| Candidate Information | | Title | Business Analyst - Scrum Master | | Target Location | US-TX-Frisco |
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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateSummary14 + years of experience as a Business Analyst, Report developer in Publishing, Retail, Aerospace, Education, Finance and Automotive with strong understanding of Business Requirements gathering and documentation (BRD), Business Process Mapping, and translating requirements into specifications.Strong experience in business analysis, conversion of business requirements into high level functional specifications/User stories.Good understanding of the domains including functional knowledge of current Information System and the proposed changes.Performed due diligence on Knowledge and Experience on business process and technology of the client projects to be better able to adapt to changes.Excellent experience in creating user stories, Backlog grooming and using JIRA.Worked in Business Intelligence software capturing requirements, development, and testing.Well-versed with methodologies like Waterfall approach and Agile.Good experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), includes Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Integration and Support.Good understanding on Data-warehouse and ETL process to ingest, process and store data.Participated in the planning and execution of user acceptance testing activities.Framed requirements, met stakeholders, consulted with project teams to identify issues and recommended solutions.Created WBS, Project scope statement, involved in verifying scope with the customer and stakeholders.Worked closely with the Enterprise Data Warehouse team and Business Intelligence Architecture team to understand the objectives involved in development that supports the business requirement and process.Excellent team player to work in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and testing of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of Quality Standards of projects.Excellent communicator and motivator to junior team members. Organized purposeful initiative-taker and works diligently towards meeting project deadlines.Additional SkillsExtensive work experience in Agile SCRUM methodology in 2-week sprints and Program Increment PI planning and hosting.Certified SCRUM Master (CSM- Scrum Alliance), SAFe certified practitioner, Scaled Agile IncTwo-day intensive Project Management course work completed from Cadence onsite.Masters Certificate in Business Analysis - course work completed from Watermark Learning.Well versed with tools such as JIRA, Microsoft Visio, MS Office, SharePoint, UMLPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEOrangePeople 10/2023 to 03/2024Client: Toyota, Plano TX (Demand & Supply Chain Management)Business Analyst / Scrum MasterResponsibilitiesAs Business Analyst and Scrum master was responsible for understanding the needs of the Product Owner and translating them into manageable User stories.Analysed the current state of requirements and roadmaps for future state for each month. Provided inputs for current state assessment and helped create user story drafts for review.Facilitated SCRUM events (2-week sprints) by using JIRA tool (Atlassian product) by leading the meetings including Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospectives and daily Stand-Up meetings.Alorica 02/2019 to 04/2023Senior Business AnalystAlorica is a worldwide leading provider of customer management outsourcing solutions spanning the entire customer lifecycle. From customer acquisition and sales to customer care and support to logistics and fulfilment.ResponsibilitiesProjects involved enhancing & streamlining the billing interface. Created user stories for an internal platform that would handle online customers queries & sales. Conducted team meetings to review the BRD including collaborating with QA team to review that all test scenarios were covered.Aegon Asset Management 05/2017 to 02/2019Lead Business AnalystAegon Asset Management US is an institutional asset manager with $106 billion in assets that specializes in fixed income and customized investment solutions.ResponsibilitiesFinalizing the requirements for new projects, changes requested for additional features primarily for US Market data scrubbing such as financial ratings etc.Responsible for the huge initiative in requirements gathering for consolidating the US and Europe instances of data into a Global system. Worked with in house developers in testing of Bank Loans project.TEK SystemsClient: ACT, Iowa City, IA 03/2016 to 2/2017Senior Business AnalystACT is a non-profit organization and a leader in creating and administering the ACT Test for High School graduates and the test scores consequently used for admission to colleges.ResponsibilitiesPrimarily responsible for creating business requirements using ACT recommended BRD (Excel document). Consequently Aha! was primarily used to create high level epics and JIRA for creating user stories and bugs in two-week sprint cycles. Primarily responsible in creating user stories for flagship product ACT Kaplan Online Prep Live product:Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA 01/2011 to 11/2015Business Intelligence AnalystRockwell Collins (now Raytheon) is a communications leader in the aerospace and defence industry. Its information management and simulation and training are strengthened by a global service and support network spanning 150 countries supported by nearly 20,000 employees.ResponsibilitiesWorked as an analyst, Developer, and tester in Business Intelligence projects such as in Human Resources, Remedy, Government systems scorecards and several small enhancements which began with getting detailed requirements from customers.Align Communications, New York, NY 03/2009 to 07/2010Report DeveloperAlign Communications deals with financial companies like Barclays, RBS, and helps in their datacentre design, server migrations moving hundreds of servers from one datacentre to another.ResponsibilitiesResponsible for requirement gathering and analysis and effectively translated into developing requirements for creating Reports based on migration requirements of the servers.Created a functional requirement document for developers to create and modify over 120+ reports that helped management to get precise tracking details on where servers were being moved and what cabinet they were moving to including their connection details.Was involved in BA, QA effort estimations and status reporting.Adecco/AjilonClient: Scholastic, New York, NY 08/2007 to 10/2008Report DeveloperResponsibilitiesScholastic is a $2 billion dollar giant in the childrens book publishing category. Scholastic is the sole U.S publisher of the famous Harry Potter line of books. The project was to design, develop and maintain Analytical Reporting HRIS, Human Resource Information System.Took detailed requirements from customers to develop and maintain the HRIS using Business Objects based on Report specification document.Interacted with Technical team to resolve issues with regards to the business requirements and documented the technical specificationsInteracted with developers on a per need basis to efficiently resolve time-critical issues.Coordinated with system test leads and UAT leads to monitor automation activities to ensure complete testing of each weekly build in a timely fashion.Conducted process diagram and gap analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.As tester, helped resolve issues in creating and modifying existing ReportsFormulation of traceability matrix, test plan, test cases, test data and test scripts.Participated in meetings to discuss the status and issues.EnvironmentBusiness Objects 6.5/XI R2, Crystal Reports, Oracle10g/9. x.VISA status: US CitizenEDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONSBachelors degree, Gulbarga University, IndiaCertified SCRUM Master (CSM)Certified Product Owner (CSPO)Masters certificate in Business Analysis (Watermark Learning)SAFe certified practitioner, Scaled Agile Inc |
