Business Analyst

Professional Summary:

Goal Oriented professional with 4.8 years of experience as Student Ambassador/ Web Developer and Business Analyst Finance and Business Analyst.

Experience working with agile (Scrum) and waterfall methodologies.

Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously and ability to work independently.

Good Inter-personal skills gained through interaction with technical and functional teams. Capable of quickly learning and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team.

Ability to work under tight deadlines and multi-tasking to meet business objectives, scheduling meetings, negotiating and coordinating with Software Developers, Solution Architects and QA Team

Significant experience conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), writing test plans and test cases.

Experienced with UML in creating Flow charts, Use Cases, Class diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Activity diagrams.

Professional Skills:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum.

Modelling and Visualization tools: MS Visio and Balsamiq.

Testing tools: JIRA and HP ALM.

Database and Oracle Tools: MS Access, SQL, Oracle 11g, Hyperion Essbase.

Business Proficiency: JAD Sessions, Project Planning, SWOT Analysis, Project Scheduling and BPMN.

Business/Reporting Tools: Tableau, MS Project, MS Excel-Advanced, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, SAP.

Web Designing and Languages: HTML 5.0, CSS, Omni Update, Python, Web Portal, Dream weaver.

Professional Experience:

University of Houston Clear Lake (UHCL). Dec’15 – May’17

Student Ambassador (Business Analyst / Web Developer) Houston, TX

Project: Migration of University of Houston Clear Lake Website from Portal to Omni Update.

Responsible for creating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FRD) and involved extensively in Use Case analysis using the UML and MS-Visio.

Facilitated Daily Stand-up meetings, Retrospective meetings and review meeting with management and Developers.

Collaborated with technical team to ensure the solution design satisfies project objectives and business requirements.

Involved in creating reports and Dashboards for Management to review monthly expenses using Tableau and Excel.

Prepare and present monthly, quarterly and post-mortem reports to high level management to review and understand the number of walk-ins, student participation metrics in events which play a key role while allocating funds to the office.

Developed, updated and maintained “Office of Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (SDEI) web pages using latest languages and tools like HTML 5.0, CSS, Boot Strap and Adobe Dreamweaver.

Changed the book based Inventory management system to Excel based Inventory management process to make it easy and more impactful for high level management to access.

Automatic Data Processing(ADP) INC, Dec’12 – Jul’15

Business Analyst - Finance Hyderabad, India

Project: Preparation of Demo Applications for “Global View” product. The application is a part of HCM which is used to market Global view product by Business consultants to prospective clients without internet connectivity.

Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) having thorough understanding of various phases.

Utilize Agile (SCRUM) methodologies for project management, requirements gathering, and testing plans.

Worked closely with multiple teams (Developers, Testing, Delivery teams) in day-to-day activities and coordinated in project deliverables.

Worked as a liaison between the business teams and technical teams to understand the business requirements.

Participated in various approval meetings with the business stakeholders and development team.

Analyzed requirements and information to provide a logical strategic solution for end users. (AS-IS & TO-BE processes).

Worked with Microsoft Office Suite to document and store all projects related documentation.

Used HP ALM and JIRA for allotting task and issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability.

Assisted in writing SQL queries like Select, Update, and Joins to retrieve desired information.

Involved in transition of GlobalView Americas FP&A actives in 2012 from US to India.

Analyzed and supported the implementation leaders in Strategic Initiatives for GlobalView Americas region.

Expertise in building Planning, Forecasting, Revenue Variance Analysis, Ledger Analysis models.

Experience in using Oracle Hyperion Essbase tools for planning and building forecast models.

HDFC Bank Limited, Jun’2012 –Dec’12

Business Analyst Hyderabad, India

Project: The HDFC Bank provides online banking to support its renowned customers. The current application is a part of online banking that lets their customers to set up their online account and make e-bills payment as well as intra account transfers. As part of the Online Banking Software Development Team I helped with various responsibilities to develop a robust functional application.

Elicited project requirements by conducting JAD sessions, document analysis, requirements workshops, and interviews with stakeholders.

Participated in the business requirements analysis meetings and prepared Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using UML.

Performed Gap Analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.

Prepared Dashboards and Ad-hoc reports for the high-level management to review the trends and sales using tableau.

Achievements and Scholarships:

President of “Indian Student Association” from January 2016- May 2017.

Awarded “DS-Labs” scholarship for Leadership and active involvement in Student Organizations at UHCL.

Awarded “Emerging leader of the year” and “Student leader of the month”, by UHCL, in recognition of exceptional Contribution to the student organizations and active involvement in University events.

Professional Education:

University of Houston Clear Lake(UHCL), Houston, TX

Master’s in Engineering Management, August 2015 - May 2017

GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India

Master of Business Administration, May 2010- May 2012

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