Project Quality

Sharvani Chamarthy

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Professional Summary

• 6 years of experience in the field of Information Technology as Business Analyst

• Excellent in organizing meetings, follow up on project status in Agile/ Scrum environment and

Water fall methodology.

• Experience in authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD) by gathering Business

Requirements and Expectations from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and defining business

processes, identifying risks, performing Gap Analysis, Feasibility Analysis and Impact analysis.

• Proficient in preparing Business and System Use Cases and supporting all the documents with

UML Diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow

Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Process Flows (Business and System) using UML modeling tools

such as MS Visio and Rational Rose.

• Experienced in all aspects of SDLC, such as Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation,

Testing, Quality Control and Deployment.

• Extensively used Quality center for defect tracking and JIRA for issue tracking, time entry and

project management.

• Experience in Functional, Performance, Load, Stress, Integration, Regression, Data-driven, GUI

Testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

• Proficient in Quality Assurance Life Cycle like developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases

(Manual / Automated), Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts.

• Excellent writing and language expression skills.

• Exceptional ability to adapt to latest technologies, perseverant, innovative and organized.

• Acted as liaison between the business and development teams for requirements.

• Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability

to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as a part of a team as well as independently.

• Excellent interpersonal dexterity with proven ability to converse, liaise, negotiate and relate with

a wide range of personalities from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

Education

Master of Business Administration Jan 2011 to Dec 2012

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Brenau University, Gainesville GA.

Technical Skills

• Software Design Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS SharePoint, MS

Office.

• Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Enterprise Tester, JIRA, QTP, and Load Runner.

• RDBMS: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

• Programming : C, C++, SQL, VB Script,

• Operating Systems : Windows 8,Windows 7, Windows XP, MAC OS, UNIX, MS-DOS 6.22

Professional Experience

Company: Novartis Animal Heath, Greensboro, NC, USA November ‘13- Till date

Business Analyst- Electronic Data Capture, R&D

Responsibilities

• Globally support Data management, Clinical Operations and study teams by establishing and

maintaining validation for (EDC) study databases.

• Involved in identifying, defining and mapping the user stories to the requirements.

• Involved in Change control process from Validation Plans to Validation Summary reports.

• Designed the UAT test plan and conducted meetings to allocate the testing work to the team.

• Lead the User Acceptance Testing efforts performed by the product owners.

• Worked directly with global study teams to gather the requirements.

• Interviewed key study team members and documented the results.

• Coordinated and conducted formal and informal study database testing.

• Established the traceability from requirements to testing.

• Created and executed test cases.

• Created and reviewed written Data management Plans and study Monitoring Plans.

• Participated in Data verification process and performed quality control of data.

• Established the workflows and business logics for studies.

• Conducted user requirements gathering meetings and documented specifications.

• Maintained all project related documents in the document control room according to GxP

standards.

• Worked with other business units to streamline and improve the process of requirement gathering

and mitigate the issues that arise in the process.

• Authored Electronic Data Capture GOP’s and SOP’s.

Environment: Track wise, MS Project, Visio, Imednet, SQL, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, ESOPS web

based training tool, MS Access

Client: T- Mobile October’12- November ‘13

Lead Business Analyst

Projects: GoSmartMobile/ 2ndBrand (www.gosmartmobile.com), LETO

Responsibilities

• Actively involved in in all phases of Project lifecycle like Scope, Plan, Design, Test and Deploy.

• Conducting JAD and RAD sessions with development, business owners and the test teams.

• Conducted requirement gathering meetings with the business team and drafted the User and

Functional requirements.

• Created detailed Business and system Use cases, UML diagrams, Business flow diagrams,

activity and sequence diagrams.

• Lead team meetings and triage meetings to discuss the daily status of the UAT and QAT testing

efforts with the developers.

• Created test design and test cases accordingly.

• Managed the defects in Quality Center and worked with developers to get them resolved.

• Performed UAT testing and file the defects accordingly.

• Managed the data required for testing efforts for QAT and UAT teams

• Experience in coordinating on shore and off shore teams for defect review meetings and status

calls.

• Authored status reports, progress reports and test completion reports.

• Managed the Project schedules, deadlines and resources using MS project.

• Prepared the test data required for testing end to end scenarios and functional scenarios.

• Performed functional, regression and performance testing in user acceptance test (UAT)

environment and approval of the application.

• Authored detailed instructions for User Acceptance Testing.

• Trained the end users group and documented the functional instruction and user guidelines for the

same application.

• Maintained all the Project related documents in SharePoint.

• Involved in executing the manual and automated scripts using QTP, Load Runner, and QC.

• Managed onshore and offshore teams and created detailed reports on progress of work.

• Extensively worked on web analytics using Http analyzer, IBM analyzer tool.

Environment: Quality Center 11.0, Toad, Unix, Soap UI, SQL, MS word, MS Visio, Rational Rose, MS

Project, MS Excel, MS power point, QTP, Load runner, Windows, Mac OS.

Client: Health Port Technologies June’12- October’ 12

Business Analyst

Projects: ROI/ CORP WEB, Member Admin

Responsibilities

• Involved in Project Management activities like Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating,

Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling and Drafting remedy procedures.

• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions with the business team to collect the business

standards, security and service level requirements and studied the business process.

• Performed Gap Analysis to compare all elements of existing "as is" with desired "to be"

processes. Reengineered the user interface of the application.

• Extracted, discussed, and refined User and Business Process Requirements from SMEs. Also, co-

authored User and Functional Requirements.

• Created and maintained Business Use cases and System Use cases, Use Case diagrams, Flow

Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams throughout the

SLC.

• Conducted and participated in walkthroughs to discuss certain issues with the development and

business team in agile methodology.

• Authored progress and completion reports, which were then submitted to project management on

a weekly basis.

• Worked closely with management to keep track of the status of project and draft strategies for the

near future.

• Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines, resources for the project.

• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios as per application specifications.

• Involved in both Manual and Automated test plans and test cases.

• Used Quality Center and JIRA for defect tracking, facilitating and monitoring the testing process

and bug reporting.

• Performed functional, regression and performance testing in user acceptance test (UAT)

environment and approval of the application.

• Authored detailed instructions for User Acceptance Testing.

• Trained the end users group and documented the functional instruction and user guidelines for the

same application.

Environment: JIRA, ET, Load Runner, VB Script, VB6.0, SQL, Windows 2007, Microsoft Office, MS

Project, Windows, Visual Basic, SQL Server, QTP and Quality Center.

Client: Indian Red cross Society, Hyderabad, AP India. Jan ‘06– Mar ‘08

Business Analyst

Projects: Content Manager

Responsibilities

• Extensively gathered requirements from all users, experts and key personnel to understand the

current functionality of the existing system.

• Created artifacts such as use cases, and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and

Sequence Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio.

• Conducted Gap Analysis to understand new business model and additional functionalities to be

incorporated into the new application.

• Participated in various architectural development sessions to provide technical teams with a better

understanding of the requirements.

• Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database Integrity,

• User-Acceptance (UAT) testing.

• Managed the requirements, Test Cases and Test Design using Quality center

• Interacted with various end user teams during beta testing to gather feedback on application

usability.

• Worked with UI designers to incorporate changes into later releases.

• Performed GUI, Database, Bitmap and Synchronization Checkpoints during Regression Testing.

• Verified outputs against the Oracle database using SQL queries.

• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review Meetings

• Documented all defects to ensure application software functionality for present and future builds.

• Logged defects and created various defect reports using Quality center.

• Interacted with development and testing teams to improve overall quality of the application.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 10, Quality Center 10, Java, TFS, MS Office, Microsoft Outlook,

Word and Excel.

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