Suresh Kesarla E-mail: adc9r8@r.postjobfree.com

Business analyst Phone: +1-336-***-****

Professional Summary:

Goal oriented, self-directed professional with more than 15+ years of IT experience of which 6 years as Business Analyst in performing business processes analysis and accustomed to working in team under pressure.

Collaboration with various IT teams in gathering and analyzing requirements, application interfaces design, User training's and client support

Strong experience in analyzing requirements, translating and business requirements, tracking project milestones, user documentation.

Extensive experience in Business analysis, Solution architecture, Technical Management.

3+ years of project management Experience

Account Management and Financials includes: New opportunities, opportunities mining in existing accounts, coordinating with Pre-Sales.

Team connect includes: Employee satisfaction initiatives, rewards and recognitions, career growth, career planning, mentoring, personal connect

Core Skills:

Business Analysis, Application integrations, and testing in ERP platforms

Domain Experience in SCM, finance and HR modules.

Has good knowledge in SOAP and RESTful web services.

Identify and improve business processes

Collaborate with business and key stake holders to produce project documentation

Experience in business requirements gathering, design, gap analysis, deriving functional design specifications to integrate external applications.

Knowledge in creating functional specification documentation.

Knowledge and usability of JIRA, SQL, Unix Scripting.

Monitoring all delivery issues, regular reviews with Project Delivery Teams, Value Adds, Productivity Improvements, Resourcing Issues and Customer Satisfaction, Problem Management, Change Management, Project Metrics.

Key projects in last Past years Includes.

Lead data migration efforts from on premise ERP to Oracle Cloud finance implementation.

Lead Integration of external hiring application to HR. iCIMS to HR application.

Lead Integration of vendor management application to HR. SAP Fieldglass a cloud-based vendor management system to HR application

Lead Integration of vendor management application to finance. SAP Fieldglass a cloud-based vendor management system to Finance application

Created solution for on premise ERP to Payroll-Fidelity interface

Designed and implemented solution for automation of AP closing process.

Business Analyst, Wipro Limited Nov 2016– Till Date

Co-ordinate with business users to understand requirements, translating business requirements to technical requirements and work closely with project team in tracking progress and tasks completion.

Working in parallel on multiple projects, SPOC for key project deliverables and engaging with Key business users.

Work closely with senior management and providing timely updates on the project progress, clients IT road map and business opportunities.

Participate in the project planning, estimating task durations, and project artifact compilation.

Assisting Project management team in Presales, preparing project metrics (Capacity utilization, incident priority splits, Project progress, SLA analysis) and coaching/mentoring team members to align with project requirements.

Additional project responsibilities include development, system maintenance, application integration, user support, and troubleshooting activities across Lawson ERP S3 modules. (Finance, SCM and HR modules).

Key projects: - (Includes working on multiple projects in parallel)

Infor Lawson ERP maintenance. (2016 – till date)

Data extraction and conversion for Lawson to Oracle ERP cloud migration (HCM and Finance) (November 2018 – Till date)

SAP Fieldglass (cloud-based vendor management system to Lawson finance and HR integration (2018)

Project Role: Lead Consultant

Key deliverables in the project include

Technical assistance to team members from design and development standpoint. Tracking and coordinating project activities to meet project deliverables

End-to-End Analysis, design and implementation of vendor management application (SAP FG) to Lawson finance and HR.

Lawson finance and HR to Oracle ERP cloud migration – Analysis, Data mappings, created and implemented solutions for data extraction for Oracle cloud Financial implementation.

Analysis and preparing reports for tax audits (AP, GL, Asset management modules)

Responsible for designing and executing training for end users.

SPOC for all project deliverables.

Preparing project metrics (Capacity utilization, incident priority splits, Project progress, SLA analysis) and present updates to client and Wipro senior management during project status calls.

Prepare the templates for the functional specification review, technical specification, unit case

Identify the process gaps and provide alternatives to the project team

Prepare the templates for the functional specification review, technical specifications, and unit test case.

Business Analyst, UST Global

Winston Salem, NC, USA: Oct 2013– Nov 2016

Chennai, India: Feb 2009 – Sep 2013

Key projects: - (Includes working on multiple projects in parallel)

External recruitment application to Lawson HR integration. (iCIMS to Lawson integration)

Payroll-Fidelity interface

Upgrade of S3 (SCM, Finance and HR) modules v9 to v10.

UAT for SCM and Finance modules during V10 upgrade.

Test design, data setup and execution for SCM modules for V10 upgrade.

Item master and Item location data integration between Lawson and PLM systems.

Automation of AP closing process

Key deliverables in the project include

Managing the responsibility of scheduled jobs running across SCM, Finance and HR applications (2000 + Jobs)

Efficiently leading and mentoring a team of Developers and playing a significant role in maintenance of different Lawson modules and customizing existing module for meeting the business requirements.

Functional testing of Lawson SCM module during v9 to v10 upgrade

Co-ordination with other business support teams for requirements gathering, analysis, development/customization, testing, maintenance and documentation.

Worked in development and testing of multiple interface projects to integrate business functionalities

Successfully leading project in requirements gathering, functional analysis, coding and testing,

Aiding Lawson users in UAT and upgrade projects.

Experience in using Software change control tools like HP- PPM

Early Career

Associate consultant, Wipro Limited, Chennai, India Jan 2008 – Feb 2009

Senior Software Engineer, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Hyderabad Dec 2005 – Jan2008

Software Engineer, Xansa (I) ltd, Chennai, India Jun 2003 - Dec2005

Started my career as a software engineer with Xansa (I) ltd. Worked through the development and support of mainframes projects initially. I then took opportunity to train and get certified in SCM modules and moved to roles of business analyst and development working in Lawson ERP SCM. Started leading team of 4 developers in Satyam while working on SCM and Finance modules of Lawson ERP.

Key deliverables in these projects include:

Reviewing the technical design of the current application(s) for proposed changes

Analyzing the system enhancements that are required

Business analysis of the requirement

Prepared of Technical Design documents

Involved in analysis, fixing, quality assurance and delivery of the requirement

Unit Testing as per UTP, Capture Test Log and preparing Unit Test Result and review of test plans

Educational & Professional certifications

Jun 1994 Bachelor’s in commerce, SV university, India.

Feb 2001 MCA from SV university, Tirupati, India.

Jun 2003 Mainframes Certification from Maples, Chennai

Jun 2004 SCM Certification from Lawson university.

VISA status: H1b, I-140 approved, current extension up to August 2021.

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