Uzma Javed
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PROFILE
Business Analyst/ Business System Analyst with five plus experience in various industries including financial, government solutions, and healthcare industries. Expertise in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including analysis, design, development, testing and release. Coordinate and leadership roles in defining concise documentation including product requirements/user stories, acceptance criteria, best practices documentation, and lead large or complicated business systems projects and/or tasks.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Strong skills in creating Business Requirements Document, Functional Specifications Document, System Requirements Document, Use Cases and User Story Specifications.
Strong analytic ability in solving complex issues.
Excellent team player to work in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and testing of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of quality standards of projects.
Resourceful in solving complex problems. Striving to ensure that issues are resolved to the (stakeholder) satisfaction.
Proficient at creating test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and executing functional testing, system testing, integration testing, performance testing, smoke testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing.
Able to think abstractly and learn new technology quickly.
Experience in CMMI standards.
Knowledge of HIPPA regulation.
Able to understand business strategy and translate into specific details.
Solid understanding of the software development process and methodologies.
Strong oral, business and technical writing skills that allow for facilitation of meetings, presentations and requirements gathering sessions.
TECHNICAL
SKILLS
EDUCATION
Business Modeling Tools/Requirement Management Tools: MS Visio, HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA
508 Compliance Tools: JAWS, WAVE
Databases: SQL Server, Oracle
Operating System: Windows, UNIX
Languages: JAVA, SQL
EXPERIENCES
B.A., Economics, University of Karachi
CSRA, Mclean, VA 06/2016- Present
Sr. Business Analyst
Elicit customer requirements using techniques such as interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, use cases, business analysis, and workflow analysis.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and developers to understand the customer needs and translate that into requirements/ User Story
Develop and gain cross-functional alignment on detailed functional requirements based off of the business requirements
Create user flow and flow/web sequence diagrams to support business workflows.
Conduct Kickoff meetings with business owners, stakeholders as part of the requirements gathering process.
Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced and retired applications
Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify the scope of the project and to prepare a Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications.
Ensure that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
Work with project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.
Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with business owners, business system owners, the development team, the testing team, and process control.
Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.
Create workflow diagrams to validate the Basic and Alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases.
Perform task decomposition using HP ALM and JIRA
Participate in the development of training materials for new technology and organizing User Training.
Environment: SharePoint, Visio, HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, JAVA, SVN, Windows
JP Morgan Chase - Falls Church, VA. 08/2014 – 06/2016
Business System Analyst
Prepared Business Requirement Documents and communicated with clients for sign-offs or changes to the document
Performed Gap Analysis of existing system to identify drawbacks, bottlenecks and improvements
Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity and state diagrams
Supported software upgrades and installation of projects including; facilitation of meetings, task scheduling, status, issues, escalations and change management
Worked closely with the QA team and Developers to clarify and understand functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback to identify defects
Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for back end testing
Proactively communicated with development team regarding the status and potential impacts on the delivery date and/or expected quality of the tasks and/or the projects
Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-functional team on issues and decisions
Participated in peer reviews of functional specifications, application previews, and test plans/test cases
Developed test cases for section 508 compliance testing
Coordinated with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status
Extensively performed functional testing and end-to-end testing
Performed maintenance testing for clients that needed changes in Production Environment
Prepared daily and weekly status reports by summarizing activities on the project
Environment: MS Visio, Quality Center, JIRA, Oracle, Windows, SQL, .Net
CareFirst, Washington, DC 04/2012-08/2014
Requirement Analyst/ QA Tester
Reviewed requirements and provide feedback on quality of the requirements
Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM)
Involved in understanding of functionality and design of different applications based on the Requirement Specification Document
Captured test cases and test results in Quality Center
Involved in day to day SCRUM in an Agile environment meeting with team providing the day to day updates on the testing schedules
Investigated software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and reporting the bugs to all concerned
Worked with SQL queries for database integrity and data validation
Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis
Actively participated in review meetings and walkthroughs and prepared the defect progress reports during defect meetings
Environment: JAVA, SharePoint, Quality Center, SQL Server, MS Office