Sr Business Analyst

SANTHOSH R

SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with *+ years of experience in end-to-end software development life cycle using Waterfall and Agile methodologies

• Active member of Scrum Alliance and IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis)

• Experience in Business Analysis, System Analysis, Data Analysis and Quality analysis with extensive experience in business products, operations and information technology

• Planning the business analysis effort, Effective stakeholder analysis and communication management approaches

• Expert knowledge in generating - Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Class Diagrams and State Chart Diagrams.

• Proficient in the analysis, design, and re-engineering of system applications using established system analysis, business and system process design, Implementation of methodologies.

• Excellent skills in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) for eliciting functional requirements that support the High Level business requirements and documenting process flows.

• Expert in Tracking and Managing the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) that controls numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a project.

• Participating in Sprint planning sessions, Scrum meetings, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings

• Leading the team to ensure timely delivery of the product with minimal or no rejection criteria

• Working with business users to define business requirements taking user stories, prioritizing product backlogs by analyzing user points and business value.

• Good practices of user story writing using INVEST and SMART principles

• Facilitating JAR and JAD sessions with SMEs’ and development team and to provide accurate statement of system requirements and a better understanding of common goals.

• Able to work with multiple projects of high complexity and various stakeholders simultaneously with little guidance.

• Effectively handling sign off process with stakeholders at different levels and executing good conflict resolution approaches.

• Demonstrated ability to remain flexible, unfazed and on-track in an environment of tight deadlines and high expectations.

• Excellent communication skills, leadership and management abilities and an effective team player

SUMMARY OF SKILL-SET

SDLC Methodologies Waterfall, Agile (Scrum)

Modeling Tools UML, MS Visio, Erwin, Power Designer, TFS, Balsamiq, Mockingbird

Reporting Tools Business Objects, JIRA, Crystal Reports, MS Office Suite

QA Tools Quality Center, Test Director, QTP, Bugzilla, Clear Quest

CRM Tools Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 2011

Languages SQL, HTML, XML, UML, ASP, JSP

Databases & OS MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g, DB2,

BA Tools/ repositories: Rally Dev, JIRA, TFS, Sharepoint site

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