Business Analyst/Jr Scrum Master

Archana Gurram

*.*********@*****.*** 561-***-****) 16100 Space center Blvd, apt 410, Houston, TX, 77062 www.linkedin.com/in/archana-gurram.

Educational Qualifications Grad Date

Master in Engineering Management

University of Houston Clearlake, TX

CGPA 3.45

Dec 2017

Master’s in Business Administration

Osmania University, India

GPA 3.9

Jun 2010

Key Competencies:

Scrum Master

Business Analysis

Requirement Gathering

SDLC model

Waterfall and Agile Methodologies

Quality Assurance

SAP

Technical Skills

Platforms: Windows 8, 7, VISTA, XP, 2000, NT.

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project.

Quality Management Tools QTP, Quantum Db, AWD (automated work distributor),

IBM Mainframes.

Bug / Issue Tracking Tools JIRA, Scarab.

Office Tools: MS- PowerPoint, MS-Excel professional (Regression analysis, Pivot tables), Access

MS-Word, MS-Outlook and Minitab

Database MS SQL, MS Access, XML

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Tableau

Methodologies Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Incremental, SDLC

Achievements, Awards and Certifications

Professional Scrum Master I certified

Loma 280 certified.

Project Planning and Management with Six sigma certified.

Certificate of Appreciation from Federated project delivery.

German Language level B1 certified.

Related work experience

Business Analyst/Jr Scrum master (Full time), Computer Science Corporation (CSC), Hyderabad, India Aug 2010- Dec 2015

Creating BRD and DDD documents and establishing Software Test Strategies, monitoring, and executing project plans. In charge of delivering Quality to improve a client’s business applications. Stand in Project Manager for projects in pipeline.

Coordinating and managing all QA related project activities between Development Teams & QA Teams, & ensuring project deliverables are achieved to plan with international teams.

Participated in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Collected, analyzed data trends and created and generated reports as requested.

Acted as a communication interface with customer for quality as well as for different departments in the house & to the offshore teams.

Created Detailed Design Document based on the Business requirements and ensured that the requirements are covered throughout the development life cycle.

Performed Regression Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing.

Analyzed software programs and applications to make them user friendly and error free.

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for project definition involving analyzing requirements, creating prototypes, user interface, database schema and system design.

Created Use Cases as per user requirements, developing/designing diagrams such as Activity, Class, and or Sequence diagrams.

Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement. Worked on JIRA for creating user stories and tracking issues.

Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

Assisted and Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies).

Trained in Kanban, Lean, and XP.

Assistant Quality Manager (Intern), BVR Business Forms, Hyderabad, India. Jan 2008- July 2010

Identified product problems and strengths and collected data on the customer experience

Provided technical support and customer service

Managed professional relationships with clients

Segmented customer and designed Constant Contact emails

Provided support during customer meetings.

Projects

Graduate Student, University of Houston Clearlake

Capstone Project:

Evaluating the efficiency of universities offering master in business analytics course with Data Envelopment Analysis and Delphi method.

New Business Development for product “Smart Beat (smart speaker with a display)”

Developed a business model, growth opportunity, Competitive strategy for the product, Marketing and Sales plan, Growth and expansion plan for next 10 years and also designed profits and revenue generation plan for the product.

Professional Project Management – “Safety Ring”.

Developed a detail project plan for the product safety ring. Project plan includes- Project integration management, Scope management, Time management, Cost management, Quality management, Communication management and Stakeholder management.

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