PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in the field of information systems as Business/Systems Analyst and worked extensively on Banking, Finance, Insurance and Mortgage domains.
• Experience in user requirements gathering, use case design and analysis, and use case specifications, scenarios, business processes, work flow diagrams, and technical documentation using Unified Modeling Language UML , MS Office Suite, and Rational Suite.
• Proficient in creating and transforming business requirements into software requirement specifications SRS using MS Word.
• Created user requirement specification URS , functional requirement specification FRS and business process flow systems.
• Having in-depth knowledge of the software development life cycle SDLC methodologies that include Rational Unified Process RUP , Agile and Waterfall Methodology.
• Exceptional ability to research, analyze and translate technical information to end-users at all levels.
• Hands full of experience in MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and Rational Clear Quest.
• Experience in performing Feasibility analysis, Risk analysis and Gap analysis.
• Organized many Joint Application Developments JAD and Joint Requirement Planning sessions JRP , interviews, workshops and requirement elicitation sessions, sessions with end-user/clients/stake holders and the development group.
• Extensively interacted with the QA Team in executing the test plans, providing test data, creating test cases, issuing defects upon detection of bugs and collecting the test metrics.
• Thorough knowledge in Requirement Analysis, Planning, Scheduling Tracking projects.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, adept at creating, editing and coordinating extensive communication networks.
• Broad Knowledge in reviewing test procedures, creating test plans and detailed test plans. Expert facilitating UAT. Analyze bugs interacted with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing UAT and also assisted in post production support.
• Strong work ethics taking ownership of all duties and responsibilities and efficient time management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Worked closely with business teams/project stake holders/SME to map the expectations to the delivery capabilities.
• Conduct user interviews, gathering business requirements and analyze requirements to write system specifications documents. Extensively worked on business processes and workflow sessions.
• Defining system scope and objectives. Preparing BRD Business Requirement Document and FSD Functional Specification Document .
• Heavily interacted with the business users/technology teams to facilitate business and quality assurance reviews.
• Conduct workflow and process analysis GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Partner with clients/peers/technical groups to perform quality reviews on business requirements in order to determine if the requirements fulfill the demands of the end users.
• Conducted many informal sessions to develop an architectural solution, ensured the application met the requirements.
• Assist with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensure that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Worked closely with the project managers to monitor progress, and the deliverables for the project
• Regularly scheduled meetings to review the project status/plan with senior technology staff.
• Organizing Joint Application Development JAD , Joint Requirement Planning JRP and Rapid Application Development RAD sessions with IT groups.
• Creating Need Analysis Documents of the requirements gathered through JAD and JRP sessions using MS Word.
• Attending Sprint sessions with the Project manager and Build manager for knowledge transfer about the present system.
• Expert in Tracking and Managing the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM produced by the teams across the deliverables in the project.
• Creating Screen mock-ups and developing Workflow for all transactions.
• Used Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access for Data Analysis and Reporting.
• Assisting in designing tests plans, test scenarios and test case for integration, regression and User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Using Test Director for assigning and raising an application bugs.

Environment: MS Project 2000, MS Visio, MS Word, SQL, Test Director 7.6, HTML, Unix.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Worked closely with the UI team to ensure that the product has consistent look and feel over the entire application platform.
• Conducted several Requirement Gathering Sessions RGS for gaining detailed requirements and finalizing Business Requirement Document BRD .
• Identified the key business processes to model by analyzing the Requirements and modeled using MS Visio.
• Gathered business requirements, supporting transaction processing.
• Used Rational Rose and UML to produce use case models, and sequence diagrams, as part of the detailed design of interfaces.
• Conducted various meetings with SME, Vendors, users and other stakeholders to understand the user requirements.
• Accumulated business requirements from various business users and translated them into Business requirements document.
• Documented all the discussions, stored the requirements and tracked the changes maintaining the versions of document.
• Functioned as a primary bridge between the business, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Used Rational Unified Process RUP for streamlining the team's development activities.
• Conducted walk through of the requirements to the Vendors and the QA team.
• Participated in testing of the application over the QA environment.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Facilitated the Customers in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs.
• Involved in the meeting with Business Process Owners, SMEs Subject Matter Experts and Marketing Team for Requirement gathering in Definition Stage.
• Performed Risk Assessment with the Project Manager and developed risk assessment report.
• Developed questionnaires and interviewed application users.
• Analyzed consumer surveys and gave technical inputs in Business meetings.
• Conducted JAD sessions to gather requirements.
• Followed RUP methodology for the development of the new application.
• Applied change management techniques and to get optimized business solutions.
• Gathered and prioritized requirements, developed process models, and modified the business requirement document.
• Created use cases, activity diagrams, class diagrams and workflow process diagrams using MS Visio.
• Prepared Deadlines using MS Project.
• Participated in the team for User Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with the developers to report and track bugs using Test Director.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Wrote and maintained Business Requirements Documents BRDs and Functional Requirements Documents FRDs defining new systems operations using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Interacted with system developers to resolve questions and discrepancies in Business Requirement Documents.
• Interacted with the user community to enhance understanding of the business solutions, project timelines and impact.
• Assisted project manager in maintaining expectations within scope, including change request analysis/impact analysis and change control documentation using Clear Case.
• Implemented an integrated RUP solution with complete line of traceability for all the artifacts of web development projects.
• Followed a structured approach for gathering and formalizing business requirements expressed by managers, process owners and operational users of the information system.
• Prepared functional and non-functional requirements.
• Involved in requirement gathering including interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders and created requirement specification artifact.
• Involved in the creation and maintenance of the Workflow plans and artifacts.
• Conducted JAD/JAR sessions, prepared Prototype, documented workflow processes and studied business process workflows diagrams.
• Involved in the preparation of functional specification and supplementary requirement document.
• Created Use-Case Models using Rational Rose to depict Actors and Use-Cases in various Business Processes.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Used Grand charts in MS Project to ensured timely completion of project tasks and deliverables with a high degree of quality by prioritizing tasks appropriately and communicating issues directly with the project manager.
• Model analyzed and examined Test plans and Test procedures based on RUP methodology.
• Used Rational Clear Case, and Configuration Management tool, to maintain different builds of the application with descriptions about all changes and versions.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Interacting with business users, understanding their business processes, understanding their current IT systems.
• Gathering requirements for business definition.
• Created business requirement document BRD and functional requirements specifications FRS for application development.
• Facilitated JAD sessions with management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
• Created and managed project templates, use case templates, requirement types and traceability matrix in Requisite Pro.
• Conducted iterations and communicated results and milestone achievements to the stakeholders while keeping the developers closely updated on all documented refinements.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the specifications for the product.
• Used RAD Rapid application Development process to speed up the development process.
• Analyzed the system requirements and developed detailed UAT, test plans, test cases, test input data and test procedures testing using Test Manager.