PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst/ Business System Analyst with four plus years of experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle. Including, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and release.
• Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements into the Requirement Definition Document; that includes Business Requirements (BRD), and Functional Requirements (FRD) and use cases.
• Extensive success in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications to create Use Case diagrams & Process Flow diagrams by using Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Effective communication with external clients and internal teams.
• Facilitated and coordinated Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint Application Requirement sessions (JAR) with excellent inter - personal and conflict resolving skills. 
• Experience in planning and developing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to meet product’s business and solution requirements.
• Strong analytical skills during Functional Testing, Regression Testing and UAT Testing.
• Designed and conducted internal training programs for developed applications.
• Experience in Risk Assessment, Business, Gap Analysis and Rule Analysis
• Experience in defining project milestones, schedules, monitoring progress and updating plans as required using MS Project.
• Knowledge of Change Management and Configuration Management.
• Solid skills in written and oral communication with the capability to present and articulate complex concepts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling / Requirement Management: MS Visio, JIRA, SharePoint, MS Project, HP ALM, Quality Center

Database: SQL Server, Oracle, TOAD

Operating System: Windows 7, Windows XP/2000, UNIX

Languages: SQL, JAVA

Applications: MS Office

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Confidential, Annandale, VA

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interview the director of the Office of International Students and preparation of documents defined architectural components.
• Interact with Associate Director and PDSO and management team to identify scope and prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story and Activity Diagram to develop Functional Specification.
• Work with the F1 students and with different levels of management to identify the requirement, use cases and functional specification.
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity and state diagram.
• Report tracked defects and types using QC/ALM.
• Participated in Sprint Planning based on new and backlogged requirements.
• Participated in JAD session throughout SDLC to document products vision, establish project scope and resolve and resolve open issues.
• Create workflow diagram to validate the Basic and Alternate Flows in the Business and Use Case.
• Manage relationship with programmers and communication between end users and development team
• Involved in preparing Process Flow Diagram & other UML Diagrams using MS Visio
• Helped the developing teams in mapping the data and help to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Case.
• Used SQL queries to extract data from the database for Backend Testing.
• Data analysis using MS Excel, charts and graphs.
• Clarified issues with developers during efforts to validate designs and functional specifications.
• Actively Participated in internal presentations.
• Conducted the project meetings successfully by coordinating all users, technical staff
• Supported in QA testing

Confidential, Herndon, VA

SME Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Owner, PM, and BA to Identify the scope and prepare the Business Requirement.
• Adopted Agile Process and its best practices as the process product for the Project.
• Worked with Business owner and project manager and the technical team to document the product's vision and the project scope.
• As a SME, interacted with the business analyst, Project manager and developers in JAD sessions to refine the requirement.
• Documented Business Scripts to understand the system and help developers incorporate the existing system into the future system.
• Worked with business end users, project and technology management and their staff to identify and define, interpret and clarify scope.
• Maintained requirements to RTM to rapidly assess the effect of changes in requirements.
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool Quality Center
• Worked closely with the QA team to review and enhance the Test Plan and Test Cases.

QA Analyst/ Requirement Analyst

Confidential

• Involved in understanding of functionality and design of different applications based on the Requirement Specification Document.
• Captured Test Cases and Test Results in Quality Center; and documented and prepared the release notes as part of the project deliverables.
• Investigated software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and reporting the bugs to all concerned.
• Investigated requirements and interfaced with developers to resolve issues and reporting the issues to all concerned. Outstanding issues are documented and managed through Quality Center.
• Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases.
• Analyzed and identified defects, and logged defects with detailed specification into Quality Center as they relate to the test cases.
• Worked with SQL queries for database integrity and data validation.
• Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging. Also generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Actively participated in Review Meetings and walkthroughs; and prepared the defect progress reports during defect meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, MS Office, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP