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San Francisco, California, United States

• Participated in Project planning meeting to set up timelines and milestones for IT development team, analysed the resource requirements and interfaces required for the project development. Based on the estimations, analysed the triple constraint (Resource, time and budget) for a successful project delivery. • Performed various Project Management activities including Demand management, Change management, Deployment/Production Plans, creating services and incidents, Issue and milestones tracking, conducting Daily/weekly status meetings, driving the project as coordinator between business and IT team.• Conducted Document Review sessions with Subject Matter Experts/Business Leads/IT Associate Director to finalize the Functional Specification Documentation for sign off from all the Business users.• Worked close to Business to identify the KPIs, understand the business processes and requirements.• Attended Design Review Board meeting in assisting developers with approvals on design and build freeze.• Scheduled meetings with the Senior Data Architect to understand the data warehouse structure, architecture and data marts, performance standards based on which analysis were made to create Table functions, projections and joins in the HANA.• Prepared Data Flow Diagrams using Visio to understand the flow between SAP BW/HANA/ETL and a data mapping document by interacting with various source SMEs to understand the tables and field data.• Reviewed test documents like unit testing, code review documents and prepared SIT and UAT documents.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Interviewed Subject Matter Experts and performed extensive Document Reviews to develop a thorough understanding of business processes & analyzed the supply chain to aid Business Process Improvements.• Participated in SAP Business Blueprinting- Creating Process Definition Document, User Requirements Specifications, Key Design Decision Description and GAP Analysis and Testing Strategy documents.• Performed Document Analysis and created process flow diagrams to understand the AS-IS process and collaborated with the team to design the TO-BE process based on the gathered requirements. • Participated in Scrum ceremonies like Backlog Grooming, Standup Meetings, Prioritizing Meetings and Retrospective Meetings, extensively used JIRA for converting requirements to User stories, assisted the Product Owner in writing acceptance criteria and framing Definition Of Done (DOD).• Worked closely with the technical team to convert the functional requirements into technical specifications like Prototypes, Graphical User Interface (GUI) and User Interface (UI) mock-ups using Balsamiq and Lucid Chart.• Created Use Case diagrams, Use Case Templates and process flow diagrams using Visio for both systems.• Assisted Data modelling process by creating conceptual and logical ER diagrams to help development of an accurate Data Warehouse Structure to transfer data from legacy to new system.• Extensively involved in mapping data from sources like POS, ERP (CSV, excel) to the target database. • Performed CRUD operations on SQL using SELECT & JOIN for drill downs to pull data while being actively involved in reading data from varied file types, created standard and ad-hoc reports using SQL and SQL script to load data.

Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States

• Facilitated Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Stand-ups, Sprint Review and Retrospective.• Assisted Scrum teams with generation of User Stories and managing the progress.• Facilitated prioritization and estimation of Product Backlog Items using techniques like MoSCoW-Kano Hybrid Model, Planning Poker and Relative mass valuation.• Assisted the Product Owner in developing acceptance criteria and definition of done for the user stories.• Tracking Information Radiators and addressing any issues as they arise. These metrics include Velocity, Burndown charts and Release progress.• Negotiating with Product Owner in backlog management for scope creeps and continuous delivery.• Identified the lack of good documentation in the organization and leveraged Confluence to create spaces for initiatives for research, design, and architecture documentation thus greatly reducing the team member’s effort in understanding requirements, requesting access, documenting their findings.• Participating proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.• Tracked Epics, User Stories, Defect Lifecycle and Bug Tracking using JIRA.• Created custom dashboard for teams to be on track with sprint backlog and high priority bugs/defects.• Helped team in identifying technical debt and maintained a backlog to track them as user stories to be included into the sprint.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Maintained the Insurance Analyst process which included detailing the rating requirements using AQS rating system for all types of Commercial Line.• Managing the project using the Agile Method of project development.• Implementing Scrum development methodology• Help end users in creating User stories. Interacted with business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the Auto rating application.• Create interactive simulation for end users using real time data.• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Business users’ sentiments.• Developed and managed the formal Agile Methodology which includes Configuration Management, Requirements Management, Agile Manifesto, Lean Development• Interacted with group to facilitate for timely and effective requirement translation.• Developed Use Case stories, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process.• Wrote full functional and technical specifications and communicated requirements to development teams.• Created and maintained a project schedule using MS Project showing all of the deliverables target dates.