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San Francisco, California, United States

• Participated in Project planning meeting to set up timelines and milestones for IT development team, analysed the resource requirements and interfaces required for the project development. Based on the estimations.
• Performed various Project Management activities including Demand management, Change management, Deployment/Production Plans, creating services and incidents, Issue and milestones tracking, conducting Daily/weekly.
• Conducted Document Review sessions with Subject Matter Experts/Business Leads/IT Associate Director to finalize the Functional Specification Documentation for sign off from all the Business users.
• Worked close to Business to identify the KPIs, understand the business processes and requirements.
• Attended Design Review Board meeting in assisting developers with approvals on design and build freeze.
• Scheduled meetings with the Senior Data Architect to understand the data warehouse structure, architecture and data marts, performance standards based on which analysis were made to create Table functions, projections.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Interviewed Subject Matter Experts and performed extensive Document Reviews to develop a thorough understanding of business processes & analyzed the supply chain to aid Business Process Improvements.
• Participated in SAP Business Blueprinting- Creating Process Definition Document, User Requirements Specifications, Key Design Decision Description and GAP Analysis and Testing Strategy documents.
• Performed Document Analysis and created process flow diagrams to understand the AS-IS process and collaborated with the team to design the TO-BE process based on the gathered requirements.
• Participated in Scrum ceremonies like Backlog Grooming, Standup Meetings, Prioritizing Meetings and Retrospective Meetings, extensively used JIRA for converting requirements to User stories, assisted the Product Owner.
• Worked closely with the technical team to convert the functional requirements into technical specifications like Prototypes, Graphical User Interface (GUI) and User Interface (UI) mock-ups using Balsamiq and Lucid Chart.
• Created Use Case diagrams, Use Case Templates and process flow diagrams using Visio for both systems.

Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States

• Facilitated Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Stand-ups, Sprint Review and Retrospective.
• Assisted Scrum teams with generation of User Stories and managing the progress.
• Facilitated prioritization and estimation of Product Backlog Items using techniques like MoSCoW-Kano Hybrid Model, Planning Poker and Relative mass valuation.
• Assisted the Product Owner in developing acceptance criteria and definition of done for the user stories.
• Tracking Information Radiators and addressing any issues as they arise. These metrics include Velocity, Burndown charts and Release progress.
• Negotiating with Product Owner in backlog management for scope creeps and continuous delivery.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Maintained the Insurance Analyst process which included detailing the rating requirements using AQS rating system for all types of Commercial Line.
• Managing the project using the Agile Method of project development.
• Implementing Scrum development methodology
• Help end users in creating User stories. Interacted with business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the Auto rating application.
• Create interactive simulation for end users using real time data.
• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Business users’ sentiments.