Tanu Arora
Noida
Summary
Well-qualified product management professional familiar with Agile and scrum systems and how to effectively manage product development timelines. Effective at making important team decisions focused on moving products through planning, pre-production and production phases. Advanced skills in Insurance , Capital Market , Payments , Real Estate domain .
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Analyst
To The New
10.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with stakeholders across departments to define requirements for project.
- Identified gaps between current state and desired future state operations.
- Created reports for data analysis.
Senior Business Analyst
Taazaa Inc
04.2021 - 10.2023
- Analysing & documenting the business requirements, responses to questionnaires and getting approval of the documents from the client in the form of sign off
- Applied pragmatic overview and analytical skills in conducting requirement analysis, thus minimizing potential knowledge transfer gaps by connecting with clients in brainstorming sessions or change request sessions
- Process-driven: Holds the distinction of generating new product ideas, researching as well as analysing their feasibility and business impact and pitch ideas for implementation to product.
- Product Release: Administered the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities; actively involved in product implementation and implementation delivery tasks
- Initiatives Taken: Expertly, got the agreed-upon features or modules transformed into products by preparing the mock-ups and explaining the same to Designers & Developers
- Client Meetings: Conducted client meetings as well as UAT sessions to build a consensus by demonstrating them the requirement on the product; improved existing and added new features into the product in accordance to meet client requirements.
- Skillfully translated stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables viz. BRD/PDD, User Stories, Workflow/Process Diagrams/Business Process Flow Charts.
- Actively involved in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up and Sprint Retrospective Meetings .
Analyst
Ezops Inc
08.2019 - 03.2021
- Acting as a Product Owner for different teams by Managing multiple customers independently.
- Primary responsibilities include requirement gathering from client, managing requirement through traceability matrix, preparing user stories and documentation(wireframes, user stories , flow diagrams)
- Extensive followups and managing sprint tasks through JIRA and Confluence to achieve and increase velocity.
- Business Improvement Analysis to the client , Creating Personas, User flow diagrams, Customer Journey Map to ease the management and enhancing team knowledge.
- Analysis of competitive products in the market and analyzing the gaps
Software Test Engineer
Ellucian Higher Education Systems
08.2017 - 07.2018
- Test API integration on Ellucian Ethos Platform (enterprise application for higher education) .
- Designed and tested End to End functional and regression test cases on HP ALM application .
- Validated API response through postman , reported defects and followed up on defect status.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2015 - 07.2017
- Enhanced functional requirement document in close collaboration with the Business Analyst
- Formulated SQL queries to perform backend data validation Briefed client on the project development and conducted demos to present the functionality
- Successfully completed POC on Automation Testing through Selenium and Soap UI.
Education
MBA - Business Analytics
NMIMS
04.2022
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Requirement Gathering
- Scrum Agile Principles
- Product Roadmap
- Application Design & Development
- Project Management
- Process Automations
- Sprint Planning Meetings
- Sprint Review Meetings
- UAT Demonstration
- Release Planning
- Story Based Development
- Testing & Quality Assurance
- Conflict Resolution
Affiliations
- Rewarded with CEO's Choice Award for Outstanding Contribution at Innago/Taazaa
Certification
- Professional Scrum Product Owner I from Scrum.Org
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Professional Synopsis
- Multi-certified & Ardent Business Analyst with over 7 years with experience in software development life cycle (SDLC) from gathering requirements, design, development (configuration and integration), testing, training, implementation, and production support for multiple companies in agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Wore multiple hats while leading the projects as a BA, Product Owner, technical & functional SME, Implementation Consultant, Quality Engineer and Project Manager.
- Led onsite/offsite Business analysis & Requirement gathering sessions using various techniques (Interviews, Workshops, Brainstorming, Observation, Questionnaires) with PO, business units, higher management.
- Proficient in creating documents User Story, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Use Case Document, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Change Document (CR), Mockups & Wireframes, User manuals, Test Cases, Process Flow Diagram.
- Well versed in Leading Scrum Ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, retrospectives, standup) and conducting Backlog Refinement, Prioritizations, Impact Analysis, Change Management, Tracking of Requirement, Defects and UAT Feedback, UAT Demos, User Training
Key Projects
- Travellers Polaris - Cognizant 2015
- Travellers Surety - Cognizant 2016
- Ethos Integration - Ellucian Higher Eductaion Systems , 2017
- ARO - Ezops Inc , 2019
- Innago - Taazaa Inc, 2021
Tools and Technologies
- Elicitation: Interviews, Workshops, Brainstorming, Observation, Questionnaires
- Requirement Engineering: Inception, Elaboration, Negotiation, Requirement Management
- SDLC & Project Management Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Waterfall
- Document Artifacts: BRD, FRD, PDD, User Story, Use Case, User Journey, CR, Test Cases, Test Scenario
- Wireframe & Prototype: Invision, Balsamiq, Draw.io, Activity Diagram, Swim-lane
- Project Collaboration: Jira, Rally, Confluence
- Domain Expertise: Insurance , Capital Market , Payments , Real Estate.
Education and Training
other
Timeline
Business Analyst
To The New
10.2023 - Current
Senior Business Analyst
Taazaa Inc
04.2021 - 10.2023
Analyst
Ezops Inc
08.2019 - 03.2021
Software Test Engineer
Ellucian Higher Education Systems
08.2017 - 07.2018
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2015 - 07.2017
MBA - Business Analytics
NMIMS
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