• 9+ years of professional experience in IT industry; having 6+ years of Business Analysis and 3 years of Software Development experience
• Sound knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) principles.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication and presentation skills.
• Hands on experience of requirement elicitation, analysis and management.
• Hands on experience with designing mock-ups, functional Prototyping, conducting workshops with stakeholders.
• Good knowledge and experience of working in Waterfall, Iterative and Agile methodologies.
• Hands on experience of analyzing RFP/RFQ and preparing their response.
• Have knowledge of Auto, Property, Liability & Mortgage insurance, Healthcare and Hydrological domains.
• Good knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and developing web-applications.
Project: Pinnacle Foods applications (Oct 2017 – Present)
Worked as an Off-site Consultant with a role of Business Analyst for US based company named Pinnacle Foods. The objective is to develop various small-medium well-integrated applications for the client using SharePoint Application development. Responsibilities include:
• Work directly under the onsite Project Manager of the client to get the directions on tasks.
• Analyze, document the requirements received from onsite.
• Coordinate with Onsite consultants and the client as per US timings.
• Unit test the developed application, document User Guide and make its wiki pages in SharePoint.
Project: IBM Integration Bus Implementation for SEFAM (Jul 2017 – Oct 2017)
Worked as an Onsite Consultant for an IBM Integration Bus project whose objective was to integrate their three major applications/products namely: RetailPro, Supply Chain Management and SAP. Responsibilities included:
• Get the requirements and understanding from stakeholders, suggest solution
• Document teh requirements details
• Liaison with off-site development team to demonstrate the complete requirements and understanding.
Project: Development of WRMIS & DSS for Pakistan Irrigation Department (Mar 2015 – Jun 2017)
Worked as an Onsite Consultant with a role of Business Analyst Team Lead for a World Bank sponsored project. The goal of the project was to establish a fully automated secured Web and Android based application for MIS/GIS system, integrated with hydrological-models. Responsibilities included:
• Guide and mentor Business Analysis team and review their tasks.
• Liaison with stakeholders, suggest improvements
• Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Analysis and Requirements Management
• Conduct sessions, Documentation & Review Functional Requirements and User Guides
• Successfully conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of the d
Worked as a Business Analyst for Projects namely: 'Automation of Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters (PCIW), Lahore' & 'Development of National Flood Protection Plan-IV and Related studies to enhance capacity building of Federal Flood Commission'. The purpose of these projects was to establish a fully automated secured Web based intranet for MIS/GIS system in order to process, store & retrieve, transmit required data and report as per requirements of client.
• Liaison with external & internal stakeholders to Understand business process, Identify areas for improvements and Capture High Level business requirements.
• Develop High Level Functional & Non-Functional Requirements.
• Gather & Analyze detailed requirements from all the stakeholders through interviews, brainstorming and prototyping.
• Develop Functional Prototype of proposed application based on detailed requirements.
• Conduct workshops with stakeholders to finalize the requirements.
• Documentation of Functional Detailed Requirements Specifications.
• Prepare project related presentations and reports: Inception, Interim & Mid-term Report
• Analyze Request for Proposal (RFP) and coordinate with other relevant departments for the preparation of its response.
• Prepare Technical & Financial responses to RFPs
• Attend Technical Proposal Presentations & Pre-bid meeting for preparing responses of RFPs .
Worked as a Business Analyst for Radian - US based project on Mortgage insurance domain, using Agile software development method.
• Understand & Analyze business requirements and suggest areas of improvement considering the domain of Property and Liability insurance, Auto Insurance, Mortgage Insurance and Claims handling principles and practices.
• Communicate with international insurance consultants to design requirements as per base application.
• Document & Review specifications and maintain them on SharePoint and Track tasks on VersionOne (for sprint tracking).
• Design & Present mockups to consultants and solution architects to finalize functional requirements.
• Configuration of large scale enterprise applications and incorporate client’s business requirements in the application.
• Set-up user accounts, roles and permissions. Group and assemble data changes for migration and release.
• Deliver demo of application to consultants and off-shore clients.
• Participate in meetings to raise business change request as per requirements and resolve critical defects & issues.
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on configuration tool and Insurer Application.
• Responsible for the delivery of full life cycle development, from specifications to design, analysis and development on small to mid-size projects. Involved in planning, scheduling and estimation of tasks.
• Development of web-applications:
o ‘RateUrFav’: rating a favorite hotel, university, hospital based on the rating factors. The front-end was developed using Html, JavaScript, Ajax, Flex, ActionScript; the middle layer used Php and XML services; back-end data access layer used MySql.
o Community portal for dispersed localized communities: developed using Html, JavaScript, Ajax and Google APIs.
• Design and development of different modules of Health care application.
• Requirement analysis of Software Change Request.
• Prototype development of the functionality and getting its approval from client.
• Attend meetings with Analysts, QA for the discussion of affected areas of Change.
• Planning and estimation of development related tasks.
• Software implementation on a J2EE application architecture, with its front-end (JSP, JavaScript, Ajax, Html) Middle channel services (XML services, Servlets) and Backend Data access layer using Oracle.
• Involved in writing SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures.