PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with 5 years of experience in elicitation, evaluation, analysis & management of User and System Requirements, Business Process Modeling and Business Process Improvement.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of projects.
• In depth knowledge of Project Life Cycle, User Interface Designing, Testing, Quality Assurance, implementation and support within Agile/Scrum & Waterfall environments.
• Strong experience in developing Use Case Diagram, Use Case Specification document (UC), FRD (Functional requirement document), BRD (business requirement document), Functional design and Traceability Matrix.
• Decomposes implementation guide requirements into functional requirements and document the specification in sudo codes.
• Experience in massive and highly complex data sets and write SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data for data extract feeds.
• Performing different transformation rules on the data like doing calculations (Sum, Average and etc) and define a workflow to process data.
• Identity trends, issues and provide appropriate recommendations for data and processes challenges.
• Experience of creating the Business Rules validation scenarios and validate the data.
• Strong experience in documenting existing process, analyzing business requirements, re - engineering business processes and designing.
• Defining APIs and documenting them as User stories.
• Proficient in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions with IT Groups and Project Team Members, conducting Gap Analysis and documentation of Use Cases and User Stories.
• Strong experience in interacting with QA / Dev teams in fixing errors, development of Test Plans & Test Cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Assisted the QA team in different phases of testing such as System testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and Integration testing for Quality Analysis.
• Understanding of XML, ORM technologies, Entity Framework, Hibernate Skills.
• Traced requirements through the development process and verified using the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Understanding APIs exposed by other domains as SOAP/REST services.
• Good understanding of Data Analysis, Design, Data Modeling, Data Conversions and ERDs.
• Effective Communicator with good Interpersonal and Customer Relational skills.
• Ability to communicate technically to developers have strong business acumen
• Good expertise in writing technical user stories for API developers to consumer.
• Excellent documentation and Presentation Skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, excellent planning and multi-tasking abilities, with proven experience in utilizing people and process knowledge to help enterprise make critical decisions.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET:

Programming Languages: Business Analyst, Business System Analyst, Data Analyst, Scrum Master, JAD, JAA, JAR, Java/J2EE, Salesforce CRM, SQL, HTML,

Methodology Databases: DB2 and Oracle (SQL queries)

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows

Software: Microsoft Project and Visio, Rational Rose, JIRA

Processes/Technologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), SDLC, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Use Cases, Storyboards, Scenarios, UML, Joint Application Development (JAD)

Automation Tools: Rational Suite including Rose and Requisite Pro, Quality Center, Soap UI

Other Tools: MS-Project, MSOffice, MS Visio, MS (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Eclipse

.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Houston, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed stakeholders, business managers, users to understand and document business requirements and functional specifications for the Work flow.

• Involved in requirement gathering including interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders and created requirement specification
• Documented the business requirements of the desired system in the Business Requirement Document using Rational Requisite Pro
• Created Functional Requirement and System Specification documents
• Involved in preparing Use Cases and Business flow diagrams for the applications using UML
• Worked in a Scrum team environment and participate in backlog review and Sprint planning sessions, following Agile methodology
• Hand selected employees from Information Technology department to build Risk Assessment Team charged with analyzing all critical systems, developing reports to document system vulnerabilities, and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Created company policies and procedures governing corporate security, email and Internet usage, access control, and incident response.
• Involved in Writing PL/SQL code using the technical and functional specifications.
• Acts as the product owner for some of the modules and closely works with Product Manager, Delivery Manager and other technical team members to drive the growth of the product and its use.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level. Followed top down, leveled technique for building Business Process Models
• Created Use-Case Models using Rational Rose to depict Actors and Use-Cases in various Business Processes and identification of Basic/Alternative flows and definition of preconditions and post conditions of the System.
• Good expertise in writing technical user stories for API developers to consumer.
• Verified the functional aspect as per the Business Process and validated the interfaces with the other systems and data conversion from the legacy system. Worked with the UI team to create the User interface screen-shots to be presented to the business.
• Interacted with developers and various members of the team to discuss and resolve technical issues
• Utilized MS Visio for creating functional flowchart and documented Business Deliverables.
• Involved in daily quick EOD Touch point Scrum sessions, any impediments, showstopper for the application process work flow.
• Experience in get the UI wireframes/mockups/prototypes created by helping respective team to elicit the requirements better.
• Assisted Developers with designing, building, testing and debugging workflows based on business and technical requirements.
• Acted as liaison between Requirement Management, Testing Team
• Created Business Rules Spread Sheet (BRS) as needed and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track the requirements and link it to the test cases.
• Created QA Test plans, Test Cases for Functional, Integration Testing
• Developed User Accepting Testing (UAT) plans and test cases based on the business requirements.
• Defect tracking and management using QC
• Performed basic Sanity Testing via navigation and work flow of the Application.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity and Sequence Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.

• Analyzed financial performance of equity fund holdings in Asia and Eastern Europe.
• Liaison between Client and Business Partner’s. Conducted JAD sessions and Brain Storming Sessions with Client.
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specification (URS). Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Documentation of Business Requirements and Coordinated of approvals support of development and Testing Teams.
• Used Agile systems and strategies to provide quick and feasible solutions, based on agile system, to the organization.
• Experience in get the UI wireframes/mockups/prototypes created by helping respective team to elicit the requirements better.
• Interviewed multiple stakeholders and defined the compelling Use cases for Enterprise Client On boarding .
• Collaborates with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Worked in team environments and contribute to the team performance.
• Write clearly and communicate information and ideas scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Maintained Strict Change request Management from the clients.
• 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.
• Created Entity Relation Diagrams to represent the relationships existing between designs the internal schema of a Database, depicting the data tables, the data columns of those tables, and the relationships between the tables.
• Performed Smoke Testing to ensure that the compiled software components of the Applications adhere to Project Standards, Performance Criteria and Functional specifications to ensure feasibility of testing effort.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the stakeholders and the business users, and the errors discovered were fixed and then verified via regression testing.
• Frequently updated the requirement and defect status as per the current status of the testing project in the Clear Quest.
• Used Rational Clear Case as Version Control System for any changes to common documents related to project like Use Case documents and Activity/Sequence Diagrams.
• Project management update and controlling to ensure on time delivery using MS project
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specification (URS). Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then convert requirements into technical specifications

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed online investing banking documents/case files.

• Analyzed and collected business requirements, identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.
• Performed Requirement Analysis to Develop Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Prepared templates, charts, diagrams, workflows, and visual media for targeted audiences in support of business requirements gathering and other key business communications.
• Conducted review sessions on regular basis with QA and development teams for preparing status, delivery report and client reporting.
• Create test case documents that detailed the preconditions of screen page, action performed, and the expected results.
• Designed and developed test cases for putting the application on manual testing.
• Responsible for the creation of custom objects, page layouts, record types, workflow rules, approval processes and customized fields.
• Worked with the team to create a project road map/blueprint ensuring effective remediation of all applications

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Software development life cycle (SDLC) methodology, Framing out Business

• Transaction rules and related Documentation, creating Test Plans based on Functionality and Business rules.
• Conducted Surveys and Brainstorming sessions with SMEs for requirement gathering and prepared User Requirement Specifications Documents Created & managed project templates, Use Case templates, requirement types & traceability relationships in Requisite Pro.
• Performed Gap Analysis of the As-Is and Should-Be process within the organization to analyze and fill the existing gaps in the business processes.
• Documented Use Cases and Activity diagrams using MS Visio to understand the requirements and communicate them to the development team.
• Examined, analyzed and modeled Test plans & Test procedures based on RUP methodology.
• Conducted feasibility study and performed impact for proposed enhancements.
• Verified the functional aspect as per the Business Process and validated the interfaces with the other systems and taken care of data conversion from legacy system.
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues.
• Used Rational Rose to visually determine the proper structure, key elements and optimal design for the database and to aid in efficient creation of tables and storing procedures.
• Wrote clear, concise system requirements specification (SRS) documents and user documentation in accordance to guidelines and standards of a level where developers can interpret, design and develop the application with minimum guidance.
• Involved with auditors to build test scenarios & manage user acceptance test.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to test the functionality of the application.
• Coordinated with the development team in documenting End User Manual.