PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 13+ years of diversified experience in the industry with specialization in Business Analysis. Extensive experience in gathering Business requirements, Business processes, identifying risks and Impact analysis.
• Full life cycle Software Development experience including Requirements, Analysis/Design, and Testing as per the Project Life Cycle process.
• Conducting requirement gathering sessions, feasibility studies and Impact Analysis and organizing the software requirements in a structured way using MS Excel/Word/Visio to track development.
• Extensive experience in Business Objects Reporting tool including creating/managing Dashboards, Development and Scheduling of reports as per the user requirements.
• Experience in Advanced Excel (Pivot Table, Macros, V - Lookups, and Reports) and ability to run reports in Business objects.
• Facilitated meetings with Subject Matter experts (SMEs), asking detailed questions and carefully recording requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical people.
• Worked in close co-ordination with the testing team in developing test plan and test cases from functional and business requirements.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance testing and Training of the end users.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Business Intelligence: SAP Business Objects (Reporter, Broadcast Agent, Web Intelligence), Siebel Analytics 7.7.1/7.5

RDBMS: Toad for Oracle 11.5, SQL Developer, MS Access

Data Modeling: Microsoft Visio 4.0, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Erwin 4.0/4.1.4

ETL: Informatica Power Mart/Power Center 5.1/6.1/6.2

CAREER PROFILE:

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in research and review sessions of project scope in order to understand the ultimate goal of project needs, updated and documented the requirements as per the SMEs, Consultant Staff and/or Project manager’s input.
• Presented a working knowledge across business methodologies and processes involved and adjusted to constantly changing project requirements, process or cultures
• Participated in production deployment and modelling design changes in an ever changing project and downstream consumption requirements.
• Created detailed Business/Technical Requirement documents and established a strong issue identification and remediation tracking processes.
• Followed a structured approach to organize test plan, test cases and defect tracking processes applying Agile Methodologies and track all defects in ALM/JIRA platform(s) ensuring that critical requirements/defects/issues are not missed.
• Provided leadership, motivation and established a teamwork environment among the members for the project team.

Confidential

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the full project life cycle for complex cross-functional projects focused on meeting CCAR - focused management & regulatory requirements.
• Partnered with Stakeholders across the Finance, Risk and Technology for the delivery of critical projects.
• Developed and implemented detailed project plans by managing the planning, documenting, testing and executing, along with tasks, budgets, timelines and project team members to successfully complete projects on and within budget.
• Experience in resource planning, scope assessment, testing framework, communication plan, reporting metrics templates, defect reports and bug fixes.
• Documented the data requirements from the FRB to support the development of CCAR - Stress testing Assemblage program.
• Managed, developed and implemented the project life cycle of detailed project plans using standard project plans and delegated project tasks including Test Plan and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Managed team members of the project team, consisting of members reporting to functional managers within the Bank, third party vendors, and consultants.
• Advised, influenced and coached team members in the development and achievement of project goals.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst / QA Testing lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with leading Stakeholders, large cross-platform teams, Quality Assurance Management team& Operations counterparts to manage and define a smooth data automation process across cross tracks.
• Experience in working with multiple sources of information, aggregate and produce data sets for analysis.
• Created, maintained and modified the business reports using the Business Objects Reporting Module.
• Worked with IT as a QA Lead/Analyst supporting areas across Web application, Business Intelligence, across diverse business and Technical environments, with demonstrated leadership abilities and setting up testing environment.
• Experience with BAT testing and UAT testing by working closely with SME and various IT team(s) to understand the Business logic and create test scenarios accordingly for a successful E2E validation.
• Involved in problem solving and defect reports using defect tracking tool like Quality Center (QC) and Issue tracker and created training guideline document for testing and tracking reasons.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business users, Product & Project managers and provided effective solutions to business problems. Functioned as point of interface between technical and functional teams.
• Analyzed the business to identify problems and/or opportunities and to define solution characteristics.
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Involved in Gap Analysis and provided recommendations to meet Customer requirements.
• Involved in understanding and defining Custom based software solution.
• Experience in building data/business analytical models and the ability to create graphical and convincing presentations.
• Captured enhancements suggested by end users and work with Application and Solutions team to accommodate the user’s requests.
• Involved in creating test scenarios and designing test cases based on those scenarios and dividing them into BAU, UAT test phases and executing them in timely manner to ensure accuracy and consistency of the Behavioral pattern with GDR project implementation.

Confidential, CA

HRIS Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with HR, Finance, Legal and other functional managers to identify information needs.
• Experienced in professional consultation across all phases of project initiation, planning, requirement gathering and analysis, functional design, development and configuration, testing, UAT activities and error resolution, user training and post Go Live support.
• Communicated effectively with management and identified data requirements & development needs for HR metrics, reports and dashboards.
• Involved in designing the HR metrics and provided interpretation to global users/customers on data definition and reporting system process.
• Developed reporting queries, generated ad-hoc Monthly & Quarterly reports, Automated and broadcasted reports to SharePoint to support global business unit initiatives and needs.
• Worked closely with the testing team on designing the test cases, creating test queries and executing them to ensure the accuracy and consistency of global HR data and preserving testing documentation and updated the cases to track issues/bugs on SharePoint, JIRA (defect tracking tool) and Quality center tool to track test cases and its status.
• Experienced in creating training guidelines to users and involved in providing the necessary training demos on the utilization of BOBJ tools and supported those on a regular basis post Go Live.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took part in meetings and conferences with project managers and experts and got a knowledge regarding varied business procedures, procedural programs and policies involved in creating the necessary yearly reports for higher visibility.
• Handled various activities of both large and small scale projects such as information meeting or convention, investigating it, preparing functional supplies and documenting business.
• Involved in gathering specifications in order to enhance their business circle and ensure it meets business requirements based on Federal and State laws on Spend expenses across both HCP/HCOs (Health Care Professionals/Organizations).
• Documented complete data modeling and data conversion need documents as per the business requirement using Windows 7 software application.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports and updated the cases to track issues/bugs on SharePoint.
• Involved in giving training to the users on the latest reporting requirements to fulfill the business needs using BO Info view tool and Windows 7 MS office tools.

Confidential, CA

Production Support - Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with Management, Business and System Users to gather and analyze the business requirements, identify business processes and create detailed system design, scope and documents for both functional and technical specifications as well as propose enhancements.
• Coordinated with development team to discuss the requirements and development strategy for the project.
• Evaluated E-commerce processes and on-going support structures to enable reuse and efficiency across Financial, Accounting, and Marketing teams along with end user(s) requirements.
• Investigated and resolved data issues across platforms and applications, including discrepancies of definition, format and function.
• Manage off-shore team for functional enhancements & application report development and delivery.
• Created, maintained and modified the business reports using the Business Objects Reporting Module.
• Created test and project plans for validating analytical results and loading of production data.
• Involved in production Support, BO installation and gave training to end users on both Atlas web application and BO reporting module.

Confidential, CA

Financial Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on identification and documentation of business metrics and was involved in creating the Business System Design Requirement (BSDR), Product requirement documents (PRD) and Project plans.
• Respond in a timely manner to data modeling requests to ensure daily, weekly and monthly deadlines and goals are met.
• Participated in design, code and test plan walkthrough with the development and design team members.
• Assisted data analyst in mapping tasks and analysis of existing reports from various big data sources.
• Identified the reporting requirements and prepared the requirements specifications document. This involved interviewing the business users and understanding the current reporting system.
• Reviewed and modified complex business reports using Siebel Analytics Worked extensively on Siebel Answers to create the reports as per the client requirements.
• Provided user support and training in using Report Designer for creating Adhoc reports.
• Involved in Production support and gave training to the end users.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Users, Developers, Project Managers and Process Analysts to understand the business process, identify enhancements and gather Business Requirements.
• Identify and discuss requirements with business user and technical team.
• Experience in Advanced Excel (Pivot Table, Macros, V-Lookups, and Reports) and ability to run reports in Business objects.
• Reverse engineered requirements from existing reports.
• Experience in working across various group boundaries and vendor marketing management.
• Unit testing is performed at every stage and participated in developing user training document
• Reviewed and modified complex business reports using Siebel Analytics.

Confidential, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated collection of functional requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to work upon.
• Used the guidelines and artifacts involved to strategize the Implementation of the Process effort in different iterations and phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Developed Use Cases to explain business requirements to the development team. Created and developed mock-ups and flow-chart presentations and other enhancement documents as a part of new process change approval.
• Responsible for various documentations such as Vision, Use case, Business Requirements and Functional requirements, Supplemental Specifications etc.
• Involved in production Support and gave training to the users.