SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with extensive qualifications and 7 years of experience including Strong Knowledge of SDLC methodology, project life cycle and Project Management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. Good experience working with business users as well as with executives.
• Sound Experience to analyze and document business requirements and system functional specifications including use cases
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, design and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions.
• Meticulous individual member of the team and also very flexible to meet and maximize the team’s growth.
• Academic Experience in conducting SWOT analysis, Gap analysis
• Sound knowledge of industry standard methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), as per Rational Unified Process (RUP), and rational tools used during phases of RUP.
• Never loosing attitude and keep working to accomplish responsibilities.
• Documented Requirement Traceability Matrix in MS - Excel for traceability of requirements through test cases.
• Reviewed Test plans, Test cases, Test case execution using specification documents
• Creative and Aggressive person capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive team environments and with integrative thinking skills.
• Excellent business flow in various industries that include Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Mortgage Loan Servicing and Student Loan Origination.
• Facilitate effective team interaction
• Communicate needed changes to development team.
• Demonstrated Leadership skills which can motivate and inspire large and diverse teams, and able to manage multiple projects on a real-time basis, with ability to identify and resolve operational and integration challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: RUP, Waterfall, JAD

Modeling Tools: Rational Suite, Microsoft Visio, UML

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel), Microsoft Project, MS Visio

Process/Modeling Tool: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest

Databases: SQL Server, MS-Access

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

Methodology: Business Modeling

Languages: SQL, Java, and HTML

Office Tools: MS Office 2003/2007, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Gaithersburg, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Translated business strategies, customer expectations, and requirements into detailed narratives, specifications
• Created flowcharts, and testable statements, develop formal customer requirement, system requirements
• Designed, and end-user documents in an iterative development environment
• Project lead, expeditor, and liaison with testers, developers, customers and other staff and users during all phases of software development to ensure timely results
• Independently led small projects and participate on scrum teams to develop application
• Software and help with reports and other duties as required.
• Interacted with Users, Developers, Project Manager and Process Analysts to understand the business process, identify enhancements and gather Business Requirements
• Prepared Business Requirements Document, transformed into Functional Requirements Specification and Technical Specification.
• Created Use cases, use case diagrams, activity diagrams for the project requirements.
• Gathered requirements and prepared business requirement documents (BRD) from BAC Transitioning Team.
• Closely coordinated with both business users and technology for arriving at acceptable solution.
• Conducted sessions to define the project requirements and to reduce the time frame required to complete deliverables.
• Prepared Test plan and Test case documents for business rules and enhancement requests in order to make it easy for future verification.
• Trained and mentored new team members

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Microsoft Visio, MS Office, UML, JAD, HP Quality Center SQL.

Confidential - Reston, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the analytical sessions and designed & documented the solution and its analysis
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas including Mortgage Servicing, loss mitigation.
• Conducted interviews with users, JAD sessions and gathered the different types of requirements
• Created detailed Scope document, business requirement document, functional and nonfunctional requirement document through interviews with users
• Gathered requirements and analyzed requirements using Rational Requisite Pro
• Defined and developed Use Cases reflecting the scope of the project
• Conducted JAD sessions to refine prototypes, prioritize and time-box use cases
• Developed high-level design of new integrated processes; graphically presented it as a process flow diagram using MS-Visio
• Created AS-IS document by analyzing the current system and performed Gap Analysis to document TO-BE process
• Designed and Developed Use cases and Activity Diagrams.
• Actively used MS VISIO to create Business Process Flow Diagram.
• Utilized SQL for querying underlying database tables and resolve data issues
• Documented test plans and test cases during requirements, analysis and design phases
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Training to the end users

Environment: Agile, Rational Rose, Microsoft Office (Word, Power point, Excel), Visio, UML, Use Cases, JAD, HP Quality Center, MS SQL, Oracle, HTML.

Confidential, Corona, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducting user interviews, gathering requirements, analyzing the requirements using Rational Requisite pro - RUP.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD (Object oriented Design) using UML and Visio.
• Identify, research, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes
• Assist with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place
• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Case
• Develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Using detailed knowledge of application features and functions assess scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications
• Worked on MS-Excel and Visio while developing use cases.
• Conduct QA testing with the technical team.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.

Environment: UML, RUP, UAT, Rational Rose, Visio, MS Excel, Word, Power Point and MS Project, SQL

Confidential, San Jose

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity and Sequence using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specification URS.
• Understand and articulate business requirements from users and then convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Reviewed Test plans, Test cases, Test case execution using specification documents and Rational Test Manager.
• Created data dictionary for often used retail and technical terminology for benefit of developers and customers respectively.
• Documented Requirement Traceability Matrix in RequisitePro for traceability of requirements through test cases.
• Created Entity Relation diagrams to represent the relationships existing between design the internal schema of a database, depicting the data tables, the data columns of those tables, and the relationships between the tables.
• Aided management in standardizing web applications by preparing GUI standards and recommending alternatives for in corporation in a phased, iterative manner.

Environment: Rational Rose, RequisitePro, Microsoft Office (Word, Power point, Excel), Visio, UML, Use Cases, JAD, HP Quality Center, MS SQL, HTML.