SUMMARY

• Almost 7 years of Business Analysis experience with the ability to work independently and manage business expectations with a delivery - focused approach to work; ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with senior and junior business sponsors, as well as technical specialists
• Comprehensive knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies and Iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Efficient in Share Point Server for managing documentation for the project
• Efficient in gathering, detailing, documenting and validating the requirements in a format that is useful to their business area experts and the technical developers
• In depth knowledge of UML in visualizing and documenting the artifacts using Use Cases diagrams in Rational Rose and MS-Visio
• Ability to understand the Business process, and capture the Business rules in Models and documents
• Effectively used Rational Requisite Pro to organize, track and change requirements of the system
• Extensively used RUP for effective implementation of Requirements management under all phases of RUP from Inception to Transition
• Conducted collaborative workshops like JAD sessions and walkthroughs involving executives, developers, end users, and stakeholders
• Efficient in documenting data models, data flows for new and existing applications
• Proficient in working knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML), use cases, activity diagram
• Extensive experience in mentoring and other Business Analysts
• Highly motivated, organized and results oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with capability of adapting to new and fast changing technologies
• Experience working with off-shore teams (development and QA) to review requirements and test cases

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Development Methodologies: Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile

Documentation Tools: Requisite Pro, MS Visio, Rational Rose (UML), MS Word, MS SharePoint, Axure Pro

Modeling Languages: Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Project Management Tools: MS Project

Change Management/Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest

Languages: Visual Basic, C++, Java, JavaScript, VB Script, HTML

Other Software Tools: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, AR

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with stakeholders to bring consensus on requirements that will be translated into IT solution.
• Conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders, end users and subject matter experts
• Documented user stories and worked closely with the development team and the testing team
• Participated in SCRUM meetings on a daily basis
• Managed the Product Backlog and worked closely with the product owner
• Assisted in the solution demo provided to the Product Owner
• Supervised the development of the application by simultaneously interacting with the clients and the technical team
• Worked closely with the subject matter experts and the product owner to define the user stories and the high level features
• Created wireframes to support the user stories
• Created navigation flows help in understanding the UI flow with ease
• Experience in storyboarding with regards to the UI flow

Environment: Agile, SCRUM, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Power Point, E Commerce, Share point, HP Quality center

Confidential, OH

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in creating the Product Backlog by working closely with the Product Owner
• Assisted in prioritizing the user stories
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions
• Documented various workflow diagrams like AS-IS and TO-BE processes
• Participated in daily SCRUM meetings
• Captured non functional requirements, data elements, glossary and business rules in the user stories
• Worked collaboratively with the developers and QA teams
• Closely coordinated with both business users and developers for arriving at a mutual acceptable level
• Performed walkthroughs with the Development team
• Acted as a point of contact for QA and Development team for clarifications with requirements
• Assisted the development team in demos to the Product Owner and made sure that any changes requested in the demos were implemented
• Worked with distributed teams within the US

Environment: Agile, storyboards, E Commerce, Requisite Pro, UML, Use Cases, Share Point, MS Visio, MS Excel, Java, HP Quality center

Confidential, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user/business requirements from using Requirements Planning sessions
• Interviewed individual users for requirements using the job shadowing technique
• Worked with end users to identify business requirements recorded the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people
• Performed business process mapping to understand the ‘as-is’ business processes
• Reviewed the Business Requirements Document (BRD) with the business users, Subject Matter Experts and included representations from the technical team as well
• Documented Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS/FRD) based on the business requirements and reviewed the same with the technical team
• Generated UML diagrams and also created the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Documented the Business Rules, Technical Requirements, Non-Functional Requirements, Glossary and Data Elements
• Documented Use cases from the functional requirements and reviewed the same with the technical team
• Documented Test Cases from the use cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing

Environment: Agile, UML, storyboards, E Commerce, Mercury Quality Center, Use Cases, MS Visio, MS Excel,.NET

Confidential, GA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Focused on introducing requirements-driven approach and tool- supported based upon RUP
• Mentored multiple business analysts in applying UML to business requirements definition, business systems modeling to align business needs with technical implementation
• Translated wants, needs and objectives into business and/or technical requirements
• Identified and prepared Process flow diagrams (As-Is and To-Be), SRS, Use Cases, Entity Relationship diagrams, Mock ups and activity diagrams
• Created test plans, test scenarios, and user acceptance testing standards
• Traced business requirements with functional requirements and test scenarios using Requisite Pro
• Monitored and made changes to the documents, established relationships among them, defined mechanisms using Clear Case for managing different versions of documents, controlled the changes imposed and audited the changes made and reported to the business and IT
• Managed change requirements and version control using clear case and clear quest
• Used Clear Quest to define the software defects and define the enhancements request and monitored and prioritized the defects and requests to the users
• Synchronized technical designs with business requirements
• Involved in designing and maintaining documents using Inet for all the members to easily access the documents from any locations

Environment: Requisite Pro, Rational Unified Process, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Visio, Excel, Java, Test Director, XDE Modeler, Java

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user/business requirements, generated business models, performed use case analysis and created class diagrams using UML
• Implemented a structured system development methodology with emphasis on Rational Unified Process (RUP) that dramatically improved productivity and reduced errors
• Develop system and defined metrics to evaluate performance in innovation, customer satisfaction & employee participation
• Studied project planning and business process
• Analyzed existing procedures and reported to management to improve productivity
• Participated in providing analysis to expand the current system to track the activity of the individual loans within the portfolios
• Worked with end users to identify business requirements
• Performed requirement sessions with Business users Writing functional specifications
• Performed Business Process Modeling using Visio
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, UML, NET, Waterfall