Aparna Samudrala

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Atlanta, GA 30324 aco3xx@r.postjobfree.com

IT Business Analyst with industry experience in Business Development,

Customer personnel interaction and various SDLC methodologies. Demonstrated

ability to analyze and translate business requirements into documentation

and identifying areas of product improvement. Core competencies:

( Analytical Skills ( Product Management (

Interpersonal Skills

( Visual Modeling ( Problem Solving (

Quantitative Statistics

EDUCATION:

Master of Science, Information Systems January 2015

- Present

Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University, Atlanta

M.B.A, Finance

October 2013

Sikkim Manipal University, Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Technology, Biotechnology

June 2008

Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Misys Software Solutions

Sep 2011 - Oct 2013

Business Analyst

Bangalore, India

. Analyse scope, gather business requirements, and document them for the

development team and coordinate with QA team to develop test

scenarios.

. Evaluate products to identify enhancements and recommend new feature

functionality.

. Provide support to Pre-sales Team, Implementation team, Maintenance

release team, and engineering team on domain front.

. Ability to prepare User Acceptance Test plans and User Training

Manuals.

. Responsible for training new recruits on Business Functionality and

Testing processes.

Infosys Ltd Aug 2008 -

Sep 2011

Quality Engineer

Mysore, India

. Extensive exposure to Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Usability

testing, System testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance

testing (UAT)

. Design Automation test scripts in Java, helping reduce the testing

time by at least 30%.

. Implement Test Environment set up and Build Deployment within the

team, which reduced dependency time by 60%.

. Cross team collaboration with product development, business

development, and sales teams.

. Completed the prestigious Indian Institute of Banking & Finance

certification.

Languages: Java, SQL, HTML

Databases: Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL

SDLC: Agile (Scrum), Water Fall, Verification & Validation

Management Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint

Business Models: ERD, Use case diagrams, Activity models

Quality management Tools: HP Quality Centre, MS Visual Sourcesafe

Defect & Reporting Tools: FireStone, JIRA, CollabNet TeamForge, Crystal

Reports

CAQDAS Tools: QSR NVivo 10

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