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• Carry out impact and stakeholder analyses, employing effective techniques to engage stakeholders and enhance outcomes in business analysis.• Provide guidance to cross-functional teams on methodologies for business analysis and process improvement, fostering problem-solving and clarity within current processes.• Translate product requirements into comprehensive, accurate business, functional, and non-functional specifications through active listening and skilled communication.• Analyze business processes from their current (As-Is) to future (To-Be) states, encompassing planning, documentation, and validation of detailed requirements.• Manage business process mapping and analysis using MS Visio, facilitating stakeholder comprehension of project objectives through visual representations.• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify issues in existing solutions and processes, conducting thorough analysis, and recommending improvements.• Direct QA teams in crafting test plans, converting requirements and use cases into robust test scenarios for user acceptance testing (UAT), enhancing test coverage, and minimizing defects.• Lead refinement of business needs, prioritize requirements, and facilitate stakeholder analysis, elicitation, and analysis using various techniques to achieve desired outcomes.• Conduct thorough analyses of processes and gaps, evaluate existing functionalities across business processes, and provide guidance to executive management accordingly.• Lead the coordination and implementation of change initiatives across diverse functional teams.

• Developed templates for project development documents in adherence to SDLC methodology.• Conducted various sessions, including brainstorming, prototyping, and workshops with end-users and businesses to elicit and gather requirements, obtaining sign-off from stakeholders for priority assignments.• Segregated gathered business requirements into functional and non-functional categories.• Translated business requirements into Use Cases and crafted various UML diagrams, such as Use Case diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.• Applied meticulous attention to detail to perform thorough analyses, capturing existing processes and creating state diagrams for future state presentations, facilitating work sessions to enhance process mapping documents.• Produced diagrams representing "As Is" and "To Be" states for workflows, business rules, and other process flow diagrams using MS Visio.• Employed Gap analysis techniques to assess current technologies, identifying enhancements required to meet business needs in the end state.• Analyzed and prepared business impact documents, determining regulatory or system changes, and identifying change management and training requirements.• Designed data flow models, performed data modeling and workflow analyses supporting database architecture, and conducted functional decomposition by breaking down requirements.• Collaborated closely with the QA team, contributing to the design of test plans and test cases to ensure the final application design meets user requirements as specified in the Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done. Participated in Business Design reviews and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and APIs testing in the QA environment.• Defined user acceptance test plans and created test case scenarios specifically to guide a key set of end-users on testing the user interface design and functionality of the application.

• Utilized appropriate elicitation techniques to gather information and identify stakeholder requirements.• Provided project assessment and coordinated for successful project implementation, collaborating with the Project Management Office and Business Development Department.• Fostered and maintained relationships and communication among stakeholders and cross-functional teams, facilitating prompt conflict and issue resolution while enhancing process analysis and solution outcomes.• Documented Business Requirements, Use Cases, Software Requirement Specifications, and Functional specifications for clients' application releases.• Prepared process and data models, utilizing MS Visio to create workflow, Use Case, and other BPMN Language (BPMN 2.0) based diagrams for a payment Reporting software.• Developed and documented test plan documents in collaboration with the QA team for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and System Integration Testing (SIT), generating test cases from business use cases and documenting test scripts.• Conducted strategy analysis, prepared business cases, elicited requirements from stakeholders using appropriate facilitation techniques, prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Statements of Work (SOWs), managed scope and requirement conflicts, achieving project objectives within project constraints.• Conducted Requirement gathering to define the scope of projects focused on systems integration for new enhancements and upgrades.