SUMMARY:

• Abstract: Accomplished, Results Oriented Business Analyst with experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including interpreting business needs, developing business requirements, creating plans, writing functional specifications, creating test case, and developing system analysis report.
• Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and business owners in developing and maintaining any complex Applications/Systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile (SCRUM),Waterfall development methodologies

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, MS Office, PowerPoint

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle

Operating System: Windows, Mac

Web Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Applications/Testing Tools: PTS,Microsoft Office Suite, HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management),JIRA, Bugzilla

508 Compliance Tool: JAWS, WAVE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Business Analyst II

Responsibilities:

• Perform requirements gathering from the business users of the system while adhering to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) industry best practices
• Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications.
• Work with the business users and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications
• Interface with end - users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements.
• Report tracked defects with reference to severity and types using HP ALM, and JIRA.
• Involve in Performance testing, Regression testing, System testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.
• Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.
• Conduct surveys, interviews and facilitate Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with the Business Users and SME’s.
• Conduct JAD sessions for communicating with the project leads and stakeholders and proposed process workflows, functional specifications and project initiation parameters.
• Create workflow diagrams to validate the Basic and Alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases.
• Establish and maintain traceability matrix until all the business requirements are signed off.
• Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS SharePoint and HP ALM.
• Capture quality attributes, external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements.
• Prepare project related presentations and provide progress reports to the higher management and stakeholders using MS Office.
• Work with the Quality Assurance lead to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Case
• Suggest measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance
• Interact with computer systems end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements
• Participate in development of Training Materials for the new technology and organizing User Training
• Work with business teams to understand the requirement and needs of the potential customers and the target market.

Environment: MS SharePoint, Visio, HP ALM, JIRA, QTP, JAWS, WAVE, UML, SQL, MS Project, MS Office.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Adopted Agile Process and its best practices as the process product for implementing the project as well as following incremental methodology
• Worked with the business owner, project manager, and technical team to document the product's vision and establish the project scope.
• Elicited information from end users and senior management to display requirements in a format that allows for easy review, approval, and implementation.
• Performed GAP Analysis and interacted with SME’s, project managers, developers and conducted JAD sessions throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Documented Business scripts after understanding the system thoroughly and translating them to the developers to help in corporate the current system features into the future system.
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity and state diagrams.
• Supported software upgrades and installation of projects including facilitation of meetings, tasks scheduling, status, issues, escalations and change management.
• Worked closely with the QA team and Developers to clarify and understand functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback to identify defects.
• Executed GUI testing: tested the screen navigation, graphics and hyperlinks, etc. to ensure requirements are met.
• Participated in the team meetings to discuss issues arising out of the Quality Assurance (QA) testing team and provided appropriate feedback from the requirements perspective.
• Created exceptions report which were then submitted to project lead and stakeholders on a regular basis
• Involved in the design phase of the development
• Worked with the business end users, project and technology management and their staff to identify, define, interpret, and clarify scope of problems/issues in terms of complex business systems

Environment: J2EE, Oracle, Windows, SVN, SharePoint, QuickTest Professional

Software Test/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Requirements, Designed and Executed Test Cases.
• Interacted effectively with peers, management and cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Developed Test Scenarios against Software Requirement Specifications
• Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Met with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update the test documents
• Conducted manual testing on all application.
• Developed Test condition & Test Data to execute the test scripts.
• Coordinated software defect tracking efforts to ensure satisfactory defect resolution.
• Performed verifications on fix and documented status of defects appropriately.
• Provided administrative support involving general administrative responsibilities for the day-to-day operations.
• Performed front end, back end, GUI, Functionality, Security testing on the application.
• Involved in Manual User acceptance testing with various combinations.
• Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Conducted Multi-User, Smoke and System testing.
• Performed Performance Testing to identify abnormalities in the web application.
• Developed test cases based on business and functional requirement.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were created to by the application.
• Monitored the defect tracking process using Quality Center, trouble shooting and generating customized graphs and reports for the client.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Maintaining status reports and communicating with the Management regarding progress of work.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows, TOAD