Hi, I’m
Margi Fumtiwala
Sr. Business Analyst
Edmonton,AB
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Summary
Perceptive Senior Business Analyst with 14+ years of experience in driving successful business processes for organizations. Seasoned collaborator experienced in identifying issues and developing creative solutions to achieve business goals.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
6
years of post-secondary education
4
Certifications
Work History
Alberta Gaming, Liquor and CannabisSt. Albert, AB
Sr. Business Analyst
01.2015 - Current
Job overview
- Led and mentored 3 business analysts in successful ERP modernization planning project
- Participated in major transformation projects throughout organization and met 96% of timelines by identifying and mitigating project roadblocks
- Acted as liaison among business and IT to understand stakeholder need for new features and functions
- Fostered communication between stakeholders, IT, Architecture, and Change Management teams resulting in faster product development life cycle
- Conducted discovery sessions to understand current state, identified underlying issues and captured business needs for future state
- Identified gaps between current and future state and identified workarounds that saved organization from getting additional subscriptions
- Prepared documentation such as BA plan, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Process Traceability Matrix (PTM), UAT Test scripts, Transition documents and Business Process documents
- Assisted Procurement in gathering RFP requirements and documented those requirements into RFP template
- Identified and worked with IT to fix system that brought maximum complaints and helped customers save manual reporting time by 10 hours of reporting each week that resulted in improved customer satisfaction
- Documented business processes and operating procedures from scratch
- Introduced team with Process Traceability matrix concept to identify processes and its traceability to identify any process or technological gaps
- Performed capability based planning for business units and saved organization $200K from ineffective vendor subscriptions
- Worked closely with Change Management team to understand project impact organization wide and planned strategies for effective and successful change
TELUS corporationEdmonton, AB
Quality Assurance Analyst
12.2012 - 12.2014
Job overview
- Successfully deployed agile development methodology and mentored team to use that methodology in QA environment
- Review Functional Requirements, Business Requirements and Design Documents to develop test plan and test strategy documents, test schedules and detailed test cases
- Identify and report defects to developers with priority and severity, closely monitor unresolved defects and escalated issues where required
- Lead defect management meetings, prepared and maintained test metrics and weekly status report
- Created and achieved product quality objectives and met product specifications
- Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows
- Participated in requirements and used case reviews
- Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing,
- Reported progress, test metrics and results to project stakeholders
Bell CanadaToronto, ON
SAP Test Analyst
01.2012 - 11.2012
Job overview
- Successfully delivered SAP FI and CO modules to go live and received excellence certificate from the Project Manager and Product Owner on project performance
- Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules and ensure alignment with development teams
- Translate stakeholder requirements into different deliverables such as functional specification, use cases, user stories, workflow, and data flow/data models
- Review requirements, Test FI and CO modules, prepare test plans, test cases and test reports and write test conditions from the functional specification
- Performed internal system acceptance to deliver well-tested enhancements and meet business requirements
- Participated in daily team meetings and involved in discussions to identify dependencies and analyze risk associated with the defects
- Shadowed the Functional Configuration Consultants and helped define, determine, assign and maintain SAP FI system and setup
Student Federation of University of Ottawa, SFUOOttawa, ON
Web Developer/Test Analyst
01.2011 - 12.2011
Job overview
- Successfully completed and rolled out websites for SFUO services
- Established Web Development and QA team, defined QA processes, document standards, testing checklists, and other related templates
- Received appreciation from Vice-President of Communications on job performance
- Design, develop and manage professional and appealing websites for information purpose of SFUO and its services
- Design and develop web sites using scripting languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, PHP and JSP
- Maintain, promote and develop websites with help of new technologies
- Prepare test plans, test schedules, test scripts and test environment for test script execution.
SMART TechnologiesOttawa, ON
Quality Assurance Analyst
05.2010 - 12.2010
General Motors, India
Web Developer/Test Analyst
07.2007 - 06.2008
Videocon Pvt. Ltd, India
Web Developer/Test Analyst
08.2006 - 03.2007
Education
University of OttawaOttawa, ON
Master of Science from Computer Science
09.2009 - 12.2011
VNSGUGujarat, India
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
06.2003 - 06.2007
Skills
Leadership
Problem Solving
TeamworkStrong CommunicationAnalytical and Critical Thinking
Business processes and procedures
Business Process Enhancement
Certification
CBAP - Certified Business Analysis Professional
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Timeline
Sr. Business Analyst
Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis
01.2015 - Current
Quality Assurance Analyst
TELUS corporation
12.2012 - 12.2014
SAP Test Analyst
Bell Canada
01.2012 - 11.2012
Web Developer/Test Analyst
Student Federation of University of Ottawa, SFUO
01.2011 - 12.2011
Quality Assurance Analyst
SMART Technologies
05.2010 - 12.2010
University of Ottawa
Master of Science from Computer Science
09.2009 - 12.2011
Web Developer/Test Analyst
General Motors
07.2007 - 06.2008
Web Developer/Test Analyst
Videocon Pvt. Ltd
08.2006 - 03.2007
VNSGU
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
06.2003 - 06.2007