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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

• Business Analyst in Property Development Advisory project
• Working along with the Product Owner, End Users and Business stakeholders in understanding the existing AS-IS process, pain points and proposing solution by using a combination of elicitation meeting
• Converting the business requirements into functional/system requirements by creating light Use cases, User Story writing workshop, Acceptance Criteria in order to understand and elicit Software Requirements supported.
• Conducting User Story Grooming session and review session with Technical and business stakeholder and identifying the gaps if any
• Considering the perspective of technical stakeholders regarding feasibility, data requirements, challenges, estimation
• Collaborating with the Product Owner in pulling User Stories into Sprint Backlog based on priority, user story estimation

• Interacted with the Financial Advisors and the Financial Analysts to understand Financial Needs Analysis procedure and gathered requirements considering the compliances and risks.
• Collaborated with the Financial Risk Analysts to evaluate risks associated with various investment
• Worked as a liaison between the Business team and the development team during the planning, eliciting, developing and testing phases of the system.
• Assisted Project Manager in creating Project deliverables, KPI's, milestones, resource estimation and work breakdown structure using MS Project.
• Collaborated with the Product owner in breaking down the epics into user stories and supplemented the user stories with prototypes.
• Conducted and lead the JAD session with Financial Advisors and developers to setup project goals and objectives when faced with a set of issues related to system design and development.

• Worked as liaison between Business units and Data Modelers, Technical System to study the data lineage and created a data-mapping document to ensure the automatically generated reports are aligned according to the.
• Designed data models in collaboration with data architect and data modelers, supported in creating ER diagrams defining entities, attributes, relationships and business rules

Mumbai Area, India

• Acted as a liaison between the development team and the business team, which consisted of IFE Program Managers, Research Analyst and Content Managers
• Gathering requirements from the business users using various elicitation techniques such as Interviewing, Video conferencing and JAD sessions.
• Performed Gap Analysis by analyzing the existing manual processing (AS-IS) and the proposed automated system (TO-BE) and wrote requirements to fill in the gap.
• Created Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) capturing all the functional and the non-functional requirements
• Prepared Process Flow diagrams capturing the flow of the data through IFE and wrote use cases for the requirements indicating the normal flow, Alternate flow and exceptional flows
• Utilized SQL to fulfill ad-hoc data procurement requests in a timely manner to accelerate seamless delivery of results.

Post Graduate Diploma In Information Technology, Information Technology

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering

Associate’S Degree, Science

High School