Aakanksha Gupta Email & Phone Number

Senior Business Analyst Role • Engage with client and analyse their business requirements and processes through document analysis, conferences & working sessions and ensure alignment with development teams • Translate stakeholder’s business requirements by constructing easy- to-understand wireframes, data models, workflow/process models, activity diagrams, mapping documents and user stories • Define scope of projects/change requests based on technical feasibility and business requirements considering the current functionalities and the limitation of the existing systems • Organize brainstorming sessions with client to come up with innovative ideas and create Proof of Concepts for adopting and integrating product APIs and create enhance consumer experienceAssociate Manager (Business Technology) Role • Handhold IT projects from ideation to post-production phase while ensuring that the client requirements are understood and implemented in the appropriate manner • Conduct working sessions with stakeholders for project fit-gap analysis, feasibility analysis, risk analysis, automation effort estimation and support sprint planning exercises • Estimate and maintain projects schedule, total project cost, project hours and share them with all the stakeholders

Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

• Conducted market research of all the potential competitors based on market attractiveness, technology availability, product features & financial viability for development of functional prototype of online product code – named UMT (copyright pending)• Perform PEST/PESTEL & CPM (competitive Profile Matrix) analysis and assist product strategy team to drive strategic innovations to generate new product ideas• Gain a deep understanding of users and customers, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that improve user experience and drive growth• Work with cross functional teams - Design, Engineering & Content to help in developing product roadmap document• Create, update and maintain project documents for Product Management team

• Led a team & drove the end to end test execution from offshore for AT&T in Mobility, IOT & Business Networking domain• Worked with clients and developers to analyse the Business Requirements, High level Designs and devised the IT Test Strategy, Test Plan, High Level Scenarios and Test Cases/Use Cases accordingly• Performed the role of the Defect Prevention Plan Coordinator - Reduced the Turn Around time of priority defects by 50%• Initiated & led an E2E project automation process which reduced the testing effort by 60%• Created and executed test automation scripts for E2E flows of over 25 applications using Selenium• Project Management responsibilities included bug tracking (using JIRA), defect analysis, effort estimations and deliver solutions within Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets using Agile methodologies• Mentored a team of 25 new members, inducted them into main-stream projects and conducted knowledge sharing sessions for all team members on any new product enhancements

• Performed vendor development, assessed and audited vendor’s and suppliers’ operations and integrated them with the business growth plan• Research & evaluate potential suppliers, request quotes, compare prices & negotiate for maximum ROI and release Purchase Orders accordingly• Follow up with the Finance team for timely payment of all the suppliers and update the same to suppliers

• Collaborated with Operations, Marketing, Sales & Design on day to day basis to identify gaps in sales plans, understand the requirement of product and to provide overall multi-stakeholder co-ordination• Streamlined raw material sourcing process & logistics and helped in reducing the existing inventory by effective margin of 15%• Carried out strategic sourcing, planning, budgeting, and Inventory Management of raw materials using ABC analysis to optimize inventory cost of project• Preparation of import / export documents for the imports of raw materials from suppliers abroad and exports of DC generators to customers in various countries

Pgdm (Gm)

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics And Telecommunications

High School