Chanaka Kumarasiri Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sri Lanka

•Product Owner/Business Analyst for carrying out the tasks of requirement gathering, elicitation and grooming.•Decompose and document Epics, hypothesis statement and user stories by identifying gaps, and clear acceptance criteria for all the requirements.•Managing the product backlog with clearly defined and accurate priorities at any given time.•Preparing both functional and technical documents related to the various aspects of the process and the application.•Preparing the wire frames and high-fidelity UI screen designs.•Carrying out basic functional testing from the business analysis perspective.•Managing tickets in issue management system (e.g. – JIRA) and also managing Confluence with the documentations. •Reviewing the test scenarios, test cases and test results prepared by the quality assurance team and provide feedback.•Providing final approval for the stories by validating the implemented functionality.•Prioritizing the issue backlog and decide the severity of each issue.•Support business operations by preparing user manuals.•Getting involved with research carried out on various aspects by the Nagarro team related to the selected domains.•Carrying out internal knowledge transfer sessions, trainings on related topics (such as banking in general, capital markets etc.).•Conducting requirement workshops with the potential leads to understand the business requirement.•Be a part of the pre sales solutions team who converts the high level business requirements to a specific solution.•Getting involved in preparation and review of sales proposals by liaising with the development, quality assurance and project management teams.•Attending to pre bid meetings.•Part of the team in demonstrating Proof of Concepts (PoC) to present the technical feasibility of solutions.•Assisting the Sri Lankan team in organizing events targeted at building the local network with the potential leads and to market Nagarro as a leading technology provider / consultant.

Sri Lanka

Owner of the program backlog.• Overlooking scope and delivery management aspects of multiple work streams through coordination between multiple delivery teams and the client.• Getting involved in planning / managing all the aspects of the project (primary - Product Owner discipline) as a member of the program leadership team.• Acting as the primary contact person to the client regarding the requirements, scope and delivery milestones.• Record and maintain client wish list, suggest priorities, and provide periodic updates to the clients. • Negotiating and prioritizing the scope and delivery milestones with the clients and internal teams.• Defining the scope and the objectives of the project tasks with the project stakeholders. • Getting involved in drafting the delivery milestones by providing feedback on the scope taking into account, the client wish lists.• Getting involved in preparing the project plans based on the milestones, resources available and internal planning guidelines. • Ensuring that the project scope, objectives, delivery milestones and other KPIs are successfully met through frequent progress reviews. • Monitoring and reporting the status of the project to the senior management.• Identification of scope and delivery risks of both the internal and external milestones.• Managing the identified risks for the project delivery with the help of project management team. • Managing customer communications and relationships.• Managing multiple product owners involved with the projects in terms of prioritizing the tasks and handling dependencies across multiple scrum teams.• Negotiating the product customization requirements with the clients.• Managing change requests to minimize changes to the project scope and the schedule.• Planning the defect management / clearance activities with relevant stakeholders to clear the issue backlog.• Ensure that the product owner related processes / artifacts meet the internal process standards.

Sri Lanka

• Leading and participating the initial requirement gathering sessions to negotiate the business requirements with the stakeholders of the client.• Analysing the requirements against the medium and long-term business plans of the clients and providing consultation where necessary.• Documenting and getting the sign off for the business Epic documents.• Getting involved in defining the complete solution architecture / overall design• Preparing the drop plan of the complete project with the scope for each drop.• Getting involved in coming up with the project / drop milestones with the help of the architects and project managers.• Aiding the project financial decisions by actively engaging in defining the scope, efforts estimates, team resource allocations and the delivery milestones.• Managing the client communications related to the business requirements and delivery milestones.• Ensuring that the complete product backlog is clearly defined with the accurate priorities.• Segregating and assigning the complete project backlog to different scrum teams. • Reviewing the business stories documented by the product owners and providing feedback.• Participating in sprint reviews and approving /providing feedback for the functionalities which have been implemented.• Be the primary person to manage the dependencies with the external project teams.• Conducting system demonstration to the clients to validate the requirements.• Assisting the preparation of testing strategy for the complete project including regression testing, integration testing, functional testing etc.• Provide feedback on client test plans for integrated testing, Industry Wide Testing and member testing cycles.• Mentoring and coaching the product owners as a people manager.• Provide frequent project / milestone updates to the senior management.• Getting involved in optimizing the project revenues vs. costs by utilizing the project resources in the most efficient way.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

• Leading the team of product owners in delivering the Post Go Live requirements.• Leading the deliveries by defining the scope of each delivery and the timeline (taking into consideration, the priorities of the clients and internal resource allocations).• Review product roadmaps and come up with new ideas to improve the product offerings.• Acting as the main contact person for the complete data migration work stream both for internal and external stakeholders.• Actively involved in defining the data migration strategy for the product with the help of the technical architects.• Leading the data migration related discussions with the client (both functional and non-functional requirements). Analyse, define and document the complete data migration process applicable for the solution.• Coordinate with the functional scrum teams on the functional changes impacting the data migration stream and absorb necessary changes into the data migration stream.• Providing the leadership to the data migration team and assisting in removing any impediment faced by the data migration scrum team.• Assisting the preparation of testing strategy for the work stream including regression testing, integration testing, functional testing etc.• Reviewing the test scenarios prepared by the testing team and provide feedback.• Being the primary on site resource to assist and lead the client in data migration testing (sea trials, UATs). • Leading the system Go-Live cutover activities by managing and guiding both the internal and client project teams.• Negotiating and prioritizing the scope and delivery milestones with the clients and internal teams.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Completed the internship at IFS R & D International (Pvt.) Ltd, as a business system analyst. During this period, I worked with IFS Applications 7.0 and 7.5 where I was supposed to handle the customer queries regarding the Finance module of the application.

Bsc (Hons) In It - 1St Class, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Intecs

Master Of Business Administration (Mba) (Merit), Business Administration And Management, General, Merit

MBA (Merit) from the Faculty of Management and Finance - University of Colombo

Passed Finalist

Education record

Project Management Professional (Pmp), Project Management

Certified as Project Management Professional

Java

Mobile Application Development

Certified Scrum Master

Certified Product Owner

Advanced Global Securities Operation, Investments And Securities, Highest Achievers Award

Certified Safe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager, Agile