PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seeking a fast - paced dynamic environment to apply my professional skills in the field of Information Technology, Project Management, Business/Decision Analysis, Software Quality Assurance and Testing with strong work ethic and thereby apply my technical and interpersonal skills.
• I believe I could play a useful role in implementation of enterprise applications like enterprise resource planning.
• A result oriented individual with over 7 years of diversified experience in Healthcare, and Finance industry.
• Performed planning and development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenario to meet product’s business requirements.
• Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Market Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Portfolio Diversification, Fixed Income Products and Services amongst others.
• Expertise in translating user requirements into technical specifications and mapping the process design, work flows for SDLC with documenting and managing business requirements.
• Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and documentation skills with good process management skills along with a remarkable ability to gather requirements to bring out quality product.
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment and meet stringent deadlines.
• Professional expertise in MS Office, MS Access and MS Project Professional 2002.
• Analyzed Enhancement requests and Modification requests.
• Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Extensive knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.
• Highly motivated worthy team player capable enough to work and lead within a team environment besides being capable to work independently.
• Fairly experienced with SQL and database querying.
• Experienced in Rational Unified Process (RUP) software development process using Rational ClearCase and Rational Rose.
• Maintenance of Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Analyzed Business requirement.
• Experienced as a Business Analyst in a role of responsibility encompassing Requirement Gathering, Decomposition and Analysis besides Quality Assurance.
• Ability to identify root causes and derive corrective actions to meet short and long term business requirements using resourceful approaches.
• Ability to identify and document critical requirements through analysis.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple deadlines and multiple projects effectively through a combination of business and technical skills.
• Facilitated JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT
• Strong business analysis skills and thorough understanding of software development life cycle.
• Strong ability to understand and document critical data through effective data collection, data analysis and data interpretation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows 95/98/00, UNIX and DOS.

Bug Reporting Tools: Test Director, Rational ClearQuest

RDBMS: Oracle 7.0/8.0, SQL Server 2000 and MS-Access.

Web Languages: ASP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Web Server Concepts: IIS 5.0, Apache and Jakarta Tomcat

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied existing business application and processes, collected end user requirements and suggested the improvised business process model.
• Gap Analysis of client requirements, generated workflow process, flow charts and relevant artifacts.
• Defined and documented the vision and scope of the project.
• Conducted one on one interviews with high level management team and participated in the JAD session with the SME’s.
• Worked as a liaison between the business and technical side to convey the business needs to the system architects.
• Worked in association with RUP mentors to ensure fidelity to the standard RUP practices of the institution.
• Participated in weekly status meetings to present status and in corporate any digressions from the original scope.
• Designed Use Cases using UML and managed the entire functional requirements life cycle using RUP.
• Created and managed project templates, Use Case project templates, requirement types and trace-ability relationships in Requisite Pro.
• Carried out a thorough target organization assessment and risk analysis.
• Involved in cross-functional teams, developing new ways to boost efficiency and delivering results in a fast-changing environment to achieve company goals.
• Provided the management with test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary using MS Project and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Analyzed the “As is” and “To be” system documents to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system using MS VISION.

Environment: J2EE, Java, UNIX, SQL, Siebel 7.7, Windows XP, MS Project, RUP, Rational ROSE, Req Pro, Rational Clear Case, UML, MS Visio.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in business analysis and project management, coordinating between the team members, addressing budget issues and creating test plans according to the business requirements.
• Worked with the project manager for planning and organizing the project activities, and in communicating with other business center mangers and stakeholders of the project.
• Met with various groups, including business owners, SMEs (subject matter experts) and marketing team, for requirements gathering in definition Stage.
• Gathered requirements, developed Process Model and detailed Business Policies.
• Worked with the project manager to estimate best/worse case scenarios, track progress with weekly estimates of remaining work to do, conducting informal meetings ad hoc and as needed.
• Followed the RUP methodology for the entire SDLC.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the test plan, and various test cases.
• Initiated, proposed and implemented critical analytical and technical turnkey solutions extensively increasing the quantitative and qualitative value of the application
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implemented QA methodology.
• Developed the matrix, prioritized and determined QRT impact of all applications.
• Provided overall project management to multiple projects successfully completing them on-schedule and on-budget.
• Prepared the Business Workflow using MS-Visio with input, output, Pre and Post conditions
• Utilized technical flow charts, Network Diagrams and Gantt Charts to effectively map and manage critical paths and bottlenecks in conjunction with Project Tracking Reports and Project Data Sheets for Senior Management.
• Enhanced test cases and scripts by adding the required functionality as per the new business requirements.
• Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting was performed using Test Director.

Environment: WinRunner7.0/Load Runner 6.5, MS-Visio, Test Director, UNIX, Windows NT, Java, HTML, Oracle, IIS.

Confidential, Trumbull, CT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, revised and created test plans according to business requirements.
• Wrote Use cases and Activity Diagrams.
• Assisted the customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs.
• Gathered the requirements, developed process models and detailed Business Policies, and modified the business requirement document.
• Involved in the Data Movement between Systems, validated the Business Requirements.
• Wrote numerous test cases based on test strategies.
• Involved in Functionality and Regression testing during the various phases of the development.
• Utilized RUP to create use cases, activity, class diagrams and workflow process diagrams.
• Responsible for coordinating and performing functional and date-related testing.
• Prepared the Business Workflow using MS-Visio with input, output, pre/ post conditions.
• Analyzed team performance with the QA manager and implemented the changes if any with respect to raising the efficiency of the entire team.
• Participated in the team for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used Rational Clear Quest to report defects and test results.
• Conducted the Customer Acceptance Testing, System Acceptance and End-to-End testing.
• Detected defects communicated to the developers using bug-reporting tools and tracked the defects.
• Evaluated and implemented QA process improvements for ongoing testing.
• Conducted Back End Testing on the Oracle database using SQL.
• Defined transactions to measure server performance and creating rendezvous points to simulate heavy load on the server.
• Involved in maintaining the Test Matrix.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings.
• Helped Test Engineers troubleshoot and problem solve any issues that would arise.

Environment: Windows NT Server, Oracle, Web Logic, IIS, Java, WinRunner, LoadRunner and TestDirector.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the Corporate Finance Clients and Technology department of Prudential Financials.
• Involved in Requirements Gathering and business analysis through PLC of an online portal to provide visibility to corporate customers on their Equity and investment positions, integration with market data and analyzed the traders fixed income business requirements.
• Responsible to pull a team of analysts from all of our extended financial departments to guide and direct the overall EQFD strategy for forecasting and budgeting, Risk Management and Fixed Income and derivatives.
• Wrote Functional Specifications that included UML Diagrams and Use Case using Rational Rose.
• Involved in preparing Business Documents.
• Responsible for documenting and developing business rules for our metrics based on the business needs, financial requirements and processes used to track our work.
• Conducted JAD Sessions/weekly meeting/walkthroughs to monitor the project progress.
• Effectively communicated corporate objectives for BCP/DR to International locations, enabling them to coordinate efforts remotely provide.
• Created, Verified and managed the BCP/DR documents, such as BCP and DR plans, First Responders list, and IT call list.
• Made presentations to senior management to outline our project process and phases whose end result will help them to reduce their cost significantly
• Interacting with other teams through walkthroughs, teleconferences, meetings, etc. to resolve various issues

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearCase, MS Vision, MS Project, Windows 2000