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Kinjal Savariya

Senior Business Analyst
Vadodara

Summary

Results-driven Business Analyst with 14 years of experience and expertise in various domains, including Infringement Fines system, online assessment system, time & attendance system, visitor management system, and access control system. Skilled in all aspects of the business analysis process, from problem analysis and requirement gathering to designing effective business and software solutions. Experienced in stakeholder and client interaction, cross-team coordination, and management using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Committed to maximizing business functionality and efficiency through interdepartmental coordination. Proven ability to uncover, analyze, and solve complex problems. Dedicated to ongoing professional growth and research to drive innovation in the field.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Civica India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
  • Managed the end-to-end delivery of requirements and change management
  • Maintain longer-term vision for the product
  • Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
  • Ensuring the team continually delivers real value to the customer
  • Facilitated requirement gathering workshops, resulting in clear project objectives and deliverables.
  • Collaborating with a distributed, cross-functional team to define and refine product backlog items
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, ensuring a cohesive approach to business analysis.
  • Work with team to prepare & prioritize the features 2 Sprint in advance
  • Implemented Agile methodologies within project teams, increasing overall adaptability and responsiveness.
  • Promoting Business Analysis practices and awareness
  • Improved project efficiency by analyzing business processes and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Leading the BA team to deliver high-quality work while ensuring the complete requirements are met
  • Conducted gap analyses to identify discrepancies between current and desired states, leading to actionable recommendations.
  • Organized, coordinated, and led requirements and technical workshops with end users
  • Created detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.
  • Conduct system impact analysis and provide work estimates
  • Streamlined workflow for better productivity with the implementation of new software solutions.
  • Imparted successful training along with training document creation to the end users
  • Mentored junior analysts on best practices for business analysis techniques, fostering professional growth within the team.
  • Worked in both waterfall and agile methodologies
  • Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.

Business Analyst

Civica India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2020 - 01.2023
  • Engaged with stakeholders to understand business requirements and change requests
  • Responsible for leading the gathering, analysis, documentation, and stakeholder engagement
  • Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
  • Converted business user concepts and ideas into detailed business requirements and designed fully developed features like Financial Summary changes, Warrant Edit
  • Convert stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverables using modeling techniques, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow/process diagrams
  • Acted as a Product Owner throughout the feature implementation to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Ensure timely notification and escalation of possible issues/problems, options & recommendations for prompt resolution to the client & delivery manager
  • Assist with requirements during system testing & acceptance testing
  • Co-ordinate with QA team on development of test plans & test cases
  • Co-ordinate with technical lead & development team for resolving architectural roadblocks for implementing given requirements
  • Accountable for presenting completed features to clients
  • Act as Practice Champion for BA practices within the project
  • Worked as SME for certain modules

Business Analyst

Promact Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 08.2020
  • Stakeholder interaction for Business requirements, Change requests, Estimation, Planning, UI/UX
  • Responsible for leading the collection, analysis, documentation & stakeholder interaction for business requirements & change requests
  • Translate stakeholder's requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow/process diagrams
  • Utilizing the modelling techniques - activity diagram, use cases etc
  • To discover & clarify the functional & data requirements
  • Lead UI/UX team, review wireframes, give feedbacks/ideas from user perspective & conduct review meetings
  • Acting as a Product Owner throughout a solution implementation to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Co-ordinate with Project Manager, Team Leads & Stakeholders to keep requirements and solution in sync
  • Ensure timely notification and escalation of possible issues/problems, options & recommendations for prompt resolution to the client & project manager
  • Working in Agile driven development environment
  • Assist with requirements during QA & acceptance testing
  • Co-ordinate with QA team on development of test plans & test cases
  • Co-ordinate with development team for resolving architectural roadblocks for implementing given requirements
  • Responsible for demo with clients on completion of any feature.

SEPG Custodian (Software Engineering Process Group)

  • Hands on experience on Development, Enhancement & implementation of Software processes
  • Planning of Process Improvement activities
  • Collection and Evaluation of Process Improvement suggestions from people involved in implementing CMMi in organization
  • Helping in the evaluation of new tools and technologies and then recommending the best suited tool/technology to the organization and thus saving time, effort and money
  • Establishing Organizational Goals for quality (qualitative and quantitative) and providing structure for achieving these goals
  • Preparation and update of Tailoring Guidelines for the Organization
  • That clearly identify what can be tailored depending on the project size/duration/team size etc
  • Prepare the Audit Plans for Projects
  • Facilitate the Project Manager and Project teams in understanding the Process requirements with respect to the process steps, documents to be prepared, metrics to be collected
  • Ensure that technical reviews are completed and tracked to closure on the Estimations, Project Plans, Requirements, Design, Code, Test Plans, Cases and Reports, User Manuals
  • Audit the project Estimates, Plans, Status and Progress reports, Requirements, Design, Code, Test Plans, Test Cases, Review reports, Test reports, User Manuals
  • Report the project Audit non-compliances with respect to the implementation and compliance of the CMMI processes
  • Collect the project related artifacts, best practices, lessons learnt, Metrics from the closed projects

Software Design Engineer

MATRIX COMSEC
07.2016 - 10.2018
  • Analysing customer needs & performing requirement gathering & elicitation of it
  • Create a Business flow chart and develop process documents to developers
  • Elaborated test plan to make sure business processes are correctly supported by solution
  • Responsible for preparing product documentation, SRS documentation, Create Business flow-charts and Use-case Diagrams
  • Utilizing the modelling techniques - wireframe, activity diagram, use cases etc
  • To discover & clarify the functional & data requirements
  • Responsible for performing UAT testing before delivery of any feature to client
  • Acting as an owner throughout a solution implementation to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Involved in high level estimation activity of all the features or change request
  • Co-ordinate with QA team on development of test plans & test cases
  • Co-ordinate with development team for resolving architectural roadblocks for implementing given requirements
  • Responsible for demo with clients on completion of any feature
  • Responsible for maintaining system impact analysis
  • Worked on different API for communicating the information to mobile application

Senior Teaching Assistant

07.2009 - 12.2014
  • Taught students of Diploma Engineering & Masters of Science & Information technology

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information And Communication Technology
04.2001 - 05.2009

Bachelor of Computer Application - undefined

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Skills

    Functional & Technical Specification

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Certification

ITIL 4 Foundation certification, People Cert, 11/01/24, 11/01/27

Accomplishments

  • Received Performer of the Year Certificate for year 2019.
  • Remained SEPG member for CMMi Level 3 certification program (2018 - 2020)

Tools And Technologies

MS Visio, Balsamic, mockups.com, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power point), Confluence, JIRA, Redmine, Azure Devops, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle 9i, Rational Rose, Star UML, API, Cloud Computing, Requirement elicitation & Analysis, Client Communication, Project Management, Project Estimation Management, Change Request Management, Logic Building, Visual Modeling

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Civica India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current

Business Analyst

Civica India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2020 - 01.2023

Business Analyst

Promact Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 08.2020

Software Design Engineer

MATRIX COMSEC
07.2016 - 10.2018

Senior Teaching Assistant

07.2009 - 12.2014

Master of Science - Information Technology

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information And Communication Technology
04.2001 - 05.2009

SEPG Custodian (Software Engineering Process Group)

Bachelor of Computer Application - undefined

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

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