Chamodi W. Email & Phone Number

Colombo, Wp, Lk

Drive project requirements, priorities, and deadlines.Preparation of RFP and carrying out vendor assessments & feasibility studies to ensure the proposed solution meets the business and stakeholder requirements. Contribute to solution designing and review with the architecture review board.Model requirements, prepare DSRS, data dictionary, wireframes, and walkthrough solution to the project team.Proactively engage, build, and maintain strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders. Identify risks and issues in advance, plan on mitigation steps and communicate to stakeholders. Present project status reports to working committees (management) on defined frequencies. Produce artifacts required for Go-Live and support team such as SOP, Governance framework, adoption plan. Provide Post Go-Live support by clarifying relevant business scenarios and identifying needed changes.Work proactively with fellow BAs and other team members, ensuring project goals and objectives are met.Carried out tech talks on API testing using Postman, importance of Analytical Thinking and User Story Writing.Carry out BA trainings to onboard to new recruits to align them with the BA best practices. Mentor and support subordinates and other fellow BAs.Engage with Talent Development as SPOC for BA practice and ensure relevant training needs are fulfilled.

Conduct workshops, focus group discussions, and interviews with stakeholders to identify the user journeys and elicit the requirements. Assess current state, elicit business/ stakeholder/ solution requirements to define future state and produce BRD.Carry out gap analysis of the systems based on the changed processes and define the new functionalities. Plan business analysis activities to align with the project deadlines and provide timely status updates. Prioritize the requirements to align with the business needs considering triple constraint.Work closely with 3rd party solution providers to ensure the expected scope is delivered.Assess change requests and work with development teams to implement change requests for the products.Prepare test cases and execute to ensure signed-off requirements are met.Conduct UAT with end users to validate the expected requirements are delivered.Prepare user manuals, user guides, training materials and conduct user training.Contribute on defining business analysis practice.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Domain: FinTechPlayed the role of Business Analyst for implementation of bespoke corporate banking solutions, business process automation, middleware integrations and digitization of processes using RPA. Engaged with end users, system owners to define or enhance business, financial and operational goals.Analysed the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems to reconcile conflicts and developed strategies for improvements while eliciting requirements and distinguishing solutions from business ideas. Mentored and evaluated junior team members and supported for the career growth.Lead on defining business analysis practice in business unit aligning with the business model. Collaboratively worked with management team to meet the business and financial milestones.Submitted technical proposals to cater the business needs published by clients.Prepared models, specifications, diagrams to provide directions to the project team. Technologies and ToolsIBM Products : IBM ESB, IBM BAW.Content Management: Microsoft Office (Power Point, Excel, Word), SharePoint.Email Clients: Microsoft OutlookDiagramming / Content Visualization: Draw.io, IBM Blueworks Live.Issue Tracking: JIRATeam Collaboration / Communication: MS Teams, WebexAPI Testing: SoapUI. Prototyping & Designing: Draw.ioRobotics Process Automation (RPA): Automation Anywhere.

Domains: FinTech, E-commerce & RetailPlayed the role of a Senior Business Analyst - Pre Sales.Worked closely with the pre-sales team for creation and submission of project proposals and pitched for business while supporting the team with in-depth product and business knowledge.Attended to pre-bid meeting sessions with the customers to elicit requirements required to define the solution.Held workshops, brainstorming, and solution design sessions with the technical and management teams and defined the functional and technical solutions to cater the customer requirements.Ensured the provided solution proposal will satisfy the customers while delivering a quality and cost-effective product.Prepared concise documentations and presentations related to proposal submissions.Technologies and ToolsContent Management: Microsoft Office (Power Point, Excel, Word).Email Clients: Microsoft OutlookDiagramming / Content Visualization: Draw.io, Lucid ChartsPrototyping & Designing: Draw.io

Sri Lanka

Domain: TelcoPlayed the role of Senior Business Analyst, ScrumMaster and Product Owner.Bridged communication gaps and maintained relationships with internal/external parties ensuring business requirements are catered with high quality while driving the projects to increase the ROI.Minimized rework by investigating, analysing, and verifying the business process.Identified overlapping requirements and identified pre-existing solutions for the upcoming software portfolio to minimize development and procurement. Provided recommendations to development team/ business process team for business process refinements. Defined non-functional requirements and ensure team implemented each at the end of the sprint. Provided feedback on user-interface design to maximize the user experience. Supported the team with required clarifications throughout the feature development. Provided high quality and concise requirement specifications (user stories) /API documentations which accurately reflect business requirements and supported the team through the life cycle.Ensured requirements are delivered by performing business analysis testing and supported the QA team to ensure the features were completed as agreed.Published and managed APIs in MIFE and coordinated authorization requirements for the necessary teams. Assessed business process/ system inefficiencies and suggested suitable processes and techniques to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the team while playing the scrum master role. Participated in the internal audits carried out by 3-party auditing partners and ensured product and processes are approved.Demonstrated and conducted UAT sessions to end users to ensure business requirements are met. Technologies and ToolsDiagramming / Content Visualization: Draw.ioIssue Tracking: JIRATeam Collaboration / Communication: SlackAPI Platforms: API Mobile Internet & Fulfilment Exchange (MIFE) WSO2 API PlatformAPI Testing: Postman (API testing).DB IDE: SQLyog

Sri Lanka

Domain: TravelEvaluated business process, anticipated business requirements to implement solutions of areas to be improved. Initiated workshops, interviews, focus group sessions for requirements elicitation and carried out research and gap analysis to identify customer needs. Carried out training, demonstrations for clients on UAT sign-off. Participated on internal product training sessions, business analysis process reviews and provided feedback on areas to be improved.Lead ongoing releases, feature verification and validation for the deployments in high-level and handed over to quality assurance team/client.Constantly looked out perspectives to improve product by monitoring and discovering issues to deliver better value to the customer and end users.Prepared wireframes, mock-ups to be demonstrated to customer and the development team to provide better understanding of requirements.Prepared functional/ non-functional specifications, user stories, API documents and walk-through to teams.Prioritized requirements, issues, tasks based on the business needs to achieve defined project milestones. Followed up tasks assigned for development to ensure the business needs were met on agreed deadlines while supporting team throughout the life cycle.Verified test cases and test scenarios provided by the quality assurance team.Prepared and maintained the plan for the assigned tasks and effectively communicated with cross-functional teams and management.Conducted product trainings for the new recruits.Tools and TechnologiesContent Management: Microsoft Office (Power Point, Excel, Word).Email Clients: Microsoft OutlookDiagramming / Content Visualization: Draw.io, COCOO.Issue Tracking: JIRAAPI Testing: Postman (API testing).Prototyping & Designing: Draw.io, Lucid Charts

Sri Lanka

Domains: FinTech, Capital MarketsPlayed the role of Business Analyst and Project Coordinator for the two core products. Clarified the requirements and communicated to development team and was assigned as SPOC between the product management and development team.Investigated and escalated critical production issues to production manager & scrum master.Coordinated scrum ceremonies with the team while maintaining the product backlog.Implemented front end configurations for one of the core products.Supported production manager and delivery manager to define release deliverables.Followed up on tasks and verified deliverables and coordinated releases. Technologies and ToolsContent Management: Microsoft Office (Power Point, Excel, Word).Email Clients: Microsoft OutlookIssue Tracking: IPM (Project Management tool)Team Collaboration / Communication: Slack, Skype.Databases clients: MySQL Workbench

Sri Lanka

Setup and manage project schedules for assigned projects.Prepare project status reports for monthly top management reviewMaintaining the common project plan and sending weekly task list to the project teams.Assist Scrum Master in enhancing the Surveillance core product development.Following the project tasks according to the project plan to ensure the team members will deliver the project on time.Manage Version control and release management through JIRA .Facilitate Project discussions with the project managers and the respective team leads and maintain minutes.Support project managers to prepare project status reports in Clarity project management tool.Prepare and maintain project financial budgets and forecasts for assigned projects.Participated in UAT to implement the Clarity project management system.Participated in the London metal Exchange Compliance Monitoring System Sea trials.Participated in client calls and maintain minutes of the meetingTrack Client reported issues and assign those to relevant parties.Maintain leave plan of the Surveillance team.Ability to execute JIRA advance queries.Technologies and ToolsJIRA (Issue Tracking System)Confluence Clarity Project Management System (Project management software)Microsoft ProjectOpen WorkbenchMicrosoft Office Applications [Word, excel, PowerPoint, Visio]

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