SAGAR SONAVANE
Thane West
Summary
Qualified 13+ Years of experience as Business Analyst versed and user acceptance testing to solve complex problems in high-pressure environments. Activates strong analytical skills to investigate trends in large amounts of data and formulate conclusions based on findings. Excels at cultivating, managing and leveraging client relationships to foster extended engagements and business opportunities.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst
Citicorp India pvt Ltd
07.2023 - Current
- Client Interaction and Requirement Gathering.
- Discuss with client to understand problem statement in current reconciliation tool and provide feasible solution.
- Create JIRA's to track all the changes and new enhancements requested by business users and prioritize them for respective releases.
- Gathering of BRD from business and prepare FRSD and walkthrough the same to Team.
- Create DFD, screen layouts and discuss the same with business as well as team in design discussion/review calls and sharing MOM for the same post discussion with key stakeholders.
- Walkthrough and Review activities.
- Walkthrough to Dev and QA team for new enhancements and daily discussion with team members to track progress in scrum call.
- Clarification on queries faced by team members on new/existing requirements.
- Co-ordinate with QA team members to review their test plans, Test cases and Test results, RTM.
- Coordinate for Dev, QA, UAT environment setup and continuous integration.
- Arranged knowledge transfer sessions to all new joiners within the team.
- User Training and User Acceptance Testing.
- Provide training on functionality enhancements to Business users.
- Create confluence where E2E process flow, key features, user guide can be documented.
- Arrangement of Roadshows across regions to business users.
- Review UAT test cases.
- Support UAT testing with business users and clarify all their queries/concerns.
- Follow up on UAT defects and update defect logs and support Business users on UAT testing.
- Log defects raised by clients on UAT environment.
- Request QA team to verify on defects in QAT environment.
- Follow up with developers and QA team for defect closure.
- Production implementation and Post production support.
- Prepare production release plan and expected deliverable list.
- Communicate to users on Implementation through release notes.
- Prepare implementation checklist.
- Prepare implementation plan for prod release.
- Coordinate with client for Production check out.
- Provide support for post release items.
Senior Consultant/Deputy Manager
Deloitte India Pvt Ltd
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Interaction with TMFL Stakeholders to understand as-is state of applications.
- Post interaction with stakeholders recommend to-be state as a solution with target considerations.
- Preparation of Current state architectures, to-be state architectures with help of solution architect experts.
- Active participation for current health assessment for TMFL Applications with all key stakeholders.
- Active participation in review activities of Application, Integration and data architecture.
- Active participation in preparing technology roadmap.
- Interaction with IT Stakeholders and business leads to understand pain areas and challenges in existing system.
Specialist in Business Analysis
LTI Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
04.2019 - 09.2022
- Discuss with client to understand what kind of enhancement is required and on which reconciliation tools.
- Create JIRA's to track all the changes and new enhancements requested by business users and prioritize them for respective releases.
- Gathering of BRD from business and prepare FRSD and walkthrough the same to Team.
- Create DFD, screen layouts and discuss the same with business as well as team in design discussion/review calls and sharing MOM for the same post discussion with key stakeholders.
- Walkthrough to Dev and QA team for new enhancements and daily discussion with team members to track progress in scrum call.
- Clarification on queries faced by team members on new/existing requirements.
- Co-ordinate with QA team members to review their test plans, Test cases and Test results, RTM.
- Coordinate for Dev, QA, UAT environment setup and continuous integration.
- Arranged knowledge transfer sessions to all new joiners within the team.
- Provide training on functionality enhancements to Business users.
- Arrangement of Roadshows across regions to business users.
- Review UAT test cases.
- Support UAT testing with business users and clarify all their queries/concerns.
- Follow up on UAT defects and update defect logs and support Business users on UAT testing.
- Log defects raised by clients on UAT environment.
- Request QA team to verify on defects in QAT environment.
- Follow up with developers and QA team for defect closure.
- Prepare production release plan and expected deliverable list.
- Communicate to users on Implementation through release notes.
- Prepare implementation checklist.
- Prepare implementation plan for prod release.
- Coordinate with client for Production check out.
- Provide support for post release items.
Specialist in Quality Engineering
LTI Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
03.2015 - 04.2019
- Identification of scenarios, Preparation of Test cases and executes the same on Recon Portal Web based Application.
- Keeping track of Requirement, Test Cases and raised defects during execution using Defect management Tool-Citi Team Forge and updating the same on daily basis.
- Keeping Track of Deferred Defects as well and linked raised defects with Respective User Story.
- Performing Thorough End To End Testing on QA/UAT/PRE PROD/PROD Env as per requirement.
- Offshore Coordinator with Business Users for UAT Testing.
- Performing Sanity, Functional, Regression on QA and UAT Env and Prod Checkout on Prod Env.
- Verifying Server logs to check load balance, exceptions occurred in UAT Env.
- Validation of Loads, Matches, User actions performed from Database.
- Preparing Daily Execution Tracker for Execution details, Defect details with dashboard and Requirement traceability Matrix across release.
- Data loading and Preparation of Test Data (Recons) across all Environments.
Quality Analyst
SYX Services Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
06.2014 - 03.2015
- Interact with BA Team for New enhancement/Requirement.
- Interaction with BA Team to gather New requirements for respective release.
- Preparation of Query log and clear all queries by arranging walkthrough with BA Team.
- Requirement Gathering and understanding from BA.
- Identification of scenarios, Preparation of Test cases and executes the same on Auto Task Tool.
- Keeping track of Requirement, Test Cases and raised defects during execution using Defect management Tool-Autotask and updating the same on daily basis.
- Keeping Track of Deferred Defects as well and linked raised defects with Respective User Story.
- Performing Thorough End to End Testing on QA/UAT/PRE PROD/PROD Env as per requirement.
- Performing Sanity, Functional, Regression on QA and UAT Env and Prod Checkout on Prod Env.
- Provide training on functionality enhancements to Business users.
- Demonstrate to clients on the functional enhancements on the system in UAT environment.
- Demo to users on the new functionality.
- Support UAT testing with client.
- Follow up on UAT defects and update defect logs and support Business users on UAT testing.
- Log defects raised by clients on UAT environment.
- Follow up with developers’ team for defect closure.
- Production checkout after successful deployment.
Process Associate
TCS Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
07.2011 - 05.2014
- Interact with BA Team for New enhancement/Requirement.
- Interaction with BA Team to gather New requirements for respective release.
- Preparation of Query log and clear all queries by arranging walkthrough with BA Team.
- Understand the client requirement and Creation of Test Cases and Conditions with the help of BRD and FRD.
- Preparation of scripts and ATS according to test cases and Conditions and execute them in HP QC 10.0.
- Updating status of scripts and Posting of defects in HP QC 10.0.
- Performing Sanity testing, Regression testing, Internal and External End to end Testing.
- Validation of Accounts, GI Check, RBCS Check, Accounting entries and EFX Handoff.
- Releasing of payments (SIP/SO/FDP) in Simulator and reroute and Validation of the same.
- Testing of all type of payments in GPPFP(Global Pay Plus Faster Payments).
- Update Daily Tracker, Adhoc Tracker, Defect Sheet Tracker, Static Data, MIS on Monthly Basis.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Mumbai University
Mumbai01.2010
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Process documentation
- Requirement gathering
- Release planning
- User acceptance testing
- Quality assurance
Notable Credits
- Achieved Certificate of Excellence from CITI Bank.
- Awarded Performer of month in Department (04/01/12).
- Attended advanced Training on Business Analyst (BA)
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
Professional Enhancements
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- ISTQB Certified software tester (Foundation Level)
- Certified by International Agile test foundation
- SQUAD certified for Diploma in Software Testing.
Personal Information
- Passport Number: T1876667
- Passport Expiry Date: Dec 2028
- Date of Birth: 03 Sept 1988
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Business Analyst
Citicorp India pvt Ltd
07.2023 - Current
Senior Consultant/Deputy Manager
Deloitte India Pvt Ltd
09.2022 - 07.2023
Specialist in Business Analysis
LTI Pvt. Ltd.
04.2019 - 09.2022
Specialist in Quality Engineering
LTI Pvt. Ltd.
03.2015 - 04.2019
Quality Analyst
SYX Services Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 03.2015
Process Associate
TCS Pvt Ltd
07.2011 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Mumbai University