SUMMARY:

• A result oriented individual wif over 6 years of diversified experience in business analysis, data analysis, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), quality assurance and software testing in banking industries
• Expertise in business review, functional and system level requirements, design review, project planning, project design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams
• Extensive experience in leading Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP)
• Expertise in translating user requirements into technical specifications and mapping the process design, work flows for SDLC and Agile wif documenting and managing business requirements
• Highly proficient in designing and creating Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams using Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Experience wif MS Visio, Rational Rose, and Enterprise Architect for UML documentation
• Highly proficient in business modeling, business analysis and life cycle testing for all aspects of functionality, usability and performance
• Performed planning and development of test plans, test cases and test scenarios to meet product’s business requirements
• Expertise in coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) before deployment of the software product to production
• Proficient wif leading RDBMS such as Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS Access
• Extensively used SQL Plus and SQL Developer for querying databases
• Knowledge and experience wif Data Mapping and ETL process
• Hands on experience wif Online Analytical Processing Applications (OLAP) and Online Transaction Processing Applications (OLTP)
• Extensive experience in implementing Business Intelligence solutions for creation of Data - Marts (Dimensions and Measures) and reports
• Solid proficiency in Unit Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, developing Business-Based Functional Test Scenarios, User Interface, Business Requirement Analysis, System Specification Analysis, Testing Methodology and Test Plan Formulation
• Extensive experience wif working on Change Control Board (CCB) and Change Management using Rational Clear Quest
• Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and documentation skills wif excellent process management skills along wif a remarkable ability to gather requirements to bring out quality product
• Solid business communications and presentation skills adept at written correspondence to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status and resolving issues and conflicts
• Skilled in all kinds of documentations like specifications documents, scope documents, status reports. I always demonstrated first-rate leadership qualities and excellent communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), RUP, RAD, JAD, Waterfall, SDLC models

Requirement/Project Management Tools: MS Office, MS Access, MS Project, WordPerfect Productivity tools, Outlook Quality Standards, DOORS, Rational Requisite-Pro, Quality Center, Change Management Tools

Testing Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, IBM Clear Quest, JIRA

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Wire Frames, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case, UML, Work Flow Tools

Databases: MYSQL, SQL Server, DB2, Languages

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000,2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Mac OS X

Data Analysis Software: SPSS, Test Director, Matlab, R Language

Web Technologies: Multimedia

Domain Knowledge: Mortgage, Banking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as a liaison between end users and developers, also coordinated Joint Application Development sessions wif users
• Facilitated JAD sessions wif the clients and assessed the facts of the discussion to not only gain an understanding of the issues, but drive toward a solution
• Worked on their software product development methodology and implemented RUP (Rational Unified Process wif Requisite Pro and Rational Rose) in it to reduce product development time
• Responsible for gathering User Requirements and creating the Business Requirement Document
• Worked wif cross functional teams in order to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements; tan translated those requirements into software design specifications using various notations of UML
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, and analyzed the requirements using Visio and Requisite Pro
• Built a strong relationship wif the client group, internal and external, to understand, document, and deliver the analytical and reporting solutions required
• Involved in decomposing the functionality of existing systems that will be replaced by the new system
• Worked wif developers and the Quality Assurance Lead to understand the Use Cases and functional requirements
• Conducted Requirement Analysis and Gap Analysis
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Cases
• Co-coordinated wif the project manager for the implementation of the processes and workflow
• Assisted the development team and the project manager in various business processes and tools for developing business requirement specifications and for work procedures and workflows
• Analyzed business needs, created and developed new functionality to meet business needs
• Wrote technical papers, gathered technical requirements, and compiled them to halp design the system
• Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) for different modules of the test applications

Environment: MS Visio, RUP, UML, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case/Quest, MS Project, MS Office, Mercury Quality Center, MS SQL Server, UNIX, Oracle, .Net, IBM DOORS, SWOT analysis

Confidential - Plano, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirements gathering and design sessions based on business processes, requirements and system designs. Prepared requirement specifications (SRS), functionality trace matrix and design test cases
• Analyzed and collected business requirements, generated business models, identified system interface and created the requirements specification document
• Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including context, dataflow diagrams
• Analyzed requirement document by identifying ambiguous, incomplete and incorrect requirements. Developed test cases to ensure that the application is delivered according to requirement
• Performed Sarbanes-Oxley analysis of information technology processes comparing company policy to current practices
• Performed detailed Gap Analysis of technical requirements reviewed under to Sarbanes-Oxley process
• Used DOORS to understand the impact of changing a requirement and decide whether to include it in the current project and to define the traceability across the entire project lifecycle
• Worked on DOORS, to submit, review and approve changes wifin the document
• Managed change of the requirements and associated requirements to other requirements for traceability using DOORS
• Developed the Project using the Iterative RUP model. The Project was streamlined through all phases of the RUP model starting from Inception through Transition
• Used a Functional Decomposition strategy to divide system into sub-systems
• Used questionnaire, surveys, JAD sessions and Brainstorming sessions as requirement elicitation techniques
• Developed Use case diagrams by analyzing the business process followed by Class diagrams, Activity diagrams and Collaboration diagrams in UML using Rational Rose
• Used MS-Visio to draw data flow diagrams, process flow diagrams, and network diagrams. Used MS Project for developing schedules using Gantt charts

Environment: MS Visio, RUP, UML, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case/Quest, MS Project, MS Office, Mercury Quality Center, MS SQL Server, UNIX, Oracle, .Net, IBM DOORS, SWOT analysis

Confidential

Business/ Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented business need, assumptions and constraints
• Created the BRDs, FRDs and Project Definition Document. Along wif that, worked wif the business users to define business requirements and develop user specification documents
• Created source to target data mappings from the legacy system to the SunGard’s Global Plus system
• Extensively worked on data analysis and report creation using SAS and Tibco Spotfire BI tools
• Conducted workflow, process flow and GAP Analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements
• Perform data analysis using SAS and SQL and document the same
• Created test cases, test plan and tractability matrix for testing efforts
• Conducted JAD sessions wif the users, management team and developers in the finalization of business requirement document
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams using UML
• Conducted user interviews, gathered and analyzed the requirements using RUP Rational Rose
• Assisted the project manager in creation of WBS (Work Break-Down Structure), WBS dictionary, Project Scope Statement and Project Charter using MS Project
• Followed the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) techniques to decide inputs, tools and outputs for the application development process
• Identified the stakeholders and understood their role & requirements
• Involved in design, implementation and testing of Broker commission and Bonus reports
• Conducted Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes using the Rational Clear Quest
• Performed Risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis &response planning
• Collected and created processes, procedures and historical information
• Used the Agile software methodology for all the projects implemented
• Helped client in identifying right partner for implementing e-top up for prepaid customers
• Identified, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and their Critical Success Factors (CSF)
• Attended Design meetings, code review and test review meetings
• Responsible for day-to-day monitoring using MS Project and Requisite Pro
• Wrote and debugged macros in MS Excel using VBA (Visual Basic)
• Using detailed noledge of application features and functions, assessed scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all phases
• Interacted wif developers to report data related bugs and re-tested the fixed issues
• Used Test Director to defect tracking and reporting
• Performed UAT testing for various reports created from the data marts.
• Assured all artifacts/signoffs were in compliance wif corporate policies and guidelines and archived
• Updated Lessons Learned Knowledge database

Environment: MS Visio, RUP, UML, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case/Quest, MS Project, MS Office, Mercury Quality Center, MS SQL Server, UNIX, Oracle, .Net, IBM DOORS, SWOT analysis