SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Around 4 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst/Scrum Master in IT industry with strong knowledge and experience working with different SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Scrum and RUP.
• Worked in different projects on financial services like Investment Management, Banking, and Mortgage.
• Carried out project management duties by led and coordinated with multiple teams, managing cross team dependencies, monitoring and presenting project health by tracking user stories.
• Led project meetings with stakeholders, UX team, developers to gather and prioritize requirements, assign and follow up on deliverables, and address open questions to enable projects to continue moving forward.
• Experience in eliciting and documenting business requirements by conducting JRP/JAD sessions, one - one and Group interviews, Focus groups, Job Shadowing, Reengineering and Document Analysis.
• Experience in performing ‘Feasibility Analysis, GAP analysis, Risk Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis for business processes and to map the compatibility of the new system with the requirements.
• Created various documents including the Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents.
• Created Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case, Activity and Sequence.
• Experience in creating process workflows, data flow diagrams, wireframe and mockup screens.
• Evaluated change requests by performing impact analysis on the triple constraints of the project.
• Skilled at managing and breaking-down an Epic in the Product Backlog into User Stories that abide by the INVEST criteria.
• Created and maintained Sprint Artifacts like the Sprint Burndown chart, Sprint Burn-up Chart and Product Burn- Down chart.
• Efficient in prioritizing Product Backlog Items based on MoSCoW, Kano and Walking Skeleton models and estimating Product Backlog items using techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt Sizing.
• Facilitated Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings and improved team’s performance and dynamics.
• Scrum Master Accredited Certification from International Scrum Institute.
• Proficient in tightly coupled architecture, loosely coupled architecture (including SOA), web services and web methods.
• Comprehensive understanding of Web-Services (and their documentation) like REST and SOAP (and involved in their testing using SOAP UI) using XML, WSDL and UDDI, using internet protocol suite like HTTP under Three-Tier Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Exposure to Client, Server and Database validations and scripted XML for request and responses of web methods to web services using XMLSpy to assist the development team.
• Possess knowledge of usage of different scripting languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ajax and Node.js.
• Experience in developing Test plan, Test scenario, Test cases, in manual and automated test environments.
• Knowledge of Testing Life Cycle. Assisted in Black Box testing, Functional and Non-Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Performance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Solid understanding of Database concepts like Master Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Structures, Schemas and Dimensional Modeling.
• Proficient at creating Data Mapping Document and identifying basic transformations to cleanse the data, improving Data Quality.
• Performed SQL queries using different functions like joins, unions, group by and aggregate functions to extract data from different databases (Oracle, SQL Server) for timely reporting and validation.
• Self-starter with ability to work under tight deadlines and multi-task to meet business objectives, schedules, communicating and coordinating with Software Developers, Solution Architects and QA Team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Modeling Tools: Rational rose, MS Visio, Balsamiq Mockups

Business Analysis: MS Project, JIRA, Rally, HP ALM, MS Office Suite

Testing Tools: HP QC, Selenium, SOAPUI, Bugzilla

Repository Tools: Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub, Maven Jenkins, SVN.

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted walkthrough with project stakeholders to verify the accuracy of the requirements.
• Led planning meetings for the scrum teams on distributing stories and recognizing cross team dependencies.
• Documented the planning, scope documents for the project and worked on cost estimates for the project.
• Coordinated with teams to keep the project ahead of its deadlines and controlled the change requests effectively.
• Conducted GAP analysis by identifying AS-IS and TO-BE business process models and process flows.
• Gathered requirements through JAD sessions and interviews along with Product Owner and business.
• Was responsible for creating and reviewing process flows, business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Use Case Narratives, Activity Diagrams and Business process flow Diagrams using UML modeling tools like MS Visio.
• Worked with UI/UX teams in creating wireframes and mock up diagrams.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Facilitated with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.
• Worked with the product owner and development team in deciding and negotiating the definition of done and acceptance criteria for Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI).
• Maintained artifacts such as Sprint burn down, Product burn down chart, list of impediments and defect logs, which in turn assist in velocity and capacity calculation for superior planning of upcoming sprints.
• Responsible for decomposing EPICS into manageable user stories by applying the INVEST criteria.
• Tracked the progress of the project using JIRA and continuously monitoring scope creep and technical debt at all stages.
• Working Knowledge of Equities, Fixed Income, securities, foreign exchange, bonds and derivatives, insurance, mutual funds and check processing, trading & risk environment, credit, interest rates, Treasuries, alternative investments - Commodities, Foreign Exchange Trading
• Mapped the designed URLs for the RESTfulAPIs to the business requirements and operations.
• Scripted business rules for the web service, and assisted in drafting agreements for various web methods in XML.
• Documented the technical specifications of the web service for use in the binding template of the service UDDI.
• Prepared the documentation for the RESTful APIs and SOAP web service i.e. the methods its exposing, URIs and description of each method.
• Documented sample requests, depicting the format of the calls to and from the web service.
• Negotiated and updated SLA contracts for the internal web services.
• Analyzed business requirements and created business rules for client side validations to help development team.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Good understanding of Trade Lifecycle, Asset Allocation and Portfolio Rebalancing.
• Lead a team of 7 successfully through all stages of Scrum.
• Involved in reporting status, milestones, and project plan tracking to project manager and product owner on a weekly basis.

Environment: Scrum, Windows 8/10, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, TOAD, Oracle, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub, SOAPUI.

Confidential

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• First implementation in Agile for this project team. Mentored and coached the team members on Agile practices and standards.
• Created Gantt Chart to illustrate the project schedule for Executive committee.
• Managed stakeholder expectations, status, risks, issues, escalation & amp and created product release plan.
• Involved in identifying the problem definition as part of continuous process improvement using Define, Measure, Analyze and Improve to support the business continuity of the organization.
• Effectively communicated weekly project status, burn down charts to executive and business leadership
• Prepared Cost benefit analysis, calculated Benefit to cost ratio, and conducted GAP Analysis .
• Resolved impediments by coordinating and collaborating with the cross-functional teams.
• Achieved 100% compliance on the Agile standards by enforcing Agile methodologies.
• Implemented and supported Sprint planning and retrospective activities .
• Provided technical support for Sprint Cycles and testing with Rally tool.
• Formulated and executed process flows and product backlog. Strong experience in Product Life cycle Management (PLM)
• Established strong partnership with the Agile team, work stream leads, and product owners .
• Conducted coaching sessions regarding Agile development methods.
• Participated and hosted in meetings, technical discussion, reviews and release planning.
• Formulated, implemented and maintained tools and practices. Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies Helped to prioritize user stories using T-shirt size technique and used Scrum Related tools such as Rally to document and visualize stories, tasks and measure performance through burn down charts/velocity charts .
• Created lesson learned documents and kept the SharePoint repository updated .
• Created budget estimations for upcoming development and maintained the program management plans.
• Incorporated agile methodology and Kanban techniques to manage requirements, tasks and
• subtasks. Performed the Release manager responsibilities on the product release to production .

Environment: Agile, MS Word, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, XML, SOAP UI, HTML, UML, HP-Quality Center, MS PowerPoint, SQL, Rally.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements , functional specifications , designed, tested, and enhanced business systems.
• Developed technical solutions to business problems, Created Vision and Use case documents .
• Developed and implemented comprehensive test plans to ensure that systems and programs are tested.
• Created GUI elements, Workflow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and cross functional diagrams.
• Designed wireframes and mockups and designed the Catalog management process.
• Developed Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Class Diagrams.
• Prepared Test Reports and submitted the Bug Findings to the Bug Tracking system using Quality Center and its modules (Requirements, Test Plan, Test lab and Defects). Prepared test condition document
• Assisted project leader for project management and delivering projects.
• Facilitated Functionality, Integration, GUI, Regression, Usability and System testing.
• Determined proper installation parameters for software and hardware, for smooth integration and transition.
• Analysed detects, identified and corrected technical problems and deficiencies
• Tested Web Services /XML / SOAP and RESTFul services using SoapUI tool. Involved in creating a detailed System Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for different modules in the Application according to the Business Requirements and performed automation testing.
• Design robust and scalable test plans for feature components which can be easily incorporated into the overall feature test plans and meet customer requirements with little or no guidance.

Environment:, MS Team Foundation Server/Team Edition, HP ALM QC, SharePoint, XML, HTML, SQL Server, PL/SQL, WSDL, SOA, Crystal Reports, Web Services.