Resume Skills and Keywords for Business Analyst and Project Coordinator with Career Break

A business analyst/project manager is in charge of creating project management procedures, analysing processes, and assuring the correctness and efficiency of project deliverables while adhering to clients' specifications and expectations. Business analysts/project managers oversee project resources, assign tasks to project workers, set deadlines, and communicate with clients on a frequent basis, suggesting strategic changes as needed. They also manage any risks and changes during project execution, ensuring that the quality of the outputs is maintained while balancing expenses to fulfil the clients' budget goals.

Skills required for a Business Analyst and Project Coordinator's role

  • Requirement Analysis 
  • Business Forecasting
  • Project Scoping 
  • Stakeholder Management 
  • Project Consulting 
  • Use Cases Writing 
  • SDLC  (Agile Scrum) 
  • Project Review
  • Insurance Domain Knowledge 
  • Process Excellence 
  • Subject Matter Experts
  • JAD
  • Project Requirements
  • Key Stakeholders

What recruiters look for in a Business Analyst and Project Coordinator's resume: 

  • Proficiency in evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
  • Skilled in leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
  • Competent in preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.

What can make your Business Analyst and Project Coordinator's resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience and background in business analysis

  • Accomplished Business Analyst with over 4 years in conducting business requirement evaluation, defining project scope, and reporting project status. Dexterity in documenting and communicating key requirements to stakeholders, IT teams, and project teams. Expertise in leading all aspects of Software Development Lifecycle using industry best practices, tools, and methodologies (Agile Scrum). Proficient in  documenting use cases to provide an excellent end-user experience 

Targeted job description 

  • Effectively communicate insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
  • Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce useful reports.
  • Manage business and technical project teams within a strong matrix organization using waterfall and agile.

Related academic background 

  • PGD PM/IR | Annamalai University 2006 
  • Kakatiya University | MBA 2005 
  • BCA | Kakatiya University 2003 

Sample Resume of a Business Analyst and Project Coordinator with Career Break

RUCHI SHARMA 

BUSINESS ANALYST & PROJECT COORDINATOR 

9916455581 | sharma5r@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sravani-g-business-analyst/ 

SUMMARY

Accomplished Business Analyst with over 4 years in conducting business requirement evaluation, defining project scope, and reporting project status. Dexterity in documenting and communicating key requirements to stakeholders, IT teams, and project teams. Expertise in leading all aspects of Software Development Lifecycle using industry best practices, tools, and methodologies (Agile Scrum). Proficient in  documenting use cases to provide an excellent end-user experience 

SKILLS 

  • Requirement Analysis 
  • Business Forecasting
  • Project Scoping 
  • Stakeholder Management 
  • Project Consulting 
  • Use Cases Writing 
  • SDLC  (Agile Scrum) 
  • Project Review
  • Insurance Domain Knowledge 
  • Process Excellence 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 

Business Analyst (Volunteer) | LetsIntern, Bangalore Dec 2017 - Present 

  • Collaborate with stakeholders including corporates, non-profits, and educational institutes to gather and freeze requirements. 
  • Collect data and simplify it into smaller and comprehensible work units. 
  • Work with the project team to brainstorm and delineate web platform requirements 
  • Create wireframes, test the web platform through writing test cases, and monitor project progress. 

Business Analyst/TQA Admin | Barclays Services Global Delivery, Hyderabad | Nov 2013 - May 2015 

Environment: Agile Scrum, MS Project, MS Visio 2013, SharePoint 2013, MS Office 2013, TFS, UML 

  • Project Coordination & Execution: Coordinated & delivered high-impact projects. Oversaw key project operations, reported project status & progress and tracked issues. Scheduled requirements review meetings and worked towards sign-offs from the Lead Team. 
  • Requirement Analysis: Organized JAD sessions with Lead Team, SMEs, Project team, Scrum Master, and end-user. Analyzed business requirements and wrote User Stories & Use Cases for further project execution.  
  • Technical Support: Created work items in TFS with the finalized requirements, and assigned resources for each task. Wrote SQL queries to extract data. Used SharePoint site as a power user to create project items on SharePoint 2013 
  • Testing & Troubleshooting: Validated the Test cases with frozen requirements and performed UAT, and worked towards getting approvals  from LT for deployment 
  • Quality Assurance: Assigned and followed up on TQA approvals. Scheduled TQA Review meetings for the qualified pre-sales  Opportunities and new Projects 
  • Achievements: Extracted data needed by Stakeholders using SQL queries which reduced the response time by 50% 

HR Project Consultant | VBus Group, Bangalore, India | Jun 2017 - Dec 2017 

  • Understood Stakeholder’s requirements and communicated to the vendor to prepare the survey questionnaire.  
  • Assisted the project team and Stakeholders with D&I Project activities; Scheduled key Stakeholder interviews for their insights on D&I at  Volvo 
  • Facilitated 4 Focus Group Discussion sessions with 200 employees 

Achievements: Negotiated with vendor and reduced the project cost by 14% and the cost of FGDs by 40% 

Career Break | Professional Enhancements + Maternity + Child Care | Jun 2015 - May 2017 

  • Attended webinars on Business Analysis from Laura Brandenburg 
  • Attended Requirements Writing Course from University of New South Wales(UNSW) on Coursera 

Technical Recruiter iCST | South Portland, USA Mar 2012 - Dec 2012 

Career Break | Nov 2007 - Apr 2012 

IT Recruiter | Indiana IT Services Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad Jun 2007 - Oct 2007 

HR Executive | Accenture Solutions, Hyderabad Oct 2005 - May 2007 

EDUCATION 

  • PGD PM/IR | Annamalai University 2006 
  • Kakatiya University | MBA 2005 
  • BCA | Kakatiya University 2003 

TECHNICAL 

  • MS Office: Word, Excel (Charts and Pivot table), PowerPoint, Project | Visio | TFS | SharePoint Power User | SQL | UML | Access knowledge

TRAINING/ COURSES 

  • SQL for Data Science at the University of California 
  • IT Project Management at ISB 
  • Certified in Requirements Writing at UNSW, Australia