SUMMARY

• PMP certified IT Project Manager/Business Analyst with a total of 14+ Years of experiencethe implementation and successful delivery of complex information systems
• Project Management: Seasoned consultant with strong Business and technical acumen, outstandingproject planning, budgeting, execution, monitoring, reporting, risk management and resourcebalancing skills
• Business Analysis: Skilled at running sessions with business users, stakeholders and subject matter experts and eliciting needs and translating those needs into concise functional and non - functional requirements
• Quality Assurance: Experienced in leading testing teams, test plans, test cases and execution of test cases in SIT, Integration and CAT/UAT environments
• SDLC & Methodologies: Strong end-to-end noledge of traditional Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies,Scrum master combined with hands-on IT experiences
• Govt. projects: State of IDAHO and State of NEWYORK.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provideaccurate reportingand information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives
• Excellent team management, interpersonal, Problem-solving and communication skills complemented with strong customer relationship experience
• Business Process Analysis and redesign
• Project Planning, tracking, monitoring and governance
• Cost, Resource estimation and allocation
• Change Control through incident/problem management
• Application support setup and governance
• Financial Planning & Analysis, Cost center Planning and Forecasting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP BPC 10.0 NW
• SAP BPC 7.5 MS
• SAP FICO
• SAP HANA
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Project
• Remedy
• Oracle
• MS SQL Server
• TSQL
• PL/SQL
• JAVA J2EE
• JavaScript
• HTML
• VB Script
• WebSphere Business Modeler
• BI XLMiner
• VISIO
• Rational Clear Case
• Rational Functional tester
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Rational Clear Quest
• Rational Rose.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed Project scope, Project Plan and project budget
• Created project schedules, WBS, and monitored milestones, financials, deliverables, critical path items, and actual to completion in MS Project
• Tracked project milestones in MS Project; monitored and report any upsets with completing said milestones
• Spearheaded functional requirements for Hyperion Planning and Oracle DRM dat will replace the existing budgeting system(SAP BPC/SAP HANA)
• Facilitate JAD sessions, and review functional andtechnical design documents
• Managed governance through change request and implementation
• Lead teams thru incident impact and Root Cause Analysis(RCA) and problem ticket resolution
• Managed to setup and implement disaster recovery plans
• Database management including Backup schedule and regular maintenance for application databases in Oracle, hands on PL SQL and TSQL queries.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project planning, manage scope, schedule, resource estimation in MS Project
• Managed requirements sessions with business analysts and FP&A team
• Developed written status reports, action items, risks and issues, change requests, resource reports, and project dashboards Participated in management of project plan scoping, tracking and status reporting and presentations
• Setup and managed development and post production governance
• Analyze, process, transform financial data available in Data Warehouse
• Design, develop, maintain and automate managerial financial (KPI) reports
• Work together with Finance, IT and outside vendors as appropriate to support the systems
• Create and maintain documentations and add on to the noledge repository
• Provide application system support to the business users

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the testing team - responsibility for validating migration scenarios to new cloud platform, data routing from cloud server to backend data center
• Create project schedules and monitor milestones, deliverables, critical path items, and actual to completion in MS Project
• Analyze software defects; conduct weekly bug triage meetings with development and product management.
• Tracked and managed the Defects & Conducted Root Cause Analysis Sessions
• Create test plans, test cases and test conditions for normal, exception, and error processing based on system requirements.
• Execute Front end and XML based test cases in SIT, UAT/CAT Environments and perform regression testing
• Performed data validation and white box testing of all data feeds from vendors including files processing
• Refined business processes for claims systems, eligibility and authorizations

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the onsite and offshore team and ensured round the clock delivery
• Created and maintained project plan, set and adjusted project milestones.
• Led team through the full software development life cycle, including requirements, design, development, and product testing and production deployment.
• Coordinated with Customer to gather requirements and manage expectations
• Developed pre-Target setting financial model to analyze the impact of planned currency exchange rates on the actual revenues and costs to help set more realistic targets.
• Designed the testing scenario and testing Plan for systems integration and User acceptance testing to ensure timely and accurate testing and all objects and scenarios.
• Created the Traceability matrix and work status reports to Client and CTS leadership.
• Managed client expectations and ensured round the clock support for the users during the budgeting cycle

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created project schedules and monitored milestones, financials, deliverables, critical path items, and actual to completion in MS Project
• Led JAD sessions for the Store Planning and Merchandise Financial Planning Solution for Retail store chain
• Created project schedules, WBS, and monitored milestones, deliverables, critical path items in MS Project
• Developed an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders
• Conducted workshops and requirements meeting to capture business requirement.
• Documented the requirements in process flow diagrams and business process documents.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identifying and defining business process and SAP configuration requirements and expectations
• Involved in design and implementation of target setting, revenue planning and Cost Center Planning.
• Setup task profiles and member access profiles to provide proper access (via profiles) to the Confidential application.
• Designed and developed data load strategy, via flat-file uploads and using BPC data manager packages. Configured validation logic to restrict incorrect data being entered/loaded into application.
• Involved in design and development of dimensions, dim member sets, properties, and hierarchies as per business requirement.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and deployed Security Audit tool for Server as well as database levels to better manage the users access to database artifacts
• Redesigned the backup script to make database backups more reliable and ensure timely recover when needed
• Implemented the SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Using SSRS in all environments
• Scheduled and monitored the SSIS packages and DTS jobs for Data import/export for periodic prod-> preprod refreshes
• Troubleshooting - Resolving database tickets, problems and issues

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote functional requirements, design documentation and review with the functional teams
• Produced detailed business requirements - both functional, UI and non-functional, worked closely with technical team to ensure design was in line with business requirements
• Involved with identifying integration requirements and design requirements
• Built project schedules in MS Project and ensured all necessary activities, resources, deliverables, and milestones are present
• Coordinated and supervised System Integration testing, defect analysis, assignment and requirements prioritization

Confidential

Validation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plan and Test Strategy to test the functional requirements
• Tracked and managed the Defects & Conducted Root Cause Analysis Sessions
• Prepared and presented the Metrics/Risk mitigation to the Senior Management
• Oversaw coordination of Quality Assurance efforts and partnered with capabilities to ensure highest quality deliverables.
• Designed and coordinated setting up of the testing lab
• Created and Tracked project plans in MS Project and ensured dat resources were assigned and managed as necessary