Summary

• A diligent result oriented facilitator between Business Systems and Information Technology with 10 years of experience in the field of business and system analysis and a proven track record in financial, mortgage, companies including big 4 consulting experience.
• Good knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and Iterative Software Development methodologies such as RUP Rational Unified Process .
• Excellent Business skills in writing Business requirement document, Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Systems Design Specification SDS , Workflows and Unified Modeling Language UML diagrams such as Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
• Good Team player with excellent trouble shooting and problem solving skills.
• Ability to gather business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions utilizing a variety of software tools including, Use Cases and followed the Rational Unified Process
• Experienced in creating URS User requirement Specification , FRS Functional Requirement Specification and business process flow system.
• Experienced in MS Office Suite, MS Project for Project Plan , MS Visio, Rational Suite Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Software Modeler and gathering user requirements and technical documentation.
• Specialized in Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM , test plan and test procedure development and review, project customization and administration, defect management, configuration management and version control, and business documentation
• Created User Interface UI specifications, prototypes and wireframes using Axure Pro.
• Articulate in business values, managing user expectations and client satisfaction, and introducing innovation to business processes through technology.
• Excellent Analytical, Presentation, Communication and Interpersonal skills with proficiency in demonstration and highly adaptable to new technologies business environment.
• Strong team builder with excellent analytical and communication skills with capability to handle new technologies and situations.
• Good understanding of QA Methodologies and Process.
• Responsible for the planning and coordination of teams when scheduling and maintaining current status of projects and assigned project deadlines.

Skills Tools

Industry Knowledge: Tax, Finance, Banking, Telecom, Healthcare, Logistics, International Trade.

Business Skills: Business Definition Requirements, Business Process Analysis Research Use Case Modeling Analysis

Software Tools: Rational ReqPro, Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Mercury Winrunner, Test Director, QTP, Quality Center, MS Office Professional, Microsoft Sharepoint, MS Visio, MS Project.

Programming Language: C , Java, .net

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/NT, DOS and Solaris UNIX

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access

Professional Experience

Position: Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in Enterprise Analysis reviewing available documents on various document repositories.
• Worked on the Functional Grid project to document the complete end to end functionality of the Credit Enhancement application.
• Interacted with stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gathered business requirements and documented them in Business Requirement Documents.
• Maintained requirements in DOORS requirements management tool.
• Analyzed research on operational procedures and methods and recommend changes for improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency.
• Eliciting, documenting and managing business need, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions to reach consensus on system functionality, and formal walkthroughs on functional and system specifications.
• Conducted walkthrough sessions with the business, development, QA and end-users to elicit review requirements.
• Designed and implemented SQL queries using Embarcadero DB Artisan for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation.
• Performed manual testing to assess application's overall functionality, performance and stability.
• Reviewed and ran test cases in the test lab using Quality Center.
• Captured defects in Rational Clear Quest.
• Reporting and presentation of key components and milestones to top management
• Responsible for preparing status and reports for senior management.
• Maintaining and sharing project documents via SharePoint, maintaining MS SharePoint site for project team.

Environment: Doors, UML, Sharepoint, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Embarcadero DB Artisan, SQL, MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Access, MS Visio and MS Project.

Position: Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Finance Legacy Integration team to evaluate finance system impacts.
• Being one of the first members in the team, was involved in all aspects of the project.
• Participated in the CSP process flow review sessions and developed an understanding of the CSP project and its capabilities.
• Reviewed existing operations and Finance accounting processes.
• Interacted with users, managers, and development teams to gather the list of applications and End user computing systems within the Finance division.
• Assessed and analyzed the scope and impact on business needs.
• Facilitated sessions with the various finance groups to provide an overview of the possible changes.
• Maintained a list of impacted Applications and EUCs.
• Researched Freddie Mac repositories to identify all the Finance related process and controls.
• Worked with the development teams to review the list of impacted applications, reconciled differences and worked on the level of effort estimates.
• Responsible for preparing status and reports for senior management.
• Maintaining and sharing project documents via SharePoint, maintaining MS SharePoint site for project team.

Environment: Doors, UML, Sharepoint, Quality Center, Lotus Notes, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Access, MS Visio and MS Project.

Position: Lead Business Analyst Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participating in project planning, estimation, release scoping, tracking status and deliverables, documentation management for monthly and quarterly releases.
• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions with the Subject Matter Experts and other partner's involved.
• Facilitated JAD sessions, walkthroughs sessions with the Business User Groups, SME's, the Management and the IT Community to resolve issues.
• Use Case analysis and Use Case modeling using MS Visio and MS Office.
• Usability analysis, creating/updating UI wireframes/prototypes and UI specification documents.
• Prepared feature lists and traced them to the Stakeholder requests.
• Led a team of 5 Business analysts to share and co-ordinate the effort.
• Worked with the project management and partners to provide status reports and raised awareness of issues / risks faced on the project.
• Performed data analysis to ensure data quality and data integrity.
• Established standards / processes in the BA work to ensure consistency of requirements amongst all the team members.
• Participated in daily / weekly status calls with the Development / QA team.
• Analyzed the stake holder requests and the features to prepare for in depth elicitation sessions for requirements.
• Facilitated the elicitation sessions with the Practice and the stakeholders and gathered the functional requirements.
• Post production release, involved in Agile / Scrum styled maintenance efforts to fix defect and roll out enhancements in a short cycle.
• Represented the BA team on daily Scrum stand up meetings to share the team's status and planned our effort for each sprint.
• Onshore and offshore coordination between business, project management, analysts, development team, test team and vendors. Providing clarifications, details and support on a daily/need basis.
• Maintaining and sharing project documents via SharePoint, maintaining MS SharePoint site for project team.

Environment: .net 4.0, WCF, SQL Server, UML, Sharepoint, Team Track, Quality Center, Lotus Notes, Axure Pro, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio and MS Project.

Position: Sr. Business Analyst Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the new features and enhancements for existing products.
• Prepared business process flows for the As is and the To Be processes.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the practice and confirm the scope and our understanding of the high level requirements.
• Followed the Rational Unified Process RUP methodology.
• Used Rational Software Modeler RSM to model Use Cases, Use case diagram, Activity diagrams, sequence diagrams that provided a view of the requirements.
• Documented the requirements in detailed use cases and reviewed them with the stakeholders.
• Used the Rational Requisite pro tool to manage the requirements.
• Documented the Data requirements and Supplementary requirements and tagged them to Req Pro.
• Maintained the Requirement Traceability matrix document to track the requirements through all the phases of development lifecycle.
• Created process flows, sophisticated user interface designs, high-level design diagrams and error message requirements to cover all scenarios of validation using Axure Pro tool.
• Conducted walkthrough of the requirements with the stakeholders and obtain sign off.
• Reviewed the requirements with the offshore development and the test team.
• Reviewed the Project Architecture plan, the Design document, the Master Test Plan, the test cases and provided feedback.
• Validated and peer reviewed the Change Requests and update the Requirements
• Used Quality Center to review the test cases and defects resolution.
• Worked with third party vendors like IBM, Adobe and walked them through the requirements.
• Recorded project changes on a weekly basis using change data to update the project plan and provide up-to-date information for project status reporting.

Environment: Java, .net, RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Software Modeler RSM , UML, Quality Center, SQL, Oracle, Documentum DMS, Lotus Notes, Axure Pro, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio and MS Project.

Position: Sr. Business Analyst Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared High-Level requirement documents and discussed with the technical team regarding the feasibility of the requirements.
• Actively worked with the Portfolio managers and the back office teams to understand the business processes.
• Recognize trades for products such as Fixed Income, Derivatives, Options, Futures, Exchange traded derivatives, etc
• Co-authored Business Requirements Document, Extracted, discussed and refined business requirements from business users and team members.
• Worked on MS Visio to create Use Case Diagrams and UI prototypes.
• Define mapping rules for transactions and securities.
• Reengineered the user interface of the application by thoroughly studying the existing application features and functions and then assessed and analyzed the scope and impact on business needs.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development JAD sessions for communicating and managing expectations with SME are whose customers were going to be the final users of the product.
• Worked with the development team and followed the UML methodology to generate Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Documented User Requirements with MS Word and RequisitePro as editing tools.
• Coordinated and managed the Change Request CR control process for the project by facilitating group meetings, one-on-one interviews and corresponding through emails.
• Used Microsoft Sharepoint to share and maintain the various versions of the requirement documents.
• Reviewed test cases to check the functionality of the application.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing UAT and tested strategies with developers and testers.
• Worked with stakeholders to obtain deliverable sign-offs.
• Helped in the review of Q/A Requirement Documents the evaluation of the Test Plan with the QA Team.
• Used SQL queries to extract data and run sample tests.
• Quality Center was utilized for the entire process of Incident tracking and reporting.
• Responsible for coordination with analyst and developers to ensure testing compliance during cycles.

Environment: Java, RUP, Rational Reqpro, Rose, UML, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Sharepoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio and MS Project.