SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with 7 years of experience in analyzing business operations. Aiming to utilize my strong prioritization skills and ability to enhance and achieve goals of the company
• Experience in co - ordinating with Business and IT throughout the Software development life cycle
• 7 years of experience in IT Business Analysis in Banking, Finance, Retail and Sales domains
• Hands on expertise in Data flow modeling, ER diagrams, Business rule identification and data analysis
• Involved in Test planning, Test preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution, and Report generation to assure that all aspects of a project are in compliance with the Business Requirements
• Key role in risk management (identification, analysis, response, monitoring and control) of potential risk factors for projects
• Strong experience in documenting Test Cases and in conducting User Acceptance Test­ing (UAT)
• Thorough understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including RUP, RAD, Waterfall and Agile
• Strong knowledge and experience in writing and executing SQL queries for data analysis and database testing
• Good team player with excellent technical, communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated to learn and adapt to new technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C, C++, .Net, COBOL Business Objects 4.1/4.0, Tableau 9.3,10.1, Google Analytics, OBIEE Oracle10g, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Data ware­house (EDW), DB2, Teradata, Vertica, Hadoop Bugzilla, Jira, SQLWorkbenchJ, SQLDeveloper 4.1.3, ETL Informatica, OmniGraffle v138, Om­niplan 3.0, Keynote, MS-Visio, Radar, BBEdit, Expresso, Central Station, MS Excel Mac OS X, Unix, Linux, Windows 10/7/NT/XP/2003/Vista HTML5, XML, CSS3, Javascript Agile, SDLC, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Saved significant amount of time spent on manual reporting process by creating auto­mated executive dashboards/reports on Tableau
• Analyzed data from multiple data sources to discover trend and insights that drive strategic business decisions
• Collaborated with CEO staff to prepare the data driven stories, key takeaways to be presented in Business Reviews and SteerCo Meetings
• Involved in Core team meetings to identify KPIs and perform impact analysis
• Performed data analysis for pipeline/sales data at account, channel, partner, GARD level and provided key insights/updates to SPA management
• Presented complex data and analysis in easily understandable and actionable executive level reports
• Business point of contact and worked with IT team to resolve data discrepancies and improve data structures/accuracy

Tech Environment: Tableau 9.3, Oracle OBIEE BI, SAP CRM, SDFC, Hadoop/Hive

Business System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as consultant and handled multiple projects simultaneously with complete in­volvement in D2P(Development to Production) activities of the GBI(Global Business Intelligence) projects
• Conducted requirement sessions and successfully translating of those requirements into functional specification documents
• Act as a liaison between 1ST and Business users to assure proposed technology solution meets all the business requirements
• Hands on experience in developing highly customized and complex dashboards, iOS applications and BOBJ reports
• Performed requirement analysis, GAP analysis and created Traceability Matrix for program level projects
• Identified end to end requirements for all GBI Systems that may be impacted by the IST(Information Systems and Technology) Program level changes
• Understanding of (lambda architecture) Data Stream Platform(DSP) framework
• Engage with Business teams to understand the requirements and work with cross­functional teams/down stream systems to get them implemented
• Played a key role in documenting and presenting the requirements and design playback sessions to all the SSGs
• Played role of a project manager to mitigate any blockers or risks for the projects
• Handled day to day activities including scope, conflicting priorities, issue escalations, status reporting and meeting facilitations
• Performance analysis of Business Objects (BOBJ) reports and database queries
• Updated stakeholders on problem status and ensured speedy resolutions
• Played an active role in developing test scripts for Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing(IT) and support in UAT

Tech Environment: Teradata, Oracle 10g, Business Objects 4.1/4.0, JavaScript, JSON, Radar, Vertica, Espresso, OmniGraffle, Keynote, SQL Developer, Tableau

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders, users and technical teams to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Engaged with IT partners to ensure business needs are correctly translated to support processes and system changes with high quality results
• Deliver presentations on requirements and solution to internal partners for review and input
• Conduct bi-weekly iteration planning meeting with the Team
• Held scrum sessions to ensure delivery of requirements in timely stages, allowing design and development to make necessary progress
• Co-lead design sessions to identify functional gaps and opportunities of improvement

Tech Environment: JIRA, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, SalesForce, Angularjs, Selenium, SQL Server, HTML, CSS3, Omniplan, Amazon Web Services