Shailashree Suresh
Hyderabad
Summary
Seasoned Business Analyst Manager with experience in overseeing business operations, implementing process improvements. Known for fostering cross-functional collaboration and achieving business objectives through innovative solutions.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst Manager
HSBC
Hyderabad
09.2022 - Current
- Analyzed business requirements and identified potential solutions.
- Provided guidance on best practices related to business analysis techniques such as process mapping, gap analysis and root cause analysis.
- Performed cost benefit analyses for proposed projects including ROI calculations.
- Drive clear understanding of business Priorities & vision and ensuring epics are broken down into stories for current upcoming sprints with relevant acceptance criteria
- Defining project goals develop road maps, conduct team meeting with stakeholders, IT planning
- Work collaboratively with the team to identify areas of improvement and provide suggestions actively to enhance user experience
- In charge of requirement management, accurately capture requirements and playback to ensure key stakeholders understand and what is proposed
- Involved is delivery plan and decision makings
- Own the BA community and implement best practices across teams
- Key member in leading the scrum of scrums meeting to ensure no blockers and on track
Lead Business Analyst
Hyderabad
01.2019 - Current
- Drive clear understanding of business Priorities & vision and ensuring epics are broken down into stories for current upcoming sprints with relevant acceptance criteria
- Defining project goals develop road maps, conduct team meeting with stakeholders, IT planning
- Work collaboratively with the team to identify areas of improvement and provide suggestions actively to enhance user experience
- In charge of requirement management, accurately capture requirements and playback to ensure key stakeholders understand and what is proposed
- Involved is delivery plan and decision makings
- Own the BA community and implement best practices across teams
- Key member in leading the scrum of scrums meeting to ensure no blockers and on track
Senior Business Analyst, Delivery Lead, Transformation Lead
08.2018 - 01.2019
- Responsible for requirement gathering, requirement management, documentation, Requirement prioritization
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into user stories
- Conducting various scrum ceremonies like daily standup, planning, grooming, Demos and Retrospectives
- Articulate complex information into clear and simple requirements that would help development team
- Coordinate with business to understand business requirements and convert them into technical requirements
- Driving Proof-Of-Concept and Prototypes for various business needs and innovative solutions
- Define project goal, develop project plans, schedules, resources allocations and conduct team meetings for individual projects
Engagement Analyst and Business Analyst
09.2016 - 07.2018
- Acted as key liaison between the technical team and the non-technical user community
- Interacting with the stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements
- Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines
- Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews
- Proactively identified potential issues and have derived resolution to avoid customer impact and facilitate continuous improvement
Test Analyst
01.2011 - 10.2016
- Reviewing overall test plan and individual test cases to ensure fitment to the test plan and strategy
- Also involved in developing and execution of test cases
- Working with users and development team on issues and prioritizing them for resolution
Business Analyst, Senior System Analyst, Production Support Manager, Test Manager
06.2016 - 08.2016
- Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Business user's sentiments
- Developed and maintained strong trust/working relationships with business partners including vendors and constantly expanding the working knowledge of current and future state of systems, products, and platforms
- Managed Vendor relationships - review statement of work, estimates, cost, and ensuring compliance
- Performed analyses and developed requirements definition documentation and systems specifications
- Role also involved interfacing with the PeopleSoft support teams to resolve issues apart from working as a mentor to new developers to help them understand the system and application
Test Manager
05.2012 - 11.2012
- Working with business teams on requirements analysis and requirement formulation and prioritization
- Also Developed test strategy and test plans
- Reviewing overall test plan and individual test cases to ensure fitment to the test plan and strategy
- Developed metrics to report defects to the management team
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Osmania University
01.2006
Skills
- Product Backlog Management
- People Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Process Improvements
- Product Demos
- JIRA/ Confluence
- GUI Design
- SCRUM/ Agile
- Features/User story Building
Accomplishments
- 2021, Pat on the Back for WCL Quick Wins
- 2020, Leadership Award for Digital Credit Paper
- 2019, Pat on the Back for Digital Credit Analysis
- 2019, Team Award for DCP
Languages
Malayalam
Intermediate
B1
English
Intermediate
B1
Hindi
Upper Intermediate
B2
Timeline
Business Analyst Manager
HSBC
09.2022 - Current
Lead Business Analyst
01.2019 - Current
Senior Business Analyst, Delivery Lead, Transformation Lead
08.2018 - 01.2019
Engagement Analyst and Business Analyst
09.2016 - 07.2018
Business Analyst, Senior System Analyst, Production Support Manager, Test Manager
06.2016 - 08.2016
Test Manager
05.2012 - 11.2012
Test Analyst
01.2011 - 10.2016
Master of Computer Applications -
Osmania University