SUMMARY

• MBA in finance with 7+ years of IT experience with emphasis on Business Analysis. Worked closely with various project stakeholders, SMEs and staff to understand and document business requirements, functional requirements, and design specifications for new applications along with enhancements to the existing applications.
• Strong experience working in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using various methodologies including RUP, Agile, Waterfall, and other client specific internal methodologies.
• Experience in interacting with business users and executives to identify business needs, gather Requirements and authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using UML modeling.
• Skilled in translating business objectives, prioritizing functional requirements and recommending feasible solutions to business problems.
• Extensive experience in business analysis, GAP analysis, cost/benefit analysis, Risk analysis, testing, development of functional specifications and project planning.
• Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design using Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing towards customer satisfaction.
• Competent in client relation management, presentation and knowledge transfer skills.
• Experience in Requirements gathering, Documentation, Use Cases, Functional Specifications, Business Case Analysis, Testing
• Effectively monitored the Defect Tracking process in the functional, integration and regression test phases of the project.
• Expertise in creating Test Cases on the basis of product features, client requirements and technical documents.
• Developed, executed and maintained Test Scripts. Reviewed and documented system Test Plans.
• Create and maintain Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Process Improvement, Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, Change Control Process, Quality Assurance Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) &.
• Excellent interpersonal dexterity with proven ability to converse, liaises, negotiate and relate with a wide range of personalities.
• Strong analytical and client service skills with a high learning acumen to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate skills set into the common goal of Project.
• Excellent team player with strong commitment and have excellent oral and written communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• RequisitePro
• Clear Case
• Clear Quest
• Rational Rose
• UML
• MS Visio
• CA Erwin
• TestDirector
• LoadRunner
• CATT
• Silk
• Quality Center
• JIRA
• Windows XP/ME/ 2000/2003/98/95/ NT
• DOS
• UNIX
• Javascript
• HTML
• XML
• SQL
• Shell Scripts
• Oracle
• MS - SQL Server
• MS Access
• Websphere
• IIS
• Word
• Excel
• MS-Project
• Power Point
• Visio
• TOAD
• SQL Server Query Analyzer
• Crystal reports
• Vantive.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted user interviews and JAD sessions to get an understanding of client business process.
• Gathered primary input/output requirements for the processes and documented them in Rational Rose.
• Gathered data requirements for the Corporate Banking system by interacting with the users and data administrators.
• Gathered functional requirements from users and management (SMEs).
• Responsible for creating the Business Requirements Specification Document (BRD) and the Functional Specifications Document (FSD).
• Captured Business Process Model, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Collaboration diagrams.
• Ensured application forms and reports (UI) followed client’s development standards and guidelines in terms of usage, naming conventions etc.
• Created the End-User Documentation.
• Conducted workshops for internal users to provide .
• Assured that all artifacts are in compliance with guidelines.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining documentation related to the project including scope document, vision document, functional specification document, defect status report, risk analysis document, mitigation plans, supplementary requirements specification document and impact analysis document.
• Managed all the requirements in Requisite Pro, making requirements available to all team members.
• Designed the test plan and worked with the QA team to implement and monitor the entire QA process.
• Responsible for processing change requests from the client by filling Change Request Forms (CRF).

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Project, HTML, Windows, Java, Websphere, Oracle and crystal reports.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed SWOT analysis to evaluate internal and external environment of the company.
• Conducted the grooming sessions to align the user stories into sprints depending on the priority of the user story.
• Accountable for ensuring user stories to have acceptance criteria.
• Proficiently helped development teams to break down large user stories for execution.
• Advised product owners, scrum masters and teams to improve their ability to create good product backlogs. .
• Assisted scrum master with the scheduling and execution of implementation tasks.
• Coordinate activities with developers, stakeholders, scrum master and testers.
• Prepared and presented weekly and monthly business operations review to the senior leadership team.
• Worked with members of the core team for implementation of risk aspects of financial modules.
• Reviewed Integration Test Plan for integration between modules.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used Quality Center with QA team for testing.

Environment: MS Visio, SQL Server, HTML, Java/J2ee, Sharepoint, Windows, Quality Center

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed SWOT analysis to evaluate internal and external environment of the company.
• Conducted the grooming sessions to align the user stories into sprints depending on the priority of the user story.
• Accountable for ensuring user stories to have acceptance criteria.
• Proficiently helped development teams to break down large user stories for execution.
• Advised product owners, scrum masters and teams to improve their ability to create good product backlogs. .
• Assisted scrum master with the scheduling and execution of implementation tasks.
• Coordinate activities with developers, stakeholders, scrum master and testers.
• Prepared and presented weekly and monthly business operations review to the senior leadership team.
• Worked with members of the core team for implementation of risk aspects of financial modules.
• Reviewed Integration Test Plan for integration between modules.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used Quality Center with QA team for testing.

Environment: MS Visio, SQL Server, HTML, Java/J2ee, Sharepoint, Windows, Quality Center

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in coordinating onsite and offshore teams for various new requirements and enhancements.
• Conducted JAD sessions to capture business requirements pertaining to the real estate applications like contractual agreements, lease information etc.
• Produced business requirement documents, functional requirement documents, test plans and test cases.
• Followed the UML based methods using MS Visio to create Business flow diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Ensure business requirements are in accordance with available resources as budget, timelines, etc
• Involved in project meetings in order to view project status, possible red flags and solutions.
• Worked closely with onsite and offshore configuration/development teams to analyze the requirements.
• Drafted the remediation plan for the project management approval after GAP analysis.
• Gained familiarity with SOX compliance procedures and bided them during the project lifecycle.
• Lead the BPT testing by using the Quality Center.
• Provide assistance to testers on Preparing test conditions, Test scripts, Executing test scripts and Process flow.
• Extensively involved in reviewing the pre and post execution of the test script all over the modules to ensure designers and testers are following the validation standards.
• Implemented the flow diagrams for Pre-Execution Review, Post-Execution Review and Defect Life Cycle.
• Involved in generating SQL Queries to prepare reports as requested by the business users, validation team and management.

Environment: UML, SQL Server 2005/2008, Windows, Vantive, Quality center.

Confidential, Philadelphia PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed the AS-IS analysis for the existing reports, procedures, extracts used to generate the manual reports.
• Worked with the business team to envision the Book of Business reports, Information to be displayed, drill down functionality, navigation.
• Facilitated the JAD sessions with the primary stakeholders and end users for requirement elicitation.
• Interviewing Subject Matter experts (SME) and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people
• Conducted sessions with the development team and discussed the strategy to ensure the security of the application, granting user an access to the application and functionality being offered by user.
• Responsible for BRD and FRD documents.
• Assisted usability team and documented specifications for the user interface.
• Coordinated with the technology team during the design and development phases of the project.
• Set up definitions and process for Test phases including product test, integration test, and system test. Work to fully implement test phase entry and exit quality criteria, standard test reporting metrics and standard test artifacts
• Created different Traceability views to maintain the Trace ability of the requirements using the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Performed System Testing to ensure that the compiled software components of the Applications adhere to Project Standards, Performance Criteria and Functional specifications.
• Worked with testing team in drafting the test plan, test cases and test scenarios.
• Facilitated the UAT testing.
• Conducted user sessions for the end users of the application.

Environment: RUP, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, Windows XP, Dreamweaver, SQL, PL/SQl, XML, VB, ASP, Crystal Reports, Adobe Photoshop, Mercury Test Director, WinRunner, LoadRunner.