SUMMARY:

• 15 years of overall experience in IT Industry with working knowledge on various roles and applications. 11+ years of experience as a Business analyst and Data Analyst.
• Hands on experience on Agile practices as Scrum master.
• Hands on experience on Agile ceremonies and best practices, conduct know how session for new users on agile practices within Confidential .
• Hands on experience with Agile practices and handing of multiple teams working for same product deliverable in agile.
• As project lead managed team and resource recruitment and trained on the process and methods followed at client place.
• As a PMO, managed multiple projects and dealt with different stake holder on project issue and deliverables.
• Provided regular update to client on project and team activities by being face of team.
• Managed SOX and Security Compliance Programs for multiple projects and established strong client relationship.
• As part of SOX Compliance, involved in Risk Management planning and analysis.
• Interfaced with business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR).
• Have worked on Data Quality Management for gathering more information for Business Analysis.
• Have experience in creating and testing reports in Financial Reporting Systems such as Cognos Finance, OBIEE, and Financial Data Quality Management application.
• Knowledge on SQL using QMF tool.
• Reconciliation of Financial reports for design of better business process.
• Working experience of Account reconciliation tool and handling financial statement Hierarchies for reporting
• Knowledge in all phases of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC).
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• As PMO have done e - Governance by managing process flow through internal Tools.
• Prepared accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents.
• Regular Interaction with Application owner and Functional Users in determining the new process and application changes required to reduce process flow and increase efficiency.
• Analysis and process defining through different sources to Reporting application.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

BI Tools: Confidential Cognos, OBIEE, Financial Data Mart (FDM)

Languages: SQL, QMF

OS Windows: 95/98/2000/XP/NT/7/8MS Office MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Project Management Good: Understanding of Agile Project Management Methodology and PMO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Linthicum,MD

Scrum Master and Data Integration Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As integration lead responsible for validation, mapping and data flow from legacy systems to CJAMS application.
• Responsible for leading the team and facilitate the validation of tables and data.
• As Integration lead responsible for discussing with the Business users on the application functionality during migration Process.
• As Scrum master responsible for prioritizing and identifying the stories and task for each sprint by discussing with business product owners for each of the modules.
• In Scrum master role work towards addressing impediments that team encounters during development process.
• Conduct demo to the business product owner after each sprint to get feedback on the MVP deliverables.
• Create stories for following sprints by discussing with Business Product owners and prioritize stories in alignment to business needs.
• Work with Business Analyst and participate in requirement gathering session with Business Users.
• Work with Business product owner for refining and keep up to date on product backlog stories.
• Conduct joint requirement session with different module functional owners for requirement gathering and UAT testing
• Co-ordinate with module leads for integration of different modules and data flow for validating end to end flow and functionality as per requirements.
• Work with testing team to ensure the deliverables and acceptance criteria are in sync with sprint tasks.
• Conduct agile awareness session for new team/s and team members.
• Work on Federal Mandatory report that are required for addressing financial aspects of CJAMS services.

Confidential, Littleton MA

Scrum Master and Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As business analyst, provided functional requirements and create adhoc and pseudo report format for development team usage.
• Test the performance and functionality of the report create and conduct work session with user community for sign off and feedback.
• Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and Software Requirements Specifications (SRS).
• In Scum Master role responsible for performing all Agile ceremonies for each sprint.
• Conducted back log refinement session with the Product owner to prioritize the task for future scrums.
• In the role of scrum master conducted Daily Scrum, Scrum planning session, retrospective session with teams.
• Presentation through showcase after each sprint for stakeholders on deliverables in sprint.
• Scheduled reports in cognos and promote the reports from test instance to Production and validate the same in production.
• Perform Agile Coach role in grooming teams on agile methodology
• Conduct agile learning sessions for teams on new practices and methodologies.
• Conduct quarterly Agile Maturity Assessment for the team.
• Analyze teams performance after each sprint and take necessary actions for improved performance on agile
• Make sure all the team members excel themselves in agile practices for the betterment of organization.
• Document best agile practices for team’s future reference and learning.
• Documented the complete design, development process
• Analyze report issue in cognos using SQL and validating against DB.
• Replicate functionality of the report using SQL queries at various stage of report development
• Work with developers in finalizing the logic and requirement to have necessary stored procedure as needed.
• Demo show case on the team deliverables after each Scrum to the stake holder and take their feedback.
• Provided adhoc and support as needed during Financial close.
• Prepare Show case for presentation to Stake holders after every sprint.
• Manage Sox Compliance and ASCA (Application Systems Control and Auditability) review on application access and accounts every quarter.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As a Business Analyst, involved in requirements identification and analysis for the FastPass Application.
• Coordinated with other Stakeholder and teams for analysis of client business processes.
• Provided application support along with change migration for new requirements.
• Conducted performance validation for solution to requirements with end to end testing.
• Used Business Analysis Work Products for new requirements.
• Propose solutions to remediate issues and work with other team members to implement fixes.
• Responsible for creating instances using Amazon Wed Service (AWS EC2).
• Application data validation using different integrated tools such as Operational Data Source (ODS) and SAP which are main source system for FastPass.
• Monitored application availability and user access related issue as part of Support.
• Data Validation through different systems such as Rapid SQL, Confidential data warehouse, SAP integration systems, FastPass reporting application.
• Analysis of reporting issue by verifying the data availability and logic through SQL queries against the DB.
• Monitored and addressed access related issues and refine process flow.
• Cod legacy access process to a better and efficient work flow process by eliminating unwanted work flows to speed up the process
• Demo show case on the team deliverables after each Scrum to the stake holder and take their feedback.

Confidential

Integration Lead & Business Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding the existing MARS (Management Analysis Reporting System) GL source system, its data structures and formats.
• Excellent conceptual and technical skills in preparing BRD (Business Requirement Document), FRD (Functional Requirement Document) and Worked on getting approval on the BRD/FRD documents from stakeholders and presented the same to the development and testing teams.
• Thorough understanding of functionality and intend of check and report that exists in MARS.
• Designed and documented the project plan.
• Interacted with Functional users and finalize the approach to be followed.
• Interact with Technical Team and do feasibility study on the migration plan with no impact to existing functionality.
• Tweaked or consolidated multiple functionalities that can be handled in the proposed application.
• Acquired requirements for documentation and presented to functional owners for sign off on requirements.
• Co-ordinated with different application technical leads to get the requirements implemented.
• Co-ordinated with different team for status updates and address any issues faced during implementation.
• Acted as liaison between technical team and Functional user throughout the project migration.
• Involved in functional testing for the application at different phases of the project.

Confidential

Process Lead & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business users and gather the required information for converting the legacy system to integrate with FDQM and align it to target ERP system.
• Worked with Business users to define and streamline the existing process and initiate new process flow to make work process flow more efficient.
• Responsible for understanding the source/target systems, their data structures and formats.
• Responsible for design and documentation of the technical architecture and integration models.
• Configured rules for validation of data from the source systems inside FDQM.
• Analyzed and understand the inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Developed interfaces between third party systems and ERP using FDQM.
• Developed new interface and coordinating with technical resources.
• Explained Process and functionality to the technical team.
• Configured and created data extracts from Legacy system to the ERP systems.
• Involved in reconciliation as part of testing post migration.
• Analyzed Data quality for better reporting.
• Communicated the project progress to the concerned Management Team within Confidential and expedite decision to ensure meeting the project schedule.
• Troubleshoot data issue fail during validation and Processing stage (Event Creation and Accounting) with in FDQM.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Business Analyst, involved in various business requirement gathering and facilitated the organization to achieve cost reduction in creating customized reports suiting various business requirements.
• Created/updated documents required as part of the system development lifecycle, as well as documentation necessary to support business processes.
• Involved in documenting the business process by identifying the requirements, also involved in finding the system requirements.
• Incorporated new process to enhance performance and value add to business.
• Worked with the client in proposing solutions for the overall stability of the application.
• Implementation of new systems for the project like IDM, SOX and integration with other systems.
• Led the project in making SOX compliant by implementing the SOX defined process.
• Performed project review and report to client at regular intervals.
• Regular interaction with the client’s Technical Managers, Database administrators, Network Administrators, Application Users - all belonging to different departments and divisions of client to ensure the smooth running of the application.
• Created application training documentation and conducting formal training for end users.
• Worked with Technical teams making them understand and getting the requirements implemented
• Worked on custom and seeded stored procedures to execute scripts with test parameters and review the output
• Worked on table level triggers to maintain audit data and execute an action based on insert, update, and delete on the table. ..
• As project lead responsible for resource management and task assignment and review.
• Guide team members in career growth and knowledge enhancement.
• Handled Production releases from end to end. This includes testing, communication to users, educating users about new changes, preparing user manual as required. etc.
• Processed monitoring - On going process monitored after deployment using impacted production data, bug-fix or data-fix execution if required for successful implementation of requirement in the live system.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in business functionality of the system, understanding source systems and requirement analysis.
• Interacted with functional analysts and Business users to document reporting and analytical requirements.
• Created Adhoc reports using Cognos finance application for various levels of users.
• Prepared Documentation for Cognos Report requirements.
• Involved in various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements.
• Provided and Monitored application during quarter and year end close activities.
• Provided required guidance on the tool functionality for new users
• Prepared quarter close and year end close support plan and assigning tasks.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Role & Responsibilities:

• Enabled Internal Business Reviews through Reports Dashboards by collecting and collating data from various sources.
• Registration and Tracking of the Projects. Reporting the GDC Level revenues to Confidential Corporate.
• Facilitated Improvements to the Project metrics and Management Process.
• Provided dashboard reporting of projects status and progress.
• Involved in Data analysis for Project/Business performance.
• Worked closely with Finance team to ensure timely invoicing and tracked outstanding collections of the projects.