SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience as Business Analyst in trading, utility, stock exchange and warehousing domain.
• Expertise in requirement analysis, functional analysis, business use case analysis, system analysis, gap analysis, data warehousing and data analysis, functional specification document preparation, and functional and system test cases document preparation.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, communication and presentation skills, enthusiastic to develop new skills in a dynamic environment and an excellent team player.
• Expertise in Documenting Business Requirements, Functional and Non - functional Specifications, System Requirement Specification, Traceability Matrix, Test Plan, Test Cases, User Manuals, Technical & Business Release notes, Conversion and Migration plans.
• Strong experience in Requirement Management and Business Process Reengineering.
• Adept at creating, editing and coordinating extensive communication networks, facilitation of Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions and interviews, written correspondence, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations & email, to keep executive staff & team members apprised of goals and project status, resolve issues & conflicts.
• Proficient in Manual Testing, GUI Testing & Integrated Testing.
• Comprehensive knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models like: RUP, Water fall and Agile.
• Exceptional ability in gathering user requirements and documenting them as functional specifications.
• In-depth knowledge of creating Use Cases, Analysis Models and User acceptance testing (UAT) programs.
• Sound experience in UML and Rational Tools such as Rational Rose and Clear Quest.
• Experience in Using Quick Test Professional 9.2 and Win Runner 8.0
• Experience in Using HP Quality Center10.0 and ALM
• Experience in Using IBM Clear Quest, RQM for Defect\Test Management
• Expertise in different levels of testing: Integration, System and Functional.
• Effective Bug Reporting, Test analysis, Causal Analysis
• Expertise in Change Management and Version Control
• Expertise in User Acceptance and Product Acceptance Testing
• Experience using SQL Queries
• Knowledge on ISO & CMM process
• Extensive knowledge in Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts (OOAD), Test Lifecycle, Multi-tier Web Applications and prototyping.
• Providing Traceability across the project by analysis and review of project elements involved, including requirements, testing artifacts, end-user support documentation and training materials.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, strong analytical abilities and an exceptional team-player as well as an individual contributor.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Visio
• MS Office 2007 Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Outlook
• Rational Clear Quest
• RQM
• UML
• QTP and Clear Case
• HP Quality Center10.0
• ALM
• Quick Test Professional 9.2
• Win Runner 8.0
• MS Access
• SQL
• Windows: XP
• Vista
• Rational Rose

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Meeting various stake holders for requirement gathering
• Implemented various methods for requirement gathering like questionnaire, interviews, arranging open discussion forums
• Preparing MoMs and circulating the same among all the attendees for acceptance
• Preparing detailed workflow diagrams and getting it approved
• Preparing business documents and system specification documents along with some example data with the help of MoMs and approved workflow diagrams
• Prepared business process models; used Visio to create use case diagrams.
• Arranging joint sessions with all the stake holders for business document review
• Following up for obtaining business document signoff
• Briefing onshore and offshore development team and testing team
• Performing UAT testing for signoff
• Interfaced with business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR) and Software System Requirements (SSR)
• Making the non technical client side understand the technical issue in business sense
• Helping management in prioritizing outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Developed use case with UML for new product functionality.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Change Request Management Report defects using HP ALM
• Performed Test analysis and impact Analysis
• Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: Siebel, ESB, GIS and CCDB, MAS, MS Office, UML, SharePoint, Quick Test Professional 9.2 and Win Runner 8.0, Rational Clear Quest, RQM, UML, QTP and Clear Case, HP Quality Center10.0, ALM.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Business Analysis and requirement gathering process
• Conduct requirement gathering session with Business Users
• Created the Business requirement document (BRD)
• Provided clear and concise documentation regarding requirements management plans, functional requirements
• Created and maintained Use Case diagrams, Business flow diagrams in UML using MS-Visio
• Maintained the Requirement traceability matrix
• Conduct regular presentations to the senior management and responsible for reporting the progress of the project and escalation of any critical issues
• Looking for scope of improvement by tracing functional gaps in the existing application
• Performing manual testing for UAT release
• Updating the issue logs on a daily basis and sending the same in a report format to the team lead, project managers and client
• Creating functional Change requests promptly
• Identification of critical issues during manual testing and reporting them to management
• Change Request Management Report defects using HP ALM
• Performed Test analysis and impact Analysis
• Prepare Test plan for Various Cycle of execution
• Develop a thorough understanding of High level Test scenarios

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), MS Access, UML, SQL, Requisite Pro, Agile, Rational Rose, Quick Test Rose Professional

Confidential

Associate Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully analyzed the warehousing business processes to map the same with the web based application and fill the gaps;
• Designed and developed use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using UML;
• Accumulated and defined Business Rules and System Requirements from various departments through surveys and interviews;
• Involved in prioritizing the defects and writing business requirements to resolve them;
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues;
• Was responsible for reviewing training materials and training the team members with Product Knowledge;
• Ensured compliance with SEBI guidelines for Straight through processing - Pre and post trade seamless message flow for Brokers and IM/Fund houses;
• Feasibility study for Omgeo - an Australia based post trade, order mgmt & tracking solutions co. for penetrating Indian market;
• Worked on swift format message types;
• Built an application which matches the contract notes of Buy Side (Broker) and trades of Sell Side (IM) and help in decision making with option of auto accepting a trade or manually;
• Supporting South Africa based Commodity Stock Exchange, an Confidential subsidiary;
• Creating a web based solution for the commodity warehousing subsidiary affiliated to the stock exchange with the detailed process mapping;
• Involved in the testing phase right from the Unit testing to the User Acceptance testing;
• Involved with all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout the project life cycle;
• Systematic data analysis for identification of issues and promptly finding solution for the same;
• Creating functional Change requests promptly;
• Tracking the issue log and updating the same with comments on a daily basis;
• Reporting the critical issues to management and getting it in priority list;
• Helping Project Manager with the priority list and meeting with client to resolve them or getting it numbered;
• Taking initiative to learn and implement process with the group including development team and client side.
• Daily Task Assignment and mentoring new Test team members

Environment: .Net, ASP.Net, IIS, SQL, MS Excel, MS Office, Agile, Win Runner 8.0, Rational Rose, MS Office, Crystal Reports