PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 4+ years of experience analyzing data to solve business problems.
• Robust understanding of software development life cycle from requirements planning, design, development, configuration, integration, implementation, testing, training and production support in agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Demonstrated analytical acumen working with multiple algorithms and techniques to design products and solution that have a direct and immediate business impact.
• Highly motivated individual willing to go above and beyond to achieve business deliverables.
• Expert in developing business requirement document, functional requirement document, use cases, UML diagrams, RTM, test cases, test plans and test reports.
• Proven track record of data - driven decision making and problem solving. Quantitative and statistical rigor to drive business solutions on time.
• Experience working with large number of stakeholders in cross-functional teams supporting multiple ongoing projects.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle methodologies (phases and gates) like Agile and Waterfall models.
• Led the requirement analysis workshops with key stakeholders and created Business requirements document (BRD)
• Worked in the ETL Procedures and processes. Reconciled disparate master data from distributed systems and synchronized this reliable data with analytical and operational systems using master data management (MDM) solution.
• Expert in documentation, preparing templates and status reports implementations
• Translating client requirements into highly specified user stories using various elicitation techniques.
• Hardcore customer driven approach to design and launch new productswith the ability to think creatively to develop new and innovative solutions to complex problems of the customer and Stakeholder.
• Strong understanding of agile and scrum methodology. Proficient in collaboration tools like Rally and JIRA.
• Extensive working experience withmachine learning techniques likeregression, classification and clustering in R and Python.
• Hands on experience in implementing algorithms such as naive bayes,decision trees, random forests,linear and logistic regression, SVM, KNN andneural networks.
• Proficient in using MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote,Outlook)
• Experienced in writing SQL queries. Data visualization in tableau.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Huntsville, Alabama

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for inventory planning and monitoring the cost of holding inventory.
• Identified various risk, opportunities and threats to diversify product offerings resulting in steady annual sales growth of 11%. Analyzed sales data to monitor trends, add and withdraw products.
• Work in an agile-scrum environment where documentation, attention to detail, and team collaboration is required. Significant project management experience and high attention to detail.
• Excellent knowledge of the Agile / Scrum and Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Life Circle (SDLC).
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Created test scenarios and developed test plans to be used in testing the business applications in order to verify that client requirements are incorporated in to the system design
• Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on budget and acclaimed "go-live" of enterprise implementations.
• Analyzed and documented the business requirements and generated reports for the Manager.
• Wrote the software development plan and held meetings with the developers and forwarded Information and documents to them.
• Performed business analysis, requirement specifications, project planning and identifying the resources and implementation of the project.
• Act as a liaison between the staff members, management, end customers, and stakeholders.
• Developed modules and guidelines to identify and minimize the losses occurring from credit card frauds and counterfeits.
• Responsible for documenting and requirement planning for increasing store capacity and re-modeling initiative by ensuring project cost, scope and deadline are properly met on time.
• Partnered with IT vendor to integrate a new POS system, enhanced store security and surveillance system. Performed back-end testing to identify bugs and issues.

Confidential

Marketing / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Shrinked Inventory holding cost by 13% and increased repetitive customer sales by 21%
• Executed customer data analysis to gain key business insights for strategic planning.
• Formalized the organizational database for data warehousing and manipulation.
• Prepared test scripts using ALM based on the design and objectives from JAD sessions
• Scheduled prototype presentation of the newly developed application
• Responsible for consolidating list of testers for the UAT Cycle and scheduling of it
• Incorporated market research approach for new product development. Successfully created two new products for different division
• Tailored effective promotional activities of various outlets to enhance customer benefit package.
• Act as a liaison between the developers, management, end users, and stakeholders
• Launched a customer loyalty program by capturing complex requirements, documenting project needs and deliverables while performing all analysis efforts during the full-life cycle of the SDLC process.