Summary:

• Senior Business Analyst with over *+ years of professional experience in Automotive, Insurance, Product development, Financial, Marketing and sales.

• Excellent in requirement gathering, data analysis, data mining, system designing and implementing. Strong in developing functional/ system specifications, feasibility/ GAP studies, business scenarios. Good in ER diagrams, context diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams and class diagrams using UML modeling, logical and physical diagrams and process flows.

• Extensive knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project Management Methodologies (PMP/PMO), Zachman frame work, CMMI and lean 6-sigma process.

• Dedicated, diligent, well organized, and efficient; consistently produce results above client and employer expectation. Acted as a liaison between customers and Technical teams.

• Worked 4 years in a big companies like Ford and DELL.

Technical Skills:

Methodologies Lean 6-Sigma, Agile(Scrum), SDM, SDLC, Zach Man Frame work,

Project management methodologies (PMP/PMO), OOAD, UML, RUP.

Tools Quality Center, Rational rose, Requisit*pro,Clear Case, Minitab, PVCS, ChangeMan, SharePoint, CVS, Metarecon, TOAD,OLAP, SSIS, Move for DB2, File AID, WAS 5.0

Databases Oracle v 9i, 10g, DB2 v7, 8, SQL Server 2005, MS Access, Teradata

OS Hp-UNIX, AIX, Lunix, Redhat Unix, Win NT/Win2k/XP, win 2003/2005.

Languages C, C#, Java, JSP, .ASP, .NET, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, COBOL, VB Script.

MS Office MS Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project.

Education:

• Master in business administration, IGNO University

• Post graduate diploma in Information technology, NIIT

• Bachelor degree, Osmania University

Awards:

• Outstanding award for best customer support in Dell.

PROJECTS SUMMARY

Ford Motor Company, MI July 2008 – May 2010

Business Analyst

Environment: Minitab, Rational rose, PVCS, UML, Ms-Office, AIX, HP-Unix, Metrecon, Win 2005, Oracle v 10g, Java, Pl/SQL, TOAD, DB2 V , Move for DB2, ChangeMan, ZachMan Frame work, COBOL, Java, Jscript, XML, Web Sphere 5.0.

Ford FST, is a global financial application. This system was developed not only to provide the current financial information but also forecast the future financial information. This application was to replace Ford F@ST application (which enables to support new releases) and automate accounting. This system calculates actual vehicle cost, virtual vehicle cost which includes TP and EP costs.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements stewardship and traceability throughout the entire development process.

• Key contributor to identify high-level business requirements, assess current capabilities, and develop detailed requirements for an Enhancement Release to include user scenarios, business process flows, functional use cases, nonfunctional requirements, technical requirements, fit/gap analysis, OOAD, operational requirements and system security requirements.

• Perform detailed requirements transition and acceptance to solution designers, developers, and other downstream consumers to ensure a clear and complete understanding of the requirements.

• Adherence to Requirements Management and Quality Management processes and standards.

• Review Conceptual Designs and Architectural Designs to identify impact to business or system requirements.

• Review detailed design deliverables to ensure they meet the Business Requirements and IT requirements.

• Responsible for designing and testing user friendly GUI screens.

• Creating and generating Reports/Dashboards/Metrics and communicating to the end users.

• Participate in review of test cases to clarify requirements and provide business context

• Support Testing and Development activities for requirements understanding; assist in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, and user acceptance testing.

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (FFIC), CA July 2006 – Jun 2008

Business Analyst

Environment: Requesit*pro and Clear Case, PVCS, RUP, Pl/SQL, TOAD, DB2 V , Move for DB2, data warehousing ChangeMan, ZachMan Frame work, Java,OLAP Jscript, XML, Web Sphere 5.0.

Fireman's Fund Insurance, a company of Allianz, is among the largest property and casualty insurers and financial services providers in the world. The Enhancements Integration objective was to design and build a Comparative Rater Integration which consumes the existing Policy administration system (EPAS) deployment. The enhancement supports integration with multiple comparative rater software tools. The enhancement supports the ability to consume quote rating requests from an external 3rd party comparative rater and provide a rater response back to the vendor in a real-time manner.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with the stakeholders to gather all the ideas that the user wants to be incorporated into the project.

• Performed a business analysis and risk analysis of the application to identify the key risk areas for the project.

• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with Project Team to discuss related issues. Helped setup the project-testing environment in co-ordination with the System administrators and developers. Assisted the QA Lead in preparing the Test Plan using Rational Requisite Pro and test cases using Rational Test Manager, OOAD reviewed and analyzed requirements and established traceability between feature & software requirements and test cases.

• Perform detailed requirements transition and acceptance to solution designers, developers, and other downstream consumers to ensure a clear and complete understanding of the requirements.

• Key contributor to estimating and planning a release.

• Identifies Risks, Issues, & PCRs; escalates and recommends appropriate mitigations to Project Manager.

Wells Fargo Bankcisco, CA June 2005 –Apr 2006

Business Analyst

Environment: Rational rose, PVCS, UML, Ms-Office, HP-Unix, Metrecon, Win 2005, Oracle v 10g, Java, Pl/SQL, TOAD, DB2 V , Move for DB2, ChangeMan, COBOL, Java, Jscript, XML,

Wells Fargo is a diversified financial service company providing customers to help for home buying and refinancing, accept the mortgage applications, apply for loan, process the loans etc. The project entailed implementing a custom designed Loan Origination System (LOS) by replacing the existing Loan Processing system to support the loan application processing needs of the firm. It involved controlling and monitoring the various work steps in the loan processing mechanism. Typical work steps in the application workflow include application origination, duplication check, obtaining credit scores, application form printing and retrieving loan repayment history.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Owners and Subject Matter Experts (SME) of various fields such as Loan Managers, Risk Managers, Fund Managers, Asset Managers, and Project Architects to gather client specific business requirements.

• Gather requirements for web portals that provide interface to the intranet as well to the internet that encompass lending banks, credit vendors, appraisal valuators, loan officers and underwriters.

• Creating User Requirement Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications and Project Schedules. Conducted surveys, interviews, and JAD sessions.

• Directed and managed the Change Control process for the project as a whole by facilitating group meetings, one-on-one interviews and corresponding through emails with work stream owners to discuss the impact of change request on the project.

• Maintain a dashboard on the Project website to keep track of the change request submitted and to categorize them as active, approved, deferred or rejected. Determined the Release, Stage and Future Book of Work for deferred Change Requests.

Dell International Services, IND Jan 2002 – Mar 2005

Business Analyst

Environment: Java, Pl/SQL, TOAD, Oracle v 10g, COBOL, Java, Jscript, XML,MS office, HP-Unix.

Dell is a hardware company. This project was developed to objectively prioritize sales and marketing initiatives with different strategic goals, potential rates of return, constraints and dependencies in order to determine resources across competing opportunities. Dell provides a comprehensive solution for the selection, prioritization and tracking of initiatives, and the optimal allocation of constrained resources. It enables you to merge hard and intuitive data to arrive at an agreed upon prioritization.

Responsibilities:

• Documented business and system Use Cases to establish business requirements. Documented supplemental specks and coordinate style guide and wireframe updates.

• Performed analysis of internal and third-party data sources and documents system data requirements. Identified high-level technical requirements and limitations and worked with senior developers to formulate solutions.

• Worked with Architects and Senior Developers to translate business requirements into technical specifications.

• Ensured the adherence to strict change management processes and procedures. Partnered with the QA team in documenting and validating test scripts, support in defect detection and assisted in smoke testing.

• Supported Application Management Teams in validating defects, and requirements defect remediation. Developed training materials, organized and lead client training sessions.

• Participated in Supply Chain Management, Change Management Lifecycle which included estimates, requirements gathering, documenting and also updating.

• Used knowledge of HTML and Microsoft Visio standards to build wire-frame templates for developers. Worked with software development project teams to test applications and ensure that the requirements were being met.

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