Aisha Raman

Senior Business Analyst

Austin, TX| [email protected]| (512) 555-0148| linkedin.com/in/aisharaman
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Professional Summary

Senior Business Analyst with 7 years bridging business strategy and technical delivery across financial services, SaaS, and supply-chain programs. Owns the full requirements lifecycle — elicitation, BRDs and functional specs, process mapping, and UAT — and translates ambiguous stakeholder needs into measurable, shippable scope. Fluent in SQL, Tableau, and the Atlassian stack, with a track record of cutting cycle time, eliminating rework, and aligning cross-functional teams of 20+ around a single source of truth.

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Certifications

CBAP Certified Business Analysis Professional IIBA · 2022
PBA PMI Professional in Business Analysis PMI · 2021
PSM I Professional Scrum Master I Scrum.org · 2020
SQL Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals Microsoft · 2023
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Professional Experience

Senior Business Analyst

Mar 2021 — Present

Meridian Financial Group — Austin, TX

  • Led requirements for a $4.2M loan-origination platform rebuild, authoring 30+ BRDs and 140 user stories that aligned product, engineering, risk, and compliance and shipped on schedule across four releases.
  • Mapped 18 end-to-end processes in BPMN, exposing handoffs that cut average application turnaround from 9 days to 5.5 days (39%) and removed 6 manual approval steps.
  • Built SQL reconciliation queries and Tableau dashboards that surfaced $310K in annual billing leakage, driving a remediation initiative adopted by the finance org.
  • Facilitated UAT for 220+ test cases across 5 stakeholder groups, holding defect leakage to production under 2% over six consecutive releases.
  • Standardized requirements documentation in Confluence and traceability in Jira, reducing requirement-related rework tickets by 34% year over year.

Business Analyst

Jun 2018 — Feb 2021

Northwind SaaS Solutions — Dallas, TX

  • Elicited and documented requirements for a customer-onboarding module used by 40K+ end users, translating 60+ stakeholder interviews into prioritized, testable acceptance criteria.
  • Partnered with two Agile squads as product-owner proxy, grooming a 200-item backlog and lifting sprint predictability (say/do ratio) from 71% to 92%.
  • Ran data analysis in SQL on usage telemetry to identify a drop-off step; the resulting redesign improved activation conversion by 17%.
  • Authored functional specs and API requirements for a Salesforce integration that automated 3 manual data syncs, saving the support team an estimated 22 hours per week.

Junior Business Analyst

Aug 2016 — May 2018

Cedar Logistics — Houston, TX

  • Supported a warehouse-management system rollout across 3 sites, gathering current-state requirements and producing as-is / to-be process documentation for 12 workflows.
  • Built and maintained operational Excel and SQL reports for inventory accuracy, helping raise cycle-count accuracy from 94% to 98.5%.
  • Coordinated stakeholder sign-off and UAT scheduling, keeping a 9-month program on its milestone plan with zero scope-related slippage.
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Core Skills

Business Analysis Requirements elicitation, BRDs and functional specs, use cases, user stories, gap analysis, traceability matrices
Process & Modeling Process mapping, BPMN, as-is / to-be analysis, workflow optimization, root-cause analysis, SIPOC
Data & Reporting SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Excel (pivot tables, lookups), data validation, KPI definition, dashboard design
Stakeholder & Delivery Stakeholder management, facilitation, requirements prioritization (MoSCoW), UAT planning and execution, change management
Methods & Tools Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, Microsoft Office
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Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems

The University of Texas at Austin — McCombs School of Business

Concentration in Information Systems · Minor in Statistics

2012 — 2016