SUMMARY:

• Has 5+ years of experience as business analyst role which leverages my techno - functional banking experience to enhance synergy between business and technology to increase return on investment and fasten time to market. achieved several management recognitions s, experience in serving customers in a high pressure, fast pace environment. Has effective communications skills and responsible for all department administrative duties within the guideline of company regulations.
• Resourceful at maintaining relationships with clients to achieve quality product and service norms by resolving their service-related critical issues.
• Experience developing standard software documents including Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Configuration Documents, Use Cases etc.,
• Experience in gathering business requirements, defining business process flow, system analysis, business process modeling and analysis.
• Liaison between business units, stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Technical writing, gap analysis, and risk assessment for current and proposed systems.
• Design workflow models, data conversion maps, and related website models.
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews.
• Expertise in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Non-Functional Specification Document, System Design Specification, Use Cases, and manuals.
• Experience in conducting Cost-benefit analysis, Risk analysis, Return of Interest (ROI) analysis, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), GAP analysis, and User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Skilled at reviewing test cases to make sure they are in accordance with requirements and assist the overall testing process by activities such as Change Request and Defect Management and conducting User Acceptance Testing.
• Effectively elicited Business Requirements during requirements phase of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Assisted senior business analysts in making sure requirements are complete, concise, modifiable and traceable.
• Translated User Requirements specifications into data flow diagrams by using MS Visio
• Good experience of working with the QA methodologies and processes.
• Experience in development methodologies like RUP, SDLC, AGILE, SCRUM and Waterfall.
• Excellent Analysis, technical Writing, Documentation, oral communication skills with a results-oriented attitude. Flair in easy presentation of complex concepts.
• Possess reasonable understanding of different relational databases, writing simple SQL queries, creating tables, and generating reports.
• Proactive team player with demonstrated problem solving and analytical reasoning abilities.
• Familiar with MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines, resources, collaborate with different teams, and analyse project information.
• Successfully executed and delivered project results, meeting constraints of Project Time, Cost and Quality and exceeding customer expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, MS DOS, LINUX.

Database: SQL Server, My SQL, MS Access.

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, MS Project, UML

SDLC Methodology: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Spiral

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in project review meetings and gathering Business Requirement Documents (BRD).
• Used agile methodology throughout SDLC, including planning and cost estimation through requirements, translating into data design and providing oversight in development and execution.
• Conducting clients' meetings, understanding and integrating their business needs into technology.
• Conducted Workshops with the subject matter experts, stakeholders and other management teams in the finalization of the User Requirement Documentation.
• Created as-is data flow and workflow diagrams and to-be data flow and workflow diagrams and conducted walkthrough sessions for these diagrams to make sure that the business was on the same page as us.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wireframes with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Created and managed Project templates, Use Case, requirement types and traceability relationships.
• Participate in regular progress reviews and meetings to discuss existing and potential bottlenecks in the systems and possible solutions with the development team.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Produced functional specifications and led meetings with developers and business units to discuss outstanding technical issues and deadlines that had to be met.
• Created UAT test plan and conducted a walkthrough session to make sure all other teams (Development, SIT, Deployment, SME and Baseline) understood their roles and effort.
• Created and updated project status, progress and completion reports in MS Project and shared it with stakeholders.
• Produced various ad-hoc SQL queries / ad-hoc reports that were used to monitor success of the new requirement by ensuring data is being created as it should.
• Assisted in the effort for educating the end users with the new system and how it affects the report format and structured
• Production support - to end users as well as development team during initial system deployment.

Confidential, ALLEN, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in project review meetings and gathering Business Requirement Documents (BRD).
• Used agile methodology throughout SDLC, including planning and cost estimation through requirements, translating into data design and providing oversight in development and execution.
• Conducted JAD Sessions with the subject matter experts, stakeholders and other management teams in the finalization of the User Requirement Documentation.
• Created as-is data flow and workflow diagrams and to-be data flow and workflow diagrams and conducted walkthrough sessions for these diagrams to make sure that the business was on the same page as us.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wireframes with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Created and managed Project templates, Use Case, requirement types and traceability relationships.
• Participate in regular progress reviews and meetings to discuss existing and potential bottlenecks in the systems and possible solutions with the development team.
• Perform Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Produced functional specifications and lead meetings with developers and business units to discuss outstanding technical issues and deadlines that had to be met.
• Created UAT test plan and conducted a walkthrough session to make sure all other teams (Development, SIT, Deployment, SME and Baseline) understood their roles and effort.
• Created and updated project status, progress and completion reports in MS Project and shared it with stakeholders.
• Assisted in the effort for educating the end users with the new system and how it affects the report format and structured
• Production support - to end users as well as development team during initial system deployment.

Confidential - Frisco, Texas

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, various Process flow diagrams, and Data flow diagrams using MS VISIO, Snip-it, MS Excel and project plans.
• Worked with Agile and Waterfall methodology in tracking schedules, called out timeline conflicts and suggested timeline changes.
• Tracked and communicated user stories, bugs, issues, and tasks to the development team using JIRA.
• Created and tracked all User Stories and related documents, screenshots and diagrams to express requirements and user needs.
• Communicated with Project Managers, Technical Lead, Business Team, Product Owner and SMEs for requirements gathering and maintained strong communication between teams.
• Collaborated with the business team and technology team to prepare and update the Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Required Document (FRD), and Specifications.
• Managed strong and fluid relationships with all business and internal stakeholders including senior (VP) stakeholders from business and IT.
• Assisted in initiating Agile methodology for new projects and transitions of current projects
• Created UAT test scripts for business stakeholders and corresponded issues between developers and business teams to develop resolutions.

Confidential, Wyomissing, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The SDLC employed for this project was Agile Scrum methodology.
• Requirement gathering and coordinated SCRUM session for customer data base which would help market various incentive programs.
• Maintained various data feed validation for products and financial information for various asset classes.
• Wrote SQL queries in TOAD and excel to perform testing.
• Involved in schema development using IBM Rational DOORS.
• Involved in document template development and generation from DOORS using Rational Publishing Engine (RPE)
• Translation and transfer of requirements specification data from various softcopy formats into DOORS, ClearCase
• Manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans, durations, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile,
• Created data required by vendor tools to update the tools with our initiative.
• Updated and documented Client proposal changes reviewed by Legal and compliance.
• Worked with the Risk management team to identify the key business risk areas of the project.
• Conducted meetings with the end users and stakeholders to collect the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.
• Created MS Project with detailed tasks for all stake holders, use-case scenarios in MS Word and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application.
• Created wire frames and screenshots for the application to easily communicate it to the users using MS Visio.
• Coordinated meetings with the QA team to improve the process.
• Worked with clients to define the scope targeted and specification of the projects.
• Followed structural approach and ensured no critical requirements are missed out.
• Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and test scripts
• Produced the visual models for the application using Rational Rose to create Use Cases, State Charts, Sequence Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams.
• Performed Risk Analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Maintained a project schedule using MS Project showing all of the deliverables target dates.
• Performed data validation between various systems and driven changes that ensure the integrity of financial data.
• Ensured smooth implementation of the system by identifying needs for users.