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                                                Elin Qureshi

                        309 Foxton Pl                                                                                        Fredericksburg, VA 22001

qureshi_elin@hotmail.com

540-898-9876(H) – 540-604-1230 (cell)

              US Citizen

Active DOD Top Secret Clearance

    

Career Objective:  A position as Sr. Business Analyst

Summary: Over 10 years of experience in System development life cycle (SDLC), system analysis, requirements development and management, technical documentation, and software testing/QA. Well experienced in using different life cycle methodologies and effectively applying to projects to maximize the success outcome. Experienced in software project planning, and implementation. Experienced in leading technical teams through different life cycle phases. Hands on experience in JAD sessions with all level of users. Experienced in business process re-engineering, Req. Pro, DOORS, and Caliber. Experienced in interacting with executives, government agencies, clients, senior staff and general end users. Strong analytical, leadership and problem solving skills. Experienced in various DoD systems, for example, logistic support, acquisition system, DoD financial system etc. Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills. Proficient in relational databases (design and development), web-based applications, MS Visio, Project Schedule and RUP.
     

Professional Experience:

DHA Group, Inc. (Full Time position)                                                   October 2010 - Present

Crystal City, VA

End Client: Department of Justice

Technical Environment:    Data Warehousing, Req Pro, Share Point Service 3.0, ASP .Net 3.0, MS Project 2010, MS Visio, MS Office 2010

Sr. Business System Analyst

Main responsibilities include:

·   Conduct requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, end-users, and other focus groups

·   Translated user requirements into system/functional requirements

·   Analyze and write technical data specifications

·   Compare and clean data redundancies from different data sources

·   Review, and recommend new data sets for DOJs internal applications

·   Analyze the existing data sets and propose the new data elements for database improvement

·   Provide status reports to client on regular basis

·   Draw current business process in order to pin point areas of improvement

·   Prepare Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Document

·   Create activity diagrams to capture the current process flow

·   Meet with the development team on regular basis to outline and draw requirements for coding purpose

·   Participate in the design review to make sure that it meets the requirements

 

Battelle Corp. (Consulting Position)                                                       Feb. 2009 – Sept. 2010

Stafford, Virginia

Technical Environment:   IBM Rational Suite, MS Share Point Service 3.0, SQL Server 2005, MS SQL, ASP .Net 2.0/3.0, Lotus Notes, JAVA, C++, DOORS  .Net, MS Project 2003, MS Visio, MS Office 2003, RAD Methodology, SDLC.

Lead Business Analyst

Worked as a lead business analyst on Battelle’s department of Homeland Security initiative. The web based software development project envisions improving, and implementing the overall IT applications within the agency. The application is using C++ language and Oracle as a backend database.

Major responsibilities included:

·   Led the requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders and end-users

·   Analyzed and wrote technical requirements

·   Met with client to discuss the project progress

·   Reviewed data tables in order to clean and consolidate the existing duplicate fields

·   Provided status reports to client on regular basis

·   Reviewed and prepared technical data reports         

·   Draw current business process in order to pin point areas of improvement.

·   Prepared Functional Requirements Document (FRD).

·   Expanded requirements by using USE-CASES

·   Created activity diagrams to capture the current process flow.

·   Created test plan and test scripts for User Acceptance testing (UAT)

·   Met the development team on regular basis to outline and draw requirements for coding purpose.

·   Worked with CM group on defining new processes and methodology

 

Federal Reserve Bank (Consulting position)                                   May 2008 – Jan. 2009

Richmond, Virginia                                                                               

Technical Environment:   SQL Server 2005, MS SQL, ASP .Net 2.0/3.0, Lotus Notes, JAVA, C++, DOORS  .Net, MS Project 2003, MS Visio, MS Office 2003, RAD Methodology, SDLC.

Sr. Business System Analyst (Consulting position)

Worked as a senior consultant on the Fed’s financial application (IPAC, TRACS) tools. The effort is to enhance and improve the current capabilities of the application with the focus on easy to access GUI for end-users. The application used Java, C++ language and Oracle as a backend database.

Major responsibilities included:

·   Led the requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders and end-users

·   Analyzed financial reports in order to create requirements assessments

·   Analyzed and wrote technical requirements

·   Prepared current business process in order to pin point areas of improvement

·   Prepared Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Document

·   Performed limited data modeling, using Erwin tool

·   Prepared test plan

·   Reviewed test scripts and reports to fill gaps with requirements

·   Provided USE-CASES scenarios to development team

·   Created activity diagrams to capture the current process flow

·   Met the development team on regular basis to outline and draw requirements for coding purpose

·   Used DOORS to create and mange requirements

·   Provided schema for DOORS to implement requirements

 

American Military University (full time position)                            October 2007 – April 2008

Charles Town, WVA

Technical Environment:   SQL Server 2005, MS SQL, ASP .Net 2.0/3.0, Windows Communication Foundations (Visual Studio 2005), C Sharp, VB .Net, MS Project 2003, MS Visio, MS Office 2003, Crystal Reports, Agile Methodology, SDLC.    

Lead Business Analyst/Project Manager

Worked with the university’s finance department and federal student grants system. The application used SQL server, Oracle, and .Net backend services. Major

Responsibilities included:

·   Participated and contributed in full system development life cycle projects

·   Created and maintain MS Project plan

·   Met client on regular basis to gather business/user requirements

·   Analyzed business rules/requirements

·   Translated user requirements into system/functional requirements

·   Created USE-CASES to explain user requirements

·   Created activity diagrams using Visio

·   Led informal/formal JAD sessions with developers, testers and end users

·   Re-engineered and outline business process

·   Used Visio to capture the current business process for application development, in order to improve the overall methodology

·   Created Functional Requirements Document (FRD)

·   Performed quality assurance (QA) for all requirements documents and test scripts

·   Wrote test scripts

·   Helped client in conducting User Acceptance testing (UAT).

·   Used Crystal Reports to run various reports for checking and adding new enhancements.

·   Participated in process improvement effort to bring in line with CMMI standards.

                                                                                                           

Lockheed Martin Corporation (full time position)                         May 2006 – October 2007

Alexandria, Virginia

End Client: Department of Defense, Office of Budget and Finance

Lead Business System Analyst

Worked as a senior lead business analyst and PM with Department of Defense’s Budget and Finance Office on a project to upgrade and improve the current budget planning (formulation) and tracking/monitoring (execution) of funds.

Major responsibilities included:

·   Initiated a project kick off meeting with project owners, stakeholders and end-users.

·   Created and maintain MS Project plan.

·   Led requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders at all levels.

·   Provided USE-CASE template to capture requirements

·   Draw current business process in order to pin point areas of improvement.

·   Defined, updated, and improved new data elements for DODs budge t& finance applications

·   Analyzed and re-formatted user requirements.

·   Met development team on a regular basis to discuss the user requirements.

·   Prepared Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document for deliver to client.   

·   Used Visio and Designer 2006 to draw business process flow diagrams.

·   Used Caliber (requirements tool) to create and mange requirements.

·   Created test scripts

·   Performed live system testing

CACI International (full time position)                                   August 2004 – May 2006

Arlington, Virginia                                                                                
End Client: Department of Defense (DoD), Office of Logistic Support    

Sr. Requirements Analyst/PM
Worked with Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics - OUSD/AT&L) on projects ranging from new web-based technology initiatives to improve and enhance current defense logistics capabilities.

Responsibilities included:

·   Created MS project schedule to outline the SDLC phases

·   Headed the team of requirements analysts, developers and testers in completing each phase of SDLC

·   Reviewed and submitted the weekly work progress reports to top management

·   Worked with various user groups at all levels for requirements and data validation purpose

·   Managed a small team on a separate short term COOP project

·   Gathered, analyzed and validated business and user requirements

·   Developed system and technical requirements

·   Arranged and facilitated JAD sessions with clients for requirements elicitation

·   Helped identifying the batch process enhancement areas

·   Wrote business process flow charts, using Visio for the existing applications

·   Prepared and delivered Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document

·   Wrote and improved current requirements/business processes

·   Created and initiated requirements internal review process with developers and testers

·   Created test plan, test scripts and performed live testing     

·   Conducted User Acceptance testing (UAT) with clients

·   Used MS Visio to create technical charts and diagrams.

Paradigm Solution Corporation  (full time position)              June 2002 -August 2004

Washington DC
End Client:  Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Requirements Manager

Worked with HUD department sponsored public sector side grants initiative to improve and provide a wide range of public beneficial programs in the country. This effort was focused on upgrading and enhancing the current tools, software and means available to general public and local communities to access various grants programs, incentives and means to apply and qualify for it.    

Responsibilities included:

·   Managed, scheduled and assigned tasks to requirements management department group.

·   Prepared a cost and hours matrix to forecast the “Level of Effort” for each SDLC phase.

·   Reviewed and prepared business processes.

·   Prepared and reviewed GAP analysis to identify and report any discrepancies in requirements and design phase document.

·   Gathered, reviewed and baselined business requirement.

·   Validated and Documented business and system requirements.

·   Developed and managed system (SRS) and functional requirements (FRD) documents.

·   Participated in JAD sessions with all level of users.

·   Coordinated with developers and testers for requirements validity.

·   Used DOORS software to capture and manage requirements

·   Was Responsible for running day-to-day tasks for requirements group.

·   Provided post-implemented product support to client.         

DynCorp Systems & Solutions (full time position)                             April 1999 - May 2002
Chantilly, Virginia and Washington DC

End Client: US Treasury Department/US Mint

Technical Environment:  Oracle, SQL, People Soft, JAVA, LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, C, DOORS, MS Visio, MS Project, Waterfall, Agile, Spiral methodologies in SDLC.

Business System Analyst

Worked as a senior business analyst with US Mint sponsored public sector initiative. The effort and objective was to advertise and sell the mint coins to general public. For this, the mint offered certain incentives and points to those who would get the collection. This was a web-based online catalog system. Oracle and SQL databases were used as back-end. People Soft Financial application and Java were the main programming codes.

Major responsibilities included:

·   Facilitated and Participated in JAD sessions.

·   Developed and tracked requirements into software life cycle methodology. 

·   Discussed, reviewed and implemented JAD recommendations with other team members.

·   Gathered, reviewed and developed user and system requirements.

·   Prepared a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) for a complete ac-+curacy of requirements.  

·   Used DOORS software to manage and track requirements.

·   Worked with developers to ensure the validity of requirements.

·   Maintained and administered database center

·   Used data modeling tool Erwin for database model and design.

·   Used reverse engineering technique to re-create database structure. 

·   Created logical and conceptual database structure.

·   Created and maintained Oracle forms and reports.

·   Supervised IV&V project with US Mint.   

·   Identified and implemented IV&V strategy.

·   Prepared test cases and test scenarios for the People Soft and Java applications

·   Developed test scripts for Java and Oracle software testing.

Automated Systems and Programming Inc.                                        September 1994 - March 1999
Bethesda, MD and Washington DC                                                                                                                        

Database Analyst / Business Analyst

Worked as a senior business analyst and database developer with department of Labor’s various public related initiatives and tasks (labor statistics, improvement of work conditions etc…).

Responsibilities included:

·   Participated fully in requirements gathering meetings.

·   Worked with project manager to develop and monitor the JAD document.

·   Performed a detailed requirements analysis for the asset tracking database system.

·   Documented and tracked the requirements.

·   Coordinated with the developers to make sure the agreed requirements are reflected in the design phase. 

·   Designed and developed the GUI applications for the asset tracking system.

·   Used Oracle database for both back-end and front-end applications.           

·   Maintained and upgraded in-house applications (Access).

Education:

Masters in Computer Information Systems (MBA)
SouthEastern University, Washington USA, 1993.

Bachelors in Computer Information Systems
SouthEastern University, Washington USA, 1991.

Professional Training:

Batch Process and Data Warehousing, Arlington, VA 2011 

Microsoft Share Point Server 3.0, Virginia 2009

IBM Rational Rose Suite, Virginia 2009

IT security analysis, CACI, 2004.

Erwin Data Model, University of Minnesota, October 2002.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Software Productivity Consortium, February 2002.
DOORS Software, DynCorp's online training, December 2001
Microsoft Front Page (2000), GTE Corporation, VA, Summer 2000.
Microsoft SQL Server 7, Northern Virginia Community College, VA, Fall 1999.
Oracle Application Development, Northern Virginia Community College, VA, Summer 1998.

Hardware/Software Experience:

Databases: Data Warehouse, Oracle, Global, SQL, Oracle forms, Oracle reports, Microsoft Access,

Paradox, dBaseIV, Relational database design, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic for applications (VBA), 

L database, and .Net, Erwin.

Software Tools: IBM Rational Suite, MS Share Point Service, Caliber (requirements tool), DOORS (requirements tool), UML Together, Designer 2006, HTML Database (requirements tool), Crystal Reports, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Front Page MS office, PVCS tracker, On time Web (OTW) tracking software, Lotus Notes, MS Visual Source Café, axosoft ontime tracking system.

Hardware: Prime 750, IBM System 36 and 5251 mini computers, IBM-PC microcomputers, Hewlett Packard, Scan-Jet, Hayes Compatible Internal and external modems, DB2, SQL, Oracle servers.

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000, 95/98, Windows NT, Windows for workgroup.

Servers Environment: SQL, DB2, Oracle, .Net

References: Highly strong references are available upon request.

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