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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.

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