SUMMARY

• Over SEVEN years of professional experience on Software & Infrastructure projects, Software systems analysis/design and development. Skilled Sr. Business Analyst & Certified Scrum master.
• Strong knowledge of Agile (Scrum) theory, values, principles and practices.
• As a scrum master - Initiated project plans, own planning meetings, execute project and Integrate multiple project plans, Burn down/ Burn up charts, Kanban dashboard, user stories estimation, Task estimations, Facilitated Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Backlog grooming, Retrospectives.
• Expert on driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Experience in creating and maintaining the Requirements definition documents that include System Requirements, Business requirements and Functional requirements- High Level Design & Application Interface Agreements.
• Extensive experience on Test Plans, Test Strategy documents, Test Cases & Test Scripts based on business requirements, rules, data mapping requirements and system specifications.
• Experience on Functional testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Smoke testing, Integration System Testing (IST/SIT), UAT assistance, Batch Testing.
• Excellent skills in overall Defect Management/Problem Solving, which includes reporting and tracking bugs using HP Quality Center and internal client based tool.
• Working with cross-functional teams, Product Owner, Development, QA, Business, stakeholders, Operations to define requirements, plan timelines and analyze risks.
• Strong Insurance, Telecom & Finance domain knowledge.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Languages: SQL, C, C++, XML, SAS, Java

Business Modeling Tools: Project Management Tools, Requisite Pro, Agile, UML, Rally dev, XML Spy, TOAD, TDP, WinSQL, MATLAB, Polymath, Aspen-HYSYS, Simulink, Visual Basic, Solid Edge, CAE, Stanjan, Learning Management Tools, iRise, Quality Center

Version Control Systems: Rally Dev, p8, Confidential -space, SharePoint, Share Drives, PRISM, RequisitePro, TDP, Wiki

Database: MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Sybase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - St. Louis, Missouri

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies - the sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum, sprint review meeting, and sprint retrospective meeting. Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery. Ensured being on top of Product Burn-up and burn-down charts, Velocity trends, to monitor and measure project success and identify/mitigate impediments during Sprints.
• Creation of Processes & environment segregations from business managed IT functions by access restrictions to have an IT managed & controlled environment leading into more clean, transparent & easy to manage environment.
• Enhanced exiting web services to utilize in new Guide Wire platform.
• Coordinated with the project team and testing team to revise project artifacts (such as use-case specifications, test scripts, and so on) to reflect requirement changes.
• Supported dev team by working as Sr. Business Analyst in Policy Center and Integrations teams while also executing the test cases to reach the iteration goal.
• Created various integration mapping documents for MVR, CLUE, CIS, VERISK, VIN, ISO Locate, SR22/ SR26 for Policy Center configuration.
• Extensively tested various OOTB plugins and end-to-end PC/BC/ CC interfaces.

Confidential - Middletown, New Jersey

Scrum Master/ Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the appropriate planning and development process steps, including the Agile steps of Sprint Planning, Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, backlog management and grooming
• Prioritized the user stories in conjunction with the development team and client and provide clarification and adjustments as needed; managing the backlog of user stories
• Transformation of Business requirements into detail requirements/user stories/epics that can be utilized by the development team
• Worked with the project leads and other application teams to make sure that interfaces and coordinated development aspects are well understood properly planned and sequenced.
• Developed High Level Design Documents, Application Interface Agreement documents, Function Requirement Documents and System Requirement Documents.
• Serve as subject matter expert and real time decision maker regarding product functionality and features
• Subject Matter Expert for 5 applications with Replication, GUI, API’s and DB Modeling.
• Designed API and Web Service request and response architecture for several API’s and Web Services.
• Worked as SME for screen designing in various projects to meet product’s business requirements.
• Provided DB mapping and configuration settings for the UI screens to developer and tester.
• Worked extensively on Oracle database, Sybase and performed various SQL Queries, XML Scripts
• Manual tested UI screens after the development is complete, matched the requirements and reviewed the final designs with end user/ stakeholders.
• Responsible for monitoring UAT testing of UI screens, ETL jobs and API/WS.
• Worked closely with design assurance, data governance, and data analytics team to provide efficient and clean data.
• Monitor and trained clients, sponsor, stakeholders and 3rd party vendors on scrum methodology.

Confidential - New York, NY

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduced Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and walk in interview with the business users to gather requirements.
• Responsible for the requirement-gathering phase and project plan.
• Responsible for requirements analysis, design and developing technical requirements.
• Provide day-to-day end user support including trouble shooting both system and data issues related to the Hyperion Planning / Essbase/DRM applications
• Involved in streamlining and automating procedures and data quality control
• Analyzing data requirements, and automating, through Excel and Access database, as required and this involves reconciliation and analysis of large volumes of inventory data relating to positions in front and back office systems
• Applying experience and knowledge of VBA / SQL to automate projects and ensuring that database output was delivered on a timely and accurate basis
• Acted as aSMEfor the application team and the Infrastructure team.
• Communicating progress of automation and testing through regular status updates
• Constructing detailed procedures and system schema for each database, and ensuring they are communicated to the team
• Assisting with ad hoc projects including controls assessment projects, ad hoc reporting utilizing SSRS and publishing reports to SharePoint site
• Works on Data mapping, logical data modeling and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database tables
• Responsible for Performing Integration and UAT testing.
• Created Use Cases diagram and Activity diagram to depict the interaction between the various actors and the system for Business Use Case and System Use Case.
• Perform functional, exception and scenario testing.
• Logged the errors, reported defects, determined repair priorities and tracked the defects until resolution using Quality Center.
• Developed the business anomalies workarounds and described them in documentation and presented the matter to the upper management for review.

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from stakeholders and ensured material data creation in IMDS are successful.
• Scheduled meetings and performed architectural work for the data analysis.
• In behalf of Customer coordinated with suppliers for material data.
• Analyzed bill of material and drawing for data accuracy.
• Managing Requirements, Test Plans and Test Cases using Spreadsheet and SharePoint portal.
• Maintained the traceability matrix to uniquely trace the identified business requirements of general design to testing as proof that requirements requested have been developed into a solution and tested.
• Performed various types of IT testing that includes performance, regression, integration, system, interface and configuration testing using tools: Win Runner, Quality Center, Toad, SQL Developer, Jira and SharePoint.
• Planning and breaking down tests into multiple actions to design more modular and efficient tests.
• Performing testing of both Positive and Negative scenarios based on business requirements.
• Design and build SQL queries to perform database testing using SQL querying tools: SQL Developer, Toad and WinSQL.
• Preparing weekly status reports and distributing to the leads and other project stakeholders.