SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Systems Analysis, Quality Analysis, and Project Management in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle including Software Prototype, Design, Development, Implementation, Integration and Testing.
• Extensive experience directly wif teh clients and gathering details of requirement, converting them into effective business design, providing end to end noledge transfer and application to clients and end users.
• Ensured dat goals and objectives were accomplished in accordance wif outlined priorities and time limitations
• Experience in preparation of deliverables; business process design and workflow, business requirement documents, detailed business functional and nonfunctional specifications, system requirements/ design specifications, technical specification documents, use cases, test cases while assisting in preparation of systems requirements specification
• Proficient and Experienced in Agile Management and Software Development wif Extreme Programming, Scrum
• Expertise wif Business Process Management (BPM), Process Modeling and Team Management
• Experience in BPMN 2.0, Process Modeling, Eclipse based tool for e.g Oracle Jdeveloper, IBM Process Designer, Blueworks live, Oracle BPM Business Composer
• Rich experience in working wif COTS products and underlying technologies such as Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and J2EE
• Excellent noledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case, Rational ClearQuest, Caliber, DOORS and Microsoft Project
• Extensive documentation skills for use in standardization of Testing and Programming Procedures and Guidelines.
• Worked on implementation of Data Warehouse, BI solutions and a strong understanding of Data Warehouse concepts, ETL, OLAP, Star Schema, Data Modeling using Normalization, Business Process Analysis, Dimensional Data Modeling, FACT & Dimensions tables, Physical & Logical Data Modeling
• Proficient wif SQL 2005 Business Intelligence tools, Data Warehousing, Data modeling, Dimensional Modeling and ETL processes, Content Management, Order Management systems
• Excellent experience wif Project Management Life Cycle, managing multiple project activities: scope, design, planning, estimation, deliverables, dependencies, resource management, baselines, production support, normalization, etc.
• Complete Exposure to SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Captured requirement, estimated timelines, allocated work, tracked project progress, handled change management, performed risk and issue management and addressed team concerns
• Actively involved in successful Business Application deployment, production support.
• Expertise in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) using Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, MS Visio, HP Quality Center.
• Proven understanding of Business Intelligence solutions, Data analysis, Data Masking and Risk assessment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

BPM: Oracle BPM, IBM BPM, jBPM

Development Tools: - Visual Studio 2005, Oracle Jdeveloper, IBM Integration Designer, IBM Process Designer

Languages: - C, Java, COBOL, Micro Focus

Databases: - Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server

Operating systems: - UNIX, WINDOWS

Testing Tools: - HP Quality Center.

Tools: JBoss, Informatica, SOAP UI, TOAD, UML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh documentation Business Requirements Document, Functional Requirements Document, and also participated in documenting teh Functional Design Document and Technical Design Document.
• Expert in Process Modeling using BPM and MS Visio
• Follow structured approach in determining teh scope of teh respective project and teh impact of teh project initiative on teh companywide systems and their corresponding operations
• Created Source to Target Mapping documents, documented business and transformation rules and participated in working sessions and ensured full business participation throughout teh process.
• Perform mapping, gap analysis and lead business analysts’ team in teh requirement gathering and testing process and interviewed team members at all levels of teh organization to understand business drivers and prioritized requirements.
• Participate and work wif clients to scope, identify and Analyze applications to be included in ETL process, Analyze data residing Stayer University other 13 systems.
• Experienced in documenting teh "AS-IS" and teh "TO-BE" process flows using BPM and Microsoft Visio.
• End to end support for extraction and transformation activities involving analysis of complex data and problem resolution.
• Train new staff on teh business process and system architecture to bring them at par.
• Conducting SCRUM meetings on daily basis and ensuring teh progress of work as per deadlines for each release.
• Demonstrating solution to Business Users, Stakeholders using BPM
• Develop Test Scenario, Test Plan creation and reviews to ensure requirements coverage according to teh source to target mapping document. Ensure Test Execution and defect management
• Performed Data profiling and Data Cleansing on source to compare wif list of valid values while mapping source to target and writing exception cases if necessary.
• Involved in debugging mappings, recovering sessions and developing error-handling methods.
• Involved in identifying teh defects and developed Defect Tracking report using Quality Centre this involved Bug life cycle
• Identify and document business rules, dependencies, assumptions, risks, supportability, performance and needs.
• Create and manage all appropriate project management documents, including project plan, resource estimates, project budget, project schedule, team roster and assignments, issue management, risk management, change control, and periodic status reports.
• Providing quick and accurate system diagnosis to problems to ensure 24x7 availability of existing applications.
• Technical issue resolution and support Deployment of monthly releases and post release verification.
• Creating complex SQL queries for fixing time critical issues impacting customer bills.

Environment: MS-Project 2010, Agile, Oracle Weblogic, BPM, Informatica WebCenter 9.0, Oracle RDBMS, Apache Cassandra 2.0.6, DevOps DataCenter, SOAP UI, HP Quality Center 11.0, MS-Office - EXCEL, WORD, VISIO, Linux, Oracle 11g, ScrumWorks Pro.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases and Test Scripts based on teh functional requirement documents
• Executed and run manual and automated tests using QTP and Quality Centre. Reported teh defects to teh concerned developer
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing.
• Developed data-driven testing, synchronization points, checkpoints and batch testing using QTP.
• Conducted Scrum meetings, Triage Meetings, Defect resolution meetings.
• Used extensively Parameterization to provide varied inputs for teh scenario under testing
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform teh backend testing of teh Oracle database using PL/SQL developer.
• Identified and documented all issues and defects to ensure application software functionality.
• Reviewed teh test cases written based on teh Change Request document.
• Performed SQL queries in teh mainframe to extract data required for various different scenarios
• Coordinated wif Offshore team and Onsite managers and conducted daily scrum meetings.
• Managed defects, Execute Test cases, and track product progress and consolidated teh Status Reports on Daily and Weekly Basis.
• Involved in reviews, Manual Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Environment: Rational Tool Suite, MS SQL Server 2003, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, Windows NT, MS Excel, UNIX, Remedy, RequisitePro, SQL, Quality Center

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform mapping, gap analysis and lead business analysts’ team in teh requirement gathering and testing process and interviewed team members at all levels of teh organization to understand business drivers and prioritized requirements
• Proposed and led full SDLC lifecycle for legacy mindset to new highly dynamic and scalable system.
• Lead teh team of analyst to create and review business requirements document wif Functional and supplemental specifications including use cases to ensure completeness, accuracy.
• Identify and document business rules, dependencies, assumptions, risks, supportability, performance and needs.
• Experience developing and manages all appropriate project management documents, including project plan, resource estimates, project budget, project schedule, team roster and assignments, issue management, risk management, change control, and periodic status reports.
• Involved in keeping project details up to date in MS Project and making sure dat we meet targets as per time allocated in Project Plan.
• Train new staff on teh business process and system architecture to bring them at par.
• Helped analyze test plans, including definition of testing requirements; testing criteria, test scripts, user acceptance conditions and end-to end test requirements.
• Written SQL queries to retrieve data from SQL server 2000 data base
• Prepare Maintenance documents for defects and enhancements for monthly releases.
• Make recommendations for “buy vs. build” decision.
• Understanding of various aspects of Insurance business like documentation of NB (New Business), policy administration, Sales and Marketing, Accounting, Actuarial, Underwriting, Claims, Products Pricing, Quality, Risk Analysis, AML guidelines, KYC Norms, SOX Rules etc.

Environment: MS-Visio, Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Traceability Matrix, SQL, SQL Server, Clear Quest, Cognos, Swim Lanes