD) and the System Requirements documents.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies and documented the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Worked actively with the QA (Quality Assurance) team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Monitored Defect Tracking system to prioritize defects and devise a plan for future enhancements.

Environment: Ms Office, Mainframes, Share Point, Ms Access, Windows, Ms Office, HTML, ETL, Data warehouse.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile Iterative development approachand was involved with all iterations of the development life cycle.
• Analyzed the existing business requirements documents to review functional and detail design specification of the application.
• Communicated extensively with clients and different levels of management to identify new requirements, use cases and to develop functional and technical specifications.
• Conducted Gap Analysis and developed data relationships diagrams to define the impact of the new requirements on the existing system.
• Conducted JAD Sessions to resolve open issues, change requests and most importantly, to facilitate identification and development of an architectural solution.
• Collaborated with the design and development teams to create effective design strategies, monitored the development of the system and ensured compliance with quality standards and client specifications.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Conducted GAP analysis sessions to identify the gaps between existing reporting applications, and derive requirements for a standardized process flow.
• Worked with IT technical team to develop Functional Specification from different BR documents and Use Case documents
• Used MS Visio to model activities and data flow process in the business and make them more understandable to developers and architects.
• Provided production support for reporting databases and reviewed change requests
• Identified and documented issues, risks, gaps, descriptions, impacts and provided recommendations and alternatives to re-engineer the current processes
• Developed the business and functional requirements specification that describes and prioritizes the requirements.
• Worked in conjunction with the PM to ensure smooth development cycle and developed defect reports, while meeting with developers, outlining defects found in the system.
• Acted as a liaison between Reuters Development and the business vendors.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, Agile, Windows XP/2000, Rational Suite (Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest), MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook).

Confidential, New York City, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users to gather Specifications Requirements
• Analyzed Business Requirements, developing tracking and enhancing them into functional requirements
• Generated use cases, use case diagrams and sequence diagrams
• Performed Feasibility Analysis and Risk Analysis on vendor/third party tools.
• Created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams)
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules, information needs and insured that critical requirements are not missed
• Performing data analysis by identifying the different data sources, creating logical data models and establishing relationship between entities
• Created and managed the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Worked as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validaterequirements
• Conducted JAD sessions with business users to elicit business requirements as well conductedpersonal interviews with SME’s to articulate business needs
• Grouped the Use Cases and other diagrams into sequence and collaboration Diagrams using Rational Rose based on UML methods thereby defining the business process model
• Conducted functional walk-through with developers and business managers to obtain sign-off on functional specs for each release.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining documentation related to the project including scope document, vision document, functional specification document, defect status report, risk analysis document, mitigation plans, supplementary requirements specification document and impact analysis document
• Accountable for managing Design Specifications within ReqPro, Requirement traceability from Scope, track dependencies and changes which helped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by the teams who are working on same project by keeping track of - simultaneous update, change notification, multiple versions (using Version Control)
• Responsible for processing change requests from the client by filling Change Request Forms (CRF)
• Involved in Documenting/Executing business test cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing in the presence of developers, development managers, and the SME’s
• Creating test plans, test cases according to the BRD for different Line of Business
• Creating test data, mandatory data scripts to generate in database
• Wrote SQL queries to verify the system functionality and provided the users with the needed data and information during operational phase
• Created and executed the test cases to test the functionality of the application

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Windows NT/XP, Oracle, SQL, UNIX, UML, RUP.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined system scope and objective based on business user needs and a thorough understanding of business processes obtained as a result of detailed requirements gathering sessions with the business and appropriate IT resources.
• Lead the collection and creation of development, enhancement and maintenance of business requirements documents
• Interfaced with equity traders to prepare/update/modify Business Process Requirements (BPR), Software System Requirements (SSR) and Functional and Technical specification document.
• Assisted IT Technical lead(s) in the creation of appropriate Technical Design documents in support of business requirements by providing technical guidance concerning business implications of various application development projects.
• Liaison between IT and client services to define delivery timelines and ensure that projects meet business objective.
• Chairing working groups and taking ownership of issues raised, and ensuring resolution or escalation.
• Involved in leading Business process analysis and Business process improvement activities.
• Functioned as a subject matter expert(SME), and operational expert to conduct end user training
• Analyze impact of proposed solution across the business, develop use cases to explain/demonstrate business
• Define the Business process boundaries that mark the entry points of the process inputs and the exit points of the process outputs for Business Process Improvement.
• Dataflow analysis using UML Diagram like use cases, dataflow diagrams, state diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams and collaboration diagrams using MS Visio
• Developed business process descriptions using use cases (MS Visio), scenarios, and task/workflow analysis.
• Involved in internal SDLC process improvements for the purpose of improving the quality of IT support to enhance overall customer relations and expectations.
• Developed and documented business requirements which includes wire frames and Business workflows,
• Supported the trading environment including daily user support, batch processes, and new enhancement projects.
• Use the analysis to make operating decisions and to improve the Business process
• Coordinated the reconciliation of reports between source and new data ware house and recommend data mapping best practices as a part of the overall system design.
• Performed Data Mapping of user interface data requirements to enterprise services
• Collaborated with the QA team to ensure adequate testing of software both before and after completion, maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and Developed UAT test case/ scenarios
• Coordinated testing preparation and execution in support of all business requirements so as to achieve business sign-off on all business IT requests.
• Prepared project plans, agendas, minutes to weekly project status meetings; coordinated with project team members with regard to project deliverables and milestones.
• Participated in Weekly Bug review meetings.

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, MS Project, MS Office, Macromedia Flash, M.S. Visio, M.S. Project, J2EE, XML, SQL