Siddharth Jethwa

Business Analyst

Location: CT Mobile: 203-***-**** Email: adjkm4@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

• 5+ years of experience in the field of Business Analysis and Requirements gathering.

• Experience in working with different Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) involving both traditional methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile methodologies such as Scrum.

• Efficiently collaborated with Business Owners, Business Users, and senior stakeholders.

• Elicited requirements using various techniques such as Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Interview sessions, Document analysis, Focus Groups, Requirement workshops, and Questionnaire.

• Familiarity in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) as per company requirement.

• Good working knowledge of JIRA for managing User stories and contributed to Scrum Ceremonies like Release Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective also assisted in choosing prioritizing techniques like Moscow, KANO.

• Knowledge of creating UML diagrams like Use Cases, Activity, Sequence, and Class diagrams using MS Visio and worked on both High Fidelity and Low Fidelity Mock-up Screens and wireframes using Lucid Chart and Balsamiq.

• Experience in implementing Microsoft Office, SharePoint.

• Direct and manage the Change Management Control process for the projects by facilitating group meetings and/or one-on-one interviews/meetings with work stream owners to discuss change request impact on timelines and scope.

• Experience in performing Cost-Benefit analysis and Gap Analysis (As Is, To Be) in various projects.

• Experience in defect tracking, defect analysis & ability to organize, document & track changes using Jira.

• Assisted the QA team to design Test plans and Test Cases for User Acceptance Testing, Black-box Testing, Functional Testing, various System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Security Testing, Load/Stress Testing, and Performance Testing in both manual and automation testing environment and creation of Test plans, Test cases and Test scenarios for validating it against business requirements document.

• Attained better communication and developed stakeholder friendly attitude skills through meeting stakeholders, System developers, other teams, and external business partners. Skills

Business Skills Change Management, Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, ROI Analysis, SWOT analysis, Root Cause Analysis

Financial skills Financial reporting, Financial modeling, Budgeting, Risk Assessment, Derivatives, Research skills, Performance Optimization, Derivatives, Quality Management, Reports generation and Analysis.

SDLC Methodologies Waterfall, WaterScrumFall hybrid, Agile-Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Scrumban, Extreme Programming (XP), Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Modeling Tools MS Visio (v.14, 15, 16), Lucidchart, Balsamiq ETL Tools Informatica Power Center

Databases MYSQL, Microsoft SQL

Reporting tools Tableau (v. 9.3, 10.0, 10.1), MS Excel (2010, 2013, 2016) Education

Master’s Degree (Finance), Fairfield University, Dolan School of Business, CT Dec -2019 Bachelor’s Degree in Management Studies, Mumbai University, India May-2012 Experience

JP Morgan Chase, NY May 2019 - Current

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working with Agile (Scrum) SDLC methodology for development.

• Interviewed clients, SMEs & business users to understand their Business & Functional Requirements, gathering their future needs & transforming them to Functional Specifications for the benefit of the team.

• Conducted one-to-one meetings & web-Conferences as well as JAD sessions with different stakeholders; analyzed and assisted in creating a Business Analysis Process Model using Rational Rose and MS Visio.

• Converted the requirements and was responsible for creating the Business Requirements Document (BRD).

• Assisted Project Manager in creating Project Charter and Task Breakdown Document (TBD) using MS Project.

• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current business systems and to identify the impact.

• Worked closely with the technical team to convert the functional requirements into technical specifications like Graphical User Interface (GUI) and User Interface (UI) mock-ups using Balsamiq.

• Assisted creation of Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and updated Requirements Traceability Matrix.

• Worked with the Business and End-user in understanding the existing functionality and the required functions.

• Performed Impact Analysis on how the database will be affected by the change in trade rules between parties.

• Assisted and maintained the creation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Results in ALM. Created dashboards in ALM for reporting test analysis to the management. Assisted in performing functional tests, regression tests, smoke tests, and the end to end tests.

• Analyzed the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as Sprint Burn-Up and Burn-Down Chart, and assisted Scrum Master in calculating their velocity to track progress and prepare the status reports. ENVIRONMENT: Team Forge, Teradata, Teradata SQL Assistant, SQL, Adobe Analytics, HP Agile Manager (HP AGM), HP Quality Center (HP QC), SAFe, Windows, MS Office Suite. Simple Healthcare, FL April 2018 – Dec 2018

Role: Intern

Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to develop quality improvement plans based on opportunities identified through market data analysis.

• Collaborated in data collection from different database sources and analyzed them for historical trends and forecasting.

• Conducted Variance analysis as compared to actual for senior management review & deep dive into the reasons for variation.

• Worked with the management for improving and giving new ideas for designing future processes transactions dealing with claim adjustments, claim processing from point of entry to finalizing, claim review, identifying claims processing problems, their source and providing alternative solutions using best practice model and principles.

• Gathered, reviewed, and consolidated financial data as well as performed ad-hoc financial analysis and reporting.

• Accumulate data from internal & external source and provide a consolidated report for the management on the performance and evaluation.

ENVIRONMENT: MS Web Technologies, AGILE, JIRA, RALLY, HP ALM, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Windows, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational RequisitePro, UML, MS Visio, MS Excel VBA. Credit Suisse, India Oct 2014 – July 2017

Role: Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process by analyzing business requirements and understanding the functional workflow of information from source systems to destination systems.

• Utilized the Waterfall methodology of development for Requirements, Planning, Design, and Deployment.

• Prepared BRD, FRD, and used HP Quality Center to manage, analyze, and convert business requirements into functional specifications.

• Identified data sources and presented the dashboard to teams and senior management on KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).

• Assisted senior equity analyst in analyzing global REITS, IT sector. Responsibilities included analyzing financial statements, ratio analysis, screening, and summarizing corporate news and analyst call takeaways.

• Prepared simple to complex SQL queries for Data Analysis.

• Forecasted actual variance analysis along with improved financial models like DCF, WACC, and 3 statement models resulting in transparent, readable, and well-controlled output facilitating executive-level decision making.

• Accumulate data from internal & external sources and provide a consolidated report for the management of the performance and evaluation.

• Single point of contact for process re-engineering and automation of daily reports and simplifying existing processes in collaboration with the IT Team by utilizing MS Excel macros to automate volatile company performance reporting and charting, reducing manual efforts.

• Worked with cross-functional teams on various projects. CMC Ltd, India Nov 2013 – April 2014

Role: Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, interpret, and extract financial data from those financial reports which relate to (Income statement, BS, and Cashflow) and capture that data in client-based software.

• Used SQL queries like select, insert, update, delete, sub-queries, joins for Data Analysis.

• Extensive use of Microsoft Excel formulas for maintaining and updating the database.

• The existing historical parent data has been collected from different database source and analyzed them by using Excel Pivot tables, V-lookups, VBA and Macros for determining the data Release 12 Software Service Pvt ltd, India April 2012 – Sept 2012 Role: Jr. Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Australian Government Leave Tracker Oracle Software to identify the discrepancy within the software and to provide a solution.

• Gathered user/business requirements by meeting with business users and generated business models and use case analysis.

• Created process flow for better process identification and clarity for the development team.

• Developed PowerPoint presentations for monthly meetings with upper management.

• Assisted Engineers in coming up with Technical Documents Functional design documents Test Planning, Execution, and Reporting is effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated.

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