SUMMARY

• Overall 9+ years of experience as an Agile project manager and Business Analyst with excellent knowledge in financial industry.
• Extensive knowledge of different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Rational Unified Process methodology (RUP) and Agile Methodologies - SCRUM, Scaled Agile and Kanban. Also worked in Scrum-Waterfall hybrid environment.
• Project management experience in Planning and Scheduling, manage Change Requests, Issue Escalation, Issue Resolution and Conflict Management, manage Triple Constrains avoiding scope creeps to deliver quality product.
• Created Work and Resource Breakdown structures, responsible for Critical Path Analysis prepared Gantt charts and PERT charts
• Extensive years of experience in Business Process Re-engineering, Business Process Modeling, Historical Data Reports Analysis.
• Demonstrate excellent writing skills to document for Requirements Gathering, Analysis and Documenting and for creating Business/Application requirements document (BRD/ARD), Use-Case Specifications, Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), High level and Low level documents (HLD/LLD).
• Organized and facilitated Requirements Gathering Sessions (Prototyping, Interviews, Brainstorming and JAD sessions) with End-users, Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and Stakeholders in order to document decisions regarding future state of business processes.
• High expertise in tracing requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence to Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). Thereby, proven success in Eliciting Requirement, As-Is and To-Be Analysis, GAP Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Assessment, and SWOT Analysis.
• Well acquainted with writing Workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) Diagrams including Use Cases, Activity Charts, Sequence diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams and ER Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS-Visio thus assisting the development team in preparing Business Process Model.
• Facilitated Sprint Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming) for each sprint in Agile Scrum Methodology as Scrum Master.
• Proficient in writing User Stories and handling the Requirements Churn. Efficient at performing, Prioritizing and Efficiency Analyzing Techniques such as Planning Poker, MoSCoW, Relative Sizing and T-Shirt Sizing.
• Good knowledge of creating SQL Queries to create Data Mapping and Data Warehousing. Excellent knowledge of Entity Relationships and User Administration. Worked on Data Migration using Informatica.
• Collaborated in various types of testing Like Functional (Black-Box) Testing, End-to-End Testing, Regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Accompanied with expertise in developing Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Procedures in manual and automated test environments.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools, MS Access, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint.
• Personal skills - Result oriented and hardworking working. Excellent business skills, analytical, communication, presentation, management, written skill, problem-solving, interpersonal and negotiation skills with Application Architects, Subject Matter Experts, business users as well as senior executives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile- Scrum, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall Scrum Hybrid.

Tools: HP Quality Center, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Rational Rose, Business Objects, Wireframes, Mock-Up Screens, Balsamiq Mockups, Tableau, IBM Cognos 10, UML, Spotfire 6.5, HP Qlikview, MS SharePoint ( ), Informatica Power center 9.2, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS.

Databases: MYSQL, Microsoft SQL (2008, 2012, R2), Oracle 10g.

Visualization Tools: MS Visio, Rational ROSE.

Domains: Real Estate, E-commerce, finance, Banking, general business.

ETL Tools: Informatica, SSIS, Teradata

Methodology Tools: HP PPM, JIRA, Version ONE

Testing Tools: HPQC, Load Runner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Long Island, New York

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created Statement of work (SOW) for vendors was responsible for Project budget allocation and onboarding resources.
• Responsible for project planning and management functions like project timelines, SWOT analysis, R.O.I analysis, advised business units on risks & Cost-Benefit analysis, scheduling, timely release objectives.
• Created Project Initiation Document (PID), Application Requirement Document (ARD), and Functional/Nonfunctional Requirement Document (FRD/NFR), planned project deliverables by setting milestones with the team.
• Successfully managed scope & requirements throughout the project life cycle without any scope creep.
• Maintained a risk register to follow up with potential risks and proactively handling risks to prevent issues.
• Listen to business users and sponsor’s expectations, on project deliverables with managing efficient stakeholder communication and implemented effective systems of project governance.
• Coached agile scrum frame work compared with traditional waterfall methodology to the development team to ease the transition from SDLC to Scrum.
• Facilitated all the Scrum Ceremonies with enforcing time boxing also tracked team velocity and sprint progress using Sprint burn down chart and Product burn down chart in excel.
• Supported the scrum development team by resolving impediments to maintain high level of performance.
• Experience and knowledge in using Business Intelligence tool, TABLEAU and Used SharePoint for content management and document management.
• Responsible Impact Analysis, Feasibility Study, Cost-Benefit Analysis and ROI calculation in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks to the system.
• Logged and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center. Created an error repository and managed the testing process with the QA team.
• Assisted the team with test cases and test plans and tracked them to user stories with the help of a Requirement Traceability Matrix. Was responsible for handling requirement churn.
• Assisted the team to integrate risk module Wed Service to the application by studying the WSDL from the web service provider.
• Assessed business priorities, and advised business units on risks and Cost-Benefit analysis.

Environment: Waterfall SDLC, Agile Scrum and hybrid Methodologies

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created proposals and Project Budget Allocations and also worked on Project Charter.
• Responsible for project planning and management functions like project timelines, SWOT analysis, R.O.I analysis, advised business units on risks & Cost-Benefit analysis, scheduling, timely release objectives.
• Created Project Initiation Document (PID), Business Requirement Document (BRD), and Functional Requirement Document (FRD), planned project deliverables by setting milestones with the team.
• Successfully managed scope & requirements throughout the project life cycle without any scope creep.
• Assisted the product owner in managing business users and sponsor’s expectations on project deliverables with managing stakeholder communication and implemented effective systems of project governance.
• Coached agile scrum frame work compared with traditional waterfall methodology to the development team.
• Developed good knowledge of Investment Banking, Fixed income, Risk Control, Derivatives, hedging, Derivatives and Swaps (Options, Futures, Forwards), Currency Swaps, Risk Identification, money market, Financial Instruments, Equity swaps, Brokerage, Asset Allocation, Bond, VaR (Value at Risk), Duration, Credit Risk and Market Risk and the CAPM Model.
• Facilitated all the Scrum Ceremonies with enforcing time boxing also tracked team velocity and sprint progress using Sprint burn down chart and Product burn down chart.
• Supported the scrum development team by resolving impediments to maintain high level of performance.
• Experience and knowledge in using Business Intelligence tool, TABLEAU and Used SharePoint for content management and document management.
• Did Impact Analysis, Feasibility Study, Cost-Benefit Analysis and ROI calculation in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks to the system.
• Used Spotfire Professional 2007 and 2013 for creating dashboards and visualization.
• Logged and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center. Created an error repository and managed the testing process with the QA team.
• Assisted the team with test cases and test plans and tracked them to user stories with the help of a Requirement Traceability Matrix. Was responsible for handling requirement churn.
• Good knowledge on SQL queries basics and comparing tables.
• Assisted the team to integrate risk module Wed Service to the application by studying the WSDL from the web service provider.
• Assessed business priorities, and advised business units on risks and Cost-Benefit analysis.

Environment: Scrum-Waterfall hybrid MethodologyTools: Version One, SharePoint (2010), Tableau, Microsoft Office, MS SQL server 2012, HPQC, ETL Informatica, WSDL, SDLC, MS Visio, MS Project, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, TFS, ASP.Net, Visual Studio 2013, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular JavaScript, HTML, Ajax.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Gap Analysis to define the current and future business requirements for the new functionalities.
• Conducted JAD sessions, document analysis and one-on-one interviews with the stakeholders for the requirements elicitation.
• Prepared Business requirement Document (BRD) & System Requirement Specification (SRS), System Design Document (SDS), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) to provide details of each business & functional requirement, development & implementation plan of these requirements & timelines.
• Created the Business Process Modeling Diagrams and UML diagrams such as sequence, Activity and Use Case Diagrams for proper visualization using MS Visio.
• Worked with the Design, Development and Implementation (DD&I) Team to communicate business policy, process, and functional needs.
• Coordinated and ensured that subject matter experts are engaged appropriately and timely.
• Created and provided validation rules to developers for client-side validation and server-side validation.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for tracing the test cases back to the requirements, ensuring requirements are met in all the phases of the project.
• Helped the QA team to develop Test Plans and Test Cases also assisted Blackbox, Regression and User Acceptance Testing, and Defect Management and Report Generation with using HP QC.
• Used JIRA for allotting task and Issue tracking, User Story Management and Requirement Traceability.
• Designed Data Models and conducted Normalization and De-normalization of data to fit OLTP AND OLAP frameworks respectively. Slicing and dicing of data marts for analytical decision making support.
• Extensive Experience in Creating Repository, Source, Target Databases for Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) using Informatica.

Environment: Waterfall Methodology HP-PPM, SharePoint (2010),MS SQL version 2012 Microsoft Office, HP QC, ETL Informatica, SDLC, MS Visio, MS Project, Java script, Java Query, Ajax, SSRS, TFS.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

IT Project Manager/scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Performed the Gap Analysis to define the current and future business requirements for the new functionalities by analyzing As-Is/To-Be states.
• Conducted JAD sessions and one-on-one interviews with the stakeholders for the requirements elicitation.
• Created System Requirement Specification (SRS) document to describe all data, functional and behavioral requirements of the system.
• Created the Mock-up Screens and Wireframes for an overview of GUI and UML Diagrams such as Sequence, Activity and Use Case Diagrams using MS Visio for proper visualization.
• Documented User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for the PSPI (Potentially Shippable Product Increment).
• Used SharePoint for content management and document management.
• Used JIRA for allotting task and Issue Tracking, user story management and requirement traceability.
• Worked with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and regression testing.
• Facilitated all the scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming).
• Enforced Time-Boxing and resolved Impediments faced by scrum team.
• Tracked Team Velocity and Sprint Progress using Sprint Burndown Chart and Product Burndown Chart.
• Performed Data Mapping based on special business requirements.
• Collected feedback from the various stakeholders and product owner during sprint review meeting.
• Assisted estimation of effort and PBI prioritization using MOSCOW, Relative sizing and T-shirt sizing Techniques.
• Resolved impediments faced by scrum team Resolving Impediments in order to maintain high productivity level in the team.
• Did Impact Analysis, Feasibility Study, Cost-Benefit Analysis and ROI calculation in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks to the system.
• Used JIRA for allotting task and issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability.

Environment: Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid JIRA, SharePoint (2010), Microsoft Office, HPQC, ETL Informatica, SDLC, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Gap analysis for ‘As-in’ and To-be of the process to identify and validate requirements.
• Participating Interviews and JAD sessions with SME’s and multiple teams for requirement gathering.
• Analyzed the gathered requirement and reviewed Business Requirement Document (BRD)/Functional Specification Document (FSD). Created System requirement Specification (SRS) document to describe all data, functional and behavioral requirement of the system.
• Created the Mock-up screens and Wireframes for an overview of GUI also created UML diagrams such as sequence, activity and use case diagrams using MS Visio for proper visualization.
• Used SharePoint for content management and document management.
• Wrote Use Case and built Use Case Diagram and Activity Diagram using MS Visio.
• Worked with QA team for designingTest Plan and Test Casesfor UAT and Regression Testing.

Environment: Waterfall SDLC Wireframe, SQL Server, MS Visio, GAP Analysis, HP QC, UAT Testing, SharePoint, Web Service, UML, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Cognos.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Project Initiation Document (PID) and was responsible for analyzing Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Assessment and SWOT analysis.
• Gathered project requirements, using techniques such as: JAD, Document Analysis, Interface Analysis, Interviews, Requirements Workshops, and Interviews.
• Conducted GAP analyses by understanding the AS-IS business process and TO-BE business process.
• Wrote Business Rule pertaining to shipping functionality.
• Developed Functional specification document (FSD) and interface requirements document.
• Was also directly reporting to Program Manager by submitting weekly reports of project’s progress.
• Responsible for creating Use-cases, Use-case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Responsible for handling Change request and conducting impact analysis.

Environment: Mock-up screens, Wireframes, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Visio), Data Warehouse, and UML Diagrams.

Confidential

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements by various techniques such as JAD sessions and Interviews.
• Conducted GAP Analysis by studying 'AS IS' and 'TO BE' state of the solution.
• Assisted creating Business Requirement Document (BRD)/Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Prepared Business Process Flows, UMLs, and Flowcharts using MS Visio.
• Wrote Use Case and built Use Case Diagram/ Activity Diagram using MS Visio.
• Worked in Waterfall as System Development life cycle (SDLC).
• Used Share point for content management and document management.

Environment: waterfall methodology MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, Share point, Windows.