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KIRAN VENUGOPAL

Bengaluru

Summary

With 7+ years of overall work experience as a professional Business Analyst, I wish to be part of a results-oriented work environment by analyzing business operations and aligning business objectives with technology solutions to drive process improvement, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains. I have always been an effective team player with efficient multitasking skills to deliver value in a fast-paced, high-impact and competitive environment.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst

Trika Technologies
10.2023 - Current

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.

Business Analyst

FAI
06.2022 - 07.2023
  • 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.

Senior Business Analyst

Diksha Technologies
08.2021
  • 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.

Business Analyst

Accenture
03.2018
  • 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.

Education

Msc in IT - Information Science

Jain College/University
Banglore
01.2016

BCA - Computer And Information Sciences

Dayanand Sagar College
Banglore
01.2014

Skills

  • Wireframing tools (Balsamiq, Miro)
  • Requirement elicitation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Wireframing tools: MS Visio, Figma, Adobe XD
  • Documentation: MS Office suite (Word, Excel), BRD, FRD, SRS, Defining user stories, epics, and features
  • Collaboration tools: JIRA & ADO
  • SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum Methodologies
  • Software Development and Testing Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC),
  • Agile and Scrum Methodologies
  • Software Quality Assurance
  • Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Review, Grooming, and Refinement
  • RTM, Root Cause Analysis,
  • Feasibility Report
  • Product Backlog Management,
  • API Testing,Test Cases Preparation and Execution, andSIT/UAT Testing
  • SQL, Power BI

Certification

  • Certified scrum product owner (CSPO).
  • Certified scrum master (CSM).
  • UX research certification.
  • PSPO.

Accomplishments

  • Received client appreciation award in May 2019.
  • Received business encore award twice (Nov 2019 and Dec 2021)
  • Awarded as best lead in Dec 2019.

Timeline

Business Analyst

Trika Technologies
10.2023 - Current

Business Analyst

FAI
06.2022 - 07.2023

Senior Business Analyst

Diksha Technologies
08.2021

Business Analyst

Accenture
03.2018

Msc in IT - Information Science

Jain College/University

BCA - Computer And Information Sciences

Dayanand Sagar College
  • Certified scrum product owner (CSPO).
  • Certified scrum master (CSM).
  • UX research certification.
  • PSPO.
KIRAN VENUGOPAL