SUMMARY:

• Over seven years experience with Business Analysis, Business Modeling, Requirement Gathering and other phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using RUP (Rational Unified Process), Agile, UML(Unified Modeling Language), and PMP (Project Management Practice) concepts.
• Expertise with MS Office Suite, MS Project & MS Visio, EA, and Rational tools
• Involved in defining Business Rules, Business Process Re - engineering and GAP Analysis
• Facilitated JAD/RAD sessions to reduce time spent in moving information between stakeholders and team members
• Conducted Initial Discovery sessions to define scope of the project
• Created Use Cases, Process Flows, Requirement Traceability Matrix, User Requirements Specification, and Functional Requirement Specification Documents.
• Analyzed “IS” Facet documentation to ensure robust “TO BE” requirements
• Developed and maintained test plan, test cases, & test scripts
• Performed User Acceptance Testing
• Document management using sharepoint & MIS
• Strong Analytical, Problem Solving, and Coordination Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: /Methods: Rational RUP PMP (Project Management Practice) Business Process Re - engineering (BPR) JAD (Joint Application Development) RAD (Rapid Application Development) Microsoft Visio, EA (Enterprise Architecture) Rational Rose, Clear Quest, RequisitePro MS PowerPoint, MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Excel Sharepoint, MIS (Management Information System) HP-UNIX, .NET, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP SQL, PL/SQL, VB, Java, HTML Web Logic, Web Sphere Oracle 9i/8i, SQL Server 2000, MYSQL, MS Access Test Director, QTP, & Load Runner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Bristol, CT

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in designing Delivery Methodology Templates to improve quality and consistency of the artifacts
• Conducted Discovery session to gain in depth knowledge of the application and business process and identify gaps in current system
• Re-engineered the business processes as required by the projects.
• Provided optimal solutions for critical project issues
• Conducted validation sessions and walkthrough for the detailed requirement with business and technical team to ensure that requirements diagrams, models and definitions are complete and consistent, and meet the needs of the project
• Worked with EA (Enterprise Architect) to develop Use Case Model for “Intranet Redesign” project
• Facilitate RAD sessions with project (“Event Management Project”) team to ensure quick and effective solutions for some billing project enhancements

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in designing Delivery Methodology Templates to improve quality and consistency of the artifacts
• Created Project Charters for multiple projects to define scope and high level milestones
• Worked with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for detailed requirement gathering and business process modeling.
• Analyzed Facet documents of the current systems to ensure robust requirement for future development
• Re-engineered the business processes as required by the projects.
• Provided optimal solutions for critical project issues
• Conducted validation sessions and walkthrough for the detailed requirement with SMEs and business partners to ensure that requirements diagrams, models and definitions are complete and consistent, and meet the needs of the project
• Facilitate RAD sessions with project team to ensure quick and effective solutions for some billing project enhancements
• Help mentoring business process modeling other BAs to follow standard methodology

Business Analyst

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

Responsibilities:

• Active participation in creating the new Enterprise Business Architecture by evaluating/building current and future business models
• Re-engineered the business processes by evaluating the project charters and business cases and analyzing their impact on the Business Process Architecture.
• Assisted in designing Use Case Template to improve quality and consistency
• Prepared “Project Impact Inventory” and “Project Scope” documentation based on business case and project charter (consist of variety of projects, such as SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), Maine Surcharge, HealthPass, etc.). Traced and mapped interdependencies between different business processes.
• Facilitated discussions with Subject Mater Experts (SMEs) for detailed requirement gathering and business process modeling.
• Wrote Use Cases based on gathered detail requirements
• Prepared RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix), Use Case Inventory documents
• Conducted validation sessions and walkthrough of the same with SMEs and business partners

Business Analyst

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed the business users to understand their business and functional requirements, gathering their future needs and transforming them to functional specifications.
• Performed risk assessment and use derivative concept (to define price and value of the product based on company’s financial details) to develop new investment products mentioned above
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Involved in UML, designed Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State Diagram for project documentation using Select Enterprise
• Analyzed user statement of requirements to develop new reports.
• Provided technical recommendations for concise reporting format.
• Recommended and coordinated development efforts and enhancements
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes using the Rational Clear Quest.
• Interacted with developers to report software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with end-users and stakeholders to develop a detailed understanding of the requirements and prepared a comprehensive set of documents to define the specifications and business value of the system.
• Analyzed impact of proposed solution demonstrated and explained business requirements/specifications to IT team, and contributed business and process perspective during design reviews.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes using the Rational Clear Quest.
• Conducted RAD sessions to develop architectural solution that application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requirements
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential Business Processes, Business Rules, and Information Needs, thus ensuring that Critical Requirements are not missed.
• Involved in development of Business and Technical Requirements in preparation of Design and Functional Specifications for Business Needs and Processes.
• Developed data flow diagrams, illustrating the flow of data from the Legacy systems into the Application database Tables, along with checkpoints for testing / verification.
• Utilized RUP to configure and develop processes, standards, and procedures, to provide technical leadership and expertise in reorganization of a complex End-to-End Testing effort, and to perform System analysis and organizational review of existing QA processes.
• Defined the change management approval procedures to control the scope of the order management requirements. Actively engaged various partners from the client team to monitor and control the risk associated with changing scope

Business Analyst

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Revised User and Functional Requirement documents.
• Review and critique Contingency Plans for key functional units.
• Developed prototype of new information processing application.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to strategize the implementation of RUP effort in different iterations and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Worked as an interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and information needs, and insures that critical requirements are not missed
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Prepared Logical process Models covering "What" business processes are required by the business to accomplish their goals.
• Involved in the documentation and technical writing of the requirements in an elaborate way. Aided management in standardizing web applications by preparing GUI standards and recommending alternatives for in corporation in a phased, iterative manner.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Rutherford, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented the System specifications, Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business and used Requisite Pro for the requirement tracking and analyzing.
• Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE workflow scenarios and performed Gap analysis designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Performed Requirements Analysis and Design using Rational Rose and Requisite Pro.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with the all Project directors.
• 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.
• Reviewed and evaluate the business rules to ensure its compatibility with the new product and hence to the systems’ different business modules.
• Created full life-cycle documentation from product requirements in the developmental stage to functional specifications for the completed modules of application components.
• Written advanced 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, Requisite-Pro for requirement traceability.
• 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.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Interviews with Users and SMEs (Subject Matter Expert) for GAP analyses between the business and IT processes.
• Evaluated and created IT specifications for addressing the Gap.
• Created Use Case and various diagrams in Rational Rose.
• Created Process Flow Diagrams (Business process Flow Model).
• Acted as an interface between the Project Manager and Developers and QA Team on requirement and change requests.
• Analyze Business requirements and System Architecture/Design.