Swati P.

Expert Rated talent on Upwork| Senior Business Analyst, Process Consultant, BA and CBAP® CPRE® Trainer/Mentor with 20+ years of extensive IT/Business experience.

I am Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®) and Certified Requirements Engineering Professional (CPRE®). I have worked in various roles such as Sr. Business Analyst, BPM Consultant, Product Owner, Process Improvement Consultant, BA Trainer/Coach. I have traveled to and have enjoyed working in many parts of the globe such as the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Australia.

Recognized by clients as a valued member of business and technology teams with a proven track record of delivering artifacts and solutions of high quality. Recognized by participants as a highly effective and hands-on trainer and coach. Passionate Toastmaster, successfully completed entire Effective Coaching pathway that involved 20-25 speaking projects of various types.

Self-starter, process-oriented, and creative with unique problem-solving skills.

Specialties:

• Business Analysis, Product development, Agile
• Predictive Analytics/AI/BI
• BPM, BPMS, Process Improvement
• Business Rules Modeling, BRMS
• Requirements Management, Quality, and Governance,
• Training and coaching: CBAP/CCBA/ECBA Prep Courses, Comprehensive BA Job oriented Course, Agile BA Course, CPRE Foundational Level Course
• NLP

Client Engagements:
Fortune 500 enterprises such as Genworth Financial, BioIQ, Kapsch, Motorola, Capital One, British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, Mapp | Thriving and innovative startups across the globe

Business Domains and Enterprise applications:
Automobile, Supply Chain, Transportation, HealthCare, Education AI, Legal, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Retail, Trading, Insurance, Loan Origination and Underwriting, Risk, Telecom, CRM, B2B/B2C, ERP.

Standards and Frameworks: BPMN, Six Sigma, UML, XML, Cloud, SOA-Web-services, RosettaNet, J2EE

My objective is to continue excelling as Senior Business Analyst/Consultant while adding value to my clients during various phases of a project/product development such as:
• Extensive contribution and communication across varied and key stakeholders like users, senior leaders, and vendor representatives.
• Keeping tabs on governance/quality of organization-wide RFPs/requirements from various application domains, while functioning as the lead on requirements management process team • Planning and actively participating in various workshops on solution concepts, scope, requirements analysis, and detailed level functional requirements, impact and gap analysis, solution design • BPA (Business Process Analysis) and improvement. Creation of As-Is end-to-end process maps highlighting the key processes, data(domain) models, rules and improvement opportunities • Creation of extensive documentation of requirements (new/enhancements) in the form of data and business process models, dashboard designs, use cases, user stories and backlog, user interface models (visuals/wireframes/mock-ups) or screen definitions, worksheets containing critical information like user groups and performance requirements • Assisting IT staff (including outsourced teams) in technical design, testing strategy, test case reviews/testing/QA. Creation and executing of acceptance tests on behalf of business teams • Active participation in overall project planning, status tracking, document control, traceability and post-closure activities • Extensive UAT/QA/process and data testing to ensure those are per specs • Designing client-specific BPM Methodology based on industry best practices • Training and mentoring in the area of Business Analysis, CBAP-CCBA exam preparation, BPMN and process modeling, Quality guidelines, and process expertise. • Led various efforts in business process and data CoE team for a top tier client’s eBusiness team