SUMMARY

• Almost 4 years of IT experience as Business Analyst with applied real - time experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment as well as software engineering methods like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile and Waterfall Method.
• Expert in business process engineering and software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications.
• Interaction with stakeholders, to elicit and document detailed business and functional requirements.
• Expertise in employing MS Project, IBM Rational tools including Clear Quest and RequisitePro to track, analyze and manage requirements, to ensure traceability through various stages of the SDLC.
• Adept at reducing development costs and providing traceability of projects.
• Create use cases, perform testing, identify and document system deficiencies/issues with recommendations.
• Perform Function Point Analysis (FPA) to determine the effort involved with each of the requirements. Create change orders and document change in scope, and lessons learnt from each release.
• Ability to analyze and document complex business/research requirements and processes.
• Extensive use of MS Visio to create use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, system and process-flow diagrams
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills; expert at managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• In-depth knowledge of data modeling and mapping - design using UML and Visio.
• Good team player with strong interpersonal, analytical and leadership skills.
• Innovative thinker, willing to learn and adapt to novel methodologies.
• Familiarity with C++, C#, ASP.Net, VBScript, HTML, JavaScript

TECHNICAL SKILLS

GUI/ Business Tools: MS Project, Rational Clear Quest, MS Visio, IBM Requisite Pro, IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM Rational Clear Case, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Operating Systems: Windows 7/2000/XP/VISTA, MSDOS, UNIX, MAC, IMS Mainframes.

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, SQL

Known Programming Languages: XML, C++, C#, ASP .Net, VB .Net, HTML, JavaScript

Other software: Visual Studio, MS SharePoint, MS Publisher, 3DViewnix, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicit and document client’s business and technical requirements.
• Interact with stakeholders, analyze and document the requirements through various stages of the SDLC.
• Document the requirements specifications, business processes and recommendations.
• Extensive research of potential requirements, facilitating planned scoping.
• Scoping requirements, refining them through further communication between business and technical teams.
• Schedule, manage and document major software releases.
• Perform function point analysis and counting to determine the effort involved with each of the requirements.
• Facilitate communication across stakeholders, manage meetings.
• Create use cases, perform testing, identify and document system deficiencies/issues with recommendations.
• Expertise in SQL queries for testing and data feeds.
• Trace the requirements through the various stages of the system development life cycle to ensure client’s business needs and requirements are met.
• Create change orders and document change in scope, and lessons learnt from each release.
• Interact with stakeholders to follow-up and gather data and feedback to ensure quality of service and document plausible service improvements.

Environment: Rational Clear Quest, IBM Requisite Pro, IBM RFT, MS Project and Microsoft Office, SQL.

Confidential, PA

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and documentation of research requirements.
• Developing project plans, with clearly enlisted milestones and Gantt charts using MS Project to facilitate planned execution of the project goals.
• Extensive interaction with various stakeholders of the research team.
• Comprehensive documentation on the evolution of research ideas/requirements based on experimental/program outputs.
• Collaborating and working with 3DVIEWNIX to ensure complete processing of clinical 3d images.
• Overlook and manage scripting and coding in C++, to implement and execute specific well-defined image processing tasks and modules in 3DVIEVNIX.
• Perform scripting and coding in C++, to implement and execute specific well-defined image processing tasks and modules in 3DVIEVNIX.

Environment: MS Project, Visio, 3DVIEWNIX, SQL, C++, UNIX, MS Office

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience with healthcare and PA state welfare initiatives of Bureau of Autism Services (BAS) and Office of Long Term Living (OLTL.)
• Involved in project initiatives which facilitated web access functionality to the list available of healthcare providers, thereby enhancing the quality of service rendered to citizens of Pennsylvania.
• To understand client organization's direction, structure, and requirements.
• To interact with stakeholders, understand, analyze and document the required information.
• To document the requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations.
• Perform testing, identify and document system deficiencies/issues with recommendations.
• Trace the requirements through the various stages of the development life cycle to ensure the satisfaction of the client’s business needs.
• Communicate and interact with stakeholders to effectively gather data and feedback.