SUMMARY

• Around 5 years of experience as Agile Business Analyst wif solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Translating Requirements into Specifications, and Application Design.
• Working expertise in Software Development Life cycle (SDLC), Software Development Methodologies including Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, and Agile.
• Actively used ad lead Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions wif Business users, SME’s and Stake holders alike in gathering requirements and analyzing them to identify the real business need and facilitating the development of a customized solution which delivers maximum cost and usability benefit to the client and company.
• Strong working experience in grooming stories, writing user stories and requirements traceability.
• Communicate the functional requirements to IT team by creating Atlassian JIRA user stories.
• Experience in Product Management, Customer Service, Consumer Research, Web Analytics, Business Process improvement and Service delivery projects.
• Extensive experience in preparing business process flow diagrams using MS Office Suite, MS Visio.
• Proficient wif SQL.
• Design AS IS and TO BE Business Process flows.
• Contribute for writing test plans, test scenarios, test cases and gather test data.
• Participate in Scrum, sprint planning, burn down and velocity reporting, backlog prioritization, retrospectives.
• Performed data analysis by querying SQL queries to validate data and map as per data requirements.
• Extensive experience in creation of Use Case Scenarios for Business processes.
• Strongly experienced in conducting UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and worked wif QA Teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98, XP, Windows 7, Windows 10

Application Software: MS Office suite

Databases: SQL Developer, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall and RUP

User Stories Management Tools: JIRA, Collaborate, SharePoint, MS Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Have worked on CITI - Bank AVATAR projects where the Soule responsibility was to improve the look and feel of the dashboard.
• Lead daily and weekly team meetings to discuss functional Enhancement and Modification requests and recommended solutions to challenging problems.
• Worked wif Product Owners and Business Teams in maintaining and prioritizing, defining and grooming user stories.
• Conduct Agile Scrum Ceremonies in absence of Scrum Master - Scrum daily standup, Sprint Planning, Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Created Sprint burn down charts, Scrum Team Capacity and velocity reporting, backlog Prioritization and Sprint retrospectives.
• Written User Stories being part of agile teams and responsible for User Stories management as per the Agile Scrum process.
• Strong working experience in Agile BA role as part of product owners’ team, gatheird business requirements and translated in user stories.
• Performed data mapping by querying SQL queries to validate data and map as per data requirements.
• Working experience in querying using SQL for analyzing the data requirements and database management needs.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and responsible completely for UAT kick off to Sign Off.

Environment: SharePoint, Confluence, Mainframe, Java, PL/SQL, Oracle, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Visio, MS-PowerPoint

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the registration page of Confidential Airlines applications. The purpose of dis document was to introduce high priority functional requirement of the Airlines reservation system.
• Written Functional Requirement for the developers.
• Gather KBR’s (Key Business Requirements) and translate them into functional and non- functional requirements.
• Airline Registration transactions screening.
• Worked wif User Business Teams for registration Sanctions Risk Management.
• Extensive work on business processes, requirements, test cases, and defects management.
• Responsible for creating business requirements, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, release activity documentation in MS Word and MS Excel.
• Facilitate application implementation meetings for various business analysis activities and responsibilities.
• Work wif development teams on implementing requirements as per the business needs.
• Support Quality Assurance team in test planning, test strategies, test scripting, test execution.
• Strong work experience in Collaborate Tool and PTMS (Project Management Tool) wif JIRA.
• Work in HPQC (HP Quality center) for creating, tracking, and monitoring defects as per the bug lifecycle to ensure dat the bugs fixed as needed.
• Conduct UAT and responsible for driving all UAT activities as part of release management role.
• Support business teams wif training documents after production go live on using new functionalities.

Environment: PTS (Portfolio Tracking System), HP ALM, Collaborate, MS-Word, MS- Excel, MS-PowerPoint, Java, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Apollo Registration page for new patient.
• Evaluate, analyze, and determine the functional and non-functional requirements for systems requirements to perform requirement analysis and document requirements.
• Led daily and weekly team meetings to discuss functional Enhancement and Modification requests and recommended solutions to challenging problems.
• Worked wif Product Owners and Business Teams in maintaining and prioritizing, defining and grooming user stories.
• Written User Stories being part of agile teams and responsible for User Stories management as per the Agile Scrum process.
• Strong working experience in Agile BA role as part of product owners’ team, gatheird business requirements and translated in user stories.
• Performed data mapping by querying SQL queries to validate data and map as per data requirements
• Working experience in querying using SQL for analyzing the data requirements and database management needs.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and responsible completely for UAT kick off to Sign Off.

Environment: SharePoint, Confluence, Mainframe, Java, PL/SQL, Oracle, MS-Word, MS- Excel, MS-Visio, MS-PowerPoint

Confidential

UAT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing, developing, and implementing new online cab booking application.
• The primary goal of dis project is to increase Confidential ’s profit margin by making it more user friendly for the consumers and eliminate any hassle while booking a ride.
• Gatheird Business Requirements from documents and mockups.
• Written various UAT Test Cases for testing the application.
• Executed UAT Test cases as per the Business requirements.
• Handled defects as per UAT Defect Management Lifecycle.

Environment: Java, Oracle, MS-Word, MS-Excel, UAT Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data.