Bharat Kumar Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Transformation and Modernization, Senior Team Lead, Scrum Master, Senior Consultant, Banking Product

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

India

Closely working with Product Owners to facilitate Product backlog management and help in grooming user stories. Supporting the entire SDLC, team formation and task assignment process. Tracking items to closure. Sending status updates to stakeholders. Encouraging AGILE adoption and participation in sprint planning exercise, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective ceremonies. Managing a strong and effective team of developers and testers and sharing requirement insights. Removing impediments. Guiding in creating effective test cases.Cultivating high spirits, participative inclusive culture for greater bonding and cohesiveness. Forging a strong network with other teams for cross functional partnerships. Gap analysis to assess business objectives. Brainstorming sessions and problem simulation. Sign offs in compliance with the CAB process. UAT and roll out support • Important initiativeso GST customisation in PS Finance to support reconciliation and input credit processing and prevent potential financial losseso MSME vendors customisation in PS Finance to meet statutory compliance and avoid punitive actionso Integrating Billing/AR and GL process through custom PS JOB to prevent manual errors and thereby drastically reducing support ticketso Using cross functional collaborations, complex business rules, policy translations to automate the employee claims process. Regarded as a landmark feat and helped in improving productivityo Developing Travel vendor payment tool, enabled with electronic submission of invoices, email notification, approval workflow and integration with main accounting PS financial systems. Using strategic approaches to manage coordination between multiple key stakeholder groupso Liaising with SAP Concur team to implement employee credit card feature in alignment with organisational policy and enabling Budgeting module to track Unit level travel cost• People management, multiple stakeholder management, vendor management

Chennai Area, India

• Operated out of on-site client location, Glaxo Smithklime, London to support development of a case management solution for maintaining case life cycle in Salesforce Application. Closely worked with onsite program manager to understand business needs • Collaborated with technical partners in preparing configuration specification documents. Having specifications reviewed by the governing council and obtaining sign offs. Sharing technical installation plans with stakeholders for their approval. • Reviewing technical installation report with technical partner and underscore gaps if any. Flagging concerns or delays to the stakeholders. Supporting UAT exercise. Presenting a detailed report on project execution, extensively describing corrective and preventive actions taken during the project • Customizing an unmanaged package called Milestone PM to build a Project Management Application in salesforce for Chevron client. Managed testing team to visualize effective functional test cases. Supported in identifying and consolidating defects to ensure a bug free demonstration to the client during sprint reviews • Overlapped with onsite BA to map requirements for OLD MUTUAL client and providing granular level requirement understanding to the developers and testers.

Chennai Area, India

• Supporting customization through Change Request process• Customer Interfacing and Requirement Gathering• Understanding requirements and defining problem statement• Sharing insights with team through problem simulation• Performing AS IS and TO BE assessment as part of fit gap analysis• Breaking-down requirement into user stories• Supporting sprint planning exercise and monitor incremental release• Guiding testers to prepare effective test cases and supporting UAT exercise• Undertaking Release Management process to take changes to closure

Chennai Area, India

• Vendor Payment rationalization to improve liquidity health• Successfully negotiated better payment terms with vendors• Customer visits to maintain healthy relationship and spirits• Reporting any customer concerns to the leadership

Delhi Area, India

• Building effective research strategies in alignment with acquisition interests of clients. Using subscribed databases for enhance target pool• Ensuring 100% SLA compliance in lead generation• Supporting onsite touch point with a pool of quality target profiles• Maintaining effective communication with touchpoints and flagging any potential risks

Delhi Area, India

• Envisaging approach to reach desired level of output optimization for our client• Mapping raw material to finished goods journey points to identify pilferage and thereby saving cost• Identifying revenue leakages owing to under recovery from the customers and augmenting revenue• Recommending measures to reduce unsold inventory by reorganizing product arrangement in the outlet and recommending customer sensitive approach to blend with local culture