OBJECTIVE:

To secure a position that will enable me to maximize my experience in Business Analysis, technical knowledge, communication skills and superior knowledge of the SDLC and AGILE methodologies to help your organization effectively deliver projects on schedule and within budget.

SUMMARY:

• 10 years of business analysis, requirements gathering and documentation, design documentation, and consulting experience
• Worked on projects for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Labor (DOL) Department of Transportation (DOT) and other agencies.
• Professional Scrum Master
• Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC, Agile/Scrum and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Proficient in functional testing, regression testing and integration testing
• Extensive experience with tools such as JIRA, DOORS, IBM Rational JAZZ, HP Quality Center, SharePoint
• Experienced in writing test scripts, test cases and use cases, creating workflow diagrams and creating design mockups knowledge of the Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Motivated self - starter with excellent analytical, communication, decision making and organization skills. Proficient at juggling multiple tasks in high-pressured environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft SharePoint
• MS Project 2003 - 2012
• Microsoft Office Professional Suite (Outlook
• Word
• Excel
• Visio
• PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Professional (Outlook
• InfoPath
• Word
• Excel
• Visio
• PowerPoint)
• HP Quality Center
• IBM Rational JAZZ
• Toad for SQL
• JIRA
• DOORS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Leading requirements gathering sessions with the stakeholders to identify, capture and document requirements
• Scrum Master for agile scrum projects. Served as the Scrum Master, facilitating the daily stand ups, Sprint planning and retrospective meetings.
• Facilitated requirements definitions and validation workshop with project stakeholders
• Working with software developers to identify and define solutions
• Writing system test cases, test plans and test scripts and test application fixes and enhancements
• Perform functional testing, regression testing and other testing as needed.
• Creating wireframes and mockups

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements/user stories from meetings with CMS stakeholders
• Participated in sprint planning meetings, the daily stand-ups, sprint review, sprint retrospective and working with project stakeholders
• Utilized JIRA for capturing requirements and user stories
• Worked with the user experience teams to facilitate wireframe creation
• Worked with the development team to ensure that requirements are met and assisted with system testing

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Served as a Scrum Master to facilitate JAD sessions, user story/requirements gathering meetings, sprint planning meetings and the daily stand-ups under the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Standard Scrum.
• Led teams of analysts and developers through the project lifecycle.
• Created wireframes for the projects utilizing various tools like Axure share, Infopath and Visio
• Created test plans which included a testing schedule, and led the daily execution of Functional, Interoperability, Performance, Integration and 508 testing.
• Performed functional testing during the sprints, documented and reported defects.
• Planned and assisted in UAT and completed defect resolution.
• Created and updated help documentation for an in-tool help module.
• Created release notes and other required deliverables.
• Utilized IBM Jazz and also JIRA for capturing requirements and user stories

Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Responsibilities:

• Performed initial research, requirements gathering and facilitated design sessions with the architects, developers, the creative experience team and the business unit for the two-factor authentication project.
• Served as the agile scrum master, capturing and developing user stories and facilitating the daily stand-ups.
• Created requirements and design documentation, performed testing and assisted in deployment.
• Created wireframes using InfoPath as well as Axure Share
• Led a team of analysts through the lifecycle of the projects.
• Worked on implement a Common login and user experience for various Confidential websites as well as working on various enhancements to Confidential Consultant and Investor websites, aimed at adding new features, redesigning current experiences and developing new functionality.
• Utilized JIRA for capturing requirements and user stories

Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Led requirements gathering meetings with the business owners to capture user stories.
• Facilitated the daily stand-ups, sprint planning and Sprint sessions.
• Decomposed high-level requirements into user stories for the product backlog.
• Held meetings with the development team in order to create story point estimates for the user stories as well as sprint task list.
• Documented the user stories, task list and test script for the user acceptance criteria.
• Worked on Scrum related documents in preparation for the start of the Sprint.
• Utilized IBM Jazz for capturing requirements and user stories

Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements using interviews with CMS business owners, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases and workflow analysis.
• Served as a Scrum Master to facilitate the daily stand-ups, sprint planning and Sprint sessions.
• Wrote user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Worked with the developers to remove impediments and blockers to scrum activities
• Created business process models, test scripts and data dictionaries.
• Decomposed high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements.
• Worked on prioritizing requirements to meet stakeholder needs
• Created and maintained requirements specifications according to standard templates.
• Led requirements analysis and verification to ensure that requirement statements are complete, consistent and that they follow the standards.
• Participated and led peer reviews of work products resulting from requirements specifications to ensure that the requirements were correctly interpreted
• Utilized JIRA for capturing requirements and user stories

Business Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the several modules within the Health Plan Management System (HPMS) project
• Conducted requirement review meetings to elicit requirements, worked on requirements documentation and design documentation
• Led requirements gathering/definition meetings with senior level business users.
• Served as the agile scrum master, capturing and developing user stories and facilitating the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives.
• Work with the testing leads to analyze test cases and to map test cases to requirements to provide support for the translation, validation, and verification of program capabilities
• Performed functional testing as well as regression testing
• Wrote test scripts and created workflow diagrams and Business Process Models
• Conducted daily design meetings with developers during design phases to ensure the highest level of quality before release to production
• Interact with high-ranking government officials and stakeholders
• Utilized IBM Jazz for capturing requirements and user stories

Business Analyst

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Performed testing of a pre-configured Financial Management System to ensure the highest level of quality before implementation.
• Led requirements gathering meetings with senior level business users.
• Worked on the Pre-configured software that included the integration of Oracle Financials E-Business suite, Federal Procurement Desktop, 170 Systems Markview and Informatica.
• Created workflow diagrams and Business Process Models
• Generated test scripts, test scenarios, use case and workflows that covered various modules in NCFMS
• Trained the U.S Department of Labor Users in the Atlanta, New York and Boston Regions on the new NCFMS system.
• Provided on-site support for Department of Labor users in the Atlanta region after NCFMS production release.
• Providing on-site support to users in the Department of Labor National office in Washington D.C. after NCFMS production release
• Worked with development team to investigate and resolve defects and other production issues
• Utilized JIRA for capturing requirements

Business Analyst

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from meetings with end users
• Performed functional testing as well as regression testing
• Provided support to end users using web CoStar applications
• Performed testing on CoStar web applications
• Researched and analyzed real estate market data against market competition
• Providing end users at Costar research department with proactive guidance on using the product
• Utilized JIRA for capturing requirements