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Sneha Awasthi

Harrison,NJ

Summary

8+ years of work experience as a Business Analyst in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle including requirements gathering, documentation, use cases, functional specification, business case analysis, quality assurance and testing. Excellent experience in developing project scope, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), project management plan, communication management plan, and cost management plan. Utilized Elicitation techniques such as Stakeholder Analysis, Brainstorming, Interviewing, Interface Analysis, Document Analysis, etc. Designed high fidelity and low fidelity Mock-up Screens and Wireframes to get a visual representation and Graphical User Interface (GUI) for applications using Balsamiq. Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies along with Scrum framework on various projects for authoring Technical, Business, Functional and Non-Functional requirements starting with Epics, Features and User Stories. Performed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) and Gap analysis (Current and Future State) for the new functionality requirements. Extensive knowledge of Unified Modelling Language (UML) tools like MS Visio and defect tracking tools like JIRA. Confident and accurate decision-making abilities coupled with good communication and interpersonal skills with abilities in resolving complex software issues. Liaison between business stakeholders and development team to gather and communicate requirements and ensure that business needs are validated. Conducted Business Processes Evaluation and facilitated the changes in SDLC, while constantly collaborating with cross functional teams. Maintained confidentiality of all organizations contracts in accordance with regulations and policies. Expertise in using source code control systems using GIT. Competent in working in an Agile Scrum Methodology & Ceremonies and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risk. Through understanding of Business Intelligence (BI) and experience in creating interactive, analytical dashboards using IBM Cognos for decision making. Adept in end-to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, coding, testing, debugging, documentation and implementation. Experience working with full Stack development; expertise in Angular, JavaScript, jQuery & Java Based Frameworks.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst

Educational Testing Service
10.2019 - 11.2023
  • End-to-end ownership of scheduling, conducting, and documenting requirement discovery sessions
  • Create deliverables such as JIRA epics and stories and Confluence Pages
  • Document Acceptance criteria
  • Planned and executed Elicitation and collaboration regarding the project with the IT development and Test team
  • Take end to end ownership of the project assigned from requirement analysis sessions with stakeholders to document it and communicate it with the development and testing teams
  • Maintained comprehensive documentation of SQL queries, database schemas, and data dictionaries, ensuring clarity and ease of access for team members and future analysts
  • Designed high fidelity and low fidelity Mock-up Screens and Wireframes to get a visual representation and Graphical User Interface (GUI) for applications using Balsamiq
  • Well versed in writing SQL queries, multi-level nested queries and proficient in using functions like join, union, and aggregation for requirements research analysis, data analysis, data validation, and system testing
  • Executed complex SQL queries for data extraction and analysis, facilitating the creation of comprehensive reports for business stakeholders
  • Hands on in extracting, transforming, and loading data (ETL) to fulfill the requirements of the target system
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, and document business requirements for critical educational testing systems and projects
  • Established effective communication channels with educators, content developers, and testing experts to ensure a deep understanding of their needs
  • One of the SME in the development and implementation of a remote proctoring solution for ETS during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring test security, scalability, accessibility, and user-friendliness within strict deadlines
  • Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for some of the Java applications, GRE, TOEFL and Remote Proctoring solutions within the organization, providing in-depth technical guidance and support to development teams
  • Actively participated in production support activities during release
  • Identify and manage production support tickets (Service Now) for the incident and problem remediation, triage, and resolution
  • Familiar with using collaboration platforms such as Postman, Swagger, and Soap UI for API development and testing
  • Debugging the performance issues and provide the solutions
  • Experience in business analysis process using application/elicitation tools for gathering and writing various requirements
  • Assisted in the development of test plans and test cases and conducted user acceptance testing (UAT) for an automated solution developed that was applicable to GRE, TOEFL and Praxis program reducing 40% manual effort during program release dates
  • Assisted testers to perform Functionality Testing/Black-Box Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Load Testing, and Performance Testing.

Graduate Assistant (Business Analyst-Academic Information System)

01.2019 - 10.2019
  • Write PLSQL/SQL for special requirement reports on IBM Cognos
  • Created UML diagrams like Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Workflow Mockups using MS Visio
  • Have worked on creating automated chains and business process flows using Appworks that is a business process automation platform
  • Creating test strategies and test case development
  • Testing of already existing business automation models
  • Creating and maintaining the documentation of client requirements
  • Collaborated with the team using ticketing system on JIRA and Integrated the data resources on Confluence.

Software Engineer

CentraLogic Pvt. Ltd.
05.2015 - 01.2017
  • Delivering a complete application following the standard SDLC process
  • Hands-on experience in evaluating business requirements for applications and analyzed business and IT processes and prepared essential groundwork for the development of the system
  • Extensively worked on Case Analysis, Workflow Analysis and Functional Decomposition Analysis and ensured that the requirements are understood, agreed to and signed off at the appropriate early stages of the project
  • Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designers, HTML coder and cooperating with the backend developer in the process of building the RESTful-API
  • Writing tested, idiomatic and documented code while obeying the best practices
  • Experience on creation of modules, components and coupling them together into a functional app
  • Responsible for successful migration of web application from AngularJS to Angular 2.0
  • Study and implementation of third-party services for a CRM solution
  • The team used Asana, a project scheduling system to make sure the module delivery is on-time and used JIRA to raise a ticket about any issues for the same
  • Responsible for scheduling, on-time delivery and deployment of our project modules on Microsoft Azure.

Trainee Engineer

Sixmatrix Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
07.2014 - 04.2015
  • Hands-on experience on IoT projects
  • Responsible for the entire project execution from the selection of appropriate components, interfacing and writing the code
  • A key project includes Data Center Monitoring System.

Education

Master of Science - Data Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
12.2019

B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication

North Maharashtra University
Maharashtra, India
06.2014

Skills

  • R
  • Python
  • Oracle SQL
  • C
  • C
  • Java
  • VHDL
  • ALP
  • Arduino
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • SourceTree
  • Excel
  • IBM Cognos
  • MS Visio
  • Microsoft Office
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Waterfall
  • NumPy
  • Keras
  • Pandas
  • Sci-Kit Learn
  • Matplotlib
  • TensorFlow
  • Plotly
  • JavaScript
  • Typescript
  • JQuery
  • AJAX
  • JSON
  • Angular JS
  • Angular 20
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Salesforce
  • Asana
  • Tableau
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Change Management
  • Risk Assessment
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Technical Design Documentation
  • Data and Analytics
  • ERP Software
  • Documentation
  • Business Analysis
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Tableau Expertise
  • Microsoft Excel Mastery
  • Team Collaboration
  • Business Process Modeling
  • Attention to Detail
  • Decision Making
  • Data Visualization
  • SQL Proficiency
  • Test Case Scenarios
  • IIBA Methodologies
  • HTML and CSS
  • CRM Systems
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Technical Writing
  • Gap Analysis
  • KPI Tracking
  • Workflow Analysis
  • Business Planning

Certification

Web Component Development using Java EE from NIIT Mumbai Centre with an A grade.

Accomplishments

  • City rank 1 in 3rd International Mathematics Olympiad.
  • City rank 3 in 3rd International Science Olympiad.
  • Participated in the Inter Zonal Badminton Tournament in the year 2012-13.

Projects

Support Vector Machines (Linear and Non-Linear Kernels), MS Data Science, 2018, Worked on project based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) that required coding in Python. Used different python libraries like Sci-Kit learn, pandas etc. Implemented different kernels like linear, poly and rbf to compare their accuracy for specific dataset. Responsibilities included writing the code in Python, building a report and presenting the same. CNNs (Convolutional Neural Network), MS Data Science, 2018, Wrote python code to implement a convolutional neural network using python. Used python libraries like Keras and TensorFlow. Involved learning how CNNs worked on a research level and implement this on an image dataset for classification. Responsibilities included coding, execution and presentation of results. GPS based Vault with Integrated Fingerprint Scanner and Keypad Lock, B.E. Major Project, 2014, Multi-layered security vault with access only to those with the right combination of the location, biometric and 4-digit passkey. Successfully programmed the Arduino Mega 2560(microcontroller board) using the Arduino IDE along with the integration of GPS, biometric scanner and keypad lock to the board.

Timeline

Business Analyst

Educational Testing Service
10.2019 - 11.2023

Graduate Assistant (Business Analyst-Academic Information System)

01.2019 - 10.2019

Software Engineer

CentraLogic Pvt. Ltd.
05.2015 - 01.2017

Trainee Engineer

Sixmatrix Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
07.2014 - 04.2015

Master of Science - Data Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology

B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication

North Maharashtra University

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