Kiran S

Project: True International Payments – ING

Project Objective: Streamline and enhance ING’s international payments platform by implementing microservices, automating financial processes, and ensuring robust testing and compliance.

• Requirement Analysis: Gathered and validated business needs to ensure alignment with project objectives.
• Stakeholder Communication: Maintained effective communication with internal and external stakeholders, addressing concerns & aligning expectations.
• User Stories & Acceptance Criteria: Created detailed user stories and clearly defined acceptance criteria for development and QA teams.
• Testing & QA: Conducted manual testing for PAIN message enrichments and reviewed test cases to ensure full coverage and quality assurance.
• Managed high-priority incidents, identifying root causes and implementing preventive measures.
• Documentation: Developed process flows, business impact analyses, and source-to-target mapping documents for key deliverables.

• Microservices Implementation: Designed and deployed a microservices architecture for the XJT application, improving flexibility and scalability.
• Process Automation: Automated CHAPS and Accuity payment processing using Azure DevOps, reducing manual effort by 80%, eliminating manual deployment activities, and improving production reliability.

Project: SBC – Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Project Objective: Support enterprise system migration from TCS to PCC by delivering actionable data insights, ensuring data quality, and producing technical documentation critical for successful implementation.

• Data Exploration & Validation: Analyzed large datasets to derive actionable insights, align with business use cases, and support migration-readiness assessments.
• Data Quality & Profiling: Analyzed data to evaluate completeness, accuracy, and consistency; identified anomalies and ensured data integrity.
• Technical Documentation: Authored Source-to-Target (S2T) mapping documents, transformation logics, and Business Metadata Templates (BMT) for data lineage tracking and audit compliance.
• Interface Design & Migration Support: Defined entry criteria and developed interface specification documents for the successful migration of LOA/ATP modules from legacy systems.

• Migration Enablement: Facilitated a smooth TCS to PCC system transition by delivering end-to-end data documentation, profiling results, and migration specs.
• Process Optimization: Improved release preparedness by standardizing S2T and interface specs, reducing post-migration defects and rework.
• Data Governance Support: Contributed to stronger data governance by ensuring traceability and consistency across all migration deliverables.

Project: SBC – Commonwealth Bank of Australia

• Conducted in-depth analysis and organized business-critical datasets to derive actionable insights that informed functional requirements.
• Data Analysis: Conducted in-depth analysis and organized business-critical datasets to derive actionable insights supporting functional requirements.
• Created comprehensive Source-to-Target Mapping (STM), transformation logic, and Business Metadata (BMT) documentation, facilitating seamless data migration and release planning.

Documentation: Created comprehensive Source-to-Target Mapping (STM), transformation logic, and Business Metadata (BMT) documentation to support seamless data migration and release planning.

• Technical Documentation: Developed precise interface specifications and STM/BMT documents to support the migration process and enhance traceability.
• Developed interface specifications and STM/BMT documents that supported the migration process and improved traceability.

Project: Growth Momentum Project – Unilever

Project Management: Collected and evaluated project-specific data; analyzed business requirements and supported the business development team in aligning deliverables with stakeholder expectations.

• Managed project data collection and evaluation; analyzed business requirements and aligned deliverables with stakeholder expectations to enhance project outcomes.
• Developed UI mockups and defined business logic for new features; created test cases for functional validation to ensure alignment with requirements.

Efficiency Improvement: Contributed to a 40% reduction in CR delivery turnaround time through streamlined requirement analysis and design processes.

• Led 3-member team to deliver Growth Momentum Project, achieving on-time completion while maintaining quality standards.
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Project: IRI – Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Project Objective: Deliver advanced product and market analysis to top-tier CPG clients by leveraging POS, panel, and media data to provide insights on brand performance, market share, and consumer behavior across retail channels.

• Product Analysis: Analyzed Point-of-Sale (POS), panel, and media data to evaluate product growth, penetration, and performance across U.S. retail chains including Walmart.
• Marketing Insights: Generated market share, category share, and brand performance insights through ad hoc, promotional, and recurring reports across various geographies.
• Client Interaction: Served as primary contact for client inquiries regarding deliverables, data issues, and business analysis interpretations, ensuring timely and effective resolutions.
• Reporting: Generated daily, weekly, and monthly performance reports on productivity, quality, and delivery metrics, enhancing report generation through automation.

Key achievements:

• Process Automation: Developed a GC automation project, delivering 600+ hours of annual effort savings.
• Efficiency Tool Development: Built a SKU extraction tool in Excel, saving 42 hours per user per month (PUPM).
• Project Ownership: Independently handled the high-visibility BTS project, resulting in a ~25% increase in output quality.
• Team Leadership: Led a 6-member E-commerce team from pilot phase, establishing processes that ensured consistent, high-quality output.