Pavan Hurkat
Business Analyst
Summary
Seasoned Business Analyst professional offering 13 years of software industry success in various domains like Telecom, Insurance & Finance. Expert on business and systems requirements, user stories, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates
Work History
Business Analyst Manager
T-Mobile, USA
Pune
04.2015 - Current
- Redesigning IT landscape, structured and unstructured legacy applications migration, object model redesigning, involved in creating a novel solution using open-source technologies.
- Coordinated with solution architects and other stakeholders for timely delivery of software sprints.
- Enhanced processes to achieve software delivery milestones, report on metrics and obtain KPIs.
- Creating product map for telecom service assurance to eventually sunset existing legacy applications.
- Collaborating with business owners on weekly frequency to understand business needs and translate into requirements and product scope.
- Collaborating with design team / development team on solutions & clarifications of requirements.
- Customized product solutions to increase stakeholders and user satisfaction.
- Recruiting world class talent globally, grew Pune and USA team from 6 to 15 (FTE) and in process of vendor ramp down and bringing talent in house.
- Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
Senior Software Engineer & Business Analyst
Nordea Insurance & Finance, Denmark
Pune
09.2013 - 11.2014
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in legacy modernization, insurance-finance domain and working to improve overall team performance.
- Managed team and business performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
- Introduced agile methodologies and development best practices to division to enhance product development.
- Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience in Mainframe technologies and Core Java.
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
- Recruited new members for business analysis team to support division growth and created strong and productive department
Software Developer & Business Associate
Sprint Telecom, USA
Pune
12.2009 - 09.2013
- Translated customer requirements into written use cases.
- Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
- Pioneered new methods of code review to incorporate wider range of voices.
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.
- Digitalized process workflow with legacy modernization solutions using Java, JSF and SQL technologies.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Technology
Priyadarshini College of Engineering
Nagpur 07.2005 - 07.2009
Skills
Business Process Mapping
Requirements Gathering
Agile & Scrum Expertise
User Stories Planning
Project & Delivery Management
Database & Programming Technologies
People & Stakeholder Management
Product Development
Active Listening
Training and Development
Certification
Agile Business & Project Leadership, Mphasis
Timeline
Certified Cloud & Data Analytics Professional
08-2022
Agile Business & Project Leadership, Mphasis
04-2021
Certified Telecom Domain Professional
04-2020
Certified Appian Analyst & Designer
02-2018
Business Analyst Manager
T-Mobile, USA
04.2015 - Current
Senior Software Engineer & Business Analyst
Nordea Insurance & Finance, Denmark
09.2013 - 11.2014
Software Developer & Business Associate
Sprint Telecom, USA
12.2009 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Technology
Priyadarshini College of Engineering
07.2005 - 07.2009
Hobbies
Fitness & Nutrition, Travel & Reading
Hobbies
Fitness & Nutrition, Travel & Reading