Professional Summary :

• Solid experience in performing market research, competition analysis, feasibility studies, impact analysis, gap analysis, and risks analysis.
• Strong expertise in communicating requirements with stakeholders, Portfolio Managers, Traders, QA, Designers, Middle Office and Back Office and conducting customer and user interviews, workshops, surveys.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries and analyzed the server performance on UNIX.
• Extensive experience with Content Management tools such as Interwoven, Filenet, SharePoint and Documentum
• Experience in business analysis, business process modeling, design, development and implementation of business application using OOAD methodologies like SDLC and RUP.
• Expertise in using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for requirement management and work item tracking.
• Extensive experience in conducting Joint Application Development JAD sessions.
• In-depth knowledge of creating use cases, functional design specifications, activity diagrams, logical, component and deployment views to extract business process flow.
• Working knowledge of implementing software development projects using methodologies such as Waterfall, Rational Unified Process, Agile/Scrum.
• Comprehensive knowledge of business analysis methodologies, SDLC experience and best practices of RUP.
• Experience in Media ,Broadcasting and Communications Domain.
• Strong knowledge
• 7 years of Industry experience as a Sr. Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications, Application Design.
• Working experience in designing and developing the 'Universe' business view of the database developing canned/ ad-hoc reports, scheduling the process using Broadcast agent, and administrating the BO activities.
• Strong understanding of information technology capabilities and dependencies, including platforms, content management, e-document strategies and process mapping.
• Experience in business consulting for Customer Relationship Management CRM , Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and Enterprise Content Management ECM solutions.
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications, including BRD, FRD, and FSD
• Solid experience in developing QA test plan Unit testing, System testing, Parallel testing , test conditions, designing and reviewing test cases ensuring adequate testing of software both before and after completion conducting and documenting UAT.
• Excellent team player and able to deliver high quality work with little supervision.
• Technical writing skills including drafting contracts, documentation and editing of user manuals.

Software/Environment:

MS Visio, MS Project, Rational Rose, RequisitePro, ClearQuest, Windows XP/2000/Me/98/95/3.1/NT, OS X, SunOS, MS-DOS, Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Broadcast Agent Publisher, Flash, Business Objects, XML, UML, HTML, C , UNIX, Dreaweaver, Frontpage, VB.NET,ASP.NET, PL/SQL, Java, Access, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, PSP Studio, Word Perfect

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

The Confidential is the voice for the nation's radio and television broadcasters. As the premier trade association for broadcasters, Confidential advances the interests of our members in federal government, industry and public affairs improves the quality and profitability of broadcasting encourages content and technology innovation and spotlights the important and unique ways stations serve their communities.Confidential delivers value to our members through advocacy, education and innovation.Confidential is the chief advocate of broadcasters in our nation's capital, ensuring policymakers are informed on the issues that impact the broadcasting industry. The association relies on the grassroots strength of its television and radio members and state broadcast associations.

Responsibilities:

• Analysed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document BRD , Technical Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Specification FRS .
• Prepared and analysed AS IS and TO BE in the existing architecture and performed Gap Analysis.
• Created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the Business Process and various Business Scenarios and activities of the Business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Used SDLC System Development Life Cycle methodologies like the RUP and the waterfall.
• Used Test Director and Mercury Quality Center for updating the status of all the Test Cases Test Scripts that are executed during testing process.
• Responsible for creating a business process and workflow documentation using BPMN standards.
• Worked as an Interface between the Users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the Business and IT Processes.
• Followed a structured approach to organize Requirements into logical groupings of essential Business Processes, Business Rules, and Information needs that insures any Critical Requirements are not missed
• Gathered user and business requirements through surveys, prototyping and observing from portfolio managers and UI User Interface .
• Worked with developers and designers of BPM System to make sure development understands business process and detailed technical requirements.
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Followed the UML based methods using Microsoft Visio to create: Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of Entity Relationship Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams and supporting documents and descriptions of the Relationships between the data elements to analyze and document the Business Data Requirements.
• Responsible for providing analytical support in the Design, Development and Implementation of Project.
• Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by the QA team.

Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite Rose, RequisitePro, ClearCase, ClearQuest , Visual Basic, SQL, Broadcast Agent, SQL Server, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Project, MS Project, MS Visio, DOORS, J2EE, Java, HTML, Windows Forms, Web Forms, LoadRunner, WinRunner

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential began its operations in the Confidential. Its activities include production of live entertainment events such as concerts, fashion shows, sporting events, cultural festivals film , arena shows and corporate events. Committed to bringing more traditional media to the former Confidential pioneered television distribution and syndication in Confidential through a wide range of diverse and popular TV shows, such as Confidential Unplugged Special Projects to oversee business development, market research, product placement, and advertising for Hollywood's foremost strategic planning and consulting firms of cable television, live entertainment, and new media industries.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering requirements from users in operations group and performing data mapping for the application, confirm and vacillating the requirement at time of BA testing.
• Served as an intricate team member in preparing Scope and Vision document. Helped manage scope and identify risks throughout the project life cycle.
• Led requirements elicitation meeting to obtain consensus and feedback on functional requirements and business rules.
• Developed programs providing software development, maintenance and technical support to various airline companies utilizing the IBM Transaction Processing Facility TPF operating system.
• Performed detailed Business analysis and assisted in building business process analysis model.
• Documented current and proposed process flow and conducted detailed gap analysis.
• Worked in conjunction with other team members, technical architects and developers to understand system integration and interface requirements.
• Scheduled business object reports using Broadcast agent .
• Monthly and quarterly management meetings with travel liaison for consistent communication.
• Gather requirements by conducting meetings and brainstorming sessions with end users and SME and document them using Requisite Pro - the documentation tool offered by Rational.
• Rose to depict the workflows to be incorporated into the development of Pega Business Process Management BPM tool.
• Created PowerPoint presentations incorporating MS Office Suite, Excel, Word and Access
• Co-authored detailed Business Requirements Document and Functional Specification Document.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams using Object Oriented Design OOD concepts and UML using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Mentored junior Analysts and programmers in the TPF programming design concepts.
• Assisted the technical team in writing high-level design document.
• Conducted highly interactive JAD sessions with project stakeholders to identify and resolve issues. Ensured consensus between Line of Business and IT Teams.
• Wrote specifications for various reports. Generated canned reports using Business Objects.
• Determined a testing strategy in conjunction with the QA team. Assisted in writing detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Case Scenarios for system testing, integration testing and functional testing.
• Assisted in performing and coordinating unit, performance and functional testing.
• Presented reports and analysis to management.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing UAT , developed and maintained quality procedures and ensured that appropriate documentation was in place.
• Reported and analyzed all application defects, user issues and resolution status to the higher manager using Mercury Test Director.

Environment: Rational Suite Rose, Requisite Pro , Dreamweaver, Rational Unified Process RUP , Windows NT/XP/2000, UML, UNIX, MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, Casewise Corporate Modeller , WinRunner, MS Office, Test Director

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of Confidential With 1.8 billion in revenue, the company operations include 15 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 85 radio stations, eight daily newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services. Additionally, Confidential owns and operates Valpak, one of the leading direct marketing companies in Confidential.

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements by conducting meetings and brainstorming sessions with end users and SME and document them using Requisite Pro - the documentation tool offered by Rational.
• Developed business requirement specification documents as well as high-level project plan.
• Extracted the Business Requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared Business Requirement Documents BRD using Rational RequisitePro.
• Reviewed Design Documents, Requirements Analysis Specifications with Project Lead, Business Owners and the Technical Lead
• Process Model BPM , Functional requirement Specification FRS , System Requirement Specification SRS and Product Configuration Specifications.
• Provided clear and concise documentation regarding requirements management plans, Functional Requirements, supplemental Requirements, Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Exported reports to broadcast agent BCA server and used the BCA to schedule and monitor the reports and customized web intelligence front end.
• Established a business analysis methodology around the RUP Rational Unified Process . Helped develop use cases, project plans and manage scope.
• Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates, Requirement Types and Traceability Relationships in RequisitePro.
• Requirements Elicitation, Analysis, Communication, and Validation according to Six Sigma Standards.
• Extensively used MS SharePoint a content management platform, for managing content across the organization within a shared repository.
• Conduct initial Interwoven Teamsite template testing related to projects on an individual project basis
• Wrote Test plan and Test cases for the Integration testing and system testing.
• Involved in creating automated Test Scripts representing various Transactions, Documenting the Load Testing Process and Methodology. Created meaningful reports for analysis and integrated the Performance Testing in the SDLC.
• Involve in preparing Trace Matrix to design test cases
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing UAT , and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Authored test plans, test cases for various test scenarios and helped testing team to better understand the test scripts.
• Worked as a User/Customer advocate and negotiated with user as well as with developers and management staff to resolve any requirement conflict to bridge the Gaps between IT and Business.
• Various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using Rational ClearCase and performed defect tracking using Rational ClearQuest.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.

Environment: Rational Clear Case,Doors, IBM WebSphere, Six Sigma, XML, Java, J2EE, JSP, RUP, VoAVPN, Oracle, MS Visio, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server Reports, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quick TestPro

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential is positioned to help advertisers create campaigns to reach consumers frequently and efficiently, sometimes integrating interactive online technology where appropriate. Adhering to a customer-centric focus, Confidential takes pride in developing advertising and marketing campaigns that can grow our clients' business. As you will see on our testimonial page, Confidential serves clients of all sizes and needs. Entrenched in our communities, Confidential is committed to being a good community steward and encourages our employees to participate in the enrichment of areas we serve. Confidential operates over 5,700 outdoor displays and 33 radio stations across 8 markets, with a staff of just over 500 employees.

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.
• Serve as Website Administrator for company Travel section updating content on weekly basis. Administrator/technical support of online travel booking engine.
• Effectively provide first-level Apollo system support for travel agents, with accountability for Apollo and 3rd party software application programming updates and modifications as well as hardware, software, network troubleshooting and User support/troubleshooting on all software applications used within the department of 45 users.
• Used XML for building and parsing of Application Configuration file.
• Used Castor to create objects from XML documents.
• Conceptualized primary process flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio and CaseWise tool sets.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Developed business process models in RUP to document existing and future business processes.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including Business analysis and gap analysis.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Developed business requirement specification documents as well as high-level project plan.
• Comprehensively work with requirement gathering for Enterprise reporting system using RequisitePro.
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Rational.
• Developed Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML.
• Established a business analysis methodology around the RUP Rational Unified Process . Helped develop use cases, project plans and manage scope.
• Developed requirement reports for day-to-day retail banking needs for opening account, online banking using rational SoDA.
• Developed strategic partnerships with the business unit to develop a solid knowledge base of the business line, including the business plan, products, process and revenue streams.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Partnered with the technical areas in the research and resolution of system and process problems.
• Analyzed research on operational procedures and methods and recommend changes for improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency.
• Conducted benchmarking activities to identify best practices.
• Used Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest as Configuration Management and Change control tools.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director
• Performed User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Full knowledge of most phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Environment: Uml, MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Excel, Word, Java, J2EE, Web Sphere, XML, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000