Sruthi Pullakandam
**** ******* ****** ***#** Ypsilanti MI 48197
734-***-**** *.*************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Seeking for a Business Analyst position with all my experience, I can help the organisation in supporting the business solution software and analysing business operations. Aiming to utilize my strong prioritization skills to achieve the goals of your organisation.
Skills Summary
Agile Scrum Methodology
Functional Requirements
Defect/Bug Discovery
Conducted JAD sessions
Creating Use cases, User Stories, and epics
MS Project Scheduling
Issue identification and Software Documentation
Oracle SQL
Cross Channel Testing
Prioritizing Product Backlogs
Track and plan through JIRA
Conducting GAP Analysis
Tableau Scorecards
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Business Analyst – Nascent Global LLC August 2015 – December 2016
Managed and facilitated requirements gathering sessions with business and IT stakeholders resulting in moderated, orderly and efficient meeting.
Defined Software components, data model, and Functional Specifications resulting in efficient, ready to consume documents for development and test team.
Collaborated with project managers to define schedules and drive deliverables resulting the mitigation of the project’s critical path.
Managed development teams ensuring met schedules, code that meets requirements, provide the development teams assistance during the product development phases in resulting in an on track project.
Used Oracle SQL Queries for extracting the data from the client databases.
Utilized corporation developed agile SDLC methodology. Used SCRUM work Pro and Microsoft Office software to perform required job functions.
Validated data file from vendors with varying formats and converted to company standard layout. Gathered requirements and translated business needs into defined requirements using Rationale Requisite Pro.
Documented Use cases for all major functionalities and features.
Designed and developed tableau scorecards, Dashboards using stack bars, bar graphs, scattered plots, geographical Gantt charts using show me functionality.
Worked closely with the product owner to prioritize the user stories.
Created sequence/process flows, and use cases documenting functional (FRDs) and system requirements (SRDs) allowing development team to start development phase ahead of schedule.
Involved in preparation of report template for daily and weekly reports based on requirements.
Worked closely with the Digital Marketing, E-Commerce, and strategic Partnership teams to identify business questions and drive campaign growth.
Supported design sessions through interviews, JAD sessions resulting in minimal effort spent designing with high correlation achieved between designs.
Participated in testing the projects with Adobe Experience Manager(AEM).
Performed Cross browser testing on most popular web browsers.
Worked/wrote many agile stories, requirements gathering, UA, defect tracking, issue resolution, relationship management with business owners, scope management.
Involved in SQL proficiency and understanding of relational database modeling (oracle Access): family management concepts and strategies.
Business Analyst – Tripod Software Solutions January 2013 -July 2014
Gathered, interpreted and analyzed cross-functional requirements from multiple stakeholders and teams and provided an overall alignment strategy resulting in a cohesive business, product, testing, and development direction.
Collaborated with test teams to ensure requirements were reflected in test planned test cases resulting in each requirement achieved coverage by test plan and tested by test cases ensuring 100% functionality testing.
Assisted with one of the SCRUM masters and responsible in creating several User Stories.
Translated the stakeholder’s requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, User Cases, Workflow/Process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.
Documented current state, and defined future state, and prepared gap analysis.
Reviewed with architect and technical team various technical design documents as well as input and output parameters for various web services.
Involved in SQL proficiency and understanding of relational database modelling,
Reported bugs and interacted with the software development team to resolve issues.
Worked in QA team to write test cases and test scripts to confirm and displayed information and also tested to print the image in the paper.
Applied basic knowledge of database management and data mining.
Researched, compiled, and formatted information into databases and spreadsheets.
RELEVANT ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Online placement Application:
Developed a web application to automate the entire process of job applications. Academic records of students were collected and their profiles are evaluated as per the company’s requirements.
Involved in requirement gathering, design and deployment of the application.
Designed and modelled the dataflow diagrams of the project.
Developed the pseudo code and designed the database schema of the project.
Developed GUI using HTML, CSS, and JSP.
Documented all the project data.
Designed and developed the presentation layer of website using JSP, HTML, and CSS.
Developed XML/SOAP web services for retrieving fee details of the student.
Implemented hibernate framework to connect to database and mapping of java objects to database tables.
Successfully deployed the project.
Environment: Eclipse, Java7, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat server
Online Book Store: Developed an amazon-like website which enables users to create and manage account, browse for books, and manage shopping cart, wish-list, and order tracking system.
Developed utilizing the traditional waterfall model, executing all the phases of SDLC from the requirement gathering through testing.
Used Design- Dia for UML diagrams.
Designed and developed an exceptional interface using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
Created and consumed SOAP, and REST web services using annotations.
Developed test cases on JUnit during the unit testing and system testing phase.
Hospital Management System: Proposed the idea and designed the database using ER diagrams, Relational Schema. Implemented a hospital database system using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 in which Records are organized in a systematic way to make data extraction Efficient and accurate.
Implemented a hospital database system to extract records efficiently.
Accomplished all aspects of Web page design & development, blog theme development for multiple WordPress client blogs.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS
Efficiency in writing use cases, drawing ER diagrams and Gathering the requirements.
Expertise in software development life cycle methodologies like agile and traditional waterfall including SCRUM software development methodology.
Ability to use JIRA for creating the requirements and used it in all of my documentation.
Good in communicating the things with everyone who are involved in the project.
Familiar with all the Microsoft excel and word documents/sheets.
Extensive academic experience in web development with technologies like PHP, JQuery, and CSS Bootstrap.
Adept in building web applications utilizing both front-end and back-end technologies.
Proficient in SQL queries and Oracle 10g.
Skilled in Microsoft SQL server, Microsoft Access and MySQL Workbench databases.
Proficient in Java and Java based servlets.
Good at conducting requirement analysis, use case design, designing test plans and developed database schemas based on the logical models.
Fast learner, hard worker and dedicated team player, good starter/initiator and also can accomplish tasks on-time by attaining accurate results.
EDUCATION
Eastern Michigan University, 2016 Ypsilanti MI
Master of Science in Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, 2014 Kakinada India
Bachelors of Science in Information Technology