Business Analyst.

RAHUL TAKKALLA

Business Analyst

Phone: 937-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.*** Minneapolis, MN

Solutions-driven Business Analyst with 3 years’ experience in software development, user support, acting as subject matter expert, and as a versatile liaison between business and IT organization. Skilled in Agile Scrum and Waterfall and able to capture stakeholder’s vision through elicitation, requirements gathering and documenting workflow processes, user acceptance testing and implementing technology for various departments.

SPECIALITIES:

Experience with Agile Scrum, Waterfall, RUP.

Expertise in eliciting requirements, analyzing the requirements and simplifying and translating requirements.

Excellent experience in developing detailed functional specs through JAD sessions, Requirements workshops, Job shadowing, Prototyping, Document Analysis, Interviews, on site meetings with business users & development team.

Good experience in interviewing Business users & subject matter expert providing recommendations to resolve issues for various business/technical groups & defining strategic solutions to business problems in a multiple project environment.

Acted as Scrum Master to direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product, Facilitating Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retrospective, and Daily Standup meetings.

User training on the changes being released and conducting post production activities like getting feedback from users. In case of any issues - doing root cause analysis, prioritizing tasks with business users

EDUCATION:

MS in Engineering April 2017

Wright State University, Fairborn Ohio.

BE in Engineering, May 2013

MVSR Engineering College.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Client: Bank of West San Francisco, CA

Role: Business Analyst March 2016- Dec 2017

Responsibilities:

Performed the requirement analysis, impact analysis and documented BRD and FSD using Rational Requisite Pro.

Analyzed the scope document and the current business processes to gain better understanding of the project.

Understanding, articulating, extracting, and refining user requirements by conducting JAD sessions, facilitating meetings, & interview with Business Units and Technical Support team.

Identifying the business flows and process flows, conducting detailed and comprehensive business, functional & system analysis to determine High Level and Low-Level artifacts & deliverables.

Implement Scrum methodology, to realize efficiencies and improve team engagement. Communicate product requirements to the development team.

Worked on real time User Stories and creating Test Scenarios, Test Plans, and Test Cases.

Reviewed and analyzed data from various sources. Reviewed test results and coordinated with testing and development team to correct the issues.

Provided support to senior business analyst in planning, designing, programming, testing, and executing client's projects.

Responsible for writing functional Requirements and Use cases. Developed use case diagrams using Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose.

Served as a focal point of contact between customer and company; conducted presentations focusing on making key decisions.

Environment: MS PowerPoint, Requisite Pro, MS Visio, Adobe Dreamweaver, MS Excel, MS Access, Waterfall SDLC.

Client: Accenture Hyderabad, India

Role: Business Analyst June (2013) – May (2015)

Responsibilities:

Projects were implemented on the Agile framework.

Engaging with key stakeholders, technology and operational areas and conducting workshops to gather business requirements and to produce current state analysis.

Played an active role in gathering, analyzing and writing Business Requirements and translating them into Functional Requirements, and other supporting artifacts.

Engaging and managing relationships between internal departments.

Working with key stakeholders, technical BA's and IT team during User Acceptance Testing.

Producing detailed UAT test scenarios and test scripts and executing UAT testing.

Functioned as the primary liaison between the business client, operations, and technical areas throughout the project life cycle.

Involved in Project Coordinating activities like: Scheduling meetings, communicating with project resources, Preparing and leading presentations, working closely with project stakeholders and IT project team, etc.

Conducted JAD sessions with various teams (Business, dev team, QA team, etc) which aids in developing an architectural solution that the application meets, to resolve open issues, and accommodate change requests.

Good understanding of Software Infrastructure while working closely with Business and Architectural team in defining the business process flow to enhance the underwriting process which involves front-end, back-end systems and web-services for system integration.

Environment: Windows, Rational Unified Process (RUP), CMMI, Six Sigma, UML, MS Office Tools - MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, Brio Query, Requisite Pro.

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