PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst with strong understanding of Business Requirement, Business Process Flows, Business Process Modeling and Project Deliverables.
• Experience in full SDLC (software development life cycle) in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Extensive experience in managing project requirements which includes requirement gathering, SWOT analysis, requirement prioritization and validation of requirement meetings.
• Arranged walkthroughs sessions with the user group to confirm that all the requirements have been captured and obtained sign off on the requirements document.
• Experienced facilitating various SCRUM Ceremonies like product backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings and solving impediments.
• Expertise in using Unified Modeling Language (UML) to create diagrams for Business Processes and Models including Use Case Diagrams (UCD), Activity Diagrams (AD), Sequence Diagrams (SD) and Data Flow Diagrams (DFD).
• Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills, capable of acting as the arbiter between client and developer with respect to project implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile - Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum hybrid, XP, SAFe, Kanban.

Business Modelling & Designing Tool: such as MS VISIO, Balsamiq, Lucid Chart.

Project Management & Business Tool: JIRA, MS Project, MS Office, Office 365, SharePoint, Confluence.

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Mac OS, Linux

Database & Data Analysis tools: MySQL, MS SQL server, Tableau, Oracle

Defect Tracking/ Testing Tools: HP ALM

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported full traceability among all artifacts throughout the software development life cycle
• Extracted the Business Requirements during various sessions with business leads and tagged all requirements in Requisite Pro, tracing them all the way to the stakeholder requirements
• Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.
• Conducted JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects, SME’s (Subject Matter Experts) and Managers of various Business Units
• Developed a thorough and repeatable software requirements methodology utilizing the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Unified Modeling language (UML)
• Creation of Business Process specifications, application designing using RUP, database schema design and implementation methodology
• Facilitated various JAD sessions with development architects and business leads to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet business needs
• Developed Traceability Matrix for maintaining/updating current and new system requirements using MS Excel.
• Created PowerPoint presentations incorporating MS Office Suite, Excel, Word and Access
• Elicited requirements and provided specific business and technical requirements guidance for the construction of the system. The requirements set comprised of Business Requirements Document (BRD), functional requirements, Business and System Use Cases.
• Constructed and maintained UML models using Rational Rose, and created use case diagrams, class diagrams and sequence diagrams for all the use cases
• Co-ordination with multiple teams and integration architects, in performing analysis for issues regarding speed and stability

Environment: HTML, XML, SQL, Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Quest, ClearCase), Excel, Access, MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-Power Point

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared requirements document for Commercial Auto, Inland Marine, Crime, Worker’s Compensation, Umbrella, Business Owners Policy, Commercial Output Policy, and Commercial Property Package.
• Collected business requirements to set rules for proper data transfer from Data Source to Data Target in Data Mapping
• Involved in Data mapping specifications to create and execute detailed system test plans. The data mapping specifies what data will be extracted from an internal data warehouse, transformed and sent to an external entity.
• Designed new features such as Umbrella/Life/Auto integration with minimum MIPS (instructions per second) consumption.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and gap analysis.
• Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database
• Responsible for the development of a Data Warehouse for personal lines property and casualty insurance.
• Evaluated existing technology to propose changes in To-be documentation.
• Researched Issuance System and workflow logic to meet end-user needs and service standards as dictated by business requirements
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Performed requirements modeling and develop analysis diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, data models, and use-case realizations using RUP tools in Agile.
• Reviewed and assessed information gathered, defined key factor and issues, identified potential problems and facilitated problem resolution.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including data analysis and gap analysis.
• Conducted JAD sessions allowing different stakeholders to communicate their perspective with each other and resolving issues to come to a quicker agreement.

Environment: MS Office, RUP, Rational Rose, Dream Weaver, MS Excel, MS Visio, Win 2000, Oracle.