SUMMARY

• Senior Consultant with over six years of experience in System Analysis, Business Analysis, and Functional Requirements Gathering, defining specifications across the project lifecycle.
• Excellent knowledge in the areas of ecommerce and financial industries.
• Expertise in diverse software engineering practices such as System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile(Scrum)
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to expedite and streamline the requirement gathering process.
• Proficient in analyzing and creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) Diagrams such as Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Data flow diagrams, Business flow diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Authored Application and System Use Cases to document scenarios of functional requirements and business rules for system development.
• Proficient in creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), System Specification Document (SSD) and Traceability Matrices for Baseline documents and other related artifacts.
• Experienced in performing Gap analysis by identifying existing application, documenting the enhancements to meet the end - state requirements.
• Knowledgeable in Structured Query Language (SQL) and data modeling principles.
• Worked closely with testers and collaborated in the creation of test plans, test scenarios and test cases for system and integration testing using HPQC and HPALM (Application Lifecycle Management).
• Led User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and obtained buy-in from internal and external customers.
• Good understanding of change management using IBM Rational ClearQuest and repository management using IBM Rational ClearCase.
• Acted as a liaison between business owner, SME and development teams.
• Team player, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong research capability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools: UML Case Tools, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio

Process: SDLC, RUP, Agile, BPM

Modeling Languages: UML

Requirements Management: IBM Rational DOORS, Rational RequisitePro, Microsoft SharePoint

Change Management: Rational ClearQuest, Sharepoint, JIRA

Databases: MS Access, MS-SQL Server

Quality Assurance: HP ALM, HP QC, Jmeter, QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Business/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement-gathering meetings, prepared meeting minutes after each Iteration cycle and followed-up on agreed action items.
• Responsible for documenting detailed Business Requirements, performing Data Mapping and Validation and identifying GAPS between the legacy applications and the current system.
• Prioritized requirements and designed Requirements Traceability Matrix using MS excel to ensure requirements traceability at different levels.
• Designed and developed use cases using UML methodologies in MS Visio, which provided the development team a view of the requirements/system.
• Translated business needs into detailed functional requirements.
• Worked closely with the QA team in defect tracking and resolution.
• Baselined and tagged requirements while not losing traceability on each requirement.
• Helped to build user guide and training materials.
• Performed Data Validation Testing, Functional Testing, Defect retesting and Regression Testing.
• Logged Defects. Analyzed the defect data and interfaced with team leads and stakeholders of the project in resolving issues, using HP ALM to document defects.
• Generated test report data for UAT
• Created new/modified test scenarios, test cases, Test Metrics and test approach strategies for this project.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed business and systems analysis to define detailed functional and performance requirements and business rules.
• Gathered business, system, and functional requirements by conducting detailed interviews with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s).
• Developed Use Cases, Business and System Process Flows, and Wireframes.
• Lead Requirements Review meetings to get approval from stakeholders on the requirements.
• Took responsibility for investigative work to determine business requirements.
• Identified and developed process flow diagrams for various business processes and validated the flows with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
• Collected legacy system documentation to support requirements definition.
• Maintained requirements traceability.
• Participated in Quality Assurance reviews of the requirements artifacts.
• Created comprehensive quality control test plans for both internal and customer quality assurance
• Performed manual and automated testing including functional, system, and performance testing in all different Internet browsers (IE 9/10, Firefox, Chrome & Safari).

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business, system, and functional requirements by conducting detailed interviews with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s).
• Implemented the entire Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology of application development with its various workflows and activities.
• Identified and developed Use Cases from the business and systems requirements. Documented high level and detailed Use Cases to include all the functionalities of the new system.
• Served as liaison between the functional and technical team.
• Gathered the functional and business requirements by conducting JAD sessions.
• Followed the UML methodology to create UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), ER Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio and thus defining the Business Process Model and Data Process Model.
• Created client notification letters, emails, statement inserts, etc.
• Facilitated meetings with developers, system analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and report/data validation.
• Monitored version control and defect tracking activities using ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest.
• Supervised the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to test the usability of the application.
• Maintained weekly status reports using MS Project.

Confidential

Business/Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirement gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Business analysis with Documents and Record Management.
• Performed market analysis to determine requirements both at a product and functionality level.
• Conducted JAD sessions to elicit requirements from stakeholders while ensuring feasibility with technical leads.
• Produced key product requirements document including Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirement Document, Use Case diagrams and scenarios that provide detailed explanation of what is to be delivered and the priority of each request.
• Conducted brainstorming sessions to aid high level analysis to identify key actor roles and functions and documented use case diagrams.
• Maintained the UML models and Workflow diagrams in Microsoft Visio.
• Created business processes for existing manual workflows within the organization and enhanced the processes into textual use cases.
• Managed requirement artifacts and documentation using Microsoft SharePoint.
• Led requirement review sessions with both internal and external stakeholders and other end-users.
• Created test cases to ensure accurate and complete testing of user requirements.
• Performed System and Regression Testing in HP QC.
• Led User Acceptance Test before the go-live of the project.
• Coordinated overall timeline and operational readiness tasks for releases.
• Coordinated change management using Tracker.

Confidential, New-York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared business Requirements Documents (BRD) while using RUP methodology to analyze and translate business requirements into functional specifications, communicating with business on a broad scale with an in-depth view.
• Assisted in building SharePoint for project use, storing and retrieving data and end to end process visibility.
• Involved in developing a web-based interface required login authentication used with the new Interact system.
• Segregated BRD’s into high and low level Use Cases, activity and State Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Created business and functional specifications for Report Development.
• Assisted in designing test plans, test scenarios and test cases for integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to improve overall quality of the Application.
• Researched, investigated, analyzed and defined opportunities for business process improvement, documented business processes and initiated efforts to make improvements.
• Assisted in testing of new functions & provided business sign-off to move a function to production.
• Reviewed documentation for validity/completeness, developed test plan, test cases and coordinated tests with QA team to verify implementation of new features.
• Participated in all phases of development life cycle, including all architectural tiers of supported applications.