KAUSTUBH ANAND DESHMUKH

E-mail: adlgl2@r.postjobfree.com Call: 720-***-**** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaustubhcd SUMMARY

An accomplished and result-oriented Business System Analyst with 3+ years of experience in various domains. Extensive experience in delivering and deploying large scale projects. Managed and coached several teams on an agile framework to effectively release the projects. Analytical thinker, problem solver, quick learner with the ability to adapt to new environments. Experienced in project management, consulting, strategic planning, business analysis, and new product development.

EDUCATION

University of Colorado Denver, Business School May 2019 Master of Science in Information Systems, Business Intelligence, GPA 3.6 University of Pune, India June 2016

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication, GPA 3.7 CERTIFICATIONS

SAP Certified Application Associate - Sales and Distribution- https://www.youracclaim.com/go/SAqLY2dZ AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Inte Q Insights LLC, Chicago, IL September 2019 - Present Business Analyst

• Coordinated with the Product Owner in illustrating Work Breakdown Structure, Project Roadmap, and its Milestones to articulate Strategic Thinking while considering desired Project Goals.

• Gathered business requirements using elicitation techniques like Document Analysis, Focus Group and One to One session and defined using SMART criteria.

• Performed GAP Analysis to identify Legacy System’s Delta by defining the As-Is and To-Be process from the gathered business requirements and recorded the Action Plan.

• Executed various analyses like Impact Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, ROI Analysis, and Root Cause Analysis to validate the feasibility of Decision and Strategies framed by the business entity.

• Created Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and Unified Modelling Language (UML) based diagrams using Microsoft Visio to create Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams to render Business Requirements into Business Process Flow.

• Translated the business needs into system requirements, communicating with the business on a non-technical level, and with the System Analyst on a more technical level.

• Proactively participated in Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement Sessions.

• Participated in Sprint Review sessions to corroborate that the Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DOR) was met with focus on the product being tested and built as per stakeholders needs during the System Demo.

• Utilized UDDI to look up existing web services, WSDL to identify the corresponding the request and response web methods.

• Assisted technical team during client-side, server-side validations, database side validation for accessing information from database.

• Performed Data Mapping to identify and standardize data from the OLTP to OLAP database in various distributed systems during Extract Transform Load (ETL) processes by applying transformational rules using Informatica PowerCenter.

• Extensive implementation knowledge of Databases, Data table structures, Data warehousing, Schemas, Data Marts, OLAP operations like rollup, drill down, slicing/dicing, Star, Snowflake Schema and Galaxy Schema.

• Acquired technical ability by using SQL for various data analysis and checking the output of the functionalities.

• Created Test strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios based on the User Stories and Acceptance Criteria defined according to the business requirements.

• Documented and tested APIs using Postman needed for the project and was involved in developing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the same.

Accolade Electronics Pune, India May 2016 - June 2017 Business System Analyst

• Facilitated Focus Group meetings, Stakeholder Interviews, and JAD Sessions with business users, developers, architects, and database development team to elicit the base level requirements.

• Experience in conducting GAP, Impact, SWOT, Cause & effect, Root cause, Cost benefit, Feasibility, Risk, ROI analysis, tools, and techniques.

• Created Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams including Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Entity relationship diagrams using MS Visio.

• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that use cases, test cases are being associated with requirements.

• Attended Scrum ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint Review, and retrospective sessions. Acted as servant-leader, removing impediments, and ensuring team productivity.

• Conducted individual and group (JAD) sessions with business and technical units to gather business requirements, generated business models and user stories using RALLY.

• Drafted Technical User Stories and ensured that these stories follow the INVEST criteria.

• Helped to prioritize user stories using MoSCoW and Planning Poker techniques to estimate user story points.

• Mapped the source and target databases by studying the specifications and analyzing the required transformations.

• Extensively worked with API testing tools like postman and SOAP UI to validate and test and document API’s.

• Actively involved in setting up the orchestration processes within the applications using SOAP Webservices/ APIs.

• Recommended to implement XSLFO reports to ease the process of report generation and it’s scalability.

• Was involved in writing Client-side/server-side/data-base validations & Transformation rules for transforming data from OLTP to OLAP

• Aided the back-end team in data mapping, data mining, data validation and data integration.

• Collaborated with the QA testing team to develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications, and/or product knowledge.

• Developed the test scenarios, test conditions and test plans based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge in Quality Center.

• Performed Smoke Test and Unit Testing by using Selenium tool to ensure business requirements are met and used Jenkins for Continuous Integration.

Intern Analyst, Pearl Enterprise July 2015-March 2016 Business Analyst

• Gathered Requirements via formal meetings, brainstorming, interviewing, and conducting JAD sessions with designers, developers, business users, and subject matter experts (SME’s).

• Documented gathered requirements in Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), Non-functional Requirements Document (NFRD) and System Requirements Documents

(SRD).

• Conducted Gap analysis of the current state of the system and future state of the system, SWOT analysis to identify the areas of improvement and feasibility analysis of the proposed enhancements.

• Created and maintained Narrative Use Cases (Business Use Cases, System Use Cases) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.

• Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and nonfunctional requirements based on interactions with the process owners & stakeholders and document analysis, represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

• Prepared test cases and test scenarios identified and established Positive and Negative test cases and coordinated with other QA’s in executing the test plans.

• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT), beta testing, and involved in code review sessions to ensure that the functionality of the system aligned with the business requirements specified in the BRD.

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