SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience in ITC Industry which includes 7+ years as a Business Analyst
• Excellent analytical, critical and creative thinking, project management and problem solving skills in designing, developing, and implementing innovative business process and provide system solutions using new approaches.
• Experience in gathering Business requirements, Business processes, identifying risks and impact analysis, performing GAP analysis, and Data Analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, design and deliver cost - effective and high-performance technology infrastructures and/or application to address complex business problems.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience including Requirements, Specifications Analysis/Design, and Testing as per the Agile Iterative Software Development Life Cycle process.
• Skilled in eliciting user demands and translating them to data, functional, quality and usability requirements.
• Efficient in preparing Business Requirement Document, Vision Documents, Process Flow Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams.
• Documenting and identifying System Requirements; managing them using Requisite Pro.
• Experienced in UML modeling, including Use Cases, Sequence, and Activity diagrams using tools such as Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, conducted workshops with clients and assisted them in defining business requirements.
• Interviewing Subject Matter experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Performed Data Profiling while designing and developing validation models to meet data quality requirements.
• Ability to effectively and accurately capture meeting minutes, and document and publish those minutes to meeting participants.
• Excellent team player capable of working in highly complex and dynamic environments
• Possess strong analytical, verbal, inter-personal skills that help in communicating with developers, quality analysts, clients, and also in writing the reports and test documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SDLC, RUP, UML, Waterfall, Agile

Business Modeling Tools: Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio

Change Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest

Version Control Systems: Rational Clear Case

Test Management Tools: Rally, HP Quality Centre, Jira, HP ALM

Test Automation tools: Selenium Suite, Perfecto Mobile

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Perl

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office

Operating Systems: MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

Databases: SQL Basic, DB2, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the project.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing GAP analysis and document them textually or within models.
• Interviewed area experts, asking detailed questions and recorded the requirements which can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Involved in converting the user requirements into business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements and also created business process models from the requirement specs.
• Documenting and identifying System Requirements; managing them using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Use Case specifications, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagram and Sequence diagram using Rational Rose/MS-Visio.
• Worked with the project team to design a software application that will support the business and meet the constraints of time, resources and budget.
• Applied Data Modeling techniques to recognize and identify patterns in data relationships from disparate systems conforming to organizations' business standards.
• Verified the business scenarios on new builds for testing by QA team.
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases based on user requirements and functional specifications.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for tracking and prioritizing defects.

Environment: Window XP, MS Visio, MS Office, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, UML, Agile.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the project.
• Involved in converting the user requirements into business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements and also created business process models from the requirement specs.
• Documenting and identifying System Requirements; managing them using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Use Case specifications, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagram and Sequence diagram using Rational Rose/MS-Visio.
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases based on user requirements and functional specifications.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for tracking and prioritizing defects.

Environment: Window XP, MS Visio, MS Office, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, UML, Agile.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the project.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing GAP analysis and document them textually or within models.
• Interviewed area experts, asking detailed questions and recorded the requirements which can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Involved in converting the user requirements into business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements and also created business process models from the requirement specs.
• Documenting and identifying System Requirements; managing them using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Use Case specifications, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagram and Sequence diagram using Rational Rose/MS-Visio.
• Worked with the project team to design a software application that will support the business and meet the constraints of time, resources and budget.
• Applied Data Modeling techniques to recognize and identify patterns in data relationships from disparate systems conforming to organizations' business standards.
• Verified the business scenarios on new builds for testing by QA team.
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases based on user requirements and functional specifications.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for tracking and prioritizing defects.

Environment: Window XP, MS Visio, MS Office, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, UML, Agile.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered customer requirements from various end users through interviews and JAD sessions.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Prepared Use Case surveys, briefs and specification for all the functional requirements identified.
• Responsible for converting the User requirements into business requirements and functional requirements respectively. Managed the requirements using Requisite Pro.
• Modeled the detailed design of the system using UML and Rational Rose, Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
• Implemented SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizing Scrum methodology.
• Created functional and non-functional documents.
• Prepared reports, involved in various groups for improvement in business processes.
• Documented test cases during requirements, analysis and design phases.
• Assisted in system and user acceptance testing.

Environment: MS Access, MS Visio, DB2, SQL, Rational Rose, MS Project, MS office suite.

Sr.QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered customer requirements from various end users through interviews and JAD sessions.
• Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Prepared Use Case surveys, briefs and specification for all the functional requirements identified.
• Responsible for converting the User requirements into business requirements and functional requirements respectively. Managed the requirements using Requisite Pro.
• Modeled the detailed design of the system using UML and Rational Rose, Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
• Implemented SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizing Scrum methodology.
• Created functional and non-functional documents.
• Prepared reports, involved in various groups for improvement in business processes.
• Documented test cases during requirements, analysis and design phases.
• Assisted in system and user acceptance testing.

Environment: MS Access, MS Visio, DB2, SQL, Rational Rose, MS Project, MS office suite.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from the Stake Holders and followed the UML based methods using MS Visio for Business Modeling.
• Interacted with the Stakeholders to get a better understanding of business processes and gather Business requirements.
• Followed an RUP structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential Business processes, Business rules.
• Identified use cases from the functional requirements and wrote use case specifications and created business process workflow diagrams.
• Conducted JAD sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets
• Responsible for tracking and resolving various project issues using MS Excel and MS Project.

Environment: MS Access, MS Visio, MS Project, MS office.