Nikhil Kulkarni
Summary
Experienced Agile Business Analyst with a demonstrated history of 9+ working years in IT industry in BFSI & Manufacturing industry for US and EU customers. Skilled in Business Analysis, Scrum master responsibilities, Requirement's elicitation, Formulation and Prioritization of User Stories, Agile principles/methodologies, writing acceptance criteria. Certified ScrumMaster(PSM) & Certified Product Owner(CSPO) with strong analytical & communication skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Product Analyst
Fidelity Information Services (FIS Global)
07.2022 - Current
- Expertise in all phases of software Development life cycle (SDLC) ranging from Business analysis, development, testing, Deployment, go-live assistance, production support etc.
- Experience in Collaborating with business stakeholders to gather and elicit business requirements and break them down to epics , features , user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria on Rally software.
- Worked closely with Product owners & product managers on a regular basis to Streamline software development processes by incorporating user stories and backlog prioritization techniques.
- Worked with business stakeholders and design teams to ensure that Zeplin screens/prototypes are received in a timely manner for development.
- Have successfully played Scrum Master role in leading and facilitating all scrum ceremonies for a team of 9 members.
- Acted as a liaison between the technical team, functional team, Business Functions, and vendors to drive system implementations.
- Worked closely with Product Owner to prepare product roadmaps, product Requirement Documents (PRD) for all enhancements/features etc.
- Conducting API testing using tools such as Postman, Insomnia.
- Led user acceptance testing( UAT ) efforts, ensuring a high-quality end-product that met customer needs and expectations.
- Worked on Preparing project progress reports and status reports and submitted to the management on a regular basis.
Business Analyst
Baker Hughes (Formerly GE Oil & Gas)
11.2018 - 07.2022
- Collaborating with the product owner or business owner on a regular basis to identify and analyze core requirements for the project using Questionnaire and Interview technique
- Analyze the requirements and create Epics, user stories along with appropriate acceptance criteria in JIRA
- Ensured the user stories meet the Definition of Done
- Create and maintain product backlog, sprint backlog and regularly conduct backlog grooming/refinement session with the product Owner and Development team to prioritize user stories using MOSCOW technique
- Actively involved in all areas of Oracle CPQ cloud platform namely configuration/config, commerce, document designer (proposal generation), pricing, discounts, approvals etc
- Involved in Performing feasibility studies, functional/technical gap analysis and solutioning the business requirements
- Created use case diagrams, wireframes and mockups to help developers in understanding/visualizing the requirements more clearly.
Software Engineer
Flowserve Corporation
08.2016 - 11.2018
- Involved in all the phases of the project from scratch ranging from requirement gathering, creating POC's, analysis, design, development, testing and UAT
- Collaborated with Product owner on a regular basis to gather requirements
- Active participation in all Agile/scrum ceremonies like Daily stand-up meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective
- Worked extensively on the document designer part in creating request proposal document(RFP's), budget data sheet etc
- Writing test scenarios, test cases, creating UML diagrams for completed user stories and ensure the user stories are free from defects/bugs.
Associate Software Engineer
HCL Technologies Limited
05.2014 - 07.2016
- Development of a module and integrating it to the system
- Client interaction to understand the project inputs and comments
- Writing test cases to perform Whitebox testing
- Bug fixing throughout the project.
Education
MBA - Operations & IT Management
Jain University
Bengaluru, India05.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
MVJ College of Engineering
Bengaluru, India05.2013
Skills
- Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Test scenario Review and UAT
- Wireframing
- User story Mapping
- Use Case Creation & Analysis
- API Testing
- Postgre SQL
- Competitive Market Analysis using SWOT technique
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master(PSM).
- Certified Scrum Product Owner(CSPO).
- ECBA Trained Business Analyst.
- Certified Agile Business Analyst.
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Senior Product Analyst
Fidelity Information Services (FIS Global)
07.2022 - Current
Business Analyst
Baker Hughes (Formerly GE Oil & Gas)
11.2018 - 07.2022
Software Engineer
Flowserve Corporation
08.2016 - 11.2018
Associate Software Engineer
HCL Technologies Limited
05.2014 - 07.2016
MBA - Operations & IT Management
Jain University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
MVJ College of Engineering
- Professional Scrum Master(PSM).
- Certified Scrum Product Owner(CSPO).
- ECBA Trained Business Analyst.
- Certified Agile Business Analyst.
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