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Ashish Batra

PEGA Consultant
Ghaziabad

Summary

PEGA Consultant having expertise in BFSI domain with more than 15 years of experience in defining product road map and product strategy.

Experience in developing and managing web/ mobile application products in Agile environment. Expertise in product development from ideation through design to development and release. Leverage usability studies, market research, competitive analysis to understand problem and devise product solution.

Key Competencies: PEGA, BFSI domain, Product Launch, Product Ideation, Product Backlog Management, Stakeholder Management, Product Backlog Refinement, Market Research, PI Planning, Microservices Architecture, and Database

SDLC Processes: Agile release train(scaled agile framework), SAFe, Scrum, KANBAN

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Pre-Sales Consultant

Wipro Limited
Delhi
02.2022 - Current
  • Currently working as PEGA Delivery Manager for one of their market leading client in automotive domain
  • Used PEGA microservices architecture for developing applications for running unique processes and communicate through a well defined mechanism to serve a business goal.
  • Used PEGA extender to extend the base functionality built in PEGA to SalesForce
  • Assisted customer make decisions using CDH and NLP. Resulting in sales growth in the European markets
  • Headless PEGA product was created with VueJS frontend and micro services as the middleware
  • PI Planning, continuous Backlog Refinement and grooming, and provide direction to the agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and elicitate requirements
  • Work with stakeholders on product vision, define road-map and growth opportunities
  • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
  • Work on defining technical specifications for new RESTful API development as well as integration
  • Participate in SAFe ceremonies such as PI Planning, Scrum, Review, Sprint Planning and Retrospective meetings
  • Communicate the goals with stakeholder which include customers, business managers and development team to enable alignment of business objectives

Sr System Analyst

Coforge
06.2018 - 02.2022
  • Worked on devising Specialty/Surety/Aviation/Marine insurance products for one of the top BFSI group in U.K and U.S.
  • All the products were created using the business centric approach in PEGA
  • Define features and groom product backlog
  • Research for product offerings such as conducted focus group interviews, devised questionnaires, primary and secondary research
  • Planning product and features based on competitive analysis
  • Manage agile projects- continuous refinement and prioritization of backlog ensuring timely delivery
  • Map out project dependencies, implementation risks and all functional requirements
  • Participating in Scrum ceremonies, prepare release plan, conduct system demos with customer and capture feedbacks for incorporation

Project Engineer

AON Services
02.2015 - 02.2019
  • Gathering requirement from Clients and converting them into functional documents such as Use Cases
  • Creating user stories and acceptance criteria, allowing verifying the functionality against the business need
  • Facilitated daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews and Retrospective meetings for two scrum teams
  • Track, escalate and remove impediments
  • Working with clients to define the scope of a new requirement or enhancement in the assigned module
  • Supervise Daily calls with clients to determine new requirements/change requests for upcoming sprints
  • Closely working with UI designers to finalize the UX and UI
  • Being a part of bug triage committee to make sure high priority issues are addressed on time
  • Organizing training sessions for end users and other business analysts (onshore as well as off-shore).

Sr Systems Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd
07.2010 - 02.2015
  • Converted business requirements into user stories and attended work shops for taking business requirements
  • Execute and maintain the test scripts
  • Validate the localized versions of core Adobe Products
  • Perform build acceptance testing.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

UPTU
Uttar Pradesh, India
07.2006 - 06.2010

Senior secondary -

CBSE
Delhi, India
04.2005 - 04.2006

Skills

  • PEGA APP Studio

  • MS VISIO

  • JIRA

  • Rally

  • Team Foundation

  • Confluence

  • MS Office

Area of Expertise

  • PEGA
  • Microservices
  • Product Ideation
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Manage Product Backlog
  • Prioritizing Customer/Product Needs
  • Market Research
  • Property & Casualty Insurance
  • RESTful APIs
  • Pre-Sales

Industries

  • BFSI
  • Consumers
  • Supply chain
  • Healthcare
  • Pharma
  • Ecommerce
  • Finance

Extra - Curriculars

  • Travelling(Road trips)
  • Music(Rock and EDM)
  • Watching TV Series
  • Readings Thrillers

Personal Characteristics

  • Focused approach with attention to detail
  • Comfortable with cross functional team work
  • Flexible and Adaptable

Timeline

Pre-Sales Consultant

Wipro Limited
02.2022 - Current

Sr System Analyst

Coforge
06.2018 - 02.2022

Project Engineer

AON Services
02.2015 - 02.2019

Sr Systems Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd
07.2010 - 02.2015

B.Tech - Computer Science

UPTU
07.2006 - 06.2010

Senior secondary -

CBSE
04.2005 - 04.2006

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