SUMMARY

Accomplished, Results Oriented Business Analyst with experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC including interpreting business needs, developing business requirements, creating plans, writing functional specifications, creating test case, design application mockups, and developing system analysis report. Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and business owners in developing and maintaining any complex Applications/Systems.

Core Competencies:

• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC - Waterfall Model, Agile Software Development.
• Ability to learn quickly, take ownership of projects, multi-task and maintain high standard of service and quality control.
• Design Mockups and prototype to drive stakeholder and user consensus.
• Expertise in Visualize rapid prototype and design to communicate complex ideas.
• Experienced in writing and maintaining the Requirement Definition Document that included Business and Technical Requirements, Use cases and UML Diagrams.
• Expertise in conducting Joint Application Development JAD , Joint Application Requirement sessions JAR
• Worked extensively with the team to meet business requirement, create prototypes and analyze workflows.
• Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams
• Performed planning and development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenario to meet product's business and solution requirements
• Involved in creating and maintaining Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT . Performing early analysis of existing systems to help define integrations
• Good knowledge of SQL queries
• Conduct walkthrough and signoff procedures
• Define project milestones, schedules, monitoring progress update plans as required.
• Maintained and Reviewed Change Requests and documented all analysis
• Extensive experience working on MS Visio, Excel, Power point, Word, Access and Outlook

Tools and Technical Skills

Professional Experience

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform requirements gathering from the business users of the system while adhering to SDLC Software Development Life Cycle industry best practices
• Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications.
• Visualize rapid prototype and design to communicate complex ideas.
• Design Mockups and prototype to drive stakeholder and user consensus.
• Work with the business users and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications
• Interface with end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements.
• Report tracked defects with reference to severity and types using JIRA.
• Involve in Performance testing, Regression testing, System testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.
• Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.
• Conduct surveys, interviews and facilitate Joint Requirement Planning JRP sessions with the Business Users and SME's.
• Conduct JAD sessions for communicating with the project leads and stakeholders and proposed process workflows, functional specifications and project initiation parameters.
• Create workflow diagrams to validate the Basic and Alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases.
• Establish and maintain traceability matrix until all the business requirements are signed off.
• Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS SharePoint and XJIRA
• Capture quality attributes, external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements.
• Prepare project related presentations and provide progress reports to the higher management and stakeholders using MS Office.
• Work with the Quality Assurance lead to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Cases
• Suggest measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance
• Interact with computer systems end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements
• Participate in development of Training Materials for the new technology and organizing User Training
• Work with business teams to understand the requirement and needs of the potential customers and the target market.

Environment: MS SharePoint, Visio, HP ALM, JIRA, JAWS, WAVE, UML, SQL, MS Project, MS Office.

Confidential

Role: Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the functional owner, project manager, and technical teams to document the product's vision and the project's scope.
• Elicited requirements from senior management and end users capture in a format that allows for easy review, approval, and implementation eliminate guesswork by providing explicit, up-to-the-minute storyboards, logic diagrams, tables, and mockups create UML use case diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, and sequence diagrams.
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications.
• Ensured that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
• Worked with the QA to develop Test Plans and Test Cases for functional and integration testing.
• Maintained the requirements traceability information to track requirements coverage.
• Worked closely with the stakeholders to analyze complex business processes and business requirements.
• Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
• Worked closely with project manager, stakeholders and business analyst to define: test scope, gap analysis, risk analysis, and test dependency.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Performed UI testing on application's web interface.
• Enhanced the existing or default test scripts by adding programming for custom testing and debugging the scripts.
• Coordinated UAT testing activities and report progress.
• Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings with team leads.
• Performed SQL queries to conduct back-end testing.
• Performed regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Maintained standard documentation to compliance with CMM Standards.
• Mentored junior test engineers.
• Attended weekly status meetings with Development Team, QA Manager, and created notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: MS Visio, UML, .NET, Quality Center, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Confidential

Role: Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities

• Analyzed Requirements, Designed and Executed Test Cases.
• Interacted effectively with peers, management and cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Developed Test Scenarios against Software Requirement Specifications
• Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Met with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update the test documents
• Conducted manual testing on all application.
• Developed Test condition Test Data to execute the test scripts.
• Coordinated software defect tracking efforts to ensure satisfactory defect resolution.
• Performed verifications on fix and documented status of defects appropriately.
• Provided administrative support involving general administrative responsibilities for the day-to-day operations.
• Performed front end, back end, GUI, Functionality, Security testing on the application.
• Involved in Manual User acceptance testing with various combinations.
• Developed executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Conducted Multi-User, Smoke and System testing.
• Performed Performance Testing to identify abnormalities in the web application.
• Developed test cases based on business and functional requirement.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were created to by the application.
• Monitored the defect tracking process using Quality Center, trouble shooting and generating customized graphs and reports for the client.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Maintaining status reports and communicating with the Management regarding progress of work.

Environment:Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows, TOAD.