SUMMARY

• Proactive, Zealous, Self - radiant, Critical Thinker, Result Oriented, Commercially Savvy and Pragmatic Senior Business Analyst with over 8 years of experience in Business Analysis. Certified Scrum Master with proven ability to work with self-organizing and cross-functional teams in a wide spectrum of Finance, Accounting and Ecommerce sectors.
• Appreciative knowledge of different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Rational Unified Process methodology (RUP) and Agile methodologies - SCRUM, Scaled Agile and Kanban. Also worked in Scrum-Waterfall hybrid environment.
• Extensive years of experience in Business process re-engineering, Business process improvements, Historical Data Reports Analysis accompanied by active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with customers.
• Expertise in Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Development, and post-production support of various applications with capability in prototyping documents, models and attributes for consistency, completeness and risk minimization.
• Analyzed source systems, business requirements, and developed User, Functional and Non-Functional requirements. Proficiency in gathering SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) requirements and transforming them into functional specifications focusing on workflow analysis and design, user interface design, and process flow modeling.
• Business writing skills in creating Business requirements document (BRD), Use-Case Specifications, Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), High level and Low-level documents (HLD/LLD). In addition, good understanding in preparing Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) Matrix.
• Organized and facilitated Requirements Gathering Sessions (Prototyping, Interviews, brainstorming and JAD sessions) with end users, Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and stakeholders in order to document decisions regarding future state of business processes.
• High expertise in tracing requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence to Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). Thereby Proven success in eliciting requirement, As-Is and To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Cost benefit analysis, Risk assessment, and SWOT analysis.
• Well acquainted with workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams including Use Cases, Activity Charts, Sequence diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams and ER Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS-Visio thus assisting the development team in preparing Business Process Model.
• Facilitated Sprint ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming) for each sprint in Agile Scrum Methodology as Scrum Master.
• Proficient in writing User Stories and handling the Requirements Churn. Efficient at performing, prioritizing and efficiency analyzing techniques such as Planning poker, MoSCoW and T-Shirt Sizing.
• Experience working in big data environment, in implementing business logic and optimize the queries using Hive Language (HiveQL), NoSql.
• Worthy understanding of database concepts like Data Warehousing, Data Structures, Schemas, Data Marts, Data-Entity Relationships and User Administration. Worked extensively with Data warehouses by migrating data from various OLTP’s to OLAP cube using ETL tools such as Informatica power center and SSIS.
• Involved with extensive client interactions and converting business functionalities into Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) models across heterogeneous IT environments. Experienced working in Three-tier architecture, Ajax, Web Services (SOAP, WSDL), Client-Side Validation and Server-Side Validations.
• Collaborated in various types of testing like Functional (Black-Box) testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Accompanied with expertise in developing Test cases, Test plans and Test procedures in manual and automated test environments.
• Shield against Impediments, result oriented, hardworking combined with ability to work under pressure and to keep up with the deadlines. Excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, management, technical, written skill problem-solving, interpersonal and negotiation skills with Developers, Application Architects, Subject Matter Experts, business users as well as senior executives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Big Data: Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Hue, Pig, Sqoop, mapR 2.0

Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, Mockup Screens, Wireframes

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum, Waterfall-RUP

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting.

Requirement Management: MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM 11.5, Rational ClearQuest, Rally

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint Server

Testing Tools: HP QC v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins

Financial tools: MS Excel functions and pivot tables, Financial Statement Analysis

ETL Tools: Informatica, Data Stage, (SSDT-BI), Oracle Warehouse Builder.

Reporting tools: Tableau Desktop, IBM Cognos, MS Office Suite, Spotfire, SAP Logon

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, Angular JS, CSS, jQuery, C++, .Net, Java, J2EE

Databases: MySQL, MS Access, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Senior Business System Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Organized Scrum Workshop, facilitated Scrum Ceremonies and different retrospective techniques.
• Interacted with stakeholders to identify business needs and elicit requirements using elicitation techniques such as JAD sessions, Functional Decomposition, Interviews and Questionnaire.
• Created UML diagrams such as Use Case, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Data Models, Dimensional Data Models and ER diagrams using MS Visio.
• Gained knowledge about federal securities laws and regulations SEC, SIPC and FINRA regulations.
• Created Business Requirements Document (BRD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS) to in corporate functional, non-functional, GUI Requirements, Data Requirements, Use Case Model and RTM.
• Performed root cause analysis to identify data quality problems, and historical trends.
• Performed data profiling to identify inaccuracy in Data along with preparation of Data Mapping document.
• Assisted in design review meetings to make sure all the requirements are covered in development.
• Carried out research to understand various APIs in the market and select the best-suited API for the project.
• Coached teams to write effective user stories using INVEST criteria, and tasks using SMART criteria, defined Acceptance criterions, and Definition of Done. Used various Estimation, planning and Retrospective techniques such as Moscow, Agile Poker and Star Fish.
• Coached my scrum teams to be self-organizing, transparent, cross-functional and accountable.
• Organized multiple team building activities to improve the team’s morale and productivity.
• Worked closely with UI team in developing the web application, XML documents and validated XML, HTML and Java Script. Assisted Web services team in designing REST services and configuring WADL.
• Maintained a Kanban board along with Scrum to enforce visibility along with continuous flow in work.
• Checked the format, used XSD files to validate the XML for Well-formed ness as well as validity.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.
• Proficient in prioritizing techniques like MoSCoW, KANO and Walking Skeleton.
• Helped the teams to determine Story Points for User Stories using Estimation Techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt Sizing, Relative Mass Valuation and Dot Voting; helping teams achieve more with a Higher level of Satisfaction.
• Worked on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) primarily including RESTful web services and JSON.
• Differentiated Client side and server-side validation components to ensure these components defined rules.
• Made a UI checklist to ensure view provided easy usability, navigation, content and design (Look and Feel)

Environment: - Apache Hadoop, HDFS, Apache Hive, Impala, Kafka, Xignite APIs, Java Spring 4.1, Persistence, Hibernate, HTML 5, CSS3, jQuery 1.11, Kendo UI, AngularJS 1.x, SASS, Oracle 11G/R2, Altova XMLSpy, Atlassian JIRA, AJAX, SharePoint (2010), Microsoft Office, Informatica IDQ, Informatica Power Center

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Senior Business System Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted GAP Analysis by understanding the AS-IS business process and TO-BE business process.
• Wrote down all the requirements in the form of user stories and prioritized them in the product with the help of product owner.
• Wrote Business rules for the verification of valid bank statements.
• As a Scrum Master, facilitated all the scrum ceremonies, namely: Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Scrum Meeting, Product backlog refinement meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Sprint Retrospective meeting.
• Resolved impediments during the entire project life.
• Drafted and updated the sprint burn down charts and tracked the velocity and the sprint progress.
• Worked with DB team to create data models and data mapping documents.
• Was also directly reporting to the Program Manager by submitting weekly reports regarding the progress of the project.
• Dealt with an offshore testing team.
• Created use case, use case diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Was responsible for handling requirement churn.
• Used Web Services using SOAP API to communicate with banking systems of certain other banks from which the user can also directly import his bank statements.
• Used SOA to integrate the various modules of the system.
• Used SSIS to map the data in a central data repository and created data marts for end users to verify the applicant’s bank statements.
• Used JIRA for allotting task and issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability.
• Used SSRS for generating final reports for the underwriter or end user.
• Conducted User Acceptance Test(UAT) along with writing test plans and test cases using HP QC
• Strong knowledge of client side and server-side validation and assisted in writing verbiage for client-side validation using Java Script and Ajax.
• Involved in developing test strategies and assisted in developing test scenarios, test conditions and test cases

Environment: Agile Scrum, HP ALM, Jira, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio (SSIS, SSRS), MS Visio, .Net, HTML, XML, .NET, JAVA, jQuery JavaScript, Angular JS, Cognos 10.2.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Waterfall- Scrum Hybrid Methodology for the development of the application and facilitated sprints and daily stand up meetings.
• Elicited business requirements by participating in JAD sessions, conducting Interview sessions with business users and stakeholders, conducting sessions and consulting existing systems documents.
• Used document analysis to understand the AS-IS process and developed TO-BE process using GAP Analysis.
• Designed the Use Case Diagrams and coordinated with multiple resources in creation of Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Worked on JIRA for bug tracking, issue tracking and project management functions.
• Coordinated with the development team to better define the functionalities of UI on front end and back end application programming interface (API).
• As a Scrum Master, facilitated the Backlog Grooming Meeting, Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand Up Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting and Sprint Retrospective Meeting.
• Proactively resolved impediments faced by team and communicated during Daily Scrum Meetings.
• Established self-organizing qualities by assisting the team to become more accountable, committed and in corporate communication management.
• Worked towards increasing the productivity of the teams by ensuring cadence and transparency.
• Coached the team on the basics of capacity planning during the sprint planning sessions.
• Used multiple prioritization techniques like MOSCOW, KANO and Walking Skeleton.
• Assisted the team to determine Story Points for User Stories using Estimation Techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing, Relative Mass Valuation and Dot Voting.
• Incorporated and coached teams on the importance of Continuous Integration, ATDD and Continuous testing.
• Worked closely with Product management and Program manager in designing the change management plan and analyzed impact, incorporated feedback from business focus groups at each phase.
• Collaborated with Program manager, Product Management to revise User Acceptance criteria and change management plan by integrating the insights from focus groups and impact analysis.

Environment: Waterfall-Scrum hybrid, Atlassian JIRA, MS Visio, SharePoint 13, UModel, Selenium, Informatica Power Center, Tableau, MS (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Java, REST API, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Java Script, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JDBC, Oracle, JSON, WADL, WAQL, XML, JSF Frameworks and XQuery.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in creating the Project initiation document (PID)
• Was responsible for Cost benefit analysis, Risk assessment, and SWOT analysis.
• Conducted GAP Analyses by understanding the AS-IS business process and TO-BE business process.
• Helped the Product owner to come up with the requirements in the form of user stories
• Wrote Business rules pertaining to shipping functionality.
• As a Scrum Master, me facilitated all the scrum ceremonies, namely: Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Scrum Meeting, Product backlog refinement meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Sprint Review meeting.
• Was also responsible for resolving impediments during the entire project life.
• Was also responsible to update the burn down charts.
• Was also directly reporting to the Program Manager by submitting weekly reports regarding the progress of the project.
• Was Responsible for creating use case, use case diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Was responsible for handling requirement churn.
• Used Web Services to connect the shipping services to the existing system with SOAP API.

Environment: Agile-Scrum, Rally, Oracle, Java, Rational Rose, XML, Java Script, Oracle Warehouse BuilderMS Access, MS EXCEL, MS Word.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities

• Actively Involved in Pre-Analysis of project with SME (Subject Matter Experts) and Developers
• Conducted Gap analysis for ‘As-in’ and To-be of the process to identify and validate requirements.
• Participating JAD sessions with SME’s and multiple teams for requirement gathering and refinement.
• Analyzed the gathered requirement and reviewed Business Requirement Document (BRD)/Functional Specification Document (FSD) as well as created System Requirement Specification (SRS) document to describe all data, functional and behavioral requirement of the system.
• Used Share point for content management and document management.
• Wrote Use Case and built Use Case Diagram/ Activity Diagram using MS Visio.
• Created Requirement Traceability matrix (RTM) using HP QC tool.
• Used JIRA for allotting task and issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability.
• Worked with QA team for designingTest Plan and Test Casesfor UAT and regression testing.
• Tableau was used as a data visualization tool to communicate information clearly and efficiently via the statistical graphics, plots, information graphics, tables, and charts selected throughout the project

Environment: Scrum-Waterfall Hybrid, Wireframes, SQL Server, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Visio, GAP Analysis, HP QC, UAT Testing, SharePoint, ASP.net, Tableau, Ajax, XML, Web Server.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Interacted with the customers and internal stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system.
• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements and developing System Specifications.
• Analyzed monthly/quarterly performance against plans and forecast and recommended corrective actions.
• Did rigorous load testing using Load Runner.
• Assessed business priorities, and advised business units on risks and Cost-Benefit analysis.
• Used Rational Rose to generate various UML Diagrams.
• Organized cross training of team members and users to become more responsive.
• Participated in the development and preparation of the Test Plan with the testing team as well as ensuring testability, reliability, usability, maintainability and performance of the application.
• Involved in incident reporting and change and configuration management procedures using Clear Case.
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the application.
• Formed a bridge between the Project Manager and different teams with effective presentations.

Environment: Load Runner, UML, Clear Case, MS Access, MS Office, ASP, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SDLC.