Mithun B

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Summary

I have over 11 plus years’ experience in IT as a Business System Analyst / Solution Analyst / Product Owner with in-depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), working with various technical and non-technical stakeholders and experience converting business requirements to technical specifications & in creating high level and Low level design for product development teams.

Efficient in Business Requirement elicitation techniques such as Questionnaires, Interviews, and Prototyping and Experience in creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) & Product Requirement Document (PRD) documents, creating User stories, Acceptance Criteria, Use Cases, High Level Project Plan documents and Production Release notes

Extensive experience being liaison between Development team / stake holders as well as End users & Stakeholders ensuring that we don’t end up with a solution that solves the wrong problem

Expertize documenting User Experience by interacting with End-users of Stakeholders to ensure primary business objectives align with the scope & solutions, also involved in End user training

Expertize working in Fast paced Agile environment & facilitating weekly/biweekly Sprints using the Agile Scrum methodology & in documenting Sprint Backlog and Product Backlog in Scrum environment & involved in Product Backlog Grooming & act as scrum master / product owner in daily stand up scrum meetimgs .

Experience using tools Such as Visio, Powerpoint, balsamiq for wireframing, presentations

& storyboarding &, Have Utilized the use of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure prototype tool, text Editor, Notepad++ & adobe Indesign for Prototyping & diagrams & publishing, Have also made use of Emaze & also have utilized tools such as utilized Haiku Deck for mobile presentations & Keynote for apple, have used Notepad++ as a text editor

Proficient in creating UML & BPMN diagrams using Visio & Lucidchart like Use Case Diagrams, Activity, Sequence, Class, Collaboration, State, Workflow, Process flow, Dataflow and Deployment Diagrams

Facilitating User Acceptance Test (UAT) for the end-users & SME’s after every spring/build is in staging, validate the defects raised/ Logged in ALM as Defects, Enhancements or Change requests (CR ) & constantly communicate with UAT team along with support team

coordinate with QA team for Test Plans & test strategy creation & review estimates, Test Cases & validate

Have experience working on a MVP ( minimum viable product ) versions to get help business get the approval by collecting user experience data & documenting feedback to validate a product budget approval .

Experience Conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions as facilitator & prepared visual aids, setting goals and objectives, providing read-ahead materials to participants to Review Cross- functional implications to elicit missed requirements during initial stakeholder interviews

Expert level skills in analyzing complex data sets, performing ad-hoc analysis and data manipulation using Excel, Access, hands on experience in Rational tools (RequisitePro and Rose) & using MS office applications for day to day activities, MS Visio & Lucid chart for flow diagrams

Extensive experience using tools such as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Requirement Management including traceability & Team Foundation Server (TFS) & JIRA for requirement analysis, documenting & prioritizing Stakeholder requirements.

Experienced creating RTM (Requirement tractability matrix ) to trace requirements against Enhancements & defects & change requests, Used RTM for Requirement Change Impact analysis & coverage Analysis

Extensive experience in defect tracking, reporting & management in TFS, ALM & VSTS

Expert in Root Cause Analysis, Feasibility studies and Risk assessment and in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis including Return on investment( ROI), Total cost of ownership (TCO) TCO and Financial Justification.

Experience participating in Defect Review Meetings with Stakeholders in coordination with QA lead

Good understanding of Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), Experience in Data Modeling & Data Analysis, Logical Modeling, As-Is and To-Be Mapping, Feasibility- studies, vision-scope documents.

Experience in creating and testing Business Intelligence reports with Power BI, experience using Power BI for creating dashboards, Data Preparation, reports & for AdHOC Analysis,

Have experience working with Automation Teams & have exposure to Automation testing tools like selenium & katalon Studio & have used HTTPwatch for Performance / Load testing of web applications

Strong leader and a team player with excellent analytical skills with capability to handle variable difficult situations along with willingness to learn new technologies, dedicated multitasker with ability to meet prioritized deadlines and provide necessary deliverable with out-of-the-box thinking to create change and solve problems.

Tools & Technology

MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Project, Office 365, Lotus Notes.

Business Systems Analysis (BSA), Systems Analysis (SA Business Rule Engine (BRE), Business Intelligence (BI), Knowledge Management (KM), Project Management, Object-Oriented Analysis, Object-Oriented Design (OOA/OOD) Software Development Models, Flowcharts, ER Diagrams, Business Process Analysis (BPA)

MS Visio Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case,BPMN,UML

HP ALM, HP Quality Center Test Director, IBM Lotus Notes, SharePoint Designer, HTML, Team foundation server (TFS), Power BI, JIRA, Balsamiq, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure prototype tool, text Editor, Notepad++ & adobe InDesign, selenium & katalon Studio,Emaze,Haiku Deck,Keynote, HTTPWATCH

Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban methodology

Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/10 MS SQL Server 2008, UML

Projects:

Orion Business Innovation, Monmouth Junction, NJ FEB 2012 till Date

KPMG, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Business Analyst (BC2ROI, GIP and eAUDIT)

KPMG is one of the largest professional services firms in the world. It offers service like Tax, Audit and Advisory. In areas of audit, it offers financial statement audit and regulator audit services. Financial statement audit is the primary service of KPMG's Audit practice. This service is supported by robust technology, rigorous audit methodology, and global consistency. The focus of KPMG's is to analyze client's financial statements, risk assessment and control testing activities. A KPMG audit associate helps in the auditing process of the organization. The approach is through tax, forensics, information risk management and assessment.

Projects Involved in:

BC2ROI – Business Case to Return on Investment

The Business Case to Return on Investment (BC2ROI) Platform is designed to provide increased visibility into globally funded projects (both core and investment projects). By centralizing and automating reporting associated with global project spend, the platform gathers lifecycle information from the approval of the program through to the return on investment (ROI), demonstrating performance against stated program metrics.

Global Intake Process – GIP

The Intake Process will deliver a framework that will enable Global Audit to assess existing and new audit solutions developed at the member firm level as well as those already in use across the network using globally consistent criteria, to enable an expedited evaluation, development and deployment process with the objective to ensuring high priority solutions have the quickest path to our audit professionals and the marketplace. The Intake Process will improve the speed and scale of globalized development and deployment, while minimizing duplication and maximizing efficiency of member firm investment dollars.

EAudit

eAudIT is an audit management application which integrates KPMG audit methodologies along with its industrial knowledge and technical skills, it is a fully customizable electronic workflow which offers great flexibility necessary for the auditor or auditing firm it is Deployed for 150+ Countries Used by 60000+ Auditors 8+ Workflows, eAudIT, as a framework, supports multiple customized workflows like US FSA Non Public, US Public Integrated, US FSA Public, International Integrated, US Non-Public Integrated and J-Sox. Base for all these customized workflows is “FSA International” workflow. Customizations for such workflows will be made on FSA International workflow functionality. In addition to these FSA based workflows, eAudIT also supports other workflows such as SOAR for Advisory group, SEW for smaller entities.

Responsibilities:

Involved in business requirement elicitation and in business stakeholder meetings to understand and process client’s financial data to assess the auditing risk in accounting modules (General Ledger, Balance Sheet and Income Statement Accounts)

Facilitated collection of Functional Requirements from system users, and prepared Business Requirement documents (BRD) using Microsoft Word & PowerPoint. & have experience creating BRDs on TFS & VSTS

Conducted presentations to review stakeholder requirements using PowerPoint, Microsoft word, Emaze & also have tools such as utilized Haiku Deck for mobile presentations & Keynote for apple

Created Use Case Diagrams/ Sequence Diagrams after liaising with business stakeholders.

Worked with the Project Manager to prioritize the items from the product backlog in the sprint planning.

Organized the project inception and brainstorming session between all the project stakeholders in starting of the project.

Proficient in implementing Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) using Visio & Lucidchart

Creating features based on project inception output and dividing into the User story

Participating in the scrum ceremony(sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and backlog grooming)

utilized the use of Pivot Tables in Excel for Data Analysis & to summarize large amounts of data into reports

Designing the user story and adding wireframes using VISIO & Balasamiq and acceptance criteria in it &

also Used Balasamiq for wireframing & brainstorming sessions, experience mapping wireframes to use cases and use of the combination of visual and text to help solidify the requirements

mapped wireframes to use cases and find that combo of visual and text can really help solidify the requirements

Working with stakeholders for user story priority and reprioritize based on decision.

Removing impediments raised in daily stand up meetings for the team

Worked with developer and tester for the three-way handshake of user story before and after completing the user story making sure all are in the same page for business requirements.

Gathered business requirements and wrote user stories using TFS & ALM

Involved in Defect Review Meetings and ensured traceability using Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) & Visual Studio team server (VSTS)

Worked with QA teams in preparing test scripts and test cases,system integration testing (SIT) and facilitated user acceptance testing (UAT) along with Project manager to enable business/ stakeholders to test patches & builds on timely manner & on schedule & validating the defects raised by UAT members

Have extensive experience handling last min AD HOC requests & generating real time AD DOC reports,

Modeled the "as-is" and "to-be" business processes to help business users adapt to a new change or improvements & minimize the impacts on the business process.

Facilitated just in time requirements gathering by Defining the requirements for the backlog items being worked on and the acceptance criteria for those items, developing only what is required for the current sprint and only done to the level of detail required to enable the team to build the product and acceptance criteria.

Acted as a liaison between Stakeholders & their End users & Facilitated End user trainings / walkthrough / presentation sessions

Analyzed & suggested improvements to business, and the business processes which drive the business & as being more Agile focused, analyze & suggest about what the business needs to do to solve the business problems in addition to what the solution team needs to do as being part of the Agile

Traced user stories to business objectives and the product vision and throughout the sprint to ensure it's actually been delivered as imagined using ( RTM )Requirement Traceability Matrix including to trace Defects to user stories & scopes

Worked closely with QA team to validate scopes,Test cases & defects logged in ALM, TFS & VSTS

D2SOL Inc, Morrisville, NC

Role : Business Analyst, Nj /NY Feb 2009 to Jan 2012

Role : Business Analyst, CT, June 2008 to Feb 2009

Role : Business Analyst, CA, June 2007 to May 2008

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Applied Art & Design, CKP, College of Fine Arts, Bangalore,India - Graduated 1995 to 2000.

Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Iowa State University, Ames IA - did not Graduate 2001 .

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