Business Analyst Software Engineer

Sayali Sawant

Orange County, California 657-***-**** ******.******@*******.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/sawant-sayali/ SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with proven analytical capabilities and project management skills, extreme attention to details and ability to effectively prioritize and multitask.

• Work directly with external client facing stakeholders, specifically members of our client's technical team as well as internal team members and stakeholders.

• Passionate and self-driven when interacting with client, identifying market opportunities, planning, and executing the end- to-end product development lifecycle.

• Guide, coach and motivate the team with a goal of increasing productivity through employee engagement and empowering team commitment to process improvement and sprint delivery. SKILLS

• Agile Methodologies: Software Development Life Cycle SDLC, Agile Scrum Methodology, Waterfall model, Kanban, Lean Process Improvement, prioritization, task delegation, story mapping; product road mapping and planning, Backlog management: definition, grooming, and prioritization, Story sizing and task estimation, Team building and communication, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog.

• Project Management: JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, VersionOne, AgilityHealth, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally, HP ALM Octane, Slack, MS Visio, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Microsoft Projects.

• Business Analysis: Product Management, Project Management, Product Strategy, Data Analysis, Business requirement documentation, Functional requirement documentation, User stories.

• Visualization tools: Tableau, Power BI, Redshift, S3, SQL, Domo, Adobe Analytics, Microsoft Office Suite. ACHIEVEMENTS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Tableau Analyst, 2020.

• Cloud Practitioner Certification 2020.

• Scrum Master Accredited Certification (CSM) 2019 and Scrum Product Owner Accredited Certification (CSPO) 2019. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

California State University Fullerton June 2020 - Present Business Operations Analyst

• Develop workflows within JIRA alongside product managers to define Product visions and break it into smaller and incremental deliverables and user stories helping the developers achieve sprint goals, remove impediments and release Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

• Actively participate in planning activities for all software development functions including development, testing, release, and acceptance work and code reviews.

• Manage project schedule, scope and timeline, change request process, create weekly status reports for clients and conduct weekly status calls with clients.

• Assist the product owner, software architects and business stakeholders to gather requirements, estimates and build a delivery plan projects regarding story point estimation and prioritization in sprint planning and sprint review.

• Research, gather, analyze, document, develop and validate functional requirements for web solutions with project stakeholders through research data, document analysis, interviews, workshops and workflow analysis. California State University Fullerton March 2019 – May 2020 Business Analyst Intern

• Increased business understanding by 50% by creating data visualizations and interactive dashboards with actionable insights in Tableau including presentations to the stakeholders.

• Performed extensive GAP analysis in the project as there were numerous 'As-Is' and 'To-Be' conditions to understand current and desired business processes using MS Visio.

• Developed Tableau visualizations to analyze reports using a variety of techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation via statistical analysis to complex data mining independently. Larsen & Toubro Infotech, India August 2014 – December 2018 Software Engineer (Scrum Master)

• Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning through Jira and tracked teamwork with Agile development methodologies.

• Increased team efficiency by 60% by proactively tracking team progress using velocity, burndown and burnup charts and ensuring servant-leadership principle to measure the team’s progress in completing the user stories.

• Liaison between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines to help business understand technical jargons and vise a versa.

• Translate user requirements into system requirements, process flows, wireframes, mockups, functional specifications, document user stories, use cases, process diagrams, data flow, data model diagrams exploring management skills.

• Proactively participated in various internal and external training & mentoring programs, staying current and compliant on policies and procedures and to assigned duties.

EDUCATION

• Master of Science, Software Engineering: California State University, Fullerton May 2020

• Post Graduate Diploma, Business Management: Welingkar Institute of Management, India December 2017

• Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering: University of Mumbai, India. May 2014

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