SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst. Identified the business problems and halped business owners to determine the potential solution for their business needs.
• Technical competencies and leadership profile enabled the delivery of customer delight.
• Specialized in Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation, Requirements Analysis and Communication.
• Proficient in handling Business Requirement Documents (BRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and identifying interfaces and business process specifications.
• Ability to adapt to changes and update my knowledge base as customer needs and technology changes occur.
• Excellent analytical skills in understanding the business processes and requirements while translating them into functional requirements
• Effective team leader, goal - driven and exceptional interpersonal skills
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)-V-Model, Waterfall & Agile methodologies, Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Use Case Diagrams and Business Flow Diagrams
• Joint Application Developments (JAD), Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), Rapid Application Development (RAD), GAP &Risk Analysis
• Business Requirement Documents (BRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and identifying interfaces and business process specifications
• Rational Requisite Pro to manage requirements
• Manual and automated testing: WinRunner, LoadRunner, and Quick Test Professional
• User Requirements: Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and Non-Functional Requirements Document (NFRD)
• Experienced in working wif validation team to develop the validation plan and test cases
• User Acceptance Testing, Factory Acceptance Testing, System Testing, Stress Testing and Reliability Testing
• Proficient wif Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS), Quality Center (QC), Change Control Management System (CCMS) and Electronic Data Management System (EDMS)
• Hands on experience working wif MS Share point as a tool addressing the business needs wif respect to bridging the gap between the Business and the IT teams by providing a consistent method of communication flow.
• Tracked change requests and monitored workload and schedule.
• Facilitated JAD sessions wif management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
• Strong background in Agile development using SCRUM methodology
• Participated in business and technical design sessions wif DBA’s, Developers, QAanalysts and experience in facilitating and leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven track record of Project Execution, Project Co-ordination, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Change Management.
• Expertise in creating user acceptance documentation for Test strategy, Test Plans, monitored testing procedures through Test Cases, Test Scenarios
• Formal training of BABOK and Business Analysis .Good understanding of all the knowledge areas of BABOK.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software Development Life Cycle
• Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions
• Agile
• Waterfall
• RUP
• Gap Analysis
• Business Requirements Gathering & Analysis
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Requirements Elicitation
• Scope Modeling
• Configuration Management & Change Management
• Us User Stories & Use Case Scenarios
• System Analysis & Design
• Visio
• Data Modeling
• Use Case Modeling & Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Business Analyst

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Gathered technically feasible requirements for AISR and BASIS by communicating wif the stakeholders on a continual basis. The stakeholders included Business Owners, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Compliance Manager, Technical Leads, System Engineers and Testers
• Led various brainstorming & JAD sessions wif vendors and other cross-functional project teams to identify end user needs
• Formulated effective use cases, test cases and activity diagrams by eliciting and analyzing requirements
• Drafted requirements specifications, user acceptance testing (UAT) plans, validation plans, UAT summary reports, requirements traceability matrices and validation summary reports
• Performed gap analysis on the previous AISR & BASIS software releases and formulated a remediation plan to resolve them
• Developed User Support Manuals and Training Guides to halp continue business operations for AISR software
• Performed Business Impact Analysis and Risk Mitigation for any issues and risks created due to the introduction of new requirements and design changes to the software
• Created Mock-up forms in MS word for better visualization and understanding of the software solution.
• Tracked change requests and monitored workload and schedule.
• Facilitated JAD sessions wif management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Identified user needs and translated them into feasible requirements thru BRD (Business Requirements Document) for various major and minor releases of Trackwise by consulting wif all stakeholders dat included Business Owner, System Owner, Regulatory Compliance Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Subject Matter Experts, Testers and Software Engineers.
• Gathered the end user needs by various data research methods, brainstorming sessions, JAD sessions, etc. and documented them into verifiable requirements by consulting wif the various cross-functional teams
• Developed business cases, use cases, test cases and UML diagrams by analyzing the requirements for a specific Trackwise release
• Performed an extensive Cost vs Risk Analysis and Costs vs Benefits Analysis in order to determine the final set of requirements for a specific Trackwiserelease
• Assisted the Project Manager to develop planning and implementation of a specific Trackwise release
• Led a team of two business analysts to support daily business operations of closing change request tickets in the TrackwiseChange Control Management System, troubleshoot & resolve any issues in the change request queue and generate weekly statistical reports and metrics
• Identified process bottlenecks and implemented new improved policies & procedures for Trackwisesoftware
• Developed strong professional relationships wif stakeholders & clients and collaborated wif various vendors & suppliers

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned the Business Analysis approach, conducted stakeholder analysis and planned the business analysis activities based on the business needs and the enterprise architecture.
• Defined the business need based on the business goals and objectives, and defined the solution scope based on the assumptions & constraints, dependencies and business needs.
• Prepared for elicitation by ensuring all required resources are scheduled and organized for elicitation activities based on the scope, business case and stakeholder’s roles and responsibilities.
• Conducted elicitation activities using techniques such as brainstorming, Interviews, Prototyping, Observation, Requirement workshops, Questionnaires, etc. and documented these results.
• Created and maintained relationships between business objectives, requirements, solution and deliverables by creating and managing requirement traceability.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting the Business Requirements Document ( BRD)
• Conducted the GAP, risk analysis and presented the issues and concerns Confidential the JAD sessions to all the stakeholders. Documented the proceedings of the JAD session.
• Utilized the Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure dat all teams are using the correct and appropriate requirements, and sub-requirements for satisfaction of customer needs.
• Prepared and consolidated all mock-ups/UI design, logical and business flow modeling, and requirements gathering activities in an agile work flow environment.
• Authored high and low level use cases, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams to define system interactivity and specify functional requirements based on UML methodologies, using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Conducted meetings/working sessions to focus on analyzing and obtaining requirements from all target user groups, SME’s.
• Created training plans, prepare training materials and deliver training to internal and external users for new and existing tools and processes.
• Executed the written and approved test cases against the delivered applications into the test environment and enter the test results wif Pass or Fail criteria.
• Conducted JAD sessions to gather business requirements from product owner, stakeholders, business users, and external users.
• Captured user stories in RALLY/ JIRA and assigned task to development. Followed IIBA standards for Agile for design and enterprise analysis. Contributed to Iteration planning.
• Communicated wif the development team on any issues dat arise from the execution.
• Tracked change requests and monitored workload and schedule.
• Facilitated JAD sessions wif management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.

Confidential

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing business metadata for the internal risk operational system. Identification of Important Data Elements (IDEs) to align wif the business objectives.
• Establishing data quality requirements for the identified IDE’s, performing data quality checks, and ensuring corrective actions to align wif business objectives.
• Supporting the data migration project from the legacy risk operational system to the current system. Collecting business requirements by engaging stakeholders, and preparing the requirements specification documents. Transform high level business requirements into functional specifications.
• Analyze existing data, identifying data gaps, providing input and education to the pilot line of business on the data model and data mapping requirements and engaging stakeholders in support of the data migration effort.
• Lead a group of data analysts to develop process and implement data mapping for the data migration effort.
• Identifying and establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for various Business Intelligence reports.
• Responsible for requirements gathering and data analysis during development of few critical business reports.
• Communication of business requirements to technical team and ensuring technical project aligns wif business objectives.
• Testing for ensuring conformity to business requirements.