Professional Summary:

Dynamic, savvy and Business Analyst professional with 8 years of diverse experience in the in the Information Technology space with emphasis on various domains from Finance, Insurance, e-Commerce Social Commerce, Social Media , Manufacturing Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management and Automobile Customer Relationship Management . Capable of delivering large-scale projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, and leading multiple Scrum teams. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Experience-Summary

• Extensive experience communicating and coordinating with technical/non-technical clients, Subject Matter Experts, for gathering requirements, Business Analysis, Data Analysis and Documentation.
• Comprehensive knowledge ofAgile SCRUM, Waterfall SDLC, Rational Unified Process RUP frameworks, and understanding of Spiral Model, Extreme Programming XP and RAD.
• Proficient in stakeholder analysis understanding repositories and defining scope.
• Experienced in conducting GAP analysis, Risk analysis, and Cost Benefit Analysis by understanding As-Is State and formulating efficient To-Be State Process Flow. Exceptional ability to visualize and develop fully integrated solutions by assessing current situations and business issues from people, process, and technology perspectives.
• Extensive experience in eliciting, analyzing and documenting business requirements and system functional specifications by conductingInterviews,JAD sessions with various stakeholders and the end users.
• Responsible for documenting and updating Business Requirement Documents, System Requirement Documents, and/or Functional Specification Documents.
• Created UML Artifacts, Wireframes/Mockups and related structural, behavioral and interaction diagrams for visualization.
• Formulated User Stories, Epics, and Use Cases to generate the tasks for development cycle. Proficient in analyzing and creating activity diagrams, class diagrams and sequence diagrams using MS Visio, thereby helping the development team understand the requirements.
• Comfortable with co-creating Test Plans, Test Cases for User Acceptance Test and create Performance Reports.
• Basic knowledge of Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Data Flow Analysis, Transaction Flow Analysis, Alternative Path analysis, Data Security and Active Directory.
• Understanding of selection of Primary Key, Secondary Key, Candidate Key and Foreign Key. Basic understanding the entities, ER diagrams, dimensional modeling and data marts.
• Understanding of Business Process Management, Business Process Reengineering, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and System Analysis.
• Basic understanding of US GAAP, Knowledge of Financial and Management Reporting, Forecasting and Capital Budgeting, and KPI reporting.
• Can work individually and in a team. Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Experience in handling global projects and scenarios.
• Able to adapt and learn new concepts, functions, domains, systems and tools quickly.

Technical Competencies:

Career Progression

Confidential

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Selected Responsibilities:

• FacilitatedSCRUMceremonies Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups,Retrospectives, Review .
• Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery with three Scrum teams.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Conducted interviews with the user for gathering requirements and analyzing the data.Conducted Joint Application Development JAD for communicating and managing expectations.
• Gathered and documented the requirements that are critical to the business mission and used those requirements to design application software using Use Case scenarios.
• Analyzed As-Is process flow and created a To-Be state. Conducted Gap, risk and cost benefit analysis.
• Referred repository for requirement documents and created Business Requirement Document System Requirement Document.
• Created Use Cases, Workflows, wireframes and Screen Shots for the visualizations of the application. Created Epics, user stories and prioritized tasks.
• Assisted in development of an architectural solution so that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests.
• Considered change requests and documented issues, risk, gaps, impact.Provided business owner with information, documents and recommendations to take decision.
• Facilitated DBAs for data mapping and executed SQL queries to filter data from the MS SQL database.
• Assist importing, cleaning, transforming, validating or modeling data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from the data for decision making purposes.
• Presenting data in charts, graphs, tables, designing developing relational databases for collecting data.
• Worked with SQL queries to extract application data to perform application validations.
• Co-created Test Plans, Test Cases. Used HP Quality Center for loading the test scripts and logging defects and provided the data mapping document to the ETL team.

Tools Technologies: Agile Scrum, Windows 8, MS Project2013,MS Visio 2013, MS SharePoint, Tableau, HP Quality Center, SQL, CSS, HTML 5, XML, MS Office 2007.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Selected Responsibilities:

• As a ScrumMaster, organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and demos.
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks. Worked with stakeholders, SME's and product owner to elicit the requirements. Prepared high level scope document including the feasibility analysis.
• Conducted interviews with the clients for gathering requirements and evaluation/analysis of their data. Conducted Joint Application Development JAD for communicating and managing expectations.
• Conducted GAPanalysis by understanding the As-Is system and the To-Be system requirements by having discussions with the SME's. Developed Flowchart and process diagram using Microsoft Visio.
• Gathered and documented the requirements that are critical to the business mission and used those requirements to design application software using Use Case scenarios.
• Created Use Cases, Workflows, wireframes and Screen Shots for the Application.
• Conducted Sessions to develop an architectural solution so that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests.
• Maintained project documents to be used for collaboration with developers, QA, project manager, etc. on SharePoint.
• Worked with SQL queries to extract application data to perform application validations.
• Developed Test Plan and Test cases based on the Use cases and Functional specifications and also performed manual testing of the functionality of the application by inserting varying data on different test runs.

Tools Technologies: Agile Scrum, Windows 7, MS Project2007,MS Visio 2007, Rational Requisite Pro, MS SharePoint, IBM-Cognos, Version One, HP Quality Center, SQL, CSS, HTML 5, XML, MS Office 2007.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst.

Selected Responsibilities and Achievements:

• Created an organizational chart within the security portfolio using MS Visio.
• Followed up with the stakeholder for analysis after the initial meeting was undertaken
• Conducted interviews, and brainstorming sessions with the SMEs and business stakeholders separately to segregate the requirements from both perspectives.
• Utilized prioritization ranking on Tableau desktop. Business requirements and technical requirements were shortlisted based on initial ranking, later on specified further documented.
• Analyzed As-Is process flow and created a To-Be state. Conducted Gap, risk and cost benefit analysis.
• Creating an initial set of 20 user stories representing the owners of the critical applications that were used for testing in staging.
• Managed the epics, user stories and tracked the corresponding requirements. Created dynamic prototypes. Co-ordinated the end users for User Acceptance Tests.
• Elaborated technical design diagrams with the help of the TDA Technical Design Architect and security network operations team to identify bottlenecks, and streamline those processes.
• Created the Functional Specification Document with both functional non-functional technical requirements.
• Acted as the ScrumMaster, created the sprint burn down charts, backlogs, velocity, and conducted retrospective meetings, daily sprints and scrum meeting, stand-ups.
• Managed change requests. Identified requirement churn, assisted in running a CBA served as the decision support for the leads as well as the business stakeholders.
• During UAT, co-ordinated with all the app owners, including critical apps sample during cut-over.
• Created the test cases, use cases, and tracked and close defects.
• Assist importing, cleaning, transforming, validating or modeling data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from the data for decision making purposes.
• Presenting data in charts, graphs, tables, designing and developing relational databases for collecting data.
• During closure, created team performance analysis, lessons learned presentation.

Tools Technologies:Waterfall Scrum, Windows 7, MS Project2007,MS Visio 2007, Rational Requisite Pro, MS SharePoint, Tableau, Version One, Load Runner, SQL, CSS, HTML 5, XML, MS Office 2007.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Selected Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business needs of to identify business problems and propose solutions.
• Analyzed As-IS andcreated process flowfor the TO BE process and performed Gap Analysis and
• Conducted interview workshops, focus groups, JAD sessions with SME, BO, Sr. Developers, Architects to further breakdown the requirements
• Conducted Feasibility Analysis and Product backlog planning with the Product Owner.
• Maintained tracked of stakeholder's requests for enhancements changes using Rational ClearQuest.
• Created product backlog with help of user stories collected during requirements gathering gap analysis.
• Developed the business and functional requirement specification. Documented and prioritized the requirements according to internal AML procedures and process.
• Implemented Agile Scrum methodology of application development.
• Acted as a Scrum Master by creating sprint backlogs, organizing and conducting sprint planning meetings and daily scrum meetings.
• Created sprint burn down charts and release backlogs for effective Project Management.
• Utilized SharePoint as an administrator for document management, version control and creating team dashboards on the team site.
• Used Informatica to Extract, Transform and Load ETL data to the datawarehouse so as to integrate data from multiple applications.
• Helped create test cases implemented test cases for the GUI to ensure that requirements were met.
• Worked with SQL queries to extract application data to perform application validations.
• Logged and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center. Created an error repository and managed the testing process with the QA team.

Tools Technologies:Agile Scrum-Waterfall, Windows 7, MS Project2007,MS Visio 2007, Rational Requisite Pro, MS SharePoint, IBM-Cognos, Version One, HP Quality Center, SQL, CSS, HTML 5, XML, MS Office 2007.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Selected Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business needs and interacted with stakeholders, SME's and product owner to elicit the requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessionsto discuss requirements and developed User Requirements Specification Document
• Conducted GAPAnalysis by creating As-Is and To-Be scenarios and analyzed how the upgraded system carries out the business functions and assists in ensuring the timely and effective implementation
• Conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements
• Managed Version Control, each version of the application was stored in Clear case and necessary modifications, updates and analysis was done
• Worked closely with Developers and User Representatives, participated in the product design process including specifications, end-user reviews and application walk-through
• Generated Use Case diagrams using Visio to depict process flows, timelines and cost-benefit models
• Analyzed ER diagrams for depicting entity relationships and mapped them to relational database
• Assisted to create test environment for specific test cases, created test data, executed automated or manual unit tests, documented results and updated defect-tracking systems
• Interacted with Development and QA Team to ensure overall quality and scalability of the software.

Tools Technologies:Agile Scrum-Waterfall, Windows 7, MS Project2007,MS Visio 2007, Rational Requisite Pro, MS SharePoint, IBM-Cognos, JIRA, HP Quality Center, SQL, CSS, HTML 5, XML, MS Office 2007.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Selected Responsibilities:

• Assisted in interacting with users stakeholders to identify business system needs and evaluatingthe possible solutions for business issues.
• Worked with SME's of different groups, analyzed documented information system requirements and the corresponding impact on business processes
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate resolve problems early.
• Studied the Business Requirement Document BRD , supporting documents containing essential business elements, detailed definition and description of the relationship between the actors
• Co-developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define Business Process, Analyzed the data entity relationships of the project.
• Worked as a team with other analysts to make an object oriented model of the application and created use cases
• Worked on the Functional Requirements Document FRD

Tools Technologies:Waterfall, Windows XP, MS Project2003,MS Visio 2003, Rational Rose, MS SharePoint, Crystal reports, Version One, Load Runner, SQL, CSS, HTML, XML, MS Office 2003.