VANDANA DHULIPUDI
248-***-**** abiia4@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY Accomplished Senior Business Analyst with extensive experience in,
requirements elicitation and developing several functional and non-functional
specifications such as Scope Documents, Project Plans, Use Cases,
Functional Specifications, Process Flow Diagrams, Test Scripts and Test Cases
and User Training and Reference Materials. Extensive experience in SDLC
methodologies like RUP/Waterfall/Agile. Both a team player and an individual
contributor, highly adept at establishing good rapport with team members
across cross-functional teams and customers.
HARDWARE IBM AS/400, RS/6000, HP UNIX, IBM compatible PCs.
LANGUAGES Java, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, COBOL.
SOFTWARE MS Windows NT/XP/2000/98/95, MS DOS, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS
Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Lotus Notes R5, Oracle (8+ yr.),
J2EE (5+ yr.), Lotus Notes, MS Visio, Auxure, Visual Interdev, Cognos, Access
Manager
APPLICATIONS Automotive Dealer Network: Network operations efficiency & Financial
Performance
Healthcare: Hospital Billing System. Patient and CSR Portals
Utilities: Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment Portal
Financial: Credit Aggregate System, Payment Portal
Distribution: Order Entry, Order Processing, Purchasing, Shipping.
Publishing: Designing and Enhancing Online Publishing Centers, Improving
Metadata collection, Building User-Centric Search Interfaces, WEB 2.0
EDUCATION BA Industrial Relations & Personnel Management, Andhra University, India.
PDP training in COBOL, MIS, DB2, DCI Inc.
Oracle 7.x and Developer 2000, SQL Star International (Oracle Authorized
Training Center).
WORK EXPERIENCE
07/10 – Present Senior Business Analyst, Urban Science Inc./ Arrow Systems, Detroit, MI.
• Experience in Agile delivery of software using practices from Scrum.
• Elicited and documented business requirements/ user stories.
• Determined precise acceptance criteria for a product backlog item.
• Managed Sprint backlog items.
• Determined criteria used by automation test frameworks.
• Facilitated grooming/pre-grooming sessions.
• Point person for DBI (Dealer Business Intelligence System, a
proprietary system that helps OEMs/Dealers monitor and address
financial performance so that they can improve operational efficiencies
and capatilize on market potential.) application problems/issues
Environment: .NET 3.5 Framework, C#, VB.NET ASP.NET, VSS, Visio, XML SQL
Server 2008
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01/10 – 06/10 Business Analyst /Project Manager,
DIVDAT Inc./ TekSystems, Ferndale, MI.
Analyze business initiatives and perform feasibility study.
Create requirements and design specifications
Recommend and monitor ongoing enhancements
Manage project schedules and milestones with external teams and offshore
teams.
Point person for all application problems/issues
Environment: .NET 3.5 Framework, C#, VB.NET ASP.NET, VSS, Visio, RUP, XML
SQL Server 2005
11/09 – 12/09 Technical Business Analyst, Thomson Reuters /Computer Consultants Inc,
Southfield, MI.
• Gather business requirements and create technical specifications.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings in the absence of the Project
Manager.
• Conduct design sessions.
Environment: .NET framework v3.5, WinCVS, MS Windows NT/2000/98/95, Visio,
RUP, XML, Oracle
11/05 – 01/09 Systems Analyst, Cengage Learning /TekSystems, Farmington Hills, MI.
Oversight/mentor offshore analysts.
• Worked with stakeholders to identify requirements and document
them using Use Cases and UI Specifications.
• Worked with the cross functional team to track the requirements
through the elaboration and construction phases.
• Data analysis and data mapping for migrating to the vault
Environment: J2EE, WinCVS, MS Windows NT/2000/98/95, Visio, Agile, User
Stories, Axure, XML, Oracle
12/04 - 11/05 Business Analyst, RouteOne, Farmington Hills, MI.
• Identified, categorized, and documented business requirements,
including the development of Software Requirements Specification, Use
Cases, User Interface Specification, data analysis, screen mock-ups
and report specs and mockups.
• Maintained customer, business partner, and key stakeholder
relationships and ensure complete and effective communication with the
Product Features team through out the product development life-cycle.
• Responsible for authoring Test conditions and coordinating with
the team to map the test conditions to Test scripts. She identified the data
needs and coordinate with the database team to furnish the data.
Coordinated with the Captive Finance Sources (GMAC, Toyota, Ford
Credit, and Chrysler Financial) and the internal Functional Groups to get
the test lab setup with the test environments and preparing for the UAT
score card. Facilitated onsite and offsite testing and wrap up meetings.
Environment: J2EE, WinCVS, MS Windows NT/2000/98/95, MS Access 2000,
HTML, Microsoft Office suite, Test Trac Pro, XML, Oracle
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07/01 - 02/04 Project Lead, Thomson Gale, Farmington Hills, MI.
• Gathered business requirements and developed several functional
specifications using SDM methodology.
• Responsible for managing onsite consultants and coordinating
Application development.
Environment: MS Windows NT/2000/98/95, Unix, Sun Solaris, IBM AS/400,
MS SQL Server 7.0, MS Access 2000, DB2, Oracle, Visual Basic, VBA,
VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, ASP, ActiveX, XML, Siebel, Net.Data, MS SQL
Server 2000, Java Servlet, HTML, XML
05/97 – 06/99 Programmer Analyst, Daimler Chrysler/DCI, Warren, Michigan.
• PROMIS interfacing with SMART: This deals with supplier
commitment to ship parts to Depots, as well as tracking these
commitments.
• Worked on new exception processing. She was responsible for
improving on accuracy and integrity of exceptions.
• Worked with SME’s and stakeholders to support and enhance the
Dealer exception system.
Environment: MS Windows NT/2000/98/95, Unix, IBM ES3090, DB2,
COBOLII, IMS-DB, EASYTRIEVE, MS Access 2000, MS-Office
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