Rahul Agarwal

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ABOUT RAHUL AGARWAL

Business Analyst with 12+ years of experience in analyzing and gathering business requirements and acted as a liaison between Business Users, Product Management, and development teams in translating the business requirements into solutions and functional design that align with product development strategy.Hands-on participation in all phases of the SDLC including Analysis, Design, QA and post-implementation support. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with users and developers at varying levels of technical/business knowledge. Possesses excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Developed a reputation for excelling under pressure and delivering on schedule. Summary of Qualifications Experienced in gathering requirements from Business Users through Brain Storming Sessions, Interviews, Requirements Workshop, Document Analysis and Prototyping for both mobile and web-based applications Elicited requirements for business applications and created Business Requirement Documents (BRD\'s), User Stories, Data Mapping Specifications, Business Cases, Use Case diagrams, Data Mapping and Data Modeling Experienced in communicating with Internationals clients across US, Singapore and their vendors for defining the requirements, updating the project status, conducting a webinar session and receiving feedback Managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, documentation of Test Cases/Test Plans, testers training including UAT completion sign-off; resulting in a 50% reduction in UAT test cycle time Identified and investigate intricate and inconsistent business issues, analyzed them, prepared root cause analysis (RCA) reports, found the root cause and fixed them after proposing the solution to the client Hands-on experience in Project Management activities through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in both Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies