OBJECTIVE

• To be part of a highly motivated team and be of immense value in gathering, understanding and translating the business needs clearly and precisely to the IT teams to enable them understand the scope and nature of the project.

SUMMARY

• Expertise in requirements gathering through direct user interviews, workshops, secondary market research and databases with 5+Yrs BA experience in Property & Casualty Insurance, Banking, and Investments.
• Facilitating JAD sessions with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements
• Exceptional documentation skills for writing use cases and functional requirement documents as well as for creating Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams based on UML Methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment as well as software engineering methods like Rational Unified Process(RUP)
• Writing specifications for enhancements by using existing legacy system documentation and procedures
• Understanding of technical architecture - design patterns, and at ease working with technical architects
• Defining test cases, creating test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with QA / dev teams in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Using project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning
• Excellent team player with ability to think analytically and troubleshoot issues.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with expertise in Use-Case Narratives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP, NT, 2000/2003 Server, VISTA, Linux, SCO UNIX

Business Tools: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite-Pro

Data-Modeling Tools: Enterprise Architect, MS Visio

Office Tools: MS Office suite, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in gathering the business requirements by interviewing the Subject matter experts (SMEs) and documented them in a format that could be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams.
• Together with the development team carried out the data modeling and data analysis.
• Did extensive research and successfully carried out GAP analysis.
• Carried out extensive analysis of the business requirements and broke them in to high-level Use Cases.
• Prepared Use Case diagrams using MS Visio tool.
• Prepared basic design diagrams including flow charts, data flow diagrams using MS Visio following the UML conventions.
• Carried out a through analysis of the Enterprise business architecture and formulated the business rules with the help of the SMEs.
• Extensively used Rational RequisitePro in documenting, organizing and tracking the business requirements.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business, operations, and technical teams throughout the project life cycle.
• Prepared project reports for management and assisted the project manager in the development of weekly and monthly status reports, policies and procedures.
• Organized a number of JAD sessions wherein the SME’s, designers, developers and testers could communicate to enhance the quality of the desired product.
• Participated in design walk-through with Subject matter experts (SMEs) and the technical team.
• Assisted Quality Assurance team while conducting the User Acceptance Tests.

Environment: SQL Server 2000, Java/J2EE, XML, Struts 1.1, Windows 2000, MS Office Suite, Requisite Pro 7.0, Rational Rose 7.0, Clear case 7.0, Web logic 8.0, Ant 1.6 and Log4j 1.2.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a part of the project team interacted closely with the business community to define and analyze the business requirements to present possible technical solutions.
• Worked closely with the business community in gathering the data storage needs.
• Mentored and worked with the junior business analysts in gathering the requirements in accordance with the scope.
• Co-authored business requirements document with project teams and at every stage discussed and refined the business requirements with the inputs from the business team.
• Facilitated and managed JAD sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas including auto insurance, home owners insurance, banking etc.
• Carried out extensive analysis of the user problem domain and formulated feasible technical solutions in automating the manual business processes.
• Independently carried out the data modeling and analysis activities for approval by the technical architect.
• Independently designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, and Activity Diagrams using IBM’s Rational Rose.
• Assisted project managers with the development of project schedules. Worked with all levels of client staff in solution definition.
• Coordinated activities between the business house and technical staff, in developing new methods, policies, and procedures to meet the business needs, and has acted as the primary trainer in educating the business house stake holders as it relates to automated business applications.
• Conducted gap analysis to derive the requirements for the proposed systems enhancements.
• Collaborated with the QA team to ensure adequate testing of software, maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance) testing at the client’s premises after successfully deploying the product.

Environment: MS Office 2000, IBM Rational suite release 7.0, Eclipse 3.0, MS Project professional 2007, Java,/J2EE, Struts 1.1, Hibernate 1.8, WinCVS 1.1, Ant 1.4.1, Log4J 1.2, Oracle 9i, JBoss 4.0.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively interacted with the Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes especially the capability to provide the customer with the option of comparing a number of quotes side by side.
• Modeled the present system and performed a complete Gap Analysis to map it to the ‘to be’ developed system.
• Coordinated JAD sessions between the Stakeholders and the Project members.
• Created business process workflow diagrams using IBM’s Rational Rose
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, performed critical path analysis, and identified opportunities for business process improvement.
• Developed high level and low level Use Cases on getting the specification document approved.
• Worked on RequisitePro along with other team members to provide visibility of any requirement change and maintained traceability among requirements.
• Managed all the requirements using RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members.
• Performed requirements analysis and using Rational Rose and Smart Draw created data flow diagrams (DFDs), Use cases and Sequence Diagrams.
• Ensured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines

Environment: SQL Server 2000, .NET suite, Visual source safe, Windows 2000, MS Office Suite 2007, Rational Requisite Pro 7.0, Clear Quest 7.0, Rational rose 7.0, and ISS 6.0

Confidential, Elmwood Park, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Management Tools like MS Project'98, for Project Planning, Project Tracking, Resource Allocation, Time Allocation, and Performance tracking.
• Involved in modeling of the business and application using Rational Unified Processing (RUP) and UML.
• Involved in JAD sessions for quickly and efficiently defining user requirements and eliminate project errors.
• Responsible for coordinating business meetings and generating monthly status reports.
• Involved in Re-defining business process, documenting enhancements.
• Performed Gap Analysis for new functionality requirements, as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs so as to align them with the product release roadmap
• Written Use Cases and written business flows and workflow diagrams for effective plans.
• Involved in sketching Sequence Diagrams for process flows of the application using MS Visio.
• Communicating QA standards and procedures to the project management,
• Reviewing the business requirement document and the technical specifications.

Environment: IBM AIX, Visual Basic4.0, MS- Office, MS Access, IBM Web sphere, Rational Rose, UML, Test Director, Visual Source Safe

Confidential, Boston, MA

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was actively involved right from the Inception Phase to the final user acceptance testing phase.
• Prepared a Logical Process Model of the proposed system and also authored the conceptual design documents using various UML diagrams such as the use case diagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Independently developed the Business Requirement Document and its subsequent versions using MS office and Visio.
• Carried out a thorough analysis of the existing system before gathering the business requirements through interviews, surveys and researching the prototypes available.
• Interviewed SME’s to get an in depth understanding of the workflows involved in stock trading, securities lending, securities clearance etc.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements to identify the must have and nice if features for the evolving product.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, System Analysts and testers to monitor the project progress on a weekly basis.
• Used power point presentations on a monthly basis for keeping the stakeholders abreast of the progress.
• As a team member took active participation in all training sessions conducted by the Subject matters experts and the technical team members.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Oracle 8i, Rational suite 2000, MS-Office 2000, MS Project 2000, MS Access 2002, WinCVS 2.0, Ant 1.4.1, Eclipse 2.0, Log4J 1.2.