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BusinessAnalyst

PAVEL RUDRA

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
KOLKATA

Summary

Senior Business Analyst in Cognizant Technology Solutions specializing in Business Analysis for Business Consulting practice and Business Development Analysis and Consulting practices in IT Infrastructure Operations, with rich experience in relational databases-SQL and Oracle. Prepared RFIs and RFPs for existing clients and prospective clients across verticals and practices. Worked as a Global Change Manager in the Strategy and Technology Enterprise. He has acquired significant triaging skills with the ability to analyze and track issues and recommend solutions based on business needs. He was involved in Developing use cases for process automation and managed various projects. He has handled the portfolio of Business Infrastructure Development, wherein apart from looking into the pre sales activities, he has also managed other actives like service maturity matrix and digital strategy blueprint.

Has successfully managed and delivered a variety of projects involving requirements gathering, analyzing user requirements, functional requirements, business analysis, business documentation support and operational data analysis. Technically competent, diligent and result oriented with 10+ years of rich IT exposure across projects in Cognizant Technology Solutions and Infosys India Private Limited. Possess great experience in Automation Testing in Selenium using Java, C# and Python, experience in API testing, leading the offshore QA team, functional and database testing with defect identification. Well versed with JIRA , HP ALM. Experience in analyzing requirements with product owners,. Highly motivated and adaptive with the ability to grasp things quickly. Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with interest to serve the employer with outstanding results.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
21
21
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
KOLKATA
05.2020 - Current
  • Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
  • Worked with team leads and managing leadership, establishing robust talent pool with focus on people and continuous improvement.
  • Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
  • Analyzed performance metrics to identify opportunities to increase sales.
  • Mentored teams and streamlined [Type] techniques through evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support agile methodology implementations.
  • Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.
  • Co-coordinating requirements with business and developers and also help them in understanding high level client requirements in order to drive development
  • Recruited new members for business analysis team to support division growth and create strong and productive department, replacing underperforming staff.
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
  • Analyzed sales, profitability and market conditions and presented findings in cohesive format.
  • Generated business intelligence reports to inform strategic decision-making.
  • Managing client requirements and ensuring audit compliance from governance perspective while working as a Global Change Manager

Business Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
KOLKATA
05.2018 - 04.2021
  • Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
  • Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
  • Deployed predictive analytics models to forecast future trends.
  • Generated standard and custom reports to provide insights into business performance.
  • Developed customized reports, summarizing and presenting data in visually appealing format.
  • Devising automation strategy for Information Technology Apps
  • Preparing the Portfolio Service Map
  • Developed data mining algorithms to identify and classify patterns in data.
  • Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.
  • Developed and maintained data warehouses and data marts to support business operations.
  • Optimized data access and storage to improve performance of analytics systems.

Senior QA Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
KOLKATA
05.2015 - 02.2018
  • Implemented new quality assurance and customer service standards for aviation industry domain client
  • Assured consistent quality of production by implementing and enforcing automated practice systems.
  • Reported production malfunctions to managers and production supervisors.
  • Creating of automation framework
  • Managing of automation and manual testing team
  • Sprint planning for QA activities and execution
  • participation in Agile ceremonies
  • Automation training for cross functional teams
  • Preparing weekly and monthly related dashboards for QA activities.
  • Functional Testing using JIRA and HP ALM
  • Managing client requirements and handling change management.
  • Analyzing and gathering client requirements and transforming them into functional requirements for development.
  • Co-coordinating requirements with business and developers and also help them in understanding high level client requirements in order to drive development.
  • Devising solution approach for gaps in implementation and following the proper guidelines for development
  • Based on domain knowledge, was responsible for functional design

QA Analyst

Infosys India Private Limited
Chennai
08.2011 - 06.2013
  • Worked with clients of the following domains - Retail, Consumer goods, Logistics and Healthcare.
  • Leading Automation offshore project activities
  • Requirement gathering from Client and Development team
  • Analyzing feasibility, implementation and setup of automation framework Identification of test cases from regression suite
  • Creating test automation scripts
  • Execution and Maintenance of test automation suite
  • Automation demonstration to all stake holders
  • Focus on reducing automation suite execution time

Education

MBA - Information Technology Management

Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi
10.2013 - 10.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
KOLKATA
08.2007 - 07.2011

CBSE+2 - Science Education

Army Public School
KOLKATA
04.2005 - 03.2007

CBSE -

Army Public School
Kolkata
03.1992 - 04.2005

Skills

SQL and databases

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Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2020 - Current

Business Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2018 - 04.2021

Senior QA Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2015 - 02.2018

MBA - Information Technology Management

Indian Institute of Technology
10.2013 - 10.2015

QA Analyst

Infosys India Private Limited
08.2011 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
08.2007 - 07.2011

CBSE+2 - Science Education

Army Public School
04.2005 - 03.2007

CBSE -

Army Public School
03.1992 - 04.2005
PAVEL RUDRASENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST