SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diverse experience in the field of IT with emphasis on Business Analysis, writing Business Case, Business and Functional Requirements, Test Plans, UAT and Rollouts.
• Certified SAP ERP 6.0 Business Associate
• Hands on experience with SAP ECC 6.0 modules.
• 6+ years of experience of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, Spiral, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Prototype and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Expert business knowledge Retail and Apparel Industry with emphasis in Supply Chain Management, International Procurement and Vendor Management
• Extensive experience in Financial Industry with emphasis on Futures, Forwards, Options, Fixed Income and Order Management System (OMS)
• Full lifecycle implementation and integration experience of SAP modules like MM, PP, WM, CRM and SCM
• Extensive experience in documenting process flows using UML 2.0; State Transition, Activity, Class, Sequence and Composite diagrams
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills with AppDEV, Project Managers, SMEs, stakeholders and end - users.
• Extensive experience in conducting GAP analysis, documenting Current State (AS-IS), preparing Future State (TO-BE), preparing Transition Strategies
• Extensively utilized requirements collaboration techniques; workshops, storyboards, questionnaires, interviews, use cases, scenario descriptions, document walkthroughs, constructive debates, brainstorming and JAD sessions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Analysis Tools: ReqPRO, DOORS, CalibrRM, MS Visio, Blue Print, MS Office

Testing Tools: Quality Center/Test Director, QTP, LoadRunner.

Databases: DB2, SQL Server and Oracle.

Operating Systems: MVS/ISPF, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows2000, XP, NT, UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Kent, Washington

Sr. Business Analyst and Project Coordinator (BA/PC)

Responsibilities:

• Working in an Agile Environment utilizing SCRUM methodology.
• Constantly working with the product owner to review and groom the backlog and prioritize stories for the sprint commitment.
• Writing User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Actively involved in the planning process, trade-off decisions and Portfolio Management, Change Management, Release Management and Quality Assurance (QA)
• Extensively interacting with SMEs, stakeholders, user groups and cross-functional teams in requirements gathering activities and translating those requirements to the technical team.
• Facilitate meetings and sessions through the discovery phases and requirements gathering with the vendor.
• Closely working with various teams for seamless integration of the application eg SAP, ASPECT, BW reporting, CSA, CDW.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented AS-IS and TO-BE states and prepared Transition Strategies
• Defined functional and non- functional requirements.
• Working closely with Retail Operations team to develop training and deployment strategy.
• Extensively utilizing requirements collaboration techniques; storyboards, questionnaires interviews, use cases, scenario walkthroughs, brainstorming and JAD sessions.
• Involved in Peer Reviews, External Reviews and Walkthroughs.
• Prepared and presented weekly status report for higher management.
• Co-ordinate with project manager to ensure the project is moving within the specified timeline and is functioning with the agreed upon scope.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Sr. Business Analyst and Project Coordinator (BA/PC)

Responsibilities:

• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for up gradation / new implementation / integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP.
• Responsible for full lifecycle of data conversion process.
• Expertise in Master Data Management (MDM), Demand Management, MRP, Shop Floor Control (SFC), Discrete, Repetitive, Variant Configuration, Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock
• Extensively utilized Agile/SCRUM Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Liaison between the various stakeholders, user groups, SMEs, and cross-functional teams. Extensively interacting with SMEs in requirements development activities and translating those requirements to the technical team.
• Captured critical information on core business processes, business rules, business entities and other information.
• Defined functional and non- functional requirements. Translated business requirements into functional specifications.
• Extensively utilized requirements collaboration techniques; storyboards, questionnaires, interviews, use cases, scenario walkthroughs, brainstorming and JAD sessions.
• Hands- on experience writing requirements; BRD, HLR, FRD, SRS, SDD, TRD, Use Cases, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Completion Reports and RTM.
• Designed data models- conceptual, logical and physical models
• Involved in Peer Reviews, External Reviews and Walkthroughs.
• Prepared and presented weekly status report for higher management.
• Extensively used SharePoint for documents collaboration, version Control, team interactions, assigning tasks to the resources, providing updates to the stakeholders.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Business Analyst and UAT Coordinator (BA/UAT)

Responsibilities:

• Forwards and Futures Backwardation, Commodity futures, Contango, Currency future, Financial future, Forward market, Forward price, Forward rate, Interest rate future, Margin, Pricing of Forwards, Pricing of Futures, Single-stock futures,
• Fixed Income: Bond Pricing, Equity, Preferred Stocks, Pensions, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), Customer Price Index (CPI), Capital Market, Corporate, Government and Municipal bond, Bond valuation, High-yield debt
• Extensively utilized Agile/SCRUM Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology
• Supported in the planning process, trade-off decisions and Portfolio Management, Change Management, Release Management, Change Control Board (CCB) and Quality Assurance (QA)
• Assisted the client to gain in-depth understanding of the business requirements, organize and prioritize the requirements to develop business requirement content for specifications.
• Extensively interacted as a liaison between the various stakeholders, SMEs and cross-functional teams during requirements development and translated the requirements to the technical team.
• Captured critical information on core business processes, business rules and other information.
• Prepared UAT Test Plan, Test Scenarios/Scripts as per functional requirements using QC 10.0.
• Participated in Agile iteration meetings and QA and UAT activities for all releases of the Project.
• Used Quality Center to prepare test cases, procedures, requirements traceability matrix and also to manage the defects as per the business requirements.
• Worked closely with Development as well as QA teams for on time closure of testing issues.
• Distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements

Confidential, Greenwich, CT

Sr. Business Analyst and Quality Assurance (BA/QA)

Responsibilities:

• Extensively utilized Agile/SCRUM Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules and ensured that critical requirements are not missed.
• Interacted and conducted one on one session with the SMEs to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Extensively utilized requirements collaboration techniques; workshops, storyboards, questionnaires, interviews, use cases, scenario descriptions, document walkthroughs, constructive debates, brainstorming and JAD sessions.
• Responsible for creating traceability matrix to ensure all requirements are covered by test cases.
• Prepared Test cases and uploaded to QC, mapped test cases to the requirements, executed test cases and managed defects.
• Created customer requirements, product requirements, analytical diagrams and ER diagrams.
• Prepared QA Test Plan, Test Scenarios/Scripts as per functional requirements using QC 10.0.
• Understanding the CRM workflow to improve the process by defining accurate requirements.
• Checked the data flow through the front - end and back-end and extensively used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Tracked, detected and reported bugs while conducting extensive testing and retested bugs after they have been fixed in Quality Center (QC).
• Created minutes of the meeting (MOM) and flow diagrams using MS VISIO
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Business Systems Analyst (BSA)

Responsibilities:

• Options: Spread (Bear, Bull, Box, Butterfly, Calendar, Diagonal, Ratio, Vertical, Inter-market) Valuation of options Binomial, Black, Black - Scholes, Garman-Kohlhagen, Put - call parity, Simulation, Value at Risk (VaR) and Greeks
• Extensively utilized Agile Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology
• Hands- on experience writing requirements; BRD, HLR, FRD, SRS, SDD, TRD, Use Cases, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Completion Reports and RTM.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with all the project directors and stakeholders.
• Wrote business scenarios, test cases and test scripts based on business requirements for the GUI and functionality to be used for Internal Acceptance testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Reviewed and evaluated all the modules of the software before delivery to users to ensure that software application meets the standard criteria.
• Verified and validated the application to ensure that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Developed the Test Procedures and Test Cases using SRS.
• Conducted BRD walkthroughs for stakeholders, SMEs, users and cross functional teams.
• Used Test Director to manage the requirements, test scripts and also defects.
• Developed SQL Queries to check data validity and database Integrity.
• Co-ordinate meetings with Developers on change requests, Critical Issues, and modifications.

Confidential

Business Analyst (BA)

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Inventory Management, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Reservations, Movement types, Stock Transfer Order (STO), Sub Contracting, Purchase Order, Transfer Postings, Goods Invoice and Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV)
• SAP Material Management expertise includes Purchasing, Info Records, Pricing, Inventory Management, Procurement-to-Pay (P2P)and Invoice Verification
• Ability to take large amounts of collected information and turning it into a well-organized and succinct package that is easily understood and beneficial to all stakeholders
• Extensive experience in documenting process flows using UML 2.0; State Transition, Activity, Class, Sequence and Composite diagrams
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills with AppDEV, Project Managers, SMEs, stakeholders and end - users.
• Discussed different functional requirements and defined high-level design and use cases.
• Monitored client expectations through client involvement and communication throughout the lifecycle of the project; educate clients and stakeholders on risk associated with the project.
• Extensive experience in conducting, training and roll out sessions to the end user community via online an in person sessions.