SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, where responsibilities included implementing on - site business analysis, requirements management, Business Rules and data analysis for application development.
• Business Rules Mining / Harvesting / Business Rules Management System (IBM ODM)
• Identifying & Documenting Processes ('As-Is' and 'To-Be') and Unified Modeling Language (UML) incl. Use Case Diagrams.
• Experience in Full life cycle Implementation Projects through the phases of requirement gathering, Business Rules analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization, and Testing.
• Proven skills in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Business process documents, user manuals.
• Experience in carrying out projects through all the phases of SDLC lifecycle using Agile.
• Extensive experience writing functional and technical specifications and Unit Test Plans, End User Training. Experience in Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance and End-To-End Testing.
• Strong experience in documenting existing process, analyzing business requirements, reengineering business processes and designing
• Experienced in MS Access, MS Excel, Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and MS Word.
• Skilled in planning, budgeting, and financial analysis.
• Effective communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills
• Expertise in working with databases and analysis applications.

AREAS OF EXPERTS

• Business Analysis
• Business Rules Discovery / Analysis
• Process Analysis
• Communications
• Compliance
• BRMS
• Identifying Business Processes
• UML
• Risk Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, O’Fallen, MO

Sr Business Rules Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Business requirements, worked with business to gather requirements and created functional specifications.
• Responsible for Discovering, Analyzing, Authoring and testing the business rules from applications along with facilitating meetings for rules gathering and analysis.
• Worked on defining business rules for handling the business processes and validations of business requirements with the business teams and application teams.
• Worked with scrum master to identify the tasks assigned and list out any implications to complete the tasks following agile methodology.
• At the daily Standup Meeting, gave status related to all User Stories that were assigned.
• Documenting business requirements/ business rules, use cases.
• Responsible to maintain both historical and current documentation of sprints and their respective business rule artifacts using IBM ODM Decision center.
• Responsible for refinement of business requirements related to business rules based on client needs.
• Harvested/Authored the decision rules in Business/Enterprise console and managed extensive business rules repository.
• Utilized Business console to create test case scenarios for UAT and Regression testing for validation of the rules.
• Prepared Test Plans for each release, written Test Cases and executed them as part of Functional Testing.
• Analyzing ongoing projects and presenting reports on possibility of starting with a new contracts.
• Responsible to keep a track of the revenue and expense reports.
• After sprint, involved in sprint retrospectives to analyze sprint successes and failures and to develop a lessons learned document.

Environment: IBM ODM, Decision Center, MS Office, SQL Server, Agile

Confidential - Waukesha, Wisconsin

Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team and Business Users to gather Requirements, analyzed the business processes and feasibility of the needs.
• Communicated and worked with offshore resources and made decisions with minimal supervision
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System Users that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Understood the application from functionality and domain perspective and percolate the knowledge with other project team members.
• Responsible for the business requirements, rules of the users with regards to enhancing the features of the application and documenting the same that required project management, loans and risk products knowledge.
• Designated as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the users with regards to business needs, changes and enhancements in the application
• Participated in UAT and follow-ups with testing and development teams for defect resolutions.
• Worked closely with the UI team to ensure that the product has consistent look and feel over the entire application platform.
• Worked according to the set budget and contributing in finishing projects within the time.
• Assured that there is compliance between the requirement and the final product.

Environment: MS Office, SQL Server, Visio, Agile

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Business Rules Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on defining business rules for handling the business processes and validations of business requirements with the business teams and modelN application teams.
• Responsible for Discovering, analyzing the business rules from internal excel sheets, modelN application (Quoting system)
• Facilitated meetings, JAD sessions with business users, SMEs and development teams for rules gathering and analysis.
• During Rule Discovery identified decisions in the business process, talk to policy managers, business users, look into modelN application and patterned the rules.
• Documenting business requirements/ business rules, use cases and creating roadmaps and business vision documents including business process models.
• Coordinated with multiple teams to document business processes for the rules mining/harvesting rules.
• Designed a model to facilitate high-quality outcome of projects.
• Responsible for the development, review and refinement of business requirements related to business rules based on client needs.
• Responsible for authoring the rules in Business/Enterprise console and perform UAT generating the test case scenarios for the validation of the rules.
• Responsible to maintain the documents surrounding business rule configuration & business rule artifacts using IBM ODM Decision Center.
• Participated and monitored in IT meetings for enhanced comprehension of subject matter and clarification of business rules to effectively document within the business rules management system.

Environment: MS Office, SQL Server, IBM ODM, Decision Center.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Scrum Master to Identify and involve all key stakeholders, contributors, business, operations and technical resources that must participate in a project and ensure to complete assigned tasks of the project plan.
• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions for communicating and managing expectations of customers were going to be the final users of the product.
• Participated in the JAD sessions and documented the business rules with the Business users
• Created separate User Stories for the User Interface and User-Experience requirements based on the Technical Specification Document.
• Participated in presenting mock-ups and screen flows to Business for the feedback.
• Updated the Scrum team Backlog whenever a new User Story was identified for a sprint.
• Participated in the daily Standup Meeting to give status related to the tasks assigned.
• Setup meetings with Business to get details and questions answered related to the User Stories.
• Created User Stories to communicate and illustrate Business requirements to the project team.
• Handled requirements churn by communicating changes as and when they came to developers and testers.
• Validated test case scenarios created by the tester.
• Setup meetings with Business to show the results of UAT towards the end of each sprint.
• After sprint, involved in sprint retrospectives to emphasize on the lessons learnt.

Environment: MS Office, SQL Server, Visio

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Project Manager with executing project objectives, including follow-up reports.
• Worked with the business, operations and technical resources to participate in the project for the contribution to the project.
• Organized and setup process customer meeting sessions to define application scope and performed gap analysis to overcome any roadblocks.
• Monitored client expectations through client involvement and communication throughout the life cycle of the project and worked closely with the development team to communicate the client requirements
• Communicated and worked with offshore resources and made decisions.
• Responsible for various deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle. Also worked closely with the testers and resolved their queries as and when arrived.
• Presented BRDs (Business Requirement Documents) to document the business needs.
• Created FRDs (Functional Requirement Document) with detailed mock-ups for the requirements selected for the release.

Environment: Visio, MS Office, SQL Server, UML