Summary:

• Having 11 years of IT experience as a Customer oriented, multitask professional with excellent analytical and logical skills
• Experience in co-coordinating with business and IT across all phases of software development life cycle.
• Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements and developing Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Performed gap analysis and proposed scope of improvements of applications.
• Experience in identifying impact of a business requirement on various functional areas of the application that helped in pre-planning work allocation of resources effectively.
• Hands on experience in Visio, MPP.
• Experience of Finance, Healthcare and Manufacturing domains
• Experience of Size based and Function Point Estimation.
• Expertise in writing Test Scenarios and Test Cases and Plan
• Experience in creating application Prototypes and screen mock-ups.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile.
• Well versed with SDLC lifecycle and SEI CMM/ SEI CMMI compliance
• Hands on experience in writing PL/SQL and coding.
• Well versed in client interaction, risk assessment, onsite-offshore team management.
• Managed a team of 5-10 members and coordinated between client, UAT team and Production support team to ensure a good quality bug-free delivery.

Technical Skills:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a business analyst in identifying the problem, documenting requirements and providing technical solutions.
• Interacted with Client, development team and business users to ensure that requirements were captured accurately and thoroughly.
• Review design documents to ensure that requirements are captured correctly.
• Project Management activities covering client interaction, controlling project, monitoring activities, making decisions, facilitating progress, managing issues through to closure, and taking corrective actions whenever necessary.
• Document Test cases and test plans to be used by development team.
• Prepare Estimation and Project Planning documents.
• Involved in requirement gathering and impact analysis activities.
• Review Client Requirements and interview client to gather requirements
• Prepare Business Specifications, System Requirement Specification SRS Document
• Analyzing the impacts and feasibility of the specifications demanded by client
• Defining and sizing scope of work, setting up and ramping up the project team with right skills.
• Defined and communicated project goals.
• Identify issues and risks in the project and track them to closure.
• Resolve queries of development team during requirement analysis phase.
• Responsible for timely and quality delivery. Assign tasks to team members.
• Coordinated with stakeholders for the deployment of the application on production.
• Provide support to business users during User Acceptance Testing
• Maintain process documents as defined under organization's quality process guidelines

Role: Business Analyst Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a business analyst in identifying the problem, documenting requirements and providing technical solutions.
• Involved in Requirement analysis, Design and UAT phases of development
• Project Management activities covering client interaction, controlling project, monitoring activities, making decisions, facilitating progress, managing issues through to closure, and taking corrective actions whenever necessary.
• Design Process Diagram, Activity Diagram, Use Cases, end to end data flow and screen mock ups
• Manage change requirements, Requirement Traceability matrix
• Prepare System Test Scenarios and Test Cases and perform functional testing
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks
• Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables.
• Estimation and planning for the project.
• Document Test cases and test plans to be used by development team.
• Created Estimation and Project Planning documents.
• Defining and sizing scope of work, setting up and ramping up the project team with right skills.
• Defined and communicated project goals.
• Managed a team of 5 members
• Coordinated with stakeholders for the deployment of the application at organization level

Role: Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead the team to successful deliveries. Involved in client interactions, requirement analysis, code reviews and testing.
• Created Business Requirement document and Functional Requirement Document.
• Involved in Design and UAT phases of development
• Interacted with Client, database team and end users to ensure that requirements were captured accurately and thoroughly.
• Identify issues and risks in the project and track them to closure.
• Responsible for timely and quality delivery. Assign tasks to team members.
• Created the High Level and Low Level design documents to define the technical implementations of the various functional screens.
• Document System Test cases and test plans
• Estimation and Project Planning.
• Involved in code review Standard and Logical to find out the code quality and the scope for improvement in existing code.
• Handled the communication with the client.
• Managed a team of 6 members and coordinated between client, UAT team and Production support team to ensure a good quality bug-free delivery.

Environment: VS2008, C , WPF Front End, JAVA Middle Layer, XML and Perforce

Role: Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead the team to successful deliveries. Involved in client interactions, requirement analysis, coding, reviews and testing
• Created Functional and Design documents
• Identify issues and risks in the project and track them to closure.
• Responsible for timely and quality delivery. Assign tasks to team members.
• Involved in defect fixing and enhancement tasks as and when raised by the client.
• Involved in making technical specifications, and unit test cases,
• As a lead actively involved in making release documents for all the enhancements.
• Created and maintained process related documents.
• Involved in code review Standard and Logical .
• Involved in requirement walkthrough sessions with the client to analyze requirements.
• Involved in providing technical and functional assistance to the team members.
• Estimation and planning.
• Handled Database creation and maintenance. Created Tables, Stored Procedures, and Functions and Triggers as well the changes that needed to be made to database.
• Created reports using SQL reporting services.
• Involved in optimization of the SQL scripts which were not meeting the threshold time set by the client
• Involved in testing performance of SQL queries using Load Runner
• Lead a Module Team of 5 developers.

Environment: ASP.Net 2.0, Windows Forms with Infragistics Net Advantage 2006, Web Services, SQL Server 2005, Vault, Load Runner

Role: Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing of reports in SQL 2005 reporting services
• Created design documents to define the technical implementation of various reports
• Involved in documentation of knowledge repository of the application.
• Took initiative in planning and effort estimation of the project.
• Review the application structure and database design with development and testing teams.
• Manage and assign tasks to team members and track status of tasks.
• Provide support to business users during User Acceptance Testing
• Manage Quality audit of the projects handled
• Prepare weekly status report and update stakeholders on progress.
• Support development by reviewing the Application Design document and testing team by reviewing the Test Cases during development and testing phase.

Environment: Asp.Net, SQL Server 2005, IBM DB2 9.0