SUMMARY

• Business Analyst on multiple IT systems with around 6 years of extensive experience in Cloud Architecture, Website development, Financial, Investment and Insurance Domain.
• Worked as Technical Business Analyst who can guide or communicate with the dev team to develop requirements according to need.
• Highly experienced in designing and developing Use Cases, Activity Diagram, Process Flow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using Visio, assessing business process and requirements.
• Experienced in managing projects throughout the SDLC in Waterfall, Agile frameworks.
• Proficient in conducting JAD sessions, Focus Groups, Brain Storming and user interviews as a facilitator to gather requirements and Conducted SCRUM Meetings with key stakeholders/product owner and Project SMEs.
• Resolved team and organization impediments as well maintained a document to re - visit in SPRINT Retrospective meeting, and updated BURNDOWN chart with the progress of each SPRINT.
• Conducted incremental product demonstration for product owner and as well assisted in break-down of epics to user stories. Experience with Business Intelligence, data reporting and analysis tools.
• Expertise in conducting requirement gathering sessions, feasibility studies and Impact Analysis, Cost/Benefit analysis and Risk analysis, Base lining acceptance criteria
• In Depth understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes. Strong understanding of general financial and economic concepts.
• Extensive experience in the development, implementation, deployment and integration strategies within a team-oriented environment, utilizing quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Knowledge of various computer programming languages including C, C++, JAVA.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and working with business users as well as computer professionals.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office especially MS Excel, Power Point, Word, Visio etc.
• Involved in designing and Preparing Test Scenarios, Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Data.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Data Modelling
• Project Analysis
• Microsoft office
• Communication
• Financial analysis
• Elicitation
• Python
• Leadership
• Financial forecasts
• Data visualization
• Advanced excel
• Problem solver
• Cloud Architecture
• Data analysis
• Tableau
• SQL Queries

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Project Manager/ Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Project Plan to provide summary of all the tasks, milestones and deadlines that would be required in a project for IOT and Image recognition opted by clients Coca-Cola Southwest and Coke Brazil.
• Drive the project for Coca-Cola Southwest Bottler in relation to the plan and use case of achieving their CMA Report (Share of Visible Inventories, BI Report)
• Elicited requirements for BI SOVI reports (Microsoft) that were required as an output by Coca-Cola Southwest.
• Performed Master data ingestion of Outlets/Assets and devices of the Coke Brazil into our Confidential -IOT portal to ingest the data coming from Confidential Virtual Hub Lite Application.
• Elicited requirements and created process flow for the Virtual Hub Lite Application that was used to collect data from the Smart devices connected with the cooler.
• Executed Projects for Clients CCSW and Coke Brazil from pilot to production with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies respectively.
• Facilitate creation of “as-is” and “to-be” Business Process Models using BPMN / MS Visio.
• Working together with the senior Technology Leadership and the Project Management Office (PMO) towards identifying process improvement opportunities.
• Facilitated defining, grooming, and prioritizing the user stories, and hence creating the Product and Sprint Backlogs.
• Performed SQL Queries to extract and analyse the raw data that was accumulated from the client and then clean the data to create the required AD HOC reports as per client’s requirement.
• Acted as a Liaison between the business and technology teams towards effective communication.
• Facilitated the change management process to minimize scope creep.
• Analysed existing business processes and technologies / tools, and recommended enhancements / new processes / technologies / tools based upon business needs.
• Experience in project management activities like defining project charter, maintaining project plans, Level of Effort (LOE) estimations, resource planning, developing RACI matrix, risk mitigation, tracking budget and schedule, and providing status reports to management.
• Experience managing / mentoring teams of business analysts including offshore resources.

Confidential, Lake Success, NY

Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Study of the client's business and system documentation
• Performance of functional analysis of the client's business process
• Preparation of as-is activity diagrams and Use Case flowcharts
• Preparation of Business Process Management maps using BPM tools
• Identification of process improvements and facilitation of reengineering of business process
• Design of the system screen layouts for the application
• Defining system administration requirements
• Preparation of test cases for system testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Conducting unit testing, integration testing, and system testing verify the correct screen sequence, expected and actual results, internal tables, and data from external sources
• Preparation of Use Cases, Business Process, Change Management, Technical Training, Software Development methodologies, QA testing, and Systems Testing of client server and web-based systems.
• Gap analysis, JAD session facilitation, process analysis and documentation, functional specifications. Getting involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing and practical knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Knowledge of Agile practices, specifically the scrum framework.
• Defining User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Being part of a scrum team to ensure that the goals of the sprint are met.
• Good Understanding about the SQL
• Preparation of documentation for system end users and technical system operation manuals
• Providing required support for the technical team.
• Manage business team aspects of project implementation support.

Confidential, Mayfield, OH

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used SQL queries for organizing and abstracting data from MS access data bases, created reports, forms on Ms Access.
• Reconciling General Ledger accounts. Assisted with audit defence, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance, research tax issues as they arise.
• Working with the business to understand and determine system implications in terms of the platform(s), application(s) and business processes for B2B solutions.
• Captured requirements for monthly SL to GL postings, calculating GL beginning and ending balances.
• Involved in mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Captured Data flow diagrams and formatting of the data flowing through interfaces.
• Written PL/SQL packages to call the API to ship confirm the orders in oracle applications
• Migrated Data from MS Excel to SQL Server Reporting Service Using DTS and SQL loader utilities.
• Accumulated system requirements from various departments like accounting, IS (Information Systems) through surveys and interviews.
• Documented Requirements for Activity management, Fixed Income, Asset Management Services, Client portfolio management, Order management system, Performance, Equities, Reconciliation, Transaction capture/Execution and reporting requirements for the user interface. finding, filing and tracking bugs with JIRA using debugging and production databases
• Written Stored Procedures using PL/SQL and functions and procedure for common utilities
• Incorporated Rational Unified Process (RUP) to create Business Requirement Document Specifications using MS Visio and MS Word.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frames with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modelling Language) methodologies.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams in MS Visio.
• Worked with SMEs to understand various assets and security classes, exchange traded derivatives (such as futures, options on futures, equity options and index options), OTC derivatives (such as interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps and total return swaps) and portfolio allocation and management.
• Mapped financial data, general ledger data, loss event data, transaction data and people reference data from source to target database for creating a central Risk Data Repository (RDR) as required by reporting regulations.
• Involved in changing the functionality to calculate due date in the transaction for Proxima payment terms and changed the auto adjustments package to pl/sql code instead of pro C code.
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director for stress testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing
• Assisted the SA to document all custom and system modification after the SCR’s were satisfactorily solved.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in RequisitePro and managed the concurrence of the parties involved with respect to the evaluation criterion

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Website and Mobile Application development for clients.
• Elicited requirements for clients in terms of the design required for their websites.
• Proficient in leading Requirements Gathering process via different methodologies such as client interviewing, questionnaires, discovery/requirements workshops, storyboarding, and prototyping.
• Created Process Flow and Workflow diagram, defining the flow from page to Page.
• Logged Requirements for developers explaining the flow and changes that are required.
• Created Wireframes of design to have an alignment with clients and Developing team.
• Maintained the Timelines in comparison to backlogs that needs to be complemented within particular period of time.
• Use Agile / Scrum as the software development methodology that has resulted in a 25% reduction in defect resolution time and cost.
• Facilitate the Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective Meetings.
• Involved in finalizing the Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Results for the SIT and UAT together with the QA Team.
• Excellent experience creating wireframes / screen mockups for web as well as mobile applications using tools like Axure, MS Visio, and iPhone Mockup.
• Experience with Change Control and Versions Control processes.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office applications.
• Drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) along with Development and QA Teams towards defect resolution.