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• Coordinated with Project manager in planning the phases of the whole project in accordance to Agile environment.• Gathered and identified business requirements from the business stakeholders and translated them to system specifications.• Conducted Surveys and Brainstorming sessions with SME’s for requirement gathering.• Identified upstream / downstream dependencies and conducted JAD sessions with various teams to discuss and refine the requirements.• Gathered and analyzed business requirements, and wrote BRD, for Joint Policy system modification.• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.• Facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents using Jira that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.• Maintained a RACI Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.• Created Wireframes and State Diagrams to demonstrate software architecture and interaction of system components before prototyping.• Prepared As-is To-be business models Gap Analysis to highlight the Gap and outline the future capabilities of the products.• Bugs that would enhance the usability of the application were logged using Rational ClearQuest.• Contributed in Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective meetings to guide the project along its development process.• Performed a cost-benefit analysis to indicate the benefits from the ongoing consolidation to the future.

United States

• As a Freelance Business Analyst, Analyzed Products, Services and created a report on competitors as well as collated and regulated data.• Worked for the organization’s growth and offered insights on the business decision making process.• Assisted with the business cases.• Developed Plan and monitor strategies.• Elicit requirements and increase awareness.• Understand and succinctly present requirements.• Managed requirements and communication.• Created protocol plans, code reviews, testing, and workflows.• Review test cases, process change requests, and manage a project’s scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.• Created systems for Excel best practices that will be shared with the operational accounting team.• Worked on the Risk Assessment Excel form, helping bridge risk criteria between systems.

United States

• Experienced in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) and Waterfall methodology.• Elicited and gathered high level requirements by conducting stakeholder meetings, interviews and discussions.• Created use cases and activity diagrams using Rational Rose.• Integrated Requisite Pro with Rational ClearQuest and Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintain tractability among requirements, use cases and change requests.• Held regular meetings in the form of RAD sessions with developers, quality testers during the entire project to assure that the critical as well as the minute details of the project were discussed and issues were resolved beforehand.• Created and maintained UML sequence diagrams that will assist in bridging the gap between requirements.• Gathered requirements by interviewing both in-house and external clients and prepared Functional Requirements Documents FRD.• Created Report Mock ups to comply with the report requirements using Balsamiq.• Performed Load Testing on the application using the tool Load Runner and monitored the various statistics at database server side.• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from database for Backend validation.• Used Bugzilla for assigning and raising an application bug.• Experienced in designing, developing and maintaining reports in Tableau Server.• Worked in Liferay Portal to deliver Content and Document management with MS Office integration.• Responsible for project modeling and forecasting and developed project plan in MS Project.