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Sukriti Bhat

Bengaluru

Summary

Accomplished Senior Business Analyst with 8+ years of experience in successfully driving project delivery, leading teams, and optimizing business processes. Proficient in Agile methodologies and adept at fostering collaboration for exceptional results.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Definition Analyst 3

Amadeus
Bangalore
02.2024 - Current
  • Successfully led end-to-end project deliveries with minimal supervision, ensuring alignment with overall business goals and timelines.
  • Managed project scopes, milestones, and deliverables by anticipating risks and proactively mitigating challenges.
  • Defined and understood Epics, User Stories for team backlog, facilitating backlog refinement and task prioritization.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure backlog items were clear, achievable, and aligned with strategic goals.
  • Delivered user stories in alignment with the 'Definition of Done' criteria, ensuring no delays in release.
  • Led iteration review sessions, where team progress was evaluated, and participated in system demos to showcase completed features.
  • Conducted reviews of QA test plans, suggesting changes to ensure high-quality testing.
  • Prepared detailed documents like functional specifications and user guides for projects.
  • Provided support and mentorship to newcomers, ensuring they were well-equipped to contribute to the project's success.
  • Continuously updated knowledge on the Travel Domain, ensuring that expertise was relevant and up-to-date.
  • Anticipated and managed post-production activities, and ensured that all necessary steps were completed for a smooth project closure.
  • Actively contributed to solution design and brainstorming sessions to create innovative solutions.
  • Committed to delivering at least 85% of the planned PI release scope in each iteration, ensuring minimal delays, and proposing mitigation plans for any unforeseen issues.

Consultant

Infosys
Bengaluru
03.2022 - 02.2024
  • Acted as liaison between stakeholders and development teams, ensuring alignment of project goals, vision, and priorities.
  • Collaborated closely with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements and prepared artifacts like solution design documents (functional documents), flowcharts, wireframes, and mockups wherever required.
  • Ensured that artifacts are reviewed and approved by business clients or stakeholders.
  • Translated business needs into user stories with clear acceptance criteria and prioritized product backlog for development sprints.
  • Engaged in sprint planning, refinement sessions, and daily scrum calls, providing valuable input to the development/QA team to ensure a clear understanding of product goals and objectives.
  • Prepared Gantt charts to visually represent project timelines, milestones, and dependencies, facilitating effective project planning, monitoring, and execution.
  • Worked with the delivery team to deliver the system according to specifications, as well as track tasks assigned to the team in order to meet the project schedule, quality, and project budget.
  • Worked with the QA team to draw a detailed test plan and test cases for the product.
  • Performed functional validation of product features.
  • Supported user acceptance testing and helped in problem resolution, tracking, escalation, and closure.
  • Supported production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests.
  • Led and mentored a team of junior Business Analysts, providing guidance, support, and fostering their professional development.
  • Contributed to the creation of product roadmaps, ensuring that the product vision was understood and executed effectively.
  • Ran SQL scripts to extract or validate data during testing.

Business Analyst

Merck Group
Bengaluru
05.2020 - 03.2022
  • Handled multiple projects and have experience in managing global implementations involving mobile & web applications successfully
  • Worked closely with relevant stakeholders/client to align and understand business requirements
  • Collaborated with team members to come up with high level estimations for each requirement to create tentative project plan and publish it to Demand management team
  • Ensured requirements are precise and actionable and each requirement is translated into user stories with clear acceptance criteria
  • Created, groomed, and maintained project feature and story backlog in addition to any changes to those requirements
  • Collaborated with UX designers and internally reviewed wireframes before sharing it with business for their feedback
  • Conducted various scrum ceremonies and ensured team is aware of each sprint goal
  • Supported testing team through review of test cases and ensured that QA sign off is given for each story
  • Performed functional validation of applications based on user stories created
  • Ensured that blockers raised by team are resolved as quickly as possible

Senior Associate

Genpact
Pune
03.2016 - 05.2020
  • Successfully guided project team through transition from waterfall to Agile development
  • Served as primary liaison between client and multiple internal groups to clarify goals and meet quality standards and deadlines
  • Transformed business requirements into Epics, functionalities, further breaking down into User Stories with clear acceptance criteria
  • Conducted Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum call, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings
  • Supported Product owner with maintaining product backlog, coordination among team members and updating status of tasks
  • Ran SQL scripts to extract data from multiple data source

Education

B.E. - Electronics

PDEA's College of Engineering
Pune, India
06.2015

Skills

  • Requirement Gathering and Analysis
  • Epics and User Story Creation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Documentation: BRD, FRD, etc
  • Facilitating Scrum Events
  • JIRA
  • Agile methodology- SAFe
  • Scrum
  • Gap Analysis and Risk Analysis
  • Functional Testing
  • Wireframing
  • Gantt Chart
  • Mentoring
  • SQL
  • MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Confluence

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master(CSM) -Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
  • Certified SAFe 6 Practitioner - Scaled agile Inc.

Accomplishments

  • Bronze Cheers (08/2019) Genpact Awarded Bronze Cheers in the Category of CURIOUS – Continuous Learning
  • Star of the Month (10/2021) Merck Group Awarded Star of the Month for significant contribution in projects

Timeline

Product Definition Analyst 3

Amadeus
02.2024 - Current

Consultant

Infosys
03.2022 - 02.2024

Business Analyst

Merck Group
05.2020 - 03.2022

Senior Associate

Genpact
03.2016 - 05.2020
  • Certified Scrum Master(CSM) -Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
  • Certified SAFe 6 Practitioner - Scaled agile Inc.

B.E. - Electronics

PDEA's College of Engineering
Sukriti Bhat