SUMMARY:

• Proven ability to work in an extremely fast paced environment, meet deadlines, and perform at high standards with limited supervision, including an ability to manage project teams located across multiple delivery sites.
• Thorough understanding of software development methodologies such as Waterfall, RUP Iterative System Development Life Cycle process, Agile/Scrum iterative development and Hybrid Model.
• Experience as a business analyst, quality analyst, project manager, product analyst or product manager for an online / web organization.
• Good knowledge on DevOps on continuous integration/continuous improvement.
• Worked on visualizing and analyzing the data using Adobe target and analytics with the marketing team.
• Experience in web based applications and web analytics to improve the systems development.
• Professional expertise in working with multiple teams on different levels of Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe).
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as Product Backlog meeting, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Retrospective meeting and Extensive knowledge in maintaining Product backlog, Burn down chart and Team Velocity. Sound understanding of Microsoft Technologies.
• Experience with scrum techniques such as Poker planning, MoSCoW, INVEST, T - shirt size, Silent writing, Nudging, Modelling behavior, Relative Mass Valuation. Sound understanding of PLM.
• Worked in complete project life cycle of Analysis, Design, Implementation, Functional and Regression testing.
• Worked on HIVE for analytical processing and MAPREDUCE for processing different languages.
• Experience in Risk management, capital market and wealth management.
• Experience on YARN Resource management and HDFS for storage of the data.
• Created Wireframes, mock up screens and performed impact analysis.
• Extensive experience in Change Management, Participating in Change Control & Impact Analysis.
• Proficient in using MS Visio, Rational Rose and UML for generating Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Entity relationship (ER), Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Good knowledge on Sales Force and Enterprise SaaS customer relationship management (CRM).
• Extensive implementation knowledge of Databases, Data table structures, Data warehousing, Schemas, Data Marts, OLAP operations like rollup, drill down, slicing/dicing using BI tools.
• Experience in creating SQL queries/ SQL scripts for data analysis including triggers procedures.
• Involvement in Data Mining / Dimensional Modeling, Database Debugging, ETL process and Business Intelligence Reporting using Tableau Desktop 8.2, IBM Cognos, Spotfire, Informatica Power Center.
• Solid understanding of SOAP & REST Webservices and other internet protocol suite like HTTP, TCP, FTP.
• Extensively interacted with the designers, developers to ensure functional implementation of business requirements and the QA team in executing Test Plans, Test Case scenarios, Test Logs, Test Objectives.
• Sound knowledge on various Amazon Web services tools like EC2, Elastic Bean Stalk, AWS Lambda and also storage file system and databases like S3, Glacier, Elastic cache and RDS, Dynamo DB, Redshift.
• Experience on Big Data tool like Hadoop on classifying the structured, semi-structured and unstructured data using FLUME and SQOOP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, TDD, RUP, SAFe, RAD, Kanban

Modelling tools: MS Visio, Balsamiq, Tableau, Toad Data Modeler

Business Analysis tools: Rational Rose, JIRA, Rally, MS Project Clear Quest, JIRA-greenhopper, Confluence

AWS Cloud tools: EC2,Lambda,Elasticbeanstalk,Eloadbalancer,Autoscaling,RDS,elasticcache,S3,Cloudfront,cloudwatch,cloudformation.Redshift.

Languages: VB, C# & JAVA, SQL, PL SQL, Nunit, MS SQL, DOT Net

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, SOAP, Web Services, CSS

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM QC 11.0, Team Foundation Server 2011-2013

Testing Tools: CODED UI 3, QTP, UFT, Selenium, Cucumber, HP load runner, J-meter

Internet Technology: XML, HTML & PHP, Firebug 2.0.14

Framework: Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid, BPT, Linear

Version Control: CVS, Tortoise, Visual Studio 2013

Documentation: Adobe Acrobat9 Professional, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, Share point

Protocols: Http, Https, SMTP, FTP, SOAP

ETL: SAP Data Services, SAS Data Management, Informatica, Talend, SSIS

Databases: SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle (8i-9i, 11g), MS SQL Server 2012, SQL Dev, Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, ALPHARETTA, GA

Scrum Master/ Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked very closely with Product Owners, Development Partners and Testing teams.
• Assisted product owner in converting Functional requirements into User Stories.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review and retrospective ceremonies.
• Responsible for calculating the capacity of the team and velocity for the sprint.
• Used Jira to track the project’s progress to accomplish the User Story points within a sprint.
• Facilitated, coached, and guided the organization and teams on values and principles of Agile and Scrum and conducted Collaboration Meetings for the team.
• Experience in managing Task Dependencies and resolving Impediments faced by team.
• Experience in conducting webinar session with the scrum development team and SME.
• Facilitated Backlog Grooming meeting for the re-prioritizing or splitting the user stories.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within a day and track sprint velocity.
• Played a crucial role in setting up User Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Ready for user stories to be accepted by the business.
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS) for the Web based application by following SDLC methodology.
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Visio.
• Participated in the logical and physical design sessions, developing design documents.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, for OOD using UML.
• Performed requirement analysis, and detailed examination of all the use cases and issue logs.
• Performed extensive business process analysis including data analysis and GAP analysis.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
• Partnered with the technical areas in the research and resolution of system and User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked as a User\Customer Advocate and negotiated with user as well as with developers and management staff to resolve any requirement conflict to BRIDGE the gaps between IT and Business Client.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, Web Interface Definition Language, JSP, Oracle 11g, HTML, XML, XSL, HP Quality Center 10.0, MS Visio, MS Project, Crystal Reports, Selenium, HP ALM

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Servant Leader for co-located and dispersed software development teams.
• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies (Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Sprint Planning) in two-week iterations. Facilitated release planning.
• Removed impediments and identified mitigating risk during each iteration.
• Tracked and managed team velocity, sprint burndown metrics and release progress in Version1.
• Managed software capitalization and project timelines.
• Managed software development projects on Bank and Card platforms to include client facing and system integrations.
• Managed communication between technology and business stakeholders.
• Supported development projects in .NET and Java environment.
• Experience with Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
• Provided coaching to Product Owner on identifying features and backlog refinement and readiness.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, Confluence, Jira, MS Excel, MS Word, Windows 2008/R2, Test Director, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, HP QC

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited demands from the stakeholders and analyzed them for consistency, flexibility and completeness. Participated actively in assembling the JAD team and in conducting the weekly sessions from requirements gathering phase to the sign-off of the application after testing.
• Organized workshops with Subject Matter Experts to obtain domain level information. Developed a vision plan that defined the primary goals and objectives of the project.
• Identified actors and use cases to create use case diagrams that described the behavior of the system. Facilitated collection of functional requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents using Rational Requisite Pro. Created data, functional and quality requirements.
• Involved in version control management for storage and distribution of documentation using Rational ClearCase.
• Trained and mentored the team members in RUP and the Rational Suite. Created class diagrams, use case diagrams and sequence diagrams to view the system from different perspectives.
• Created the Business Architecture document to provide an overview of different aspects of the application. Documented how business goals were reflected in the requirements.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams/State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams.
• Worked with management to create and communicate critical information to the user community via email and discussion boards.
• Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications. Reviewed system-testing results with the project and technical teams.

Environment: JIRA, Rally, Java/J2EE, Mongo DB, RESTFUL Services, HTML5, CSS3, object-oriented JavaScript, Data Caching Services, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Selenium

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering the requirements for the HOST, Online Games, Retailer Management and Management services through constant interaction with clients and Business Users.
• Conduct JAD sessions to interact with developer team, operations support team and end customer to understand the current system and new system functionalities.
• Capturing the requirements in Caliber Requirement Management Tool and maintaining the versions of different requirements of the project by following SDLC.
• Analysis of GAP between different proposals and projects and suggested efficient methods for effective outcomes.
• Developed several Use Cases using the company templates for better understanding and implementation for developers.
• Responsible for managing the schedule and conducting the peer reviews andinspections in MUTT and concluded with opening and closing of TIR.
• Assisted in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases and facilitating manual and automatic testing using Test Directors.
• Assisted the users during UAT and customer walk through,
• Updated further review comments with Change Control and took the user sign-off on the documents.

Environment: Java, Windows NT, XML, Caliber RM, Documentum, MUTT, Test Director, SnagIt, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, SDLC, Data Caching Services, Fault Tolerant architectures, zero downtime systems

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the Project Manager to decide on the project approach as well as the preparation of the project plan.
• Coordinated regular business requirement meetings with business users.
• Streamlined critical processes for project success including concept definition and requirement gathering.
• Established enablers like project management practices and templates suitable for the bank.
• Performed of requirements analysis and scheduled deliverance of the final requirement documents.
• Functioned as the liaison between the business community and the project team.
• Developed front-end functional specification documents based on reporting requirements.
• Participated in the logical and physical design sessions, and the development of design documents.
• Utilized Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest as Configuration Management and Change control tools.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Established project communication channels for status health checks by top management and project visibility to all stakeholders.
• Initiated culture change for project management by standardized project monitoring & reporting. This ensures timely issue resolution and risk mitigation.

Environment: VB, MS Team Foundation Server/Team Edition, HP QTP 11.5, HP QC, SharePoint, XML, HTML, MS Test Manager 2010, SQL Server, T-SQL, WSDL, SOA, Crystal Reports, Web Services.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Users and Stakeholders to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems
• Worked with SME’s of different groups to gain detailed knowledge of Investments and Capital Market and also to understand the cross impacts of the system
• Waterfall methodology was used in acute functionalities to design, document and manage requirements throughout the life cycle of the project, including definition, design and testing phases
• Analyzed and documented information system requirements and the corresponding impact on business processes
• Studied the Business Requirement Document (BRD), supporting documents containing essential business elements, detailed definition and description of the relationship between the actors
• Designed and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define the Business Process
• Analyzed the data entity relationships and worked on multiple short term projects in between.
• Worked as a team with other business analysts to make an object oriented model of the application and created use cases
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate with each other, resolve problems at early stage
• Worked on the Functional Requirements Document (FRD)
• Analyzed Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system on both Technical and Business perspectives

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, ClearCase, ClearQuest, UML, Test Director, SQL, MS Visio, SQL Server, WSDL, SOAP