Data Management
Resume:
PB
actogh@r.postjobfree.com
Summary:
*+ years of Industry experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications, and Application Design in Telecom, Healthcare, Banking and Financial Services.
Highly proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.
Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams
Functional experience with concentration on Use Case modeling using UML, Data Manipulation, Change Management, Software Development methodologies, QA testing, and Systems Testing of client server and web-based systems.
Expertise in translating user requirements into technical specifications and mapping the process design, work flows for SDLC and Agile with documenting and managing business requirements.
Strong understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including Agile, RUP, Scrum, and Waterfall.
Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.
Expertise in MS Office, MS Access.
Experience in writing SQL queries.
Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and documentation skills with good process management skills along with a remarkable ability to gather requirements to bring out quality product.
Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment and meet stringent deadlines.
Possess strong skill to start from scratch and complete the requirement writing, testing, analysis, business process.
Extensive knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.
Ability to identify and document critical requirements through analysis.
Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts
Ability to successfully manage multiple deadlines and multiple projects effectively through a combination of business and technical skills.
Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.
Technical Skills:
Project Methodologies:
RUP, SDLC, Agile Methodology
Business Modeling:
Rational Rose, MS Visio, UML
RequirementManagement Tools:
Rational Requisite Pro
RDBMS/ Database:
SQL Server, MS Access, DB2
Operating Systems:
Windows 2000/XP/7
Project Management Tools:
MS Office Suite, MS project, MS SharePoint
Professional Experience:, Middletown, NJ Jan’ 14 – Till Date
Sr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
Defined requirements for AT&T Problem Management & Change Management system.
Conferred with users, developers and the process team to translate business rules into software development requirements for the interface specifications, GUI, data mapping and logical data modelling.
Created documents like Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification documents for Project Team.
Delivered complete on-site support, from start-to-finish, for user acceptance and production testing on software updates. Provide training, present new features to customers and answer concerns that business requirements captured at beginning of cycle are being met.
Met with Testing team and provided Testing Strategy for System Testing.
Administered security functions for groups including adding and removing users from a role, reset passwords and resetting User-Ids; reviewed lists of all users in their respective roles for accuracy
Richmond, VA June’ 12 – Dec’ 13
Sr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
Wrote test plans and test cases based on the business requirements which involved market risk analysis and risk management like.
Evaluated business requirements for enterprise business applications integration while delivering new/modified enhancements.
Monitored progress against business functionality, requested objectives to ensure that projects meet the specific release criteria.
Highlighted any potential risks to the environment.
Signed-off all releases before they enter production.
Analysed consumer surveys and gave technical inputs in Business meetings.
Involved in the meeting with Business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and Marketing Team for Requirements gathering in definition stage.
Facilitated the Customer in defining the high-level functional requirements and needs.
Carried out the business processes in lieu with SOX. It was imperative that everything was in compliance with the act, so a lot of emphasis was put into it.
Used UML for Business Modelling for drawing the corresponding modelling diagram such as Use Case, Activity, Sequence, and Collaboration Diagrams.
Analysed, Revised and Created Test Plans according to business requirements.
Developed Process Model and detailed Business Policies and modified the business requirement document.
Writing Used cases and Activity Diagrams. Analysed results.
Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communication on requirements and analysing defect reports. Bug reporting done using Test Director.
Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communication on requirements and analysing defect reports.
Facilitated User Acceptance Testing. Participated in data analysis for verification purposes.
Validated the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and meets the scenario description.
Environment: Test Director, Oracle, Unix, Windows, Requisite Pro.
NJ Feb’11 – June’ 12
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing gap analysis and documenting it.
Understood and articulated business requirements from user interviews and then convert requirements into technical specifications using agile methodology.
Interacted with SME’s, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS) for the Web based application by following SDLC methodology.
Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose,
REQUISITEPRO and Visio.
Participated in the logical and physical design sessions, developing design documents.
Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams.
Performed requirement analysis, and detailed examination of all the use cases and issue logs.
Performed extensive business process analysis including data analysis and GAP analysis.
Documented and delivered Functional Specification Document to the project team.
Played a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.
Partnered with the technical areas in the research and resolution of system and User
Acceptance Testing.
Worked as a User/Customer Advocate and negotiated with user as well as with developers and management staff to resolve any requirement conflict to bridge the gaps between IT and Business Client.
India Jan’10 – Feb’11
Business Process Analyst
Responsibilities:
Worked closely with Project Team, SME and Internal Business Partners to clarify business requirements and translate the requirements into technical specifications.
Created functional data requirement (FDR).
Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
Perform data analysis and match business requirements to the data within the system
Specify, design, test and support standardized data management reports
Filter, clean and map data.
Defined target load order plan and constraint based loading for loading data correctly into different target tables.
Designed and created Data Quality baseline flow diagram, which includes error handing and test plan flow data.
Assisted with creating Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for all testing events such as System Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Created and executed SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Data Integrity testing.
Coordinated with execution team to define the batch flow for data validation process.
India May ’08 – Dec’09
Jr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to gather the design requirements for identifying healthcare performance metrics, sources and reporting needs.
Gathered business requirements to identify and define requirements with the business to enhance and improve navigation, reporting capabilities and drill-down features.
Prepared Use Case Analysis by documenting UML Use Case Diagrams to describe the interaction among various systems and actors.
Functioned as a Data Analyst to gather, quantify and convert atomic level data into relational dimensional model format for reporting purposes.
Efficiently led knowledge management through MS SharePoint Services to share documents, contacts, tasks and facilitated open item tracking and issue resolution across multiple teams.
Worked closely with the Data Modeling Team to design the new data warehouse and database structure and co-relate the legacy and the new data warehouse structure.
Responsible to deliver Data Templates and Mapping Documents for the Self- Service ETL Component (Using FTP process to deliver data files).
Worked with the ETL Team to identify and translate the transformation rules and business logic for the Source ETL process and documented them in the Mapping Document.
Facilitated the weekly Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.
Created work-flow diagrams and Mock-Ups to describe and walk-through the Site Navigation and Web User experience requirements.
Responsible for preparing the Test Cases, Test Strategy and Test Plan.
Walked the end-users through the UAT cycle and responsible for user training & support.
Education:
M.Sc. from University of Calcutta, India, in 2007.
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