Ajay Dalal
Consulting
Gurgaon
Summary
An innovative professional with a proven track record of success in assessing software development project needs and crafting effective solutions. With keen problem-solving skills are focused on boosting performance in all aspects of work. Renowned for consistently achieving results within established timeframes, ensuring that every project I handle adheres to the utmost standards of excellence. Working with strategies which are custom-fitted to each project's unique demands, prioritizing efficiency and cutting-edge innovation. A firm believer in the power of teamwork and its critical role in driving success.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
08.2023 - Current
- Facilitated workshops with clients to identify pain points, establish goals, and define actionable steps towards achieving desired outcomes.
- Leveraged extensive industry knowledge to provide valuable insights into emerging trends impacting client businesses.
- Collaborated with internal teams to develop customized solutions that addressed unique client needs.
- Evaluated existing business processes, recommending improvements that led to increased operational efficiency by 10%.
- Managed cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions for various projects.
- Optimized resource allocation by analyzing project requirements thoroughly and assigning appropriate personnel.
- Implemented data-driven approaches for assessing project success, continuously refining processes based on insights gained over time.
- Built strong relationships with clients through consistent communication and proactive problem-solving efforts.
- Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Identified key areas in need of improvement and implemented plans to rectify issues.
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
- Troubleshot issues by understanding issue, diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions.
- Supported clients with business analysis, documentation, and data modeling.
Sr Associate Consultant, Role : Product Owner/Business Analyst
Infosys Limited
07.2021 - 07.2023
- Interacted with team and clients to develop and coordinate project requirements and workflow
- Reviewed and edited client communication documents
- Broke project into epics and implementable user stories
- Liaised with product team and development team to help break down requirements
- Owned and prioritized product backlog
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery
- Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work
- Allocated and approved team resource usage
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks
- Worked one-on-one with clients to improve application/software specifications.
Business Analyst
CGI
11.2019 - 07.2021
- Working closely with the business and technical stakeholders to understand the requirements and workflows
- Document the business objectives, scope and program expectations
- Story mapping the requirements, the workflows and the life cycle of the product
- Worked with the Clients and Architecture leads in order to decide the Architecture for the Services and UI
- Working on UX design for the new features based on the requirements from Clients and Users
- Creating the Features and user stories, process models, functional architectures and user acceptance criteria as part of requirement gathering and documentation
- Sprint backlog management, Prioritization, MVP identification
- Helping the team (Developers and testers) to understand the requirements so that TDD and BDD developments are met
- Creating, reviewing and testing the bug fixes following the bug triage process
- Documenting, understanding and helping team to creating and deliver an MVP product
- Helped and supported the team in SonarQube implementation inorder to insure the good code health of the application
- Work on Power BI and Spotfire to visualize and test the desired output data from databases
- Presented the demos of the upcoming features and the functionalities to the users (Shell Geoscience community globally)
- Document and get the sign-off on the release notes and release summary for new releases.
Business Analyst
CGI
05.2016 - 07.2021
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope
- Organized Geochemistry and Geology domain sessions for the team in order to help them understand the requirements
- Worked in certain application enhancements according to the business requirement in and deployed the changes to production environment
- Provided support to applications and respond and resolve issues
- Verifying the data connection, data loading and calculation results on the Application
- Helping users in order to have the issues resolved quickly
- Creating the test cases and the Master test plan for application from the trash
- Non-functional testing for installation and running the configuration files for Foenix, HighRes and Baseline
- Worked on test strategies and defect management processes to brainstorm possible ways to catch present defects and prevent defects in future
- Performed Smoke, Regression and User Testing and documented the results
- Document and get the sign-off on the release notes and release summary for Patch and Hotfix release.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Geoscience
University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
Dehradun, India 05.2012 - 05.2016
Skills
Consulting
Certification
SAFe agile framework Certification
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
08.2023 - Current
Sr Associate Consultant, Role : Product Owner/Business Analyst
Infosys Limited
07.2021 - 07.2023
AZ900 Certification
03-2021
Power BI Essential Training
03-2021
SAFe agile framework Certification
03-2020
Business Analyst
CGI
11.2019 - 07.2021
ISTQB (Foundation Level)
05-2017
Business Analyst
CGI
05.2016 - 07.2021
Bachelor of Science - Geoscience
University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
05.2012 - 05.2016
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