Senior Business Analyst (IT)

Sowmya Bhat Bonanthaya Sr.Business Analyst

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East Meadow, NY 11554

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860-***-**** (m)

Summary

** ***** ** ********* ********** in Information Technology (IT/Telecom)

industry with total 9+years of work experience as Business/Systems Analyst

in different industries like ecommerce, utilities, commodities trading (web

applications), and public agency.

. Extensive experience in writing business and functional requirement

specifications with detailed flowcharts, creating/writing Use Cases,

test cases, test scripts, high level and low level Activity Diagrams.

. Experienced in transforming business requirements/user stories into

detailed functional specifications; focusing on workflow analysis,

defining rules, design, and process flow modeling.

. Experience in full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from

Requirements Gathering, system build, integration testing, User

acceptance testing to Rollout, System enhancements and maintenance.

Good practical knowledge of various software quality processes and

planning.

. Experience in applications involving multiple platforms and

technology.

. Experience in Joint Requirement Planning (JRP), and Joint Application

Development (JAD) sessions. Skilled in end user requirements

elicitation, performing GAP analysis and creation of Business

Requirement Documents (BRD). Conducted BRD walkthrough/review sessions

and ensured that BRDs were signed off by end user senior

representatives.

. Experienced in relational database, data modeling, data testing,

systems design and integration.

. Involved in validating data by writing and executing sql queries.

. Involved in creating test data and test cases and review test plans to

assist QA in testing.

. Proficient in using MS excel and features like Pivot Tables, Macros

and Queries.

. Experience in handling integration projects and worked with various

teams to get required mapping and other information.

. Experienced in handling Requirements Management and Business Analysis

with hands on Project Management. Used tools like MS project for

planning as well as tracking.

. Coordinate and participate in system testing as well as assisting

business during UAT testing

. Experience in managing business change requests, handling end user

training and end user support.

. Solid business communication and presentation skills.

. Experience in analyzing and documenting business process/work flows,

and recognize opportunities for improvement

. Self-starter with good presentation, communication and interpersonal

skills

. Experienced in Data mapping, data synchronization, ad hoc reporting

and Data conversions for application migration.

. Hands on experience on Visio, Rational Clear Case

. Experience in reviewing high level design document, Test Procedures,

defining Test cases, test plans, reviewing and maintaining Test

scripts, analyzing bugs, interaction with team members in fixing

errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

. Working experience in a cross-functional team environment.

Skill Summary

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/NT, UNIX, Linux, Dos

Languages: Java, PL/SQL, C, C++

RDBMS: MS Access, Oracle 9i and Mysql

Tools & Utilities: MS Visio, Excel, MS Word, MS Project,

Power Point, Toad, Clear Quest (Rational tool

for bug tracking), Exceed, Load Runner,

Winrunner, QTP, Sharepoint, Tibco BW, Tibco

iProcess (BPM tool),IBM Websphere,Weblogic

Education:

. Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics

Project Experience Details

MSC Industrial Supplies, Melville NY (www.mscdirect.com) Aug 2010 - Till

date (4.5 yrs.)

Role: IT Business Analyst III

MSC Industrial Supplies is one of the largest industrial supplier and focus

mainly on B2B line of business.

Responsibilities:

. One of the core member of ecommerce IT team acting as liaison between

the business community and the IT organization in order to provide

technical solutions to meet user needs.

. Involved in building core functionalities(ecommerce) when launched

new website on WCS

. Involved in full software development cycles for lot of

functionalities like Registration/ CMI/VMI/Quotes/Billing in

iterative model.

. Involved in communicating and negotiating business requirements with

business users and get a sign off.

. Involved in giving alternative solutions to business/stake holders

when business requirements were not aligned with IT/ technical

standards.

. Involved in communicating to Offshore/ internal UI team and play

vital roles in project kick off/design reviews/test case

reviews/defect reviews/UAT and production release.

. Involved in data digging to find root cause of problems in

Production.

. Querying data to gather test data and provide it to business users

and testers.

. Involved in performance monitoring of websites and come up with

optimization requirements.

. Involved in supporting/coordinating production releases and help

offshore team test and get a sign off.

. Involved in creating training guides/slides for new functionalities

on web applications.

Cablevision, NY

Role: Integration Business Analyst

July 2009 - Feb 2010

Cablevision network management group is migrating all integration projects

from Vitria platform to TIBCO platform. There are more than 50 interfaces

to be implemented in TIBCO.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in understanding as is business process implemented in

Vitria and document the process/work flows and use cases for Tibco

implementation.

. Involved in designing business processes and writing rules using

Tibco iProcess (BPM tool).

. Involved in analyzing existing Vitria work flows and transforming in

to Tibco work flows.

. Involved in creating mapping documents to integrate multiple

systems like main frame systems, various databases (Oracle

Financials, Oracle10i) and web services.

. Involved in gathering missing functionalities and requirements from

the business users and Vitria developers.

. Involved in coordinating different development team members to help

integrate and debug interfaces.

. Involved in validating data by writing and executing sql queries.

. Involved in creating test data and test cases and review test plans

to assist QA in testing.

. Involved in coordinating with project managers and developers for

project planning.

. Involved in creating UAT environment and participate in migration of

common servers from Vitria to TIBCO and created migration document.

. Involved in reviewing high level design documents provided by

developers.

. Involved in UAT testing.

. Involved in report creation using Oracle Reports builder.

. Created User guides and presentation for training end users and

supported end users on various functional and reporting issues.

Bowne Management Systems, Inc., NY July 2008- Jun 2009

Role: Conversion/Systems Analyst

The New York City (NYC) Department of Transportation (DOT) implemented a

Sign Information Management System (SIMS) to serve as the Business Process

management system for the NYC DOT's maintenance and operation of traffic

control assets, called traffic control devices (TCDs). The main objective

was to define and develop business flows and processes and converting over

25 various Mainframe, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Excel legacy systems

onto the new platform.

Responsibilities:

. Was a conversion team lead and in charge of 2 other team members

reporting to me.

. Involved in scheduling timelines and deadlines for

conversion/migration in project plan.

. Involved in writing business rules for SIMS and converting the User

requirements into business requirements, business process models and

functional specifications.

. Created Business Process/work flows, Sequence Diagrams, Data

Migration Conversion Flow/Logic in MS Visio and Enterprise

Architecture (EA).

. Created and maintained As-Is workflow plans and business process

flows using MS Visio.

. Created integration design documents with various systems like

Mainframe, Files and

Siebel 3-1-1.

. Involved in creating mapping documents and creating conversion

specifications for legacy systems. Participated in creation of

technical requirements documents.

. Involved in exporting and importing data from MS Access database to

analyze and send the reports.

. Involved in analyze and extract legacy data in to unified system and

map it to target system.

. Involved in writing transformation rules and mapping it to target

system.

. Interacted with top key New York City's DOT government officials in

the Division of Traffic Management's strategic & scope planning

sessions.

. Gathered requirements in focus of creating SIMS the centralized

database from the start to end processes of assets named "Traffic

Control Device (TCD)"; life cycles ranges from installation, repair,

maintenance, suspension, and its removal.

. Participated in design meetings with technical team to develop the

data and design requirements related to Locations, Asset, Work Order,

Contract, Materials, Inventory, Tasks, Job Plans, and Procurement

Management level needs in addition to associated reporting

requirements.

. Produced Target System mapping with field specification for

screen/module affected in Maximo (Asset Management Tool)

. Performed Data Cleansing and Location verification by using

Geosupport's online utility programs such as Geosupport Online

Address Translator (GOAT) and GBAT (Geosupport Batch Address

Translator).

. Authored Unit Test cases and exit criteria for User Acceptance

Testing (UAT) and test cases.

Bunge Global Agribusiness, Whiteplains, NY

Feb 2006 - Jun 2008

Role: Integration Analyst

Bunge is a commodity trading company and has operations across the world

with integrated operations that circle the globe. Bunge's operations used

various decentralized, but integrated platforms and systems like SAP

systems in St Louis, AS400 database and Oracle database in Rome. Bunge buys

commodities at hundreds of sites/Exchanges like CBOT, MDEX, NYMEX, Reuters

etc around the world. Integrated Operations transform these facilities into

a unified supply chain that delivers to the customers what they want - the

right product at the right time and the right price. I was part of the

Bunge technology organization.

Responsibilities:

. Creation of Use Case documents and Functional Specifications

documents.

. Attended inception reviews and designed system interfaces with

Borland Together tool following the Best Practices of the Industry

and Bunge Standards (VETRO - Validate, Extend, Translate, Route, and

Operate), SOA Standards (Service Oriented Architecture) and Publish /

Subscribe Paradigm.

. Involved in creating unit test cases, system test cases and

integration related test cases.

. Co ordination between testers and developers by looking in to QC to

escalate issues/defects and bugs.

. Elaboration of Use Cases by creating Activity Diagrams along with

Component Diagrams and Deployment Diagrams.

. Participated in User Acceptance tests and Performance Tests to ensure

that the built system confirmed to the requirements

. Involved in creating integration documents between SAP, Data

warehouse, Siebel and Database.

. Involved in creating mapping documents for integration projects which

were implemented using Tibco products.

. Participated in end user trainings and supported end users on various

system functional issues and resolutions.

. Defined, planned and rolled out various system enhancements

MidwestISO, Carmel, Indiana Jun 2005 - Jan

2006

Role: Analyst

JOA (Joint Operation Architecture) is a system integration project in

Utilities domain space where different trading partners are connected to

the integrated system to perform various activities. The JOA Architecture

requires interfaces that would send & receive Settlement & Congestion

information in the Network & then accordingly help the application to

determine the activities to be done to ease the flow of energy across Flow

Gates. Various applications in MISO such as Day Ahead & Real Time (DART)

and Market Settlement (MS) are integrated

Responsibilities:

. Interacted with Business groups to define system enhancements based

on changes in business models and process. Created system

requirements documents, conducted joint review sessions with business

representatives and obtained the required signoffs for system build.

. Elaborated business requirements to create functional specifications

for new features and enhancements to existing system interfaces.

. Involved in defining interfaces for obtaining files from database on

demand from trading partners. A Portal Request to send files of

particular day (previous day, day before etc) was developed as part

of this interface.

. Defined simulators to test the functionality and the data flow for

inbound and outbound data.

. Created Test scenarios, cases for end user acceptance testing.

Participated in review of integration test scripts and unit test

scripts.

. Involved in Integrated System Testing and User Acceptance Testing of

the application as part of the project software lifecycle.

LG Soft India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India Nov 04 -Jan

05

Model development for LG mobile handset

Role: Senior Software Engineer

LGSoft India was involved in creating applications for mobile phones. The

applications were developed for various models for different locations

(Countries) with new features and enhancements. Defects reported by

testers, in the applications in existing models were also fixed as part of

maintenance activities.

Responsibilities:

. Added new features for different applications for various handsets.

Involved in gathering requirements and detailed analysis of

requirements. Created various impact analysis documents to ensure

that enhancements were correctly assessed for implementation.

. Involved in defect fixing and verification specifically for CBS and

call handling.

. Involved in defect tracking, assigning defects to my team members and

providing assistance to my team in resolving the defects.

. Mentoring team members and assigning bugs and allocation of tasks.

Environment: 'C' and C++ using Borland C++ editor,Borland Together, Visio

2002,Visual Source Safe,SVN, Rational Rose UML, CVS, Visual Studio, TOAD,

Matlab 5.3, Rational Purifier for all kinds of Memory leaks, Vision Click,

Template Maker, BMP Maker, Menu Maker, Genie and Source Insight, Clear

Quest (for bug tracking), Exceed

Sasken Communications, Bangalore, India Jun

03 -Oct 04

Sr. Software Engineer

Development of API's for UDIAL application for mobile handset, INDIA

Sasken communications, India was involved in creating for mobile phone

application interfaces.

Unified Device Inbox Application Layer (UDIAL) was one such interface that

provides a list of new messages, new data objects, missed calls and missed

alarms for appointments and tasks in one dedicated list. This list also

contains older messages (unread/read) of all types as required by the user.

UDIAL supports various mobile applications such as MMS, Email, EMS/SMS,

CBS, Voice Mail Indication, Special Message Indication, Received Data

Objects (e.g. vCal.), Missed Calls, Missed Alarms, WAP Push Messages and

Alarm Clock Events.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in analysis of interface requirements, interface functional

analysis.

. Designed API's, which can be used to provide and receive information

about all required functionalities of required collaborators (like

EMS, Email, and Missed Alarm etc) to UDIAL.

. Involved in coding, scripting, writing test drivers, stubs, defect

tracking and fixing.

. Involved in discussion with the client for the design, development

and defect related issues.

Environment: 'C' using MS Visual Studio.Net 2003, RTRT for scripting, Clear

Quest for defect tracking.

Global Edge Software Ltd, Bangalore, India Dec 01

- June 03

Role: Software Engineer

DVD Video Recorder at Philips Software - Consumer Electronics Division

Description :

Platform Interface Layer:

The purpose of Platform Interface Layer (PFI) is to have a common

methodology to access the platform functionality via platform interface

calls.

For Chrysalis platform, before accessing a platform interface, a

subscription to the platform is needed and the interface handle is acquired

by the application. And using this handle platform layer is accessed for

platform functionality. All the events from the platform have to be

subscribed and the address of a call back function is passed. All events

are handled in a separate call back function.

Each application component has respective PFI component.

Integration and Testing of Control Layer:

Control layer has lot of components specific to certain functionalities,

which were developed independently. The integration and testing was done on

the target.

Role : Coding of PFI components, integration testing for control layer

components, which involved writing Test specification and scripting.

Environment : 'C' on Solaris and Chrysalis Platform.

Tools : Hummingbird Exceed, Test Generator v4.6, Multi-Edit8.0, Vision

Probe (h/w), Vision click.

Image CODECS for Mobile Handset at Samsung India Software Operations

Description : Developed and optimized TIFF and GIF codecs for MOCHA

(MOdular and Configurable Handset S/W Architecture). The development was

done in C on Microsoft Windows-NT and the codecs were optimized tested on

Armulator, MOCHA Simulator and the Samsung Target Phone. These codecs were

part of the Samsung 3G handset. This handset was released in Europe (z100

and z105).

Optimization was done with respect to time taken to encode an image also

considering memory limit.

Role : Involved in designing, development (Optimized code for ARM

considering low memory and high performance requirements) and testing (Unit

and Integration).Ported on to mobile handset.

Environment : 'C' on Windows NT Platform

Tools : Rational Purifier, ADS1.1 and Armulator

BCS Project Consultancy, Bangalore, India Feb 01 to Dec

01

Software Engineer

ECG Stress Test System and Active Echo Canceller

Description : ECG Stress Test System: Designed Low pass filter to remove

tremor, which is caused by the high frequency signals due to the chest

muscle movements of the patient. Also designed High pass Filter for

baseline drift removal caused due to direct or indirect effects of patient

respiration or due to slow electrochemical changes at the electrode- skin

interface.

Active Echo Canceller: In telephone networks, the echo is caused due to

analog device caused due to analog device called 2-to-4 wire hybrid, which

splits duplex signals in to two simplex signals. Due to electrical

leakage of current in the hybrid, a part of the signal energy is reflected

back to the source of the signal. This is called echo, which disturbs the

talker. For this we use LMS algorithm to adapt the step size. This depends

on the input signal.

Role : Designing using Matlab 5.3 & coding using Assembly language

programming and C.

Environment : Matlab 5.3

Processor : TMS320C50, TMS320C54.

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