SUMMARY

• 9+ years of experience in Software Development in Project Leadership, Business Analysis and Implementation.
• Professional experience as a Business Analyst in Insurance domain with exposure to the Mortgage Insurance industry.
• Sound knowledge of business analysis and project management methodologies.
• Proficient in Object Oriented Analysis (OOA), Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP) and requirement management using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Experience in using UML for creating Use Cases, Activity diagrams, State Machine diagrams using MS - Visio.
• Expertise in gathering and managing requirements and traceability using Requisite Pro and other tools like Word and Excel.
• Experience working in tandem with development and quality assurance teams by providing requirement walkthroughs, reviewing test plans, test cases and tracking defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Experience with comprehensively documenting business requirements such as use cases, business requirement documents, UI specifications, business rule documents and baseline documents for sign off by stakeholders.
• Experience in performing data mapping activities and creating Interface Specification artifacts.
• Proficient with Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources.
• Experience in SMC and Function Point estimation techniques and project scheduling using Gantt chart.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and have experience working on Waterfall and RUP methodologies.
• Good experience in Java, J2EE, DB2, Websphere, Struts, Unix
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills, Leadership, team management abilities and team spirit.
• Experience in managing teams, both at offshore and onshore.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Waterfall
• HTML
• JSP
• Java Script
• XML
• XSL
• Java
• EJB
• DB2
• JSP
• Servlet
• JavaScript
• ANT
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Rational Rose
• WSAD 5.0
• MS Visio
• MS Office
• IBM DB2 Client
• FTP
• WinScp
• Putty
• Websphere 5.0
• Tomcat
• DB2
• J2EE
• Struts 1.0.2 1.1
• LOG4J
• JUnit
• Windows 95/98/2000/NT4.0/XP
• UNIX
• Linux
• DOS
• Solaris
• CVS
• VSS
• JMS
• IBM MQ Series

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Project Lead/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirements gathering and analysis by interfacing with Business Users and Product management team for all the enhancements to the applications.
• Conduct meetings with Business users to elicit the Functional requirements. Document and share the meeting minutes with the stakeholders.
• Create/update Use case Specifications, Activity diagrams, State Machine Diagrams, Business Rule Documents, UI Specifications and other documents for each of the enhancements as required.
• Create/ update Technical requirement documents such as NFR document, System Architecture document as required for each enhancement to the application.
• Responsible for data mapping activities and creating Interface Specification documents for interfaces with other applications.
• Create Business Requirement document for each enhancement and obtain sign off from the stakeholders.
• Maintain the requirements and establish requirements traceability using Requirement Management tool Requisite Pro.
• Provide Requirement walk through to the development, quality assurance and UAT teams and review test plans and test cases.
• Perform unit testing, system testing and integration testing to make sure the requirements are met.
• Perform Effort Estimation, Scoping, Scheduling & resource management for the quarterly releases.
• Track the weekly status of the project and communicate the same to the Product management and IT management on a weekly basis.
• Creating Implementation plan and contingency plan for the production releases.
• Involved in the Application Maintenance and Production Support activities and provide weekly status updates to the business users regarding the support issues.

Confidential, CA

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in re-structuring the requirement documents to suit the current needs of the project. Documents were re-structured to establish better requirement traceability to facilitate better analysis of the frequently impacted modules.
• Worked on Effort Estimation, Scoping, Scheduling & resource management for the enhancements to the application.
• Onsite - offshore co-ordination
• Mentoring the offshore team.
• Involved in Code Review, design and other artifacts..
• Involved in unit and system Testing the newly created and modified programs.
• Involved in project completion activities including Metrics and Closure Report Creation.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst/Designer

Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with business users and gathering requirements for the various enhancements to the application.
• Responsible for creating requirement documents and obtaining sign off from the stakeholders.
• Reverse engineering the application to create structured requirement documents confirming to the UML standards.
• As part of the document structuring process, created Business rule documents, State Machine Diagrams, UI Specification documents and other Technical Specification documents for the application after performing design analysis.
• Established Requirement traceability and Requirement Management process for the application using Requisite Pro.
• Responsible for data mapping activities and creating Interface Specification documents for interfaces with other applications.
• Created FP baseline for the eServicing application.
• Responsible for reviewing test plan and test cases.
• Onsite - offshore co-ordination
• Involved in the creation and review of System Design for the various enhancements to the application.
• Involved in Production deployment plan preparation.
• Involved in the Application Maintenance and Production support activities and provide weekly status updates to the Product management team.
• Responsible for sending the Monthly and Weekly Status report to the IT management team.
• Involved in the Vendor transition activities for the application.

Confidential, CA

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the System Design for the modules in the application using Rational Rose.
• Responsible for Code development and creating Junits to facilitate unit testing.
• Responsible for unit testing, integration and regression testing.
• Deploying application to the development environment
• Onsite - offshore co-ordination
• Involved in Application Maintenance and Production support activities.