Amina Sarguro Khan
***** ***** *****, *******, ** 94539
Cell: 510-***-**** Email: acd1fp@r.postjobfree.com
Visa Status: Green Card (Permanent Residence)
OBJECTIVE: Innovative Business Professional is looking for challenging
opportunity in an esteemed Organization.
SUMMARY:
6 + years of experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),
gathering requirements, analysis, documentation, testing and implementation of
projects.
Strong understanding of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process
Modeling, Business Analysis, and, Feasibility studies, Scope Documents, Business
Requirement Documents (BRD), Use case specification document & requests for
proposal (RFP). Worked on GAP, Risk and SWOT analysis.
Complete life cycle experience in AGILE, Waterfall, RAD methodology.
Experience in Unified Modeling Language (UML) for modeling views/creating
designs in Rational Rose, and Microsoft Visio.
Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with Business Owners,
Developers, and QA team to deal with business and technical issues and resolving
the issues
Experience writing SQL Queries for Data Verification and Validation.
Proficient in QA testing, Manual and Functional testing, and reporting bugs
using various tracking tools like Bugzilla and Internal tools.
Experience writing effective Test plans & Test Cases; Creating test data,
analyzing bugs, interacting with development team members to fix errors.
Results driven, innovative, team player, highly motivated with excellent
communication skills.
Skills & Tools:
Microsoft Tools MS Office Suite 2010(Word, Excel, Power Point), MS Visio,
Kenexa, SharePoint, Salesforce, Adobe-InDesign
Methodologies Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process
(RUP), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Agile,
Waterfall Model, Incremental Model
Tools Rational Rose, Rationale Requisite Pro7.1.1, Visual
Paradigm, Fusion Charts, Kenexa, Photoshop, Arc Soft Studio
Adobe InDesign, SalesForce, Rally and Basecamp.
Database MySQL, SQL Server
Internet HTML, XML
Technologies
Operating Systems Microsoft Windows 98, XP, Vista
Testing/Reporting Quality Center 10, Bugzilla, Selenium IDE, MySQL Workbench.
Tools
Degree and Undergoing Tableau Certification from Tableau.
Certification: Bachelors Degree, University of Mumbai, India
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Ace Parking, San Diego, CA - Remote Work January 2014 - till
date.
Role: Business Analyst
Worked as a BA/QA to analyze Integra Paris On Web system, and integrate with
Standalone Paris systems used at various Ace Parking facilities in San Diego.
Customers can use web based system to register for monthly parking permits, pay
any outstanding balance and allow customer's with promissory note to pay dues
online.
Responsibilities:
Worked with stake holder and created BRD detailing screen shots of how
application screens would look using Twitter Bootstrap and Ace Parking template.
Added process flow diagrams for Paris stand alone and Web system data exchanges
for information collected using online system.
Created test plan and test cases for user acceptance testing for Paris system
integration.
Participated in functional, user acceptance testing to verify functionality and
bug free release.
Environment: MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, Twitter Bootstrap, My SQL.
Intel Media, Santa Clara CA. June 2013 - Dec 2013
Role: Business Operations Analyst
Worked as Business Operations Specialist's to support the Intel Media business
operations team.
Responsibilities:
Data gathering and development for business requirements, user stories, and use
cases for operational needs.
Write user acceptance testing scripts and run agile testing programs to find
bugs and defects.
Prepare and publish ongoing status reports and scorecards to track launch
readiness (weekly, monthly, quarterly)
Maintain and organize shared documents and schedules for business operations
organization.
Worked on Sales force for day to day activity tracking channel launch status,
generating various reports across teams.
Created a user permission matrix for profiles and groups for the various users
across the company in SalesForce.
Documented the SalesForce User Manual Guide for the Run Book - Content and
Operations teams using InDesign.
Created Visio diagrams to track workflow for linear, new channels and OnCue
Channels in Salesforce.
Track channel readiness by using MS Project.
Researched and created policies such as terms of use and storefront for Intel's
new media division (a new set top box and subscription service).
Structured reports using MySQL Workbench for various Designated Market Area,
based on counties, cities, zip codes and overlapping combination of the same for
advertisements, program launches and content readiness.
Research and case studies on the VOD feature for various services provided in
the industry to implement the VOD workflow and integrate it with Salesforce.
UAT for linear, new channels and OnCue Channels in Salesforce.
Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, V-Look up, MS PowerPoint,
MySQL Workbench, Adobe InDesign Salesforce, Rally and Basecamp.
Charles Schwab, San Francisco CA. April 2012 - April 2013
Role: Business Analyst / Quality Tester
Worked in Telecom department; to improvise on tracking of customer-trader call
records for usage analysis, billing and financial management for different
service providers. Created reports for trends in trading based on customer call
records.
Responsibilities:
Interacted with the stakeholders to get a better understanding of the existing
manual call tracking process and gather business requirements for improvements
in the tracking tool.
Link business processes to organizational objectives and identify opportunities
for business process improvement and financial management for analysis and
billing issues for different service providers.
Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews to identify Use
cases from the requirements
Conducted informal Sessions with development team to discuss business
requirements, resolve open issues.
Assured that all Artifacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and
guidelines.
Created test plan and test cases for user acceptance testing of Call Data Record
tool.
Participated in functional, user acceptance testing and regression testing to
verify and validate user requirements.
Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests
based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure
accuracy and consider deadlines.
Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Access, V-Lookup, MS Word, MS
PowerPoint, Fusion Charts, UML, Rational Rose, Selenium IDE.
TiVo Inc., Alviso, San Jose CA. October 2010- March 2012
Role: Business Analyst / QA Tester
Worked in Partner UI team to design, analyse and test UI experience for
customers, VOD features, Smart Phone Application
for ease of access and create smart interface for hand held devices for their
service partners.
Responsibilities:
Designed the Business Requirement to be implemented using AGILE approach based
on the project scope.
Studied existing business application and process, gathered end users
requirements regarding the changes in the process, documented and proposed
business solutions for implementation.
Analyzed and translated business requirements into system specifications
utilizing UML and RUP methodology.
Involved in business analysis and translation of the business use cases to
the Systems Requirement Specification.
Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the
technical areas throughout the project cycle. Worked with the VOD team to
streamline content - reporting for operations team.
Involved in preparation and execution of various testing phases like Manual,
functional, Integration and regression testing, reported bugs with key details
to appropriate team to address issues in timely manner.
Completed the project within budget and succeeded in meeting very strict
deadlines.
Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
Cadence, Santa Clara CA February 2009- August 2010
Role: HRIS Analyst
Responsibilities:
Responsible for general reporting, training, auditing of data in Ultimate
Software.
Advise and communicate with HR Connection team on updates and required changes
to processes or employee data changes. Ensure complete accuracy surrounding
updates to employee data.
Modifying User Defined Fields for recruitment tracking; testing report output
and integration upload into UltiPro
Conduct in-depth analysis of key HR metrics and develop a wide variety of
regular reports, including annual EEO-1 and Various HR reports, and ad hoc
reports to enable and inform management decision-making.
Administer and facilitate such key HR efforts as the Leave of Absence, Workers'
Compensation, Contingent Workers and New Hire Orientation programs as well as
the Open hire job applicant tracking tool and various employee recognition
programs. Sending out Kenaxa screening request to candidates and reporting data
into the system.
Maintain solid knowledge of the full spectrum of the HR function, providing
back-up support to the department's administrators and managers for a variety of
special projects and in the administration of such programs as unemployment and
employment verification.
Follow the performance management guidelines, performance checks, performance
appraisals and performance reviews periodically. Serve as an internal subject
matter resource for all manner of HR-related employee inquiries.
Environment: MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, HRIS, Kenexa and
Taleo System.
Sutter Health, San Francisco CA January 2008-January 2009
Role: Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
Gather and translated the business requirements, working with the technical
staff to translate the tactical business requirements in to functional
requirements to drive technical improvements and enhancements.
Utilizing MS Visio for Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams
and ER Diagrams in MS Visio and Waterfall Methodology.
Collect and review billing data utilizing business object, Identify risk issues,
working as a team on projects
Research government billing regulations, third party payer guidelines and
prospective payment system, ICD-9-CM, CPT/HCPCS coding guidelines.
Recommend changes and improvements to support the business systems and
activities.
Managing the communications and business relationships and assisting with
validation through the testing phase.
Environment: MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Medisoft medical
billing software.