Skills

Please use this table to list the skills noted in the Required/Desired section of the Peoplefluent requirement. In addition, please respond with the years of experience for each skill and the last time each skill was used. Add or delete rows as necessary.

Employment History

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Obtained a detailed knowledge of business process involved in the project environment.
• Interacted with SMEs, Directors, IT and Vendors for overall understanding and need of the system. Was able to fine tune the business rules with inputs.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business rules as system rules that must be included while developing the software
• Worked extensively with GUI team for designing the screens and assisted in developing screen shows, and prototyping of the user interface and usability testing.
• Gathered the requirements for a trust/custodian to open an account
• Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRDs Business Requirement Documents supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data rules.
• Extracted the business requirements for the end users keeping in mind their need for the application.
• Experience providing on going system maintenance evaluation of systems
• Established Business Analysis methodology using Agile Extreme Programming to create Architecture and Interaction models.
• Assisted testing team and engaged in writing test plans, test cases, conducted functional testing, UAT User Acceptance Testing , developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
• Extensively involved in JAD sessions to converge early towards a design acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME Subject Matter Expertise , vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Scheduled meetings with data analysts, developers, System Analysts to explain the business needs and fine tune the requirements. .
• Made recommendations to improve the current application performance depending on time limitations and capacity constraints with the aid of SCR's Scope Change Requests .
• Authored progress and completion reports, which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
• Assisted in testing the application for Usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application for intended users and tools that will be released out to the field users.

Environment: MS Word, MS Visio, MS Projects, Mercury Quality Center, MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005, MS SharePoint, M O Serve ME Integrated business system .SDLC.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Analysis to analyze the current system and worked with internal users to help define system requirements.
• Assisted in developing Project Proposal, Business Case and Business rules.
• Organized various JAD sessions with development architects and business leads to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet business needs.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.
• Responsible for scheduling meetings with users, SMEs and stakeholders to identify problems resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Worked collaboratively with User Experience Analysts, and System Analysts to help document custom and system modifications.
• Worked extensively with GUI team for designing the screens and assisted in developing screen shows, and prototyping of the user interface and usability testing.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining documentation related to the project including scope document, vision document, functional specification document, defect status report, risk analysis document, mitigation plans, supplementary requirements specification document and impact analysis document.
• Closely worked with testing team for Functional testing and business team for User Acceptance Testing UAT
• Experience providing on going system maintenance evaluation of systems
• Developed Traceability Matrix for maintaining updating current and new system requirements using MS Excel.
• Created and managed Use Case templates.
• Developed Functional Use Cases to enable developers and other stakeholders to understand the business process.
• Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data.
• Used problem and change management software to document work requests for release activities.
• Coordinated with teams within the organization to collect release requirements.
• Produced and managed documentation on release activities to support problem resolution and post-release analysis. Reviewing use cases authored by the off shore team for the second release.

Environment: MS Word, MS Visio, MS Projects, Mercury Quality Center, .Net framework 3.0, ASP.Net, XML, HTML, SQL Server, MS SharePoint, M O Serve ME Integrated business system .SDLC

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented modified RUP approach in interfacing and interviewing different stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Facilitated JAD sessions. Took aggressive efforts towards completion and finalization of documentation towards the end of JAD sessions.
• Analyzed requirement document by identifying ambiguous, incomplete and incorrect requirements. Helped in developing attribute matrix and functionality traceability matrix.
• Acted as liaison between Information Systems group and Business User group.
• Analyzed and collected business requirements, identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.
• Defined user and system requirements for existing and proposed system during existing system integration and new system development initiatives.
• Involved in risk-management process whereby identified critical areas of business risk and modified the business process to reduce the same.
• Experience providing on going system maintenance evaluation of systems
• Developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases and implemented User Acceptance Test Plan, Performed User Acceptance Testing UAT with users by providing test data and recommended and coordinated development efforts and enhancements.
• Studied carefully all of the organization's policies and procedures relating to loans.
• Identified use cases and created Use case, Activity, Sequence, collaboration diagrams and wireframe using MS Visio.
• Worked with data modelers in creating conceptual and logical data models for the warehouse.
• Created data mapping documents DMD and data models for the project to map the data from the source feeds onto the target repository.
• Worked extensively with GUI team for designing the screens and assisted in developing screen shows, and prototyping of the user interface and usability testing.
• Developed test plans and performed testing of the various customers fields and tested the message behavior functionality. The messages are tracked in the system using proprietary tools.
• Extensively worked with quality analysts to make sure that the functionality meets requirements.
• Conducted walkthroughs with development team and stakeholders.

Environment: UML, RUP, MS Project, MS Access, MS Visio, VB .Net, Oracle 8.1, Windows, SDLC

Confidential

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted PMO Leadership Team with the coordination and administration of the Project Management Office including but not limited to the following activities: managing and adjusting project timeline, IT development work efforts for standardization of project implementations, administration duties, monitoring deadlines, activity and issue tracking.
• Gathered and analyzed data in support of SOP's, business use cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements for mortgage loan origination system using RUP standards.
• Interacted with Business Owners, Users, and Stakeholders to identify Business System Needs, evaluated solutions for business problems, and prepared Business Requirements Document BRD .
• Represented the business requirements in various alternative views such as analysis models, process flow diagrams and user stories.
• Worked with SMEs of different groups to gain detailed knowledge of Treasury Services, Commercial Loans, and RSA SecurID Setup to understand the cross impacts of the system.
• Uses UML to produce AS IS and TO BE models
• Followed solely RUP methodologies during the course of the project.
• Experience providing on going system maintenance evaluation of systems
• Conducted Gap Analysis to define the impact of the new requirements on the existing GUI and further prepared Business Impact Analysis Reports.
• Extensively used tools such as Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, MS Access
• Worked extensively with GUI team for designing the screens and assisted in developing screen shows, and prototyping of the user interface and usability testing
• Assisted with user testing of systems UAT User Acceptance Testing , developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring the appropriate documentation.
• Designed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define the Business Process.
• Analyzed the Data Entity Relationships and worked on Functional Requirements Document FRD .
• Worked on multiple short term projects in between and co-led teams
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate with each other, resolve problems at an early stage.
• Coordinated with the test team to check the Weekly Status and Report it to the Project Manager.
• Responsible for Interacting with the Developers to explain the proposed changes and ensure understanding of the system requirements to handle these changes.
• Developed and maintained Service Oriented Architecture SOA governance process costing models and metrics ensuring architecture compliance.
• Generated reports using Crystal Reports.

Environment: SDLC, UML, User Count Tool, Rational Tools Suite, MS Project, MS Office, Windows XP, MS Access, MS Visio,