S UMMARY:

• Experience in writing and maintaining teh Requirement Definition Document dat included Business Requirements (BRD) and Functional Requirements (FRD), Use cases, User Story and UML Diagrams.
• Experience in Waterfall Model, Agile SCRUM Development, and V - development model
• Experience in facilitating group discussions to elicit requirements in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions by communicating wif internal users and stakeholders, documented scope definition, and functional specifications document
• Expertise in working wif developers, and teh QA team to ensure comprehension and feasibility of requirements.
• Extensive Knowledge of software testing methodologies and quality assurance principals, procedures and standards.
• Strong Business Analysis Skills including In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions wif end-users, expert team, development and QA team.
• Experience in maintaining CMMI standard processes.
• Expertise in analyzing business requirements, system requirements and functional requirement specification and develop system plan, test strategies, and test cases.
• Well versed wif Relational Databases Management System (RDBMS).
• Experience in Section 508 Compliance testing.
• Involved in creating and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis
• Experience in Requirement Management and Test Management tools ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), Jira.
• Experience in Software Configuration Management / Version Control.
• Expertise in conducting Peer Reviews, Technical Reviews and procedure Walkthroughs.
• Prepared training documents by incorporating better business practices for end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

GUI/ Management Tools: Programming Language

MS Visio, HP ALM, Quality Center, MS Office, SharePoint: JAVA, SQL, Basic HTML/CSS courses, Java Script

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

Methodologies: Agile - Scrum, Waterfall model and V-development model, SDLC

Platforms: Windows 7, Windows XP, UNIX

Testing Tools: JIRA, SOAP UI, JAWS, WAVE

Industry Standards: CMMI, ISO

Confidential

Washington, DC

Business Analyst II

• Partner wif teh Product Owner to prioritize teh product backlog and/or removing user stories to maintain alignment to teh product/project vision and roadmap.
• Work directly wif Product Owners and Project Managers to understand teh current business process and perform Gap Analysis on existing software.
• Gather requirements for teh purpose of modification and enhancement on teh software.
• Develop and gain cross-functional alignment on detailed functional requirements based off of teh business requirements.
• Conduct Kickoff meetings wif business owners, stakeholders as part of teh requirements gathering process.
• Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced and retired applications.
• Interact wif Business Owners, SMEs, and management team to identify teh scope of teh project and to prepare a Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications.
• Ensure dat all artifacts complied wif corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
• Provide guidance to project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve teh outstanding issue and action items are taken in teh review meeting.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions wif business owners, business system owners, teh development team, teh testing team, and process control.
• Involved in Regression testing, System testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity, and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conforming to deadlines.
• Create workflow diagrams to validate teh Basic and Alternate flows in teh various Business and Technical Use Cases.
• Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks, and monitored project milestones using HP ALM.
• Capture of quality attributes external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements.
• Participate in teh development of training materials for new technology and organizing User Training.
• Coordinate teh development, design and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, JAVA, SVN, MS Windows, SharePoint, Visio

Business System Analyst

• Document product backlogs and user stories, guided by acceptance criteria and obtaining documentation signoff.
• Identify, assess, and document system requirements recommending system priorities
• Performed GAP Analysis of system rules, system, system process flows, user administration, and requirements.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions wif stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications.
• Ensured dat all artifacts were complied wif corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
• Worked wif teh QA to develop Test Plans and Test Cases for functional and integration testing.
• Maintained teh requirements traceability matrix to track requirements coverage.
• Worked closely wif teh stakeholders to analyze complex business processes and business requirements.
• Documented any issues or defects and eventually got teh sign off from teh right parties.
• Manually verified teh validity of teh failed test cases. Performed Positive, Negative and Black Box testing on teh application.
• Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
• Worked closely wif project manager, stakeholders, and business analyst to define: test scope, gap analysis, risk analysis, and test dependency.
• Involved in teh preparation of teh test data required for executing test cases.
• Performed UI testing on application’s web interface.
• Enhanced teh existing or default test scripts by adding programming for custom testing and debugging teh scripts.
• Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings wif team leads.
• Performed SQL queries to conduct back-end testing.
• Performed regression testing on teh application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of teh application.
• Maintained standard documentation to comply wif CMMI Standards.
• Attended weekly status meetings wif Development Team, QA Manager, and created notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: MS Visio, JIRA, HP ALM, UML, .NET, Quality Center, Oracle, Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved majorly in gathering business requirements by reviewing existing artifacts and conducting several requirements elicitation interviews wif subject matter experts and business users.
• Work wif teh business owner and wif different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases, and to develop functional specifications.
• Analyze teh system from both teh technical and business perspectives and prepare Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Generated UML documentation by developing written use cases, use cases diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams to define system functionalities as per business requirements.
• Created test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and conducted functional testing, system testing, integration testing, performance testing, smoke testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Created teh Requirements Traceability Matrix for reviewing and tracking requirements.
• Conducted Gap analysis on teh present system and documented teh enhancements to meet teh end state requirements of teh system.
• Conducted JAD sessions throughout teh project to communicate and manage expectations wif teh business users and teh feature content team.
• Actively liaised throughout teh project between end users, development team, and QA team to address system issues and identify teh appropriate solution.
• Extensively used SQL to conduct data validation, data analysis, and generate ad-hoc reports.

Environment: MS Visio, UML, .NET, Quality Center, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX