SUMMARY

• Business Data Analyst with 6+years of IT domain experiencein finance, banking and healthcare Industries.
• Solid understanding of Business Requirement gathering, BusinessProcess Modeling, Data Analysis,BusinessAnalysis and projectmanagement.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) through all the four phases including Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition, and employing Agile and waterfall software methodologies.
• Unified Modeling Language (UML), Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Use Case Specification Documents (USD).
• Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), MS Excel, Data Flow System, User requirement Specification (URS) document, Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Business Requirement Documents (BRDs).
• Proficiency in analyzing and Creating Use cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams and Sequence diagrams
• Experience in performing Risk analysis, GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Organized many Joint Application developments (JAD) and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), Interviews, workshops and requirement Elicitation session with end - user/clients/stake holders and the development group.
• Extensively interacted with the QA Team in creation of the Test Plans, Providing Test Data, Creating Test Cases, and Issuing SRS upon detection of bugs and collecting the Test Metrics
• Identify, assess, and recommend business priorities, handled change Requests by the clients
• Excellent communication skills and proficiency in interacting with the stakeholders, interviewing Subject Matter Experts(SME's) and product owners to get a better understanding of the Business Process.
• Experience in coordinating meetings, documenting minutes of meeting and taking actions accordingly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Analysis Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/ Scrum, RUP, RAD, Prototype model

Business Requirement analysis: JAD Sessions, Use Case, Gap analysis, SWOT analysis, ROI analysis

Documentation skills: Business Requirement Document(BRD), Functional Requirement Document(FRD),RACI matrix

Databases Management Tools: MS Access, MS SQL Server, SQL, RDBMS, Informatica

Software tools: SharePoint, MS Project, Microsoft Word, Excel Spreadsheet, PowerPoint, MS Visio

Quality Assurance (QA) Skills: Experience in creating Test Scenario, Test cases, Test scripts and test plans.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering in Agile methodology - experienced with defining Features, MMFs, Stories, story points, working with product owners to prioritize requirements
• Writing use cases, prepared traceability matrices and translated business requirements to high-level technical requirements.
• Prepare test cases and test scripts to facilitate the UAT and manual testing.
• Developed mock-up screens for the client to visualize the end product and suggest required enhancements.
• Worked extensively on SQL queries for client warehouse analysis, ad-hoc requests. And used SSRS for reporting purposes.
• Facilitated JAD sessions for requirement gathering, analysis, and design.
• Developed Use Cases/diagrams, conceptual model, behavior diagrams (sequence, collaboration, state chart, Activity), using MS Visio.
• Responsible for the delivery of Business Requirements Documents (BRD) within project timelines.
• Conducted GAP Analysis and formulated the TO-BE features based on the business requirements and pain points.

Confidential, Morrisville,NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained data model/architecture standards, including master data management (MDM). Assisted Project Manager in development and documentation of Project Plan for tax and accounting applications
• Generated and validated ad-hoc reports using Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, advanced look and conditional formulas, VBA)
• Analyzed current operations and Implemented requirement gathering & management using Rational Requisite Pro, andbusinessintelligence tools
• Investigated the issues by performing data mining on complex data sources to identify the root cause. Executed SQL query packages for data validation.
• Provided documentation to corporate tax team members along with user s for MS Access, MS Visio and MS project.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Generated a streamline process to understand the various steps in the loan lifecycle and desired functionality of the new system by interacting with users, management, SME (Subject Matter Expert), stakeholders, lenders, underwriters.
• Interviewed business users to gather requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Facilitated business process improvement, documented business processes and initiated efforts to make improvements.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and used Requisite Pro to manage, analyze, and convert business requirements into functional specifications.
• Conducted and participated in JAD sessions with stakeholders and system users to collect the software requirement specifications (SRS).
• Assisted in designing test plans, test scenarios and test cases for integration, regression and user acceptance testing (UAT) to improve overall quality of the Application.

Confidential, Mount Laurel-NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gatheredbusinessrequirements through interviews, surveys, and observing from account managers and UI (User Interface) of the existing Broker Portal system.
• Interacted with fixed incomebusinessheads to finalize theBusinessRequirements for the Risk Management process.
• Credit Risk management of the existing portfolio of international and local corporate clients. Prepared credit approval packages reports for corporate clients, which involved in depth risk analysis, industry trends, financial analysis and forecasting for local customers.
• Design methodology around the RUP (Rational Unified Process). Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRD.
• Designed Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams in UML methodology using VISIO.

Confidential, New York-NY

Business Analyst / System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements relating to trading, equities and fixed income such as bonds, converted into the same functional requirements using RUP methodology and author in the same business requirements document (BRD).
• Designed and developed in all cases the use of narrative and implements UML modeling as create Use Case diagrams, process flow diagrams and activity diagrams using MS Visio.
• Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology for application development with a variety of work, objects and activities. Developed business process models in the RUP to document existing and future business processes.
• Analyzed user requirements, attend meetings of the Change Request document changes and implemented procedures to test the changes.
• Assistance in developing the project deadlines / deliverables / strategies to effectively manage projects.
• Evaluate the current practices of storage and handling of relevant financial data for compliance.
• Involved in developing test strategies and assisted in developing test scenarios, test conditions and test cases in cooperation with the technical areas of research, solving the system and user acceptance testing (UAT).