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Kumar Gautam

Pune

Summary

Dynamic Lead Business Analyst with a proven track record at Investment Banking, excelling in agile transformation and stakeholder management. Expert in product backlog management and process improvement, I drive successful project outcomes while mentoring teams to enhance collaboration and adaptability. Committed to delivering high-quality solutions that meet evolving business needs.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

Investment Banking
Capital Market
03.2025 - 09.2025
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements.
  • Identify areas where waterfall practices are hindering flexibility, adaptability, or delivery.
  • Facilitated agile workshops to identify process improvements and solutions.
  • Developed comprehensive documentation for project specifications and workflows.
  • Serve as a hands-on mentor: facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Encourage teams to regularly inspect and adapt their processes.

Senior Business Analyst - Agile Product Owner

Investment Banking
Capital Market
12.2018 - 02.2025
  • Define and communicate the product vision and goals.
  • Identify and prioritize business and customer needs.
  • Create and maintain a well-prioritized product backlog.
  • Continuously groom and update the backlog based on feedback and changing needs.
  • Ensured stakeholder expectations are managed and aligned with product delivery.
  • Provide clarifications on backlog items during sprint planning and daily work.
  • Participate actively in Agile PI ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective, Daily Stand-ups, and Client Demo).
  • Conducted stakeholder interviews to understand user needs and preferences.
  • Developed detailed project plans outlining tasks, deadlines and resources needed for successful implementation of projects.
  • Worked closely with clients to ensure their satisfaction with the delivered product or service.
  • Measure the success of product features and releases.
  • Maintain the release notes, and distribute them to clients.

Associate

Investment Banking
Capital Market
01.2014 - 12.2018
  • Developed the overall strategy and test plan.
  • Defined the scope, objectives, resources, schedules, and deliverables for testing.
  • Drive quality best practices across the team.
  • Lead and mentor a team of testers, assign tasks, and manage workloads.
  • Collaborate with business analysts and developers to clarify the requirements.
  • Create test cases, test scripts, and test data.
  • Prioritized the defect fixes in collaboration with the development team.
  • Retest resolved issues, and perform regression testing.
  • Provide clear, concise test status updates to project stakeholders.
  • Prepare and present test metrics, defect reports, and quality dashboards.
  • Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and coordinate with business users.

Education

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Kalasalingam University
05.2013

Skills

  • Agile transformation
  • Business analysis
  • Functional specifications
  • Product backlog management
  • Process improvement
  • Product management
  • Requirements gathering
  • Stakeholder management
  • User acceptance testing

Certification

  • Agile Analysis Certification, International Institute of Business Analysis, 04/01/25, 04/30/26
  • SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager Certification, Scaled Agile, Inc, 12/01/21, 12/31/24
  • Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 09/01/19, 09/30/20

Work Preference

Job Search Status

Open to work

Salary Range

₹45000/yr - ₹200000/yr

Timeline

Lead Business Analyst

Investment Banking
03.2025 - 09.2025

Senior Business Analyst - Agile Product Owner

Investment Banking
12.2018 - 02.2025

Associate

Investment Banking
01.2014 - 12.2018

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Kalasalingam University

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