Business analyst

ANUSHA VEGIRAJU

Business Analyst

Phone: 720-***-**** (M) Email: **************@*****.***

Objective:

To obtain a suitable growth oriented position to learn & enhance my skills and potential for career advancement with efficiency & profitability of the organization ensuring personal & professional growth.

Summary:

Business Analyst with over 6+ years of experience in business process analysis/modeling with in-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), requirements elicitation and project management, data analysis in Marketing, Research and Sales domains. mailto:**************@*****.***

Career summary:

Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.

Excellent Coordination skills with the Client and across different teams during the project life cycle.

In depth knowledge of various Software Development and business modeling methodologies such as Waterfall, Spiral, Iterative, RAD and Agile (Scrum).

In depth knowledge Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, Use Cases, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.

Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, creating Screen Mock-ups, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis, and ROI analysis.

Proficient in authoring Business Requirement Document, Narrative Use Cases, creating Use Case diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and other UML based diagrams using MS Visio, Rational Rose.

Knowledge in the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) of data into a data warehouse and Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Business Objects and Microsoft Share point.

Expertise in writing SQL scripts .Worked on database tools like Oracle SQL Developer.

Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.

Proficient at actively soliciting, analyzing, prioritizing and negotiating customer requirements for scope definition.

Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Design (FSD), and USE Case Specifications.

Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, surveys, questionnaires, interviews and brainstorming.

Good communication and presentation skills and ability to work effectively as team player with technical teammates in order to translate business requirements into an effective technical solution.

Experienced in End User training and mentoring of the team members and business users.

Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills, Multi-Tasking abilities, with proven experience in utilizing people and process knowledge to assist enterprises in making critical decision.

Strong team building, probing, negotiation and decision making skills. Ability to work in both structured and unstructured environments.

Software Skills:

Languages

UML, XML, HTML, SQL

Methodologies

UML, SDLC, JAD, RAD, Agile (SCRUM), Six Sigma, CMM, Waterfall

Databases

Oracle 11g/10g/9i.

Design

JUSTINMIND, UML, Rational Rose, MS Visio.

Tools

MS-Office, MS-Project, Visio, Adobe Acrobat Suite, Quick Test Professionals, Business Objects,Tableau, MS sharepoint

OS

Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/98/95, DOS

Quality Management

HPALM, Quality Center, JIRA

Previous Work Experience:

Designation: Business system Analyst.

Company: Bay Amp Technologies

Duration: Feb 2017 to till date.

Responsibilities:

Facilitated JAD sessions for effective communication between all stakeholders and gathered business needs in form of business requirements.

Built a business needs and expectations document detailing current state reporting processes, key gaps in the existing environment and future state requirements.

Created Functional requirement Document and get it signed off by client.

Adhere to GAAP & FAS Standards for reporting.

Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives and sprint reviews.

Used a dual approach of survey and interview to engage stakeholders

Conducted one-to-one meetings with participating stakeholders to identify current business processes, IT environment and key gaps and reporting requirements.

Prepared use case documents and utilized MS Visio to depict business process flows and workflows

Prepare & Maintain Traceability Matrix to trace business requirements to Implementation modules and test.

Documented, coached, and elicited business requirements from subject matter experts by writing user stories.

Test the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance and validation of stories

Create web app prototypes and high-fidelity website wireframes using Justinmind prototyping tool.

Expertise in UAT, to make sure the application maps to the business requirements laid out.

Worked as a liaison between Business Stakeholder/SMEs and technology specialists to submit requirements and changes, clarify questions and answers.

Manage the Team of Business Analysts and responsible for provide them the guidance based on the project circumstances.

Environment: Agile, Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio),HP Quality Center, Oracle

Designation: Business Analyst.

Company: CREATIVE CREATURE

Domain: Banking

Duration: Feb 2014 to July 2016.

Lead Project Status meetings to update Senior Management and other stakeholders on the progress, issues and deliverables of the project.

Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas.

Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, and document them textually and within models.

Manage project scope and client expectations throughout the project lifecycle.

Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models.

Created various custom reports to give complete detail overview of customer Transactions and customer balance report.

Worked with the team to prepare use case models based on Business.

Requirement Documentation gathered through interaction with users.

Creating user requirements document for company wide reports by interacting with end users and developers.

As a liaison between the Developers and Clients, was instrumental in resolving conflicts between user and technical development teams.

Facilitate requirements gathering and fact finding sessions as required.

Work closely with business and cross-functional technology team members to document and communicate business goals and objectives.

Defect tracking and status reporting. Post conversion/implementation support.

Environment: Agile, Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), Lotus Notes, HP Quality Center, Oracle

Designation: Business Analyst.

Company: CREATIVE CREATURE

Domain: Insurance

Duration: Sep 2011 to Jan 2014.

Responsibilities:

Oversaw project scoping and Business analyst task definition in the initial SDLC process.

Performed GAP analysis of existing applications leveraging current Screening service to determine the switch to the new screening service.

Ensured effective implementation of agile process

Created Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and managed User stories.

Conducted interviews with Application Specific IT SMEs and corresponding Business Stakeholders to elicit Business and System requirements.

Collaborated with the General Counsel Sr. Program Manager and Systems Analyst to gather data elements to perform data mapping exercise.

Performed data analytics, Mapped Source (Policy Admin Applications) data elements to the Target (New Screening Service) using SQL and produced data mapping artifacts.

Developed UML diagrams.

Developed UAT Test plan, test scripts and strategy.

Facilitated UAT with IT and Business Stakeholders.

Environment: Agile, Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), Lotus Notes, HP Quality Center, Oracle,

Designation: Business Analyst

Company: CREATIVE CREATURE

Domain: Retail

Duration: June 2010 to August 2011

Responsibilities:

Conducted JAD sessions to capture intricate business requirements.

Developed System and Business Requirements per IT and Business needs to bridge the Gap between AS IS and TO BE states of the application.

Assisted the development team closely during the design phase of SDLC related to SOA based application.

Developed Data Flow Diagrams and ER diagrams using Visio.

Provided support for resolution of system glitches.

Captured application information to develop wire frames and mock ups to facilitate application enhancements.

Provided production support services to the web application team, resolving and assigning the tickets to appropriate application owners.

Developed RTM to test the quality of the enhancement developed.

Documented, coached, and elicited business requirements from subject matter experts by writing user stories resulting in a clearer, more detailed and more complete understanding of project deliverables.

Supported QA team for system testing and providing data inputs for testing.

Facilitated UAT for successful end user sign off.

Managed Requirements in JIRA.

Developed test scripts, Business Deployments Strategy documents, RTM, facilitated UAT testing.

Environment: Agile, Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio), Oracle, Visio, SQL, Lotus Notes, HP Quality Center.

Academic Qualification:

MBA from Pune University, Pune INDIA

May 2010 – April 2012

B.Com from Symbiosis College, Pune INDIA

April 2007 – March 2010

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