SUMMARY

• Object oriented Business Analyst for 8 years along with 2 years as a Scrum master with extensive experience in requirements gathering, analysis and translating the requirements into clearly defined business requirement specifications and implementation of complex IT projects in financial domain.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Waterfall and Agile Scrum.
• Experience in managing and implementing business process modeling and requirement management in large financial systems.
• Experience in conducting JAD sessions with end - users, SMEs’ and development team for project meetings, walkthroughs and customer interviews.
• Strong project management skills including planning, project scheduling, work breakdown structures, size resource and effort estimates, monitoring and reporting.
• Skilled in identifying the data requirements, preparing Data flow diagrams, Data analysis and Data mapping, Process mapping.
• Applied the "As Is" and "To Be" process designs to identify any potential process gaps and as well as improvement opportunities.
• Proficient in using MS Visio and UML for generating Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Expertise in creating Business Rules, User Stories required for documenting Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and system requirement specification (SRS)
• Created Test Plan and executing Test Cases based on Design document and User Requirement document for testing purposes reports in Business Objects.
• Conducted GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Worked as a Scrum Master and conducted the Scrum Ceremonies which included standup meetings, sprint review and retrospective meeting.
• Experience in Using Congo’s TM1 for Enterprise planning.
• Experience in creating sprint burn-down charts conducted release backlogs.
• Good Understanding of OOPS concept and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) BA.
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL).
• Experience in assisting with implementation of Change Management.
• Motivate team players with excellent business analytical, communication, presentation and management, technical and written skills.
• Certified Scrum Master.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Mac OS, Windows 7/8 Vista/XP.

Project Management: SDLC models, JAD, RAD, Cost and Time Estimation.

Business/Modeling Tools: MS Project, TABLEAU, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, IBM Cognos, TOAD.

Requirements Management: Rational requisite pro, Dashboard, Microsoft share point 2007/2010/2013.

ETL Tools: Informatica, SSIS

Web Technologies: HTML, XML

Test Tools: HPQC, JIRA, RALLY, VERSION ONE, Mercury Quality Control.

Database: MS Access, Oracle (ETL), SQL Server.

Financial and Financial modeling: Equities, Fixed Income, securities, bonds and derivatives, insurance, mutual funds and check processing, trading & risk environment, interest rates, equity, treasuries, Loan and Mortgage concept.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Business Analyst/ Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Primary requirements engineer for Personal Lines Auto, Home, Umbrella and Commercial Lines Businessowner’s, and Umbrella Policies for Agent Portal and Policy Center.
• Analysis of the new requests specified by the end users for future releases and discussion with the functional and technical teams in Production (RUN) Support.
• Fostered team dynamics with changing team size to align with Agile Standards with practices as Standups, retrospectives, backlog grooming and product owner review.
• Involved in designing business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.
• Facilitated with product owner for prioritizing the user stories and creating repositories of the user stories in the product backlog.
• Facilitated requirements gathering by having meeting with SMEs and other work streams.
• Actively took responsibilities of business requirements by providing functional support to Dev & QA teams.
• Worked as primary contact person for managing changes to project requirements by administering the change management processes.
• Helped QA’s by conducting the requirements testing.
• Provided support on adding functional requirement scope toproduct backlog
• Tracked bugs & defects to meet project's quality and contractual requirements.
• Worked on validating test cases based of requirements.
• Constantly worked as great team player & support by providing assistance on work efforts.
• Provided support to off - shore design, development and QA teams to meet business needs.
• Facilitated product demo to agents & executives.
• Created Jira stories and bugs.
• Consulted UX/UI developer in developing wireframe for user stories.

Environment: Agile framework, Share Point, MS Visio, MS office, Jira, Snagit, Google Suite

Confidential, Montgomery, AL

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified and understand the business problem and the impact of the proposed solution for Enterprise operations.
• Provided executable solutions/alternatives on improving the processes and implementing standardization across all the different streams.
• Consulted UX/UI developer in wireframe for user stories.
• Documented & articulated the requirements on Story cards.
• Conducted BA Competency analysis of the BA from different streams.
• Worked on translating business objectives into system requirements.
• Extensively used MS SharePoint and MS Excel to keep various stakeholders to document and display Artifacts.
• Conducted the sprint-planning meeting, daily scrum meeting, sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective.
• Interacted with QA/Dev teams to lay out the requirements and took notes of the changes as and when faced.
• Actively Involved in tasks like on boarding, delegating and transitioning ongoing offshore Dev and QA teams from Ernst & Young.
• Worked with E&Y consultants on creating Enterprise End to End business process flows for guidewire.
• Participated with integration team on marking all the integration pointers on the workflows for the QA SIT team.
• Tracked defects in HP ALM as and when required.

Environment: hybrid - Agile framework, share point 2013, MS Visio, MS office, HPQC, SQL, Windows 7, Jira, Tableau.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked along with Subject Matter Experts and recorded requirements in a standard format so that management and stakeholder can review and understand easily.
• Conducted GAP analysis to check as-is and to-be states, identified potential opportunities, scope of improvement and created targeted questionnaires for SME’s to gather requirements
• Facilitated JAD Sessions with the concerned users, developers, and the design team to deal with backend synchronization issues.
• Created work break down structure to for the entire project to efficiently allocate the tasks.
• Created user stories based on the requirements and use to validate whether the user stories are Testable, Traceable or Measurable.
• Strong knowledge about portfolio management (Stocks, bonds, real estate, money market) and have an In-depth knowledge about how a proper asset allocation is done to a particular portfolio.
• As Scrum master conducted backlog grooming, sprint planning meeting daily standup meeting, tracked product backlog and documented the release backlog.
• Strong understanding of IBM Maximo for smart asset management.
• Worked on RALLY for bug tracking, assigning task for the team and for creating the user stories
• Tracked defects using HPQC.
• Also use to extract data from the data warehouse using SQL queries.
• Communicated with the stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project, constantly updating them of the benefits and risks associated with the project.

Environment: Agile scrum framework, share point 2013, MS Visio, MS office, HTML, SQL, Oracle Database, Windows XP, Rally, Tableau.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and prioritize requirements and use them to outline timeline for completion of goals.
• Performed GAP Analysis with system functionality and existing Business Processes.
• Used Waterfall process for analyzing the productivity in communicating specifications to design & development team.
• Analyzed and designed Use Case Diagrams using Visio.
• Managed scope and requirements throughout the project life cycle.
• Discuss and propose conversion / interface solutions with the clients and users.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System testing and Regression testing.
• Wrote Test cases, test scripts and test plans for UAT

Environment: MS Visio, Tableau, MS Suite, SharePoint 2007, Wireframes, MS project, JIRA.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the customers and internal stakeholders to gather user requirements and their expectations from the system.
• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements and developing System Specifications.
• Analyzed monthly/quarterly performance against plans and forecast and recommended corrective actions.
• Did load testing using Load Runner.
• Assessed business priorities and advised business units on risks and Cost-Benefit analysis.
• Organized cross training of team members and users to become more responsive.
• Involved in incident reporting and change and configuration management procedures using Clear Case.
• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the application.
• Formed a bridge between the Project Manager and different teams with effective presentations.

Environment: Load Runner, UML, Clear Case, MS Access, MS Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Waterfall.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC methodology.
• Conducted interviews with project managers, business users to collect requirement and business process.
• Formulated Test Plans from Business Requirements/Function Specifications documents.
• Created several Test cases that cover the entire Functionality of UAT using Test director.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test cases.
• Responsible for creation of test documents and procedures.
• Manually performed functional testing that includes Security, Systems Testing.
• Experienced in Black Box Testing.
• Developed and executed test plan, test cases.

Environment: UML, Clear Case, MS Access, MS Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SDLC