Business Analyst Resume
Dallas, TexaS
SUMMARY
- Over 7 years of diversified IT experience as a Business Analyst in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process including System Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Documentation.
- Experience in various domains such as financial services, Health, insurance and IT.
- Experience with management and development of key life - cycle policies, procedures, and processes.
- Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design using Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall cycle, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and MS Visio.
- Experience in interacting with business users and executives to identify information needs, gather requirements, and authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML modeling.
- Performed Unit/System/UAT tests/test cases with QA Team to overcome issues.
- Skilled in translating business objectives into prioritized functional requirements and recommending feasible solutions to business problems.
- Identified risks and controlled project schedule variances with Gantt charts and project management software tools
- Goal-oriented team player with strong Organizational and Project Management skills often appreciated and rewarded by supervisors, customers and stakeholders for significant contributions to their projects.
- Extensive experience in business analysis, gap analysis, cost/benefit analysis, risk analysis, testing, development of functional specifications and project planning.
- Experience in defining test criteria, project schedules and base- lining test plans with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Rational Rose
- Requisite Pro
- Rational Clear Quest
- UML
- Mercury Test Director
- QTP and Clear Case
- C
- C++
- Shell
- Perl
- JAVA
- J2EE
- MS Access
- SUN Solaris 10.0
- Lotus Notes
- Vista
- HP: HPUX
- Mainframes
- MS Office 2007
- Word
- Excel
- Power Point
- Outlook
- MS Visio
- MS Project and MS FrontPage
- HTML
- XML
- HP QC
- JIRA
- Bugzilla
- SharePoint
- Vignette
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Sr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Gathered Business Requirements from the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and documented the requirements in the BRD
- Expert in ICD 9 - 10 Conversion Analysis.
- Web Portal Development - worked as a Business Analyst gathering requirements to develop a referral portal
- Documented Current State vs. Future State for a Referral Web Portal.
- Testing - Developed Test Scripts using Test Director and coordinated with developers to quickly resolve the defects associated with them
- Created Business Requirement Documents and System Requirement Documents as a result of meetings with the Business Areas.
- Obtained business sign offs on the documents after reviewing the final documents with them
- Assisted in creation of the Functional Design Document from the Business Requirements
- Document which was used as the reference by the development team while preparing the design and held the responsibility of the required data setup for unit testing
- Change Control Process - Led the Change Control Process for changes submitted for the BRD once the document was submitted to IT department.
- Documented the UAT Plan for the project and worked with the UAT Team to ensure every acceptance criteria for the requirements has been included in the UAT task plan
- Maintained the Traceability Matrix table to uniquely trace the identified business requirements to general design to testing as proof that requirements requested have been developed into a solution and that it has been tested and tracked.
Environment: Agile, MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, J2EE technology
Confidential, Waltham, Massachusetts
Sr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Elicitation and analysis of end user requirements and information download to the development team.
- Participated in formulation of the Project Plan and Scope, preliminary and definitive Budget estimation.
- Initiated JAD sessions with End Users using one on one and group interviews techniques to better understand the requirements.
- Created extensive use case, activity and sequence diagrams of the required system to enable clarity on project goals.
- Created System Specification Document, Requirement Specification Documents, Use Case Models, and Work Flows.
- Garnered information and knowledge on ICD 9-10 and HIPAA 4010/5010
- Updated and mentored end users throughout the Development Life Cycle with bi-weekly presentations and webinars.
- Maintained Change and Traceability Matrix throughout the project keeping track of the scope, timelines and budget of the project.
Environment: SQL, RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest, MS Visio, windows XP, Mercury Test Director, HTML, Dreamweaver, JAVA
Confidential, Illinois
Sr.Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with the stakeholders by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
- Communicated Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and made recommendation.
- Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing gap analysis and documenting them textually or within models
- Analyzed and documented Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business
- Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
- Identified KPI aligning with business rules.
- Create Use Case using UML tools and Process Analysis tool such as Fishbone Diagram, and business process flow chart using MS Visio.
- Created use case scenarios and documented work flow and business process.
- Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose
- Used MS Visio for flow-charting, process model and architectural design of the application.
- Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams according to RUP for the stakeholder review.
- Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
Environment: RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Visio, SQL 2008, UML Diagrams, Quality Control, Test Director
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and identified gaps in existing system comparing and contrasting with documented business requirements, As-is system and the To-be system.
- Managed multiple aspects of product design and end user analysis objectives for Work Smart MD Java based medical practice management & HIPAA compliance applications.
- Used Requisite Pro for requirements management and functioning on new project request and Clear Case for versioning of requirements documents.
- Created Test Scenarios and Test Requirements for QA team, based on the Use Cases and Business Requirement document.
- Track the project using project management tools including MS Project and Rational Requisite Pro and presented various analyses to the top management.
- Development of project work plans throughout SDLC while conforming to extensive methodology requirements set by HIPAA.
- Facilitate sessions and meeting with project team, developers, analysts, and support team.
- Interacted extensively with the client to successfully and swiftly identify and resolve problems, and integrate system enhancements.
Environment: UML, PDF, RUP, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office, Clear Case, Clear Quest, SQL Server
Confidential, Pittsburgh, KS
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Involved in defining scope of the project along with vision statement
- Accumulated customer requirements from various end users through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions
- Created functional, technical and system requirement documents for trading system.
- Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution
- Applied Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies to design Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagram in Rational Rose
- Created use-case scenarios in MS Visio and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application and managed them using Rational Requisite Pro.
- DeployedCSC’s front-end Web application using POINT IN.
- Automated different steps in claim handling process using POINT IN.
- Created test plans and scripts, facilitated user acceptance testing and tested strategies with developers and testers
- Performed testing to check all functionalities of different modules using Test Director.
Environment: Agile, UML, Use Cases, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Project, Point IN