SUMMARY

• An accomplished professional with extensive experience in business analysis, requirement gathering, specification preparation, design, development, implementation, testing, production support and project management for many clients across multiple industries.
• Worked extensively in domain of Insurance and Healthcare.
• Looking for a challenging position where my technical and functional skills would add value and contribute to teh success of an organization.
• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in various domains. Solid understanding of all teh phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with proficiency in Waterfall, Agile - Scrum methodologies.
• Strong ability acting as a liaison between Business Users and IT during requirement elicitation, requirement analysis, project co-ordination, writing business rules, writing functional and nonfunctional requirements, writing user stories, use cases, change requests, enhancements, software configurations, demonstration of teh new features in product.
• Extensive experience in creating artifacts like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), User Requirement Specification (URS), Use cases documents and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Skilled in working with teams in Agile environment, solid knowledge on Scrum concepts like Scrum Team, Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, User Stories, Daily Standup Meeting, Retrospective calls, Burndown chart, Epics etc.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) session with Stakeholders, SME's, Business Users and Tech Lead to obtain domain level information of project.
• Proficient with GAP Analysis and Risk Analysis.
• Strong Experience in developing test plans, building Test Conditions and Test Cases, creating test data, analyzing bugs, and interacting with development team members to fix errors to support UAT.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, conflict resolution, facilitation, and documentation skills along with good process management skills to gather requirements.
• Proven track record in producing high quality work under tight schedules and in multi-tasking to meet business goals and timelines.
• Excellent communication skills, time management and team management experience for handing multiple teams and delivering teh output.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: Windows, Mac, UNIX

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle

Test Case Mgmt. tools: JIRA AGILE, Confluence

Applications: MS Office Professional, SharePoint, MS Project, WebEx Meeting, GoToMeeting, MS Outlook

Modeling Tools: MS Visio

Software Languages: HTML and SQL

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with process leads, do requirements gathering, and work with teh SAAS platform vendor. Also, worked with process owners to understand business terminology.
• Interacted with business system owners or system SMEs, ETL developers and Vendor to understand teh change and teh process being implemented.
• Experience working on Microsoft Visio to define/update teh Clinical analytics study setup process.
• Project was agile based so attended daily Stand-ups and had 4-week sprints. Worked closely with teh Scrum master to identify backlog items for every sprint.
• Actively participated in Sprint Review and Planning meeting, Backlog refinement and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Conducted pre and post documentation review and sign-off for teh SDLC deliverables. Conducted impact analysis.
• Develop, maintain and monitor project deliverables such as requirements documents, use cases, user stories, design documents, API definition file, traceability, usability, issue identification and management in JIRA

Environment: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum environment, JIRA, Confluence, SQL, XML, JBoss, Oracle, MS Office, MS Projects, MS SharePoint

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working in Agile-Scrum Framework environment facilitating documentation, validation, requirement elicitation and elaboration, stakeholder analysis and other business processes related optimization activities.
• Conducting JAD sessions with teh business team to understand teh existing running applications, interviewed SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) for teh business applications and eliciting requirements.
• Assisting withprojectdocumentation by creating and definingprojectscope based on specific requirements as defined by teh client.
• Consulting teh business users and SMEs, aiding to create Product Backlogs to prioritize features and subsequently creating Sprint Backlogs.
• Maintaining a Traceability Matrix to ensure dat all Functional Requirements are addressed at teh Use Case Level as well as teh Test Case Level.
• PreparingRelease Documentationfor delivery to teh client, conducting demo.
• Co-coordinating teh UAT with teh SME’s to make sure dat all teh Business Requirements are addressed in teh application.
• Assessingprojectprogress through daily and weekly progress reports from all relevant departments and Coordinate activities to ensure smooth flow.
• Supporting Production and release teams and contribute to resolving any production-related issues.
• Engaged with architects, data management and product managers in preparing scorecards and vendor evolutions, defining SLA and implementation schedules
• Performed requirements analysis and prioritization leading to on-schedule product implementation.
• Participated in architecture and technical solutions discussions to enable integration and collaboration between Business Process and IT Strategies.
• Ensured compliance to best practices, methodologies and guidelines set forth by Project Management Office.
• Participated in IT development activities including: maintaining requirements traceability, systems analysis, application development, Testing - QA, UAT and Prod mock runs and Deployment.
• Experience in utilizing local and global resources, requiring coordination and management of remote and offshore personnel

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint, MS Visio), .NET, Oracle, Crystal reports, IBM Mainframes, RUP, UML, SQL, Basel II, SWOT analysis, GAP Analysis.