Himani Soni
Ahmedabad
Summary
Dynamic and results-oriented Sr. Business Analyst with over a decade of experience driving business excellence through strategic analysis, innovative problem-solving, and effective stakeholder collaboration. Proficient in gathering, analyzing, and translating complex business requirements into actionable insights and solutions that align with organizational goals.
Proven track record of delivering high-impact projects in diverse industries, including IT and Aviation, resulting in measurable improvements in efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Skilled communicator with a strong ability to build rapport with stakeholders at all levels, facilitating productive discussions and driving consensus. Seeking to leverage extensive experience and expertise to contribute to the success of a forward-thinking organization committed to driving innovation and growth.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Business Analyst
Radixweb
Ahmedabad
03.2020 - Current
- Elicit, analyze, validate, document, and prioritize business requirements from stakeholders
- Involves in conducting interviews, workshops, and reviewing existing documentation
- Analyze gathered requirements to ensure clarity, completeness, and consistency
- This involves creating artifacts such as business requirement documents (BRDs), functional requirement documents (FRDs), use cases, user stories, and process flows
- Act as a liaison between various stakeholders such as business users, project managers, developers, and testers
- Ensure effective communication and alignment of goals among all parties involved
- Work as a Zoho Consultant to configure functional and technical specifications of clients
- Assess proposed solutions to ensure they meet the business needs and objectives
- This involves evaluating the feasibility, cost, and benefits of different options and recommending the most suitable solution
- Identify opportunities for process improvement within the organization
- Analyze current business processes, identify inefficiencies, and propose solutions to streamline workflows and enhance productivity
- Facilitate meetings, workshops, and brainstorming sessions to gather requirements, resolve issues, and foster collaboration among stakeholders
- Leading team of 5 junior business analysts and provide guidance and mentorship to help them develop their skills and grow in their roles
- Ensure proper communication, training, and support to minimize resistance and facilitate smooth transitions
- Identify potential risks and uncertainties associated with projects and develop strategies to mitigate them
- This involves assessing the impact of risks on project objectives and implementing appropriate risk management measures.
Sr. Business Analyst
United Airlines
Chicago
08.2017 - 12.2019
- Review and analyze requirements from Product Owners and cross functional team members
- Designing and writing User Stories based on business requirements, using SDLC and Agile methodologies to implement solutions
- Work with Dev and QA to understand the boundaries of any given story
- Documented detailed application functional specification documents, work flows and business rules
- Work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to gather requirements and to facilitate discussions to confirm Scope of Work
- Communicate project decisions to all stakeholders and project team members
- Created team dashboards using TFS, created ETL test plan and test cases as well
- Executed test cases for scope verification
- Documented all decisions and Requirements in order to get official sign off by the business team and project sponsors
- Work with User Experience (UX) analysts to ensure prototypes convey story intent
- Assisted in creating end-to-end requirements for the project application as well as timelines and release schedules to support the project requirements.
Sr. Technical Business Analyst
Danta Technologies
San Marcos, CA
08.2015 - 08.2017
- Developed detailed specifications based on customer and business requirements.
- Testing processes and development platforms for high-level IT Enterprise systems.
- Analyze data to ensure features are aligned with product goals/objectives and delivering the most business value.
- Facilitated JAD sessions to collect requirements from system users and prepared business requirements that provide appropriate scope of work for the technical team.
- Interfaced with COGNOS users to gather details for BI report redesign to include enhanced product lines as well as multiple country requirements and inclusion into a data warehouse.
- Experience in ERP and developed designed and modified operational and financial reports and programs.
- Experience in IT procurement such as directed inventory control, material procurement, storage management and site management.
- Involved in creating wireframes to gauge the front end of the application.
- Extensive experience with user stories and writing them from scratch.
- Worked on Microsoft project server and made comprehensive changes to schedules for Microsoft PWA.
Technical Business Analyst
Sangani Infrastructure
Ahmedabad
02.2011 - 06.2013
- Led technical and functional meetings with IT and business project team
- Performed in-depth testing of the service development system by documenting requirements and specifications for a world-wide deployment of SharePoint personal sites, workgroup portals and shared data repositories
- Responsible for all project deliverables and the technical architecture supporting the Business Intelligence environments including various aspects of data warehouse construction
- Identified internal and external system requirements, design and configuration set-up also created User Documentation and conducted training classes
- Participated in the migration of Axiom components with environments
- Participating in project/phase kick-off meetings to understand individual roles and project expectations
- Monitoring projects on ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution process and taking corrective action as necessary
- Work on PL/SQL function procedure packages programming, exception handling
- Assisted the PM in developing Use Cases and project plans
- Worked on Axiom’s controller view product.
Education
Master’s in Business Administration -
University of Findlay
Findlay, Ohio, USA05-2015
Bachelor in Business Administration -
L.J Institute of Business Administration
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India06-2012
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Business requirements gathering and analysis
- Stakeholder management and communication
- Process mapping and modeling
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- System testing and user acceptance testing
- Change management
- Project management tools (eg, JIRA, TFS, Microsoft Project)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Team collaboration and leadership
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Skill Expertise
- Business requirements gathering and analysis
- Stakeholder management and communication
- Process mapping and modeling
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- System testing and user acceptance testing
- Change management
- Project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Microsoft Project)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Team collaboration and leadership
Timeline
Sr. Business Analyst
Radixweb
03.2020 - Current
Sr. Business Analyst
United Airlines
08.2017 - 12.2019
Sr. Technical Business Analyst
Danta Technologies
08.2015 - 08.2017
Technical Business Analyst
Sangani Infrastructure
02.2011 - 06.2013
Master’s in Business Administration -
University of Findlay
Bachelor in Business Administration -
L.J Institute of Business Administration
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