Naga Gannamaneedi
Ellicott City,MD
Summary
- Experience in Business and Data Analysis: Business process analysis/modeling, creating Software Requirement Specifications, gathering requirements, performing analysis and design in the form of standards and conceptual workflow procedures, transforming into business systems using variety of Software methodologies and tools.
- A fantastic ability to listen to the customers; comprehend what customers really need and not just what customers say they want.
- Expertise in managing requirements from project inception through release planning, creating, and designing documents like: Vision, Scope, Requirement specification, Functional Specification, As-Is process, To-Be process, Business Rule document and Change Request.
- Proactive go-getter who loves to solve challenging problems.
- Extensive experience working with business users as well as senior management. Proven ability to work in a team environment as well as independently.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, effective written & oral communication, and presentation skills.
- Successfully completed diverse projects and demonstrated ability to work under extreme pressure situations and to meet deadlines.
- Excellent knowledge of industry standard methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile – Scrum and Kanban frameworks, Waterfall, Project Life Cycle phases.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Business Analyst
Precise Software Solutions Inc
03.2023 - 12.2023
- Worked on SAFHER(System Agriculture Food Health E-Inspection Regulations) and Food Safety legacy projects in gathering requirements, data mapping and capturing business logic activities of different current state legacy applications
- Participated in SAFER user group meeting sessions and gathered requirements from 48 participants on behalf of 13 states
- Worked and played key role in beta delivery of SAFHER and SAFHERGo apps
- Implemented improvements to Backlog grooming process and features refinement leading to improvement in overall reduction in SDLC timeline by 35% in first 4 months
- Partnered with third party UX/UI team and designed several working prototypes in Figma that were presented to external client for feedback
- Facilitated and led discovery sessions with different SME’s from several states and gathered high level requirements of several programs such as human, animal, plants and pesticides as part of legacy applications
- Worked on product development of Online(SAFHER) and Offline app (SAFHERGo) in target state
- Expertise in Agile Scrum methodology and has been involved in different agile ceremonies to meet project deliverables
- Authored several user stories to capture requirements and present it internally to development team and external clients in backlog refinement sessions
- Coordinated, supported and collaborated with developers, testers on daily basis and actively provided support and helped resolve any blockers as needed for product development.
- Involved in product roadmap and escalated any dependencies or blockers that impacts product delivery
- Coordinate bug fixes with online and offline dev lead in case of production bugs
- Maintained and authored WIKI in Dev Ops for user documentation and best practices.
Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner
T. Rowe Price
02.2017 - 02.2023
- Worked on HALOGEN/Reporting Replatforming and IDE Projects in writing requirements, data mapping and business logic activities of different current state reports in EAGLE/Hinet-Business Objects/SSRS/Hiq data sources
- Gathered requirements and collaborated with target state data partners for product AWS Cloud platform, API, and data warehouse teams
- Designed and developed UAT Portal for Halogen to enter defects, test-cases and enhancements
- Improved KPI’s of product performance by 30% and customer success by 40% and reduced cost and operating expenses by 28% on complex financial product development.
- Owned planning and scheduling of two-week sprints and clearly articulated product features to engineering team resulting in achieving both near term and far term product goals
- Generated metrics for sprint retro for stakeholders and management
- Work with different teams and gain cross-functional knowledge and SME on different reporting tools
- Responsible for prioritizing of product backlog, creating user stories, documenting acceptance criteria, milestones and partnering with delivery teams in refinement of features into stories
- Created centralized SharePoint Lineage replacing Excel document for entire team to capture report characteristics, stored procedure, and mapping efforts
- Created data lineage of mapping activity from source to destination for technical documentation benefits
- Facilitated as product owner and performed discovery sessions with different business units and obtained decommission of several reports
- Experienced in Agile Scrum methodology and has been involved in different agile ceremonies to meet project deliverables
- Designed prototypes of current state reports in Micro-strategy/QLIK before development and gained agreement of business
- Analyzed and gathered all attributes in designing and implementing Reference data (Accounts and Security) Views in Data Mart
- Lead bi-weekly IT BA meetings, facilitating knowledge sharing, collaboration and continuous improvements.
- Cross trained different team members and authored documentation for new hires.
Business Analyst
Generali Global Assistance
01.2015 - 12.2016
- Responsible for coordinating monthly releases of existing products IRIS and DYID with San-Diego IT team and send communications to cross-functional teams (IT, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service) with test steps document and release notes as per build schedule
- Coordinate hot fixes with IT department in case of production bugs
- Analyzed business requirements for IRIS v2.0 and DefendyourID products conducted one-one interviews, involved in meetings, documented existing workflow identified gap between new and old requirements and drafted to Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document for marketing and development teams respectively
- Edited existing sitemaps for Canadian version of IRIS product and documented existing product
- Documented all major workflows for IRIS and created test cases using Selenium IDE tool for Automating QA in monthly releases
- Interact with several internal systems TIPS, SAX to create demo data for sales and marketing departments
- Involved in First Data Migration project where current transaction processor Pay-pal has been replaced at point of sale and renewal payment points
- Involved in replacement of Transunion Credit Score with Vantage Score for improved credit score feature to IRIS 2.0 product
- Responsible for Backlog prioritization, backlog grooming and tracking open tickets in previous monthly releases in JIRA
- Make sure different IRIS products are consistent after every release (IRIS CORE, PLUS, ADVANTAGE, PRIME) in different web- browsers
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement
Business Analyst
Kinder Morgan
11.2010 - 12.2014
- Involved in migration of legacy inventory application (GALAHAD), billing application (MERLIN) to .NET applications respectively on maintenance, enhancements, and new functionality development
- Meet with end users to discuss and define business requirements and application system goals and identify and resolve issues
- Review and analyze effectiveness and efficiency of existing applications and develop strategies for leveraging them
- Re-construct existing Oracle Reports to SQL and Crystal Reports respectively
- Achieved track record of zero production tickets for 2 days in a week after first month cutover which improved customer satisfaction factor by 60%
- Worked as a liaison between technology and business clients
- Researched and provided ad hoc business data and report requests to better manage cost and business unit profitability
- Elicited functional requirements (Parking Lot Tickets) from high management-level
- Provided subject matter expertise to technical team
- Insured Issues, Risks and Decisions are kept up to date on a daily and weekly basis using JIRA
- Maintained WIKI as document repository and knowledge base
- Gathered requirements by using interviews, observation, JAD, brainstorming sessions, and document analysis.
Business Analyst
Garden Ridge
07.2009 - 10.2010
- Responsible for requirements gathering, personal and group discussion
- Analysis, detailed process flow design, user acceptance testing, and rollout of new & modified feature functionality deployed on Vendor Compliance Management applications
- Developed business requirement documents, functional specification documents, high level testing plan.
- Involved with QA team to conceptualize, determine and develop test approaches and methods for unit testing, integration and functional testing, load and usability testing according to application complexity and test requirements
- Developed Use-Cases and Activity to demonstrate website architecture and interaction of system components before prototyping using Test Manager and MS Visio
- Involved in migration of existing Loss Prevention applications
- Identified internal and external system requirements, design, and configuration set-up, also created User Documentation, and conducted training classes.
Business Analyst
Harris County
05.2008 - 06.2009
- Elicited and analyzed end-user requirements and provided details to development team
● Participated in formulation of the project plan and scope, preliminary and definitive budget estimation
● Initiated JAD sessions with end users using one-on-one and group interviews to better grasp the requirements
● Created extensive use case, activity, and sequence diagrams of the required system to make project goals clearer
● Created System Specification Document, Requirement Specification Documents, Use Cases and Workflows
● Updated and mentored end users throughout the Development Lifecycle with bi-weekly presentations/webinars
● Created Database Objects like Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, user defined data types and functions by writing
complex queries and joins
● Maintained Change & Traceability Matrix throughout the project to keep track of the scope, timelines & budget
● Collaborated with the development team to determine the security access & its tracking to ensure privacy of users
Education
Master of Science - Electronics & Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
Texas, TX05.2008
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication
Princeton College of Engineering And Technology
Hyderabad, India08.2006
Skills
- Databases SQL, Oracle, Sybase
- API 's via Postman tool
- Expert in using Microsoft Office Suite(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Project and SharePoint
- Agile - Scrum and Kanban
- JIRA, Rally
- Data visualization tools MicroStrategy, QlikSense, Business Objects, SSRS
- Prototyping and Diagraming in Figma, Balsamiq, Visio
- Automation and Testing in Microsoft Test Manager, HP ALM, Selenium
Certifications And Awards
- Kellogg School of Management - Product Management Certification, 12/2022
- Assistant Vice President and AMAZE AWARD recipient at T. Rowe Price, 2021
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Training, 2018
- Scrum Alliance - Product Owner, 12/2017
- Scrum Alliance – Scrum Master, 10/2015
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst
Precise Software Solutions Inc
03.2023 - 12.2023
Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner
T. Rowe Price
02.2017 - 02.2023
Business Analyst
Generali Global Assistance
01.2015 - 12.2016
Business Analyst
Kinder Morgan
11.2010 - 12.2014
Business Analyst
Garden Ridge
07.2009 - 10.2010
Business Analyst
Harris County
05.2008 - 06.2009
Master of Science - Electronics & Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication
Princeton College of Engineering And Technology
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