SUMMARY:

Experienced Technical Business Analyst with a proven track - record of success in leading cross-functional projects in fast-paced small to medium sized Financial, Real Estate, Health Care, and Insurance Domains. Detail oriented, excellent communication skills, work closely and effectively with stakeholders, well-organized, adapt to new environments rapidly and deliver business value to realization. Ability to lead projects independently or in a team environment. Worked in Waterfall, Agile Scrum and XP environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mobile Platforms: iOS, Android OS, Windows Phone

Programming: HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, SQL, VB Script, Ruby on Rails

Test Automation: Selenium Webdriver, HP QC/ALM (Quality Center)

Testing Tools: Fiddler, Eclipse, RubyMine, iFunbox, iPCU, aLogcat, Carat, MX Log Collector

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, Internet, Intranet

Virtualization: VMware Workstation, SDK Manager/AVD

Bug Tracking: Bugzilla, Mantis, JIRA, HP Quality Center

Browsers: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Testing Methodologies: Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, UI, UAT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Business Analyst

• Effectively adopted the software framework by identifying stakeholders, examining documents (Project Charter, Procurement Documents, Diagrams, BRD, SRS, Test Plans, Test Matrix) and interviewing Subject Matter Experts.
• Worked closely with team, stakeholders and vendors to successfully deliver requirements for scope, budget and scheduled objectives.
• Identified unanticipated risks and implemented solutions and work around.
• Facilitated, and conducted Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Scums (standup meetings), Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Implemented a Software Test Plan to improve testing procedures.
• Facilitated the Exploratory and UAT testing.
• Implemented key techniques to assist in accomplishing effective testing objectives.
• Facilitated in the learning curve for junior QA personnel.
• Created end to end test scenarios, which returned exceptional test results.
• Identified risks, initiated change control measures and document updates.
• Worked closely and effectively with stakeholders including the development team, project managers and subject matter experts to facilitate in the team’s analysis and testing efforts in order to achieve superior results.
• Participated in all phases of test execution: Smoke, ad-hoc, functional and regression.
• Collaborated with developers in identifying code issues and supported with fine tuning.
• Used functional knowledge and logics of applications to provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and resolving test problems to junior tea.

Confidential, Neptune, N.J.

Business Analyst (Consultant)

• Responsible for adopting a company-wide data migration project to assist in addressing software quality, defects tracking, and dead-line requirements.
• Participated in daily team meetings and attended regular project owner meetings.
• Consulted with Project Managers, Business Analysts, SMEs, Third Party Vendors and Development Team to identify and prioritize testing efforts.
• Identified issues in requirements and initiated Change Control meetings.
• Familiarized with the project by gathering all pertinent documentation, including UML diagrams, Business Requirement Documents, Software Requirement Specifications, Test Plans and Test Matrix to evaluate and determine a more productive approach to the gap in the software quality and deadlines.
• Initiated meetings to enhance testing efforts by implementing an increase in creating and executing test cases, conducting daily progress report meetings and collectively sharing ideas resulting in an increase in productivity and quality.
• Collaborated closely with third party vendors and their development team to ensure quality is designed into the project.
• Identified security flaws and initiated meetings to resolve unauthorized access.
• Created thousands of test cases that resulted in many defects that further resulted in new version releases and improved quality.
• Efficiently validated and verified test cases, identified defects, inoperability flaws and thoroughly documented them resulting in software quality and deadline improvement.
• Initiated Approval Meetings with Project Managers, SMEs and Business Owners for review, resulting in approval sign-offs.
• Created effective and efficient test cases and scenarios to meet the project requirements.

Confidential, Los Altos, CA

Project Manager (Consultant)

• Responsible for all project management life cycles process groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing).
• Reviewed Business Cases and assisted with creating Project Charters, identified stakeholders, created stakeholder requirement documents, negotiated with third party vendors, developed project team, performed Qualitative and Quantitative analysis.
• Effectively managed all implementations, enhancements, and customer support for many assigned clients.
• As a product owner created product backlogs, collaborated with team in creating Sprint Plan, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospective.
• Facilitated with every aspect of software quality testing efforts.
• Facilitated with creating Software Requirement Specifications and Technical Specification documents.
• Introduced installation guidelines, performed gap and impact analysis.
• Collaborated with team, developers and stakeholders to develop management and test plans.
• Facilitated in the daily standup meetings, sprint meetings and team meetings to discuss testing procedures, reporting project status and updates and collaborated with client’s development team to ensure quality is built into the software.
• Developed and validated test cases and scenarios.
• Demonstrated methodical, detail-oriented and thorough approach to all test cycles while adhering to compressed timelines.
• Managed localization testing by validating the UI flow, app page layouts, user interactions including proper local language, currency, and time zone (date and time format).
• Validated application functionality for Internet Providers ( Confidential, Confidential &T, Confidential ).
• Maintained Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure applications meet design and specification requirements.
• Methodically documented defects, errors, interoperability flaws and other issues via HP ALM, Jira bug-tracking application and provided detailed guidance to developers and product managers for bug reproduction and fixes.

Confidential, New York, NY

CEO/ Co-Founder

• Planned and executed successful marketing and advertising campaigns targeting and acquiring new accounts.
• Conducted daily team meetings to discuss new geographical target areas, demographics, new clients and existing client opportunities.
• Conduct feasibility studies, Gap Analysis, demographic analysis and financial analysis leading to multimillion dollar transactions.
• Facilitated walkthroughs with stakeholders.
• Delivered convincing sales presentations to decision-makers of major companies.
• Reviewed and analyzed exclusivity agreements with National and Regional retail chain stores, resulting in multimillion dollar commercial real estate sales, and leases with national and regional retailers and investors.
• Provided comparable market analysis (CMA) for loan documents, leases, contract terms, and conditions.
• Facilitated the legal team in drafting loan documents, negotiated leases, contract terms, and conditions.
• Support the legal team with commercial purchase and sales agreements.
• Served as primary contact for contracts, fees, billing, and project scheduling.
• Developed relationships with decision-makers that led to major lease and sales transactions.

Confidential, N.Y. New York

Project Manager (Consultant)

• Responsible for testing an application which was able to store patient information, images, charts, results of treatment, and referrals online in an organized central location, giving the ability to the appropriate medical staff access to patient record information from any location.
• The system was designed to be fully compliant with HIPAA, and met all the guide lines of the HIPAA security rules, User Authentication, Encryption, Audit Controls, Integrity and Transmission security.
• Worked along with the Management and Development team to define the project scope and deliverables adhering to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, medical personnel, SME’s and technical leads to elicit requirements and perform feasibility study.
• Documented requirements through use cases.
• Conducted presentations of user stories, use case diagrams, and activity diagrams that provided detailed information of system process flow and results.
• Coordinated with the technical team and conducted walkthroughs involving medical personnel, end-users and developers for sound development of the project.
• Led User Acceptance Test (UAT) efforts and documented test cases meeting the critical functionalities of the system.

Confidential, New York

Project Manager (Consultant)

• Tested extensive reports of out trades, trade and security violations, responsible for investigative reporting, position limits, trading floor access and security, creation of password and security profiles.
• Responsible for client/server and transactional processing.
• Facilitated project management tasks for product control system integration by working with the business line and reconciliation teams to ensure automation is capturing all relevant transactions.
• Tested applications that link databases and trading floor clearing of futures, option derivatives, transaction and margining applications.