Business Analyst

PRATHIBHA KATTA Email: ****************@*****.***

Business Analyst Phone: 773-***-****

Experience Summary:

Worked with key project stakeholders and business people to formulate and communicate the business vision for the project, map out initial requirements and the scope of the project.

Worked in a new business domain phase would include understanding the key terminology, which is often captured in a glossary or domain model, as well as the organization’s current capabilities.

Streamlined project scope document template, and replaced the functional specification with a set of use cases and wireframes.

Scope, research, plan and design processes and process improvement across multiple functional groups in accordance with the present and future needs of the business.

Establish appropriate testing and acceptance programs to ensure project expectations and deliverables to meet project specifications.

Provide primary communication point and progress reporting with internal and external partners simultaneously on multiple projects.

Works closely with the technical development team and data stewards to clearly document source elements and ensures standardized values, formats, business rules/algorithms, meta data requirements, and data element relationships are understandable to the business customers and BI development group.

Responsible for helping to ensure quality and consistency of project work, including project approach, standards, procedures, documentation, testing, and full transition of the project.

Implemented advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements.

Extraordinary associate at linking business and technical needs, worked closely with IT and application managers for gathering requirements.

Expertise in developing documents for Functional Requirement Specification (FRD), Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Business Requirement Document (BRD), Use-case Specification and Non-functional Requirements.

Involved in full development cycle within Cognos reporting framework from developing the business requirement, data modeling, report writing, quality assurance testing to production deployment.

Gathered and understand business requirements and translate into IT solutions with the use of Cognos.

Extensively worked closely with business Partners to pay particular attention to detail and accuracy, and be able to recognize key requirements, analyze business scenarios, and take appropriate action to define and implement successful business strategies.

Developed rapid-prototype or proof-of-concept reporting solutions and demonstrating those solutions to business users to make them familiar with all capabilities of the IBM Cognos product suite.

Extensive knowledge in retail and marketing data, analyze IBM business data in various regions.

Business knowledge in Marketing, Retail and Healthcare domains.

Experience in developing mobile applications iOS and Android.

BA Skills:

Agile, Scrum, Visio, Benchmarking, Use case Model, Flow Diagrams, SWOT Analysis, SDLC, Wireframes, Scope Documents, Functional Specifications, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word.

Technical Skills:

Statistical Packages: SAS/Base, SAS/Macros, SAS/SQL

Languages: Cognos BI (data warehouse application), C, C++, JAVA, HTML and SQL

Operating System: Windows-NT, Windows 2000/XP, MS-DOS

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