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Chennai, Tn, In

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Being in the startup atmosphere, I was fortunate enough to wear multiple hats. This included contributing into product management as a business analyst, conceptualizing the end solution as a UX designer and also being part of the functional as well as design testing.As Business analyst my role involved,• To be part of discovery phase in gathering the requirements, understanding their current workflow, map to the product from the system point of view – identify the gaps / new features.• Working along with development team in estimation, clarifications, and solution testing.• Stakeholder management across departments including product design, quality control, development teams, customer support and delivery to ensure the alignment of product roadmap and priorities.• Understand new requirements, research, and solution them in a way that the clients needs are met by also considering the overall industry expectations. • Leading the daily scrums so that the MVP is build within the shortest time and also thereby ensuring the quality of the deliverables.• Breaking down the complex requirement into user stories, preparing them, working with other stakeholders to demo and walkthrough the same.• Maintaining the product backlog and prioritizing the items for the release.As Product Design lead my responsibilities include,• To lead design workshops with clients – discovery, preparing and discussing the userflow.• Mockups, low and high fidelity prototypes – creating and demonstrating this with clients and other stakeholders.• Working along with UI developers to bring the solution to HTML.• Responsible for planning the yearly roadmap for the UX team.• Lead the team in terms of resource planning, goal setting, performance appraisals, recruitment.• Spokesperson for the product design team for all other stakeholders.• Working alongside presales / marketing teams for Rapid prototyping.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Interned with the Financial daily of The Hindu group, Business Line. Along with understanding the details of financial research in detail this opportunity allowed me to understand how the media works. During this stinct i was able to contribute and publish to the daily article of the business daily, i was alsoable to understand the in depth details into how media research works especially in terms of financial valuations. I also completed my research on the Indian Paint industry which included the study of operational as wellas financial research on the top players in the Indian paint sector.

Coimbatore Area, India

I have worked as a junior business analyst for various customer facing projects like Isuzu, BMW. In these projects my responsibilities included• To understand the business requirements from the end users and supporting the product team in creating requirement documentation, impact analysis, preparation of detailed test plan.• Working along with other functional teams for providing clarifications and software integration.• Functional testing for the changes and integration testing.• Implemented automation based on batch and perl scripting – completely automated the current manual integration process which needed around 4 hours – which reduced the manual effort and presence to just 20 minutes. This solution was appreciated and reused across various projects and locations.• Lead the quality testing team at BMW projects – included initial setup and stabilization of the test environments by work alongside colleagues from Europe remotely. Created a hardware solution to completely ensure stability and reliability of the test environments. This solution ensured that tests which used to run for around 5 hours with manual presence became completely automated.• In charge of the test setups at BMW projects which included around 20 labcars – this included resource planning, stakeholder management, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance , Marketing

Activities and Societies: Coordinated national level management festival at LIBA, Member , 360 Degrees the Student Affairs Committee.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electronics And Communications Engineering