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Jay Pareek

Jay Pareek

Lead-Product Research Analyst
Gurgaon

Summary

A proficient, result & detail oriented seasoned collaborator Business Analyst/Lead-Product Research Analyst with more than 8 years of relevant experience. Driven by low supervision, strong leadership, and high competence, I endow exceptional interpersonal, written & verbal communication skills shared with ability to work under pressure to keep up with the deadlines. Knack to quickly grasp new concepts and processes while working vertically across the organization and end users to ensure accurate and timely completion of large & small-scale projects.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead-Product Research Analyst

Neutrinos
6 2020 - Current
  • Low-code Application development platform to cater for rapid application development for Insurance and Banking Domain clients
  • Proven expertise working on Insurance SRM right from conceptualization, product design implementation phases to all the product development lifecycle phases to deliver PSPIs
  • Collaborated cross functionally and worked as liaison between business, sales, marketing & IT teams to define the product requirements & incorporate features based on market/client demands
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
  • Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
  • Define, maintain and analyze key metrics for launched products/features and feed learnings back into our product development and learning process
  • Also drafted & maintained solution vision, road-map and backlog for the project lifecycle
  • Translated features into user stories within the team's backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing the backlog to resonate stakeholder's requirements in order to make sure to have continued PSPI at the end of each sprint cycle
  • Worked upon RFP analysis, effort estimation, support sales/pre-sales team for prospect demos and performing the GAP analysis for the requirements
  • Proven capabilities on product planning & eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, user stories, and scenarios
  • Well versed in facilitating Sprint Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming) for each sprint in Agile Scrum Methodology as a Scrum Master
  • Continuously interacting with business and internal stakeholders to understand company's vision towards product so as to recommend and prioritize the product features accordingly
  • Extensively collaborated with marketing team to prepare various marketing collaterals such as PPT, Informative videos, FAQs, Market Research Documents to help internal sales/pre-sales teams to effectively & efficiently interact with prospects and clients to demo the product
  • Effectively negotiated sprint goals with the team & business, which resulted in slashing initial delivery time from 4 months to 2 months

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Loyalty Prime Pvt. Ltd
11.2016 - 06.2020
  • Platform to cater for creating & managing Loyalty Programs for clients such as BMW China, Frankfurt Airport, Quikschuh, IBL Together Appreciative knowledge of working in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and different development methodologies such as Waterfall and, also Agile methodologies such as SCRUM, and Waterfall-SCRUM hybrid working environment
  • Organised and facilitated Requirements Elicitation Sessions (Interviews, Focused Groups, Survey/Questionnaire, Brainstorming sessions) with End-users, Project Manager, Subject Matter Experts (SME's) and Stakeholders so as to document SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) business requirements for better understanding to design data flow and develop the system
  • Proficient with User Stories and handling the Requirements Churn
  • Efficiently performed prioritisation techniques & estimation techniques such as Planning Poker, T-Shirt Sizing, MoSCoW and KANO Analysis
  • Well versed in facilitating Sprint Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming) for each sprint in Agile Scrum Methodology as a Scrum Master
  • Accompanied with expertise in developing Business Test cases, Test plans in different test environments
  • Collaborated and monitored various testings' such as Black-Box testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for verifying and validating the product
  • Worked with Product Owner to review the working demo of Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI) in review meeting and helped deciding which features are done and satisfies the acceptance criteria
  • Managed and Negotiated the Change Request from Business owners on how to accommodate new changes in Agile Environment
  • Extensive On-Site travel to China, Germany, Mauritius for on-site requirements elicitation, UAT Support, Demos and client meets.

Functional Business Analyst

RSR Unlimited Inc.
06.2015 - 05.2016
  • Working on implementing Digital Signature Component for one of the client 'Deutsche Bank'
  • Evaluated the readiness and need of implementing the New Change 'DocuSign' for seamless transition into organisations daily practice
  • Worked upon implementing organisation wide digital signature platform, DocuSign, for ease of operation of Wealth Management customer executives for new account opening
  • Fulfilled the role of Subject Matter Expert alongside the reporting manager for requirement elicitation
  • Techniques used were Focused groups for end user inputs for analysis and kick-off meetings via Skype calls and grooming sessions
  • Created functional user guide manual for staff training purpose and support knowledge transfer to internal teams
  • Validated the functionality of the end product according to the JIRA user stories
  • Performed Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of application on different integrated modules
  • Prepared and presented Project Status Report to organisation's senior and middle management as well as other internal stakeholders
  • Managed relationships with software vendors, consultants and IT staff to carry out a streamlined SDLC process.

Education

Master of Science (MS) - Global Marketing

Arizona State University - Thunderbird School of Global Management
Phoenix, Arizona

Skills

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Certification

Scrum Master, International Scrum Institute, 09/2015, 91901257076766

Timeline

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Loyalty Prime Pvt. Ltd
11.2016 - 06.2020

Functional Business Analyst

RSR Unlimited Inc.
06.2015 - 05.2016

Lead-Product Research Analyst

Neutrinos
6 2020 - Current

Master of Science (MS) - Global Marketing

Arizona State University - Thunderbird School of Global Management

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