SUMMARY:

• A competent, result oriented MBA graduate wif almost eight years of experience in Business Analysis, Consulting, Testing and Solutions practice
• Experience in both Waterfall model and Agile Methodology (Scrum) including Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in eCommerce and BFSI domains.
• Possessing knowledge of basic industry lexicon and high level functional process flows in teh relevant vertical / sub vertical in BFSI domain and eCommerce.
• Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills wif demonstrated abilities in team leadership and management.
• Communicate and interact wif various stakeholders including Product Owners, Client, Development, Testing & End Users
• Handling cross functional, multi - disciplinary onsite/offshore teams for various programs.
• Identifying all teh list of stakeholders dat includes users, clients, and technical.
• Requirements gathering techniques for waterfall and agile methodologies include - Conduct interviews and discussions wif users, document business processes, workflows wif activity diagrams and wireframes
• Elicitation Skills include Stakeholder analysis, Interviewing, Observation, Document Studies, Task Demonstration, Brainstorming, Conducting Workshops and Domain-Requirements Analysis.
• Conduct GAP Analysis and prepare teh BRD and FRD documents covering functional, nonfunctional and system requirements.
• Agile requirements elicitation in teh form of Epics, User Stories & Acceptance Criteria.
• Modeling system requirements - Identify user goals, events, use cases, use case scenarios,
• Experience in both Waterfall model and Agile Methodology (Scrum) including Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
• Interact wif product owner, gather requirements and create user stories
• Responsible in quality control activities to ensure dat teh solution delivered to stakeholders meets teh business need(s) for which teh project was undertaken, 'verify' and 'validate' teh requirements (part of teh requirements review activity) as well as 'validate' teh solution

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ISTQB Foundation Testing certification Rally
• HP ALM - Test Management Tool
• Gherkin - Behavior Driven Development
• VSS, SVN, Sharepoint - Version Control
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015
• IBM Rational Requisite Pro - Requirement Management Tool
• Target Process MS Office Suite - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano,TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identify teh requirements by conducting JAD sessions wif various stakeholders
• Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria
• Interact wif teh UI team to develop teh supporting wireframes for teh requirements.
• Groom teh user stories wif teh development team.
• Support teh development and testing team in timely and quality delivery.
• Perform User Acceptance Testing to Validate teh expected results

Confidential, Addison,TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identify teh Risks & Fraud associated to underwriting a short term loan and create detailed Business Requirement documents.
• Co-ordinate wif teh Business team and Product Manager to quickly assimilate teh reasons for high approval rate of applications and work on teh rules governing teh changes.
• Break down teh features into Agile elements, Users Stories & Acceptance Criteria.
• Understand teh Rules Engine and teh decisioning methodology.
• Create detailed process flows using M.S.Visio to pictorially represent teh functional flow of requirements.
• Groom teh stories wif teh Development & QA team and help estimation and delivery timelines.
• Work wif teh scrum master on delivery of stories

Confidential

eCommerce Product Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate wif teh Product Owner to discuss roadmap and requirements.
• Define teh features and initiatives along wif teh Product Owner on teh requirements gathered.
• Break down teh features into Agile elements Epics, Users Stories & Acceptance Criteria.
• Groom teh stories wif teh delivery team and help estimation and delivery timelines.
• Work wif teh scrum master on delivery of stories
• Conduct discussions wif teh User Interface Architects to solution wireframes for teh requirement
• Work closely wif teh Techno Functional Architects to solution teh technical impacts.
• Demo delivered functionalities to subject matter experts and cross functional teams
• Perform User Acceptance Testing to ensure quality of delivered requirement.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Closely work wif teh business team and teh product owner to gather requirements on various enhancements/functionalities to be implemented.
• Create detailed process flows and high level requirement documents.
• Break teh requirements into epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Detail various scenarios into teh GivenWhenThen format.
• Validate teh user stories and groom them wif teh technical team conducting planning sessions.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• TEMPEffectively interfacing wif teh Onsite team in understanding teh project requirements and Conduct Gap Analysis to evaluate & develop customized product solutions as per agreed business definitions.
• Wifin Agile context, wrote user stories and defined acceptance criteria. Presented user stories to agile team for understanding and sizing.
• Performed a BA-QA role in validating teh test coverage, analyzing teh test strategy, test scenarios and review of test cases.
• Conducting domain training in Core Banking to all teh members of teh team.

Confidential

Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif teh marketing team and made joint presentations to teh prospective clients. Worked wif teh prospective clients to understand their business challenges and to build value propositions to meet teh same.
• Classify teh requirements as Global requirement, Regional requirement or as Bank specific requirement based on primary and secondary research. Understand, analyze and validate teh requirements received from teh clients.
• Performed GAP Analysis and drafted teh solution document, mapping customer requirement to functional solutions
• Drafting Functional requirement and Business requirement specifications for new features built into teh product.
• Developed use case diagrams and Functional flows of teh application using MS Visio.
• Provide inputs for product roadmap for Retail Liability module.
• Perform User Acceptance testing
• Handled US Regulatory and Reporting requirements for Retail Banking, CASA, Clearing and Term Deposits

Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• TEMPEffectively interfacing wif teh Onsite team in understanding teh project requirements and Conduct Gap Analysis to evaluate & develop customized product solutions as per agreed business definitions.
• Involve in defining project scope and high-level design by Documenting teh Functional Specifications after analyzing teh GAPS between teh Clients Requirement & teh Base product.
• FS Requirements presentation and explanation to development and Testing Team regarding teh functional domain plus technical, banking related concepts under teh enhancement and incorporation of any value additions / technical changes.
• Review of test plan & Providing Business Scenarios to teh testing team to ensure dat teh requirements are covered in teh Test Plan.
• Coordinating teh Onsite team & Offshore team during teh SDLC. Assisting teh Onsite implementation team during teh UAT. Extend post-implementation functional support to teh client.
• Played a pivotal role in teh preparation and review of User Manuals and Training material liaising wif teh documentation Team on various Banking Domains involved in teh particular bank release enhancement.

Quality Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepare teh overall Test Plan providing milestones and estimates for teh project.
• Create teh test cases, map teh test cases to requirements and incorporate review comments
• Update teh traceability matrix ensuring test coverage following test case requirement mapping.
• Execute functional test cases and raise defects.
• Participated in teh FS Presentations & Provided review comments to ensure teh requirements are met in teh document.
• Computing Costs: Calculating teh fixed and variable costs (like common area costs, tax, insurance, etc ) of leased commercial properties.
• JD Edwards: Worked on teh Service Billing module of JD Edwards to arrive Confidential expense reporting .