SUMMARY

• Result oriented Business Analyst with 6 years of experience in IT, with very strong analytical skills and documentation skills, and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and take up new challenges.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle hands on experience with waterfall, agile.
• Being able to play liaison between business and technology teams
• Immense exposure to Enterprise analysis
• Hands on experience with elicitation techniques Brainstorming, JAD, JAR, Interviews, Prototyping, focus group
• Facilitating JAD and JAR sessions, Interviews and focus groups
• Ability to interface with high - end business stakeholders and Subject Matter Expert (SME)
• Adept in transforming business needs and objectives into technical documentation for the benefit of technology teams
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent documentation and specification skills
• Analytical thinking, Problem solving, Process improvement, Solution assessment Business process reengineering capabilities
• Immense exposure to gap analysis that includes as is and process mapping, solution assessment and scope definition
• Enhanced modelling techniques with different types of diagrams, UML, BPF
• Wire framing and prototyping skills
• Build and implement methodologies designed per industry best practices
• Able to work in teams and can work with teams in other countries

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Cloud Services AZURE, SharePoint

Applications/Tools: MS office 2016, MS Access 2016, MS Visio 2016, Axure 7.0 pro, SQL 2014, Rationale Requisite pro, JIRA, Storyboarding tools (Trello), TFS tools

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile with scrum

Programming languages: Angular Js, C#, C++, ORACLE, Java, .Net

Operating systems: MS Windows, UNIX, LINUX

Databases: SQL, DB2, ORACLE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working as liaison between stakeholders and technology team to interpret business needs
• Completed Enterprise analysis to identify business opportunities or process improvements using TOGAF frame work
• Responsible for creating project artifacts like business case, vision and scope document
• Responsible for performing cost benefit analysis to compare the total costs of a project with its benefits
• Performing GAP analysis to compare actual performance with desired performance
• Eliciting the project requirements from the stakeholders by facilitating JAD, JAR, Interview sessions, Focus groups
• Collaborated and negotiated with stakeholders in defining project scope boundaries
• Conducted Brainstorming sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly
• Helping the business stakeholders envision the future and how their work will need to change to support the future
• Documenting, analyzing, and validating detailed functional specifications and all the project requirements
• Documented system requirements and business requirements and created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Developing wire frames, prototype to elicit functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Documenting Use cases and designing UML diagrams (Use case model, Activity diagram, Sequence diagram)
• Designed process flow diagrams reflecting current and proposed business processes and its functionality
• Performing Risk analysis, prioritization of risks and its impact to project
• Build and design customized templates for documentation
• Implemented cloud services hosting solution (Ex: MS AZURE)
• Conducted structured walkthrough of requirements with multiple stakeholder groups
• Engaged in system testing during User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and system requests based on business requirements
• Created change requests, review them with the team and publish the Change Request Document
• Involved in User Interface (UI) analysis with the business team to validate accuracy
• Participating in enterprise wide business analysis community development

Confidential, Webster, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform Enterprise analysis to understand enterprise architecture domains and frame work which includes Business, Data, Application, Technical
• Proposed and implemented business process improvement solutions across the enterprise
• Responsible for creating requirement artifacts like Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• Perform feasibility analysis to evaluate multiple options and determine best fit solution
• Perform GAP analysis to evaluate solution scope by doing an AS IS to TO BE comparative study
• Facilitating JAD sessions to elicit high level and detailed requirements from key stakeholders, SME’s, end users and technology leads
• Developed survey questions to elicit and prioritize the functional requirements
• Resolved stakeholder conflicts and ensured no scope creep during project implementation
• Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications
• Documenting Use cases for functional requirements
• Documented and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure proper requirements management
• Documenting and managing Product and Sprint backlogs
• Participated in Daily Agile Scrum, Biweekly Sprint Planning and Retrospective Sessions and update the team on work status
• Implementing UML 2.0 standards across multiple project artifacts
• Participating in enterprise wide business analysis community development
• Facilitated wire frame creation & final design of the system's UI
• Instrumental in development and implementation of standard BA methodology based on industry best practices

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working as liaison between stakeholders and technology team to interpret business needs
• Perform Enterprise analysis to determines operational objectives
• Understand the business requirements and identified gaps in different processes and implemented process improvement initiatives across the business improvement model
• Developed process mapping of current and future business processes
• Translated business user concepts and ideas into comprehensive business requirements and design documents
• Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.
• Perform Root cause analysis to determine solution to the problems, using different techniques like 5 Whys, Fishbone analysis, Pareto analysis
• Participating in Brainstorming sessions and JAD sessions
• Perform stakeholder analysis to perform identify team members and build a communication plan to interface with different user groups
• Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions
• Designing activities diagrams for application process and documenting use cases
• Developing and delivering Executive-level presentations

Confidential 

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identify and define pain points, business need, problem areas and opportunities
• Implemented SMART techniques to assess business goals and objectives
• Used Function Point Analysis (FPA)technique to perform functional decomposition of solution
• Implemented RUP methodology as service delivery approach for project execution
• Performed stakeholder analysis using RASCI technique and build a communications plan for interfacing with the stakeholders during project implementation
• Responsible for business analysis activities during requirements phase of the SDLC
• Participating in JAD sessions as the designated scribe and responsible for documenting Minutes of the meeting
• Participated in requirements prioritization sessions with high-end stakeholders while using MOSCOW technique
• Conducted collaborative games like 100point method, Planning poker etc. with key stakeholders and SME’s to prioritize requirements
• Performed root cause analysis to determine solution for pain points using Fishbone analysis technique
• Documented Low Level Requirements (LLR’s like functional and non-functional requirements)