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Kumar Gautam

Pune

Summary

Results-oriented and analytical Business Analyst with over 11 years of progressive experience driving business efficiency and innovation through data-driven decision-making, stakeholder collaboration, and process improvement. Proven expertise in bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

IRIS Software
Pune
03.2025 - Current
  • 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

FIS Global Solutions
Pune
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.
  • Work closely with the Scrum master and development team.
  • 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).
  • Continuously gather customer feedback and insights.
  • Measure the success of product features and releases.
  • Maintain the release notes and distribute them to clients.

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune
01.2014 - 12.2018
  • Developed the overall strategy and test plan.
  • Defined scope, objectives, resources, schedules, and deliverables for testing.
  • Drive quality best practices across the team.
  • Lead and mentor a team of testers - task assignment and manage workloads.
  • Collaborate with business analysts and developers to clarify the requirements.
  • Create test cases, test scripts and test data.
  • Prioritized the defects 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 co-ordinate 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

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

Timeline

Lead Business Analyst

IRIS Software
03.2025 - Current

Senior Business Analyst - Agile Product Owner

FIS Global Solutions
12.2018 - 02.2025

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2014 - 12.2018

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Kalasalingam University

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