Business Analyst Consultant Resume Profile
New, JerseY
Summary
Senior Business System Analyst with multiple business and technical roles in IT organizations. My main focus is to understand the organization's business needs and work effectively with all stakeholders to define the scope, identify deliverables and select best approaches to solve the business needs. Lead the requirement elicitation and analysis, data analysis, quality assurance testing, production support and user training of several key projects and enhancement requests.
Skills Process Modeling, data analysis, Requirement Analysis, SDLC, BRD, FRD, SRS, Use Cases, QA Testing, SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Office, UML, DOORS, ER Studio, Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Accomplishments
Business Analysis
Confidential
- Responsible for collaborating with board members to strategically define the organization's policy statements for the benefit of the business analysis community.
- Designed a mission statement and participated in the selection process of onsite and webinar speakers in support of the mission of the Professional Development Committee to foster the professional growth of business analysts.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business needs, identify business rules, define and document business requirements to effectively solve the business needs. Obtained stakeholder approvals and translated the business requirements into functional specifications used by developers to easily implement the requested changes. Planned and performed QA testing to validate that implemented changes conformed to the business needs. My contribution along with the team's effort resulted in the creation of a web-based system that allowed our users to manage their review data online at 100 instead of manually recording data on spreadsheets.
- Led the definition of functional and non-functional requirements and analyzed requirement specifications of the interface process to upload invoices into the organization's financial system. This effort contributed in the reconciliation of financial data between the interfacing systems. Financial reports were created allowing users to validate if the data was in synchand avoiding several manual interventions to figure out data issues. Conductedtraining sessions teaching the teamhow to load batches, apply payments and generate debit or credit memos in GP. The presentation was instrumental in helping the team process unit test data and reduced implementation time.
- Became the main point of contact to investigate production issues on several applications. Users relied on that expertise to request recommendations and prioritize enhancement requests.
Business Analyst Consultant
Confidential
- Contributed to the definition of Quality Assurance test plan and test cases. Assisted the lead QA tester in the creation of test data that effectively validated applicable test scenarios.
- Lead project feasibility meetings, tracked project status, wrote detailed requirement specifications, conducted project walk-through, wrote and executed test cases and resolved open issues on the project. This effort helped the team in continuing to meet our end users expectations for on time delivery with fewer resources when key team members accepted a Forced Management Package.
- Recommended requirement components for re-use and uncovered opportunities to convert manually intensive processes to a web-based system. The effort positively affected the goal of reducing average cycle time request of capacity from 1 hour to 10 minutes per engineer.
- Managed the smooth transition of the RESPOND off-shore and re-shore of projects by designing the Statement of Work SOW , coordinating time and cost, identifying areas of risk and keeping track of project status. With dedication and hard work all features were delivered on time and with fewer resources.
