Nikhil Manjunath Kumar
Business Analyst / Scrum Master
Pune
Summary
Business Analyst with 8+ years of experience in retail and banking domains with analytical and project management skills. Diligent team player and learner with strong communication and task prioritization skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
19
19
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Business Analyst
Barclays Global
01.2023 - Current
- Worked proactively with stakeholders to understand and gather technical requirements of Risk Decision Applications
- Collaborated with stakeholders to implement process improvements
- Worked with the POs to identify and filter out the product backlog items for release process
- Involved with DevOps team for package creation and production deployments
Senior Consultant / Business Analyst
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
08.2020 - 12.2022
- Collaborated with stakeholders across different teams from requirement gathering to quality assurance efforts for retail domain transformation projects
- Elicited and prioritized the business requirements through multiple brainstorming sessions and interviews with the clients and the stakeholders.
- Created detailed business requirement documents (BRDs) and functional specification documents (FSDs) for the project sign-off.
- Created and monitored Jira dashboards and brief reports for stakeholders
Consultant / Test Lead
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
03.2018 - 07.2020
- SME for Point of Sale software testing lifecycle
- Test cycle creation on JIRA, E2E test execution, defect logging and management, reporting
- Worked with Salesforce for CRM. Adyen and SIFT service providers for implementing fraud prevention measures
- Lead UAT POS- Mobile (Android/iOS) team
- Involved in sprint planning with developers and defect management till production environment
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
Senior Test Analyst
Capgemini Technologies Ind Pvt Ltd.
04.2017 - 02.2018
- Performed Quality assurance activities to meet appropriate standards of POS systems in retail domain
- Discovered root causes of defects and routed to appropriate dev team.
- Thorough analysis of change requirements, new feature analysis, test suite creation for multiple global markets under test
- Attending defect triage calls, daily stand up calls and discussing defects and impending issues
Software Test Analyst
IGATE Technologies
01.2016 - 03.2017
- Introduced to Point of Sale testing for quick restaurant services
- Designed high level scenarios and test cases from requirements
- Executed regression, smoke tests and new feature integration testing
- Defect logging, configuration management and participated in defect triage meetings
- Held knowledge transition sessions and created KT documents
Education
Bachelor's of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Bangalore Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India 08.2011 - 08.2015
Pre University College Degree - Physics. Chemistry, Mathematics And Electronics
Vijaya Composite,
Govt. Of Karnataka, Dept. Of PU Education. 07.2009 - 03.2011
Secondary School Leaving Certificate -
Carmel School, Karnataka Secondary Education Board
Padmanabnagar. Bangalore 03.1996 - 06.2009
Skills
JIRA and Confluence
Agile
Business Documentation
Operational Reporting
Stakeholder Management
Customer Discovery
Certification
Professional Scrum Master I
Timeline
Business Analyst
Barclays Global
01.2023 - Current
Professional Scrum Master II
09-2022
SAFe Teams Practitioner
02-2021
Professional Scrum Master I
01-2021
Senior Consultant / Business Analyst
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
08.2020 - 12.2022
Consultant / Test Lead
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
03.2018 - 07.2020
Senior Test Analyst
Capgemini Technologies Ind Pvt Ltd.
04.2017 - 02.2018
Software Test Analyst
IGATE Technologies
01.2016 - 03.2017
Bachelor's of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Bangalore Institute of Technology
08.2011 - 08.2015
Pre University College Degree - Physics. Chemistry, Mathematics And Electronics
Vijaya Composite,
07.2009 - 03.2011
Secondary School Leaving Certificate -
Carmel School, Karnataka Secondary Education Board
03.1996 - 06.2009