Project Analyst

Aneri Thakkar

Cell: 331-***-****

Email: **************@*****.***

Summary:

● More than 3 years of experience working as a Business Analyst in IT field

● Comprehensive knowledge and experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with business process models: Waterfall & Agile (Scrum) methodologies Proficient in creating various documents like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD)

● Ability to listen to inform and to understand conversation to detect what information teams may be hesitant to talk about or do not fully understand.

● Expert at interacting with stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and end-users to understand, analyze, communicate and validate requirements using Joint Application Design (JAD), Joint Application Review (JAR) sessions

● Demonstrated ability to use Analytical skills, to critically evaluate all information gathered, resolve conflicts, clearly define loosely given information, distinguish user requests from the true needs of a user, and provide solution ideas from requirements.

● Demonstrated writing skills, to relay and communicate information effectively to customers, less technical teams, marketing, managers, and also technical staff.

● Identified and documented all the Test Case scenarios and performed UAT testing

● Ability to stay organized and also to work with the vast array of information gathered during elaborations, and the ability to analyze all data to adjust scopes with rapidly changing information.

● Demonstrated ability that shows interpersonal skills, these skills are vital to help adjust priorities and to resolve conflicts among project teams, as well as customers and other teams.

● Ability to build relationships as well as positive rapport with customers and team members.

● Demonstrated ability to display interpretative skills to translate user requirements into agile user stories and acceptance criteria, to also inform teams and management of the scope of each project based on each user stories and the collected acceptance criteria.

● Demonstrated understand and proficiencies in Microsoft Office suite including OneNote

● Highly analytic with the ability to view projects at both strategic and tactical levels.

● Demonstrated ability to consult with each team to ensure proper implementation as well as user acceptance is achieved through product life cycle.

● Demonstrated ability to create highly innovative and creative solutions for complex problems.

● Ability to talk with individuals and groups to understand the scope of essential requirements Education:

Bachelors in Business,

DeVry University, IL

March 2018

3.6 GPA

Associates in Business Administration

Harper College, IL

Dec 2015

3.5 GPA

Skills:

● Jira

● Confluence

● MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, Outlook)

● Amplitude

● Zeplin

● Jamboard

Work Experience:

H&M - Newyork Mar 2020 – Jan 2021

Business Analyst

● Managed software development lifecycle (SDLC) activities, including release planning, requirements gathering, design, configurations, planning, creating and executing test cases and analyzing results

● Supported engagement activities to analyze business environments, gathered business requirements and created data visualizations in support of product

● Conducted regular JAD sessions with the stakeholder, SMEs, system architects, developers, database developers, quality testers during the entire project to assure that the critical as well as the minute details of the project were discussed and issues were resolved beforehand

● Helped the technical team in understanding the application better

● Worked with client to determine user requirements and goals at requirement elicitation stage using Agile Methodology

● Use Jira to write Backlogs, User Stories, Tasks, Bugs and organize it between multiple teams.

● Documented user stories and use case diagrams for better understanding of the teammates.

● Utilized Agile Scrum methodology, participated in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meeting, and retrospective meetings

● Maintain team productivity by observing sprint reports and unblock them quicker by improving cross team coordination.

● Worked collaboratively with software engineers to ensure work is completed based on requirements in such a way to comply with established best practices

● Helped developers to automate testing and addressed QA team questions to resolve design issues

● Performed UAT and participated in writing & executing test cases based on user’s requirement

● Integrated Jira board with confluence to share all current projects with team and generate summary reports

● Conducted daily stand up meetings to get live updates from the team, helping Project Manager actively update the project status, detect risks at early stage and take corrective / preventive actions

● Responsible for various deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle from process flow diagrams to mock-ups and wireframes

● Updated requirements as per business user’s feedback and changes in functionality of the applications

● Worked with a data analysis team to identify user interaction we can use to figure out the success for new features

● Used Amplitude to improve customer’s experience by observing user’s interaction with application BMO Harris N.A. – Chicago Jan 2018 – Dec 2019

Business Analyst

● Created a Business required document (BRD) to provide the developers insight about the objective, goal and scope to kick-start a new version of the product

● Derived functional requirement specifications (FRS) based on user requirement specification

● Implemented SDLC which included requirements specifications, design, analysis and testing

● Determine the feature release date based on requirements and create a migration plan accordingly

● Worked with client to elicitate requirements and goals using agile methodology

● Wrote backlogs, user stories, tasks, bugs using jira and uploaded documents in confluence

● Analyzed business requirements and created use cases to assist the development and QA/UAT team in design and testing

● Participated in daily Scrum meeting with the Project team and change management team to discuss the requirement updates, change requests, tasks and assign/re-assign man hours on a daily basis

● Assist JAD sessions to identify the business flows and identifier aspects of HIPAA, impacts any current or proposed systems

● Worked on the database analysis part by helping the technical team in identifying the data sources required for the application and coordination with the IT team in migration of the data within the databases

● Logged application bugs and was involved in all stages of the bug life cycle

● Dealt with Project lead, stakeholder and end users regarding any issues during the project

● Developed non-functional requirements and documented it to present to the technical team

● Worked with Change Request (CR) and analyzing the impact on the existing functionality

● Involved in database interactions for retrieving data and generation of output file and reports

● Involved in GAP analysis both at the time of requirement gathering and later after development with the Testing team to identify areas and possible scenarios that might have been overlooked

● Facilitated collection of functional requirements from system users and preparation of functional specification documents that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system

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