Sr Business Analyst

Sonam Kumari

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Personal Information

Date of Birth: August 04th, 1984

Present Address: #***, ******** ****** ***., **** Main, 17th Cross, JP Nagar 5th Phase, Bangalore – 560078, India.

Permanent Address: Q.No H.I-45, Harmu Housing Colony, Harmu, Ranchi, Jharkhand -834012, India.

Email: *****.****@*****.***

Contact Number: +91-998*******

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Career Objective

To optimize opportunities given, realize the goals and objectives of the organization. Make a positive contribution towards the growth of the organization and strive for professional excellence.________________________________________

Summary

• Accomplished in Business Analysis and Project Management with extensive experience in Finance such as AOP and Forecasting, Financial Reporting and Analysis.

• Experience in Mortgage Domain with sound knowledge in Processing Residential Mortgage Loans and proficient in working with Loan Origination.

• Overall 5.8 years of experience in Business Analysis

• Accomplishment in analysis of large-scale business systems, Project Charters, Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications, testing plans.

• Extensively worked with the Development and Quality Assurance Groups by assisting the Dev/QA team to perform development/testing.

• Excellent team player with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

• Professional communication on multiple levels of technical understanding.

• Awarded with Business Partner Award.

• Awarded with consecutive Excellence Awards for “Customer Focus”, “Spot Award” for Mockup & FS Signoff.

• Competent, confident and strategic decision maker organized with effective Time Management and Prioritizing skills in conflicting demands to execute business objectives.

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Educational Background

• May 2006: Completed MIS(Masters in Information Science) from Birla Institute of Technology,Ranchi.India(CPI 8.2/10).

• May 2004: Completed Bachelors in Computer Application from Ranchi University, Ranchi, India. (74% Aggregate)

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Technical Skills

• Management Tool: Advanced Knowledge in MS Excel, MS-Word, Microsoft Power Point, , Languages: Java 5, HTML,Flex, SharePoint, Macromedia Dream weaver MX,SQL

• Platforms: Windows XP, 2000, 98

• Software Package: Eclipse, Flex Builder

• Version Control: SVN

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Professional Experience

Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (Feb 21st, 2011 – 30th March 2012) – Senior Business Analyst

Role : Sub-Project Manager

Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL) - Diverse, ingenious, committed and integrated. This is a place where technology and people make a balance to deliver unsurpassed value to customers by providing innovative and solutions enhancing the comfort, safety, security, efficiency and reliability of the environment they live, travel and work.

Projects Undertaken: Corporate Finance Scorecard, Executive Dashboard, Accounts Receivable Dashboard, Personal Spend Reporting, Metrics Management

Responsibilities Held:

1. Identification of project plan and tracking program deliverables.

2. Identified subject-matter experts and drove the requirements gathering process through approval of the documents that convey their needs to management, developers, and quality assurance team.

3. Captured As-Is Process, designed TO-BE Process and performed Gap Analysis

4. Developed and updated functional use cases and conducted business process transformation to explain business requirements to development and QA teams.

5. Created Project Proposal, Project Charter, Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Specification Documents.

6. Identified the risks, issues involved and ensured a timely resolution to avoid negative impacts on the program deliverables.

7. Performed analysis of data and tracking of performance Indicators.

8. Actively participated in the development of prototype layout.

9. Assist in all Phases of a project from Solution Identification to Delivery including UAT, Roll-out planning and Onsite user training,

10. Assisted Project Manager in creating Project Plan and Management Documents like Monthly Status Report, Monthly Stage Gate Review doc and weekly update documents.

11. Provided clarifications to Dev & QA team on business requirements.

12. Constantly monitor IT Team/QA Team to meet the deadline of Development/Testing.

13. Took the responsibility to drive and maintain adherence to project schedules and budgets.

14. Co-ordinate with IT manager for strategic planning and deliverable of the project.

Tavant Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (June 19th, 2006 – Feb 19th, 2011) – Business Lead

Tavant Technologies Inc. is a strong IT services company focusing on the development of custom, mission-critical software applications.

Project: Consumer Lending Portal Client: Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, USA

The project involved the development of a Rich Internet Application having Flex as front-end technology; an internet portal for Home Mortgage and Automobile Loans for Fifth Third Bank - a US based banking organization. The Application involved different flows for Internet User for Loan Application and Internet User such as Call Center Employees and Managers.

Responsibilities Held:

1. Gathered Business Requirements, interacted with the client, designers and developers and project manager to get a better understanding of the Business Processes, and analyzed and optimized the process.

2. Prepared Business Requirement Document and then converted business requirements into Functional Requirements Specifications.

3. Identified Use Cases from the requirements. Created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) in MS Visio and thus defining the Business Process Model and Data Process Model. Also, created Web Page rough sketch layout of UI deigns mockup in MS Paint and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

4. Developed Project Status Metrics for weekly evaluation of Project Status and analyzed the impact of the open issues and Change Request on the Project Plan.

5. Identified and documented Issues, Risks and Gaps and their descriptions and impact, and provided recommendations and alternatives. Analyzed the Gaps for Training purposes.

6. Acted as a liaison with business executives to gather all relevant details about requirements.

Project: Mortgage Point of Sale Client: Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, USA

Fifth Third Consumer Portal is an internet based portal, allowing the borrowers to apply for a mortgage loan, provide their contact information, look at their credit data, look for available pricing products, and use a quick-benefit calculator that will allow them to determine, without the burden of a full workflow, if Fifth-third can match their general financial situation to potential products. The system is aimed at being simple enough for the general population to understand and fill in data, yet astute enough to gather as much data Fifth Third needs for successful application processing.

Responsibilities Held:

1. Acted as a liaison between the business, developments teams.

2. Provided solutions for selecting, assembling, and managing compliance documents.

3. Part of the team responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of the business solution.

4. Developed Business Requirement Document and converted it into Functional Requirements Specification for development team's perusal.

5. Test Case Review.

6. Taking the minutes of meeting.

7. Conducted Knowledge sharing sessions for the developers in the team on the US mortgage industry.

8. Identified high-level test scenarios (Critical Business Functionality).

9. Handled queries and clarifications from Dev and QA Teams.

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