SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of IT experience as Business System Analyst with experience in various sectors of business
• Exceptional analysis skills with an ability to transform the needs of business users and stakeholders into functional/technical requirements
• Adept at preparing business requirements documents (BRD’s), defining project plans, writing system requirements specifications (SRS), and delivering project/status reports
• Lead and worked with teams to examine and solve business problems by accurately analyzing the needs of clients and helping them achieve improved quality and value for their customers.
• In depth knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP’s) Iterative Software Development Life Cycle process (SDLC)
• Experience in conducting/facilitating JAD sessions with superior organization and presentation skills.
• Expert at analyzing, designing, and reengineering systems applications and business processes
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with a results - oriented attitude
• Proactive team player with demonstrated problem solving and analytical reasoning abilities.
• Experience in management of requirements throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Skilled at performing Gap analysis, Risk analysis, and Cost/Benefit analysis, along with good knowledge of process workflow tools and techniques
• Familiar with MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines, resources, collaborate with different teams, and analyze project information
• Possess reasonable understanding of different relational databases, writing simple SQL queries, creating tables, and generating reports.
• Familiar with testing tools to design and develop test plans and test scripts and good at quickly learning technologies and systems that are organization/project specific.
• Experience in new process technology implementation and, and conducting system and user acceptance test (UAT)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirement Management Tools: Requisite Pro

Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Unified Modeling Language (UML), MS Visio

Methodologies: Object oriented analysis & design, Software ConfigurationManagement (SCM), Rational Unified Process (RUP),Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Data Bases: DB2, Oracle, MS Access

SCM Tools: Rational Clear Case

Utilities: MS Office Suite, MS Project

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest

Languages: Visual Basic, SQL, C, C++

Operating Systems: Windows XP, UNIX, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements by conducting detailed interviews with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s)
• Communicated and interacted on a regular basis with the project manager and development team during different stages of the project
• Prepared Business Requirement documents and used Requisite Pro to manage, analyze and convert business requirements into functional specifications
• Developed use cases from requirements and created UML diagrams such as use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams
• Designed Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), and web page mock ups using Rational Rose and MS
• Worked with Rational Clear Case and Rational Clear Quest to automate and enforce the development processes and aid with configuration management
• Managed schedules and collaborated with different teams working on the project
• Prepared project progress reports and status reports and submitted to the management on an ongoing basis
• Assisted with required data analysis, interpretation, and correction and document presentations for various assignments.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and prepared business requirement document (BRD)
• Responsible for translating BRD into functional specifications and test plans. Closely coordinated with both business users and developers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution.
• Conducted JAD sessions to define the project and to reduce the timeframe required to complete the deliverables.
• Developed and maintained all operational and technical flows using Visio and PowerPoint.
• Used Rational Rose/MS Office suite for creating use cases, workflows and sequence diagrams according to UML methodology.
• Aided in workflow analysis and process design
• Analyzed business requirements from Black Box testing perspective, business process and system architecture/design.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Performed Regression Testing and created test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and prepared business requirement document (BRD)
• Responsible for translating BRD into functional specifications and test plans. Closely coordinated with both business users and developers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution.
• Conducted JAD sessions to define the project and to reduce the timeframe required to complete the deliverables.
• Developed and maintained all operational and technical flows using Visio and PowerPoint.
• Used Rational Rose/MS Office suite for creating use cases, workflows and sequence diagrams according to UML methodology.
• Aided in workflow analysis and process design
• Analyzed business requirements from Black Box testing perspective, business process and system architecture/design.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Performed Regression Testing and created test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively gathered requirements from all users, experts, and key personnel to understand the current functionality of the existing system.
• Performed in-depth Gap analysis with different business groups to ensure that the system initiatives are met
• Assisted in modeling and documenting the end user’s AS-IS workflow and TO-BE business process
• Created artifacts such as use cases, and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio
• Analyzed and maintained business and system requirements using Requisite Pro
• Involved in documentation during various phases of product life cycle.
• Designed requirements traceability matrix to trace/manage business requirements
• Researched best industry practices and implemented best practices via template and process improvements
• Used Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest as Configuration Management and Change Control tools.
• Interacted with the development and testing teams to improve overall quality of the application