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Sample Business Analyst resume for Pharmaceutical Industry.
Professional Synopsis
Nearly XX years experience as a Business Analysis, Risk Analysis and Quality Assurance.
Expert in obtaining a grasp of the business process and acting as a bridge between the
Management and the Development teams. Strong customer/user advocate, apt negotiator with
excellent analytical, collaboration, communication decision-making, and organization skills.
Good communication skills coupled with excellent interpersonal skills that helped in
developing an excellent rapport with the team members and maintained an inspiring
environment, which I strongly believe, play a key role in carrying out the given tasks within the
time constraints.
Professional Expertise:
• Business Analysis knowledge for business process, the need to understand all aspects of the
company's operations. Identify, analyze and design processes to improve the overall flow of
information within the company
• Interacting with stakeholders, gathering requirements, elicitation techniques like
interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming, focus groups, cost/benefit analysis and risk
analysis
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Iterative Software Development
Life Cycle Process as per Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Rational Tools used during various
phases of RUP.
• Proficient in Rational tools including Rational Rose, and Requisite Pro. Excellent skills in Business
Analysis, Data Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Business Process Modeling and Use Case
Development using UML methodology.
• Skilled in creating logical diagrams like Use Case, Activity, Sequence, Data flow, Collaboration and
Deployment using CASE Tools like Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) JAD sessions with management,
SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders to gather business requirements and translating the same
to the development teams.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Data Validation, User Acceptance, and End-To-End testing and
evaluated the test results.
• Expertise in automating the functional and performance test scripts using industry standard like
Winrunner, Rational Robot and QTP.
Technical Proficiency:

2. Business Modeling Tools Rational Rose, MS Project, MS Visio
Change Management Tools Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, TestDirector
Languages C, C++,SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, VB
Operating Systems MS Windows NT/98/95/2000, Unix
Web Technology HTML, DHTML, ASP, HTTP, JavaScript
Database SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, MS Access, MySQL
Utility MS Office, Virtual UML, FrontPage
Rational Analyst Suite, RUP, RequisitePro and Rose.
Automation tools Mercury Interactive WinRunner, Load Runner, TestDirector,
QTP.
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Company name duration
Sr. Business Analyst / Technical Writer
CTS are data collection environments that provide utilities to collect drug and vaccine data
and to convert data from our collection systems to the back-end reporting and filing databases.
Collector allows investigative sites to collect cleaner data faster, by alerting users to
discrepancies at the time of entry and by electronically transmitting study data to reviewers.
Browser allows remote study monitors to review and annotate collected data on a regular
basis, to set workflow statuses, and to transmit queries back to the investigative site when
necessary.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements,
doing gap analysis and documents them textually or within models.
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User
Requirement Specification (URS) for the Web based application.
• Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then
convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Interviewing area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the
requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business
people and technical people.
• User Rational Rose extensively to created Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence
Diagrams, State chart diagrams, Collaboration diagrams and Class Diagrams.
• Extensively used UML based Methodology to create the Business Object Model.
• Worked on CFR Part 11 validated and Regulated System.
• Worked as a UserCustomer Advocate and negotiated with user as well as with
developers and management staff to resolve any requirement conflict to BRIDGE the
gaps between IT and Business Client.
• Served as quality assurance/quality control to ensure that the final product met all
the clinical protocol requirements. Was responsible for user acceptance testing (UAT)
of the final product.
• As a liaison between the Developers and Clients, was instrumental in resolving
conflicts between user and technical development teams.
• Designing and reviewing different comprehensive data reports using MS Access and MS
Excel.
• Involved in Project Management including documenting, implementation throughout
the collector development lifecycle.

3. Environment: J2EE, JSP, Oracle Clinical, CSS, cGMP, FDA Regulations, Windows NT, MS Office
(MS Access, MS Excel), Rational Rose, Requisite Pro
Company name duration
Business Analyst
Worked in Clinical trial system; this is an application used to collect the patient data who is
taking part in the new study for a drug/vaccine. This is a CFR Part 11 validated and Regulated
System.
Responsibilities:
• Identified and validated high potential business opportunities for stakeholders and
develop customized business strategies that are aligned with corporate strategic
objectives.
• Interviewing business area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording
the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business
people and technical people.
• Conducted JAD Sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application
meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of
business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose and Visio to create Use Cases,
Activity Diagrams/State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams
• Assuring that all validation documentation such as IQ's, PQ's, Process Validation,
Cleaning Validation, and Software Validation are in compliance with cGMP's.
• Wrote documentation for all aspects of the computer systems validation lifecycle, in
accordance with FDA regulations, particularly CFR 21, part 11. Validating processes
and equipment utilized to manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients in FDA
environment.
• Performed Unit and System testing, before integrating all the separate modules for
further testing to assure an efficient operation.
• Involved in weekly walkthroughs, inspections and verification meetings with various
stakeholders in the project.
• Conducted periodic Software Quality Assessment meetings to come up with test
metrics and gauge the progress of the testing effort.
Environment: Java, JSP, Oracle Clinical, CSS, cGMP, FDA Regulations, Windows NT, MS
Office (MS Excel for reporting), Rational Rose, Requisite Pro
Company name duration
Business Analyst
--- Pharmaceuticals is developing next generation anti-infective compounds to meet the
growing need for effective treatments for tenacious and drug resistant strains of bacteria.
Tassa’s advantage stems from its unique blend of expertise in comparative genomics,
molecular pharmacology, combinatorial chemistry and physiological ecology.
• Responsible for defining the scope, and defining business rules of the project,
gathering business requirements, doing gap analysis and documents them textually or
within models.
• Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User
Requirement Specification (URS).

4. • Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews, and workshops
and then convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Conducted and coordinated JAD session with different technical teams.
• Served as a liaison between Clients and Technical Staff to resolve any conflicts.
• Worked to BRIDGE the gaps between IT and Business Client.
• Analyze Business Requirements, performed GAP ANALYSIS and segregated them into
high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams and
Robustness Diagram using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining
the Data Process Models.
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose to create: Use Cases, Activity
Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams.
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents
containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of
the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data
requirements.
• Using Business Rules, Business Use-Case Model and Business Object Model
participated in Requirement Analysis of the application and performed GAP analysis.
• Conducted the FRS and URS reviews and walkthroughs with designers, developers and
stakeholders. Also conducted feasibility and adaptability study.
• Used Rational RequisitePro for Managing the Requirement Analysis effort.
• Involved in maintaining and managing different versions of Documents using Rational
ClearCase.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans based on User Requirements Document (URD) and
prepared the Test Cases and Test Procedures.
• Tested the application Manually by executing Test Cases prior to Automation.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing and Training of the end users.
Environment: Windows 2000, Java, JSP, Oracle Clinical, SQL, Oracle, cGMP, Rational Rose,
Rational Requisite Pro, UML, and Proprietary protocols.
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