PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Professional: Over 9 years of experience conducting strategic analysis, mentoring change in
• Proven ability to collaborate and lead in culturally diverse environments to delivery mission critical projects. Experience includes working across America, EMEA and APAC regions
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Value oriented analytical skills that lend insight to business problems and lead
• Product Management: Demonstrated competency in translating business requirements and issues to client solutions by managing project and product requirements
• Project & Team Management: Proven ability to drive consensus across diverse stakeholders, geographies and functional areas to identify, prioritize and design solution for business challenges
• Budget management: Proven ability at forecasting and managing multi - million-dollar budget
• Leadership: Recognized year over year for outstanding performance and management
• Diversified experience with roles as a Product Manager and Scrum Master in various domains ranging from
• Actively took part in development of the product strategy and vision for mobile app products. Provided subject matter expertise and analytical support to help facilitate various mobile app projects and operations of application.
• Proved Communication, Negotiation, Communication, Negotiation, decision Making, Time Management and People skills helped to attain success in my career.
• Hands on experience in different Software Development Lifecycle methodologies such as traditional waterfall, agile methodologies like Scrum, Extreme Programming and Kanban.
• Highly skilled and adept at gathering requirements, creating artifacts, handling change requests and assisting in testing.
• Expertise in conducting As-Is and To-Be analysis and possess strong knowledge in carrying out processes for risk analysis, Gap analysis and Change Management.
• Skilled in handling change requests, conducting impact analysis and accessing change impact on the triple constraints of project, presenting to Change Control Board, getting it approved from business, base lining artifact.
• Expert at interacting with stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and end-users to understand, analyze, communicate and validate requirements using Joint Application Design (JAD), Joint Application Review (JAR).
• Facilitated various requirements elicitation techniques such as Interview, Focus Groups, Interface Analysis, JAD sessions, Document Analysis and Requirement Workshop for requirement refinement.
• Effective in coordinated with Onsite, Offsite, Onshore and Off shore teams while Project Execution.
• Experienced in conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Impact Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Portfolio Analysis and ROI Analysis.
• Provided traceability across the project by proper documentation and mentored juniors to create positive and productive environment.
• Well acquainted with workflows and Unified Modelling language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams thereby helping the technical team to understand the requirements.
• Well versed and participated in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Expert in MS Office which includes MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project for project documentation and analysis.
• Worked with testers performing Automation and Manual testing using selenium and tracked defects using HPQC/ALM.
• Created and maintained Requirements Traceability matrix (RTM) using MS Excel.
• Documented Test Plans, Test Cases, Test D Confidential and guided end users to complete User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Good Understanding on Bank Secrecy Act, CASA, Check 21 Act, FACT Act, PCI (Payment Card Industry),

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid, Waterfall, XP, SAFE, Kanban.

Project Management: MS Office, JIRA, Rally, Confluence, HP ALM, TFS, Version one

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Mock Up Screens, Rational Rose, Balsamiq.

Reporting Tools: Confidential Cognos, Tableau, Crystal Reports, SQL server Reporting Services Spotfire, MS Excel, Qlik view

Big D Confidential: Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, MapReduce, Zoo Keeper

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint 2013, MS ProjectMS VISIO, Outlook

Testing Tools: HP QC/HP ALM, Bugzilla, Rational ClearCase, Test Manager

Languages: HTML, JSP, CSS, JAVA, XML, SQL, SOAP, REST, JSON, C, C++

D Confidential bases: MySQL, MS Access, Oracle.

D Confidential Warehousing: D Confidential Modelling, D Confidential Mart, OLTP, OLAP, Slicing/Dicing, Drill Up/ Drill Down, Pivot, Informatica

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Discovered and defined mobile applications requirements in the space of business goals, business needs, defined the true problem, scoped the business case for making an investment, and discovered the business process and related changes.
• Extensively involved in creating and executing mobile strategy for the organization and worked across functional groups (ex: Marketing, IT) and coordinated efforts and ensure success.
• Implemented best practices, mobile industry standards, competitor’s products and legal requirements associated with assigned mobile app projects
• Assisted Project Manager to provide business evaluation, revenue optimization, feature recommendations and on-going support for mobile apps
• Elicited business requirements by participating in JAD sessions, interviewing business users and stakeholders, conducting focus group sessions and consulting existing systems documents.
• Extensively Used MS Visio for Process modeling, Process mapping and Business Process flow diagrams. Understood the as-is system, developed the To-Be system concepts and prepared the System Process Maps.
• Designed Use Case diagrams and involved with design team in creation of Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams to depict process flows.
• Assisted in design meetings to make sure all the requirements are covered in the design phase.
• Involved in writing UAT Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios using HPQC.
• Extensively used Rally for bug tracking, issue tracking and project management functions.
• Worked on front-end and back-end Application Programming Interface (API) to define the functionalities of user interface (UI).
• Facilitated the Scrum ceremonies: Daily standup meeting, the Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, Retrospective, and Product Backlog Refinement.
• Facilitated and attended Daily Scrum meetings and collaborated with the other Scrum team members throughout the different phases of the project.
• Responsible for monitoring and managing the work progress and ensured to deliver systems demos as per release plan.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Proficient in prioritizing techniques like MOSCOW, KANO and Walking Skeleton.
• Helped the teams to determine Story Points for User Stories using Estimation Techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt Sizing, Relative Mass Valuation and Dot Voting; helping teams achieve more with a higher level of Satisfaction.
• Worked with and coached other Scrum Masters, to drive a steady process and communication across teams.
• Involved in producing the compliance report indicating the level of PCI DSS compliance by the business process.
• Worked with on-shore, off-shore teams and made sure the communication is proper and everyone are on the same page.
• Responsible to provide valuable insights to clarify opportunities and identify associated risks that require consideration to optimize the solution.
• Worked with Production Support and Social Media teams to ensure they have adequate to answer customer questions related to the SDK.

Environment: Scrum, PCF, Rally, MS Visio, SharePoint, HTML, XML, MS Office Suite, Confluence, BitBucket, Jenkins, Java, Kotlin, Splunk, Objective-C, Swift, Espresso

Confidential

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed the project by implementing Scrum development methodology
• Interacted with business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the application.
• Used MS power point presentations for conducting JAD sessions with the stakeholders.
• Documented user stories using team foundation server tool.
• Created the Mock-up screens and UML diagrams such as sequence, activity and use case diagrams using MS Visio for proper visualization.
• Active involvement in the Sprint ceremonies: Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, Retrospective, and Product Backlog Refinement.
• Attended Daily Scrum meetings and collaborated with the other Scrum team members throughout the different phases of the project.
• Reported status to Business owners on time-to-time basis using MS Project for project planning, scheduling and status reporting.
• Integrated the various OLTP to the OLAP by using Oracle Warehouse Builder as an ETL tool.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in conjugation with the QA team.
• Created test cases and test plans and tracked them to user stories with the help of a Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• When required, I facilitated the Product backlog grooming meeting in order to reprioritize the Product Backlog.
• At the end of each sprint, I was responsible for facilitating the sprint review meeting followed by a sprint retrospectivemeeting.

Environment: Agile Scrum, HP QC, JIRA, Oracle, MS Visio, .Net, HTML, XML, Cognos, OLAP, OLTP.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Waterfall Methodology throughout the project lifecycle and Worked closely with Business teams/project stake holders to map the expectations to deliver the capabilities.
• Gathered business requirements by interview technique from business users and stakeholders, conducted one to one session and consulting existing systems documents. Also, conducted and participated in JAD sessions to gather the requirements.
• Prepared Functional Requirements document (FRD) and assisted in Use-case modeling.
• Designed UML diagram’s such as Use-case diagram, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams to depict process flows.
• Performed GAP analysis to identify/discover new functional requirements and understood AS-IS and TO-BE process.
• Prepared Change Request form and conducted the Impact analysis for each phase, Cost analysis and obtained approvals for the change request form.
• Involved in preparing test cases and a part of UAT testing to evaluate results against the user requirements.
• Provided support to end users until the product is fully functional.

Environment: Waterfall, Java, J2EE, JSP, HTML, Eclipse 3.1, WebLogic Application Server, UNIX, Oracle 10g, Rationale Rose, Spring MVC, MS Project, MS Office Suite.