SUMMARY:

Sr. Business Analyst with around 10 years of experience with strong analytical, functional and problem solving skills. Specialized in requirements elicitation, design, deployment and refinement of major systems. Practical end to end knowledge about the Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC). Self starter, out of the box thinker, highly analytical, team player and a leader with excellent communication skills. Takes initiative, proactive and delivers - to meet key milestones and business objectives. Seeking a challenging and dynamic position with a “Proven and Visionary “ company.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• SQL Queries and statements,
• Peoplesoft Financials(AP, AR,AM and GL)
• Expert knowledge of all MS applications(Word, Excel,outlook, Project, Access,Powerpoint),SDLC, USE CASES, SHARE POINT
• Requirements elicitation, Liason between the business and technical teams, Interface design, data mapping, data conversion, production support, SDLC process, Documentation(BRD,Func.Spec,etc),User Acceptance Tesing preparation and execution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews with business owners to gather requirements and prepared Business documents and Functional documents
• Analyze data from variety of sources in order to provide business insights
• Extensively used SQL queries and statements on regular basis to provide reports and for analysis purposes
• Performed backend testing by validating data between source and target by developing SQL scripts, and verifying
• BA for many projects involving data source changes, creation of new data fields and tables, data mapping, and data mart’s
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify data issues
• Implemented multiple interfaces through SDLC process
• Work with development team on many custom enhancements and bug fixes.
• Interact with Business Users on a regular basis to provide daily support .
• Lead numerous business optimization projects that improved efficiency and maximized profit by automating outdated manual processes.
• Provide user support for day to day operations.
• Handling and prioritizing incoming requests for reports and insights
• Engage with clients/user group to analyze business requirements
• Providing ad-hoc support to the colleagues and cross teams

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a ERP Sr. Business Analyst for Accounts Payable and Profitability Module
• Lead requirement elicitation efforts on Enterprise analysis projects including the elicitation of As-Is and To-Be process
• Analyze and document client’s business requirements and processes
• Implemented Data Mapping strategy, Fit-Gap strategy, Naming Convention strategy, Issue Resolution strategy, and Quality Assurance strategy
• Involved in User acceptance testing, user training, and post-production support
• Worked on creating reports on regular and ad-hoc basis using Oracle, SQL and query manager.
• Worked on process improvement project that involves identification and fixing of redundant rules, incorrect calculations and improvement of processing time.
• Manage web tool application that involves opening/closing production window, upload and FTP files.
• Interact with user group to help them analyze any issues in uploading the files/file format etc.
• Work with application development team to implement enhancements.
• Perform end to end testing of enhancements and bug fixes.
• Heavily involved in month-end/year-end activity
• Performed regression and end-to-end testing after fixes and patches to ensure system integrity.
• Replicated production issues in Quality Assurance (QA) environment to aid developers in issue resolution
• Created test plans, test scripts, and performed multiple iterations of testing, including pre-production business testing to ensure a smooth upgrade.

Confidential, CA

Functional/Designer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Data Mapping strategy, Fit-Gap strategy, Naming Convention strategy, Issue Resolution strategy, and Quality Assurance strategy
• Analyzed, Designed & provided functional specifications/directions for the application development teams.
• Interacted with business owners for gathering requirements and designing the process.
• Analyzed/Designed/Configured the full life-cycle implementation of AP module.
• Involved in User acceptance testing, user training, and post-production support for AP, AR, AM and GL modules.
• Analyzed/Designed multiple custom interfaces, enhancements, change requests, and reports.
• Build trees/queries for users.
• Heavily involved in month-end/year-end activity
• Day to-day association with business analyst and business systems analyst in solving the issues.
• Trouble shooting of various process and reports and bug fixing in Financial interfaces
• Liaised with clients in various industries for requirements and input to architect PeopleSoft solutions, such as accounts payable/accounts receivable (AP/AR), general ledger (GL), and asset management.
• Developed and tested detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes.
• Managed application builds, test planning and execution, and deployment activities.
• Performed planning and data conversion activities.
• Developed and implemented strategy to conduct successful User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assessed requirements/needs of end-users; clarified software features and capabilities to maximize client benefit of systems.
• Conformed to programming standards while coding scripts in applications; worked in coordination with quality team to ensure adherence to required standards.
• Responsible for testing new and existing software to ensure that they were user-friendly. Updated software as per requirements; assisted in adding the new and latest features to existing software applications.
• Sorted end-user queries and problems with optimal applications
• Gathered requirements and provided functional specification to build an interface using client/server technology
• Worked on enhancements and bug fixes
• Performed end to end testing
• Held meetings with vendors and management to outline new business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and tasks.
• Designed, developed, and tested software applications meeting deadlines and budgets.
• Very comfortable using version control system