of Business and Systems analyst, SCRUM master, and Product Owner

Venkata Vijay Nadikatla

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Multi skilled Business Analyst Project Manager with 8 plus years of experience in gather, analyze and documenting, planning functional and non-functional system requirements. Demonstrate the ability to enhance the management of client information, as well as develop and implement financial solutions that ensure organizational growth. Analyzes fiscal needs and goals, streamlines existing operations, identifies unprofitable systems, implement new concepts and performance enhancements and follows through with development, direction and execution. Highly proficient in managing stakeholder expectations and willing to take full responsibility for delivering project objectives.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems

Win 98/XP/Vista/Windows 7, UNIX, LINUX, Mac.

Languages

SQL, C, C++, HTML, XML

RDBMS

Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server 2005/2000

Reporting Tools

Business Objects, Hyperion

AWS

Amazon RDS/DynamoDB/Redshift, S3, EBS, EFS, AWS Lambda, Polly

Data Analysis

TOAD Data Analyst, IDQ, Dremio Analyst

Data Modeling

TOAD Data Modeler, ERWIN

Quality Analysis

HP Quality center, Asana

MS Office Tools:

PowerPoint, Project, Project Server, Visio, Excel, Access, Word

ERP Application:

Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft

Misc. Tools

ServiceNow, JIRA, Sharepoint, SQL Developer, TOAD, Mavenlink, Smartsheets

SDLC

Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, RUP, RAD, Spiral

Area Of Expertise

Business Process Improvement

Business Analysis and Design

Test Plan

Quality Assurance

User Documentation

Design Specifications

Performance Management

Retention Strategies

Systems Integration

Process Reengineering

RDBMS

Business System Documentation

User training

Project Management

User acceptance testing

Systems Integration

Release Management

Team Building & Leadership

Exit Management

Work Flow Analysis

Requirement Analysis

Education/Certification

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering (2006), Pondicherry University.

“Leading with Finance” Certification through Harvard Business School.

QMS Lead Auditor based on ISO 9001:2008 (Cert. No. LA2/11/IN/36557)

PMP Certification in progress.

AWS Certification in progress.

Professional Summary

Overstock May` 2020- Jun 2022

Midvale, UT

Senior Systems Business Analyst/Product Owner

Providing analytical support through the analysis & interpret data in support of cross-functional business operations.

Using ServiceNow for assessment data, notes, partners information, Business Case, financial benefit & finance return.

Organizes and leads the Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meeting and daily stand ups to clear the impediment list.

Organizing and training all stakeholders to ensure the Jira and Confluence tools are being used for any requirements and defect logging process (Articulate business impact & assisting in defect prioritization & test management process)

Documenting requirements through (Unified Modified Language a graphical notations tool like Visio and Lucid chart)

Supports pre-project business problem elicitation, feasibility & business case definition for the Project Management.

Conducted detailed and comprehensive business analysis by working with other BAs, IT developers, financial analyst, third party vendors and end-users, in order to identify system and operational requirements and improvements.

Responsible for disaster recovery documentation, testing, and implementation in event of the system disaster.

Worked with the management on hardware and application software enhancements for future business growth.

Develops annual operating plans, forecasts, and build cases for new business initiatives (cost/benefit analysis).

Interviewed SMEs and stakeholders to get a better understanding of the client business processes & requirements.

Developing, preparing and analyzing reports with complex analysis and data for management review, and presenting to various levels of management to assure the performance of the project is within the requirements.

Defining business requirements and provides analysis to increase and elevate the operational efficiency.

Analyzing actual results against milestone plan, forecast and recommending interventions where appropriate.

Identifying OFI in operational performance & notifying management of issues requiring immediate attention.

Works with the QA team to provide business input into test strategy, test plans, test conditions and UAT plans.

Coordinates with User Acceptance Testing personnel to align with the business and project requirements.

Shapes the business customer experience through business engagement & stakeholder management activities, including change and support activities through chain of approval process based on business requirements.

Providing analytical support for multiple complex projects simultaneously, establishing work plans & timelines.

Supports the review of contracts drawn up with any third-party suppliers to ensure that they accurately reflect and meet the needs of the business and customer requirements are per the approved project design documents.

Supports the post-implementation reviews and incorporates project lessons learned into future work process.

BBVA USA Sep` 2017 – Mar` 2020

Houston, TX

Senior Business Analyst

Worked with Project Managers, Senior Management, Experienced Traders and Other Stakeholders to define project scope, plan, budget and requirements according to the business design, technical & functional specification.

Using ServiceNow for assessment data, notes, partners information, Business Case, financial benefit & finance return

Organizes and leads the Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meeting and daily stand ups to clear the impediment list.

Organizing and training all stakeholders to ensure the Jira and Confluence tools are being used for any requirements and defect logging process (Articulate business impact & assisting in defect prioritization & test management process)

Documenting requirements through (Unified Modified Language a graphical notations tool like Visio and Lucid chart)

Conducted detailed and comprehensive business analysis by working with other BAs, IT developers, traders, financial analysts, and end-users, in order to identify system and operational requirements and improvements.

Interviewed SMEs and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes & requirements.

Worked with management on hardware and application software enhancements for future business growth.

Maintained a close and strong working relationship with Teammates, Developers, Testers and Management staff by conducted regular one-to-one sessions and group meetings to discuss the project goals and milestones.

Collect & gather requirements to contribute to the risk-return analysis, and portfolio optimization & variation.

Assisted client in the development of the business requirements, including identification of opportunities for improvement and optimization of business processes and constant update and feedback on the project status.

Used Requisite pro to document requirements, associated change requests and use cases with requirements.

Conducted GAP analysis during the review of the compliance items for improved future audits & compliance.

Marriott Vacation Worldwide Oct` 2015 – Aug` 2017

Orlando, FL

Senior Business Analyst

Worked as a liaison among diverse stakeholders and client and third party vendors or suppliers to gather and document business, functional and non-functional requirements via individual interviews and group sessions.

Assisted stakeholders & project leaders with negotiating & prioritizing requirements on business requirements.

Conducted business and/or functional gap analyses through a detailed understanding of the current and future business processes, and application systems. Consistent performance validation through project metrics

Participated in vendor identification and selection, including assessing and comparing various vendor solutions.

Wrote clear, concise and unambiguous requirements using Microsoft Word templates, including the identification of risks, assumptions, and definitions. Process flow diagram to establish the clear direction.

Ensured adherence to the legal & compliance requirements from various healthcare governing agencies.

Utilize diagrams as appropriate to communicate requirements to the project team (offsite and Onsite) such as process flows, context diagrams, system interface diagrams, data transformation, and field mapping, etc.

Created and maintained simple user interface designs to communicate changes to existing approved systems.

Lazada Mar` 2014- Sep` 2015

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Systems Analyst

Assessed customers' current capabilities and needs to identify potential cots (commercial off the shelf) products

Worked with technical teams to determine and justify a solution approach that maximizes customer value through improvements to workflow, production, operational & cost efficiency and/or effectiveness

Provided technical and non-technical assistance to the Project Management to develop project documentation.

Worked with the technical development team to ensure that requirements are effectively implemented.

Worked with project/business stakeholders and/or users to facilitate the user acceptance testing process.

Worked with customer contacts after solution delivery to understand ongoing needs and issues along with associated business drivers, and assist in training within Office of Technology to engage resources to provide the appropriate response/resolution. Ensuring the needs of the client are met and approved via change notice.

Lead the development team through the working phase of the project by researching and answering questions about the defined work, identified bugs and escalating as defined in the project's technical escalation process.

Created and maintained the testing plan for the project following an iterative development methodology.

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