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Rajesh Venkapalli
Business Analyst
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Business Analyst professional with over 4 years of expertise in Agile, Kanban, Waterfall methodologies & Project Management with excellent critical thinking analysis, technical, communication and customer support skills, with proven hands-on experience of delivering cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions that meet challenging business demands.
Overview
4
years of professional experience
Work History
State of Virginia, Transportation, VDOTRichmond, VA
Senior Software Analyst
02.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the product manager and technical lead
- Participate in AGILE/SCRUM ceremonies like Planning, Grooming, Retrospective and Demo sessions
- Created and maintained Product and Sprint backlogs and monitored to ensure regular updates of activities/tasks
- Involved in all projects related tasks and monitored activities as a part of PMO team
- Defined and documented user stories basing on quality gateway technique like INVEST, acceptance criteria in appropriate detail including process flow charts in collaboration with stakeholders and technology team and prepared requirements package
- Updated reports and documented complex business cases by coordinating with cross-functional teams
- Key role in implementing PMO and coordinated with business and implementation team all throughout the project
- Facilitated focused, effective Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings to establish lesson learned
- Designed and developed Use Cases using UML
- Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the change in the proposed system
- Prepared process flows/activity diagram for an existing system using MS Visio and re-engineers the design based on business requirements
- Performed task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS Project
- Project Forecasting, resource allocation and expense tracking
- Prepared data dictionaries, requirement specifications and User Interface (UI) specifications
- Performed Data Analysis and Data Profiling and worked on data transformations and data quality rules
- Involved in implementing data modeling techniques including data Visualization, data Warehousing and data mapping
- Created action filters, parameters, and calculated sets for preparing dashboards and worksheets in Tableau
- Executed Manual Test Scripts and created defects by using JIRA
- Map requirements in JIRA and maintain requirements traceability matrix
- Developed user documentation for all the application modules
- Also, responsible for writing test plan documents and unit testing for the application modules
- Helped the testing team documenting the system requirements and testing system development
- Set up definitions and process for test phases including Product, Systems Integration and User Acceptance testing (UAT).
One Call care managementJacksonville, FL
Business Analyst
03.2019 - 11.2020
Job overview
- Employed best practices in project management & requirement gathering techniques
- Gather requirements and create user stories for product features working with stakeholders (both internal and external) as needed ensuring that stakeholder and market needs are met
- Utilized agile software development methodology to manage and control software and product development
- Documented business functionality requirements in User Stories
- Defined and documented user stories basing on quality gateway technique like INVEST, acceptance criteria in appropriate detail including process flow charts in collaboration with stakeholders and technology team and prepared requirements package
- Collaborate with the Product Owner on project/roadmap planning, facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
- Created backlog with all Epics, Features and User Stories in Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Organized and conducted Joint Requirements Planning sessions (JRP) as a facilitator to gather requirements from the Business User
- Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions when needed
- Used Rally to create and maintain User Stories and Child Stories
- Managed all phases of the product and software development life cycle across cross-functional teams from development, QA, UI design, web services, mainframe services, claims processing
- Created and reviewed Detailed Design Specification (DDS) and Functional System Design (FSD) documents for various projects based on the information provided by the business
- Created Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams for Business Process Modeling, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, and Flow Charts
- Facilitated focused, effective Sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings to establish lesson learned
- Experienced working with User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) teams while driving the Functional Requirements and Wireframes
- Analyzed Business Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Navigation Flow, Business Flow Diagrams and Workflow Diagrams for applications and created Activity Diagrams using MS Visio
- Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and report
- Regularly interacted with the Testing team for executing the Test Plans, providing Test Data, creating Test Cases, and resolving issues upon detection of bugs and collecting the Test Metrics
- Identified bugs and tracked them to completion using JIRA
- Collaborated proactively with business clients and IT staff to plan, analyze, design and implement automation, integration or other improvements that will permit more efficient and accurate reporting or improved data quality
- Assisted with User Acceptance Testing, develop and maintain quality procedures ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
Education
Osmania University
Master’s from Business Administration
Skills
Technical Skillsundefined
Timeline
Senior Software Analyst
State of Virginia, Transportation, VDOT
02.2021 - Current
Business Analyst
One Call care management
03.2019 - 11.2020
Osmania University
Master’s from Business Administration
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