Graduate Research Assistant Resume
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SUMMARY
- 7 years’ experience in Software Engineering as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Quality Analyst, Software Estimation and Sizing Analyst in Healthcare, OEM and Finance domains.
- Extensive Knowledge in data analysis and visualization using Tableau, SAS, Advanced Excel
- Extensive knowledge in end to end development and implementation life cycle of ERP systems.
- Certified Scrum Master and IFPUG Certified Function Point Analyst (CFPS 4.3)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- SDLC knowledge with Waterfall and Agile methodology.
- Wire frames and Mock - Ups, Requirement gathering, UML Modelling, (MS Visio, IO diagrams)
- GAP Analysis, AS-IS and TO-BE Business Process Modelling (BPM)
- Software Design Document using Use case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams
- Reporting, Dashboard creation, Predictive and Descriptive data analysis and Data visualization
- Knowledge in Data Analytics Tools-Tableau, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Visual Analytics, Advanced Excel, SQL, My SQL.
- Q uality Assurance, Test Plan and Test Cases
- UAT, Black Box Testing. Knowledge in Jira and Jira Agile
- Project Management methodologies- Gantt chart, Payback period analysis, Net present value analysis, Project risk analysis
- Functional Knowledge ERP- Oracle EBS Suite- (Financial Modules)
- C#.net, SQL Server, HTML, VS 2008, 2012, VS 2015
- Project Planning with Work Breakdown Structure(WBS), Use case points and Function point analysis
- Project Estimation using Function Point Analysis, Use Case Analysis and WBS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Gather data from different academic data sources such as UNCgene, provost database and create enrolment report for new academic calendar year
- Extracted, interpreted and analyzed data to identify key metrics from current and previous year’s enrolment and created dashboards based on explored insights
- Detailed report creation and presentation to Provost using calculated data which shows the comparison, trends, percentage increase and decrease in student enrolments.
Tools: SAS, MySQL, Excel, Word
Confidential
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Gathered requirements from clients, then prepared software requirements documents, Use cases, User stories, Activity diagrams, Data flow diagrams, Wire-frames and Mock-ups
- Identifying the project requirements and creating estimation using Work Breakdown Structure, Function Point Analysis and Use case points.
- Creating and analyzing various customer reports and dashboards by aggregating data from different sources using Tableau, SAS and SQL.
- Creating data visualization dashboards using predictive and descriptive analysis of customer data
- Worked as proxy product manager, helping product manager grooming and prioritizing product backlog
- Participated in sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement
- To work with stakeholders to carryout gap analysis and create functional specifications.
- Evaluated the risk related to project implementation and created risk analysis document.
- Worked with customers and vendors to understand and validate requirements
- Delivering project estimations and function point counts for various Confidential development and enhancement Oracle R12 and other projects.
- Auditing project estimations submitted by vendors as part of productivity calculation.
- Coordinated with multiple IT vendors/suppliers to have proper understanding of various projects
- Responsible for creating UAT Test Plan, Test Cases and Conducting and Coordinating UAT
- Contributed towards various initiatives such as SNAP using estimation practices.
Confidential
Business Analyst/Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Understanding the business user concepts and ideas and converting them into comprehensive business requirements and design documents
- Creating Functional Specification Document
- By Gathering requirements for each function in the High-Level FSD
- By Creating detailed use case for documenting requirements
- By Creating process flow using Activity Diagrams, Wireframes and Mock-Ups
- Performed business process analysis of current business processes by feasibility analysis and JAD sessions and provided recommendations for product improvement
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations
- Helped Product Owner (Proxy Product Owner) in creating epics and detailed user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
- Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
- Effort, Cost estimation using IFPUG Function Point Analysis, productivity benchmarking for projects across multiple platforms.
- Data extraction, reporting and presentation to identify customer needs, demands and to identify and report team’s productivity and other metricises
- Co-ordinated & performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and System Integration Testing
- Interacting with development Team and Testing (SQA) team and coordinating project activities.