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Project Engineering

Location:
Dearborn, MI
Salary:
95000
Posted:
June 29, 2018

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VENKATA DIVYA PRAGNA PONDURU

BUSINESS ANALYST

ac52rj@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/divyaponduru/ 313-***-****

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

* ***** ** ******** ********/IT experience and a highly accomplished IT Professional with a verifiable track record of managing complex IT projects and exceeding expectations

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance (Certificant ID: 000791373)

Extensive experience with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies and Knowledge of SDLC

Practiced in clarifying business requirements and employed root cause/impact analysis to identify issues and recommended process improvements

Solid understanding of Software Testing/QA, Requirements Engineering and SQL concepts

Business Process Analysis and Improvement, Functional Design, Project Deliverables and Report Writing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst/Product Designer, Dechen Consulting Group, Inc. May 2016 – Current*

Client: Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI

Projects: Single Complete Actionable View of the Vehicle (SCA-V) – Receiving and Storing the data into

SCA-V Hadoop Structures from the below sources: Embedded Modem (TCU 2G, 3G and 4G), Vehicle

Health AppLink/Report Data, Usage-Based Insurance Data, Customer Correlation Group Transit Data, Computer Aided Engineering Simulation Data, Splunk/APIM Logs, Driver Behavior Data, Feature Bundles 2, 3 & 4, AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspot Reports (Finance/Marketing), Jasper Reports (Billing Data), and GDPR.

Student Research Assistant October 2015 – February 2016

University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI Projects: Facilitated gathering of materials and data for various projects related to Marketing Management and Global Marketing

Business Technology Analyst, Deloitte Consulting India May 2015 – August 2015

Client: United States Golf Association, Deloitte Digital Hyderabad, India

Project: USGA web application (included various modules like golf courses, clubs and facilities etc.)

Software Engineering Associate, Accenture Services Private Limited May 2013– April 2015

Client: Cisco and Starwood Hyderabad, India

Projects: Cisco WebEx Remedy SFDC (Salesforce.com) Integration, Electronic Distribution Gateway (EDG), Direct Connect Gateway (DCG) and Application Programming Interface (API) applications

Research Intern January 2013 – April 2013

University of Malaya Kaulalampur, Malaysia

Project: An Android Mobile Application that can teach hearing-impaired individuals and implemented the sign language teaching methods in smart phone technologies using Android Java Programming/XML

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

Primary Skills: BA, Requirement Gathering/Analysis and Project Management, Functional Testing, UAT

Computer Skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Visio

Programming Knowledge: Familiar with C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, SQL, OOPS and DBMS concepts Tools: HP ALM Quality Center, Rally, Blueprint, Rational Rose Modeler, Rational Requisite Pro, JIRA and WIX

Data Analysis Tools: Alteryx, Minitab, Tableau and XLMiner

ROLE SUMMARY

Experience in RUP/Agile development and artifacts to support business users for various projects

Documents/Elaborates User Stories with detailed acceptance criteria

Facilitates functional clarifications to the offshore/onshore team as needed

Responsible for working with business customers to create business process models

Identifies and documents application/system requirements, use cases and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria

Managing the project requirements using tools like Blueprint and Rally

Helps clients in creating and implementing effective business solutions

Developed broad consulting skills within the Systems Integration Service Line and Functional Testing Technology Area

Coordinates with various teams to develop functional designs and documents procedures and

project deliverables (e.g. Project Charter, High-Level Requirement document, BI Model)

Prepares business use cases and participates in the testing process to evaluate technology solutions

Reviews and assess the Requirement Specifications

Identifies the Test Conditions and creates the Test Design and provides Test Effort estimates

Prepares Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data and contributes to the Test Management Deliverables (e.g. Completion reports, defect reports and metrics)

Monitors the Test Environment and works with middleware, development and environment control Teams to resolve any issues/defects that arise out of the UAT/testing process

Executes and logs the tests, evaluated the results and documented the problems found

Logs defects and reported issues and risks to the test manager (Project Status Reporting)

Validates the Product fixes by executing re-tests of the test cases

Informs the Project/Test Lead of any issues that may affect the schedule, quality or the testing/development process

Performs Test Coverage Analysis, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Impact Analysis and Root Cause Analysis of UAT defects

Note: Currently on H1-B Visa Status valid till 2020 (Looking for GC Sponsorship)

EDUCATION

MS in Business Analytics GPA: 3.7/4 University of Michigan – Dearborn September 2015 – August 2016

Relevant coursework: Data Mining for Business Applications, Operations Management, Management Science, Decision Analysis, Applied Forecasting, IT in Supply Chain Management

Academic Projects:

(a) Conducted Data analysis on Freight Shipping Logistics with Ford Analytics (Capstone Experience) using Alteryx & Tableau in order to improve the packaging efficiency. A cost optimization model is recommended using Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)

(b)Identified the key concepts associated with procurement, fulfillment, production, Inventory warehouse and management and material planning processes and executed the key steps in the above mentioned processes using SAP ERP

MS in Software Engineering, 5-year Integrated Program GPA: 9.3/10

VIT University – Vellore (TamilNadu, India) June 2008 – May 2013

Relevant coursework: Requirements Engineering, Software Project Management, Software Architecture & Design, Software Testing, Software Quality & Process Improvement, Database Management Systems, Software Inspection Academic Project:

(a) Developed an Attack Injection Methodology for the Discovery of vulnerabilities using Java Programming



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