SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience in Tech Project Management, Scrum Coaching, Business Analysis and code development. Expertise in managing Offshore/Onsite Projects involving Planning, Directing, Coordination and Execution of Project delivery activities from Initiation to Implementation.
• Delivered numerous projects using Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) framework.
• Created Use Cases, User Stories, High Level and Low Level Design Documents, High Level and Low Level Sizing, Project Plan and Test Cases.
• Participated and conducted E2E Testing including Unit, Connectivity, SIT, UAT, Stress and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for documenting the technical requirements including high level and low level design documents, and assisting in the development of the test plans with QA
• Provided optimized solution to the business problems with the help of strong analytical and problem solving ability along with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in mapping business processes across multiple systems.
• Experienced in project management and software development methodologies
• Experienced in managing the analysis of best testing practices, testing labs, testing strategies and methodologies and utilized testing tools for Functional, Integration, User Acceptance, Production, Regression, and System Testing.
• Expertise in Development methodologies such as Agile methodology (SCRUM) and Waterfall.
• Proficient with cross - browser testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome).
• Have a good knowledge of relational databases and database structures is required
• Development experience in C, C++ and Java
• Complex Business Analysis, Scrum coaching with experience in banking domain
• Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) Framework, SDLC,QA (testing)
• Helped form a self-organizing and cross functional team through continuous coaching and identifying all the necessary technical trainings required for the team
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and development team to groom the product backlog
• Business Communication, Probing, Drill down, Driving Clarity and Prioritization
• Experience with all aspects of creating and reviewing technical system documentation such as architectural diagrams, process flows and data flow diagrams
• E2E Testing including Unit, Connectivity, SIT, UAT, Stress and Regression Testing.
• Business partner communication, requirement gathering, requirement documentation.
• Analyze, simplify, drill down and translate business requirements into technical requirements / user stories.
• Manage dependencies from other stakeholders and eliminate them when possible.
• Work with technical architects to create high level and low level design documents.
• Helped form a self-organizing and cross functional team through continuous coaching and identifying all the necessary technical trainings required for the team
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and development team to groom the product backlog
• Conduct daily stand-ups to coordinate operations, assign tasks, track the progress and identify roadblocks/risk if any & mitigation plan for the same.
• Create used case document and unit test plan.
• Participate and conduct E2E Testing including Unit, Connectivity, SIT, UAT, Stress and Regression Testing.
• Conduct Sprint Review (show and tell) meetings and get business sign-off.
• Support implementations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98, XP, 2000, DOS, Windows XP ProfessionalOS/390 & Z/OS

Application Software: MS Office suite( MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), VisioMS Project

Methodologies: Waterfall & Agile

Requirements Management Tools: SDLC 2.0 template, MS Visio, Sharepoint,Rally,Jira

Programming Languages: C,C++

Documents & Processes: UAT, Test plans & cases, Project Planning & Tracking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provides business analysis expertise for technology initiatives.
• Partners with business and technology teams to analyze, interpret, and document requirements for simple to moderate business problems and recommend comprehensive technology solutions.
• Uses domain specific and technology application(s) knowledge to conduct detailed analysis in response to business & technology requests to develop efficient and accurate functional requirements.
• Coordinates communication and information flow between business and technology teams.
• Creates and maintains project / systems documentation and proactively monitor & manage project schedules and deliverables.
• Works with business users to develop and provide training, resolve questions, assess user needs and recommend changes.
• Participates in system testing assessment and project development lifecycle.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created VISO diagram with ‘AS IS’ & ‘TO BE’ flow
• Authored the Business Requirement Document (BRD) to document the functional requirements after extensive interaction with the Project Heads, Business User Groups and the IT Group.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the specifications.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts to obtain domain level information.
• Done unit testing /SIT with various teams
• Helped end user to document UAT

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all the phases of Agile, starting from project initiation, envisioning, development, and release testing phase as Scrum Master/PM.
• Kick-starting, Envisioning, and creating project plans
• Reviewed reports with business & identified reports which can be consolidate & migrated, reports to be de-scoped & report which will be migrated ‘AS IS’
• Prioritize, plan, and execute the project tasks to meet the timelines
• Periodic and effective communication to all stake holders
• Created use cases & business rules including business flow diagram as per the requirement.
• Gathered, Analyzed Business Requirements and documented the User Story in Rally
• Participated in Change control meetings recommending appropriate action after analysis of changing requirements.
• Worked in unison with the TCoE team through the Testing Cycle to verify complete and rigorous testing of requirements
• Analyzed business requirements and design specifications, formulated test strategy including test cases and test scripts.