Sakshira Reddy Akavaram

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +1(551) 280-0205
SUMMARY

 Over all 9 years of advancement and experience. Skilled at putting complex ideas in clear terms for
technical and nontechnical colleagues. Adapt readily to new work challenges and industry conditions.
 Experienced in managing projects throughout the SDLC AGILE, RUP, Iterative and Waterfall. Excellent
skills in documenting System Requirement Specification, Functional specifications and Requirements
Traceability Matrix.
 Acted as the primary interface between business users and technology teams. Expert in various
Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM, Iterative and
RUP.
 Effective at interviewing business users, stakeholders and subject matter experts SME's and eliciting
needs and translating those needs into concise functional requirements.
 Expert in developing Object Oriented use case diagrams, analysis model, data flow diagrams, behavior
diagrams sequence diagrams, state chart diagrams, activity diagrams and class diagrams based on UML
methodology using MS Visio.
 Experience in conducting joint application development JAD sessions with end user, expert team,
Business intelligence team, IT SMEs and QA team for project meetings, walk through and all
stakeholders.
 Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills helpful in reconciliation between the End Users and
the Development Team.
 Self-starter with strong communications skills, both written and verbal. Skillful in managing functional
walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing UAT sessions. Carried out the testing strategy/validations
against MDM subject area by implementing key test cases.
 Managed the team and tasks as well as schedule using Team Foundation Server Introduced the Agile
SCRUM process for the Risk Data team and utilized Microsoft Team Foundation Server TFS to manage
the team's software development lifecycle including deriving product backlog items, assigning sprint
work items to developers and conducting sprint planning meetings.

Technical Skills:

Methodologies: RUP,UML, Agile, Waterfall

APPLICATION SOFTWARE: MS Office 2000/XP, Outlook, MS Project, MS Visio.
DATABASES: MS ACCESS, SQL, ORACLE.
DEFECT TRACKING TOOLS: CLEAR CASE, CLEAR QUEST, TEST DIRECTOR, JIRA
TESTING TOOLS: HP QUALITY CENTER
OPERATING SYSTEMS: WINDOWS NT/95/98, XP, 2000, UNIX

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

 Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Technology, JNTU

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Apr’21 – Present

Role: Sr Business Analyst/Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
 Involved in different phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC , such as requirement
gathering and analysis, design, development, and testing.
 Lead a team of BA's and assigning new project to them looking at the bandwidths of each individual.
Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories
workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort
on project specifications.
 Prepared user stories for DOD Department of Defense F14 portal for gathering the requirement.
Manage the online Master Data Management request tool for new requests ensuring proper decision-
making on master data creation, data standardization, duplication checks, data field accuracy and
completeness while meeting acceptable turnaround time. Complete large database cleanup projects to
ensure data integrity.
 Managed the team and tasks as well as schedule using Team Foundation Server Conducted JAD
sessions, communicated and maintained strong working relationship with various business groups and
owners in preparing the user Story.
 Conducted technical training session regarding Agile development methods.
 Participated in meetings, technical discussion, reviews and release planning.
 Provided technical assistance during project planning and demonstrations.
 Formulated, implemented and maintained tools and practices.
 Prepared and coordinated project proposals and schedules.
 Evaluated information radiators and Scrum issues on daily basis.
 Generated periodic peer review reports for project managers.
 Development of a reporting solution for data profiling, using MS SQL Server.
 Prepared High Level and Detailed level requirements for Select Solutions.
 Worked with the cross functional teams in gathering the requirements. Scheduled meetings to review
the Detailed Level Requirement with the cross functional team for approvals.
 Created Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the detail requirements, design and test cases to the
HLR to track the requirements

Environment: MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio , AGILE, SharePoint, UML

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Client: Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC Feb’19 – Mar’21
Role: Business Analyst
Responsibilities:

· Assess and write detailed business and technical analysis of requirements, including requirements for
successful integration with existing functionality for all store systems, including data mapping, diagrams
and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow.
· Manage store system configurations, monitor active integrations, lead troubleshooting and solving
failures, providing direction and escalation.
· Provide support for escalations and track issues using ticketing system.
· Evaluated the effectiveness of the IVR system to help call center agents to handle IVR-related inquiries
and issues from customers to improve overall call experience.
· Working with cross functional groups to identify and prioritize use cases for new and existing
functionality, establishing project scope, system goals and requirements.
· Implement best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance and system performance.
· Manage new features and integrations, including analysis, requirement drafting, testing and rollout of
change.
· Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved in a timely manner including root cause
analysis.

Client: American Express, Phoenix, AZ Sep’16 – Feb’19

Role: Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Created project charter forecasted budged and prepared resource allocation plans depending on
budget, requirement and availability.
 Managed end-to-end application - planning, development, testing production, support throughout
Software Development Life Cycle.
 Hired front-end, back-end developers database administrators and testers as a part of resourcing for
this project.
 Prepared project plan and created milestones for SDLC estimated effort and created deadlines. Familiar
with multi-manager or team-managed funds, global asset allocation, and wealth management products
SMA, UMA, UMH using Charles River Investment Management.
 Rebalance one or more portfolios to models or individual benchmarks to align positions, generate cash
instructions for asset allocation, or adjust new cash inflows  Create trades using various methods such
as: indices stock/category level models cash investing, raising or switching weight or duration targets
etc.
 Conduct hypothetical 'what-if' analysis and determine risk impact Worked closely with PMO to enforce
quality checks supported by metrics for all deliverables adjusted project plans in case of emergencies
and delays.
 Conducted audits of all PMO processes to ensure overall consistency across SDLC. Reported status
through weekly and bimonthly senior management meetings with managing directors organized weekly
meetings and conferences with users - client advisors, portfolio managers, client advisor assistants,
desk heads, operations, compliance and legal.

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  Gathered business requirements through JAD sessions, discussions, brainstorming and prototyping with
stakeholders.
 Analyzed and documented business requirement, functional specification with use cases and scenarios
and reporting data specification documents and converted them into technical design and data
mapping specification.
 Developed business use cases and tested them against the requirements and development. Performed
gap analysis by identifying static gaps, existing technologies, and documented the enhancements to
meet the end state requirements and roll out the application.
 Managed processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution,
storage, retrieval, and ultimate deployment of project information and documentation necessary for
successful communications across the organization.
 Assisted project lead in building new proposed program modifications, methods, and procedures.
Created manual calculators for the tax models developed tax sensitivity analysis calculators for private
bank wealth management to be implemented in the application.
 Executed and reviewed test cases, expected results, and data mapping gaps. Prepared business
scenarios covering end to end business requirements for testing tax models and guided testing team in
preparing a PL/SQL automation tool for testing.
 Performed integration, blackbox, scenario, negative, process flow, sanity and end-to-end testing on the
system
Environment: Use cases, UML diagrams, Agile Scrum, Oracle SQL, Microsoft Office Project, Excel, PowerPoint,
Word, Visio, Outlook Data Warehousing tools, Adobe Acrobat.

Client: EIS Technologies, Hyderabad Jul’13 – Dec’15

Role: Business Analyst/Data Analyst
Responsibilities:

 Interfaced with the client as part of the Requirements Engineering team to finalize the project scope.
Assisted the PM in developing the project plans and also managed changes to the scope of the project,
and take daily updates from the cross functional team during the Scrum call.
 Conducted and gathered Requirements, analyzed the Requirements and managed changes using
Rational Suite.
 Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
 Documented and delivered Functional Requirement Document to the project team.
 Participated in the design sessions, assisted and developed high- and low-level design documents.
Analyzed and documented business requirement, functional specification with use cases and scenarios
and reporting data specification documents and converted them into technical design and data
mapping specification.
 Performed Data Modelling by creating logical and physical models of the database system.
 Wrote the SQL queries on data staging tables and data warehouse tables to validate the data results.
 Delivered Enterprise Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, and ETL Informatica solution.
 Conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT. Employed Rational Clear Quest for effective Change
Management Requirements Creep and bug tracking during the testing lifecycle.

Environment: Microsoft Windows, MS Office Suite, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Suite.

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