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MEHULKUMAR PATEL

PHONE: 647-***-**** EMAIL: *******@******.***

Toronto, ON

Career Profile

Over 5 years of progressive work experience in Business Analysis and Project coordination/ Project control officer in Banking, Finance, and Trust Fund. I have comprehensive experience in the field of Information Technology covering areas like Project Management, Business Process Design, System verification and validation in diverse domains.

Good understanding of Mutual funds and related financial instruments, created documentation such as Project Proposals, Business Cases, Business Requirements Documents, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements, Process Flows, Use Cases, RFP, RFI and Vendor Management

Work with business partners to understand business objectives and develop value-added reporting and provide ad-hoc data extracts and analysis

Sound knowledge of managing and implementing requirements during various phases of the SDLC employing Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM)

Facilitate JAD sessions with the management, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications

Knowledge and experience in eliciting requirements, analyzing and defining business requirements, designing/re-engineering business Process, developing use cases, creating traceability matrix, coordinating User Training, Change request, organizing Knowledge Transfer sessions, Application Prototyping & managing client expectations

Design and development of MS Power BI visualization solutions like Dashboards, Standard Reports, Scorecards, charts and Ad-hoc Reports

Established, updated and maintained workflows, user guides, processes, training and procedural documentation for agency information management systems, software and tools

Providing support to a team of Documentation Specialists by assisting them with the preparation of documentation packages Including SOP, BRD, FRD, Project Plan, and Project Charter.

Develop documentation for data flows, processes, training, and testing.

Technical Proficiency

Software Development Model:

Agile, Scrum Incremental/ Iterative, RUP, Waterfall

Business Modeling & Tools:

UML, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, MS Visio

Project Management:

MS Project, Visio, WBS, Advance Excel, PPT

Service Management:

ITIL, KPI Reporting, Remedy, Change management

Documentation:

BRD, Project Charter, Use Cases, RTM, FRD

Defect Tracking & Testing Tools:

Bugzilla, JIRA, IBM Rational Clear Quest

Technology & Database:

SharePoint, Java, SAP, HTML, MySQL, SQL, Oracle, MS Power BI

Designing:

Microsoft Publisher, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, XML

BA Skills:

Use Case, Test Cases, Process mapping, Release Procedures, Requirements Gathering, Scope Statement, Stakeholders Needs Analysis, Risk Analysis, UAT/BAT, Fit-Gap Analysis, eliciting requirements,

Safran Landing Systems,

4Business Analyst/ Quality Information System Analyst (Jan 2017- Present)

Deploy enhancements for software used by the Quality Department of the Landing Gear manufacturer. This includes administrative tasks for the above software, including Creating New Users, Implementing changes, Troubleshooting and Bug Resolution.

Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams

Develop documentation for data flows, processes, training, and testing.

Design and development of MS Power BI visualization solutions like Dashboards, Standard Reports, Scorecards, charts and Ad-hoc Reports

Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training.

Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

Facilitate meetings with SME to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

Define, plan, coordinate and obtain information requirements to support and launch new products and software releases

Coordinate with multiple resources efficiently and effectively throughout the development lifecycle so as to ensure that the projects are completed on time, meet requirements, are implemented accurately and the full impact is understood by the business owner

Experience in documenting requirements using Use Cases, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Process Decomposition Diagrams and Workflows

Minacs Limited

4Business Analyst (Jan-2015 to Nov-2016)

As a part of the overall business initiative decision has been made to gradually PeopleSoft upgrade the RM module of HRMS from version 8.9 to 9.2

Digitizing the paper based forms into the electronic forms (E-forms).

Define the As-Is process and create the To-Be process for the project

Interact with the cross-functional teams and gathered requirements of the To-Be system, through focus group discussions and interviews, survey, workshop and Research

Assisted elongated sessions with SMEs in performing UAT testing and obtaining their signoffs

Analyzed complex business requirements and translated them into functional/technical requirements while incorporating the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Assisted in data migration into Oracle system and developed and delivered

HCL

4Project coordinator/Business Analyst (Sep 2013- Jan-2015)

Maintained action logs, Risk Assessment Log and forwarded meeting minutes to attendees and stakeholders

Performing and documenting requirements prioritization and scoping discussions with stakeholders to discover the underlying business needs

Maintaining traceability matrix throughout the project duration

Assisted Scrum Master to facilitate various team members between the US and Canada, to overcome and progress past any obstacles

Identified and tracked key project milestones (base-lining critical path)

Prepared and delivered weekly Project Plan task lists and status reports

Performed GAP Analysis of Client requirements, Generated workflow process and necessary documents.

Scheduled regular meetings/conference calls with Compliance, Risk, Pricing, Operations, and other cross functional teams to deliver technical and operational solutions that support key business strategies, goals, and objectives

Use HTML for creating user interface.

Involved in defining the source to target data mappings, business rules and data definitions.

HSBC

4Junior Business Analyst/ Project Coordinator (Sep-2012 to Aug-2013)

Supported in the development and documentation of BRD, Use cases and FRS defining the functional and non-functional requirement of the system

Gathered data requirements from various stakeholders for the development of Fund management system

Conducted the Business AS-IS process map exercise and followed with a more detailed business process analysis

Facilitated and coordinated group discussions for process optimization and improvement

Held meetings with representatives of the various departments in order to understand business needs, identify gaps and problem areas

Gathered business and stakeholder level requirements using techniques such as brainstorming, document analysis and interviews

Assisted JAD sessions with SMEs to identify potential solutions from technical and business perspective

Discussed the Data model, data flow and data mapping with the application development team

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of Northern Virginia, USA

Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certification

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with MS Power BI by Dimensional Strategies Inc.

Level-1 Entry Certificate in Business pursing-(Foundation of Business Analysis and foundation in Business analysis for Financial Services).

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