SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of Industry experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications, and Application Design.
• Proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and testing various methodologies.
• Expertise in Project Management i.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures.
• Experience in creating custom site templates and list templates for developing web part pages for the portal using SharePoint Portal Server.
• Experienced working in Pharmaceuticals companies with Oracle Clinical Trials in FDA validated environment.
• Good understanding of Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Rational tools, like Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose and Rational SODA
• Strong web development and web content management experience.
• In depth knowledge Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, Use Cases, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D).
• Competent in Creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, creating Screen Mockups, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis.
• Knowledge in the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) of data into a data ware house/date mart and Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Business Objects Modules (Reporter, Supervisor, Designer, and Web Intelligence).
• Extensive Knowledge of Systems Management, Design and Data Modeling.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Interface with clients from Operations, Marketing, Sales, Technologies, and Outside Vendors and act as their customer interface point as the lead of the Projects.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Communication, Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:Programming Languages: C, C++, PASCAL, HTML, XML, PL/SQL,

Database: Oracle9i, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2

Operating Systems: DOS, UNIX, Windows XP, NT, 2000, 98 & 95

Software Modeling Tools: Microsoft Office Suite, Rational Rose, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, FrontPage, UML, MS Project

OOAD Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Software, Development Life Cycle (SDLC)PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Established a RUP (Rational Unified Process) centric business analysis methodology. Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Visio.
• Performed task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS Project.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML
• Intensive use of SharePoint for managing and sharing information like presentations and other sharable information to increase transparency among team members
• Gathered analyzed, documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate the needs of the business stakeholders.
• Coordinate and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines
• Coordinated defects routing in the team and created Excel macros to generate daily defects report status from Quality center across multiple teams.
• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.
• Used Microsoft Share Point as the version tracking tool for managing the requirements documentation.
• Coordinated with the developer, on day - to-day basis, during the development process.
• Performed and coordinated System testing, Regression testing of various builds during integration, Performance and User acceptance testing using Rational Test.
• Was responsible for change management, process modeling and staff development in the implementation of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for the IT department.
• Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) and developed business process flows, system flows, validated object-oriented analysis and design methodology.
• Used Test Director and Mercury Quality Center for updating the status of all the Test Cases & Test Scripts that are executed during testing process.
• Performed analysis on enterprise data/report integration & provided functional specification to development team to build Enterprise Reporting Systems.

Environment: Windows , MS Office(MS Word, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), Oracle, Crystal reports, RUP, UML, GAP Analysis

Business Analyst/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities

• Involved in Business process design, streamlining, application systems analysis, object oriented analysis, system analysis and design, Quality Assurance and software verification and validation process.
• Aided documentation of computer system validation lifecycle.
• Documented existing and proposed process flow, analyzed current and target system, and conducted GAP analysis .
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology
• Generated data cubes for analysis purposes using excel functionality and created several reports in Cognos report studio.
• Developed business use cases and also extensively worked on SharePoint Document Management Platform to gather the requirements.
• Creating filter enabled web parts using SharePoint Grid View. Created Excel Files, Access reports, and InfoPath forms in SharePoint.
• Used SharePoint services to Collaborate implement workflows and Share Information among the Teams.
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Rational and Visio . Assisted project team in preparing Functional Specification Document (FSD ) , developed non-functional requirements , and documented Business Requirements Document (BRD ).
• Prepared detailed design documents to translate business process effectively for developers and product managers using MS Visio .
• Using Shared Containers and creating reusable components for local and shared use in the ETL process.
• Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions
• Extracted data from Oracle database with MS Access, and performed SQL query, data analysis and verification.
• Assisted in system and User Acceptance Testing, performed client presentations. Participated in entering and tracking system defects in Rational ClearQuest.

Environment: Windows, SQL, MS Visio, HTML, MS SharePoint, MS Access, UML, Quality Center, Requisite pro, Rational ClearQuest.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the business environment and identified process improvements.
• Interacted with Business Users to conduct thorough Requirements Analysis. Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for various web based and database related applications.
• Ability to create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for managing changes in requirements using Rational Requisite Pro and MS Excel.
• Created Use Cases using UML and managed the entire functional requirements life cycle using Rational Unified Process, Requisite Pro.
• Assisted in on-going process improvement efforts to ensure Test Planning, Execution, and Reporting is effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated.
• Involved in interactions with the Subject Matter Expert, Project Manager, Developers, and the End-Users.
• Coordinated activities with project manager and various other teams using MS Project. Interacted with other Business Analysts for designing and implementation of Use Cases and Test Plans.
• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases according to Business Requirements. Acted as User Acceptance Testing coordinator and monitored business testing and interfaced with the development team regarding defect status and fixes on a daily basis.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, Clarity, Quality Center, SQL, Mercury TestDirector, Mercury LoadRunner