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Hudson Paul

Lead Business Analyst
Chennai

Summary

Results-driven Lead Business Analyst with over 8 years of experience specializing in the Agriculture & BFSI domains. Adept at requirement gathering and analysis, agile methodology, and workflow improvement. Proven track record of streamlining processes, achieving a 98% SLA compliance rate, and earning accolades for process optimization. Strong skills in user story documentation, critical thinking, and stakeholder management. MBA in Operations & Marketing with a keen focus on leading strategic changes to enhance product applications and deliver exceptional value to customers. Seeking to leverage expertise in driving efficiency and strategic impact in a forward-thinking organization.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

HTC Global Services - Mindsprint
Chennai
2022.10 - Current
  • Evaluated business proposals for new feature implementations thoroughly considering functionality requirements as well as compatibility with existing systems architecture.
  • Developed detailed functional specifications to guide development teams in creating robust digital solutions for business.
  • Developed mockup designs to aid implementation of new system features.
  • Coordinated with cross functional teams to design and implement custom applications tailored to specific business needs, resulting in increased efficiency and effectiveness of workflows.
  • Conducted training sessions for end-users on new features, increasing overall user adoption rates and improving system utilization.
  • Ensured 98-100% successful project outcomes by proactively identifying potential risks and implementing mitigation plans.

Technical Business Analyst

HCL Technologies Ltd - Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Chennai
4 2020 - 2022.10
  • Owned planning and scheduling of 2-week sprints, articulated product vision to engineers, and defined sprint goals.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
  • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
  • Created user story acceptance criteria to achieve buy-in from stakeholders and refined stories with scrum team
  • Documented client requirements and implemented all parts of product life cycle, serving as liaison between clients and team to ensure alignment with goals.
  • Collaborated with UI/UX, API and System teams to support development initiatives.
  • Investigated and addressed system issues to enhance usability and improve functionality.
  • Assisted in User Acceptance Testing UAT by providing test scenarios and test data and performed manual test.
  • Monitored, tracked and documented progress of project by use requirement traceability matrix.

Business Analyst

CreditMantri Finserve Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai
2017.06 - 2020.04
  • Analyzed business requirements and processes through document analysis, stakeholder interviews and group workshops
  • Translated stakeholder requirements into functional specifications, use cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow diagrams and prototypes
  • Led product team of 8 engineers to design and develop robust functional solutions
  • Planned biweekly sprints and implemented projects using Agile methodologies
  • Conducted 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance to verify client needs

Key Achievement

  • Awarded Coach of May 2018 for increasing revenue and saving cost up to 12%

Credit Collection Manager

Allsec Technologies Limited
Chennai
2014.10 - 2015.08
  • Analyzed customer's credit history to identify overdue payments
  • Interacted with customers to obtain additional credit information to support credit lines; reconciled transactions and balances to keep accurate accounts
  • Provided elevated customer experience, addressed customer inquiries, solved problems and outlined new product information

Key Achievement

  • Ranked in top 10 for successful resolution of issues and improved cash flow by 10%

Education

MBA - Operations & Marketing

SSN School of Management
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2015.08 - 2017.05

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Kings Engineering College
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2010.08 - 2014.04

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering & Analysis

  • User story documentation

  • Agile methodologies

  • Stakeholder Management

  • SCRUM & Project Management

  • Workflow & Gap analysis

  • Release planning

  • Solution testing and implementation

  • SQL and Databases

Accomplishments

  • Earned Coach Award for consecutive 2 months for documenting, redesigning and improving business processes
  • Led team to meet 98% of SLAs by streamlining business processes and identifying areas for improvement

Software

JIRA

Confluence

Miro

MySQL & Oracle DB

Mingle

Open Project

Postman

Microsoft Office Suite

Trello

Google Analytics

Timeline

Lead Business Analyst

HTC Global Services - Mindsprint
2022.10 - Current

Business Analyst

CreditMantri Finserve Pvt. Ltd.
2017.06 - 2020.04

MBA - Operations & Marketing

SSN School of Management
2015.08 - 2017.05

Credit Collection Manager

Allsec Technologies Limited
2014.10 - 2015.08

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Kings Engineering College
2010.08 - 2014.04

Technical Business Analyst

HCL Technologies Ltd - Commonwealth Bank of Australia
4 2020 - 2022.10
Hudson PaulLead Business Analyst