SWETAL SONI
Contact: 512-***-**** (Cell)
Email: abmay4@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
* More than 8 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst in
Software Development with requirement analysis and business process
modeling.
* Extensive experience in writing Use Cases and developing Unified Modeling
Language (UML) and Data flow diagrams (DFD) for process mapping in RUP
methodology.
* Extensive experience in developing and organizing deliverables in a
secure retrievable area: such as BRD (Business Requirement Document), FRD
(Functional Requirement Document), PDD (Project/ Product Definition
Document), SRS (System Requirement Specification)
* Facilitated JAD/JAR sessions with Stake Holders, End-users, SME's,
Project Manager, QA team and Development Team
* Played a major role in analysis and designing key modules of an ERP
application
* Exposure to Government sector, Banking sector and Pharmaceutical industry
and their business processes.
* Experience in Testing Methodologies using Functional, Regression,
Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
* Experience in developing User Manuals and provide User Training
* Excellent problem solving and interpersonal skill
* Motivated, hardworking and a team player with strong interpersonal and
communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
* Methodologies: RUP, UML, SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, OOAD
* Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro
* Modeling and Reporting Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, WebSphere
* Programming Languages: VB 6.0, ASP, C, C++, HTML, Dot Net, Java, COM,
SQL, PL/SQL
* Databases: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server
* Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows-XP, Mainframe
* Tools & Applications: Test Director, Microsoft Projects, Visual Source
Safe (VSS), Sharepoint, Crystal Reports, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, HP
Quality Center
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Lockheed Martin, Baltimore MD
July 2008 - May 2009
Business Analyst
Lockheed Martin provides quality information technology support to Social
Security Administration (SSA) with development and implementation of
Internet Disability Report (IDR), Government to Government (G2G),
Government to Business (G2B), Government to Employee (G2E) and Government
to Citizen (G2C) - E-commerce and E-business Solutions.
Responsibilities:
* Worked with Social Security Administration to gather requirements,
articulate those requirements into detailed process designs.
* Worked on development of various social security applications such as
Electronic Record Express (ERE) application, Internet Disability Report
(IDR) applications- "Adult Disability Report" and "iClaims".
* Provided consultative input during the Planning and Evaluation (P&A)
phase of the Internet Enumeration application (iEnum).
* Worked on implementing Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement
(SAVE) middleware application.
* Worked on Document Management module named as "Business Service Online".
* Attended various meetings for requirement definition, project planning,
project issues and implementation as well as prepare Meeting Minutes,
which are reference for project lifecycle documents.
* Facilitated JAD and JAR Sessions in developing requirements.
* Followed CMMI Level-3 quality for each product delivered to the client
(Social Security Administration).
* Prepared Business Process Document, Architecture Design Document, and
Detailed System Specification which is useful for programmer.
* Worked also as a artifacts co-ordinator to keep all the required
documents on track.
* Tracked, coordinated, and assigned defects identified during the
validation phase. This was accomplished using the Mercury Quality Center
tool.
* Reviewed and updated the "Business Service Online" Tutorial and the
Detailed System Specification (DSS).
* Involved in handling the project issues and discovered the solution by
conducting JAD sessions.
* Prepared Power Point presentations to train the team members as well as
presented the project growth to higher management.
Environment : JAVA, Cobol, Oracle 10g, Mainframe, WebSphere, MS Visio,
UML, MS Office, Rational Requisite Pro, Microsoft Share Point, Microsoft
Power Point, Crystal Reports, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, HP Quality Center
Transworld Information Systems Inc, Santa Clara, CA Mar 2007
- June 2008
Business Analyst
Transworld Information Systems is a business focused Information Technology
Solutions company with expertise in IT Services, Customer Relations
Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) strategies,
integration and delivery.
Responsibilities:
* Worked with domain experts in gathering business requirements, Analyzed
and prioritized users' and business requirements as system requirements
that must be included while developing the software.
* Involved in Business Process Modeling and Created business flow,
functional workflow, and dataflow models that correspond to corporate
SDLC, and map these models to enterprise information architecture and
organizational structure.
* Prepared Usecase specification, supplementary specification, Functional
specification as well as created use case diagrams, class diagrams,
sequence diagrams.
* Involved in handling the project issues and discover the solution by
conducting JAD and JAR sessions.
* Involved in performing Manual as well as functional testing and managed
testing of application in Test Director. Performed Gap analysis to find
difference between AS-Is and To-Be Processes. Manual testing involves
executing SQL queries against the database.
* Designing data modeling and analysis in order to mine enterprise systems
and applications for knowledge and information that will help business
practices and processes improve.
* Provide documentation for user training, Users' Guide and general support
for new and enhanced applications.
Environment : .net, Oracle, Visio, Rational Rose, UML, MS Projects,
Microsoft Share point, MS Office, Microsoft Power Point, Test Director
Claris Life Sciences, India
Apr 2004- Feb 2007
Business Analyst / Quality Assurance
Claris Enterprise Business Application (CEBA) is an ERP developed for
Claris Life Sciences. It has multiple modules catering to various business
needs of Claris Life Sciences. All the modules are integrated with each
other.
Responsibilities:
* Conducted interviews with Users and SME's (Subject Matter Expert) for
gathering requirements
* Involved in development of various ERP modules such as Material
Management (MM), Production (PM), Sales and Marketing Module, Quality
Assurance (QA) and Human Capital Management (HCM).
* Involved in the development of CEBA Administrator which manages users and
their roles, security, document management as well as training module.
* Involved in implementing SAP HR, Understanding Enterprise Structure
elements in SAP HR, Aligning the business processes as per the SAP
requirement.
* Understanding the As-Is Processes, Understanding the issues and
expectations from the users and Redefining the processes to "To-Be"
Processes.
* Facilitated JAD Session for requirement elicitation as well as analyzed
user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes
and implemented procedures to test changes by performing impact analysis
and mitigating risks.
* Identify, research, investigate, analyze, define and document business
processes.
* Created Use case and various diagrams in Rational Rose as well as Created
Process Flow Diagrams (Business Process Flow Model).
* Understanding the As Is Processes and prepared Business Blueprint
Documents for To- Be processes and finalizing the requirements.
* Retrieve and analyze data from the existing database as well as performed
data extraction, transform and load data in to the new database. Managed
the Data Dictionary as an Software Artifacts.
* Involved in Manual testing and functional testing as well as performed
Functional, smoke, regression, Integration testing. Manual testing
involves SQL queries and Pl/SQL procedures for load testing.
Environment: ASP.NET, VB 6, XML, Web Services, Oracle 10g, UML, RUP, Agile
Methodology, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Visual Source
Safe, Crystal Reports
SEWA Bank, India
Mar 2001 - Mar 2004
Analyst/Developer
Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is an organization, has been
providing banking services. Working on Capitalization project, was to
manage all the activities of banking transactions being carried out by SEWA
bank. This project was useful in tracking all the transactions at head
office as well as respective transactions at respective districts.
Responsibilities:
* Involved in gathering requirement, analyzing and designing the process
model.
* Interacted with all levels of staff, including technical staff, team
leads and Senior Management as well as Documented business needs into
functional requirements.
* Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams in MS
Visio.
* Played crucial role in all the stages of System Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) process.
* Involved in application deployment and user training.
* Developed export - import tool for data transferring that extract,
transform and load data in to the new database. Managed the Data
Dictionary for that.
* Involved in data minig activiteis for log data from existing banking
database to new database using SQL queries.
Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server, Oracle 8i, Crystal Reports, MS
visio, UML, Waterfall, Microsoft Office Suite
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
* Post Graduation in Information Technology - Specialization in Database
Management
* Bachelor of Business Administration - Specialization in Marketing
Management
References available upon request