KIRAN VENUGOPAL

Researching, gathering, and synthesizing information, assessing t current state, identifying customer requirements, and defining the future state and/or business solution.

• Create clear business requirements by analyzing functions, conducting research, and evaluating output requirements and formats.
• Utilize proficiency in agile execution tools like Azure DevOps (ADO) and Jira.
• Identify ways to improve systems by studying current practices, designing modifications, and staying current with customers, markets, and competitive trends.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and user stories.
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including business requirements, functional requirements, and use cases
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, technical teams, and project managers to ensure project deliverables are completed on time and within budget
• Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate project updates and progress
• Collect and analyze data using data analytics and data science functions to identify trends and insights.I have experience working with Power BI, Power Query, DAX and excel
• Experience in testing requirements and managing UAT activities
• Strong knowledge of syndicated data and e-commerce
• Facilitate meetings and workshops with stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure alignment.

• Conducted workshops for Requirement Gathering Requirements development process through the elicitation techniques
• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans which involved various Test Cases for all assigned modules
• Supporting the Project Manager/ Delivery Team in delivering the solution to the customer
• Define and plan project milestones, phases and different elements involved in the project along with the principal consultant
• Drive and challenge the presumptions of delivery teams on how they will successfully execute their plans
• Engage and interact with t h e internal team - project managers, Dev team, QA team, tech leads,architects and UX Team
• Conducting effective client meetings, understand deliverables, and drive successful outcomes
• Helping internal teams in developing and implementing best practices, standards and methodologies around business analysis and data analysis
• Strong analytical skills and enthusiasm for digging into the details to define use cases, capabilities, and impacts and coordinate delivery through an Agile way of working
• Ability to understand technical product challenges and contribute to defining and communicating solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of Visio, Figma, Miro, JIRA and ADO
• Facilitates team demos to the stakeholders
• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, validation, and documentation of clients’ business needs and requirements
• Good written and oral communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

• Be an active participant in all agile ceremonies – daily stand-ups, refinement sessions, sprint demos, retrospectives, sprint planning, and release planning
• Collaborate with other product group leaders in managing and refining product backlog to drive value in accordance with business priorities
• Interview stakeholders or Product owners to determine their requirements
• Generate personas, process flows, user journeys and story maps
• Generate Lean Business Case documentation, and Epics/ Features/ User Stories/ BRDs/ FRD in product management tools
• Create, Plan and prioritize detailed product requirements and backlog based on the product vision and product strategy
• Breakdown of epics/features into user stories in discussion with product management to enable incremental value delivery
• Ensure the scrum teams have a prioritized and estimated backlog according to business priorities
• Ensure the Dev & QA teams fully understands the content and the business value of the user story
• Review test scenarios written for user stories by peers.

• Understand Business / Product Requirements
• Maintain product backlog
• Work with the product manager in prioritizing the stories
• Creates and maintains user stories, wireframes
• Remove any impediments with respect to requirements, UI/UX, Test scenarios and help the team get the required help from respective stakeholder
• Act as PO for a scrum team, facilitating estimation, communicating timelines to the Product team, and owning the delivery of features
• Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) and coordinate with the QA team to streamline testing plans and automated regression testing requirements
• Report weekly progress on feature delivery to Product Managers
• Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile practices, and tools like JIRA, Open forge & ADO.