Analyst Scrum

Aditya Shrivastava

Business Analyst

Boston, MA 617-***-**** *************@*****.*** LinkedIn

Summary

Passionate Business Analyst with 5+ years of professional experience in supporting business solution software and analyzing business operations, client relationship management, data visualization. Possess an M.S. in Computer Information Systems and Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including methodologies like Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban and Requirement Gathering, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment

Proficient in Business Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Development, and delivered Use-Case diagrams, Flow diagrams, Activity diagrams for Systems Engineering

Expert in documentation, creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Object Definition Document (ODD), Data Migration, and Utility documents

Strong experience with MS Visio for creating a visual representation of Software/Data Architecture, Use Case diagrams (especially in an Agile environment), Sequence diagrams, Class diagrams, Business Process Flows, and basic flowcharts

Experienced in designing CRM, Inventory Management, and Employee Management System

Experienced in tracing requirements throughout the development process using the Requirement Traceability Matrix

Extensive use of rational tools including Requisite Pro, Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, and HP tools like HP test director (Quality center)

Expert in Tracking and Managing the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) that controls numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables

Exposure to Change Request Management tools like Clear Quest

Conducting UAT and verifying performance, reliability, and fault tolerance issues

Used Test Director to manage testing and defect life cycles, and map requirements to test cases

Skilled at performing Risk analysis, GAP analysis and Cost/Benefit analysis to better understand the mechanics of the existing & proposed systems

Experienced in Tableau Server administration including setting up Active Directory users and groups, giving appropriate permissions for viewing published dashboards and scheduling data refresh instances

Skilled on tools such as MS Project, SharePoint, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Office etc

Experienced in developing BI strategy and roadmaps, and setting up BI Competency Centers

Skills

Methodologies

Software

SDLC, Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, Requirements Elicitation, GAP Analysis, RACI Matrix, RTM, Process Analysis, Capacity Management, Root Cause Analysis, Pareto Analysis, Critical Path Analysis, A/B Testing, Survey, Interaction Flow Map,

Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio, Tableau, Power BI, MySQL, HP ALM, LoadRunner, Balsamiq, Bugzilla, Selenium, ReqPro, Test Director, Jira, Version1, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Rational Soda, Rational Rose, Marketo, Sawtooth

Education

Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (GPA: 3.43/4.00) Sept 2018 – Jan 2020

Relevant Coursework – Information Systems Analysis and Design, Database Design and Implementation for Business, IT Strategy Management, IT Project Management, IT Security Policies and Procedures

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication (GPA: 8.78/10.00) Aug 2013 – June 2017

Experience

Honeywell International, MA, USA Mar-2020 to Current

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Requirement gathering, Business Process flow, Business Process Modelling, and Business Analysis with Document and Records Management

Implemented Agile methodology for rapid delivery of the high-quality application and also for development with customer needs and company goals and acted as a scrum master to organize sprint process

Utilized Agile-Scrum methodology with Kanban visualization to configure and develop processes, standards, and procedures, to employ software development best practices, and hence to provide technical leadership and expertise in organizing entire software development effort, together with the Project Manager

Adept with different Requirement Elicitation techniques, JAD sessions, Document analysis, Reverse engineering, Observation, Role-playing, Market Survey, Interview, Brainstorming, Requirement workshop

Identified dependencies and documented functional, non-functional, data, and user interface requirements in Business Requirements Document (BRD), and Systems Requirements Specifications (SRS) documents

Responsible for defining the Business Stories and acceptance criteria for each Scrum Sprint and leading the scrum meetings. Responsible for project plan creation using Microsoft Project

Responsible for managing the documented System Requirements, and Requirements Traceability Matrix using Rational Requisite Pro

Worked with various teams to identify the right source to pull the data points, conducting JAD, Sprint retrospective, story grooming

Understood the business requirements and mapped them into functional and technical requirements

Analyzed and designed the data flow and data modeling using the power designer tool

Interacting with the developers on resolving the reported bugs and various technical issues

Developed a deep understanding of business products and processes

Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM for requirement, design, and test validations

Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines, and resources and collaborate on the project

Assisted the QA team in designing the Test Plan and Test Cases for User Acceptance testing

Maintained Sprint Metrics Chart on a spread-sheet to record team Performance on Functionality & Quality of the iterative increment for the team to self-assess areas of improvement; a KPI for Sprint Retrospective meeting

Involved in system validation during the UAT phase, along with Business line users to make sure that the application meets the intended requirements

Boston University IS & T Department Sep 2018 to Jan 2020

Role : Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for introducing the Collaboration tool and revise procedures to managing the branch offices, and supervising the work of other employees.

Responsible for all aspects of Accounting Data Validation, including but not limited to: accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking, general ledger, credit card processing & reconciliation, forecasts/budgets, financial statements and reports.

Manage and supervise month-end close process: reconciliation & analysis of general ledger accounts which include inter-company accounts and 60 different corporations (profit and non-profit and partnership) accounts, ensured timely and accurate preparation of management reports including monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements.

Worked on Documentum for Version Controlling, to maintain up to date changes in the Documents.

Preparing and Filing Federal and State taxes for individuals, corporations (both C & S), partnerships and sole-proprietorships (Refunds Today Software)

Preparing and filing payroll taxes, state sales and use taxes, unemployment taxes etc of different states.

Performing tax audits for clients by effectively communicating with IRS and by applying analytical/problem solving skills

Zensar Technologies Sept-2016 to Jul-2018

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

The methodology used for these projects was Agile and required a deep understanding of requirement gathering techniques

Provided clear and consistent information about project status to both the internal IT team and Stakeholders

Gathered business requirements by participating in JAD sessions, brainstorming sessions with stakeholders, and interviewing business users. Conducted one to one sessions and consulted existing systems documents

Conducted interviews with clients for the purpose of gathering product requirements and understanding the client workflow

Provided support to the development team by utilizing the Rational Unified Process (RUP). Trained and mentored the IT staff in the RUP process, Rational Suite tools and how they fit into the process.

Authored Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and User Requirement Specification (URS) for application development

Employed UML methodology and thus facilitated the creation of Use Case, Class, Object, Activity, State, Sequence, and Collaboration Diagrams, using Rational Rose / Rational Software Architect / MS Visio

Ideated and presented project deliverables such as User Flows and Concept Designs to demonstrate new features, dialogs, and other visual elements of the project

Involved in the overall requirements management and to build the Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM using HP ALM

Performed GAP analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and feasibility analysis within the triple constraints

Took part in QA activities by writing the Test Plan followed by Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing UAT on JIRA

Ability to work both independently and in cross-functional team environments manages and prioritizes multiple projects, quick learner

Facilitated the weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process for application development

Performed quality assurance, system integration, and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget, and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations

Used Crystal Reports application for better delivery of reports

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