Poonam Khanna

About Poonam Khanna

Business Analyst / QA with extensive experience in the Information Technology industry. Key strengths include requirements gathering, process analysis, project planning, tracking and delivery; estimation; issue and risk management; documentation; and setting up robust reporting, measurement, escalation and communication mechanisms. Expertise in web application, client-server and multi-layered architecture system testing. Strong skills in conducting requirements gathering sessions and producing requirement deliverables such as Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirement document, Process Workflows, Prototypes, Specification Documents and Wireframes.• Experience in sprint planning backlog grooming and participating in scrum meetings while effectively communicating with Scrum masters, product owners and the rest of the team• Ability to create roadmaps based off intent, breaking epics into features and writing acceptance criteria• Experience in writing Business Requirements Documents (BRD), FRD, SRD, CR, Use case specifications and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS)• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with experience interacting at all levels• Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills• Extensive experience working in an Agile and waterfall environment• Strong skills facilitating JAD sessions and motivating project team to subscribe to the project vision• Experience in Quality Assurance primarily manual testing environment• Conducted review sessions on a regular basis with QA and development teams for preparing status and delivery of operational reports• Proficient in using HP Quality Center (QC)/ALM and Jira. Worked closely with QA team to perform activities like writing Test Plan, Test Cases, executing Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts tracking defects and bug reporting

Experience

1. Consultant Senior Business Analyst

   BNY

   Aug 2023 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Analysis, defines and prioritizes the business requirements, functional specifications and operational architecture for up to and including highly complex strategic, global programs.• Provides consultation to IT and business management on applying technology to business opportunities and planning and implementing cross-functional applications.• Allocating/coordinating work within the team.• Elicits, challenges, and prioritizes requirements using standard processes and templates.• Develops project scope, objective, constraints and assumptions for a given larger strategic multi-year project.• Create project charter to serve as a sort of contract between the project sponsor and the project manager.

Education

• Pace University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information System

  1980 — 1984

Skills

• Management
• Ibm Mainframe
• Business Analysis
• Unix
• Java
• Xml
• Db2
• Requirements Analysis
• Qtp
• Regression Testing
• Cisc
• Asp
• Database Management
• Hp Quality Center
• Integration
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Database Admin
• Winrunner
• Sdlc
• Vbscript