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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Functional Lead and Scrum Master across e-Commerce solutions as well as Public Service Solutions.Has package expertise across various commerce packages such as SAP Commerce, Shopify, SAP Commerce CEA.Have been solely responsible for driving the Discovery workshops, user story grooming sessions, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and other ceremonies.Driving the Scrum Teams towards Delivery, efficient results and achieving Business goals.Work with cross Functional teams and align on the various aspects and handshakes.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Works as Lead Business Analyst for an E-commerce implementation for a leading Animal Healthcare Pharmaceutical Company.➢ Collaborating with clients/ stakeholders, analyze the Business requirement and processes through document analysis, brainstorming workshops, interviews, workflow analysis.➢ Analyzing the gaps in the existing system and propose the requirement in collaboration with the stakeholders.➢ Design User stories as part of Business Requirement specification with detailed Business Rules, Validation scenarios, Acceptance criteria and Business flow diagrams. ➢ Collaborate across teams to create data mapping and data modelling to identify the Data structure of the system.➢ Defining Backoffice capabilities v/s Customizations to elaborate the user stories. ➢ Create and maintain Product Backlog in collaboration with the stakeholders and drive the Prioritization. ➢ Driving the Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinement and Sprint Review ceremonies along with the Stakeholders.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

 Business Analyst/ Scrum Master working on various digital transformation, e-commerce solutions and Data Provisioning solutions in Agriculture domain. Defining, developing, delivering and executing on our product roadmap in Agile-Scrum framework. Create and maintain Product Backlog. Preparing the Release plans on periodic basis in order to achieve the Product roadmap. Prioritizing requirements, Develop Business Architecture using the requirements such as scope, process, alternatives and risks. Collaborating with clients/ stakeholders, analyze the client’s Business requirement and processes through Gap Analysis, document analysis, brainstorming workshops, interviews and Data Analysis. Driving the Sprint Planning, Estimations and Retrospectives. Leading the teams and driving towards the execution of the Product catalog through Agile Methodology. Develop User stories as part of Business Requirement specification with detailed Business Rules, Validation scenarios, Acceptance criteria and Business flow diagrams.  Perform data analysis and develop basic SQL queries for data visualization in terms of creating dashboards and analysis of the KPI trends through Kibana dashboard. Capture the various project KPI and metrics and report to the various stakeholders and take key decisions for project/program level goal setting. Lead the QA team for validating test case coverage and traceability matrix. Driving and execution of User Acceptance Testing. Training the stakeholders/ users on the usage of the products.Tools and Platforms: HIVE- Ambari, SAP Hybris Backoffice, Talend, Salesforce, Kibana, Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services- S3, Microsoft Visio, JIRA.Achievements: Received INSTA Award for successfully driving the team towards attaining the Business goals. Received accolades for the new product ideas presented to the Business and the higher management.

Developing assignments for students on following subjects: Marketing management, Management Information Technology, Operations Management

Bangalore

1) Gained hands-on experience and understanding on CMMI Level-3 in Requirements Management, Process and Product Quality Assurance and Work Management Planning. 2) Performed Lean Analysis of a Project and provided suggestions to improve the process3) Developed a formula to calculate Quality Score for projects in order to cater to Quality metrics.4) Developed a database based on the research on the various trends and updates in the Pharma Industry.

Bengaluru

1) Involved in end-to-end Software testing Life-Cycle (STLC) which includes Gathering Requirements, Test Plan, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect Reporting and Tracking, Execution of Regression suites, Test Completion and Closure activities and Metrics Reporting.2) Worked on both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.3) Worked on various testing and management tools such as HPQC 11.0, HP ALM, JIRA, TCS MasterCraft Application Life Cycle Manager, iBrowse (TCS developed Testing Automation Tool).4) Provided Quality Assurance Services for collaboration sites on platforms such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce.com for US-Based Leading Pharmaceutical Company.5) Worked in both Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.6) Worked on the Proof of Concept for iBrowse, the TCS-developed Automation Testing tool.7) Documentation of the entire testing activities throughout STLC.8) Team's SPOC for Process Improvement Initiatives. Performed Lean Analysis on various projects, various automation techniques and reported the various improvements projected.9) Team's SPOC for Defect Prevention Causal Analysis (DPCA)- Suggested improvements to reduce defects.10) Team's SPOC for Unified Metrics Program(UMP)- Reporting of various metrics throughout Software Development Lifecycle.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Telecommunication, First Class With Distinction - 72.6%

Pgdm, Operations, 6.18/8.0

Activities and Societies: 1) External Communications Lead at XSEED Club, the CSR wing at XIME- Planned, Coordinated and Organized several.