SUMMARY

• Exceptionally organized and resourceful Business Analyst with 7+ years of experience in requirements gathering, system analysis, establishing as a system expert, and problem solving.
• Strong Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile methodologies.
• Result oriented Joint Application Development (JAD) facilitator and meetings coordinator with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience in creating and documenting Business Requirements and System Functional Specifications including use cases.
• Extensive experience in creating Wireframes / UI Design using MS Visio & Axure.
• Successful in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML), drawing UML diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and State Diagrams using Enterprise Architect & MS Visio.
• Track and maintain Stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using SharePoint.
• Experience in designing Test Strategies, Test Cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Strong presentation skills and ability to tailor presentations towards different functional areas of business.
• Developed training materials and trained end users on newly developed and existing applications.
• Hands on experience in writing complex SQL queries.
• Experience working with various departmental teams, developing interactive relationships with business and IT colleagues, having a thorough understanding of needs, and perspectives of both the business users and the technical team.
• Proficient in writing test cases and then executing test cases manually, creation of test data, documenting test results as per the firm standards, tracking the bugs, and driving the resolution by working with the development team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Gathering & Documenting Requirements: Enterprise Architect, SharePoint, MS Word, HP Quality Center Conducting JAD Sessions

Use Cases: Enterprise Architect, MS Word

UML Diagrams: MS Visio, Enterprise Architect

Test Cases: MS Excel, HP Quality Center, JIRA

SQL: Oracle, SQL Developer

Wireframes / Screen Mockups: MS Visio, Axure, MS Paint

Preparing Training Materials: MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a product owner / Business Analyst in an iterative waterfall with six week deployment cycle .
• Managed the product backlog and worked closely with stakeholders to identify features for upcoming release.
• Documented user stories and supported them with UML activity diagram and wire frame.
• Used Rally as a tool to manage product backlog and document user stories.
• Worked closely with the developers and testers and conducted sprint planning meetings to review user stories.
• Conducted weekly sprint review meeting with stakeholders to demo the features accomplished during the sprint.
• Managed the application support product backlog using Rally cards
• Conducted Monthly Business Prioritization meetings with the stakeholders identify Rally cards to be scheduled for the upcoming release.
• Performed functional and GUI testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria are met Co - coordinated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on a monthly basis with the SME’s to make sure that all the requirements are addressed in the application
• Documented release notes for every release to provide an overview of features accomplished for that release.

Tools: Used: Agile methodology, Axure, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Rally, Enterprise Architect.

Confidential, New Jersey

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted extensively with various business groups, stakeholders and users to develop the Vision Document that is aligned with corporate strategic objectives
• Documented the “AS-IS” Business Workflows adhering to UML standards
• Conducted JAD sessions to define requirements and finalize the Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• Documented meeting minutes from JAD sessions and obtained sign-offs from JAD participants
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, functional and non-functional requirements
• Identified use cases from the functional requirements, wrote use case specifications and created “TO-BE Business Process Workflow” diagrams (activity diagrams) in MS Visio
• Designed User Interface-level wireframes detailing interaction models and user experience using Axure.
• Conducted requirement workshops to verify and validate business requirements
• Created use case diagrams using MS Visio to show interaction between the actors and the use cases as well as to demonstrate the relationship between the use cases
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all functional requirements are addressed at the use case level as well as the test case level
• Built test cases (functional, unit, and integration) and test data required for functional testing of a Web based application
• Co-coordinated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on a daily basis with the SME’s to make sure that all the business requirements are addressed in the application
• Coordinated project scheduling and status reporting with the project manager

Tools: Used: Waterfall Methodology, Axure, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Enterprise Architect.

Confidential, Kentucky

Jr Business Analyst/QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings and arranged sessions with IT staff and project managers to gather business needs, operational information and improvements.
• Created Business, Functional and UI Requirement documents.
• Participated in JAD Sessions for gathering requirements from SME’s. Played the role of a Facilitator as well as Scribe in the JAD session.
• Created Use Case Diagrams using MS VISIO in order to show the interaction between the Actors and Use Cases as well as showing the relationship between the Use Cases.

Tools: Used: Waterfall Methodology, Axure, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Enterprise Architect.