SUMMARY

• Solutions - driven business analyst with experience leading cross-functional teams in the development, documentation and delivery of process innovations driving the attainment of business goals and lead the Agile development team as a Scrum Master/Business Analyst to deliver excellent products that meet user needs.
• Seek opportunities to transform company practices into fresh, cost-effective solutions leading to more efficient operations and can manage the design, development, and delivery using the Scrum-based Agile software development methodology.
• Excellent attention to detail as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to interface with all levels of management.
• Ability to work well independently or in a team setting.
• Analytical skills to be able to solve problems and remove impediments.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent time management, scheduling, and organizational skills.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Grooming, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Microsoft (MS) Windows 7, MS Windows XP/2000, Unix

Tools: MS Visio, Hewlett Packard (HP) ALM, Quality Center, JAWS WAVE, JIRA, Selenium

Databases: SQL Server, SQL, Oracle

Languages: JAVA, SQL

Applications: MS Office Suite, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst II

Responsibilities:

• Help businesses implement technology solutions in a cost-effective way by determining the requirements of the business and communicating them clearly to stakeholders, facilitators, and partners
• Document requirements, define scope and objectives and formulate systems solutions aligned to overall business strategies while ensuring high levels of performance and security
• Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing, analyzing, and prioritizing business and systems requirements, and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, daily standup etc.,
• Use Key Scrum Metrics (burndown chart, burndown bar) to help deliver committed work
• Manage virtual Scrum boards and sprint backlog items
• Empower team to make process improvements captured in Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Manage projects and partner with IT in the delivery of technical solutions
• Create reference, training documents, and train business users
• Develop scripts and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Coordinate and implement quality control objectives, activities or procedures to resolve production problems, maximize product reliability, or minimize costs
• Master business process modeling, traceability, and quality management techniques; apply best practices for effective communication and problem-solving
• Assist users with the business cases, planning and monitoring; evaluating and documenting business processes; formulating, eliciting, organizing, translating, simplifying, managing, analyzing, and communicating their requirements using a variety of guidelines and techniques
• Prepare conceptual and detailed designs of new and existing systems; establish specifications for new and existing applications; design entity relationships and database modeling; solutions and testing standards; evaluate and design alternative workflow solutions; document interfaces between systems
• Work daily or as needed with Programmer to ensure accurate delivery of agreed requirements

Confidential

Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all phases of the implementation, integration, and on-going sustainment of enterprise-wide business systems.
• Interpret results using a variety of techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation via statistical analysis to complex data mining.
• Design, develop, implement and maintain business solutions.
• Work directly with clients and project and business leaders to identify analytical requirements.
• Collect business system requirements and analyze business processes.
• Design, configure, and test application enhancements and end user reports.
• Identifying application gaps and developing and executing gap closure plans.
• Conduct business process simulations and user acceptance tests.
• Train end users in handling the applications' functional details and enabling users to assume ownership of the applications.
• Monitor and troubleshoot go-live events.
• Document procedures to standardize and maintain process controls.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with co-workers, the business community, customers, consultants, contractors, and vendors.
• Develop and maintain a broad awareness of the hardware, software, and networking components of the strategic system architecture.
• Follow change control and software life cycle methodologies in day-to-day activities.
• Work with the Technical Analysts to establish, maintain, and update the strategy (methodology, processes, standards, tools, service/support agreements) used in implementing business systems.