VAISHALI KHATAL- CHITALKAR
Business Analyst
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Arlington, VA 22204 Vaishali Khatal-Chitalkar
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology
Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune University, India
September 2000 - July 2005 Pune, India
SKILLS
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Requirement gathering and analysis
Project management and documentation
Agile scrum master
Microsoft office suite
Git bash-GitHub, XML
Test Track, Confluence, Rally, MS-
TFS, EBOX, Degreed, JIRA
SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) Basic Core Java, Junit, QTP
MS one drive, Salesforce, NetSuite, MS SharePoint, .NET, AWS cloud
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Business Analyst / Project manager /Training Specialist
Persistent Systems LTD, India
September 2014 - July 2022 Pune, India
Designed and implemented workflows, SLAs, documents and demos to for certain business units to handle high load with limited set of resources to increase the operational efficiency
Set up an environment with the help of different tools/platforms to contribute, collaborate, comminate effectively and efficiently in remote working culture during pandemic to reduce the operational cost by 20-30%
Worked with stakeholders and clients to model and document goals and communicated to meet 99% of deadlines
Documented and upgraded all business processes and operating procedures from scratch and provided trainings for an early-stage startup projects to reduce attrition rate by 15- 20%
Worked with 2 analysts to institute a new modelling technique that saved 60 quarterly hours in customer comparisons
Collaborated with C-level suit, conducted research, analyzed business processes, compiled data using data visualization and Excel, worked with 2 senior business analysts to infer meaningful insights that improved organizational processes, saving companies a combined 300 man-hours a month
Collaborated with key stakeholders and organization level SMEs to improve methodologies, processes and operations evolution that guided to design program for technology upgradation based on the role that increased employee efficiencies by 50-60%
Greeted and trained 200+ candidates and participants virtually in each shift, directing them to appropriate track and track leads results in saving 30-50% external resource cost
Business analyst / Agile scrum master/ UAT tester
Persistent Systems LTD, India
May 2010 - August 2014 Pune, India
Spearheaded 30+ Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Story Refinement, and Release Planning
Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be worked on by the team
Facilitated discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution and followed client-required processes and practices across 3 cross-functional teams
Built extensive test coverage for all new features and regression test coverage, which reduced customer complaints by more than 50-70%
Created and reorganized SQL queries and scripts for internal regression testing to troubleshoot root cause which helped the development team to reduce the time to fix it by 20-30%
Provided UAT support for CRM and incident management projects over phone, email, and chat, responding to all messages within 30 minutes
Senior quality analyst/ UAT tester
Persistent Systems LTD, India
May 2007 - April 2010 Pune, India
Gained experience in system development and test lifecycle, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes by providing swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault-free audits
Implemented software development efforts to a test-driven development (TDD) process, which brought QA testing to the front end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity
Conducted formal and informal product design and test strategy reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential
issues. Communicated with the software design team to gain their respect and became a valued, “go-to” team member on challenging test scenarios
Ensured 100% of Scrum activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported
Managed and supported all efforts of 3 development teams to simplify and enhance the customer experience and business processes
Created detailed and simplified business specifications for more complex level business requests
Software tester
Amiga Development India PVT LTD
December 2006 - April 2007 Pune, India
Performed build installation on the test server and suggested improvement in build process to increase efficiency and reduce build creation and deployment duration
Executed system, unit, performance, load, regression, stress, GUI and UAT testing. Provided client and developer teams with detailed reports on quality metrics, identified bugs/errors and recommended fixes, and results delivered through QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness
Documented software test plans, test cases and defects using a bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, online screenshots and content to software developers to reproduce and troubleshoot
Adhoc Lecturer
Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune
August 2005 - April 2006 Pune, India
Managed and taught a classroom of 60 students of computer science
Designed and implemented programming labs for hands-on practice and took maintenance ownership of the computer lab
Planned and executed special method to conduct lessons, including collecting necessary resources to complete a given lesson
Received appreciation by National Board of Accreditation committee members during audits for teaching skills