Aayusha Tuladhar

Business Analyst

PROFILE:

Committed and result-oriented Business Analyst with 1.5 years of hands-on experience in examining business procedures, executing successful resolutions, and having a complete understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Profound knowledge of working in different SDLC methodologies like Waterfall and Agile. Experience in several domains of process improvement, with an appetite for critical thinking in complex situations and the ability to combine vague data into concentrated results. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with overall business goals. Experience in working on various projects and delivering high-quality software in all of them

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Experience in gathering requirements using different elicitation techniques like Focus Groups, Requirements Workshop, Observation and Interviews.

• Assisted Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog by using MOSCOW and KANO technique.

• Helped analyzing the current system by using Document Analysis and Gap Analysis and provided efficient solutions using Root-Cause Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis.

• Assisted Product Owner in writing functional User Stories which follows the INVEST criteria and involved in writing Technical User Stories.

• Experience in creating Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications Document (FSD) and conducting various analysis viz. SWOT, ROI, Risk and Impact.

• Conducted and facilitated JAD Sessions to convert Business requirements to Technical Requirements and creating System Requirements Specification (SRS).

• Participated in client meetings to analyze the results and provide feedback.

• Experience in creating Static Prototypes such as Wireframes, Mock-up screens using MS Visio, Lucid Chart and Dynamic wireframes using HTML.

• Good knowledge of SQL – ability to run queries using SQL tools.

Jefferson Capital, Saint Cloud, MN June 2020 – August 2021

Role: Jr. Business Analyst Responsibilities:

• Help design and develop UML Diagrams including Use Case, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram and BPMN.

• Proficient in Web Services, Microservices, Web Method, Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), WSDL and UDDI.

• Identified API’s and performed simple API testing using POSTMAN.

• Knowledge of Monolithic Architecture, 3 -Tier Architecture, and Service Oriented Architecture.

• Conducted functional requirement reviews and walkthrough with the subject matter experts and stakeholders.

• Assured that all RUP artefacts are in compliance with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

• Conducted JAD sessions, user interviews, and detailed research requirement meetings to capture the requirements and prepare BRD.

• Managed change control log and version control documents to avoid confusion and avoid documentation gaps and created Traceability Matrix to ensure all requirements were being met.

• Assisted in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose and MS Vision and creating user-stories for patterns and Proof of Concept in JIRA.

• Managed the product feature backlog for the end-to-end implementation - worked with HR business partners and SMEs to contribute to and effectively implement key tasks into the release.

• Conducted Triage calls, and tracked, logged and prioritized the defects based on the severity and criticality.

• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assisted writing the user manual for UAT as well as tested the application.

United Health Group, Minnetonka MN May 2018 – Feb 2019

Intern QA

• Involved in designing the Technical Design Documents for the Workflow development process and shared ideas and thoughts on designing data models, enhancing functionalities of the application.

• Used Rally for updating the status of all the Test Cases & Test Scripts that are executed during the testing process and used JIRA for bug tracking and team progress

• Provided Information services related to various lines of business in United States.

• Collaborated with Information Services Analysts and Managers with production, development and testing tasks

• Worked with Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and Microsoft SQL to develop new reports and queries and maintained system protocols by writing and updating procedures

• Executed existing queries to analyze trends and forecasts to ensure current strategies are performing as expected and performed business analysis activities at the strategic, operational and organizational level

• Suggested changes to procedures to solve complex problems considering equipment capacity and limitations, operating time and form of desired results

• Experience in working with Scrum and Agile teams and participating in ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, PI Planning, Iteration Planning, Daily Stand Up, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective, Inspect & Adapt, and Backlog grooming session.

• Working knowledge of other agile concepts such as Continuous Development and Deployment, Test Driven Development (TDD) and DevOps.

• Working closely with product owners in Backlog grooming and managing the product backlog and facilitated Sprint Retrospective meeting.

• Attending Scrum of Scrum Meetings to coordinate & collaborate with other scrum teams to help identify and track user story dependencies.

• Created Test Cases based on Acceptance Criteria and documented them in Test Case Document.

• Experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix and participated in Daily Stand Up.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree of Science in Business Administration, (2015 – 2020)

Master's Degree Executive Science in Information Technology, (2022-2023)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools

OAP UI, Postman

SDLC Methodologies

Waterfall, Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Reporting Tools

Power BI, Tablue

Prototyping Tools

MS Visio, Balsamiq, Sketch

Project Management Tools

JIRA, ServiceNow, MS Project

Estimation & P4er rioritization Technique

Poker Planning, T-Shirt Sizing, MoSCoW

Documentation Tools

MS SharePoint, MS Office

Database Tools

S SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informatica PowerCenter, SQL

ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Outstanding student leadership Award, SCSU

Academic and Cultural sharing scholarship, SCSU

Student Ambassador and Conference Representative (Power in diversity Conference by Multicultural student services, (SCSU)

Performance Co-Ordinator (Nepalese Student Association Board (SCSU)

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