Nikita Kazakov Email & Phone Number

Moscow Metropolitan Area

- Collaborating with product & program managers, anti-malware experts, legal divisions, architects, developers and quality assurance specialists on product scope, requirements, solutions, constraints and risks.- Eliciting, analysing, specifying, and validating the business needs. - Managing and prioritising the product backlog. - Producing project business analysis documents: business requirements, user stories, use cases, wireframes, system functional and non-functional requirements, and change requests.- Managing, clarifying and updating functional and nonfunctional requirements throughout the project lifecycle. - Supporting C-level management in decision making, addressing questions, preparing reports, analysing trends. - Monitoring, tracking and communicating progress, risks and issues to stakeholders.- Facilitating cross-functional collaboration (PMs, anti-malware experts, architects, developers and QAs) to boost the project performance and anticipating project bottlenecks.- Managing and coaching the team of 3-5 business analysts. Setting goals, supporting professional development and assessing performance, applying Agile principles. - Governing continuous improvement of business analysis approach on the project, including process flow, documents structure, tools and knowledge transfer.- Coordinating Quality Assurance team guiding and validating test cases and test results for the products’ intended functionality and performance.- Accountable for the delivery cycle including meeting deadlines, budgets and business standards and implementation. - Clarifying and addressing issues and questions in collaboration with product, UX, subject matter experts and technology teams; validating the eventual implementation.

- Leading projects for applications components (application control, protection, encryption), applications and solutions (consumer and enterprise endpoint protection, advanced threats protection, sandboxing) and infrastructure systems (threats processing, research and analysis).- Accountable for projects transforming internal detection systems to a B2B products line (Kaspersky SandBox, Kaspersky Research Sandbox, KATA Sandbox) which extended the company’s offer for corporate customers.- Played a key role in a cross department project to provide an anti-malware analyst team with unified tools. This resulted in a 30 % time reduction for key tasks and minimised errors related to human factor.- Developed and implemented a system for controlling coverage and quality of the requirements using MS TFS reporting and dashboards. The system allowed to elicit the functional areas with deficient coverage. It was also used in prioritising future work. - Facilitated communication with stakeholders to elicit business needs. Analysed and documented business requirements and change requests.- Liaised with the engineering team and architects, evaluated business cases and goals, defined requirements and acceptance criteria for fit-for-purpose solutions.- Translated business requirements into software requirements specifications, system design and technical specifications (proposals, use cases, user stories and UML diagrams).- Established traceability between requirements, solution architecture and design, testing and delivery.- Reviewed and approved user interface design and GUI mockups, test-scenarios.- Coordinated solution testing, ensuring system compliance and quality assurance.- Conducted legal and information security checks to ensure the product is compliant with government laws and guidelines. - Developed rules and processes for organising interaction between product and technological departments, organised and maintained requirements development process.

- Interviewed internal stakeholders to identify requirements- Developed requirements for company’s services and business systems.- Cooperated with project stakeholders and assisted them- Coordinated the work of system analysts on projects.- Developed and implemented the requirements development and management process within the company: procedures, documents, the team and the customer cooperation process.

- Developed bank reporting (SQL, PL/SQL) for the banking management system.- Developed applications for monitoring and reporting (C++ Builder, Delphi).

- Tested software functionality on an implementation stage- Supported internal users