Skills

Employment History:

Confidential

Role: Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading/Managing a team of 22 people On-Shore/Off-Shore and monitoring their performance to ensure that there is efficiency in their operations.
• Provided overall Project Management to multiple modules and successfully completed them on-schedule and within-budget.
• Was involved in Regular Interactions with the Third-Party Vendor's to develop a Satisfactory IT Solution.
• Responsible for ensuring smooth delivery of the IT Solution to the Business Users using Agile/Scrum Methodology Practices.
• Project Status Reporting and On-the-Spot Issue Management.
• Functioned as a Liaison between End Users and Technical team.
• Managed Project Schedules and collaborated with different teams working on the project.
• Was responsible for maintaining the Project Backlog on the basis of interactions with the Business User's.
• Lead the Iteration Planning meeting to help Business Users prioritize and decide Scope of a given Iteration by developing more important Backlog items first.
• Extensive experience in creating ETL mapping documents.
• Contributed to the daily stand up meetings with the cross-functional team.
• Actively involved in the whole System Development Life Cycle SDLC from developing Business Requirements for Business needs to creating Testing Documentation to support migration efforts as necessary.
• Developed the RFP/RFI documents, defined requirements, established vendor selection criteria and developed project plans.
• Conducted Demo-Sessions for Database Architect and ETL developers for mapping the data from the New Data Sources.
• Business Analysis, Dataflow Analysis, Data Profiling, Information Flow analysis, System analysis, Source Systems Analysis, Data Analysis, Feasibility Analysis.
• Used Agile Principles and Strategies to provide quick and feasible solutions to the Business Customers.
• Responsible for tracking project deadlines and deliverables using Project Tracker
• Created Use Cases and Use Case Summary documents to clarify Requirements to the Development team.
• Updated the Risk Issues Log with all the Risks Issues throughout the Development Lifecycle of the Project.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request Issues.
• Created BRD Business Requirement Document , Data Transformation Source-to-Target Mapping Documents. Inputs to the Logical Data Model Physical Data Model
• Performed Business Process Modeling using Visio. Evaluated business models that demonstrate the system flow and impacts, to develop effective communication strategies and solutions.
• Developed Project Scope for the purpose of establishing a thorough test approach and plan.
• Involved with regular walkthroughs and meetings with business and technical units to discuss bottlenecks in the system and possible solutions.

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, Data Stage, MS Office, Mercury Quality Center.

Confidential

Designation: Lead Business Analyst

Confidential

Project Manager/Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed/Lead a team of 8 members. Was responsible for allocating work on different modules of the application to the team members for various phases of the projects.
• Project Management and Project Organization.
• Lead Initiation Planning Discussion with Multiple Stakeholder's to kick-off a Project.
• Involved in Project Management, Business Analysis, coordinating between the team members, addressing budget issues and creating test plans according to the business requirements.
• Involved in interviewing Subject Matter experts SMEs and carefully recording the requirements in a Business Requirements Document BRD for various Financial Models.
• Conducted JAD sessions with the subject matter experts, stakeholders and additional management teams in the finalization of the user requirement documentation.
• Conducted meetings with Business Users and SME's to identify and gather various Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Designed PowerPoint presentations for the top management using data that is analyzed using MS Excel spreadsheets, and using pivot tables.
• Involved in defects tracking, prioritized outstanding defects in reporting system. Coordinated between the development team and the management team to resolve any conflicts/defects in terms of requirements.
• Gathered Requirements to design Data Dictionary for various Financial Models of the MFCW Application, to capture all the Data Elements that are necessary for the Loan Input File.
• Worked closely with quality assurance and development teams to clarify and understand the functionality in order to resolve issues and provide feedback in terms of the test matrices and to nail down the bugs.
• Responsible for developing comprehensive Project Plans and monitored the Progress against Delivery dates and Milestones. In doing so, guided the team in the Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and documentation of the Application.
• Created RTM Requirements traceability matrix mapping Requirements to Design Artifacts to SIT Cases to UAT Cases.
• Prepared Use Case, Process Flow, and Activity Diagrams using MS Visio for a clear understanding of the requirements.
• Created multiple User Manuals conducted training for the new users who were granted access to the MFCW Application.

Environment: MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio, UNIX, Java, CVS, Clear Quest Mercury QC

Confidential

Sr. Business Data Analyst

Responsibilities

• Coordinated meetings acted as the liaison between the Businesses and IT group by performing tasks to interpret the requirements and verification of these business requirements to the application to ensure that the technical solution is satisfactory.
• Created RFP/RFI and participated in Vendor Demos and Selection Process.
• Responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, tagging and tracing requirements using traceability matrix in Rational Requisite Pro.
• Conducted JAD sessions between users and development team to make them understand the project scope and project deliverables.
• Responsible for gathering User Requirements and creating the Business Requirement Document.
• Created and Transformed Business Requirements into software requirement specification SRS using MS Word
• Involved in Business Analysis, Project Management, coordinating various status meetings amongst the IT team to ensure timely completion of the Deliverables as per Schedule.
• Performed in-depth Gap analysis, generated reports and maintained documentation of the Gaps captured during the Gap Sessions.
• Developed Project Scope for the purpose of establishing a thorough test approach and plan.
• Created Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Data Management Plan and Test Scripts for the application by analyzing Business Requirements, Functional Specification Documents.
• Performed Business Process Modeling using Visio. Evaluated business models that demonstrate the system flow and impacts, to develop effective communication strategies and solutions.
• Identified and analyzed problems developing alternative solutions to resolve underlying operational issues.
• Co-coordinated with the Project manager for the implementation of the processes and workflow.
• Assisted the development team and the Project Manager in various business processes and tools for developing business requirement specifications and for work procedures and workflows.
• Created UAT training manuals conducted training for the Users before commencement of UAT.
• Analyzed UAT Test scripts and scenarios for functional testing of new development, reports and issues resolution and created training material for users and QA group.

Environment: MS Visio, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Quality Center 9.2, DOORS, MS Project, MS Office