JIRA
Pranita Shirole
Business Analyst, Product Owner
Mumbai
Summary
Seasoned Business analyst/Product Owner experienced in meeting needs, improving processes and exceeding requirements in team environments. Diligent worker with strong communication and task prioritization skills. Skilled in strategic planning and data analysis, I led key projects at IDFC First Bank, achieving cost savings and successful platform migrations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Lead Business Analyst
IDFC First Bank
05.2023 - Current
- Increased team productivity through effective communication, collaboration, and resource management strategies.
- Optimized business operations with thorough analysis of current systems, identifying areas for improvement and recommending actionable changes.
- Key deliverables include successful migrations of projects and SAS tools to new platforms, significant cost savings through the implementation of a PFM solution, and the successful launch of account aggregator features for IDFC first bank customers
- Mentored junior analysts, providing guidance on best practices, technical skills development, and career growth opportunities.
- Reduced operational costs by conducting in-depth financial analyses and implementing cost-saving measures.
- Implemented improvements in project documentation quality and governance processes, including release management guidelines for effective release management.
- Achieved timely delivery of critical projects through effective prioritization of tasks based on urgency, importance, dependencies, resources availability.
- Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
- Contribution in preparing data contracts between Source and Target systems for better data governance within IDFC
Senior Business Analyst (Data Architect)
BNP Paribas
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings and recommending changes
- Performing Data analysis for multiple business processes within CIB to capture and analyze Personal Data processed or stored for business purposes
- Verify if business process in compliant with Data protection regulations and principles like GDPR
- Generating ROPA (Records of processing activities) for all territories (currently 24) and review with Project Managers/ Application Owners to provide feedback on data capture process
- Performing ITVC (IT Validation Committee) as part of Data protection regulation for business processes within CIB
- Managed identification, protection and use of data assets
- Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement
- Verified isolation of data to specific geographic borders to comply with national and international data transmission laws and regulations
- Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results
Business and Quality Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
03.2014 - 04.2022
- Understood application requirements and functional specifications, participated in sprint planning and daily Scrum calls, and designed test scenarios and cases for various products and services. Conducted internal test case reviews with the team.
- Performed manual and automated testing (Selenium & QTP), logged defects using ALM/JIRA, conducted functional and regression testing, automated test cases with QTP (BPTs), and performed manual API testing using SOAP UI, Rest Client, and Postman.
- Conducted thorough root cause analyses on recurring defects, resulting in the implementation of effective corrective actions.
- Analyzed legacy applications for re-hosting, rebuilding, or replacement, and assisted the migration of services and data centers from on-prem to AWS cloud.
- Documenting business processes, problems and opportunities for improvements in processes
- Designed and developed web application in angular js 6 for Risk and Compliance team to automate process migration from one region to another (stretch assignment for development of technical skills)
- Subject Matter Expert in critical products like Check Print process and Client Onboarding process
Test Engineer (UAT)
JP Morgan Chase & Company
05.2012 - 03.2014
- Understanding End to End business and functional requirements for applications
- Planning and controlling tests (efforts, deadlines)
- Coordinating End to end test case creation, test execution and test resources
- Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference or audits.
- Conducting trainings for operations team after successful implementation of change
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
D. G. Ruparel College (University of Mumbai)
Dadar, Mumbai 05.2006 - 06.2010
MBA - Business Analytics (Pursuing)
BITS PILANI
PILANI CAMPUS 04.2001 -
Skills
Stakeholder management
Product management
Data analysis
User acceptance testing
Functional specifications
SQL proficiency
Use case development
Requirements gathering
Cost-benefit analysis
Business process improvement
Release planning
Quality assurance
Problem-solving
Certification
SAFe 6 - POPM Certified professional
Software
Confluence
Python
Agile Methodology
Tableau
Drawio
Microsoft excel
Timeline
Lead Business Analyst
IDFC First Bank
05.2023 - Current
Senior Business Analyst (Data Architect)
BNP Paribas
05.2022 - 05.2023
Business and Quality Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
03.2014 - 04.2022
Test Engineer (UAT)
JP Morgan Chase & Company
05.2012 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
D. G. Ruparel College (University of Mumbai)
05.2006 - 06.2010
MBA - Business Analytics (Pursuing)
BITS PILANI
04.2001 -
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