Vij Shah

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SUMMARY:

As a Business Analyst I have abilities to work independently, with minimal guidance to understand business objectives and strategies. I fulfilled responsibilities on projects assigned by understanding ‘As Is’ business and analyze system. I was able to manage aggressive project’s schedules to understand business requirements documents, functional requirements documents by conducting project meetings. To teams, provided support and driven requirement discussions with IT Teams and business / product management like subject matter experts and stakeholders and defined system requirements by understanding user interface and customer experience.

With limited years of experience, my forte in communication and approach to team is to manage, work done at the end of day. My abilities to lead the assigned projects with deliverables, within time bound schedules, project status, issues resolution and projects traceability’s until deliverables met expectations.

My strength to remain within project team as key person for any quarries to IT/QA teams or project stakeholders to ensure the business requirements are met and achieved. I do think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and give 2nd thoughts that how to resolve, as job demands multi-task analytical and problem solving skills.

I comfortably to provide feedback by emails, to ensure no gaps requirement during testing phase from developers or QA testers and if any issues, do persistent efforts to resolution during project’s process.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Since 2010, started working as subject matter expert and in4 years of Business Analyst experience, worked in all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies (e.g. Agile)

Experienced in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, brainstorming,

Extensive experience and proficient in user requirements gathering, Use Case design and analysis, Use Case specifications, Business processes, Workflow diagrams, process flows and technical documentation, using UML, MS Visio, MS Office Suite.

Experience in creating and organizing BRD (Business Requirement Document), FRD (Functional Requirement Document), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Change Management Documents.

Interviewing with the researchers groups, IT groups, stakeholders like scientist, marketing managers for products management changes after or before products.

Experience in coordination with QA team activities including development of Test Plans, Test Cases.

Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment and meet stringent deadlines.

Exceptional ability to research, analyze and translate technical information to end-users at all levels.

Experience in query / analysis purposes on various source tables and conditions applied.

Co-coordinating testing activities for maintenance and project assignments identify testing scope and scenarios.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases : MS Access

Methodologies : Agile, UML, RUP (Rational Unified Process), Waterfall

Reporting Tools : Crystal Reports 8.0, Crystal Enterprise

Testing Tools : Clear Quest, Test Suite, Test Director

Presentation Tools : Microsoft Power Point, Visio

Requirements Tools : Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro

Others : MS Office Suite, MS Project

Environment : Windows 8/7/2000

Professional Experience:

GAF Materials Corporation, Wayne, NJ

Business Analyst 2010 – May 2015

Gathered requirements for documentation of research and development projects requirements for use of equipment’s schedules by users and testing operations, and worked on equipment’s technology so that made users friendly.

Understood the current GAF domain process by identifying business rules and defined scope of the new products or products modification after having JAD sessions with research scientists, managers and created technical data documents.

Worked as subject matters experts with research scientists and managers for products changes.

Understood their requirements and presented products changes documents by using structured SDLC approach.

Developed specifications and documents as per define impact for new products changes by using UML methodology and created use case diagrams and sequence diagrams.

Designed use cases and use case models and refined further the requirements through JAD sessions.

Constantly worked on FRD processes. Worked extensively to newer products requirements, documents, and use-case documents by use of various tools like Visio, JIRA etc...

For internal technicians, conducted one-on-one session and group discussions to understand the each users testing requirements for testing protocols with features of equipment’s operation procedures, scheduling on day to day use an made system usage effectively.

Worked with sales and marketing ensuring that demands on priorities were properly rationalized, prioritized, categorized on urgency bases as needed.

Periodically conducted Scrum meetings and took updates from team members during periodically products properties changes. Attended Scrum of Scrum meetings to give User Story status updates. Managed schedules charts to know the routine progress of work on projects.

Responsibly reported on regular base to product’s managers lead on business and technical requirements which interface with the products changes, equipment’s, applications.

As needed created Visio process layouts with necessary swim lanes for IT team.

Conducted functional, regression, integration, and load testing for a Business Support system/ Operational Support system solution for web based system.

When involved with the billing functional area, shipping application and delivery process for products, worked with developers to do shipping and receiving information, including carrier name, tracking info also allowing program for storage location within R&D.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Project, JIRA, UML, Excel,

Education:

Bachelor of Science

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India

Business Analyst from ITM Technology, Edison, NJ

In Progress PMP Certification

Special Training/Certifications

Business Analyst training successfully completed within GAF

STOP Behavioral Safety Program and 5S Organization Methods

Trained by GAF

Operation and Troubleshooting of the Ci4000 Weather-O-meter

Trained by Atlas

Concrete Field Testing Technician – Grade 1

Trained by The American Concrete Institute

Fundamentals of Pressure Sensitive Tapes

Trained by PSTC

Certified EMT and CPR Technician

U.S Citizen since 1997

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