Hi, I’m
Ratna Prakash
Business Analyst
Bengaluru,IN
Summary
Customer oriented , results-driven, senior-level BA equipped with an MBA and years of verifiable success in the areas of Functional Documentation, Software testing, Release Planning and Coordinating QA team . Assisted product owners and project managers in preparing and refining the backlog for Program Increment (large scale planning) as well as sprint planning. Strong ability to utilize a wide-range of transferable skills and knowledge to consistently exceed expectations. Dedicated to driving and improving Quality of the Software with vast knowledge on Agile methodology.
Overview
4
years of professional experience
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Tata Consultancy ServicesBengaluru, Karnataka
Business Analyst
07.2018 - Current
Job overview
- Well versed in working as a functional liaison between IT and Business Group
- Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work.
- Manage sprint backlog items and tasks.
- Strong knowledge of all concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories.
- Served as liaison between customers and multiple teams to establish business requirements and create functional specifications.
- Created and updated Functional Requirement documents.
- Facilitated sprint planning, and retrospectives and responsible for creating tasks and writing user stories in Rally.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to IT/Project managers.
- Collaborate with development team and stakeholders to identify testing requirements that help define the development of software test plans, test strategies and test scripts.
- Analyze and create users stories and use cases for validity and feasibility .
- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
- Identify and remediate problems, impediments, and defects that could delay the demo and delivery of the user stories in the Agile delivery cycle.
- Strong working knowledge of common SDLC model
- Design test plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures.
- Collaborate with developers and scrum masters to determine time estimates to calculate the total number of hours that the team will require to complete the Sprint.
- Meet regularly with Stakeholder to provide status on test execution and roadblocks faced, if any.
- Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
- Extensively worked on various Testing types such as Integration, System, Functional, Regression, Sanity, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Prepare detailed Test estimates.
- Working experience with defect tracking tools like CA Agile Central (Rally).
Education
Thiagarajar School of Management
MBA from Marketing & Operations / Finance
06.2016 - 04.2018
National Engineering College
Bachelor of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
06.2012 - 04.2016
Skills
Leadershipundefined
Accomplishments
- Understanding Capital Markets
- Agile Foundations
- Agile Product Owner Role : Foundations
- NISM-Series-VIII: Equity Derivatives Certification Examination
- Cambridge Business English Certificate-Vantage
Additional Information
- "On the spot award" for working closely with On-shore clients during Test Strategy Documentation/Review and training new QA associates.
Timeline
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2018 - Current
Thiagarajar School of Management
MBA from Marketing & Operations / Finance
06.2016 - 04.2018
National Engineering College
Bachelor of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
06.2012 - 04.2016
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