Skills

Please use this table to list the skills noted in the Required/Desired section of the 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

Role: Sr. Business System Analyst

Technologies: SharePoint, MS Visio, RUP, Clear Quest, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Axure

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with business and functional owners during high-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards.
• Created and updated use cases, requirements, test scripts, and traceability matrices
• IT Consulting and project management working with customers, users, engineers, operations and support at various levels in many industries.
• Contributed to Request for Information RFI , Response to RFP
• Integrated navigational elements with business procedures elements
• Worked with global stakeholders, located in different areas Americas, APAC, EMEA.
• Defined and documented clear and complete detailed business requirements and functional specifications using the SDLC methodology from the Business team.
• Worked with different vendors to gather requirements on different Vendor tools.
• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements
• Worked closely with the Dev team to identify the technical limitations in the existing system.
• Served as liaison between the user groups and the development teams to ensure the best solutions are established for the business needs which involved the project life cycle design sessions, interviews with experts, business requirements gathering, analysis documentation, testing systems implementation production support .
• Conducted JAD session with the global end clients to elicit requirements and user expectations.

Confidential

Role: Sr. Business System Analyst/Project Manager

Technologies Lotus Notes, MS Visio, Waterfall, Agile, SharePoint, Clear Quest, MS Project, UML, Axure

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a highly visible Global CRM project, this application was customized as per different areas Americas, APAC, EMEA .
• Worked with Global Stakeholders/ SMEs to collect requirements for their relevant area.
• Worked extra hours in order to accommodate non-US stakeholders' schedule.
• Worked with LexisNexis team Vendor , provided them with the requirements documentation.
• Served as liaison between EY's Dev team and LexisNexis vendor Dev team.
• Performed Data mapping exercise to map data between three databases.
• Used Axure tool to create wireframes.
• Prepared a POC for converting Metastorm V7.6 to a new platform.
• Provided trainings to QA, Support and UAT teams.
• Reviewed test scripts prepared by LexisNexis and internal QA team and merged the scripts to make sure all the areas are covered.
• For project management purpose worked on Microsoft project, able to update Microsoft share point portal with the updated project documentation.
• Conducted workshops and JAD sessions with Stakeholders to gather detail requirements.
• Prepared BRDs to capture high level business requirements.
• Prepared FRDs Functional Req. Doc and SRDs System Req Doc and Use Case to capture functional/ system requirements.
• Played a key role in the RFP writing and vendor selection process, worked closely with selected vendor on corporate website implementation
• Created and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix in order to keep track of requirements gathered are being developed and tested.
• Prepared Charts, diagrams and presentations to analyze the business requirements.
• Prepared UAT test scripts for Business to test the application.
• Conducted daily UAT and QA status calls with the Stakeholders to identify and validate any issues raised in UAT and provided them with regular status and updates on the issues.
• Helped Stakeholders with setting up user roles in UAT environment.
• Prepared User Guides for the new functionalities and for UAT.

Confidential

Role: Sr. Business System Analyst/Project Manager

Technologies Rational Rose, MS Visio RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Share point, MS Project, UML, Windows XP, NT/2000, SQL 2005.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in major enhancement and maintenance of Client Agreement Register that generates bunch of Agreements using different permutation combinations.
• Proposal, RFI, RFP Writing
• Business analysis and project management consultatnt to the Business Solutions.
• Updated and Maintained Master edits of different Agreement types.
• Worked on MCD migration project - all the data migrated from MCD to a new repository MDocs.
• Providing analysis and management of the current Web Alerts application for conversion of a stand alone, internal application to an integrated solution with other customer facing applications.
• Executed a variety of reports and graphs to demonstrate and analyze WebFOCUS features
• Worked closely with the stake holders to identify and gather business requirements.
• Conducted workshops and JAD sessions with Stakeholders to gather detail requirements.
• Presentations to the stakeholders and Dev team on the new functionalities.
• Prepared BRDs to capture high level business requirements.
• Prepared FRDs Functional Req. Doc and SRDs System Req Doc to capture functional/ system requirements.
• Prepared Charts, diagrams and presentations to analyze the business requirements.
• Played a major role in User Acceptance Testing, conducted a walk thru session with the Stakeholders for the new enhancements.
• Prepared UAT test scripts for Business to test the application.
• Conducted daily UAT status calls with the Stakeholders to identify and validate any issues raised in UAT and provided them with regular status and updates on the issues. Helped Stakeholders with setting up user roles in UAT environment.
• Prepared User Guides for the new functionalities and for UAT.
• Provided training to the Support team on the new functionalities.
• Worked closely with offshore Development team to fix the issues. Conducted SRD/FRD walk thru session with the offshore Dev team.
• Used Clear Quest to log issues and generate outstanding defects report.
• Reviewed QA test cases, coordinating with the offshore QA team to make sure the testing exercise covers all the scenarios.

Confidential

Role: Business System Analyst

Technologies Rational Rose, MS Visio RUP, Agile, Rational Requisite Pro, Share point, MS Project, UML, Windows XP, NT/2000, SQL 2005.

Responsibilities:

• Also involved in a project eAudIT Cop that introduced a new functionality which involved automated validation checks on the eAudIT and OST applications before it is published/submitted.
• Providing integrated defect view for all stakeholders
• Worked closely with the stake holders to identify and gather business requirements.
• Conducted presentations to the stakeholders and Dev team on the new requirements and functionalities.
• Prepared Charts, diagrams and presentations to analyze the business requirements.
• Coordinated with the offshore Dev team to make sure requirements are clearly understood and development adheres with the requirements.
• Prepared PRDs Product Requirement Documents , Scope and Approach documents and release notes.
• Excellent proposal and request for proposal RFP writing and editing skills.
• Prepared screen/UI mockups and process flow diagrams using MS Visio and Snag it.
• Actively involved in each phase of the SDLC.
• Prepared Test cases and tested the new enhancements.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on SQL 2005 Full Text Search project All the current searches on multiple Applications were replaced by SQL Full Text Search .
• Created data models using SQL 2005 and worked closely with the developers in creating tables.
• Created Reports using SSRS.
• Worked on an Application that provided feed to Global Applications using Web Service Technology.
• Worked on a project which involved providing a Full and Delta Entity Data extract file to Down stream applications.
• Prepared Proof of Concept for a new project.
• Followed a structured approach to gathering and formalizing business requirements expressed by managers, process owners and operational users of the information system.
• Conducted JAD sessions with end-users to identify user requirements and also to collaborate with developers for application development.
• Prepared BRDs, captured core business process information, business rules, business entities and other relevant information by writing Use Cases and Functional Specifications. Prepared Use Cases on the existing Applications covering all the functionalities of the Application.
• Conducted Presentations, coordinated Meetings and sent out Meeting Minutes.
• Involved in designing User Interfaces for developing prototypes using Visio and Snag it.
• Followed the UML based methods by using Visio to create Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams. Prepared Business Process Flow documents.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Used Share point and Documentum to document requirements.
• Prepared and conducted formal Presentations to the management.
• Helped Tech team in creating Data model.
• Interfaced with developers to identify and resolve technical issues and bugs in the software to validate end-user requirements.
• Conducted Business user training for new functionalities introduced.
• Involved in reviewing Entity Relationship, Data Flow, State Transition and Class Diagrams with the developers.
• Prepared Release Notes for the QA team. Created Test cases for testing the application as well as back end testing.

Confidential

Role:Business System Analyst/Project Manager

Technologies Rational Rose, MS Visio RUP, Documentum, SharePoint, MS Project, UML, Windows XP, NT/2000, Quality Center, Mercury Load Runner, Quick Test Pro

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Documentum migration project to version 6.5. Also, worked on Documentum Application customizing enhancements.
• RFP writing, proposal generation and ultimately customer solution presentations
• Oversaw and coordinated between three departments product development, project management and marketing
• Designed an integrated and complete set of subsystems to support the management and payment of Financial Consultants from their date of hire to termination or retirement
• Worked on Portal project based on Documentum. Created Document Libraries and tagged data with custom metadata. Provided details to developers about content type.
• Worked on a new Application that involved development of Database as well as UIs starting from requirements gathering till the release of the application.
• Created and updated use cases, requirements, test scripts, and traceability matrice
• Worked on Archiving project that archived data of all the existing applications.
• Worked on enhancements for the couple of ongoing Compliance and Risk Applications.
• Worked extensively with Offshore Business team and outsourced tech team.
• As a QA, created Test scenarios and Test scripts for SIT and UAT using Quality Center.
• Conducted System Integration testing and load testing for a new application.
• Actively involved in migrating data from Mercury Test Director to Quality Center.
• Helped Stakeholders to conduct testing UAT using Quick Test Pro.
• Involved actively in the Release Management.
• As a BA Gathered and formalized business requirements expressed by stake holders, process owners and operational users of the information system.
• Conducted JAD sessions with end-users to identify user requirements and also collaborated with developers for application development.
• Captured system requirements by writing Use Cases. Translated Business requirements in to Functional Specifications and Technical specifications.
• Conducted formal presentations to the management. Provided monthly status report to the management.
• Involved in designing User Interfaces for developing prototypes.
• Conducted Stake holders training sessions for the new functionalities introduced. Provided training to the Global Support Centre and prepared Support Guides.
• Interfaced with technical team to identify and resolve technical issues and bugs in the software to validate end-user requirements.
• Worked with the Project Manager on preparing Project Plans and resource allocation.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM .

Confidential

Role: Business System Analyst

Technologies Rational Rose, MS Visio RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, SharePoint 2003, MS Project, UML, Windows XP, NT/2000

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Web Application project that used SharePoint as a document repository for task allocation and tracking.
• Gathered Business Requirements, created Functional Requirements Document FRD and analyzed data/workflows defined the scope, financial projections and cost/benefit analysis progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented designs.
• Worked to create Data Mapping Documents and worked with business to write transformation rules.
• Executed test scripts.
• During my tenure, the team moved from a traditional project management methodology to agile methodology.
• Did Data cleansing to detect and correct corrupt data. I was responsible for creating and maintaining end-to-end data mapping and data conversion spreadsheet.
• Involved in creating Entity-Relationship diagrams for the design of database and dimensional modeling.

Confidential

Role: Business System Analyst

Technologies Windows NT, MS-Project, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business needs for the new cash management application.
• Wrote technical papers, gathered technical requirements, and compiled them to help the design system. .
• Analyzed existing functionality systems for both the banks and revised them as the needed.
• Performed Unit Testing and Documenting.
• Assisted in building a business analysis process model.

1 Technical Skills:

Project Management Coordination Skills

• Comprehensive training and applications of all Microsoft Office and Project Management software
• Developed and maintained project plans including setting timelines, task scheduling, resource allocations and milestone analysis using Gantt Charts.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Coordinated Meetings with multiple offshore teams, created Meeting agendas and sent out Meeting Minutes.
• Coordinated work status of different teams and presented to the higher management.

Quality Analyst Skills

• Extensive experience in preparing Systems, QA and UAT test cases.
• Extensive experience with Quality Assurance tools like Quality Center, Mercury Load Runner, Test Director, Quick Test Pro.
• Extensive experience in conducting Performance testing, Quality Assurance testing and System Integration Testing.