Quality Assurance Project

ARCHANA CHOLKAR **************@*****.*** 361-***-****

SUMMARY

. Business Analyst & IT professional with more than five years of

experience in Gathering Analysis, Management of Requirements, Business

Modeling Writing BRD and FRD, Use case analysis and design, User

support, problem solving, and documentation.

. Good experience in understanding user requirement specifications and

converting them into system requirements, Functional Specifications,

design document and program specifications.

. Experience as BI Functional Analyst gathering intelligence related

reporting requirements for Oracle BI tools

. Experience as JAD (Joint Application Development) Facilitator and

Meetings Coordinator.

. Experience in using methodologies such as UML (Unified Modeling

Language), Rational Unified Process (RUP), SDLC

. Knowledge in Root Cause and Decision Analysis, Analysis of

Alternatives

. Knowledge in Business Process Identification and Re-engineering

business processes.

. Knowledge in Gap Analysis, Detailed Functional Design (DFD) and

Detailed Technical Design (DTD).

. Knowledge in UAT (User Acceptance Testing)

. Knowledge in Manual and Automated Testing using Mercury interactive

tools namely Win Runner and Test Director.

. Highly motivated, organized and results oriented. Ability of adapting

to new and fast changing technologies.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Master's in Computer Management in 2001

Bachelors in Accounting in 1999

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

New Breed Logistics

January 2010- Present

Sr.Business Analyst

. Multi tasked different projects. That includes on site & offshore

development team

. Documented customer (Verizon Wireless) requirements, detailed

Functional Design Specifications and system documentation

. OBIEE Reports Business Requirements discussion and Functional Designs

. Involved in JAD sessions

. Created Test Plan for OBIEE Dashboards for data accuracy

. Created process flow diagram

. Tested dashboards on different levels

. Reviewed the Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) document with

the Quality Assurance (QA) team and coordinate their efforts in the QA

process

. Experience in leading a team of business analysts and performing

quality assurance of requirements deliverables

. Co-coordinated User acceptance testing (UAT)

. Created User Manual for dashboards

. Environment: SQL, MS-Visio, MS-Office, OBIEE, Flex, Toad, Windows

NT/2000

Konsyl Pharmaceuticals

May 2008- December 2009

Business Analyst

. Gathered and documented customer requirements, detailed functional

design specifications and system documentation

. Identified/documented current business rules for projects and

communicated project issues from IT or business perspective

. Conducted JAD sessions with SME's (Subject Matter Experts).

. Created BRD

. Grouped the Use Cases and other diagrams into sequence and

collaboration. Developed Use Case Diagrams, Object Diagrams. Created

UML diagrams using MS Visio.

. Reviewed the Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) document with

the Quality Assurance (QA) team and coordinate their efforts in the QA

process

. Impact Analysis of the changes on the requirements from Business

Requirements Document and prepare a supplementary document for the new

requests and get both the business and development team to agree on

the requirements.

. Involved in conducting JAD sessions with business and Developer units.

Prepared a business Workflow model that covers "How" business

processes are accomplished.

. Maintained timelines and project schedules, using MS Visio

. Co-coordinated User acceptance testing

. Environment: SQL, MS-Visio, MS-Office, Windows NT/2000,Visio, Win

Runner

Universal Distribution Center

March 2006- April 2008

Business Analyst

. Gathered demands from the stakeholders

. Conducted JAD sessions with SME's

. Created BRD

. Developed a vision plan that defined the primary goals and objectives of

the project

. Redesigned the whole warehouse

. Redesigned their day to day (Supply Chain) process for more productivity

. Used RUP methodology

. Developed a proper system for inventory control, delivery and payment

scheduling

. Developed plan to optimize truck routes

. Reported status to project management and stakeholders on a weekly

basis

. Used MS Project for status reporting and planning

. Trained all users

. Environment: MAS500,VB, Oracle, Crystal Reports, Windows XP,MS word,

Excel, Power Point, MS Project

Shro Informatics Pvt. Ltd.

June 2001-July 2003

Developer and Business Analyst

. Conducted JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts to domain level

information

. Developed a vision plan that defined the primary goals and objectives of

the project

. Designed and coded database for payroll and inventory control

. Tested the database for bugs

. Debugged database and made changes as and where required

. Modified database according to customer requirements

Environment: HTML, VB 6, Oracle, UML, Windows 2000,MS Office, MS Visio, MS

Access, Crystal Reports.

Tata Technologies Ltd.,

April 2000-June 2001

Developer and Business Analyst

. Designed complete Human Resource Management (Recruiting) Database System

. Conducted JAD sessions with the HR recruiting team

. Developed a vision plan that defined the primary goals and objectives of

the project

. Used DFD (Data Flow Diagram) to show the flow of data

. System was designed to sort resumes according to position requirements

. System tracked employee performance and was used as a vital tool for

recommendations for promotions

. System demonstrated HR data with GUI (Graphical User Interface) and

generated reports

. Used SDLC methodology

. Environment: Used Active-X Control tools to enhance performance of system

tools used were Oracle 8i, PL SQL, COM and VB 6.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, NT, XP, VISTA, UNIX, DOS

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, FoxPro

Database Related Skills: Oracle, MS-Access, MS-SQL, ODBC,MS Outlook,

Extra 32, QuickBooks

Front Ends: Visual Basic, MS Access, Developer 2000

Internet Tools: MS-Front Page

Documentation Tools: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Power Point

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, MAS 500

BI Tools OBIEE

Packages: Adobe Photoshop, MS Project, MS Visio, Clear Case

Methodologies: Unified Modeling language (UML), Rational Unified Process

(RUP), Joint Application Development (JAD), SDLC,

Agile

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