Business Analyst Resume
Cherry Hill, NJ
SUMMARY
- Over 7 years of extensive experience as Business Analyst in domains of Retail Banking, Dashboard, and Property - Casualty Insurance and Mortgage with excellent understanding of teh SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, RUP and Agile.
- Experienced in complete AGILE, RUP, SDLC, Client /server architecture providing a well balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, worked for financial and technical solutions and halp teh team at all levels until final product release.
- Extensive experience in gathering requirements, analyzing them, Business Process Design, authoring Business Requirements Document (BRD), and Use case Specifications, Functional/Systems Design/Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Detailed Design Specifications (DDS).
- Excellent Document Automation experience in various high level projects.
- Developed excellent professional skills, by working independently and as a team member in designing, developing, and implementing innovative business process and system solutions using new approaches, technology and training for Banking, Insurance and Software applications.
- Experience in applying Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology using Modeling and requirement documentation tools such as MS Office, MS VISIO, and MS Project.
- Conduction JAD Session and communicating with Stakeholders, Development team, SMEs, System Analyst, Business Analyst and Project Manager.
- Strong Knowledge of SQL.
- Extensive process analysis, Data analysis and analytics, Data mapping and Data modeling skills to develop solutions to complex application, business and operational problems, and by performing business process re-engineering and process improvements where necessary.
- Facilitated UAT with teh stakeholders and teh business users and Delivered UAT.
- Facilitated JAD sessions with business owners, IT team & Users to drive out detailed business requirements, experienced in Systems Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Software Quality Standards, Training, Documentation and implementation in a business environment.
- Conducted highly interactive JAD sessions with project stakeholders to identify and resolve issues. Ensured consensus between Line of Business and IT Teams.
- Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT), developed and maintained quality procedures and ensured that appropriate documentation was in place.
- Experience in writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Testing scripts and performed various System testing like Regression/Integration/Functional/Black Box/UAT by both manual and automated techniques.
- Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills, Multi-Tasking abilities, with proven experience in utilizing people and process knowledge to assist enterprises in making critical decisions.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- UML
- Microsoft Visio
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- Rational Rose
- Requisite Pro
- Clear Quest
- Use Case Modeling
- UML (Use case
- Sequence diagram
- Activity Diagram
- Class Diagram)
- RUP and Waterfall.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Cherry Hill, NJ
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with teh Business Owners and Subject Matter Experts of various fields such as Risk Managers, Project Architects, etc. to gather client specific business requirements and translate them in a proper manner for teh developers.
- Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering functional requirements and represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using RequisitePro.
- Developed Use Cases and Activity Diagrams for teh application using Rational Rose and assigned to prepare teh detailed Work flow diagram based on teh proposed enhancement for teh system.
- Strong understanding of Investment banking, Fixed Income, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Equities, Credit Derivatives (Options, Swaps and Futures), Portfolio Management, Trading Systems.
- Performed risk analysis of teh requirements to identify teh key business risks areas for teh project and prioritized teh application development and testing.
- Gathered teh Business requirements and according to teh process flow developed User Requirements Specification (URS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and BRD.
- Conducted user interviews and JAD sessions to reduce teh Scope Creep and document analysis in requirements elicitation.
- Assessed teh flaws in teh existing as-is system and made clear recommendations of Business Process Improvements (BPI) and incorporated them in to be future system.
- Developed strategic partnerships with teh Business Users to develop solid knowledge base of teh business line, including teh business plan, products and process.
- Facilitated weekly meetings with teh review teams to continuously improve teh Quality Assurance (QA) process for teh application development.
- Worked on logical data modeling to represent graphically about wat teh information is about, how to relate it with business concepts and how to apply business rules to teh system.
- Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test plan, Test Cases, Test scripts for testing teh functionality, GUI and security testing
- Collaborated with teh QA Group to ensure adequate testing of application both before and after completion, maintained quality procedures, conducted UAT Testing, and ensured that teh documentation is in place.
- Collaborated with teh QA team to develop teh test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product specifications.
Environment: Rational Suite, Visio, VB, C#.Net, Quick Test Pro, SQL Server 2000, MS Office 2000, Windows 2000/NT.
Confidential, Miami, FL
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Document automation system was used to automate all conditional text, variable text, and data contained within a set of documents.
- Assisted in writing Vision document from customer perspective, focusing on teh essential features of teh system, defining teh primary goals and ultimate objectives of teh project.
- Gathered detailed Requirements from Business Users and conducted brainstorming sessions with SMEs.
- Used Rational Requisite Pro for capturing, organizing and maintaining teh business requirements document and their attribute values.
- Conducted JAD sessions on a bi-weekly base to discuss milestones, challenges and deadlines.
- Wrote detailed use cases including Business Rules, Supplementary Specification comprising both functional and nonfunctional requirement complementing with artifacts like Glossary. And assigned priorities to critical Use Cases.
- Defined strategies to automate teh whole manual testing process using Mercury tools.
- Developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams, and State Diagrams to view teh system from different perspectives.
- Conducted several JAD sessions with teh technical team, teh business team to determine teh business and teh system impacts.
- Performed risk analysis of teh requirements to identify teh key business risk areas for teh project and prioritized teh application development and testing.
- Conducted Peer and Peek Reviews for getting teh approvals and resolving issues.
- Reviewed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Results Summary.
- Created and Managed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Assisted teh Business Users in teh User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Coordinated communications with teh offshore team.
Environment: Mercury Quality Center, Agile, Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, Java Script, HTML, Windows NT/2000, UNIX HP.
Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ
Business System Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Part of teh planning team, where it was determined which functionality was going to be developed next.
- Gathered business requirements form internal and external customers.
- Defined user interface screens.
- Added new requirements, for traceability and compliance using Requisite Pro.
- Prepared configuration requirements for teh Checkfree product being integrated into teh system.
- Prepared use case documents.
- Created Visio diagrams for workflows.
- Used MS Word templates for reporting and presentations.
- Performed GAP Analysis and Impact Analysis on teh functionality that was being developed to define requirements and teh new Checkfree system being integrated for security.
- External vendors applications were integrated for Target Advertisement and to provide enhance Security for teh system.
- Facilitated review meetings and verified TDD (Technical Design Document) as delivered by vendors.
- Prepared product presentations and recommendations for vendors.
- Worked with external vendors to in corporate their products into teh new system.
- Created and presented developed code at teh end of teh each iteration.
- Used Test Director as a centralized repository for requirements and mapped them back to test cases
- Performed manual testing on PC's and MAC's.
Environment: Struts, Java, Windows XP, .Net Framework, Requisite Pro, Quality Center, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, SharePoint, SQL Management studio 2005.
Confidential, Ewing, NJ
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Project involved document automations system.
- Gathered Business Requirements, analyzed data/workflows, defined teh scope, and performed GAP analysis.
- Met with client groups to determine User Requirements and Goals, thus converting User Requirements into Business Requirements and User and Functional Requirement Specification.
- Involved in designing and developing Data-Flow diagrams, E-R diagrams, logical and physical database design and business Analysis documents.
- Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors.
- Conducted UAT. Wrote SQL queries in MS Access.
- Responsible for writing Business Use Cases, Business Rules, logical analysis and change management of requirements.
- Worked extensively with SMEs and performed Gap analysis to arrive at teh gaps between current and future systems and teh modules to be impacted.
- Application was implemented in Agile Methodology (SCRUM).
- Translated business functionality and opportunities into clear, precise and easy-to-read functional specifications, technical specifications with data mapping and application process flow and facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with programmers.
- Wrote SQL Queries to create tables, stored procedures, triggers and performed data analysis, data mapping, data reporting.
- Formulated integration test plans, test cases, test scripts and executed integration.
Environment: Agile (Scrum), Rational Requisite Pro, WSDL, Erwin, SQL Server 2005, Informatica Power Center, MS SQL Server Management Studio 9.0, Test Director, MS Visio.
Confidential, Portland, OR
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with teh Financial Analyst to define accurate requirements for teh EUC.
- Updating teh shared directory with teh most recent version of teh EUC, Test Plan, Test Case and Test Evidence documents.
- Monitored teh dry run sessions and locked any identified defects.
- Conducted walkthrough to ensure teh stakeholders are in unison over teh EUC development.
- Harmonized creation of log ID’s for teh change requests received from different groups within teh Price Verification team.
- Identified teh gaps in teh system that will be interacting to support teh proposed enhancement.
- Conducted walkthrough to ensure teh stakeholders are in unison over teh initiatives progress.
- Organized JAD sessions to facilitate any influx of ideas that can effect teh progress of teh project.
- Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frames with Use Case.
- Designed test plans, tracked defects and got them resolved to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled.
- Supported in Creating Test cases for teh EUC in teh maintenance environment using Quality Center for teh EUC application and monitored Creation, Deployment and Test of Versions.
Environment: Windows XP Professional, Test Director, Oracle10g, Adobe Acrobat Professional and Reader (7.0), MS Access, MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel.