SUMMARY

• I have 7 Years of experience spanning across multiple roles including Business analyst, Consultant, QA Tester, Auditor and Accountant in IT industry.
• I am a recognized team builder by encouraging people and mentoring them with my interpersonal skills, and bringing the right talent together to ensure project success. I possess expertise in Business analysis, Quality Assurance, and document control.
• Good domain knowledge and work experience in the areas of FAR, A/R, A/P, Sales Tax, VAT, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Shipping, Fund Raising and Multicurrency
• Expert knowledge of accounting and reconciliation of financial data
• Good understanding of Balance Sheet and Income Statement
• Knowledge of lockbox testing and processing
• Understanding of shares, bonds, derivatives and options
• Knowledge of web application
• Knowledge of SAP from end user perspective
• Expertise in accounting and auditing of enterprises
• Good Understanding of Insurance Industry (co - insurance, re-insurance, property, casualty, etc.)
• Expertise in User Requirement Analysis, Functional Specifications, Writing Use Cases, Business Requirements gathering and full Software Development Life cycle
• Experience in UML for creating Use Case design and analysis, Use Case specifications, Scenarios and Business processes
• Extensive experience in Use Case design and analysis, Use Case specifications, Scenarios and Business processes
• Experienced in creating and developing Test Requirements, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Reports, and Defect Reports for Manual and automation tests.
• Experienced in preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Data for Client/Server and Web application.
• Possess strong Project management skills, keeping in mind the objectives of the project and constraints affecting time, scope and budget.
• Strong with Planning, Maintaining and Executing Test Cases, Defect Management and Bug Tracking.
• Well versed with SQL queries to fetch the data for root cause analysis.
• Experienced in dealing with end clients, coordinating with Business Analyst at various stages of QA life cycle.
• Strong analytical experience in developing functional specifications, and application rules based on specific Web based Application Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Backend Testing, Regression Testing and Package Testing.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills with strong interpersonal skills and extremely reliable, quick learner and able to work independently as well as a team member
• Experience with Data Analysis using Personify as frontend and SQL as the querying interface.
• Interacted regularly with the development team, database designer and the higher management to meet the deadlines of Project milestones.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: MS Office Suite, Quality Center, Parature, Personify, ERP, Enterprise Architect, MS Visio

Platforms: Windows NT 4.0/98/2000/2003/ XP, MS-DOS, .NET

Languages: SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, DOS

Databases: SQL SERVER 2005/2008

MS Server: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010 Server/Site Administration, WSS 3.0 Server/Site Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created use cases and business use case models after assessing the scope and status of the project and understanding the business processes from a user perspective.
• Involved in client interaction and requirement gathering
• Gathered functional and non functional requirements as part of the project
• Involved in Regression and Package Testing before release of new version
• Assisted the Test Lead in designing test plans, test scenarios and test cases for integration to improve the overall quality of the application
• Analysed the issues using SQL
• Was part of the SME(Subject Matter Expert) for the FAR(Financial) module of the application
• Recorded the test cases for web based application and checked the functionality of the application
• Wrote User Acceptance Test Cases and involved in UAT testing
• Performed validation testing after the bugs got fixed
• Involved in Root Cause Analysis regarding data integrity issues
• Running the DI scripts and analyzing the Data Integrity issues

Environment: .Net, Microsoft Word, Quality Center

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in interaction with the client and requirement gathering
• Documenting of requirements and converting them into use cases
• Gathered functional and non functional requirements for the project
• Involved in designing test plans, test cases and test scenarios for improving the quality of the application
• Involved in developing regression test scenarios
• Engaged in manual testing of ERP/CRM application
• Developed positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing and generated reports
• Ensured that the accounting entries for various transactions are correctly being generated by the application
• For customized version ensured that the entire accounting cycle from generation of voucher to creation of Balance Sheet is correctly being followed by the system
• Provided to team members on functional issues
• Analyzed application, system and security errors and escalated issues to developers
• Performed verification of the reported defects to ensure that they actually existed
• Performed validation after the defects were fixed
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and worked in close coordination with the developers to fix the issues

Environment: .Net, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Quality Center

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in data extraction and data migration for implementing customized version of SAP
• Reconciled the financial data of the client
• Prepared the upload files
• Handled all accounts including Accounts Receivables, Payables, Fixed Assets to ensure the data was migrated correctly from one unit to another
• Posted Invoices in SAP
• Involved in data clearing
• Engaged in regular interaction with the team members and management to ensure that the process be carried out effectively
• Created reports to be submitted to the client

Environment: SAP, Microsoft Excel

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Obtained complete list of all assets included in the fixed assets register
• Verified physical existence of fixed assets as compared to position as stated in the books of accounts
• Reviewed the invoices to ensure that the original cost and other expenses incurred in relation to the assets have been recorded correctly
• Involved in tagging of fixed assets
• Verified that the depreciation expenses for various assets have been calculated correctly with to the original cost, method of depreciation and depreciable life of the asset
• Ensured that any sale/disposition/write off of asset has been correctly recorded in the books of accounts
• Compared physical existence of inventory with position as stated in the books of account
• Ensured whether proper records are kept up-to-date for all materials
• Ensured that any incoming/outgoing materials are properly authorized
• Checked that surplus and scrap items are correctly recorded and controlled
• Reported the material variances to the client

Environment: Microsoft Excel, Oracle

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Obtained list of all cash and bank balances and obtained confirmation from the bankers for the same
• Verified whether any payments were made in cash over and above the statutory limit
• Checked whether the payments have been properly authorized
• Produced break up of miscellaneous income along with detailed workings
• Produced Sales Reconciliation with Sales Tax/VAT Returns
• Obtained the depreciation schedule and ensured that depreciation has been provided correctly
• Obtained various challans to ensure that the statutory dues have been paid timely
• Produced break up of manufacturing expenses
• Ensured that the inventories have been valued correctly
• Checked whether any long outstanding debt needs to be written off
• Obtained list of agreement from parties from which loans have been obtained and checked whether interest has been charged at the rates specified in the agreement
• Created reports to be submitted to the client

Environment: Tally, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word

Confidential

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Creation of ledger accounts
• Recorded the expenses under the relevant account heads
• Bifurcated the incomes and recorded under the relevant account
• Involved in bank reconciliation and A/R, A/P reconciliation
• Created Trial Balance from the ledger balances
• Passed the closing entries, adjustment entries and rectification entries
• Created Income Statement from the Trial Balance
• Created various schedules including debtors, creditors, depreciation and fixed assets
• Prepared the balance sheet of the enterprise stating all its assets and liabilities as on the current date

Environment: Tally, MS Word, MS Excel, DOS