Business Analyst Resume

Title
Business Analyst

Primary Skills
Business Analyst/Project Coordinator

Location
US-PA-Pittsburgh (will consider relocating)

Posted
Jun-12-09

Professional Summary:

• Around 4 years of experience in Business Analysis, Software Analysis & Design, Development, Testing, Training, Implementation and Documentation, Project Coordination
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication/facilitation skills and an ability to interact with individuals at all levels with exceptional skills in forming and facilitating Interviews, Joint Application Development (JAD), Focus Groups and Rapid Application Development (RAD)
• Experienced with Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Rational Clear Case
• Excellent Business Analysis skills and extensive experience in Requirements gathering, SDLC and writing Functional Specifications, Use Case Requirements, Test Plans and full life cycle development using Rational Rose and SEI -- CMM methodologies.
• Experience in gathering, analyzing, documenting, and communication of business and system requirements
• Involved in reviewing the documents
• Engaged in Tibco EMS,BW, Administrator, Iprocess Suite, Adapters
• In-depth understanding of Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• Experience in facilitating and leading multidisciplinary teams along with hands on expertise in Process identification, Project Management, direct customer interaction and leadership responsibilities
• Created various reports using Crystal Reports, Active Reports, Data Reports, and MS Access
• Experienced in training, and mentoring team members with product knowledge and business processes
• Facilitation of User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing
• Worked primarily in the domain of Document and Content Management for the Business Continuity Project -- Ameriprise Financial. My technological forte is Java, Servlets, JavaScript, HTML, Structured Query Language, and XML
• Experience with Entity Relationship Modeling (ERWIN)
• Worked in the domain of Mortgage Banking & Financial Solutions
• Creating and Communicating the work estimates
• Excellent team player with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

Professional Skills:

Languages : C
OOP Languages : C, C++, HTML, Oracle 8.0, Core Java, J2EE-Servlets, JSP,
JDBC, XML, ERL
Methodology : OOAD, UML, E/R design-techniques and methodology, RUP, Use cases
RDBMS : Oracle 8i/9i, MS SQL Server 2000, SQL, PL/SQL Basics
Packages : Erwin Data Modeler, Sybase Power Designer Data Modeler, MS
Outlook, Outlook Express, MS Project 2003, Lotus Notes 6.5
Defect Tracking Tools : Rational Clear Quest
Documentation/
Management Tools : Epic Editor 4.3.1, Expere Mapping Tool, MS-Windows XP, Microsoft
Excel 5.0, MS-Word, Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Altova XML Spy, Microsoft
Power Point, Windows Share Point Services
Testing Tools : Mercury Test Director, Load Runner, Win runner, Quick Test Pro
Image Processing : Fireworks MX, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Microsoft PhotoDraw v2
Database and
Reporting Tools : MS Access 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
Source code Control : MS Visual SourceSafe 6.0, Merant Version Manager
Web Tools : Macromedia Dream weaver MX, Flash MX, MS Front Page, Edit Plus 2,
Java Script, CSS, DHTML
IDE Tools : Rational Rose, Clear Case, Requisite Pro, MS Visio2003.
Operating Systems : Windows95/98/00/XP/NT, MS-DOS, Windows Server 2003, Windows
Vista
Web Servers : Microsoft IIS 6.0, Jakarta Tomcat Server


Honors:

Certificate of Acknowledgement for Outstanding Performance by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.


Professional Experience:

Prithvi Information Solutions April 2008 -- Present
Role: Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
• Gathered Business Requirements, interacted with the users, designers and developers, project manager and SMEs to get a better understanding of the Business Processes, and analyzed and optimized the process.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document and then converted business requirements into Functional
Requirements Specifications and Technical Specifications using Rational RequisitePro.
• Identified Use Cases from the requirements. Created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams/State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams and Deployment Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), ER Diagrams and Web Page Mock-Ups using Rational Rose and MS Visio and thus defining the Business Process Model and Data Process Model.
• Integrated Rational RequisitePro with Rational Rose, Clear Quest and Clear Case to provide the visibility to the teams and maintain tractability among Requirements, Use Cases, Change Requests and Configuration Changes.
• Developed Project Status Metrics for weekly evaluation of Project Status and analyzed the impact of the open issues and Change Request on the Project Plan.
• Identified and documented Issues, Risks and Gaps and their descriptions and impact, and provided recommendations and alternatives. Analyzed the Gaps for Training purposes.
• Performed user acceptance testing, system testing, integration testing and build verification testing.
• Developed functional testing and regression testing using Rational Robot.
• Developed and implemented automated test scripts using Rational Robot.
• Acted as a liaison with business executives to gather all relevant details about requirements.
• Provided training to the end users and gave presentations periodically to the management
• Managed the Microsoft Share Point portal for project related documents in a large corporate environment and ensured effective communication among onsite and offshore resources.
• Experience in creating Tasks, Sites, InfoPath forms that can be used to easily create XML forms to meet each business-specific need using SharePoint Portal Services
• Designed and published rich client forms using InfoPath 2007 and form libraries.



TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) Jan 2007- Apr 2008

Client: Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (Minneapolis, MN)
Oct 2007 -- Apr 2008
Role: Business Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Converted VMP Mortgage Static and Dynamic documents into XML (ERL) documents
• Regenerated PDFs from XML documents reducing cost of building, testing and maintaining
Expere Documents.
• Annotation of documents for code development
• Code development using ERL
• Checking for the completeness and validity of the code using Epic Editor 4.3.1, XML Spy
• Testing the code in XIETS by generating PDF documents.
• Manually performed Regression and Functional Testing.
• Make test cases and test the code.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Development of the documents both static and Dynamic in the LOB Consumer Direct.
• Allocation and Co-ordination of Work among team members.
• Support the Quality Lead with the development of metrics.
• Conducting Training sessions for technologies related to the project.
• Creation and updating of project timelines.
• Conducting project status meetings.
• Coordinating and assisting the project manager and the team.
• Taking the minutes of meeting.
• Responsible for the DRG team.
• Creation of the DRG Templates.
• Preparation of the DRG Documents.
• Experience in Data Dictionary and Output Rules.
• Generation of the Change Request Forms and Schema Request Templates.
• Responsible for testing the DRG's with Xpath Checker.

Environment: ERL, XML, JAVA 1.5, XML Spy, Epic Editor 4.3.1, Adobe Acrobat 6.0, XIETS, Windows XP, Pentium.

Client: Ameriprise Financial (Minneapolis, MN) Jul 2007- Sept 2007
Role: Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:
• Involved in generating Test cases and Test Scenarios
• Performed UAT,Regression,Functional Testing
• Developing defect metrics and Status Reports
• Involved in reviewing and verifying the defects.
• Conduct effective meetings related to defects
• Deriving test cases and Test Scenarios w.r.t requirement documents (BSAR, BSDR).
• Preparation of the daily status reports
• Part of the team responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of the business solution.
Developed and conducted project related presentations

Client: ABN-AMRO (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Apr 2007 -- June 2007
Role: Business Process Analyst

Worked as a Business Process Analyst for ABN AMRO, a financial service company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance.


Responsibilities:
• Acted as a liaison between the business, developments teams
• Provided solutions for selecting, assembling, and managing compliance documents
• Part of the team responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of the business solution.
• Developed and conducted project related presentations.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts and End Users.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document and converted it into Functional Requirements Specification for development team's perusal.
• Conducted walk through sessions for the validation and sign off of the prepared documents with business and technology stakeholders.
• In money market accounts like mortgage accounts implemented Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies to design Context Diagram, Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagram and ER using tools like MS Visio. This helped in the definition of the business process model and Data Process Model.
• Experienced in Mortgage Banking.
• Analyzed the current credit card application process to identify the main causes of delays. Worked with the Cross Functional teams to determine appropriate action plan and provided suggestions for improvement.
• Worked with the business to select the appropriate technology for bridging the front end applications to the legacy systems.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to maintain and track the stakeholders requested enhancements and changes.
• Used Share Point as a Change Request (CR) management and communication tool and also as a working document repository.
• Conducting Training sessions for technologies related to the project.
• Conducting project status meetings.
• Creating and Communicating the work estimates
• Experience in working both in a stand-alone environment as well as a team-environment.

Data Integration/Migration Project Jan 2007 -- Mar 2007
Role: Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:
• Worked at different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with business users, developers, and stakeholders.
• Involved in JAD sessions with Business Analysts, Subject Matter Experts and End Users.
• Responsible for creating the Data Requirement Document (DRD). This helped the development team as well as the analyst to successfully create a data model which would satisfy the business needs.
• Proposed additions to the functional requirements so that the business requirements were satisfied.
• Identified Use Case from business requirements for the Address Validation Service. Created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Used Rational Clear Quest, to communicate, maintain and track the Stakeholders requested enhancements, changes and manage defects.
• Use Rational Unified Process while developing Finance Data Store (FDS). Created the logical data model of FDS, performed SQL queries on the new SOR.
• Interacted with DQ analyst to achieve data profiling for the system being developed.
• Data mapping of legacy data and Consumer Credit Group (CCG) to the new SOR. The Data Analysis helped in reducing data redundancy, identification of actual business requirements.
• Involved in the design process where Data Flow Documents (DFD's) for each line of business were drafted to achieve the task of data integration. The DFD was in adherence to the data quality requirements.


Professional Internships:

Uttara Information Solutions
Role: Jr. Business Analyst (Intern) Jul 2006 -- Dec 2006

• Enterprise Analysis and Making a Business Case
• Involved in Requirements Planning
• Involved in Requirements Planning and Management
• Worked on Eliciting Requirements
• Analyzing Requirements using models
• Validating Requirements
• Communicating and Implementing Requirements
• Refining and Documenting Requirements
• Hands on experience in Web Sphere Portal, ERP, and CRM
• Developed and conducted project related presentations.

RNS Institute of Technology
Implementing FAT File systems in C July 2005 - June 2006
Role: Team Leader
Description:
Implemented the file system for the USB drive. On reading the Boot Sector of the USB drive and decoding it, we used it to calculate the FAT table offset, Root Directory offset and Data area offset. The FAT file system used is found by calculating the number of clusters. All basic operations like File reading file listing and File deleting was provided.

Responsibilities:
• Co-ordinating and Organizing the Team in a better way to complete the project in a successful manner
• Conducted Training sessions for technologies related to the project.
• Involved in generating Test cases and Test Scenarios.
• Developed and conducted project related presentations.

Education:

B.E: Information Science and Engineering from R.N.S Institute of Technology, India.

Certifications
Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding performance


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