PRATYUSHA PULIGEDDA

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SUMMARY

●Business Analysis/Project Management Professional with 10+ years of IT experience actively seeking opportunities.

●Proficient in applications of scrum, agile and waterfall methodologies skilled in developing processes that facilitate continual progress and team achievement.

●Experienced in conflict management, team management and managed teams of small to medium sizes.

●Possess good communication, inter-personal skills, self-learning capability. Accustomed to work in a team environment with tight schedules. Capable to work efficiently under pressure and can manage multiple projects.

Business Analysis Experience:

●Proficient in all phases of Requirement Management including requirements gathering, analyzing requirements, requirements traceability etc.

●Expertise in preparing artifacts including Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Product Requirements Document (PRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and User Manuals.

●Developed process mapping of current and future business processes.

●Integrated business solutions with organizational goals while reaching consensus of the stakeholders.

●Understand the business requirements and identified gaps in different processes and implemented process improvement initiatives across the business improvement model.

●Experienced in testing activities including Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, change and Defect Management, End User testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

●Experienced in Manual, Automation testing and used tools including HP Application Lifecycle Management, HP Quality Center (QC), HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Remedy Tool and JIRA.

Project Management Experience:

●Establish rapport and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels in the organization.

●Worked with Program/Project Managers and PMO manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.

●Executed and maintained program management processes and disciplines in the areas of: program schedule and quality management; communications management; human resource management; cost management; procurement management; risk / issue management; change management.

Scrum Experience:

●Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information.

●Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.

●Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

●Facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.

●Collaborated with the team, architect, and product owner to ensure rightness of features and design.

●Documented and tracked the project through Version one.

●Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.

●Built relationship with different stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them.

Analytics Experience:

●Business analysis (business analytics) by extracting raw data to identify areas of improvements.

●Worked on Business requirement documents and plans for creating dashboards.

●Understanding of Data warehousing concepts, OLAP and OLTP.

Technical and Management Skills:

●Technical: HP QC ALM, SQL, SAP TAO, JIRA, Version One

●Business: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, Agile, SCRUM

●ERP: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP AFS 6.0, SAP SD, MM, FI, BI 7.0, BW3.5

Certifications:

●Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)

●Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), Scrum.org

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nike Inc, Hillsboro, OR Nov 2018 – Present

Senior Global Trade & Customs Analyst

Nike, Inc is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon.

Responsibilities:

●Business Systems Analyst for Global Trade and Customs team.

●Taking ownership of a feature/epic, becoming an SME on that feature/epic, and making decisions to meet the project and strategic business objectives.

●Demonstrating completed work to business stakeholders and assessing recognized value delivered.

●Consulting with product stakeholders to create and maintain a product roadmap with agreed view of value and priority.

●Work across various applications that include NTN, AWS, ERP etc.

●Classification all Nike products for Global import, including HS classification, based on the General Rules of Interpretation, other tariff regulatory information in the customized in-house Nike Trade Net (NTN) application.

●Generated and maintained rules for classification, labelling as per customs regulations.

●Supported Factories and Import countries with any issues with attribute/material content entry process.

●Collaborated with cross functional teams across Nike for any master and transactional data necessary for customs compliance.

● Working on gathering requirements to modernize the Trade application to AWS from on premise system.

●Team with third party service providers, e.g., customs brokers, freight forwarders, and suppliers as necessary to implement and/or maintain logistics processes in support of operations.

●Participation in daily stand-ups, sprint planning and review meetings, retrospectives, and sprint demonstrations/playback sessions.

●Tracking projects to their conclusion, creating and maintaining Program level project status metrics.

●Troubleshooting of issues including working with Level 1 + 2 support teams and business users.

Environment: NTN (Nike Trade Net)- Trade Application, AWS, SQL, JIRA, Version One

Daimler Trucks (DTNA), Portland OR July 2016 – Dec 2017

Business System Analyst

An automotive industry manufacturer of commercial vehicles headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Daimler AG

Responsibilities:

●Business Systems Analyst in Manufacturing and Engineering team, responsible to drive the process and PM methodology for the project to build scheduling tool for trucks manufacturing.

●Involved in gathering system requirements with technology and business teams across.

●Configured and administered Version One as the team's Agile management tool.

●Developed frameworks to address data, analytics, and strategy development needs.

●Created and Updated the Data Dictionary Mapping from Database to User Interface (UI) for the Internal Portal Team.

●Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.

●Coordinate project initiatives with software developers, stakeholders, project managers and software testers

●Developed the processes and standards as part of project like Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Impact Analysis Functional or technical specifications, checklists for deployment and Data mapping document.

●Worked closely with development team in resolving bugs and verified and closed bug reports once they are resolved.

●Worked with Stakeholders and business SMEs (Subject Management Expert) to understand and document the requirements as part of the project.

●Lead the team during different phases of testing and manage the test documents.

Environment: Mainframe, SQL, JIRA, Version One

Under Armour, Baltimore MD Feb 2016 – May 2016

Business System Analyst

Under Armour, Inc. is an American company that manufactures footwear, sports and casual apparel Under Armour's global headquarters are in Baltimore, Maryland.

Responsibilities:

●Worked closely with business and technical team to analyze & understand and gather Business requirements, Functional and Non-Functional requirements for SAP 3PL project.

●Assisted in data creation within SAP and vendor management portal -EEM (Extended Enterprise Management).

●Involved in creation Customer master data, Vendor Master, material master data, customer-material Information record and customer groups.

●Performed detailed analysis of complex business processes, data requirements and proposes solution.

●Worked with business leads and users to ensure alignment to industry data standards and identify any potential data gaps

●Performed detailed analysis of complex business processes, data requirements and proposes solution.

●Created business rules for assessing and improving data quality from source systems.

●Responsible for all major deliverables like Requirements gathering, technical and functional specification, Test Plan/strategy, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Impact Analysis.

●Assisted in processing requests and maintained sold-to's, ship-to's, partnering, sales representative changes, and customer names or address changes

●Facilitated optimal internal communications by serving as liaison between services organization and product development, product management, and technical teams

●Document all data mapping and transformation processes in the Functional Design documents based on the business requirements.

●Responsible to maintain timelines of the project, updated status in daily stand up meetings, provided status reports on daily basis to the leadership/stakeholders.

Environment- SAP AFS, JIRA, Remedy Tool

Nike Inc, Hillsboro, OR Dec 2011 – August 2015

QA Lead Analyst

Nike, Inc is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon.

Responsibilities:

●Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall and AGILE methodologies.

●Executed different functionality for major projects as part of supply chain management across releases like Intercompany Stock transfers (ICS) for same and cross instance, cross functional scripts which involves MM, SD (OM/DL), WMS, IM (Inventory Management) and Finance validations.

●Lead/manage/test a major Nike program that involved remediation of the middleware from Egate /JCaps to Informatica /Fusion.

●Assist with the data migration process by analyzing and correcting various data integrity issues and ensuring uniformity across all data fields

●Assist with the end to end project management of reporting and ETL development projects within the team.

●Process data and develop reports for assigned projects, including the use of SQL, Excel (pivot tables, look-ups etc )

●Managed and validated P2P and O2C in SAP for existing and new plants. Also, verified Sales Orders (SOs), which SAP receives from 3rd party system (Digital System/DOMS).

●Executed test manually from creating sales order (VA01) through billing (VF01). (Order, Delivery, Batch Split, Batch Determination, Shipping, Pick & Pack, GI (Goods Issue) and ASN and Billing), Pricing conditions.

●Lead the offshore team as part of a critical APO upgrade project to coordinate on data consumption to validate the C-stock and create SO, Delivery, GI as part of the cleanup in SAP AFS system.

●Performed testing on vendor management portal (Pegasus) to reconcile Purchase Orders with SAP AFS system.

Environment: HP-QC, SAP-TAO, AFS6.0 EHP3, QTP

UNILEVER, Englewood NJ Mar 2011 – Dec 2011

Systems Analyst

Unilever is world's largest consumer goods company. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. is also the world's largest producer of food spreads and is the oldest multinational company.

Responsibilities:

●Primary role of Systems analyst and played the role of fix manager with a team of 5 members for the Cordillera Project.

●Coordinated with downstream applications (Merlin, Amps) for the routing of files from BW.

●Extensively worked on BeX Analyzer, Query Designer while providing demo to the users on the usage of Reports in BW.

●Executed and coordinated different phases of testing (Component Test, Assembly Test, Product Test and UAT).

●Created test scripts for all different applications (FI, MDM, OTC, MSFT, Plan and Conversion).

●Performed unit testing in the payroll area to check all the HR processes hiring, separation and investments.

●Responsible for Post go live documentation to move the transports for the fix to Production.

Environment: SAP BI 7.0, BeX Analyzer, Remedy tool, SAP ECC 6.0, HP-QC

Kraft Foods, Glenview, IL Oct2010 - Jan2011 SAP QA Analyst

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. is an American grocery manufacturing and processing conglomerate headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Northfield, Illinois, part of the Kraft Heinz Company

Responsibilities:

●Extensively involved in analyzing the BI statistic cubes and involved in performance tuning of all the slow running reports in the production environment

●Planned and Coordinated many training sessions to help and to make the end client understand the BI reports and its features.

●Extensively worked on customized SD (Order to Cash OTC) reports specific business requirements in various modules like Invoiced Order Reports, Sales Shipment report, Sales overview report, Billing document report, Top 10 Customers etc.

●Executed SD Open sales Order report, which covers all organization levels, delivery status, shipping figures in BeX analyzer.

●Coordinated and communicated with Business and SAP team for solving the tickets.

●Checked the data pulled into the Reports from the source system (ECC).

●Managed the whole data flow from ECC to BI and to the Reports.

Environment: SAP BI 7.0, SAP ECC 6.0, HP-QC

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

●Master of Science in Computer Science May 2010

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ

●Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science May 2008

JNTU, Hyderabad, India

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