PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Certified Agile Scrum Master with extensive knowledge of performing Business and Requirements Analysis, JAD (Joint Application Development), and Business Process Modeling in Accounting, Government Grants and Finance Domain.
• Managing Weekly Agile Scrums, monitoring and reporting the progress to Executive Management
• Proficient in UML, extensive experience in Stories, modeling Use Case Model, Functional Decomposition Model, Domain Model using Microsoft and Rational Graphic Tools such as Visio and RSA. 
• Work closely with User Experience team to create user friendly User Interface (UI) based on usability studies.
• Experienced in Document Repository Tools such as Share Point and DocuShare, Rational Tools, HP Tools and Microsoft Tools that are available to manage the Requirements, CRs and DRs, Graphics and Testing.
• Leading the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and obtain buy - in from internal and external customers. Proficient in various testing tools including HP Quick Test Pro, Quality Center and used Oracle SQL to manipulate and define data. Proficient in writing SQL simple queries.
• Substantial experience in writing and executing Test Cases and Test Scripts, mentoring customer's staff, working with overall team to meet project goals.
• Team player, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent communication and team management skills with strong research capability.
• Excellent problem solving, conflict resolution, analytical and presentation skills.
• Fluency in English, Russian, and Turkish languages.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall, Iterative

Business Modeling / UML: MS Visio, MS Project and Rational Software Architect (RSA), Axure

Requirement Management: SharePoint, Rational Requisite Pro, DocuShare, Peer Review Tool (PRT), Rational Team Concert (RTC)

Change Management: Confidential Rational Clear Quest and HP Quality Center (ALM)

Quality Assurance: HP QTP, Oracle (SQL Plus), Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Lead Business Analyst and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team of system analyst (5 members) for the (Designee Management System (DMS) project. 
• As a Lead Business Analyst mentored other BAs in the team
• Proposed and implemented new enhanced ways of gathering and documenting the requirements documents
• Modified the Requirements Management lifecycle to better manage and deliver clear requirements to technical team and End Users
• Trained the team with new approach of Requirements Management
• Managed and ran the JAD Sessions and Requirements Clarifications Meetings
• Created Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Use Case Models and managed them in Wiki Repository
• Generated Mock-ups by using Axure Designing Tool
• Managed the User Stories in JIRA
• Planned the Sprints and managed the Backlog
• Facilitated Pre-UAT Requirements Walkthrough Meetings
• Coordinated the UAT and provided Test Acceptance Report (TAR) to SMEs
• Ran the Daily Stand-Up Meetings and helped the team to remove impediments
• Managed the Retrospective Meetings end of each Sprint

Confidential, Washington, DC

PM and Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team of system analyst (12 members) for the LMCS project. Resulted in functional and system specifications for over 15 operations needed to meet client Loan Management requirements.
• As a Sr. Business Analyst work as a liaison between Accounting, Lending Departments and IT team to understand and gather the functional requirements for Confidential Project of the Confidential focusing on Loan Management Control System Production Support
• Established customized Requirements Management Plan for the project
• Manage the Production Support (Operations and Maintenance) team
• Schedule, manage and run the JAD Sessions and Requirements Gathering Meetings with Government end clients
• Facilitate Requirements Walk Through Meetings with Accounting Department and IT team
• As a Certified Scrum Master plan and assign the weekly sprint tasks, monitor the progress and report the status to Executive Management
• Run the daily stand up meetings to monitor the scope, progress and roadblocks
• Work with Change Management (CM) team and recommend solutions to enhance the Accounting process, Change Request Lifecycle by following SDLC Process Methodology.
• Train the team with new processes of Change Management and Requirements Management.
• Trace all the CRs through Change Request Lifecycle.
• Create Activity Diagrams, Use Case Models, and Entity Relationship Diagrams by using Microsoft Visio.
• Generate Use Case Documentation, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and User Manuals.
• Implement various templates such as SRD Template, Use Case Template, Test Case Template, Meeting Agenda Template, Meeting Minutes Template, Change Request Form Template, User Acceptance Test (UAT) Template
• Reorganize the SharePoint to make more effective for Confidential IT Team to utilize it as a repository.
• Heavily involved on other miscellaneous O&M Production support tasks.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Lead Business and System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an analyst between business stakeholders to understand and gathered all the functional requirements for Confidential EADIS Financial Grand Program that was managed under the DHS.
• Worked in CMMI 3 Level Requirements expectation environment in Waterfall and Agile Lifecycles.
• Scheduled, managed and ran the JAD sessions with Financial Department stakeholders.
• Analyzed the LOEs for every sustainment release, Change Requests and Defect Requests.
• Related the Business Documents to System documents.
• Documented all the requirements in Requisite Pro such as System Description Documents (SDD), Supplementary Specification Documents, Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Use Case and etc.
• Converted the documents from Use Case Model to Functional Decomposition Model.
• Participated in all Requirements Peer Reviews by using Peer Review Tool (PRT).
• Managed all the CRs and DRs in Clear Quest as well as all the documents in Share Point.
• Traced all the CRs to Goals (requirements collected from stakeholders) and Requirement Documents to High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Documents (LLD).
• Created Activity Diagrams, Use Case Models, Domain Models, and Functional Decomposition Models by using RSA and Microsoft Visio.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Business Analyst/ UAT Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a liaison among business stakeholders to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of requirements of SAP Standard Application Benchmarks and recommend solutions that enable the AES to improve its work processes. 
• Responsible for recognizing new processes, finding out breaks in current processes, documenting the change requested by users and coordinating with technical staff to resolve the issues of the Projects in Agile Scrum.
• Participated in meetings with stakeholder and IT management to understand different business process, process plans and functionality in a detail.
• Participated in groundwork of Level of Effort analysis, Project plans High and Low level requirements documentation.
• Provided UAT training to stakeholders, and coordinated the UAT test efforts.
• Performed manual and automation testing by using HP QTP 11.0 and HP QC 11.0.
• Wrote maintainable independent QTP VB scripts, calling a framework of user defined functions to automate assigned test cases from Quality center.

Confidential, Manassas, VA

QA Tester/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications documents to ensure that the system met all of the technical and business requirements of the both projects FSP and Confidential
• Supported 3 Tier testing in the development team, integration-testing environment, and deployment and testing before production.
• Evaluated application features and preparing several Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts for Integration, System, Functional and Regression testing.
• Performed Regression and Integration testing using HP QTP.
• Used Quality Center to develop test cases, test scripts, executing the scripts.
• Worked closely with software developers, business analysts, and other project management personnel involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). 
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using Quality Center.
• Involved in the team meetings with representatives from Development, Database Management, Configuration Management, and Requirements Management to identify and correct defects.

Confidential, Westerville, OH

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plans and Test Procedures for the various functional Modules in the application.
• Involved in writing Manual Test Cases and Test Scripts for checking the functionality of the application.
• Developed, executed and documented manual and automated test scripts to support testing Requirement.
• Developed all the deliverables such as, Software Test Plan (STP), Software Test cases and Procedures (STC&P), Requirement traceability Matrix (RTM) & Test Analysis Report (TAR) and are delivered in time as per the schedule.
• Involved in module testing and integration testing.
• Reviewed Functional Requirement Specifications and Software Design Documents for the application.
• Conducted Smoke, Functional, Regression, and System & Integration testing of the application.
• Tested the GUI of the application comparing to the standards.
• Reported the bugs to Developers through Change Request (CR) using Quality Center.
• Investigated system defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Status Reports: Daily and Weekly Status report updates to the Team Lead, Test Groups and Test Managers to coordinate test cycles.
• Quality Center Site Administration and other activities