Business analyst and scrum master and seasonal product owner

Ranganatha. A

# No */* **th cross Cubbonpet, B’lore-02

Contact no: 935-***-**** & 974*******

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Synopsis:

Certified Business Analyst with experience in Agile and Scrum Master, SDLC, Project Management, Swift Payments, SEPA, FATF, Liquidity Management

Career Objective: To build world class product and services which enhances customer experience and achieve organizational goals.

Business Analyst, Scrum Master & Product Owner (5 years as BA, Scrum master and Product owner)

Highly Skilled in Business analysis, key skills are requirement elicitation, strategic analysis (Current state and future state analysis), Enterprise Analysis, Cost benefit analysis, Impact Analysis, User stories.

Experience in selecting and executing elicitation techniques such as Interviews, Exploratory Prototypes, Facilitated Workshops, Focus Groups, Observation, User Task Analysis, Documentation Study and Surveys and overall Process Re-engineering.

Solid understanding of the following requirements models: Stakeholder Categories (based on RACI Metrics), Data Dictionary, Business Rules, Process Maps, Use Cases and Prototyping.

Result focused Scrum Master: committed in Sprint planning, Estimation through Planning poker technique, product backlog refining, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective. Maintained high morale of the team members. Have maintained team work board such as Burn-down chart and task board.

Seasoned Product owner for Liquidity management, discussed product roadmap and key milestone with PMO. Refined product backlog and assisted scrum team in refining sprint backlog. Tenure for PO was for 1.5 years.

Prepared training documents for users.

Good understanding on SDLC, BRD and SoW preparation, Prepared Requirement traceability Metrics,

Business process modelling, prototyping.

Tracking of test cases through HPQ for defect and change requests

Tools used: HP Quality Center.

Knowledge of Kanban and JIRA.

Experience in Basic SQL.

Banking

Created project charters and RFP’s for Investment Banking processes. Created the transition plan and WBS for task migration from Frankfurt, Germany.

Solid experience in Swift payments SWIFT MT and ISO20022 MX Messages.

MT 1 series (MT101, MT103)

MT 2 series (MT202, MT202COV, MT203)

MT 9 series (MT900, MT910, MT940, MT950)

MT n series (n92, n95, n96, n99)

SEPA

FATF

Knowledge of US Cheque processing and worked as internal self-assessment Auditor.

I was part of Train the trainer initiative for MT202cov role out in Deutsche Bank.

SME in liquidity management

Cash concentration-sweeps and cover, Inter-company loans and Interest calculation.

Notional pooling-notionally pooling to Net-off against negative balances.

Interest optimization-Tier based Interest calculation on overall customer accounts which participates in the pool.

Extensive experience in BVT/SVT testing for LM new project role out for APAC and Oceania. This activity included verification and validation of intercompany loans, interest posting, sweeps and checking Journal entries and data flow with in middle ware applications and core Banking.

Reviewed LM UAT test cases.

Represented Business teams in Project Workshops. Involved in Daily Scrum meetings representing Business.

Successfully transitioned US Health care payments from US in custody middle office. Processing cost allocation to plan sub accounts with STC codes to ensure client can ensure health care solution to their employees.

Projects

Deutsche Bank: Initially joined as Ops analyst, contributed in different location processes like Europe, US and Asia and middle-east. Handled SWIFT payments and Investigations, HRMP payments, Cheque processing and Swift messaging.

LM Business analyst-Product Cash Pool Engine: Setting of MT940 and 942’s, created UI mock ups, Assisted senior BA's to conduct requirement workshops for Clients from Germany, traveled to Germany for gathering requirements, reviewed requirements with stakeholders and received sign off, documented BRD, Supervised UAT by reviewing test cases and completed BVT testing on behalf of Ops.

ANZ

LM Business analyst: Product Intellect Arena (locations are AU, NZ, PH, VN, CN, IN, SG, HK)

SME, Handled the LM project from Inception, risk assessment, Conducted Requirement gathering workshops by using interview and focus group discussion (Ops, legal and regulatory teams) and set up review meetings to confirm if the requirements were correctly captured, prepared prototypes and UI mock-ups to visualize the requirements, received sign off from respective stake holders. Prepared BRD and FSD and RTM's. Weared multiple hats as a BA, Scrum Master and Product owner, Participated and conducted sprint ceremonies, grooming product backlog and sprint backlog, conducted sprint estimation using planning the Poker technique. Conducted defect triage calls to track change requests and defects. Supervised UAT and conducted BVT. Documented User manuals and SoW.

JP Morgan

Custody Middle office Pension Payments: Product Encore

End to end implementation of middle office Interface re-engineering project for US corporate clients who have maintained their social security and trust account with JP Morgan. Conducted requirement workshops with US ops teams and clients, documented them and conducted review meetings to confirm the requirements and finally received sign off. I was part of scrum team, assisted product owner in grooming product backlog and sprint backlog. I was there for each sprint planning sessions and scrum ceremonies.

Work experience

Working as Freelancer in Auditing firm, preparing GST filing, Tax filing

And between completed Change Management Prodegree.

Took Career break: Due to HUF closure and settlement and Mother’s illness : August 2016 to Till date

JP Morgan Chase : TPM Business analyst : October 2015 to July 2016

ANZ : TL BA : March 2014 to October 2015

Deutsche Bank : PS BA : March 2006 to February 2014

Tata Teleservices : Executive : May 2005 to February 2006

After completing my Graduation I was handling our HUF business until I joined TTSL.

Education

Bachelor of Business Management 2000 Bangalore University

German Language Beginner A1 2012 Goethe Institute, Bangalore

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