OBJECTIVE

• To leverage my competencies by bringing strong background in planning and monitoring high budget projects, eliciting project requirements and transforming the business into IT.

SUMMARY

• Experience in Healthcare and Retail domain with over 7.5+ years of experience
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) aspects including gathering Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development, Deployment and Testing.
• Expertise in Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, and post - production support and maintenance of various applications.
• Expert in tracking and managing requirements through Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM).
• Possess excellent Business writing skills in creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use-Case Specifications, Functional Specification Document (FSD), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), and Test case scenarios and reports.
• Worked closely with Project stakeholders, SME's, Technical Architect and staff to understand the requirements and analyzing specifications for new product along with modification of the existing product.
• Lead, analyzed and synthesized results from Joint Application Development (JAD) session, proposed alternative tasks and transform those into Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Developed User stories by creating mockups, wireframes, use case diagram.
• Proficient in creating Wireframes, Prototypes and mock-ups by using Balsamiq, MS Word and Visio.
• Expert at interacting with stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and end-users to understand, analyze, communicate and validate requirements using Joint Application Design (JAD), Joint Application Review (JAR) sessions.
• Experience in defining business processes, identifying risks, performing Gap Analysis, Feasibility Analysis and Impact analysis.
• Performing as a Servant Leader in facilitating Scrum ceremonies.
• Working as Scrum Master & deployed the SCRUM method of Agile Software Development to manage the maintenance and development of product.
• Organized and managed the team structure needed to produce software using SCRUM
• Effectively Facilitate communication between team members in all phases of project development by ensuring all disciplines are kept abreast of action items, feedback, next steps, client communications/conference reports, project developments/status and direction
• Effectively facilitate JAD sessions, group discussions and decision-making processes with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements.
• Experienced in documenting Operational and Business Requirements, User's Guide, Change management documentation, Development team documentation & Use cases.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Leading Sprint Retrospective meeting by taking into consideration suggestions about different ways to improve the product and processes.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Expert level skills in MS Word, Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Table), MS Project, MS Outlook, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, SDLC,SCRUM, & RUP.

Microsoft Office: Project, Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Access, & VISIO.

Analysis tools: Advanced Excel and SQL

Languages: SQL

Databases: SQL Server

Project Management tools: MS Project, Jira Wireframes, mock-ups and prototyping with the help of Balsamiq, Visio, and MS Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Scrum Master/ Sr Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved throughout the SDLC, which includes gathering requirements, preparing specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizing Agile methodology
• Elicited requirements using interviews, documents analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints
• Created wireframes, Use Case Document, Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Flow Charts in MS Visio
• Created Prototyping in Balsamiq tool. Helping team to understand user stories in a better way.
• Broke down and detailed high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements suitable for use by development team.
• Conducted functional walkthrough, UAT sessions, and supervised the development of the user manuals for the customers
• Conducted gap analysis to implement requirements for the existing systems
• Conducted JAD sessions to refine prototypes and prioritize use cases with SMEs, users and other business managers
• Managed JIRA Board to define and track progress of User stories in Product back log and involved in reviewing, prioritizing & estimation to approval and move to release.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups)
• Effectively worked with product owner and team to track team's progress, including Burndown, Velocity, and Release Forecasting.
• Encourage and facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owner and team on Backlog Refinement/Grooming to keep Product Backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
• Experience in estimating, identifying projects risks, constraints and dependencies, root cause analysis, impact analysis, conflict management and managing improvement initiatives from inception to completion.
• Leading Sprint Retrospective by ensuring action items are recorded in product backlog, progress is made in next sprint and help team to move towards real-time triple loop learning.
• Provide visibility to team about impediments/risks and helps eliminate them.
• Supported the Product Owners and assisted with various activities including communicating updates and impediments as well as assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance.
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release capacity and progress, user story sizing/risk analysis to all affected teams and management
• Proficient in using Planning pocker and other tools for story sizing and estimation.
• Documented changes, evaluated priority list on-going basis, updated backlogs and created stories for subsequent sprints
• Break down high level business requirements and filter them down to an appropriate level of business rules and detailed user, functional and non-functional requirements and write user stories based on the use cases.
• Generated Test Cases for each specification in Requirement Specification Document corresponding to each module.
• Developed training user guide and provided training to end-users.

Environment: Windows 7, MS-Excel, SQL Server, Microsoft office, MS Visio, Balsamiq mock up, Jira, confluence.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements, Functional & Nonfunctional requirements by interacting with the internal team, stakeholders, development team, Project Manager and SMEs to have a better idea about the project.
• Identified and analyzed business needs using techniques such as JAD Sessions, Document Analysis, Interface analysis, Requirements Workshops and Interviews with SMEs and stakeholders
• Prioritized the development of missing tools and content in the existing framework by performing the GAP Analysis for documenting the gap between the existing system and the TO-BE System.
• Mapped out timelines, milestones, communication processes, Q&A sessions, MS Excel based query tracking. Communicated with business and other functional stakeholders for all JAD sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards.
• Identified & documented Software Requirements Specification (SRS) by using UML, created Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagram and Dataflow Diagrams with the use of Enterprise Architect.
• Proficient in creating Prototyping in Balsamiq software.
• Performed GAP analysis and responsible for finding out breaks in current process, suggesting new process. Created a well-defined As Is and To Be process for both project roadmaps as well as for final deployment.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on the scope and plan for the project.
• Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix and assisted in creating and reviewing test plan & test cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Created document which kept track of Internal/External business rules that project would have to follow due to new regulations, developed quality procedures documentation adhering business rules.
• Performed Risk analysis of existing strategies and carry out Cost Benefit analysis based on that.
• Experience in extensive sales figure analysis from data mapping to converting the same into final business strategy.
• Prepared custom reports and performed SQL query, data analysis and verification on MS Access.
• Prepared the UAT Test scripts and uploaded into HP Quality Center.
• Performed as a scrum master & managing a team with various cross portfolio Scrums Leads
• Addressing issues rose by the team and worked quickly to remove the impediments and conducted retrospective at the end of the 3-Week SPRINT cycle to help identify what went well in the current SPRINT and what could have been done better.
• Facilitated daily standups, Release Planning, Monthly Reviews meetings, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings and followed up on action items for continuous improvement