ASIF BASHA P
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced and results-driven Business Analyst with over 12 years in Core Banking, including 7+ years in business analysis. Demonstrated success in delivering end-to-end projects, leading cross-functional teams, and driving solutions across SDLCs using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Skilled in stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, and process improvement.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Business Analyst
PERSISTENT SYSTEMS
03.2023 - Current
- Analyzed banking and audit data to pinpoint process improvement opportunities.
- Engaged stakeholders to gather requirements, translating them into clear user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Collaborated with Development and QA teams to refine user stories for clarity and testability.
- Presented findings to business stakeholders, highlighting areas for process enhancement.
- Managed change requests effectively, ensuring smooth implementation in projects.
- Supported sprint planning and reviews, preparing user stories for development alignment with business objectives.
- Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 deliverables, including functional specifications and workflow diagrams.
- Supported the Production Support Team, ensuring timely tracking and closure of tickets.
Senior Business Analyst
YES BANK
03.2022 - 03.2023
- Dictated system requirements by understanding product vision and end-customer needs to drive backlog grooming.
- Identified features to enhance product quality while preventing bugs.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineers, designers, and business owners, to facilitate product launches.
- Developed skeleton flows for developers and drafted corner case test scenarios for comprehensive testing.
- Acted as liaison between Sales and Engineering teams to present Proof of Concepts effectively.
- Led a team of six by allocating daily tasks to optimize productivity.
- Owned and maintained Kanban board, ensuring timely closure of tickets through effective communication with teams.
- Conducted extensive report development within YEG GENIE application to consolidate customer-related and product information.
BUSINESS ANALYST
RBL BANK
04.2020 - 03.2022
- Gathering the requirements via interviews, preparing the business and functional requirement documents, and having excellent knowledge of Agile methodology, as well as creating the epics, features, and user stories with the appropriate acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate grooming sessions with the product owner to build the product backlog.
- Acted as a Scrum Master for two different projects, guiding the team from sprint planning to retrospection.
- Excellent knowledge in Agile methodology and creating the epics/user stories with the appropriate acceptance criteria.
- Prioritizing the sprint backlog for the teams, and helping the teams to continue with their deliverables without any impediments.
- Track and report scrum team velocity and other important KPIs.
- Involve yourself in all phases of the SDLC, from analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance, with timely delivery against aggressive deadlines.
- Escalating the impediments across core product management and core delivery management teams.
- Involved and active team member in the account opening process called ABACUS.
- Successfully passed Requirements Inspections and Quality Gates for all assigned projects.
- Handling Check-Free bill pay processing.
- Also processed stop payments, blocking of debit cards, developing, and implementing the online.
BUSINESS CONSULTANT
RBL BANK
04.2018 - 04.2020
- Assisted with online banking issues such as error messages or technical troubleshooting
- Verifying enrollment for transfers, suspending/un-suspending accounts, and researching failed transfers.
- Assisting members with banking issues, such as enrollment problems and activation codes for debit cards.
- Assisting with retail banking issues such as online account opening errors, internet banking errors, and forex transaction issues.
- Assisted in the online platform setup for KYC and other demographic changes related to accounts.
JUNIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
AXIS BANK
01.2016 - 04.2018
- Gather and analyze business requirements for the account opening application, working closely with stakeholders such as account managers, compliance, and IT teams to ensure the application meets the needs of the business and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborating with IT development teams to ensure the application is delivered on time, using agile methodologies.
- Keeping abreast of the latest trends and regulatory requirements in the banking industry to ensure the account-opening application is compliant and relevant.
- Work closely with the scrum team, product owners, and stakeholders to complete the sprint activities.
- Track and remove external and internal impediments for the Scrum team.
- Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and refinement meetings.
- Worked on other projects related to the insurance and wealth management domain.
- Worked on and was involved in the SDLC of a new application, "SAKSHAM," in replacement of Finacle for conducting fund transfers, RTGS, and NEFT transactions in a simpler way.
- Monitor current business processes used by the Business Banking, Consumer Banking, and PEP groups for reviewing bank customers for AML and KYC systems.
Operation and Risk Analyst
AXIS BANK
10.2010 - 01.2016
- Collect and analyze qualitative data from bankers through the creation of pointed customer questionnaires.
- Ensure strict compliance and scrutiny of KYC while opening the account, and ongoing updates of the KYC process.
- Identify errors/bugs in Finacle, raise tickets to the IT team for rectifications, and ensure the smooth application processes.
- Ensure the alert gets triggered in case customer transactions do not match the profile of the customer.
- Support the end-to-end audit process.
- Involve yourself in the ATM reconciliation process, and ensure error-free customer transactions through the deposit-cum-ATM machine.
Education
B.TECH - ECE
ALFA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
03.2009
BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE - MPC
RAO'S JR COLLEGE
03.2005
Secondary School of Education -
Ravindra High School
Nandyal03.2003
Skills
- Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Wireframes
- SDLC and Project Delivery
- Requirement Analysis
- Requirement Gathering
- Stakeholder Management
- Waterfall methodology
- BRD and FRD
- Wealth management
- Insurance Management
- Finacle
- Corporate banking
- KYC and AML
- SQL (Beginner)
Hobbies and Interests
- Playing Cricket
- Listening Music
Awards
- Honored with 'RISING STAR' for the exemplary service rendered in meeting client deadlines and owning up the project.
- Awarded 'WORK HARD PARTY HARDER'
- Awarded 'Employee of the Quarter'
Languages
- ENGLISH
- HINDI
- TELUGU
Accomplishments
- Honored with 'RISING STAR' for the exemplary service rendered in meeting client deadlines and owning up the project.
- Awarded 'WORK HARD PARTY HARDER'
- Awarded 'Employee of the Quarter'
Timeline
Lead Business Analyst
PERSISTENT SYSTEMS
03.2023 - Current
Senior Business Analyst
YES BANK
03.2022 - 03.2023
BUSINESS ANALYST
RBL BANK
04.2020 - 03.2022
BUSINESS CONSULTANT
RBL BANK
04.2018 - 04.2020
JUNIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
AXIS BANK
01.2016 - 04.2018
Operation and Risk Analyst
AXIS BANK
10.2010 - 01.2016
B.TECH - ECE
ALFA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE - MPC
RAO'S JR COLLEGE
Secondary School of Education -
Ravindra High School
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