SUMMARY

• Exceptionally organized and resourceful Business Analyst with over 5 years of experience in Media and Retail domains.
• Strong Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Agile methodologies.
• Result oriented Joint Application Development (JAD) facilitator and meetings coordinator with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience in creating and documenting Business Requirements, Process Flows, Functional and Non Functional Requirements, and System Functional Specifications including Use cases.
• Successful in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML), drawing UML diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and State Diagrams using IBM - Rational Rose & MS Visio.
• Well-versed in creating Wireframes and Screen Mock Ups using MS Visio.
• Track and maintain Stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using SharePoint.
• Experience in designing Test Strategies, Test Cases, and Test Scripts and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Strong presentation skills.
• Developed materials and trained end users on newly developed and existing applications.
• Experience in working with various departmental teams, developing interactive relationships with business and IT colleagues, having a thorough understanding of needs, and perspectives of both the business users and the technical team.
• Team player, energetic, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent communication skills with strong research capabilities. Successful in becoming a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the IT Team

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding current business as well as the current systems.
• Created As-Is Business Process Models using MS Visio.
• Interacted extensively with various business groups, stakeholders and users to develop the Vision Document that is aligned with corporate strategic objectives
• Documented the “AS-IS” Business Workflows adhering to UML standards
• Managed the application support product backlog using JIRA cards
• Conducted Monthly Business Prioritization meetings with the stakeholders identify JIRA cards to be scheduled for the upcoming release.
• Documented User Story using JIRA to detail the business need.
• Conducted weekly sprint planning meeting with the developers and quality assurance analysts to review user story, assign story points and assign cards to a respective sprint.
• Documented meeting minutes from JAD sessions and obtained sign-offs from JAD participants
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, functional and non-functional requirements
• Used SQL query to create test data.
• Designed User Interface-level wireframes detailing interaction models and user experience using Axure.
• Conducted requirement workshops to verify and validate business requirements
• Documented test cases / test scripts
• Performed functional and GUI testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria are met
• Co-coordinated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on a daily basis with the SME’s to make sure that all the business requirements are addressed in the application
• Coordinated project scheduling and status reporting with the project manager

Confidential, IL

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted extensively with various business groups, stakeholders and users to develop the Vision Document that is aligned with corporate strategic objectives
• Documented the “AS-IS” Business Workflows adhering to UML standards
• Conducted JAD sessions to define requirements and finalize the Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• Documented meeting minutes from JAD sessions and obtained sign-offs from JAD participants
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, functional and non-functional requirements
• Identified use cases from the functional requirements, wrote use case specifications and created “TO-BE Business Process Workflow” diagrams (activity diagrams) in MS Visio
• Designed User Interface-level wireframes using MS Visio
• Assisted QA team in writing test cases.
• Conducted requirement workshops to verify and validate business requirements
• Created use case diagrams using MS Visio to show interaction between the actors and the use cases as well as to demonstrate the relationship between the use cases
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all functional requirements are addressed at the use case level as well as the test case level
• Performed functional and GUI testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria are met

Confidential, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with different business users to develop Vision Document and Business Requirement Specifications and gathered Business and Functional Requirements.
• Documented the AS-IS Business Workflow adhering to UML standards.
• Participated in JAD Sessions for gathering requirements from SME’s. Played the role of a Facilitator as well as Scribe in the JAD session.
• Documented Meeting Minutes from the JAD Session as well as responsible for getting a sign-off on them from the JAD participants.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential Business Processes, Business Rules, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.
• Identified Use cases from the Functional Requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications and created “TO-BE Business Process Workflow” diagrams (Activity diagrams) in MS VISIO.
• Created Use Case Diagrams using MS VISIO in order to show the interaction between the Actors and Use Cases as well as showing the relationship between the Use Cases.
• Managed all the requirements and making requirements available to all team members.
• Wrote Test Cases and walked the QA team through the Test Cases to make sure they understood them properly.
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.
• Performed Functional and GUI Testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria are met.
• Co-coordinated the UAT with the SME’s to make sure that all the Business Requirements are addressed in the application.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts through JAD sessions to gather Business Requirements to be converted to the Functional Requirements Specification Document for designing the new system.
• Responsible for creating Use Case Narratives derived from the Business requirements.
• Conducted reviews with the SMEs to obtain sign off on requirements.
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss project related issues.
• Involved in drafting System and Business Process Rules for different components of the system.
• Interacted with the Testing team to ensure the testers understand the requirements.
• Provided feedback to the Development team to facilitate modifications necessary to meet business requirements.