Praveen Kumar

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and analyze business needs, translating them into clear and actionable functional specifications for the development team.
• Prepare key project documents including Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Gap Analysis, Mapping Documents, and Traceability Matrices.
• Apply SMART and INVEST principles to ensure requirements are specific, measurable, and achievable within sprint timelines.
• Facilitate requirement gathering sessions with cross-functional stakeholders to brainstorm, prioritize, and finalize user stories and features.
• Work closely with development teams to convert business and functional requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Define project scope, groom the backlog, and support development and QA teams to ensure deliverables meet business expectations.
• Act as Scrum Master across multiple MVPs in an Agile environment, ensuring timely delivery by removing blockers, facilitating ceremonies, and tracking progress against release timelines.
• Partner with Product Owners to stay aligned with the strategic roadmap, contributing to Program Increment (PI) Planning and future sprint forecasting.
• Maintain ongoing communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on the progress of items planned for each release.
• Support the management team in timesheet preparation and assist with ad hoc tasks to ensure smooth team operations and compliance with internal processes.
• Worked on multiple GenAI-based supply chain initiatives such as Control Tower, Categorizer, Magic Cube, and Insight Pricing, contributing to solution design, requirement articulation, and seamless delivery of AI-enabled features.
• Building interactive dashboard using Power BI for one of our client project called Spend.Pro for the categorised spend data of client.
• Built an excel based project called Private Equity Benchmarking tool.

• Working as a Business Analyst to understand the customer requirements and translate business requirements into a functional specification for development.
• Involved in creating Mapping Document, Gap Analysis Document, BRD, FRD, and Traceability Metrics.
• Solving complex problems, takes a new perspective using existing solutions.
• Business requirement elicitation and converting user requirements into functional requirements, developing Business Process Flows.
• Worked with testing team in Manual Testing of in-house applications like Sales life line used by sales team, Ticket Portal used by internal team etc.
• Also involved in the presentation of insights derived from various data sets which helps stake holders to take business decision.
• Looking after Reporting of Sales team, creating interactive Dashboards both for sales and revenue for Stake holders using Ms Excel, Google sheets, Power BI, Looker Studio.
• Working with marketing team in Lead Analysis and helping them with insights from big data set.

Project: Vantage

• Worked as a Manual Quality Assurance Tester, managing the end-to-end testing lifecycle for the Vantage project.
• Collaborated directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into detailed and comprehensive test cases.
• Executed a wide range of manual tests, ensuring functionality, usability, and compliance with business expectations.
• Performed regression testing to validate the stability and integrity of existing features after new developments.
• Provided critical testing feedback that contributed to go/no-go decisions for release readiness.
• Conducted post-deployment technical validations to confirm successful implementation of updates in production.
• Handled backend operations for retail banking, including customer data processing, transaction reconciliation, exception management, and support for core banking system integrations—ensuring operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and timely resolution of backend service requests.