Candidates About

Sameer Syed

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

A highly motivated and energetic Technology Leader with 15 plus years of hands-on experience in project management and software Analysis. Highly regarded for his positive attitude, ability to think laterally, deliberating ideas/solutions and swift decision making; known to be a dedicated & committed individual; achieving a reputation for consistently going beyond what is required; detail oriented and resourceful in timely completion of projects with the ability to multitask and work in high pressure and fast paced environment meeting strict deadlines, has excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business/Quality Analyst                                                                                                           Jan 14 – Dec 17

ALIF CORP.

• Followed Agile methodology throughout the project and conducted Scrum meeting with the team members on day to day basis for the update on project status.
• Conducted and lead test data review and scrum meetings in production and test environments.
• Conducted design walk-through meetings and defect review meetings to discuss about the defects with all the team members involved.
• Developed Test cases from user stories.
• Reported defects using JIRA and interacted with developers to resolve defects/issues.
• Participated in creating functional and technical requirements with the business analysts and developers.
• Developed test cases for functional, Integration, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing

o    Worked closely with Developers, Business Analysts, and User

o    Assembled Test cases from design documents provided by business users and programmers.

o    Conducted Bug review, QA and Project status meetings with cross-functional teams.

o    Extensively used automated test tools like QTP for Functional and Regression Testing.

o    Generating test scripts using QTP.

• Conducted project review meetings.

o    Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix after completion of test plan and test scripts.

o    Compared the Data migration and used SQL queries

• Participated in go/no-go meetings and provided sign-off after successful test completion.

Business Analyst                                                                                                                                         Jun 09 – Dec 13

MEEZAN ENTERPRISES

o    Adept in interacting and coordinating between end-users, expert teams, development and QA teams and drawing key changes to the business architecture. Able to discover the appropriate resources in the organization, extract information, develop alternatives and obtain level of effort estimates from impacted work groups.

o    Worked with users to gather, analyze, model and subsequently apply various tools to capture, link, trace, and manage requirements changes.

o    Assisted project planning; determine project needs in advance and establish appropriate timeline for timely completion of projects

o    Worked with project sponsor and stakeholders to complete project charter outlining scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, budget and timing.

o    Worked on Project schedule to identify when each task will be performed.

o    Acted as a mediator between stakeholders and team members.

o    Ensured standard operating procedures, project guidelines and functional specifications are in place.

o    Delivered presentations on project status, present monthly and annual reports to senior management
Meet with client teams and gather requirements, conduct regular team meetings and track project progress

o    Interviewed candidates and hired resources, conducted performance review of team members and identified improvement areas, gave feedback and recommended promotions and salary increments

• Leveraged knowledge from subject matter experts (SMEs) to create clear and concise system requirements.

• Maintained high client satisfaction with troubleshooting ability and quick customer support.

Senior Programmer Analyst                                                                                                     Jan 06 – May 09

ARKEMA GROUP

o    Lead functional specification document and test plans for technical changes.

o    Prepared reports as per specifications while following ABAP programming guidelines of the company.

o    Configured various Account Groups as per customer classification, define partner functions, and maintain partner determinations procedures in various objects such as Customer Masters, Sales Document Header and Item, delivery, billing docs.

o    Configured customer master and settings for field selection of customer master data.

o    Provided on-going issues support and analyzed business processes and requirements to understand and offer appropriate solutions.

o    Ensured post implementation support and trouble shooting, followed up on initial user problems and resolved them by correcting customization problems.

o    Provided primary support to maintain integrity of SAP material master data. Creating, updating and deleting obsolete material in SAP MM module. Also running SQVI’s to create ad-hoc reports on request.

o    Customized the sales documents to extract the document data as default values from various sources like customer master, material master and other sales and distribution documents

o    Created Sales orders and delivery in SAP, tracking the IDOC’s in SAP and receiving it in the TMS system to rate the delivery and doing Post Goods Issue on it.

o    Tested Shipment phase of the process. Receiving shipment information from the TMS system, monitoring IDOC’s queue and table updates for accuracy of the data.

o    Defined/coordinated workshops in conjunction w/business lead Plan review/milestone meetings w/business lead (develop agenda, identify participants, schedule & follow-up).

o    Provided on-going support to the Transportation management system while maintaining the data integrity between TMS and SAP systems.

o    Partnered with process owners, power users, testers and IS&T staff to design, construct, test, document, train and go live with each new enhancement in Sales and Distribution.

Business Analyst/IT                                                                                                                                  May 04 – Nov 05

APPSOFT CORP

o    Managed development, tasks and clients to ensure goals and objectives.

o    Working with various clients and developing financial feasibility reports.

o    Involved in writing monthly reports in Excel.

o    Building business models in Excel for data analysis.

o    Maintenance of business and forecast models, including consistent contact with business unit leaders to ensure consistency with current operational environment.

o    Development of business unit drivers and related metrics; assessment of the industry/competitive environment impact related businesses.

o    Writing SQL queries to update and maintain database

Software Engineer                                                                                                                                     Apr 01 – Dec 03 SCT CORP

o    Web Application Developer - Manage all aspects of development and implementation of College Savings Web, an enterprise level application designed to provide services for over 100,000 customers with contracts valued at over $500,000.00.

o    Followed product development life cycle for baseline enhancements as well as client     specific solutions.

o    Responsible for all architectural changes and product direction.

o    Coordinated with functional consultants and project manager to define program specifications.

o    Estimated resources (time/cost) for clients requesting modifications and review functional specifications to create technical documents.

o    Developed dynamic web applications using ORACLE PL/SQL packages for a leading financial institution and 4 State College Saving Programs.

o    Defined ORACLE tables and developed appropriate SQL scripts to load/process financial transactions into databases for the Texas College Savings Plan.

o    Designed and Developed Pro*C program modules to generate reports from ORACLE database tables.

o    Supervised modular and system wide testing on development environments as well as client databases before go-live dates.

o    Responsible for communicating with clients and acting as primary point of contact during and after the development and implementation process.

• Design, develop, and enhance front-end application, back end triggers/store procedures/SQL scripts to implement.

o    Writing UNIX SHELL scripts.

o    Design application and validation forms for clients using Oracle forms 4.5.

    Technical Consultant                                                                                                                              Dec 98 – Mar 01 

o    Worked closely with SCT Banner Students module integration with Campus Pipeline.

o    Act as a liaison between end users and technical support group.

o    Responsible for client interactions relating to the implementation and training for Campus Pipeline, Design test plans and test new releases.

o    Developed training plans, training documents, conduct 5-day workshop and conducted on-site client training during product implementation process.

o    Investigated JAVA program changes necessary to house production and pre-production environments on same machine and suggested hardware requirements.

o    Tested a Web based application that was designed to provide continuous access to an institution’s information and resources.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications:                         Clarity, Rally, MS Project, JIRA, SAP Supply Chain (SD, Purchasing, MM, QM), smart forms, Oracle forms,

Crystal Reports, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visual

Basic, MS Visio, Delphi.

ACADEMICS:

BS in Management Information System in 1998 from Drexel University Philadelphia, PA USA

1996-97 Academic Year Dean’s list

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master training completed on Jan 17, 2018

PMP Certification – In Preparation.

SAP Training: Sales, Cross-Functional Customizing in Sales and Distribution, and Purchasing  from SAP - Newtown Square, Oracle PL/SQL, Lotus Notes/Domino Application, Unix Administration.