SUMMARY

• Senior Business Analyst 7 years of experience in business process analysis, business requirements gathering, and prototyping of SharePoint applications
• Expertise in Business Process Engineering, Systems/Solutions Engineering, Strategic Planning, and Systems Analysis
• In - depth knowledge of creating Use Cases, Activity, Logical, Component and Deployment Views to extract business process flows and workflows thereby helping development and quality assurance teams in understanding the requirements
• Strong Project Management skills including planning, scheduling, monitoring and budgeting with experience in requirements gathering, Gap Analysis, risk analysis, effort estimation, etc.
• Comprehensive experience in cost/benefit analysis, testing, development of business requirements specifications, and project planning working with Directors and Business Sponsors
• Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of existing system infrastructures with new business requirements
• Extensive experience in all phases of RUP and SDLC processes
• Results-oriented Joint Application Development (JAD) Facilitator and meetings coordinator
• Change Requests Management
• Business users training, training guides creation, etc.
• Experience in implementing SP 2007, 2010 and 2013
• Experience with SP Online for Office 365
• Configure SP OOB features
• Implementation and administration of SP Sites, Sub Sites, Content Types, Metadata, Search, Security & Permissions, etc.
• OOB and Custom SP Workflows
• Experience with SQL queries and stored procedures
• Strong MS Visio and MS Project skills
• Scrum Master
• TFS Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, East Windsor, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented requirements from the various business departments for future business systems in SharePoint 2013 online for Office 365.
• Documented and analyzed process flows and Use Cases.
• Developed business and functional requirement documents.
• Performed JAD Sessions.
• Made changes to the business’ existing SharePoint 2010 sites.
• Followed the Prototype approach to build the SharePoint sites as requested by the IT Director.
• Created InfoPath forms to meet the business requirements.
• Developed and managed project plans.
• Worked as a SME to obtain and draft requirements for solution definition.
• Automated Business Processes with the OOB workflows.
• Created custom workflows as well to meet some of the requirements.
• Managed the SharePoint team to meet the business objectives.
• Configured and customized the SharePoint sites in cloud.
• Led the change management process.
• Responsible for SharePoint progress updates to the IT Director and VP.
• Led UAT activities, Test Management, Test Scripts, Test Strategies, etc.
• Participated in end user support.
• Created Training guides for the various business departments and delivered user training.
• Led the SharePoint Helpdesk.

Environment: Microsoft Office Professional (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, Access), Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Online for Office 365 (Cloud), Prototype, UAT, Agile, Scrum, MTM

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed requirements (business, user and software requirements - both functional and non-functional) and established traceability to the business vision.
• Gathered and documented business requirements for future business systems in SharePoint 2013 - Collaboration (myTeam sites) & eFiles both.
• Gathered requirements for Outlook-email integration (Harmon.ie).
• Gathered requirements for migration of the SharePoint sites from SharePoint 2007 & 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
• Managed requirements through the project lifecycle by establishing and maintaining agreements between the customer and project team.
• Wrote and reviewed business, user and non-functional/system level requirements in the form of Use Cases, UML, and other similar structured requirements documentation.
• Played a critical communications role by interacting with users (business domain) and with developers and testing personnel (technical domain).
• Ensured the requirements were specified in a manner suitable for the intended audience and were understandable, unambiguous and capable of being implemented and tested.
• Configured and customized SharePoint2013 out-of-box features.
• Designed, built and testedSharePointsites.
• Wrote SQL queries and stored procedures for extracting data.
• Used SQL queries to filter data within the SQL database.
• Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures.
• Worked with the program manager and business customer(s) to define requirements stakeholders, requirements conflict resolution procedures, and the requirements team structure.
• Executed the software development approach being used and defined how requirements’ development would be conducted (i.e. elicitation, analysis, specification and validation).
• Responsible for ensuring change control and change management procedures were followed within the project team as they related to requirements.
• Ensured that quality business analysis standards were met as prescribed by IT Services through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies and deliverables.
• Followed the project strategy on the appropriate methods to elicit and document requirements.
• Followed the project strategy on the procedures of how the requirements would be managed (i.e. base lining requirements, requirements change control and requirements traceability).
• Assessed change requests related to requirements to assess overall impact.
• Led the QA team.
• Led UAT activities, Test Management, Test Scripts, Test Strategies, etc.
• Participated in end user support.
• Created Training guides for the various business departments.

Environment: Microsoft Office Professional (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, Access), Microsoft SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SQL, SDLC, UML, RUP, Agile, Scrum, UAT, MTM, DocAve, Harmon.ie, CardioLog

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business requirements for existing and future business systems.
• Acted as a liaison between business staff and technical staff to articulate needs, issues and concerns.
• Assisted Project Management in developing Scope/Vision Documentation and Project Plan, tracking project progress, and developing Risk Mitigation Plan.
• Prepared and documented System Requirements and workflows for the Content Management Application tool.
• Participated in meetings to establish and enforce SharePoint best practices and standards, manage proper security group naming conventions & security assignment processes.
• Helped in the implementation of MS SharePoint 2007 in the company, as a document handler.
• Designed workflows and allocated permissions within MS SharePoint 2007.
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in the application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Created different users, roles, Document Libraries, Form Libraries, Team Sites for Projects
• Used MS-Visio for flow-charting, Use-Case process model and architectural design of the application.
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project.

Environment: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, Access), Microsoft SharePoint, UML, RUP, UAT

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Web Content Management requirements from business units, translated those requirements into wireframe designs, and delivered HTML and CSS wireframe prototypes to client for implementation.
• Used MS SharePoint for the purpose of managing documents and for hosting websites which were used to access shared work spaces and documents.
• Defined business and technical requirements.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML and Business Process Modeling.
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Involved in the testing phase right from the Unit testing to the User Acceptance testing.
• Used SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodologies like the RUP and Waterfall.
• Designed workflows and allocated permissions within SharePoint.
• Designed Use Cases and other Process Flow Models using Visio and Rational Rose.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Software Modeler/MS Visio to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams/State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams.

Environment: RUP, UAT, GAD (Gap Analysis Document), Microsoft Office Professional (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, Access), Microsoft SharePoint

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business processes, performed gap analysis and recommended solutions in regards to web content management, workflow, and information architecture.
• Prepared Demo on MS SharePoint for various Business groups to get new approvals, like the Therapist and Nursing divisions.
• Created context and workflow models, information and business rule models, Use Case and Object Models during the analysis using Rational tools.
• Provide implementation assessment, strategy, and mentoring services for Rational Rose, UML and RUP.
• Wrote detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and steps required for developing or modifying software programs using Rational Rose (UML).
• Prepared Functional Specification Documentation (FSD) and communicated these to the stakeholders.
• Interacted with different business groups to perform Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies in the system by comparing the actual objectives with the system objectives desired.
• Used MS Visio for Process Modeling and Business Process flow diagrams.
• Extensively involved in regression testing during various phases of the application.

Environment: MS SharePoint, UAT, RUP, MS Office 2000