SUMMARY

• Business Analyst (System Functional Analyst) with 4 years of experience in business process analysis/modeling, business requirements gathering, database design and development of Web Based, and Client/Server applications.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts of the Agile Methodology to strategize the Implementation effort in different iterations and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Practical knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall, Spiral, ASAP and Agile.
• Through understanding of software development methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and documenting business requirements and system functional specifications including Use Cases, Data and GAP Analysis.
• Worked with Rational Suite of tools to create requirements documents (Requisite Pro), visual data models (Rose), manage and track defects (Clear Quest).
• Expert in Software Development Life Cycle, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) and Agile Methodology. Experience in Joint application development (JAD) Sessions, Live Meetings and Interviews.
• Knowledge and experience all areas of project life cycle in a highly structured change management environment using both proprietary methodologies, Agile Techniques and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Experience in Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Derivative Systems (IRD).
• Served as a subject matter expect (SME) for development regarding evaluation workflow and understanding of Capital Market.
• Proficient in using Unified Modeling Language (UML) for Business Process Modeling, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, and document them using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with strong attention to detail. Flexible to new challenges and adaptable to changes.
• Deals with variety of services ranging from Checking, Savings, Home loans, Investment and Insurances, e - Commerce, Credit Cards, Private Client Services, Brokerage and Private Equity.
• Highly innovative, result-oriented and quick learner. Excellent team player and strong management skills.
• Strong Experience in conducting Manual Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases.
• Experience in working with QA team to develop the Test plans, Test scenarios, Test procedures, and Test cases to ensure adequate testing of software both before and after completion.
• Expert in conducting GAP analysis, UAT, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, and ROI analysis.
• Experience in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Rapid application development (RAD) sessions, conducting user interviews and acting as a liaison between the customers, development team and testing team.
• Writing development stories and acceptance criteria using collaboration tool JIRA.
• Experienced in OMS, FIX, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Cloud Computing, SSIS, SOA, UML, OOAD, RDBMS, SQL, UNIX, Data Warehouse, AWS, Azure, and .Net application environments.
• Involved in training of end users and Documenting Training Manuals.
• Focused troubleshooter and a team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work cohesively with developers, other team members, and testers.
• Worked closely with the relevant business partners and personnel to collect, define and document detailed business requirements into a business requirements document.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, RUP, UML, SDLC, Scrum, V-shape modeling

Change Management Tools: Quality center, Rational Clear Quest, Confluence, JIRA, share point

Business Modeling Tools: iRise, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, Visual Paradigm

Analysis Tools: MS Excel, MS Access, Tableau, MS Power BI, Alteryx

Project Management: Rational Requisite Pro, SharePoint

Programming Languages: C#, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, SOAP, REST, ASP.NET, DevOps

Databases: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, DB2, Teradata

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings with clients to gather application requirements and converted it into requirement document. Created project plans to be used by development team.
• Defined the business need based on the business goals and objectives, and defined the solution scope based on the assumptions & constraints, dependencies and business needs.
• Modeled cash flows for securitized transactions containing wide variety of underlying asset classes. Responsible for creating proprietary Excel-based models to calculate bond waterfalls and interest coverage ratios, and several other portfolio criteria.
• Work in an agile-scrum environment where documentation, attention to detail, and team collaboration is required. Significant project management experience and high attention to detail.
• Excellent knowledge of the Agile / Scrum and Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Life Circle (SDLC).
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Created test scenarios and developed test plans to be used in testing the business applications in order to verify that client requirements are incorporated in to the system design
• Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations.
• Analyzed and documented the business requirements and generated reports for the Manager.
• Wrote the software development plan and held meetings with the developers and forwarded Information and documents to them.
• Performed business analysis, requirement specifications, project planning and identifying the resources and implementation of the project.
• Created UAT/QA test plans, strong manual, functional, system and regression testing in an agile development environment.
• Developed flow diagrams for Business process of the company, UI Wireframes and Mockups using Microsoft Visio.
• Well-grounded real time work experience in both the agile and waterfall project environment.
• Served as a business process expert/point of contact within the agile project team.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and worked with team to identify gaps and defects.
• UsedAEMtool for designing the checkout components and for better management of the data.
• Used MS Visio to create High level scenario diagram describing Access group’s internal Loan Servicing System, use cases, business cases and system process diagram etc.
• Captured detailed BRD/FRD for Rational Suite Upgrade & conducted testing: SIT/UAT: Test-Plan development/Test-Cases development/Test-Data creation using Quality Center.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum methodology for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshops with the entire project team.
• Convened, organized weekly status meetings to provide the progress made in the various work streams as well as critical path errors encountered.
• Used MS Visio to develop system process flow diagram to indicate the different types of member qualification methods.
• Worked with Scrum Masters (Agile), Product Owners, and Scrum team members to ensure success of Programs, Releases and Sprints.
• Participated in reviewing test requirements & Use Cases, reviewing test design documents.
• Analyzed, prioritized and managed the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues and participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues and participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements.
• Provided support and in some cases the primary contact for customers and developers for requirements throughout the development cycle.
• Customer Workshops and training throughout the development cycle when required