Drashti N Parikh

Sr. Business / Systems Analyst

404-***-****

ac0gw0@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drashtip/

Business Analysis

Served as Business/Systems Analyst in industries such as online advertising, Finance / Accounting / Tax and Telecom for 12+ years with an ability to understand the business requirements formulate business goals and ensure that they are met. Possess extensive experience in gathering user and business requirements, analyzing them, and translating them into technical requirements. Project management

Successfully executed and delivered multiple different types of projects such as infrastructure maintenance, application enhancement, re-engineering projects and vendor integration projects deploying end to end solutions encompassing multiple technologies and spanning the entire software development life cycle. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Manager, Business Analysis & Testing

Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP 2014–Present

I am part of critical part of Program Management office as Lead Program BA to ensure successful end to end delivery. Managed and led cross workstream and cross lines of services (LOS) projects for top firm initiatives including merger and acquisitions which were cross territory.

Developed and deployed formal business analysis methods and tools to govern and control program

Owned and maintained the risks, issues and roadblocks

Built credibility, established rapport, and maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels

Owned product backlog, and prioritization of the work products

Key activities entailed development and management of resources, budget, contracts interfacing with various internal and vendor team during project cycle and meeting project milestones and deliver dates.

Led and guided group of Business Analysts with their daily tasks, weekly commitments and tracking program to completion

Planned and tracked end to end UAT for the program which included

~35 applications & databases and ~41 integrations to be tested across 800+ UAT scenarios run by 30+ stakeholders

Artifacts: Requirement Analysis Plan, Product backlog, SRS, URS, Decision Log, Stakeholder chart, Master Test Plan, Data Flow diagram, RAID Document

Systems: Peoplesoft, Workday, HP ALM, HP PPM, SAP, Qlikview, JIRA TECHNICAL SKILLS

RAD Tools: JIRA, Axure, Paintshop Pro

Reporting Tools: Crystal Enterprise 7.0, SSRS,

BW Reporting, Qlikview

Project Management Tools: MS Project,

Sharepoint

Defect Management Tools: HP ALM,

Teamtrack, Bugzilla

Databases: Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, MS Access,

PL/SQL Developer, SQL Server 2005, SQL

Server 2008

Methodologies: Agile, Iterative, Waterfall

HIGHLIGHTS

Awarded Most Valuable Team for 2016

Led end to end delivery of the post-merger

state which included 30 applications and

databases, 41 integrations within 10 month

period

Mentored and coached over 12 Analysts

EDUCATION

MBA, IT, Symbiosis Center for Information

Technology, Pune, India

Bachelor of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai

University, India

Diploma in Web Application Development,

IBM-ACE

CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Certified Six Sigma (Green Belt)

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)

– In Progress

Project Manager / Lead Business Analyst

Ernst & Young LLP 2011–2014

Managed quarterly application enhancement, infrastructure maintenance releases for upgrades to the legacy application projects while simultaneously participating in the design and delivery of a re-engineered, replacement solution. Responsible for integration with the new vendors and handling the related production support activities.

Directed the coordination of all implementation tasks involving third party vendors as well as provide consultation to clients on system implementation.

Managed systems development, project status, resources, budget, implementation and risk via the use of SDLC.

Was responsible for developing and maintaining documentation of web services, while also training our vendors’ technology staff on the use of EY Web Services interface.

Responsible to enhance the website to be 508 compliant

Defined the procedures on how the requirements elicitation will be planned and managed (i.e. RA Plan, baselining requirements, requirements change control and requirements traceability)

Responsible for ensuring change control and change management procedures are followed within the project team as they relate to requirements

Artifacts: Requirements Plan, Business Process Flows ( As – Is and To – Be), Use cases, Use Case models, Business Rules, Wireframes, Non Functional Requirements, Project Plan, Training guide for Operations Systems: .NET, MS-Sharepoint, MS-Visio, Microsoft SQL Server, SOAP, Crystal Reports, MS- Project, SSRS

Sr Analyst - Technology

AON Hewitt 2009–2010

Worked on multiple enhancement releases which included integration of Election of Benefits, setting up Payments, tax withholdings, payments via integration with Northern Trust and Retirement Modeler and Calculation Process Wizard for the AON Consulting product – PenProPlus.

Facilitated requirements gathering and design sessions, reviewing design documentation with users and developers gather information about the organization’s work processes and information flows

Reviewed Business case and based on the same created Functional and Technical Requirement Document.

Engaged in Change Request meetings to document changes and analyzed modification requests

Provided input into project definition and scope and was responsible to own process and requirements documents

Conducted walkthrough of Functional Specifications with the off-site development team

Work with a project team to develop processes and procedures to support a business or technology solution.

Artifacts: Functional Requirements Document, Technical Requirements Document, Wireframes, Process Flows, Data Flow Diagrams, Test case document

Systems: Oracle 10g, MS-Office, PL/SQL Developer, Crystal Reports, XML References available upon request

Sr Analyst / Data Analyst

Multiple contracts 2008–2009

Worked with 2 clients as an individual contractor. 1) Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) – performed detailed analysis for replatform of the application used by the Actuaries to calculate benefits at the end of the term or at the termination and create the entire package to generate the Beneficiary Statements. 2) AT&T – worked on data warehousing project where the data from all the affiliates (post-merger) of AT&T gets consolidated in a system called eCI which is used by the marketing and financial teams for day to day operations or for important decision making.

Reviewed existing documentation to derive as-is flow and conducted JAD sessions to identify to-be flow

Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including context, dataflow and decomposition diagrams.

Defined the data sources, data loads and data transformation using ER Diagrams.

Developed Data mapping documents for Data-Mart, and worked on Teradata

Designed message formats, queues, systems interfaces, and worked with the business Users through interviews and JAD sessions.

Analyzed, collected and prepared user requirements, definition, scope and expectations for deliverable plans. Delivered system documents, processes, diagrams, and test cases.

Artifacts: As-Is and To-Be process flow, detail software requirement document, Data Flow diagrams, ER Diagrams.

Systems: Oracle 10g, Teradata SQL Assistant 12.0, MS Access, UML, Informatica, Enterprise Data warehouse

Business Analyst

Rediff.com 2005–2008

Worked on an application for online ad space selling based on clicks called pay for performance model. This application allowed advertisers to place an ad online and manage their account. Also worked on developing various reporting tools feeding off same database used by different stake holders of the application

Worked on Graphical User Interface (GUI), of the online portal, created wire frames and mock up screens.

Interacted with developers to report software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues

Worked with operations and sales team to educate clients on pay for performance model

Worked with search engine optimization team to help clients get maximum returns on investment

Artifacts: Requirements Document, Wireframes, Process maps Systems: MS Project, MS Office, SQL Server, Bugzilla

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