Siddharth Patel

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Business Analyst with over two years of experience in Order to Invoice IT solution, Investment Analysis, and ERP in Finance & Control. Strong knowledge of SDLC, RUP methodology, and project life cycle. Very efficient and experienced in applying best practices to improve project performance and delivery. Committed to driving results and achieving high stakeholder satisfaction.

SKILLS:

• Experience in analyzing the current process and redesign for efficiency

• Experienced in interacting with business users, developers and testing teams.

• Excellent knowledge of various SDLC methodologies like RUP, Waterfall, Kanban and Agile (Scrum).

• Qualified in gathering requirements, elicitation, conducting joint requirement sessions, prioritizing requirements, as-is/to-be analysis, problem solving techniques and decision making techniques.

• Collecting, understanding, and reviewing the Business requirements, and translating them into Functional specifications.

• Experienced in creating artifacts like Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Software Requirement Specification (SRS), User Stories, Use Case Documentation, Traceability matrix, and Testing documentation.

• Skilled in creating diagrams like Context diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Data Flow diagrams, Process flow diagrams.

• Active involvement in test planning, test case reviewing and User Acceptance Testing.

• Sincere, well-organized, goal oriented, quick learner, self-motivated, leader, team player and achiever.

• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirements Management& Project Management tools

MS Office Suite including MS Visio 2010 &Team Foundation Server, Atlassian Products including JIRA and GreenHopper.

Screen mockup and Wireframe tools

SnagIt, Greentshot, Fast Stone Capture, E-Draw, MS Visio 2010, Axure RP Pro 6.5.

Platform

Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows NT, Windows server 2003/2008, IBM AS400

Database

SQL server 2005/2008, Oracle, MS Access.

ERP applications

SAP, Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Testing and support tools

Quality Center, QTP, load runner.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

November 2015 – May 2016

Shivom Technology

Houston, TX

Jr. Business Analyst

• Served as a liaison between the stakeholders, the technical and the development team to help develop an order to invoice application for the Oil & Petrochemical industry

• Led workshops to thoroughly understand the as-is business processes

• Conducted interviews with business stakeholders and workshops to discuss high level requirements and user stories

• Performed Impact analysis for proposed enhancements and conducted gap analysis in understanding how the upgraded system carries out the business functions and assisted in ensuring the timely and effective implementation

• Proposed to-be business processes and application designs

• Created Business and Functional Requirement documents upon design approval from the stakeholders

• Actively tested the designed application using the test scripts and raised issues

• Managed UAT string testing with stakeholders and end users and analyzed change requests and business needs

• Effectively communicated technical issues to non-technical stakeholders and end users of the application

• Tracked and Managed application testing including reporting and managing issues and change requests in TFS

• Helped the team with application deployment

• Interacted with internal stakeholders to develop, populate, and maintain dashboards

• Responsible for development of interfaces from/to multiple Legacy systems

• Facilitated and organized meetings, conducted monthly review meetings, weekly BA-DEV meeting and brainstorming sessions.

• Worked with On-site and Off-shore teams for Development and Testing

• Proactively identified areas of continuous improvement for optimization of business processes

• Provided problem analysis and resolution support for escalated issues on new application

May 2015 – Oct 2015

Shreya Industries

Pune, India

Business Analyst(Internship)

• Worked closely with stakeholders to thoroughly understand the as-is process on a pre-SAP implementation

• Worked closely with all the departments of the company to gain thorough understanding of the Legacy systems and their Capacities

• Elicited the business requirements and conducted business process Gap analysis between To-Be design and SAP standard Business Processes, and design solution for process improvement

• Translated Business requirements and created Functional Design Specifications

• Conducted walk-thru with the SAP Functional Consultant before handing over the Functional Design specification to thoroughly explain the proposed changes

• Helped create test scripts for the UAT

November 2014 – March 2015 Motilal Osawal Securities Surat, India

Stock Market Portfolio Research

• Internship Research Project for the MBA program on “Optimum Portfolio Construction Using Sharpe’s Single Index Model with Special Reference to S&P BSE Auto Index”.

• Thoroughly Studied S&P BSE AUTO index which consist of 12 Automobile Companies by taking stock market data of last 2 years(On weekly basis)

• Adopted one of the toughest methods “Sharpe’s single index model” in order to build optimum portfolio of selected stocks.

• Made suggestions to investors based on the analysis of risk and return of each stocks.

EDUCATION:

• SAP(FI) Certified(2015), Seed Infotech, Pune, India

• M.B.A in Finance(2015), VTU(Belgaum) Mangalore, India

• B.Com in Finance and accounting(2013), MSU Vadodara, India

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