Business Analyst Project Management

Lakshmi Manasa

Email ID: ad5t4p@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 314-***-****

SUMMARY

Having 6 years of Business Analyst experience in commercial banking and in investment services involves Business requirements gathering, Data warehousing, Data Modelling, Data Integration Translating Requirements into Specifications.

Experienced in Agile software delivery, Scrum, and PI Planning methodologies

Proficient in Microsoft suite of products including MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Excel Pivot tables, and Macros.

Experience working on analytical and data visualization tools (Power BI &Tableau) and also programming languages like SQL, R.

Proficiently engaged in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) requirements where it involves gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, and production of applications. Skilled in leveraged Waterfall, Kanban and Agile methodologies to ensure efficient project management and delivery.

Progressive experience in developing Use Cases, creating dashboards, screen mock-ups, conducting GAP Analysis, Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis and ROI Analysis within the investment banking and asset management sectors.

Experienced in conducting JAD Sessions with business stakeholder, Business users and SMEs in requirements gathering and analysing them to identify the real business methods and facilitating the development of a customized solution which delivers maximum cost and usability benefit to the client and company.

Extensive knowledge and working experience in converting business requirements into UML diagrams using MS Visio and also managing and tracking those requirements.

Involved in daily scrum sessions, sprint planning meeting, sprint review meeting and preparing/analysing burn down charts.

Experience in process modelling using business Case, Sequence Diagrams, Collaborate diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams.

Experience in content creation, research, user stories, process flows and data.

Ability to elaborate the business scenarios from statistics/graphs.

Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Creating Request for Proposals (RFP), creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Experience in developing and imparting pre and post implementation training, conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT Analysis and ROl analysis.

Proficient in business performance and documentation of “As-Is” and “To-Be” in GAP Analysis to meet the business requirements.

Control in creating Key performance indicators (KPI), Enterprise Risk Management, Risk Mitigation and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).

Extensive experience in Investment Banking, Financial Services, Portfolio Management, and Cash Management.

Defined Test Scripts, created Test cases, analysed defects, by interacting with Quality Assurance/developer teams in fixing errors and writing simple SQL queries.

Exhibit experience on Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Suite and SQL.

Driven by creative ideas and backed by attention to detail oriented: identifying causes, corrective actions, providing innovative solutions, building strategic partnerships with senior business leaders and getting commitments to actions from individuals at all levels of the organization.

Highly motivated self-starter with excellent communication skills, stakeholder management, influencing organisational skills, Leadership offsite skills, Innovation, Interpersonal skills, can perform well both independently and always willing to work collaboratively in challenging and cross-platform environments.

Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills, quick learner. Able to work independently as well as a team member of varying sized teams and recommend to program manager

Ability to plan, manage, motivate and work efficiently as a fast-paced independent or

cross-functional collaboration with teams.

EDUCATION

Masters in Science – Business Analytics

Masters of Business Administration – Finance

SKILLS SUMMARY

Query Language

SQL, Python, ETL

Spreadsheet Analysis

MS Office, VBA

Presentation

PowerPoint

Statistical Analysis

R

Data Visualization

Power BI, Tableau

Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, MS project

Documentation Tools

MS Word, MS Excel

Project Management Tools

JIRA, Confluence

WORK EXPERIENCE

S4Soft INC, Mckinney Texas Aug 23 – Present

Role: Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Followed Agile SDLC methodology, part of the scrum team, Scheduling backlog grooming and showcase sessions.

Conducting and often led sprint planning to identify stories for user requirements sessions from the sprint backlog.

Work with internal and external medical stakeholders to develop epics, user stories etc. and prioritize them.

Collecting, documenting, conduct interviews, brainstorming, mock-up’s, workshops and managing business objectives for functional and non-functional requirements.

Developing and monitoring project scope documentation to guide project planning and execution.

Heavily involvement in the initial project planning, epic refinement and review of process flows.

Researched and analysed on operations procedures, methods and recommend changes for improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency.

Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME vendors, users and other stake holders for open and pending issues.

Conducted walkthrough sessions with the business, development, QA and end - users to review requirements.

Coordinated development efforts and facilitated requirements in acceptance criteria.

I played a key role in accepting stories.

Maintained sprint tasks and build phase child stories-creation in Rally.

Maintained requirements in Requirements Traceability Matrix management tool.

Reporting and presentation of key components and milestones to top management

Oversaw preparing status and reports for senior management.

Work very closely with Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Manager and the Scrum team to support seamless and efficient process improvement and optimization.

Communication and Facilitation: Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills.

Technologies – Rally, Jira, Confluence, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Power BI, Tableau, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project/SharePoint, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft Office, ImageOne, ISAAC, TAT

Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru, India Aug 21 – Jul 22

Role: Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the Agile methodologies.

Facilitated backlog grooming sessions to ensure that user stories were properly estimated, prioritized business initiatives - sprint planning, resulting in efficient sprint execution and delivery of valuable features.

Conducted JAD sessions for effective communication of vision and goals between stakeholders and business requirements gathering.

Prepared business processes Models that presented modelling of all the activities carried on by the business from the conceptual to procedural level.

Interacted with technical team in letting them to make a better navigational plan for the project flow that makes a better user interactivity for the application.

Designed Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and web-page mock ups using modelling tools.

Effectively leveraged prototype to demonstrate and verify the behaviour of the system.

Schedules feedback and technical support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Interacted with users, project manager, and software development teams during various stages of product life cycle to ensure alignment.

Proactive usage of Jira to keep track of bugs and features.

Maintained documents for change request and implemented procedures for testing changes.

Analyse and extract data from various databases using SQL queries to support business decision-making processes.

Primarily focused responsible for interacting with the users and business relationship managers and changes on the database system in order to ensure UAT completion.

Signed off on progress and completion report which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.

Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Technologies – Jira, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, SQL, Excel, Business Objects, Agile, Windows.

Invesco Asset Management, Hyderabad, India Jun 19 - Aug 21

Role: Data Admin

Responsibilities:

Followed Agile Scrum SDLC Methodology for the Project.

Consulted with product owners on projects for requirements gathering and ensured alignment with business goals

Collaborated with stakeholders to define clear and concise user stories that captured functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring alignment with project goals and user needs.

Facilitated JAD sessions to identify and document Business requirements.

Conducted workflow, user scenarios, process diagrams and GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.

Reviewed existing process improvements and documented procedures to gain in - depth knowledge of existing system.

Created Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Documentation (FSD) for various features on entire application.

Developed a Traceability Matrix to keep track of the requirements, Use Cases and Test Cases using Jira.

Facilitated backlog grooming sessions to ensure that user stories were properly estimated, prioritized, and refined, maintaining a clear and manageable backlog for sprint planning and execution.

Designed the look-n-feel of the application through Mock-up forms for better illustration of the application, conducted walkthroughs with business team.

•Attended bi-weekly and Ad - hoc status meetings with Project management team on Validation update.

•Created Data Mapping and Data Validation document using MS Excel.

•Extensively worked with QA Team in reviewing and designing the Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.

•Conducted walkthroughs and documented and involved User Acceptance Test (UAT), provided training to users.

•Captured the bugs/feedbacks during the walk through with the stakeholders.

•Worked with the programming staff team to ensure reliability, usability, maintainability, integration and performance of a web - enabled enterprise application.

•Lead change management initiatives by automating manual tasks.

Technologies – Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, MS Visio, MY SQL, Jira

ReadMind Info Services, Hyderabad, India Aug 17 – May 19

Role: Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

•Analysed large datasets using statistical methods and tools.

•Clean and preprocess data to ensure its data accuracy and integrity.

•Collect data from various sources relevant to the business problem and create visualizations to communicate findings, insights, recommendations effectively using tools like Power BI, and Tableau.

•Generate regular reports summarizing key performance indicators.

•Develop and execute hypotheses to test business assumptions Interpret the results of statistical tests and provide actionable recommendations.

•Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their objectives and challenges.

•Work with databases to extract and manipulate data. Understand and leveraged SQL for data querying and analysing small and large datasets.

•Define a framework in ad hoc requests everyday as part of BAU.

•Experienced in coordinating, organizing, and hosting meetings/events with various IT teams.

Technologies – Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word

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