Aakash Kuwar Email & Phone Number

Worcester, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States - 33 Arch Street 15th Floor

• Created predictive weekly regional reporting dashboards using Power Bi for Sales of Consumer Goods products.
• Presented various Sales Data to Regional and Global leadership.
• Conducted in-depth analysis of our existing SAP systems, modules, and functionalities to understand their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor performance evaluating diverse analyses of products, establish corrective measures as needed, and create KPI-based reporting structures both current and forecasting future.
• Managing and maintaining the product sample data base as well as the physical stock of benchmark and Cybex products.
• Took Ownership for continuous improvement of forecasting techniques, methods and approaches, standard operating procedures for demand planning processes and systems.

Massachusetts, United States

• Lead the support of business initiatives through data analysis for product sales, identification of implementation barriers and user acceptance testing of various systems
• Lead the identification and analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing processes
• Resolved issues and identify opportunities for process redesign and improvement
• Performed detailed analysis on multiple projects, recommend potential business solutions and ensure successful implementations, including improvements and revisions to business processes and requirements
• Evaluate risks and concerns and communicate to management
• Coordinated with various business units and departments in the development and delivery of training programs

Massachusetts, United States

• Partnered with customers to consult, develop and implement KPIs and model automated reporting/process solutions to meet business needs using Agile techniques.
• Utilizing MS SharePoint server to document requirements for customer-specific invoicing and other documents such as test results.
• Creating and updating Project Track Plan Slides via MS Excel and MS Visio.
• Performing GAP analysis between As-Is and To-Be process and design, risk analysis of the existing system, and evaluating the new system's benefits.
• Facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and conducting interviews with appropriate business stakeholders.
• Manage functional and non-functional business requirements and new request requirements using Jira.

India

• Utilized Waterfall methodologies to effectively assist with the planning and implementation of business and software development plans.
• Created ad-hoc reports for users in Tableau by connecting various data sources, multiple views, and associated reports.
• Used SQL queries to extract data from the database to perform data analysis.
• Enabled effective decision-making by retrieving and aggregating data and converting it into actionable insight.
• Developed, maintained, and publish project plans and scheduled project deliverables using MS Project.
• Handled scrum team, daily Scrum Meetings, Planning, Scope, Coordination, Problem-solving, and Retrospective Meetings.

India

• Wrote test scripts for software applications developed using Waterfall methodology.
• Worked with development managers to translate the business requirements into functional requirements (FRD) and non-functional requirements.
• Created screen mock-ups, and conducted a gap analysis and swot analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and risk analysis.
• Involved in the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables for a project.
• Coordinated with the QA team to develop test cases and performed testing using HP QC.
• Developed Test cases and Use Cases and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional System Testing, Integration testing, and resolving various issues.

Master'S Degree, Information Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology