SANCHIIT PODAAR

Business Analyst

Location: CA Mobile: 510-***-**** Email: adjkm7@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

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

Experience of 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.

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

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 the Lucid Chart.

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 the business requirements document.

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

Skills

SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, JAD Session, Interview sessions, Document analysis, Focus Groups, Requirement workshops, RTM, RACI Matrix, JIRA, MS Visio, Cost/benefit Analysis, Gap Analysis, Rational Requisite Pro, Active Process, MS Project, Load Runner, Tableau, PostgreSQL, Power BI, Python (pandas, Numpy, matplotlib).

Education

Masters, Business Analytics (STEM) Sept 2017 - Aug 2019

California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CA.

Masters, Commerce (Management) June 2015 - May 2017

M. L. Dahanukar College of Commerce, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.

Bachelors, Commerce (Accounting) June 2012 - April 2015

M. L. Dahanukar College of Commerce, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.

Experience

JADE Global Inc, CA Nov 2019 – Dec 2020

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Working with Agile (Scrum) SDLC methodology for development.

Working with customer business users to gather and elaborate requirements, understand business objectives and infrastructure changes.

Working closely with the development teams to translate elaborated requirements into technical design.

Documenting and maintaining functional requirements FRD, business requirements BRD, custom workflows, product enhancements.

Used Rally Agile Development Tool and Methodology to create test cases and stories for defects and product enhancements.

Designing UML use cases and screen prototypes based on user experience.

Preparing Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.

Collaborating with Quality Assurance teams to test bug fixes and enhancements and actively participate in regression and functional testing.

Ensuring that all Artifacts comply with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.

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.

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

California State University East Bay, CA May 2018 – May 2019

Role: Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of functional and non-functional categorized data elements for data profiling and mapping from source to target data environment. Developed working documents to support findings and assign specific tasks.

• Worked with data investigation, discovery, and mapping tools to scan every single data record from many sources.

• Performed data analysis and data profiling using complex SQL on various sources systems.

• Performing statistical data analysis and data visualization using Python and Excel.

• Created action filters, parameters, and calculated sets for preparing dashboards and worksheets in Tableau.

• Create the Business metric KPI (Key Performance Indicator) to evaluate factors for different modules.

Nucleus Digital, India May 2015 – July 2017

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked with Waterfall methodology and created Business Requirements Document, System Requirements Specification Document, Functional requirement document.

Working with users to gather and elaborate business and functional requirements and objectives for analysis.

Actively participate in regression and functional testing, user acceptance testing UAT, black-box testing.

Documenting technical workflow and best practices.

Providing application support to end business users including schedulers.

Performed Gap Analysis by gathering and analysing business requirements from users to thoroughly evaluate the gap between the “AS IS” and “TO BE” process.

Assisted in design review meetings making sure all the requirements are covered in the development project scope.

Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams, and Sequence diagrams using Rational rose so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process.

Certification

Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) Oct - 2020

Project Management Institute.

Dell Boomi Professional Developer Oct - 2019

Dell Boomi

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