AANUSH ARORA
Business Analyst Manager
Chennai
Summary
To work in an organization which ensures the freedom of new initiatives, facilitating my contribution through thoughts and action to the company's vision and thus achieve self-development by playing a significant role in building the organization.
13 years' experience in IT services, with diverse experience in Agile Scrum framework (2.9 years as Scrum master), System/Business Analyst (5 years) and Software Testing (as Quality Analyst, Test Lead and Test Manager). Certified Scrum Master from SCRUM ALLIANCE. 8 years of experience in Agile practices. Focused on analyzing and planning the road map of multiple product teams based on market trends, customer expectations and projected organization goals. Implemented Agile best practices, worked with cross functional teams for efficient product development by identifying and addressing systemic issues, dysfunctions and creating a visibility of the bigger picture. Experienced in leading/managing team up to 20 resources on the multiple projects simultaneously. Experienced in leading testing effort with the Product team, Development team, onshore and offshore QA team. Co-ordinate with team to make sure the pre-testing artifacts are delivered as per plan and got them approved by project team. Prepared summary reports for the project & lesson learnt documents from the previous project testing experience. User and technical acceptance test design, execution, design thinking, and lean start-up methods (MVPs). Document system functionality / Gap analysis / interaction/structure/interfaces. Managing design, development, and execution of the entire test process, track and report the progress of test execution; document and coordinate the detailed execution plan for all cycles to support testing. Proficient in Software Development/Testing lifecycles. Good knowledge on Banking domain.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
System/Business Analyst
Standard Chartered Bank
12.2021 - Current
- Involved in migration from HOGAN core banking system to ATLAS core banking system
- Involved in understanding the AS-IS processes of HOGAN core banking system and setting up the code mapping documents to let the HOGAN team understand how the data has to be migrated from their system to ATLAS core banking system
- Code setup's - around 165 database tables are created and maintained by me for getting all the features to work up in the front end
- Walkthrough the business on the requirement that has been designed based on their request and obtaining sign off to proceed with development
- Walkthrough the DEV team on the requirements that are signed off and ensuring all the dots are connected tight intact
- Walkthrough the code mapping documents with HOGAN dev team to make them understand on how to migrate the data to the new ATLAS system
- Validate end of the day balances are correct during the day 0 of the migration
- Create/Maintain Internal/Suspense accounts for ATLAS core banking system
- Create/Maintain JIRA for defects and user stories
- Create/Maintain ADO (Azure Dev Ops) for defects and user stories
- Usage of Confluence to write down the requirement gathered, Design of the requirements, system flows and the mapping details.
Scrum Master
Wipro Technologies
01.2019 - 11.2021
- Facilitating the implementation, adoption and sustainability of Agile principles and best practices
- Guiding the team to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness and commitment for each sprint
- Utilizing the scrum framework to ensure various Scrum ceremonies take place and are effective with an emphasis on enabling better communication and flow, and improving quality, predictability and velocity
- Coordinating and facilitating all Scrum ceremonies - sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, retrospectives
- Defining and tracking relevant metrics and KPI's in alignment with business objectives
- Facilitating internal communication and effective collaboration
- Collaborate with Product owners, program or project managers to improve transparency by communicating about sprint progress, escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team's effectiveness
- Worked with Product owner to handle backlogs and new requests
- Resolving conflicts and removing obstacles that occur
- Helping the team to agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint
- Helping the team to make progress on the project by ensuring each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacle to team member's progress and protecting the team from distractions
- Ensuring deliverables are up to quality standard at the end of each sprint
- Supports a culture of continuous process improvement through sprint retrospectives and key indicators around successful delivery and team performance
- Encourage and motivate teams, enabling them to perform their roles effectively and to be self organized
- Guiding development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Excellent at facilitation, interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Understand and manage culturally diverse groups across multiple geographies and time zones
- Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects.
Business Analyst
Wipro Technologies
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Involved in Building Business Investment Products (Fixed Deposits, Shariah Fixed Deposits) on SAP
- Participate in Requirements Gathering sessions, Inceptions and Agile ceremonies
- Actively involved with Business and technical stakeholders to prepare a minimum viable product (MVP) list to start build
- Analyze stories in order to understand functionality end-to-end
- Actively participate in Backlog Grooming sessions and Sprint Planning sessions before commencing build
- Involved in understanding the As-Is processes on Customer Onboarding /KYC/AML to articulate bottlenecks, pain points and identify Digital Opportunities to fulfill the Digital banking journey for Small Enterprise customers
- Log User Stories in JIRA for all deliverables and follow ups
- Get the peer review and stakeholder review done for impact assessment
- Keep JIRA Stories & CIB wall updated with latest status
- Work with Feature and Testing Team in order to understand the functionality to perform impact assessment effectively
- Understand the system interaction/structure/interfaces and integrated system's functionality
- Prepare context and sequence diagrams to capture all the system interaction, structure/interfaces
- Document system functionality / Gap analysis / interaction/structure/interfaces
- Work with SMEs in order to understand the functionality of the system and prepare the functionality document
- Prepare Account Origination /Account Maintenance Services /Credit user journeys for CIB, Commercial, Wealth & Investment and Business Banking Customers
- Adhere to Agile framework at workplace and use the agile methodologies on daily basis i.e daily stand-ups, wall updates, create stories, work in sprints etc
- Designing the test approach, methodology and success criteria for business improvement solutions
- Compiling business-requirement and functional-requirement specification documents for solutions aimed at the improvement of business practices
- Designing and validating integrated business-practices
- Refining and re-prioritization of the release backlog
- Providing regular feedback by testing deliverables against a user story's acceptance criteria and regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals
- Supporting everyday reporting, facilitation, and communication
- User and technical acceptance test design, execution, design thinking, and lean start-up methods (MVPs)
- Using Microsoft office tools for data dictionaries and data mapping (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Office)
- Testing strategies, test plans and the execution project management principles of the Business mindedness
- Focusing on problem solving, planning, and dealing with ambiguity.
Test Lead
Wipro Technologies
05.2014 - 12.2016
- As the Test Lead, I was responsible of complete team deliverables including deriving Test Scope, Test Execution, Sign-offs, Knowledge Transfer, Test Automation and Up-skilling of the team
- Worked closely with the Programme Test Managers, Project Management as well as the Business to deliver the testing delivery with quality
- Raised, triaged and prioritized defects from in-house testing, customer usage and live defects
- Produced thorough accurate test documentation including test plans and scripts
- Responsible for all testing deliverables including Test Estimation, DSR, WSR, SLA's
- Responsible for implementing best policies/processes and best practices for SIT and UAT testing and leading project's test activities in accordance with policies and standards
- Keeping management informed about project schedules, status, issue and metrics
- Reporting defect reports promptly and thoroughly for defect resolutions and enhancements
- Working closely with the Business team and Development team to ensure that the testing strategy is understood, in use, test pre requisites are completed and test outputs are analyzed
- Coordinating and providing support during user and pre-prod testing phases, participate in story design review meetings to understand requirements and change requirements
- Conducting all meetings related to the testing and also involved in design reviews
- Attending daily stand-up calls to understand the changes being implemented in the current sprint
- Preparing and involving in reviews of the test plan, SIT entry/exit criteria and sit sign-offs
- Responsible for test scenarios/scripts preparation, peer review, defect management and sign-offs
- Have been involved in Defect triage meetings and have done effective defect management
- Identifying gaps in user stories or business requirements
- Providing estimates for testing efforts to Product Managers
- Preparing weekly status reports and release reports and circulate it across the scrum team and IT Managers reviewing test scripts prepared by the team for adherence to the requirements
- Provided mentoring, guidance and training to new joiners/team members responsible for QA activities & deliverables
- Extensively used automation testing tools like Ruby cucumber and UFT.
Quality Analyst
Wipro Technologies
06.2011 - 04.2014
- Thorough understanding of SRS document
- Involved in Test case preparation and execution
- Have been involved in different types of testing like Functional, Integration, End to End, Regression, UAT on various Web and Mainframe applications
- Raised various severe defects and tracked it until closure in ALM
- Communicated and coordinated with onsite Testing team effectively
- Daily and weekly status reporting.
Education
B.Tech (Information Technology) -
R.M.K Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University)
Diploma in Computer Science - undefined
Sri Durga Devi Polytechnic College
10th Standard - undefined
Gill Adarsh Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Skills
MS Office Suite
undefinedCertification
Certified SCRUM MASTER, SCRUM ALLIANCE, 12/30/22
Professionalworkhistory
- Standard Chartered Bank, Chennai - System/Business Analyst,Dec, 2021 - Till Date
- Wipro Technologies, Chennai - Scrum Master, Jan 2019 - Nov 2021,
- Wipro Technologies, Chennai - Business Analyst, Jan 2017 - Dec 2018,
- Wipro Technologies, Chennai - Test Lead, May 2014 - Dec 2016,
- Wipro Technologies, Chennai - Quality Analyst, June 2011 - April 2014,
Domainexpertise
- Retail Banking - Customer and Account onboarding
- Corporate (CCIB) Banking - Online Banking, Forex System and Payments
- Core Banking Migration - Migration from one core banking system to another core banking system.
- Retail and CCIB - Products, customer segments, channel mapping, risk mapping, transaction mapping.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 04/25/90
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
- Religion: Hindu
Languages
English
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu
Timeline
System/Business Analyst
Standard Chartered Bank
12.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Wipro Technologies
01.2019 - 11.2021
Business Analyst
Wipro Technologies
01.2017 - 12.2018
Test Lead
Wipro Technologies
05.2014 - 12.2016
Quality Analyst
Wipro Technologies
06.2011 - 04.2014
B.Tech (Information Technology) -
R.M.K Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University)
Diploma in Computer Science - undefined
Sri Durga Devi Polytechnic College
10th Standard - undefined
Gill Adarsh Matriculation Higher Secondary School
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