Functional Analyst - Business Systems Expert, 18+ yrs Experience

Anitha Muthoju,

Functional Analyst/Business Systems Analyst

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-oriented technologist with over 18 years of experience specializing in enterprise architecture, Human Capital Management, Financial systems implementation, strategic roadmap development, and planning & delivery

Information Technology expertise in Requirements Gathering, Analyzing, designing, developing, integrating and upgrading and Managing business application systems, systems & database design and ERP systems using PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM

Expertise in entire System Development Life Cycle(SDLC) and applied them in Web technologies, Client Server technologies and Enterprise Resource Planning Technologies

Expertise in Scrum Frame Work and Supported Scrum Team in reaching the Sprint Goal

Expertise in proper documentation of Functional Specification documents(FDR), Business Requirements Documentations(BRD), Requirement Trace Matrix (RTM) and Use Cases

Expertise in Agile/Scrum methodology, and the development of associated project artifacts (i.e., user stories, acceptance criteria)

Expertise in developing Test cases from Business Requirements in ALM/HP Quality Center and conducting test cases review meetings with the team along with maintaining release notes and user training material

Expertise in HP Quality Center ALM tool, STAT tool, and DOORS tool

Strong project management skills and ability to coordinate complex infrastructure initiatives.

Expertise in training business users with User Productivity Kit(UPK)

Strong relationship and negotiation skills, customer service orientation, demonstrate effective communication and interaction with clients, peers, and vendors.

Strong communication skills, Observation Skills, Analytical Skills, well organized, and able to work individually or in a group.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Package: PeopleSoft (GL, AR, AP, Project Costing, PO, Inventory, Purchasing, eProcurement, Billing,

Order Management, Asset Management, Absence Management,, HCM, Benefits, Payroll, WorkDay), SAP EIM, AWS, WORKDAY,SERVICENOW

Reports: Crystal Reports, Query, OBIEE, SSRS, Tableau

Query Languages: TOAD, PS Query, SQL

Databases: Oracle, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, Microsoft Access

Tools: PeopleTools, HP ALM, DOORS, Serena, Section 508 procedures, SCRUM, JIRA, Confluence

Platform: Azure DevOps

VISA: US CITIZEN

CLEARANCE: Public Trust MBI Level 5, Secret Clearance

CERTIFICATION:

CSM – Certified Scrum Master

PSM I – Professional Scrum Master

SA – Safe Agilist

Founder President for IRS Certified 501©(3) non-profit organization Ujwala Foundation and I do Charity and Cultural promotion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE:

Nakupuna Consulting for US Army

Business Systems Analyst III 09/2025 to Current Date

Elicited and understood the client’s business needs and mission, defined requirements, written user stories, and managed a product backlog and developed prototypes for the proposed solution

Studied existing business processes, programs, and/or legacy systems in their native environments and performed a comprehensive analysis of existing problems and understand the areas for improvement

Expertise in documenting business workflows, procedures, roles and responsibilities and thoroughly followed section 508.

Expertise in all Peoplesoft HCM modules

Involved in writing Functional Specification document for Death Gratuity module and collaborating with technical team in getting it to DEV team

Performed Business processes/customizations fit/gap analysis to determine the requirements and status

Good understanding of Oracle database structure.

Involved in Daily Scrum meetings and updated the status of the project on daily basis to all the stake holders and team members

Updated Product Backlog Items to include new or revised requirements and backlog item

Environment: Peoplesoft HCM, ServiceNow, Tableau, SQL, Azure DevOps, SCRUM

Leidos for Social Security Administration.

Woodlawn, MD

Business Systems Analyst III 09/2023 - 08/2025

Requirements gathering, Writing User stories on VersionOne with Acceptance Criteria and entire Framework.

Validated HACPS MI Reports and ETL reports and documenting the process in VersionOne

Expertise in documenting business workflows, procedures, roles and responsibilities and thoroughly followed section 508.

Expertise in Peoplesoft Talent Acquisition Manager, Absence Management & Time and Labor modules

Performed Absence Management and TL processes/customizations fit/gap analysis to determine the requirements and status with 9.2 version.

Good understanding of Oracle database structure.

Involved in Daily Scrum meetings and updated the status of the project on daily basis to all the stake holders and team members

Updated Product Backlog Items to include new or revised requirements and backlog item

Working with QA team in getting the testing scripts done and following the testing cycle

Excellent working knowledge of SQL’s and query tools like TOAD

Environment: Peoplesoft HCM, Absence Management, Time and Labor, SQL, ServiceNow, GreenPlum, TOAD, Version One, Jira, Java, Selenium, Tableau, Validation, Testing, Agile, SCRUM, SharePoint

Census Bureau at Suitland, MD

Functional Analyst/Business Analyst 06/2019 – 09/2023

Elicited and understood the client’s business needs and mission, defined requirements, written user stories, and managed a product backlog and developed prototypes for the proposed solution

Expertise in PeopleSoft HCM, Payroll, Time and Labor, Benefits and Recruiting modules

Expertise in Time and Labor module and advised the functionality in time reporting, Entering Hours and Expenses, Managing Hours and Expenses, Approve hours and Expenses and Reporting.

Involved in all implementation, testing, integration and issue resolution around Time and Labor – including integration with Human Resource, Payroll, Absence Management, and time and full HR life cycle for government agencies

Knowledge in loading time from Time & Labor, Paysheets, Pay calculation, Pay confirmation

Communication with project management, clients, and other developers to ensure effective collaboration throughout the testing phase

Created a test approach document, Test plan, Test cases in ALM (Application Lifecycle Management

Validated the process designs, developed the business requirements and used both functional and use cases while developing interfaces and doing the data conversion.

Environment: Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, 9.2, Talent Acquisition Manager, Absence Management, Work force Administration, Time and Labor, NA Payroll, Benefits, Benefit Administration, ServiceNow, ALM, STAT, TOAD, SQL, Oracle, AWS.

Fairfax County, VA

12000 Government Center Pkwy,

Fairfax, VA 22035.

Functional Analyst/Business Analyst 10/2018 - 05/2019

Strong project management skills and ability to coordinate complex infrastructure initiatives.

Identify communication requirements, process flows, and procedures. Identify metrics and reporting requirements.

Strong relationship and negotiation skills, customer service orientation, demonstrate effective communication and interaction with clients, peers, and vendors.

Translated business requirements by reviewing, analyzing and evaluating needs into functional specifications. Coordinates and responds to requests for changes from original specifications.

Documented all the processes in accordance with the Information technology standards

Validated the process designs, developed the business requirements, and used both functional and use cases while developing interfaces and doing the data conversion.

Environment: - SAP EIM, ALM, Oracle 9i, CMS, Oracle PeopleSoft Financials 8.4 AP, AR, GL, Billing, AWS, SQL.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Columbia, MD

GRSI, Windsor mill

Functional Analyst/Business Analyst 04/2018 - 09/2018

Working with CMS to get requirements in Requirement elicitation meetings and Designing Functional Requirement documents

Expertise in documenting business workflows, procedures, SDD, VRR, roles and responsibilities

Expertise in the entire Systems Development Life Cycle(SDLC)

Expertise in designing Functional Specification document and getting it approved from Stake holder/user community

Followed Section 508 documentation and testing procedures

Environment: Oracle PeopleSoft HCM, Tibco, Java, Service Now, HP Quality Center, SQL, Tableau, PEGA, SCRUM, SharePoint, Deltek cost point, STAT tool

Customs Border and Protection(CBP), DHS.

Falls Church, VA

Functional Analyst 08/2016 - 03/2018

Developed Project plans and monitored the program workstreams to track progress against milestones

Coordinated working sessions and provided on-going communications and program updates from kick-off to completion to stakeholders and core team members

Utilized tools JIRA and Confluence, to facilitate Agile ceremonies, including: sprint iteration planning, backlog grooming, daily stand ups, sprint retrospectives, and status reporting

Provided support with risk management, release management, facilitate release planning activities,

Exhibited full knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies with both Agile and Waterfall models

Mentoring and Managing the Development and QA teams and assisted the Management with the Project Management Framework

Used ALM HP quality center for Requirement Management and track the defects

Environment: Java, SAP PI, SAP,, HP Quality Center(ALM), Confluence, JIRA, DB2, JCL, COBOL, Confluence, Serena, SharePoint

GDIT Inc.

Center for Medicate and Medic Aid(CMS) Columbia, MD

Sr. Principal Functional Analyst/Project Manager/Scrum Master 09/2012 - 06/2016

Working with CMS/PMBR to get requirements and doing RTM(Requirement Trace Matrix)

Active participation in Requirement elicitation meetings and took a active role in clarifying all report requirements

Expertise in documenting business workflows, procedures, roles and responsibilities

Expertise in playing important role in the entire Systems Development Life Cycle(SDLC)

Followed Section 508 documentation and testing procedures

Utilized tools JIRA and Confluence, to facilitate Agile ceremonies, including: sprint iteration planning, backlog grooming, daily stand ups, sprint retrospectives, and status reporting

Environment: OBIEE, Informatica, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Security, HP Quality Center, Serena, SQL, MS Office, Java, PEGA, SCRUM, SharePoint, Deltek cost point, Rational Jazz (RRC, RTC, RQM)

Worked through the company Actuate Technologies LLC from January 2006 to September 2012 at the following client sites:

CARLYLE, Washington DC

Neighbor Works America, Washington DC

Ullico, Silver Spring, MD

WorkStrategy, Columbia, MD

MuniMae, Baltimore, MD

IBM at Blue Cross Blue Shield, IL

WMATA, Washington DC

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