SUMMARY

• 7 years of business analysis experience in IT industry working on different Agile & Waterfall projects.
• Experience in Requirements Gathering, documenting functional and non - functional requirements and User Acceptance Testing.
• Proficient in Software Development Life Cycle such as RUP, Agile and XP methodology.
• In depth knowledge of RUP’s Iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process i.e. Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition.
• Proficient in Writing Use cases and producing Use Case Model, Analysis model, Behavior diagrams (Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams) and Class diagrams based on UML Methodology & Business process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Strong communicator and creative problem-solver, skilled at analyzing business needs and transforming them into technical designs, applying technical skills and business knowledge to achieve sound results
• Utilized Rational Clear Quest for change requests, enhancement requests, system defects and issues.
• Handled repository management for release, review and technical documents using Rational Clear Case to provide accountability and version control.
• Experienced working in a team oriented environment and contributing effectively as Team player and a self-starter with excellent communication, coordination, training, project planning and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to provide attention to details and prioritize tasks.
• Proficient in written correspondence, preparing project status reports, presentations and implementing requirements.
• Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business requirements document (BRD), USE Case Specifications, Functional Specifications Design (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS).
• Experience with Requirements gathering, data modeling, System Architecture, Feasibility studies, Scope Documents.
• Extensively experienced for organizing and documenting requirements, preparing use cases, writingbusiness documents and reports in Pre-Testing phase.
• Familiarity with current industry standards such as Six Sigma Methodology and Capability Maturity Model (CMM), CMMI.
• Experience in Data Analysis, Feed Analysis, Data Mapping, Data Modeling, Data Reconciliation, Data Entity Relationship Diagram, Normalization and strong understanding of Relational DBMS.
• Proficient with data quality, data processing and good working knowledge of Quick test professional.
• Experience in working with Six Sigma DMAIC Process.
• Experience with modeling of financial data and forecasting financial data.
• Experience with project management tools such as TRAC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Analysis: Requirement Analysis, Business Rules, Data Flow Diagrams, Flowcharts, Business Process Modeling & Improvement, Gap Analysis

Software Packages/ Processes Model Tools: MS Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook), MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Rose

Rational Tools: RUP, UML with Rational Rose, ClearCase, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project

Data Bases: MS Access, MS SQL server, Oracle

Operating Systems: MS Windows Linux, Sun Solaris

Programming Languages: C++, Java, VB. Net

Data Modeling: ER Diagram, Conceptual, Logical, physical schema

Methodologies: Spiral/Waterfall, RAD, JAD, RUP, Agile, SCRUM,UML, Use Case

Version Control Tools: Rational ClearCase

Testing tools: Load Runner, Rational Suite, Quality Center, Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied and assessed the clients systems and business processes. Developed project plans and managed scope
• Hands on experience in creating BRD’s and Use cases for stakeholders
• Established a business Analysis methodology around the Rational Unified Process.
• Assisted in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose and Visio.
• Conducted White Box, UAT’s and end-to-end testing with the QA’s to check the integrity of the product after every sprint and at the end of the project also.
• JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and Project directors.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, perform critical path analysis, and identify opportunities for business process improvement
• Communicated extensively with the clients and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes
• Managed all the requirements in Requisite Pro, making requirements available to all team members.
• Used the Unified Change Management from Rational to track changes to multiple artifacts by versioning artifacts, associating requirements to specific change request/defects to streamline the defect/change tracking process.
• Used SQL Plus and Toad to create, query and verify test data for backend testing.
• Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines
• Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews.
• Performed requirement analysis, went through all the use cases and workflows.
• Provided key input in working with users in defining project and system requirements.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Used Date warehousing for the arrangement of customer data.

Environment: SQL, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Test Director.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business users to defineproduct feature requests, business requirement specifications, and change requests; documented requirements and transformed them into functional and technical requirement specifications; modeled business process flows usingUML, activity and sequence diagrams.
• Created and presented BRD’s and Use cases for stakeholders
• Conducted one-to-one meetings and web-Conferences as well asJAD sessionswith differentstakeholders; analyzed and came up with suggestions providing consistent process for the communication, escalation, and resolution of issues.
• Managing schedules while working with multiple teams.
• Documenting artifacts including, but not limited to, Functional Specifications, and the Use Case Specifications.
• Articulatedbusiness requirementsfrom user interviews, and workshops and then converted requirements intotechnical specificationsfor developers.
• Working with other team members in reviewing requirements via the use of Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
• Conducted Daily Defect status and Progress meeting reports withQA team;carried outdefect trackingusingClear Quest for identifying and documenting all issues, functionality gaps and new functionality needs.
• Involved in monitoring process flows and createdBusiness Process VerificationPlans, conducted and wrote usertest check list manualfor UAT Phase.
• Configured, deployed, and supported electronic trading connections via the FIX protocol (Financial Information exchange) from buy-side firms to broker-dealers
• Researched the various steps in the lifecycle and then constructed the system in such a way that the riskier claims could be easily identified and monitored.
• Provided key input in working with users in defining project and system requirements.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Used Quick Test Professional for data processing and data quality.
• Used Date warehousing for the arrangement of customer data.
• Implemented Traceability Matrix and User Requirement Specification Document (URS) verified the functionality coverage.
• Experienced in track record software by participating in major IT project specification and delivery.
• Participated in actual structured business and process analysis.

Environment: Java, RUP, Rational Rose, Clear Quest, SQL, Oracle, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specification (URS). Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then convert requirements into technical specification
• Created and presented BRD’s and Use cases for stakeholders
• Used guidelines and artifacts of RUP to strategize the implementation of Rational Unified Process effort in different iterations and phases of software development life cycle.
• Documented the use cases and prepared the use case, activity, logical, component and deployment diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose for a clear understanding of the requirements by the development team
• Liaised with the technology team to derive Functional Requirements.
• Compiled Vision and Scope documents to better define the rationale for the new process
• Created reports for process improvements and trend analysis
• Conducted Risk Analysis to identify the risks associated with developing the new system, and formulated a Mitigation Plan to eliminate or reduce risks of high severity and major financial effects
• Played a pivotal role in conducting Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Assisted in reviewing test plan based on requirements and defect tracking using Test Director
• Managed Change Requests from stakeholders by conducting extensive Impact Assessments to capture the expected consequence of such changes
• Created bi-monthly Status Reports using MS Excel to keep the Business Lead informed of developments
• Responsible for creating and updating all documentation for the project, which required interacting with all concerned departments on a regular basis
• Reviewed integration test plan for integration between modules
• Conducted Defect Validation using Test Director to screen the illegitimate defects raised by the QA and UAT teams before hitting Development.
• Worked with the technical team to ensure that varied changes including configuration change requests submitted by the test team are logged, cross environment impact is assessed and cross environment migrations are managed.

Environment: - Oracle, RUP, UML, SQL, MS-Office, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, Test Director, Windows,Advanced Server