Business Analyst/Product Owner

Neha V

: nehavallurupalli** @gmail.com : +91-998******

6+ years of Business Analysis and Product Owner experience in the IT industry accountable for business needs, capturing, analyzing and documenting requirements, assessing the impact of changes and supporting the communication and delivery of these requirements with relevant parties.

Professional Snapshot:

Certified SAFe 4 Product Owner/Product Manager

Expertise in Business and Solution Analysis; sound understanding of Project Management & Implementation

In-depth knowledge on various phases of Waterfall and Agile-Scrum models in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Vast exposure to the execution of Gap analysis and Risk analysis

Proficient in all phases of Requirements Management: Gathering, Analyzing, Validating & Traceability

Extensive experience in translating complex business needs into clear and concise documents like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) and Functional Specifications.

Expertise in executing project through implementation of Agile Scrum principles/methdologies and in preparing Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria

Experience of working in diverse sectors, liaising with multiple stakeholders across the globe

Ability to translate business requirements into UML diagrams and detailed designs

Proficient in using project/product life cycle development tools and environments.

Ability to work in multiple projects and flexibility in working on multi-domain applications.

Organized and Conducted Scrum Meetings with the Stakeholders to evaluate performance and deliver a quality product.

Expertise in using leading industry tools (MS Office Suite) to develop various project deliverables and automated to save manual efforts.

Experience in preparing and executing UAT test cases

Exceptional ability to build productive relationships with colleagues, clients, and vendors across all functional and technical disciplines.

Ability to work under strict deadlines and high pressure conditions.

Have good interpersonal skills and domain knowledge.

Technical Skills:

Tools

Microsoft Office, TFS, JIRA, Basecamp

Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall, Business Modelling

CMS

Percussion 4.4.4, Adobe CQ 5.5

Databases

SQL, Oracle 11g, MySQL

Professional Experience

Organization

Position

Duration

Honeywell Technology Solutions (current organization)

Business Systems Analyst

Nov – 2017 – till date

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Business Analyst

Nov – 2013 – Nov - 2017

Projects:

Project: SIMS (Subscription and Invoice Management System) Duration: Nov’2017-Till Date

Role and Responsibilities:

Requirements elicitation & analysis for the development and integration of B2B customers' Subscription / Invoicing Management applications

Proactively setup discussions with Stakeholders on a regular basis and baselined requirements

Preparing detailed requirements document (consisting of User Stories and Use Cases, Process Models, Entity Relationship and Data Flow diagrams), SRD’s, FSD’s and UAT cases

Studying the 'As Is' state of web based applications and brainstorm on 'To Be' possibilities for developing more efficient software tools

Followed Agile Scrum methodologies by using tools like JIRA to capture and maintain the User Stories in the Product Backlog

Effectively anchored Sprint Planning, Retrospection, Requirement Discussion Meetings and regular Scrum Meetings with the team.

Closely coordinated with the Business Users, Product Owner and Developers for arriving at mutually acceptable solutions.

Capturing complex billing Logic; designing of e-commerce portal for effective customer interaction

Process set up for UAT and Functional Testing of the upgraded application with stakeholders.

Project: Fidelity National Financial Web Duration: Sep’2015-Oct’2017

Role and Responsibilities:

Analyzed historical documents, supporting documents, screen prints and e-mail conversations for basic understanding

Conducted As-Is and To-Be analysis of the application for understanding the current state and the expectation/scope of the project

Engaged business stakeholders to gather the requirements, business rules and ensure alignment with development teams

Anchored Business Requirement Documents, Software Requirement Documents and Detailed Requirement Documents

Translate requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases, user stories, workflow/ process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams

Conducted internal and external team meetings for requirement discussions – requirement elicitation, brainstorming, requirement scope meetings, etc

Handled Change Request from time to time.

Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications

Handled end to end project activities from offshore using agile methods

Performed thorough UAT testing to ensure defect free code.

Handled demo of the implemented solutions.

Project: Amex User Portal Duration: May’2014-Sep’2015

Role and Responsibilities:

Analyzed initial business requirements of the customer through market, document and workflow analysis

Conducted research on new applications and evaluated specific requirements of customers

Identified the different stakeholders, clients and users according to the requirements and coordinated to initialize expectations

Continuous interactions with stakeholders on gathering, documentation and verification of the requirements

Prepared Business Requirement Documents and Use Case Documents

Used user stories approach for describing the requirements

Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding and processes and applications

Acted as the first line of defense for a Consulting Stream in responding to all the stakeholders, on behalf of the competency

Communication with different project managers, business users and developers daily through scrum/stand up calls for updating the current status of the project and discussion on roadblocks

Conducted Internal Meetings to collect the estimates for the user stories and through that estimated the deliverables for each sprint

Creating collaterals ranging from Case Studies for the existing/executed projects to provide capability decks for various capabilities of the competency

Project: PepsiCo Mobile Duration: Dec’2013-May’2014

Role and Responsibilities:

Requirement gathering for customization of standard Business application to enable the Enhancements for User Experience and Company Enhancements to do analytics, reporting & forecasting

Anchored documentation and modelled the design guide like BRD and FRD.

Introduced bi-weekly client calls & requirement/change tracker resulting in optimization of updated list of activities

Handled Change Request from time to time.

Closely coordinated with the Business stakeholders and technical owners

Analyzing the design proposed by the UI/UX teams for the mobile platforms and coordinating with the Business Stakeholders to explain the proposed solutions/designs

Organized demo of the implemented solutions.

Academics

B.Tech. Computer Science from Institute of Aeronautical Engineering affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad(JNTUH) in 2013 with 76%

12th (IPE/MPC) from Sri Vaishnavi Jr College, Hyderabad in 2009 with 86%.

10th (CBSE) Sanghamitra School, Hyderabad in 2007 with 76%.

Personal Information

Name : Neha V

Date of Birth : Jun 1992

Marital Status : Married

Languages known : English, Telugu, Hindi

Current Location : Hyderabad

Declaration

I hereby affirm that all the above information is true & correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Neha V

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