For the given job description <<Position: Senior Business Analyst (Production Support)Location: Remote  East CoastJob Type: Direct Hire
Job DescriptionThe Sr. Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. This includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. The Sr. Business Analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. The Sr. Business Analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support.
Core ResponsibilitiesEvaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achievingthese benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.Prepare effort estimation.Perform requirements analysis. Document and Communicate the results of the analysis.Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developersthe project team.Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owner(s), developers andor the project team.Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.Select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.Provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.Collaborate with ITS teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.Triage and analyze incidents and problems. Provide clear analysis results including business impact.Assist test analyst(s) with testing duties as necessary.On-Call andor after-hours work required.Essential CompetenciesProfessionalismPersonal Accountability, Collaboration and Teamwork, Communication, Flexible and Adapts to Change, Service to Customers and Clients
Skill QualificationsRequired:Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology developmentExceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skillsAbility to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutionsExcellent documentation skillsFundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skillsExperience creating detailed reports and giving presentationsExcellent planning, organizational, and time management skillsAbility to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly languageExceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as requiredAbility to translate business requirements of packaged solutionsAbility to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. Translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on. Makes recommendation on these upgrades.Experience in in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid environmentsUnderstanding of application development and software development life cycle conceptsEffectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goalsSystemsTechnical Knowledge:Basic Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIsData analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc SQL queriesCompetency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint Visio and Outlook
Education and Experience Qualifications Required:BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration7-10 or more years related work experience as a business analystPreferred:Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) andor Certified Business Analysis professions (CBAP) preferred>> the resume: <<Career OverviewHighly motivated Sales Associate with extensive customer service and sales experience. Outgoing sales professional with track record of driving increased sales, improving buying experience and elevating company profile with target market.
QualificationsDatabases/File SystemsOracle , MS AccessNetezzaHadoop/Big DataAmazon Redshift , S3Software ProductsOracle D2K, Forms & Reports 10gOracle Apps 11gHadoop Impala /Hive/SparkAmazon Web services, Redshift Programming LanguagesOracle PL/SQL & SQL, Impala SQLPythonJava(Basics), CVisual Basic, Coding in MS Excel using VBA, Power QueryUnix/VMSSoftware ToolsPL/SQL Developer, TOAD, DB  Visualizer, NPS Admin tool  & Aginity for Netezza/RedshiftForm & Report BuilderElastic Search, Logstash and KibanaCloudwatch Exports to excelEclipse, PyCharmMS Office, MS Project. MS Visio, Power Query with ExcelPutty, Attachmate Reflection,HPSD, Remedy,  Service PointNSI, VSS, IBM Rational Clear Case & Clear Quest, Tortoise SVN, GitHubHP Quality Center , JIRAHadoop Hue, Cloudera ManagerThe details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here, in chronological order.01 - T-MSIS (Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System)Client: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)Location: Windsor Mill, MarylandDuration: 09/2015-Till dateRole: Technical Analyst/Senior Developer /Architect /Data AnalystSolution Environment: Oracle 11g, Informatica, UNIX, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redshift
Work Experience06/2014to08/2015Team Lead/Senior Developer /Architect /Data AnalystExela Technologies Inc.|Stamford,CT,9.2 years of extensive experience in business analysis, system analysis, design, development and Implementation of various projects with strong experience in Database system and Project management.Good knowledge of Hadoop ecosystems, HDFS, AWS, Netezza, Oracle, Hive, Sqoop, Impala and Amazon Redshift.Implemented Proof of concepts on running Hadoop, migration from multiple databases (Netezza, Oracle) to Hadoop.Experience in working with different data sources like Flat files, XML files and Databases Key participant in all phases of the SDLC ranging from requirement analysis design, development and testing (unit, system, integration, Regression, Product).Ability to design database schemas, performance tunes SQLs, troubleshoot, improve logic and move data through the enterprise.Experience in writing complex SQL queries involving multiple tables inner and outer joins.Experience in Creating Tables, Views, Triggers, Stored Procedures, User Defined Functions and other SQL statements for various applications.Streamlined SQL, improved speed via query optimization, modified tables, and enhanced metrics Maintain accurate and organized notes on the status of development projects.Experienced in: Application development & Implementation.Agile & Waterfall Software Development Model Client-onsite, Client - Offshore and Onsite-Offshore model Change Management, Incident & Problem Management Supply Chain Management System ( Transportation and Warehousing) Media Research - Nielsen Media research.Project management, Agile Scrum Master.05/2012to05/2014Team Lead/Senior Developer /Data AnalystPerspecta Inc.|Miami,FL,IndiaSolution Environment: Oracle 11g, Netezza (7.0.2), TIBCO, UNIX Responsibilities: Analysis and Design, Development & Implementation of Software solutions Team Handling, Software Estimation & Impact Analysis.Evaluated business requirements and prepared detailed specifications that follow project guidelines required to develop written programs Involved in loading data from UNIX file system to Netezza Analyzed the data by performing Netezza queries and reviewed the results with data science team.Revised procedures that solve complex business problems with due considerations for hardware/software capacity and limitations, operating times and desired results.Analyzed large amounts of data sets to determine optimal way to aggregate and report on it.Provided quick response to ad hoc internal and external client requests for data and experienced in creating ad hoc reports.RFCs, Change Management and Version control.Review of code and Test scenarios.Maintenance & Support of Existing Software applications, Status reporting 04 - IKEA Cargo Network Systems.05/2009to04/2012Service Delivery ManagerIKEA IT|City,,GermanyOracle 10g, D2K, Forms 10g, Open VMS Responsibilities: Service Delivery Management Incident, Problem and Change Management.Analysis and Design & Implementation of Changes identified in support.Ensuring On-time delivery (OTD), First Time Right (FTR).Ensuring E2E application is up and Running (24/7) Status reporting 05 - Job-Jar GE Oil & Gas.05/2007to04/2009Software DeveloperGE Oil & Gas|City,,IndiaOracle 10g, D2K, UNIX, Apps (11.) Responsibilities: Analysis and Design, Development & Implementation of Change Requests.RFCs, Change Management and Version Control.Software Estimation & Impact Analysis.Ensuring On-time delivery (OTD), First Time Right (FTR).Requirement analysis and technical design document creation.Involved in developing/changing modules as per Technical design documents.SQL-Query Tuning Created indexes on selective columns to speed up queries and Enhanced performance using optimization techniques-normalization, indexing and Transaction Isolation levels, monitoring logs to ensure the completeness of batch processes and scripts.Designed and developed SQL stored procedures to replace existing business logic.Development of indexing schemes for most efficient insert, update and select Involved in system testing & Integration testing Status reporting.
Education and TrainingExpected intotoBachelor of technology|Computer Science and Engineering,,GPA:Computer Science and EngineeringExpected in2006totoB.Tech - CSE|Mahatma Gandhi University,,Kerala.GPA:Expected in2001totoDegree|Mahatma Gandhi University Board of Secondary Education,,KeralaGPA:
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Fit assessment: Potential Fit