SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience working as Business Analyst in IT, Financial, Manufacturing Management and E - Commerce domain.
• Act as liaison between clients (business team) and (IT team) development.
• Involved in workflow, process flow and GAP Analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements and reported on business processes.
• Managed vendor relations and supported with contract.
• Proficient in Technical writing (FRD), Business Writing (BRD), User Stories creation.
• Hybris commerce web platforms, extensive knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC), Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) and software development methodologiessuch as Agile/Scrum, RUP, Waterfall etc. Expertise in conducting Surveys and Prototyping independently
• Good working knowledge on Scrum concepts like Scrum team, Sprint planning, User stories, Daily standup etc.
• Expertise includes process analysis, software solution, planning, project risk and scope analysis
• Excellent coordination skills in handling large projects which involves multiple stakeholders.
• Good at tracking issues, detect and update the status of existing issues based on the daily meetings with the off-shore team
• Worked expansively on Creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence diagram relevant to the project requirement.
• Facilitated Change Management across entire process from Project conceptualization to Testing through Project Delivery
• Eperience working on data conversion and data mapping of the legacy data to new data base.
• Experience working on Test, development and production environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Operating Systems, Office including Microsoft Project and Visio.
• Experience in creation of Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) to depict the source-to-Target Mapping and Data Lineage Analysis.
• Excellent at interacting and effectively communicate with people fromdiverse backgrounds, highlighting teamwork and problem solving.
• Proficient in executing SQL queries to create user reports, data validation.
• Excellent experience in Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Progression Testing, Integration Testing. Participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Skills: Salesforce CRM, Business Process Analysis, Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis, MS Project

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Requirements Management Tool: Power Designer, Rational Rose, MS Office

Languages: XML, SQL, UML, Java

Issue Tracking Tools: JIRA, Remedy

Middleware Products: webMethods, Tibco

Project Management Tools: MS Project

ERP Systems: JDE, DCS, XA, Salesforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

BA Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for interacting with client for requirements gathering, analyzing requirements, and creating detailed specifications.
• Analyzed source systems for conformance with technical requirements and prioritized changes to be implemented.
• Documented business requirements, user requirements, functional requirements and non-functional requirements on trading platform and data hub migration from business.
• Involved in the design of Data model.
• Personal data testing with the customers, so that the existing data could be improved and it could not include redundancy of data.
• Designed ETL mappings to load business data into data ware house staging areas.
• Implemented ETL logic using MS excel, EtQ, PL/SQL procedures, Shell scripting.
• Created Mappings using Mapping Designer to load the data from various sources.
• Involved in evaluating existing mappings for performance issues, able to cut down processing times by more than half.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Performed Manual Back-End testing to map the source data to the target data to verify that the data does not get corrupted traveling from front end to the back end and vice-versa.
• Participated in the bug review meetings, Updated requirement document as per business user feedback and change in functionality of the application
• Assisted client in developing content and materials; recommended enhancements and identified new business requirements ensuring appropriate documentation.
• After successful development and testing of the product, participated in product release and deployment to end-user.
• Coordinated and performed testing in EtQ using test data.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Good at problem solving with Off shore and on shore team.
• Organized decision oriented meetings, managed time and people to get the results delivered, developed automation frameworks, and created knowledge sharing culture.

Environment: Oracle 9i, Informatica Power Center 9.6, Power, SQL*Plus, XML, Ms office and EtQ.

Confidential

BA

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirement by analyzing the needs and documented the same, created reports and PowerPoint presentation for better understanding.
• Act as liaison between clients (business team) and (IT team) development, facilitate sessions to bring business requirements and functionality into system development and enhancement.
• Created data migration and documentation for business and managed data cleanup activities.
• Used AGILE methodology and coordinated with other members to implement the process and create the following various artifacts scope statement: high-level requirements, detail requirements (usecases), functional specification.
• Wrote and executed SQL statements in TOAD to retrieve data from Oracle database.
• Co-ordinated and managed projects with off shore teams and business from all ERPs and also provided post production support after Go-Live.
• Developed several excel sheet and converted into UTF-8 form for data migration, worked on Excel Macros and other functions such as V-Look up and Pivot tables.
• Gathered reporting requirements for building dashboard for online planning solution, closely Worked with Finance SMEs & Trained business users on tableau.
• Maintained a requirements traceability matrix in order to keep the clients and all the teams up-to-date with the current progress of the project.
• Collected Stock Data from various ERPs and performed GAP Analysis.
• Conducted System, Integration and regression testing of the application.
• Conducted walkthroughs and defect meetings periodically to assess the status of the testing process and discuss areas of criticality.
• Worked with financial analysts for integrating price with inventory at month end and make strategic decisions about field inventory.
• Ensured that the testing effort was progressing as scheduled and within the specified timeframe of the project scope.

Environment: Tibco, XA, DCS, Salesforce CRM andMs Office, SQL,Oracle 9i, Informatica Power Center 9.6,Tableau,Cisco, VPN Client, Citrix access, WebEx, HTML

Confidential, Houston TX

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the scope and rules of the project, gathering requirements, and document them textually or using models.
• Involved in all phases of the Iterative approach of the SDLC from Inception to Transition.
• Responsible for Planning, Scheduling, Task Distribution and Tracking.
• Developed work breakdownstructures and project schedules allowing teams to coordinate and distribute tasks
• Used extensive working material ranging from soft to hard copy s and often conducted research including surveys to define users’ needs as per project objectives.
• Managed projects and portfolio.
• Used logical approach to problem solving.
• A strong understanding of professional software development practice.
• Able to communicate complex issues to a large range of problems at all levels.
• Involved in designing use case scenarios, use case realizations diagrams, and workflow charts for documenting the requirements.
• Involved with Testing phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout the project life cycle.
• Possessing a solid academic understanding of Microsoft office, computer languages and software development.
• Conducted Stand-Up Meetings to decide what needs to get done.
• Proven ability to meet agreed project and customer satisfaction targets.
• Good at managing team.
• Have exposure tofullfil requirements and concept of workflow / reporting.

Confidential

BA

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the project manager, business lead and technical lead to identify, research and escalate issues and risks to the appropriate work stream for resolution
• Analyzed the business requirements, estimations and planning.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancements and modifications with business users and stakeholders.
• Designed test scripts for the project.
• Created Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams thus defining the Data Process Model and Business Process Model.
• Involved in meetings with Business process owners, SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) and Marketing team for requirements gathering during the definition stage
• Worked on Testing Integration scenarios with ERP platforms.
• Working on Test Plan, Test Data and Test strategy.
• Data analysis and cleansing after the conversion of the data.
• Participated in Release planning meetings and Release sign off meetings.
• Tracking the issues reported by business users and including them as part of businessrequirements in the functional documents.
• Responsible for e-procurement and demand forecasting effort.
• Assisted project manager with the development of project schedules.
• Conducted weeklysessions with SMEs, Business teams, IT teams to track and document action items, TBDs status, conflicts and risk related issues.
• Data analysis and cleansing after the conversion of the data.

Environment: SQL, Java, XML,Informatica,Microsoft Visio, Citrix access, VPN Client, Windows 2000/XP, WebEx, Oracle, HTML, Share Point, MS Office