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
Project Management
Data Analytics
Digital Transformation
Client Requirements Assessment
Work Planning and Prioritization
User Support
Sprint Planning
Software development life cycle
Stakeholder Management
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