SUMMARY

• Results - driven technical executive with 14+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Agile (Scrum) implementation, Data Analysis, Project Management, and Business Process Re-engineering.
• Business Analyst with experience in gathering, creating, analyzing and documenting user requirements, procedures to optimize the use of software to align with business strategies. Managed technical staff and vendor relationships throughout the software and product lifecycles
• Data Analyst with experience in Data Modelling, Data Extraction, Data Cleansing, Data Transformation, and Data Loading using ER Studio to help drive strategic business decisions.
• Business Intelligence Analyst with experience in developing innovative approaches to solve complex business problems, pairing information with insight, developing operational and analytical dashboards using OBIEE, Power BI, and Tableau
• Agile Scrum experience as Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, and leading teams to work in Sprints. Experienced in conducting Sprint planning, Jira Agile dashboard tracking, Scrum of Scrums, Retrospective meeting, and Daily Sprint meetings
• MBA with specialization in Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics from US (Dean’s list)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools (UML): Microsoft Visio, Balsamiq

Project Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM), Six Sigma

Project Management tools: TFS, JIRA,MS Project, SharePoint

Testing Tools: HP-ALM(QC), iMacro

Databases: Oracle (8/8i, 10g, 11g), MySQL, DB2

Database Management Tools: SQL Developer, Toad, ER Studio

Data Modelling Tools: ER Studio, Oracle Data Modeler

Requirement Management Tools: Power Designer, Rational Rose, Rational Suite Enterprise

Reporting Tools: Cognos, Business Objects

Business Intelligence (BI) Tools: Tableau, Power BI, OBIEE

Programming Language: SQL, Java, JavaScript, XML

Web Technologies: HTML-5, CSS

CRM Software: Salesforce

ETL/MDM: Informatica, ER Studio

ERP: SAP (MM, PP, PM, QM and DMS), Oracle Agile PLM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst/scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Lead and successfully delivered Operational Data Source and Data Mart/Data Warehouse design and implementation project on firm schedule
• Lead and delivered large visualization projects to provide analytic dashboards, reports and visualizations to provide insights and help end-users and improve their performance using Tableau
• Performed requirements gathering, analysis, detailed process flow design, user acceptance testing and rollout of new & modified feature functionality deployed for a specific application
• Served on a hybrid role of Scrum Master for one Agile team and Lead Business Analyst for two projects.
• Worked in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to track and update all agile activities.
• Organized and facilitated multiple time boxed Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Reviews & Retrospective
• Worked in collaboration with the Product Owner/Team Members in slicing Epics/Big User Stories, writing user stories, Product Backlog Grooming, Product Backlog Prioritization, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Story Point Estimation
• Worked on decomposing/slicing EPICs into smaller user stories for effective utilization using INVEST principle.
• Developed various SLDC artifacts like Project Scope Document, Project Plan, Use cases, Test Plans, Process Flow Charts, Activity Diagrams, GUI mock ups, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM), Business Requirement Document(BRD), System Requirement Document(SRD), Functional Requirement Document(FRD), Change Request(CR), Lessons Learnt, Root Cause Analysis using Fishbone(Ishikawa Diagram) etc.
• Performed data-mapping from source to target, analyzed the source systems (Operational & Transactional) and applications to identify the data elements in order to build data models for Data-mart
• Conducted end user/stakeholder requirement gathering for the Data-mart/Data visualization and subsequently created related data ownership logic, Physical and Logical data models, Data Dictionary, and Reporting Templates
• Performed reverse engineering of physical data models from databases using ER Studio/Oracle Data Modeler (ODM)
• Developed, maintained, and delivered technical documentation related to ETL development, scheduled processes, frameworks, transformations, etc.
• Performed quality assurance testing for Data warehouse/Data-mart using SQL programming prior to release
• Wrote multiple iMacro scripts to automatically test the UI screens and conducted multiple Regression testing and UAT before the release.

Confidential

Sr Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Served on a hybrid role of Scrum Master for one Agile team and Lead Business Analyst for two projects.
• Worked in co-ordination with the Subject matter experts (SMEs) to develop the workflow, primarily ASIS and TOBE flow, and Business Rules (BR) for the BIS (Business Information systems).
• Conducted multiple brain storming sessions with the subject matter expert (SME) to capture the business requirements and the business rules for the BIS, primarily for the Employer Compliance process and Claims process.
• Worked in collaboration with the Product Owner/Team Members in slicing Epics/Big User Stories, writing user stories, Product Backlog Grooming, Product Backlog Prioritization, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Story Point Estimation
• Organized and facilitated multiple time boxed Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Reviews & Retrospective
• Well versed in Change Management, Gap Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, ROI analysis.

Confidential

Sr Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead team to implement multiple SOW based projects which includes Salesforce Implementation and Oracle Agile PLM implementation
• Responsible for defining and clarifying project scope, developing project plan and its schedule, and developing guidelines (policies and procedure) to support the achievement of the project objective.
• Scope and requirement gathering for the stakeholders at multiple client location. Represent the project stakeholders and coordinate with the support team for implementation
• Pivotal role in in-house Product Development in supply chain domain to provide high value solution for workforce management
• Leveraged functional, industry and ERP knowledge to develop value propositions, define project scope, budgets and schedules to balance business needs, budgets and risks.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered, analyzed and documented Business requirements based on the analysis of financial risk/allocation model. Reviewed Charter Documents/Business Requirement Documents for tagging and tracing to Use-Case Specifications, Supplemental Specification and UI Functional specification documents.
• Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Worked in collaboration with the Product Owner/Team Members in slicing Epics/Big User Stories, writing user stories, Product Backlog Grooming, Product Backlog Prioritization, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Story Point Estimation
• Adept in structurally organizing the project team, identifying the roles and responsibilities for the team members, and collaborating with external agencies for service support.
• Continued engagement with the customer through organizing knowledge sharing seminars.

Confidential

PROGRAM MANAGER/sr Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for prioritizing, facilitating, and executing organizational projects arising out of the goals and strategies of the business.
• Established frameworks and quality standards for all assigned projects, and partnered with project stakeholders to achieve key milestones and deliverables.
• Developed strategies and scopes for organizational projects that address key factors such as a defined budget, client expectations and satisfaction, technology requirements, potential risks or anticipated barriers, needed resources, and aggressive deadlines that met the needs and desires of the business.
• Led a team of engineers to relocated and set up entire Avionics tube manufacturing plant within a limited budget
• Played a pivotal role in business process re-engineering and ensured Process/Capacity ramp up of the processes with stringent AS9100 quality standards
• Developed prototype and received prototype approval from Honeywell in the first go, reducing project time by three months.

Confidential

Sr Business Process Analyst/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Business System Analyst for BI systems like “Monitoring Dash Board”, “Computerized Machine Maintenance System” (CMMS), “Best Practice Network” (BPN), and “Factory Automation System” (FAS) for managing factory performance through facilitating data-based process and equipment performance analysis
• Performed extensive qualitative and quantitative data analysis (Regression Analysis) and provided business insight to executive management
• Performed detailed requirement gathering and prioritization, verification, validation, and approval of requirements with the business owners and application users using Agile (Scrum) Methodology for developing CMMS, FAS, and Reporting System through various tools and techniques like questionnaire, interviews, JAD sessions, use cases and Scenarios, user stories etc.
• Delivered various high-quality artifacts such as business process models, business requirement documents (BRD), functional requirement documents (FRD), use cases, user stories, context diagrams, business rules, data dictionaries, requirement packages, user interface models/mock-ups, opportunity summary presentations, executive summaries, requirements management plans, technical specifications documents, BA work plans, and various other documents as per need.
• Created System Requirements document (SRD) to specify the overall system requirements including but not limited to major system capabilities, major system conditions, system interfaces, system user characteristics, security requirement, training requirement, initial system architecture, initial capacity requirement, system acceptance criteria, and current system analysis
• Experienced in preparing proposal documents and providing technical solutions to various data analysis and visualization solutions for customers.
• Worked in collaboration with the Product Owner/Team Members in slicing Epics/Big User Stories, writing user stories, Product Backlog Grooming, Product Backlog Prioritization, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Story Point Estimation

Confidential

Business System Analyst / Product Owner /Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a functional consultant to implement SAP (MM, PP, PM, QM and DMS) module across the enterprise.
• As a Business System Analyst, worked closely with manufacturing, IT, and other business partners to drive the development of reporting and analytics platforms, establish and automate data and communication processes.
• Created system requirement document for implementing data management across enterprise to assist the manufacturing group with the collection, storage, analysis, distribution of data to enable a more proactive use of data for predictive analysis.
• Adept in using various techniques like FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis), Value Stream Mapping (SIPOC), Process Elimination, statistical Process Control etc. for Business Process reengineering/Capacity enhancement/Process Yield Improvement
• Led an effort to improve business processes through continuous improvement, business process re-engineering, and using Six Sigma Methodology.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize manufacturing IT projects and initiatives.
• Worked with business users to determine business requirements, identify potential automation / system solutions, and suggest potential configuration changes and enhancements to existing systems.
• Identified the operational and management reporting needs to improve reporting to manufacturing leadership, to drive a powerful feedback loop between the reality of the factory floor and management.
• Performed rigorous analyses on large, complex data sets and provide strategic insights, hypotheses, and conclusions based upon findings
• Expertise in Robot Programming, PLC Programming, and Industrial Automation Solutions,