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Kshittiz Pahwa, CFA

Business Analyst/Product Owner
Hyderabad,India

Summary

Experienced product management professional well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies and principles of product development. Comfortable making key decisions for team to move products efficiently through pre-production and production timelines. Cleared all 3 levels of CFA and having in-depth understanding of financial products. Ready to offer 11 years of experience and take on a new dynamic position.



Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates

Work History

Sr. Business Analyst

Intercontinental Exhange
Hyderabad, India
10.2019 - Current
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog and achieved 95% of all featured deadlines by identifying roadblocks and mitigating any risks.
  • Acted as liason between business, sales and IT team and incorporate feature based on market demand and helped organization to get new clients in EMEA and Asia-Pac region.
  • Translated features into user stories within team's backlog while managing, ranking and prioritizing backlog to reflect stakeholder's requirements.
  • Suggested enhancements to product design that would improve user experience and helped retaining existing clients.
  • Responding to client queries and helping sales/pre-sales teams in onboarding new clients.
  • Managed multiple projects effectively in demanding environment with tight deadlines.
  • Attending Product demos, Sprint retrospective meetings and provide my feedback and scrum team to improves efficiency by 20% sprint on sprint basis in year 2021.
  • Performing UAT's and Prod check out's for every sprint based on acceptance criteria.
  • Attending bug triage and defect prioritization session for every sprint and identifying blocker issues for release.

Lead Consultant

Genapact Headstrong
Noida, India
06.2015 - 09.2019
  • Led 6 member team and helped client in implementing market leading liquidity indicators in bond markets. Client's revenue increased by 10x in span of 3 years.
  • Developed program schedules and monitored milestones, managing sprints for timely completion.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Writing Business requirements and functional requirements documents for every sprint.
  • Analysed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Liason among various stakeholders to analyze and communicate new requirements.
  • Conducting Project walkthrough and meetings involving Development, QA and Business teams resulting in increased productivity of 20% for feature development. Scrum team is able to cover more story points in given sprint.
  • Performing Gap analysis and impact analysis on existing system and elaborate current and future state.
  • Reviewing test plans and test strategies for every sprint and provide my feedback. This helped Dev and QA team to find early and critical defects increasing overall productivity and reduced cost.
  • Improved performance, hiring practices and management systems to facilitate success of client's organization.
  • Conducting UAT and Prod Check out's for all changes and validate those changes are as per agreed solutions.

Quality Engineer

Encore Capital Group
Gurgaon, India
02.2014 - 06.2015

Test Analyst

Fiserv
Noida, India
08.2012 - 02.2014

Test Engineer

Infosys
Chandigarh, India
12.2009 - 07.2012

Education

MBA - Finance

IMT - CDL
Delhi
08.2011 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Instrumentation

Apeejay Stya University
Gurgaon
08.2005 - 06.2009

Skills

    Investment Banking

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Certification

CFA - Certified Financial Analyst

Timeline

Sr. Business Analyst

Intercontinental Exhange
10.2019 - Current

CFA - Certified Financial Analyst

06-2019

NCFM - Interest Rate Derivatives

06-2017

Lead Consultant

Genapact Headstrong
06.2015 - 09.2019

Quality Engineer

Encore Capital Group
02.2014 - 06.2015

How to gather requirements

10-2013

Test Analyst

Fiserv
08.2012 - 02.2014

MBA - Finance

IMT - CDL
08.2011 - 06.2014

Test Engineer

Infosys
12.2009 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Instrumentation

Apeejay Stya University
08.2005 - 06.2009

Software

VB Script and Macros

SQL

UNIX

Jira

Confluence

Kshittiz Pahwa, CFABusiness Analyst/Product Owner