SUMMARY

• Around 12 years of hands - on experience in teh fields of Retail, Manufacturing domains on data migration, integration and product customizations wif clear understanding of Business Process Flow and Business Analysis.
• Has demonstrated proficiency in areas of project management, technical and analytical support and assisting in gathering business requirements, Quality Assurance and teh leadership of global teams to implement new security, technology and re-engineered business needs.
• Good experience in conductingJoint Application Development (JAD) sessionsto converge early toward a design acceptable to teh customer and feasible for teh developers and to limit a projects exposure to teh forces of change.
• Business Analyst skills - Understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts (OOAD), Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Test Lifecycle, Data Modeling, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Prototyping, Agile and extreme programming methodologies.
• Extensive experience in Business writing skills in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), System Requirement Document (SRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications across teh Deliverables of a project.
• Extensive Experience in UML and Process modeling using Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Good experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to understand detailed functional aspects of business process and carefully recording teh requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams.
• Good experience wif Rational Rose, Rational Requite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, MS Project, MS Visio, Crystal Reports.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) wif teh stakeholders from cross functional teams and teh business users as well as trained users to use teh system configured.
• Good time management and interpersonal skills, which halps in conducting project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews according to teh varied needs of teh people involved.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, AIX, Z-OS, Unix, Linux

Languages: C, VB, VBA, Java, VB.Net

WebTechnology: HTML, XML, HTTP, Jsp, Java Script

Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Agile/Scrum & SDLC

Business Tools: Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Rose, Clear Case), UML, MS Visio, Clarity, TCL/TK, Tableau 8.1

Software Packages: MS Office (Word/Excel/Access, PowerPoint), MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visual Studio, Mind Maps

Testing Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Mercury Test Director

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, DB2

Products: PLM: Dassault enovia v6 (MQL/Engineering/Document/Program centrals), Optima POS: IBM 4690 (Toshiba) / IBM MQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project delivery, Change Management, Business Customer engagement, Stakeholder Management, Engaging Partners - floating RFP, evaluating RFP, Risk Management, Solution Design, Solution Security control,
• Facilitated JAD sessions to collect requirements from system users and prepared business requirement that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.
• Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration wif all stakeholders.
• Developed and managed teh formal Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology which includes Configuration Management, Requirements Management, UML Analysis and Design.
• Assembled and validated business requirement documents (BRD) and teh technical specifications as per user requirements. Closely coordinated wif both business users and developers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution.
• Documented detailed business requirements and process flows using Visio.
• Identified and documented teh dependencies between teh business processes. Also, assisted teh customer in defining teh high-level Functional Requirements and needs.
• Facilitated sprint planning meetings at teh beginning of every sprint wif an end result being a backlog of requirements/sub-requirements that teh team anticipates completing at teh end of teh sprint.
• Facilitated daily stand up meetings to collect requirements from system users and to keep track of wat was done teh day before and wat is to be done that day and strictly enforced time-box approach for these meetings.
• Facilitated teh sprint review meeting to review teh completed work and presented it to teh stakeholders.
• Worked on teh development and changes to teh look and feel of teh web application and performed user acceptance testing (UAT) for errors and System Testing.
• Performed requirement walkthroughs wif teh testing team to develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.
• Managed and controlled change requests/defects using Clear Quest and made sure members in teh team followed teh change guidelines.
• Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.
• Identified bugs and tracked them to completion using Rational Clear Quest.
• Worked to build Strategic Web application to design a migration plan for applications to migrate Network zones and move into virtualization
• Facilitated discussions, presentations and preparation of teh burn out charts and estimated teh schedule of teh project timelines.

Environment: UML, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Access, scrum (Agile) implementation, JAVA, J2EE, JSP, HTML, SQL server 2012 R2, Oracle 11i, SharePoint

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, performed critical path analysis, to identify opportunities for business process improvement.
• Communicated extensively wif teh clients and wif different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Gathered and presented detailed budget estimates and timelines for all phases of project development lifecycle for all proposed solutions.
• Performed Risk Analysis to identify teh business’s critical and high-risk areas of teh application.
• Performed Gap analysis for teh new functionality requirements. Identified and documented teh dependencies between teh business processes.
• Developed and managed teh formal Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology which includes Configuration Management, Requirements Management, UML Analysis and Design.
• Worked closely wif teh program manager / project manager / in country managers & teams to prepare documents such as Business Requirements Document (BRD) and System Requirements Document (SRD).
• Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration wif all stakeholders.
• Facilitated discussions, presentations and preparation of teh burn out charts and estimated teh schedule of teh project timelines.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Entity Relationship (ER) Diagrams in MS-Visio.
• Extensively involved in change management initiatives, managed and controlled change using Clarity, associated requirements to specific change request/enhancements/defects and made sure that other teams were following teh change requests guidelines.
• Performed requirement walkthroughs wif teh testing team to develop testing strategies and test plans such that test cases reflect user needs.
• Conducted GAP analysis to gather new functionality requirements. Also, worked on Agile and SCRUM methodologies for fast completion of projects.

Environment: UML, IBM Web sphere Modeler, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, scrum (Agile) implementation, IBM Rational Software Modeler, JAVA, J2EE, JSP, HTML, SQL server 2000, Oracle 11i, MS SharePoint.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely wifSMEsin understanding and documenting data requirements pertaining topricing data.
• Analyzed business requirements intohigh level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams for data transformations
• Worked closely wif teh data architects/scientist to prepare documents such as Business Requirements Document (BRD) and System Requirements Document (SRD)
• Analyzed requirements document by identifying ambiguous, incomplete and incorrect requirements on data mapping. Also, developed attribute matrix and functionalitytraceability matrix to check if teh current project requirements are being met.
• Analyzed data and created both Class Diagrams and ER Diagrams for designing databases which was Microsoft SQL Server 2008 / DB2 on Mainframe. Also, heavily used SQL Server database to extract data and transformations - develop adaptors specifications & design
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Entity Relationship (ER) Diagrams in MS-Visio.
• Conducted JAD sessions wif management, SME, vendors, users, credit agencies and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.
• Scheduled meetings wif developers, systems analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
• Managed and controlled change requests/defects using Clear Quest and made sure members in teh team followed teh change guidelines.
• Aggregated and Analyzed test metrics weekly from teh database that reflected teh current status of teh test execution and teh state of teh defects, and communicated weekly status report.
• Extensively used DB2 and SQL to analyze data scenarios and data mapping.

Environment: UML, IBM Web sphere Modeler, MS Office Suite, scrum (Agile) implementation, IBM Rational Software Modeler, JAVA, J2EE, JSP, HTML, SQL server 2000, Oracle 11i, SharePoint Test Director.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Understand teh scope of teh project and gathered and documented teh requirements for Optiva PLM customization
• Interviewed SME’s and carefully recorded teh requirements by asking detail questions and documented all teh requirements so that they could be understood by both business people and technical teams.
• Developed and managed teh formal data migration and product customization Methodology which includes Configuration Management, Requirements Management, UML Analysis and Design.
• Closely interacted wif designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and kept them updated about Business users’ sentiments.
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams so that developers and other stakeholders can understand teh business process.
• Created teh user requirement specifications and halped convert them to functional requirements and managed them in Rational Requisite Pro wif proper traceability to teh system requirement specifications (SRS) and also created teh business vision document and glossary.
• Documented workflow according to business specifications and adhering to UML standards.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to manage and track defects, prioritized defects wif each build and made sure that they were communicated to teh effected teams.
• Extracting and transforming data (as per teh Business Rules/logic) from source systems to provide a consistent structure for teh data warehouse environment.
• Worked wif other Business Analysts to extract teh required data to be fed in to teh centralized repository.
• Performed different testing like unit testing, system testing, and functional regression testing.
• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for teh application for intended users.

Environment: Windows XP, MS Office Suite, MS SharePoint, Test Director, MS Visio, Oracle, .Net, HTML, ASP, MS-Project. Back office

Confidential

Functional Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Interacted wif users to determine user requirements and goals thus defining key challenges, project scope, requirements and project deliverables.
• Conducted JAD sessions to discuss architectural solution that meets teh business requirements and work flows for ECR and ECO.
• Interviewed SMEs and IT experts asking detailed questions and carefully recording teh requirements in formats that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical teams across teh organization.
• Analyzed and designed current business processes and proposed solution for business process re-engineering throughout teh process mapping product lifecycle.
• Segregated requirements mapping to Engineering and Document central functionality and BOM management.
• Detailed analysis of engineering BOM release.
• Customization of teh centrals as per client specifications.
• Used MS Project for project planning and status reporting.
• Used Quality Center for organizing and managing all phases of software testing process including planning tests, executing tests, defect tracking and reporting.

Environment: Customized SDLC based on waterfall and iterative development, MQL, MS Visio, Engineering Central, Document Central

Confidential

PLM Consultant

Responsibilities

• Development & maintain PLM application for global manufacturing plant.
• Support sites across teh globe.
• Customized eMatrix solution powered by TCL/TK.
• Designed and implemented process to parse and load various BOM formats.
• Customized eMatrix Engineering central called Manufacturing Central.
• Implement teh BOM loaded functionality and ECN - Engineering Change Notification Module for teh orders received and created
• Customized eMatrix PLM tool to teh requirement of teh Confidential product line
• Implemented EBOM of a part or part family involves document management and involves in Part & Part creations
• Develop EBOM release to SAP