SUMMARY:

• Experience in Waterfall Model, and Agile SCRUM Development
• Experience in facilitating group discussions to elicit requirements in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions by communicating with internal users and stakeholders.
• Solid knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Expertise in working with developers and the QA team to ensure feasibility of requirements. 
• Extensive knowledge of software testing methodologies and quality assurance principles, procedures, and standards.
• Experience in developing business scenarios for testing, and reviews Test Plans with a focus on Functional, System, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance testing
• Experience in maintaining CMMI standard processes.
• Expertise in analyzing business requirements, system requirements and functional requirement specification and develop system plan, test strategies, and test cases.
• Well versed with Relational Databases Management System (RDBMS)
• Experience in Section 508 Compliance testing.
• Experience in creating and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis
• Expertise in conducting Peer Reviews, Technical Reviews, and procedure Walkthroughs.
• Experience in Software Configuration Management/Version Control.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile - Scrum, Waterfall model and V-development model, SDLC

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

CM/Requirement Tools: MS Visio, HP ALM, Quality Center, SharePoint, JIRA

Testing Tools: JIRA, SOAP UI, JAWS, WAVE

Programming Language: SQL, JAVA

Operating System: Windows and Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business Analyst II

Responsibilities:

• Conduct business process evaluations to gain technical knowledge of business requirements.
• Interpret and analyze client business needs, translating them into functional requirements 
• Analyze and identify problems, research alternatives, and implement solutions for defined business processes.
• Act as a liaison and facilitator between customers and the software development team for requirement clarification
• Conducted story selection, sizing and tasking, established high level requirements and translated those comprehensive business requirements into specified functional requirements. 
• Analyze requirements, write user story with acceptance criteria and manage tickets in JIRA. 
• Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements
• Perform backlog grooming in maintaining/updating product backlog
• Gather requirements and prepare Use Cases by interviewing Subject Matter Expert and End-Users.
• Conduct GAP Analysis to understand the deficiency of the existing application.
• Work with the Project Manager in the development of weekly and monthly status reports.
• Involve in planning, prioritization, change management, and close out of the project.
• Assign tasks among development team: Monitored and tracked progress of projects following agile methodology.
• Author Business Requirements Document with project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users and SME’s.
• Interface with business owners and SME’s to finalize Activity Diagrams.
• Work with the Quality Assurance Lead to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Suggest measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance.
• Assist QA team with reviews on Test Cases, test results and reported bugs/issues

Environment: CMMI, JAWS, MS Visio, UML, SharePoint, Oracle, J2EE, SQL, MS Office, HP ALM, JIRA, WAVE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Arrange meetings and workshops to discuss high level requirements and developed User Requirements Specification Document
• Created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows, documented the business process, various business scenarios, and activities
• Documented any issues or defects and got the sign off from the right parties
• Manually verified the validity of the failed test cases.
• Performed Black Box testing on the application
• Performed gap analysis of system rules, system, system process flows, users, and requirements
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications
• Ensured that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines
• Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases
• Performed SQL queries to conduct back-end testing
• Maintained standard documentation to comply with CMMI standards
• Assist in weekly status meetings with development team, QA manager, and created notes for meeting minutes

Environment: Agile, HP ALM, UML, .NET, Quality Center, Oracle, Office, SQL Server, UNIX, MS Visio, JIRA

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Requirement Analyst/ Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted project Manager set up meeting with clients, create meeting minutes and follow up with action items
• Involved majorly in gathering business requirements by reviewing existing artifacts and conducting several requirement elicitation interviews with SMEs and business users
• Worked with the business owner and different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases, and developed functional specifications
• Analyzed the system from both the technical and business perspectives and prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD)
• Created test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and conducted functional testing, system testing, integration testing, performance testing, smoke testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix for reviewing and tracking requirements 
• Conducted gap analysis on the present system and documented the enhancements to meet end requirements of the system
• Actively liaised throughout the project between end users, development team, and QA team to address system issues and identify the appropriate solutions
• Used SQL to conduct data validation, and data analysis
• Perform User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: Quality Center, UML, .NET, Quality Center, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX