OBJECTIVE:

• To use my strong analytical, technical and business skills in many aspects of the business requirements, where I can grow as a business analyst and a team leader and help develop the internal and external business relationship.
• Experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Business Requirement analysis and Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile and RUP.
• Experienced in the fields of Finance, Banking, and Insurance
• Efficient in organizing and coordinating the e - commerce business development process.
• Considerable knowledge in the analysis, design, and re-engineering of system applications, Business and System Processes.
• Expert in applying Unified Modeling Language (UML) and understanding Object Oriented (OO) concepts.
• Implementation of performance measures Good Analytical, Troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Extensive knowledge in Financial Accounting and Operations, including: Stocks; Bonds; Mortgage; Real Estate Investments; Asset and Risk Management and Healthcare.
• Involved in preparing Technical Documentation and presentations on the Test Results.
• Expertise in analyzing and gathering Data Requirements Definition and Data Modeling.
• Documentation experience creating Technical Reviews, Reports and Strategy.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of Business Administration and Computer Science.
• Excellent administrative skills - Strong technical background - Attention to detail.
• Self starter - Organized - Team professional - Strong communication skills.
• Exceptional problem solving and sound decision making capabilities, recognized by associates for quality of data, alternative solutions, and confident, accurate, decision making.
• Strong team building, conflict management, time management and meeting management skills.
• Group and individual based problem solving and decision making.
• Expertise in designing Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, collaboration Diagrams and Component Diagrams.
• Expertise in Writing Test Plans and Test Plan Execution.
• Experienced in Bug Tracking, Bug Resolution and Managing Defects.
• Good understanding of Quality Assurance (QA) Life Cycle and Quality Control Process (QC).
• Proficient in organizing requirements using Rational Requisite Pro
• Working knowledge of UML diagrams
• Worked on surveys to develop User Interface and Used Cases.
• Creative and aggressive self-starter with integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationship in internal, external, independent, and team environments
• Solid business, communication and presentation skills and good at resolving issues and business conflicts
• Quick in mastering new skills and adapting to the business environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, Java 1.4, SQL, UML, PL/SQL

Databases: Oracle 8.x/9.x, MS Access and MS SQL server

Platform: Windows XP, UNIX, Solaris

Operating systems: Windows XP, Windows 2K/NT, Windows 9x, UNIX, LINUX

Tools: Visual Studio.Net, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, MS office package, Win Runner, Load Runner, Rational Robot, Rational clear quest, QTP

Web Technologies: JavaScript, ASP, HTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Boston- MA

Business systems Analyst

Environment: Waterfall, UML, Rational Rose, RequisitePro, Robot, Clear Quest, MS Visio, Smart Draw, Oracle, Windows, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Office suite

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the SMEs and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Applied eCommerce and system integration knowledge to help continue process improvement.
• Identified Use cases from the requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications.
• Created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams) in Rational Rose.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, perform critical path analysis, and identify opportunities for business process improvement.
• Communicated extensively with the clients and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Models after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes.
• Integrated RequisitePro with Clear Quest and Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintain tractability among requirements, use cases and change requests.
• Managed all the requirements in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members.
• Created test plan and test cases for user acceptance testing. Used Rational testing tools.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with the all Project directors and stakeholders.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose/MS Visio to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Worked on developing Data Models using E/R diagrams in Visio
• Performed Feasibility and Risk Analysis.
• Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews.

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Business systems Analyst

Environment: Waterfall, UML, Windows, Oracle, SQL, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, WebSphere, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Obtaining a thorough grasp of the business process being followed in the project environment.
• Responsible for testing fixed income (Bonds CD) there three main modules to be tested, product set up, client notification and calculation module.
• Developed test cases for Clients invested in fixed income annuities through IRA’s and in Treasury and municipal bonds.
• Extracting the business requirements from the end users keeping in mind there need for the application.
• Involved in gathering and documenting the requirements that were critical to the business process and using those requirements to design application software.
• Elicited demands from the stakeholders and analyzed them for consistency, flexibility and completeness.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of SDLC to strategize the implementation effort in different iterations and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Used Rose and Visio to model the process using UML to create use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams.
• Played a substantial role in process identification and functional requirements gathering in an effort to develop a practical technology solution for automating the system.
• Designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Interviewed business area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Non-technical specifications included creating proper documentation and clear illustration of the requirements for the benefit of the Project management, subject matter experts and test users.
• Provided input and reviewed the testing scenarios and test cases.

Confidential ,San Bruno, CA

Business Analyst/QA Analyst

Tools: & Environment: Agile, Microsoft C#, VisualStudio.NET, Oracle, MS Visio, Windows 2000 Professional, Unix

Responsibilities:

• Worked according to the activities/roles laid down in each phase of software development life cycle created using Agile.
• Analyzed and documented the system specifications, business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business and used RequisitePro for the requirement tracking and analyzing.
• Performed Requirements Analysis and Design using Rational Rose and Requisite Pro.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with the all Project directors and stakeholders. Created process Workflows, Functional Specifications and project initiation artifacts.
• Analyzed, documented and managed all project requirements and change to requirements throughout the software development lifecycle using Requisite-Pro.
• Written SQL queries to test the database backend.
• Created Use-Cases, Sequence, Collaboration and Class Diagrams to demonstrate software architecture and interaction of system components before prototyping. Used Rational Rose, RequisitePro for requirement traceability.
• Performed Gap analysis and designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Developed test cases and scripts based on business requirements for the GUI, functional, User Acceptance, Performance, Integration testing, System Back-end Testing and End-To-End testing.
• Worked closely with QA and Developers to clarify/understand functionality resolve issues and provided feedback to nail down the bugs.
• Maintained a close and strong working relationship with teammates and management staff to achieve an expected QA result for the project team.
• Reviewed and evaluate all the modules of the software before delivery to user’s to confirm meeting the standard criteria. Performed basic UAT with the different customers and different business modules.

Confidential,Lynchburg, VA

QA Test Engineer

Environment: RUP, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Oracle, Java, Windows 2000

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements documents and developed Test cases.
• Developed test procedures and scenario for every possible combination of inputs.
• Carried out sanity tests and executed tests cases for GUI, functionality, positive and negative testing
• Documented Test metrics, Test Logs and generated Summary reports to identify which areas of the application were prone to critical errors.
• Performed testing for different screen resolutions and browsers
• Performed regression testing for new releases and verified changes to enhancements.
• Queried through SQL to check the database records
• Used test director for defect reporting and tracking.
• Wrote TSL scripts in WinRunner to perform regression testing
• Executed data driven test in WinRunner with multiple data for different kinds of books, authors and categories.
• Used database checkpoints in WinRunner to verify the behavior of AUT
• Wrote user defined functions in WinRunner to enhance reusability of the code.
• Reported and tracked defects through the entire Defect Life Cycle using the Test Director
• Attended meetings and walk through to give status updates and receive suggestions/feedback.
• Conducted load and Performance testing using LoadRunner
• Prepared and used the traceability matrix to gauge the progress on a regular basis.