AISHWARYA GUNREDDY
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Enterprise Project Manger
Grainger
, Illinois
10.2021 - Current
- Project: Modernization of Online Point of Sale for Benefits Management
- Enhance the Online Point of Sale application in REACT JS departments
- Managed the entire life cycle of the SDLC project, from gathering business requirements and managed Product Portfolio for all the critical functionalities of the Benefits Management application to the Launch and post launch hyper care support
- Documented Job aids and facilitated demos to all the Grainger branches (16) who implement Online Point of Sale application
- Participated with multiple functional teams in agile environment for RC’s/ P1/ Critical bugs
- Formulated Release plans and Execution plans for Modernization of the application
- Participated with Freedom Pay credit card services to integrate with the Online Point of Sale form On Prem to Cloud services
- Managed the backlog refinement with prioritization of the work for each quarter with Portfolio Management group
- Managed a team of 11 with regular Scrum ceremonies and managed Product roadmaps
- Proficiently managed to track all the Benman Order failures across three applications – Offline Point of Sale, Online Point of Sale, Grainger.com
- Participated with both back-end and front-end developers in DOJO sessions for REACT training
- Worked with developers to track all the Synk vulnerabilities and Repo migration to Github
- Managed Jira dashboards with project completed and committed work to analyze team velocity and throughput
Business Intelligence/ Project Data Analyst
Credit Acceptance
Southfield, Michigan
10.2020 - 10.2021
- Executive Summary Reporting/ Credit Acceptance Dashboard
- Enhance the Credit Acceptance Driver Metrics Dashboard with Operational Reporting at an Executive Level for all the 16 departments
- Gathered business requirements for 16 Operational departments across the organization
- Participated with multiple functional teams in agile environment
- Building new Project and BA processes, managing new staff, creating onboarding documentation for the CAC employees and Contractors
- Documented the business requirements from subject matter experts by writing user stories resulting in a clearer, more detailed, and more complete understanding of project deliverables from Repossession to Remarketing of the vehicles within CAC firms
- Proficiently helped development teams to break down large user stories for execution and assisted product owners to improve the product backlog repository structure
- Worked with BI team on Power BI application to develop data analysis prototype for tailored leadership reports to track company’s progress and development
- Worked with ETL team on creating personalized dashboards of information that is specific to their department and business unit though Power BI reporting services
- Involved in BI mapping process for 189 metrics for Power BI Reporting
- Work as Product Owner to build story mapping, story grooming, mature backlog and translate that backlog concisely to the development team
- Implemented a cross functional Execution plans for both projects and enhancements that leverages the level of estimates and risks associated to an individual project
- Facilitated and managed scrum ceremonies like Sprint reviews/ Sprint planning / Sprint retros every two weeks with the scrum teams
- Managed deployment cycles and UAT testing for monthly releases
- Participated in ETL Design mapping/ reviews meeting with the Developers and Testers
- Manage a team of 8 team members for this high-visibility operational project
- Initiated and crafted project charter by collaborating with off-site Senior Business executives as a process to expedite the approval system of project timelines, resources, and scope.
Business Data Analyst
United States Department of Agriculture, USDA
, MO
05.2017 - 09.2020
- Project: PII Management Project (Farmers)
- Identify, Analyze, and provide Mitigation plans to manage PII information of all the farmers
- Gather requirements for business definition and facilitate JAD/JAR sessions with stakeholders to refine functional requirement
- As a Scrum master, conducted retrospectives, iteration planning and commitment, daily standups
- Worked on Data mapping documents with necessary transformation rules for the ETL team to build Dashboards
- Worked on creating Data Modelling diagrams using Power Designer tool
- Identified and created an Asset Inventory list through analysis with the FSA agency applications that store/ share Personally Identified Information (PII) across 322 applications, 145 services and 309 databases across the database platforms
- Active participant in Business Analysis meetings to understand the project requirements and involved in Agile methodology throughout the project life cycle
- Coached and developed a distributed team of junior Business analysts with Agile roles, routines and responsibilities resulting in a more thorough understanding of Scrum and a faster start up time to developing software
- Administered JIRA application for Agile board stories, managing Quality Dashboards, Risks, and Incidents across all the Common Planning enhancements.
Business Analyst
Westchester County
, NY
03.2016 - 04.2017
- Designed County-specific E-Learning Management system with customizable functions and Personalized Progress Reporting systems
- Facilitated business requirement based on fundamentals of BABOK and industry best practices meetings with the clients to perform Gap analysis and Data discovery discipline to analyze business data flow within different sources
- Work with IT SME, Scrum Master, and product owners to build story mapping, story grooming, mature backlog and translate that backlog concisely to the development team
- Translated Data requirements for a new mobile app for E-learning to the Data team with an improvised current process and an envisioned future capability
- Work closely with the development team to ensure all requirements are met and the logged open issues and risks in JIRA are resolved prior to handing off to QA testers.
Education
Bachelor - Computers Science
Bradley University
01.2015
Master - Computers Science
JNTU University
01.2014
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Business Analysis Tools: JIRA, Microsoft Office Suite, Rational Rose Microsoft Visio, HP ALM, Version One
- SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Iterative
- Quality Assurance Tools: HP Quality Center (HPQC) and HPALM
- Data Modeling Tools: Power Designer 165, MS Visio, Rational Rose and Mockup Screens
- Business Intelligence Tools: Power BI, Tableau, OBIEE, SSRS
- Databases Access Tools: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Toad for Oracle & Data Analysts
Affiliations
- Determined Project Manager, Business Analyst, Business Data Analyst & Scrum Master with diversified professional experience working in Information Technology with expertise in Business Analysis of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Visualization applications in Agriculture, Automobile and Healthcare industries.
- Well acquainted in Project Process Analysis and Requirements Definition & Analysis by gathering SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) requirements and transforming them into functional specifications through JAD and white board sessions.
- Facilitated board sessions to conduct Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis, SWOT analysis and Risk Analysis for business performance improvisation.
- Involved in all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC), with more command over Agile and Waterfall, focusing on conceptualizing business needs and translating them into viable technical solutions.
- Proficient in Black Box Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and determined the test performance results of the system.
- Decent command over Data retrieving and manipulation through SQL queries.
Additional Information
- HONORS & AWARDS HONORS & AWARDS , Certified Business Analyst from British Council (EXIN) Honored Star Performer of the Month(twice) for outstanding performance and lasting contributions at USDA.
Timeline
Enterprise Project Manger
Grainger
10.2021 - Current
Business Intelligence/ Project Data Analyst
Credit Acceptance
10.2020 - 10.2021
Business Data Analyst
United States Department of Agriculture, USDA
05.2017 - 09.2020
Business Analyst
Westchester County
03.2016 - 04.2017
Bachelor - Computers Science
Bradley University
Master - Computers Science
JNTU University