DARSHANA RANANAVARE
Mumbai
Summary
Agile-focused Business Analyst and Scrum Master with expertise in facilitating Scrum processes, gathering business requirements, and delivering solutions that align with stakeholder needs. Skilled in leading teams, driving process improvements, and ensuring timely project delivery. Committed to fostering collaboration, enhancing efficiency, and delivering business value through Agile methodologies.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant
Virtusa
03.2025 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for project completion.
- Enhanced client relationships by providing strategic advice and solutions.
- Reviewed and approved prototypes, ensured alignment with company vision.
- Championed customer experience throughout product development process.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify process improvements, resulting in increased productivity across projects.
- Evaluated clients' needs and created plan of action to provide solutions.
IT Programmer Analyst, Role: Business Analyst & Scrum Master
Stewart India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2023 - 03.2025
- Developing User Stories: Creating detailed user stories using agile practices, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
- Collaborating with Development Team: Working closely with developers to implement user requirements, ensuring seamless execution and timely delivery.
- Leading Daily Scrums: Facilitating daily scrum meetings, ensuring effective communication and timely resolution of roadblocks.
- Deriving Acceptance Criteria: Defining clear and testable acceptance criteria in collaboration with the scrum team, ensuring user stories meet the desired outcomes.
- Prioritizing Product Backlog: Partnering with the Product Owner to prioritize the backlog based on business value, risk, and dependencies, optimizing sprint planning.
- Refining User Stories: Ensuring user stories are well-defined and prioritized, providing clear direction for the development team during sprints.
- Ensuring Testability: Collaborating with testers to ensure acceptance criteria are clear, measurable, and achievable, supporting successful testing outcomes.
- Leading Scrum Events: Coordinating and leading sprint retrospectives and sprint reviews, fostering continuous improvement and aligning the team with project goals.
- Implemented a feedback loop with stakeholders that enhanced requirement gathering and reduced rework.
- Project: EPP
- Domain: Real Estate Insurance
- Tools: ADO (Azure DevOps), Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), SQL, Postman, Figma
- Achievements: Streamlined project processes, resulting in increase in efficiency. Successfully implemented agile methodologies, reducing project completion time. Successfully led the transition to agile methodologies, enhancing team collaboration and project efficiency, while consistently delivering high-quality results aligned with business objectives.
Associate, Role: Business Analyst & Jr Scrum Master
Altudo
08.2022 - 03.2023
- Led User Story Workshops: Orchestrated workshops to define key modules (header, footer, pagination) for Ametek's system enhancements.
- Spearheaded Requirement Gathering: Drove the documentation of business and system requirements, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Optimized Sprint Tracking: Partnered with the Product Owner to manage burn-down charts, ensuring on-time delivery.
- Facilitated Scrum Meetings: Directed daily scrums, resolving blockers and maintaining sprint momentum.
- Expert in Sitecore CMS: Utilized Sitecore CMS for seamless content integration and management.
- Collaborated on Database Design: Worked with the database team to structure and optimize database tables for performance.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline project workflows, achieving improvement in delivery timelines.
- Achievements: Enhanced module functionalities, resulting in increase in user satisfaction. Implemented efficient project tracking mechanisms, leading to improvement in project delivery. Drove user-centric enhancements and streamlined workflows, improving project delivery and user satisfaction through effective collaboration and analysis.
Associate, Role: Business Analyst & Jr Scrum Master
Collabera Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - 08.2022
- Project: Foundry | Domain: CMS | May'2022 - Aug'2022
- Project: Hexagon | Domain: CMS | Mar'2022 - Apr'2022
- Project: FIS | Domain: CMS - Banking | Nov'2021 - Jan'2022
- Project: Ametek | Domain: CMS | Jul'2021 - Oct'2021
- Led User Story Workshops: Orchestrated workshops to define key modules (header, footer, pagination) for Ametek's system enhancements.
- Spearheaded Requirement Gathering: Drove the documentation of business and system requirements, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Optimized Sprint Tracking: Partnered with the Product Owner to manage burn-down charts, ensuring on-time delivery.
- Facilitated Scrum Meetings: Directed daily scrums, resolving blockers and maintaining sprint momentum.
- Expert in Sitecore CMS: Utilized Sitecore CMS for seamless content integration and management.
- Collaborated on Database Design: Worked with the database team to structure and optimize database tables for performance.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline project workflows, achieving improvement in delivery timelines.
- Achievements: Enhanced module functionalities, resulting in increase in user satisfaction. Implemented efficient project tracking mechanisms, leading to improvement in project delivery. Drove user-centric enhancements and streamlined workflows, improving project delivery and user satisfaction through effective collaboration and analysis.
Executive, Role: Business Analyst
AGS Transact Technologies
09.2019 - 01.2021
- Project: Patanjali | Domain: Banking | Aug'2020 - Jan'2021
- Project: Essar (Nayara Energy) | Domain: Banking | Sep'2019 - Oct'2020
- Coordinated RACI Matrix Development: Collaborated with business and project teams to define roles and responsibilities using the RACI matrix for effective project management.
- Led Design and Implementation: Spearheaded the creation of design documents, prototyping, and successful implementation of key project components.
- Managed Requirements Traceability: Developed and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) in partnership with the project team to ensure alignment across deliverables.
- Engineered SQL Procedures and Modules: Designed and developed SQL stored procedures, contributed to module development, and conducted thorough unit testing.
- Authored Key Documentation: Drafted comprehensive Business Requirements Documents (BRD), User Requirements Documents (URD), and Functional Specification Documents (FSD) to guide project execution.
- Enhanced SQL stored procedures, optimizing database performance and reducing query execution time.
- Achievements: Implemented streamlined project processes, resulting in an increase in productivity. Successfully managed project documentation, leading to reduction in errors. Championed quality assurance through documentation and optimization efforts, leading to improved project outcomes and enhanced database performance.
Role: Trainee Software Developer
U - To Solutions
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Project: RightsU | Domain: Media Technology | Aug'2018 - Aug'2019
- Engaged in coding and development of various software modules.
- Proficient in SQL stored procedure development for database operations.
- Contributed to the development of software modules that improved system functionality and user experience.
- Assisted in the creation of SQL stored procedures, enhancing data retrieval processes and supporting project objectives.
Education
BSc - Information Technology
Pune Vidyarthi Griha’s college of Science and Technology
MumbaiHSC - Science
Pune Vidya Bhavan
MumbaiSSC -
Mohite Patil Vidyalaya
Mumbai04-2012
Skills
- MS Visio 2007
- MS Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
- Axure RP Pro
- Balsamiq
- Agile Methodologies
- UML Diagrams
- ASPNet
- ASPNet MVC
- MS SQL
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Product Backlog Prioritization
- Software Prototyping
- System Requirements Documentation
- Scrum Methodology
- Database Management
- Project Management
- User Acceptance Testing
- Software Development Methodologies
- Business Requirements Analysis
- Agile Practices
Certification
- Certified IT Business Analysis from IIBAEEP
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance
Languages
English
Hindi
Marathi
Personal Information
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Virtusa
03.2025 - Current
IT Programmer Analyst, Role: Business Analyst & Scrum Master
Stewart India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2023 - 03.2025
Associate, Role: Business Analyst & Jr Scrum Master
Altudo
08.2022 - 03.2023
Associate, Role: Business Analyst & Jr Scrum Master
Collabera Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - 08.2022
Executive, Role: Business Analyst
AGS Transact Technologies
09.2019 - 01.2021
Role: Trainee Software Developer
U - To Solutions
08.2018 - 08.2019
HSC - Science
Pune Vidya Bhavan
BSc - Information Technology
Pune Vidyarthi Griha’s college of Science and Technology
SSC -
Mohite Patil Vidyalaya