Atulesh Thakur Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

▪ Prepared WBS, Requirements Governance Documents, DoR and DoD criteria for project initiatives▪ Led SCURM teams from a requirements standpoint by defining user stories, story splitting and story refinement.▪ Conducted requirements walkthrough meetings with different stakeholders to get a high-level overview of the business requirements.▪ Designed and developed re-useable project document templates based on Agile SCRUM SDLC methodology.▪ Converted business logic to Flowcharts using BPMN and translated emerging requirements for business process change into EPICs and User Stories in JIRA.▪ Participated in all SCRUM ceremonies. Worked with development and testing teams to carry out story pointing.▪ Created end-user guides and release notes for user and channel communications using Figma/InDesign.▪ Hosted defect triage meetings for the scrum team to ensure defects found during User Acceptance Testing (UAT) are prioritized and resolved.▪ Liaised with data and prod teams to give requirements to create Power BI reports, pull prod data using SQL to analyze results and see KPI Impact.▪ Work with project managers to manage requirements traceability, status tracking, communicate project updates and prepare lessons learned documents.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

▪ Extensively worked with the product owner and BA lead to outline best practices for requirement gathering and change management. Engaged implementation teams to ensure best practices for requirements documentation are followed.▪ Used JIRA to document EPICS and user stories for digital teams to document business requirements.▪ Utilized GIVEN, WHEN, THEN and ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA to call out business requirements, business rules, specific behavior, and expected outcome.▪ Used Confluence to document a line of business (LOB) wide glossary and re-useable templates for various artifacts such as BRD, PCR, User Stories, Vision Board, Root-Cause Analysis documents, etc.▪ Utilized brainstorming and working sessions across various stakeholders to ensure end-to-end requirements coverage.▪ Worked with UI/UX teams to produce prototypes for notifications on Figma.▪ Worked with cross-functional teams in Program Increment (PI) Planning to share updates, goals, identify and mitigate risks.▪ Assisted in analyzing inherent risk and residual risk assessment to plan further MVPs and roadmap.▪ Worked with UI teams to create prototypes for the new implementation and worked with development and testing teams to implement changes like streamlined info and error messages.

▪ Created and maintained Data Dictionary for CRM data fields, and Business Glossary.▪ Ensured the same definitions are used organization-wide when analyzing data.▪ Kept the glossary up to date with current definitions and took the initiative to launch it on the org-wide SharePoint.▪ Took ownership to create and maintain Training Material by defining each dashboard visual, it’s universe and data/business rules.▪ Facilitated weekly Training and ‘Office Hours’ Sessions for end users to get familiar with the Power BI dashboards and understand the definitions and calculations behind the dashboard visuals.▪ Led a Training Channel in MS Teams to encourage the dashboard usage in end-user’s day to day job activities and engaged with end users by sharing ‘Tips & Tricks’ for dashboard usage.▪ Designed and maintained organization-wide Go-Live Communications.

● Gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business requirements from the Project Sponsor for the implementation of the Ehub portal and back-office tool.● Helped PO in creating and refining Epics, wrote user stories, created process flow diagrams and UML diagrams.● Actively worked with clients on scope, documented functional and non-functional requirements, estimation & test strategy planning and coordinated with stakeholders, application developers, testers, and end users to ensure delivery of Minimum Viable Product (MVP).● Conducted functionality demos to the business stakeholders.● Integrated the data from mobile application to new website.● Documentation of the User Stories using Jira for full traceability and management.● Performed requirements gathering using both formal and informal sessions through interviews, questionnaires, video conferencing calls with stakeholders and end-users.● Analyzed, defined, documented, and communicated business requirements to technical architects and developers by interacting with end-users.● Conducted GAP Analysis based on business rules, business and system process flows, user administration requirements and assumptions.● Implemented UML to prepare use cases, AS-IS and TO-BE process flow, and sequence diagrams from gathered requirements using MS Visio.

Pg, Financial Planning And Services

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law