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Overview
Work History
Education
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Technology and Tools
Accomplishments
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Ramya Velusamy

Summary

Results driven Professional with 15+ years of substantial experience in guiding product development and driving market success. Adept at leveraging data-driven insights, leading cross-functional teams, and aligning projects with business goals. Strong focus on data analysis, collaboration, flexibility, and delivering impactful results. Skilled in strategic planning, user experience optimization, and agile methodologies.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Analyst (ARP Product Mgmt), Enterprise Systems

PayPal
01.2023 - Current
  • Created product roadmaps and prioritized features based on customer impact, business value, and technical feasibility.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with Business, Product, Engineering, Accounting, Regulatory, and Reporting teams to deliver high-impact product releases.
  • Partnered with Risk, Legal, and Regulatory teams to ensure compliance with fintech regulations (e.g., PSD2, SEPA, OCT).
  • Supported go-to-market strategies, including product launch readiness, customer onboarding, and stakeholder communication.
  • Acted as a liaison between stakeholders and development teams, translating business requirements into actionable technical stories.
  • Led release planning, UAT coordination, and readiness assessments for major launches.
  • Drove improvements in data analytics and reporting processes to support business decision-making.
  • Streamlined internal reporting workflows, reducing turnaround time for key business insights.

Manager

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
08.2020 - 01.2023
  • Utilized data visualization tools like Tableau to effectively communicate business insights.
  • Designed and implemented tools like 'Regression Framework' (internal to PayPal) to support strategic value chain optimization initiatives.
  • Analyzed transactions to build logical business intelligence model for real-time reporting needs.
  • Analyzed and Designed various reports to demonstrate various aspects of data and business on 'WATCH' tool (internal to PayPal)
  • Worked on Informatica's Data Governance Application, Data Director, to analyze and design various MDM Domains used within PayPal
  • Researched and resolved issues regarding integrity of data flow into database.
  • Participated in requirements meetings to understand business needs. Identified and documented detailed business rules and use cases based on requirements analysis.
  • Synthesized complex analytics-derived insights into easy-to-understand, actionable recommendations for business users and engineering partners.
  • Extracted and interpreted data patterns to translate findings into actionable outcomes.
  • Collaborated with business-unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems.
  • Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.
  • Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
  • Recruited and hired top performers to add talent and value to department.

Senior Systems Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 11.2015
  • Worked with Customers like Walmart and Kohls'.
  • Good functional knowledge on different domains like manufacturing, retail and logistics.
  • Analyzed and documented high level and detailed business requirement and translated into user stories and use cases
  • Gathered requirements and performed gap analysis through design workshops with users.
  • Created Traceability Matrix to map the requirement with the Project timeline
  • Worked on Data Analysis, Data Requirement Analysis and Data Mapping for ETL processes
  • Worked in concert with Business Analysts to identify and validate data required from various source systems. Assisted in developing data extractions and tested data extractions
  • Created Tableau visualizations and dashboards using Tableau Desktop
  • Provided client support on system operation and troubleshooting
  • Assist developers in implementing the approved design solutions
  • Identified areas of possible system improvement to enhance overall system and business performance
  • Analyzed data performance and implemented changes necessary to improve execution time
  • Translated business requirements into technical requirements. Authored technical documentation. Supported system developers by creating system models, diagrams, and charts.
  • Translated technical applications specification into functional and nonfunctional business requirements
  • Established specifications and coordinated production with programmers.

Systems/Technical Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2006 - 11.2010
  • Worked with various customers including Saint-Gobain, Elemica Inc and Sun Chemicals
  • Functioned as an engineering resource in designing, writing and implementing various customizations as well as APIs for integrations with other systems
  • Provided expert analysis to troubleshoot technical and functional-related issues and problems, including finding and fixing bugs in the base products
  • Proposed and presented new design solutions to Design Council and Business
  • Performed code and service development to meet the user requirements
  • Trained in areas of Defect Management, Defect Prevention and Software Configuration Management.

Education

Kumaraguru College of Technology - Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

Bachelor Of Engineering
05.2006

Skills

    Core Skills:

  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Stakeholder & Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Agile & Scrum Expertise
  • Business, System, and Data Analytics & Reporting
  • Risk & Compliance (PSD2, SEPA, OCT)
  • Technical Writing and Support

Technology and Tools

  • Languages & Web Technologies: SQL, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, JSON, CSS, AJAX, Web Services


  • Big Data & Databases: Hadoop, BigQuery, SAP HANA, Notebooks


  • BI & Visualization: Tableau, Power BI


  • ETL & Data Management: Informatica Data Director (MDM), Talend Open Studio, Toad, Queryman, IBM DataStage


  • Development & IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, Hudson (build/deploy), Visual Paradigm for UML


  • Testing & QA Tools: SoapUI 4.6.0, Firebug, FindBugs, Quality Center


  • Project & Agile Tools: JIRA, MS Office Tools

Accomplishments

  • Awarded titles including: Associate of the Quarter, Above & Beyond, Best Organizer, HR Champion, The Rain Maker, and The Phoenix at Cognizant.

Timeline

Sr. Analyst (ARP Product Mgmt), Enterprise Systems

PayPal
01.2023 - Current

Manager

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
08.2020 - 01.2023

Senior Systems Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 11.2015

Systems/Technical Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2006 - 11.2010

Kumaraguru College of Technology - Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

Bachelor Of Engineering
Ramya Velusamy