A passionate Lead Business Analyst helping enrich and renew existing products. Working closely with stakeholders, identifying customers’ risks and implementing customer focused products with zero requirement gaps for 15 plus years. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet product goals.
Currently based out of Sweden, have applied for the Netherlands work permit.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Business Analyst
Mastercard
09.2021 - Current
Creating user journeys to break down and get clarity on requirements
Responsible for getting inspiring product visions, derived from business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends implemented with end-to-end responsibility
Owning Initiatives, Epics and Product Backlogs simultaneously for various streams
Maintaining Traceability Matrix to ensure requirement coverage
Partnering with Product team to brainstorm requirements during product ideation
Expert in working closely with the stakeholders for gathering the requirements, organizing, and streamlining the project at all phases
Coordinating across locations to irradicate impediments virtually in a Global delivery model
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive initiatives to build efficient systems
Determine scope creeps and get change requests captured formally
Prioritized product features making trade-off decisions
Map multiple sources to draw the bigger picture view
Stub out features from Epic, create user stories, own, and prioritize the backlog and translate business needs into technical requirements for the scrum team
Responsible for eliciting and managing functional requirements working in an agile and iterative manner to build out appropriate solutions
Assure that the Product Backlog Items respect ‘Definition of Ready’ before entering in the Sprint Backlog
Supported Regulatory SOC Audit asks, implemented process improvement for all existing products.
Assisted Cyber and Intelligence products to improve client satisfaction.
Exercised critical thinking to resolve requirement gaps.
Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
Applied problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
Collaborated with Business and IT team stakeholders to identify and elaborate business needs.
Regional Lead
Business Rules Team - Fraud Risk
06.2019 - 08.2021
Understanding customer’s risk requirements and getting those implemented
Analyzing customer’s existing rules portfolio and working with them to secure them further from trending frauds
Rapid fraud analysis and change implementation on TRT support calls
Working through proof of concepts on rules as per customer’s requirements
Implementing Mastercard advised risk strategy rules for customers
Served customers with knowledgeable, insightful support at implementation of Risk strategy
Built relationships with customers to promote long term business growth.
Fielded customer complaints and facilitated negotiations, resolving issues and reaching mutual conclusions.
Business rules authoring, testing, validating and deployment
Fraud investigation/analysis
Identified risks from business and customer feedback and in-depth analysis of operational performance
Conducted many customer trainings on Mastercard Internal applications
Building case studies
Business Rules Engineer
Mastercard
06.2017 - 06.2019
Business rules authoring, testing, validating and deployment
Investigation/analysis of issues raised by customers on rules’ functioning
New customer enrolment to Mastercard Products and services
Daily deployments of rules to production
Rule validation for peers
Updated and developed scripts and queries to extract and analyze data from multiple sources.
Mentored team well towards customer's fraud portfolio, providing support and guidance.
Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
Identified issues from data analysis, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
Business Analyst/QA Lead
Illinois Mutual
05.2015 - 05.2016
Business Use Case and Requirement elicitation
User journeys, Use Case Diagrams and Process Maps
Business analysis and testing on responsive web design
Refining agile processes
Standardizing business and testing documentation
Maintaining product backlog and sprint backlog
Test planning, testing documentation, reporting testing status, and test case execution in agile environment with defect triaging
Development and Testing outsourcing partner selection
Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for product.
Maintained product backlog with insights from sales and business team.
Senior Test Engineer
V-Serv Limited
06.2013 - 11.2013
Requirement gathering, impact analysis, prioritizing and testing of various functionalities
Understanding customer point of view and elaborating the same to the Agile team
Highlighting software limitations, risks, scope creep and other IT constraints
High level and detailed requirement documentation
Conducted product demos throughout the software development lifecycle to get input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, and potential issues
Prepared work breakdown structure and reported daily progress to management
Managed the Quality Assurance track and worked towards improvising and formalizing the delivery process
Generated and reviewed formal test plan by including test scenarios, test cases, testing environments, entrance/exit criteria.
Completed regression tests of new software builds to assess performance and success of bug fixes.
Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.
Senior Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
03.2011 - 06.2013
Manual Regression Testing and Quality Assurance team
Developed Test Plan and Test scenarios and maintained traceability matrix
Led team across multiple locations with complete responsibility of all offsite deliverables
Defect reporting
Wrote test case parameters, test scripts and automation guidelines.
Reproduced defects and documented findings.
Software Engineer and Trainee
Infosys Limited
09.2008 - 02.2011
Extensive analysis of existing modules and enhancement of the modules to capture the new D.0 format forms
Documented key learnings to help similar projects within the organization
In depth knowledge of Pharmacy Claims Adjudication System
Initial analysis of all transaction types based on telecommunication guides provided by the client
Delivered System Appreciation document and User manual.
Developer Trainee
Infosys
Education
Bachelor’s degree - engineering
2008
12th standard - undefined
CBSE Board
2004
10th standard - undefined
CBSE Board
2002
Skills
Requirements Specifications
Fraud Risk Strategy
Customer Fraud portfolio analysis
Product Backlog
SAFe Agile
Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban
User Journeys
Business Analysis
Devops
Confluence
Business Rules (BRMS)
Customer Training
Good communicator
Customer Needs Assessments
Business Requirements
Process Flow Diagram Creation
Atlassian JIRA
Sequence Diagrams
Product Development
Customer Satisfaction
SQL
Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
Stakeholder Analysis
Owning it
Effortless team management
Analytical skills
Quick learner
Team player
Language Proficiency English
Accomplishments
Long Term Incentive award for dedication and quality work
Awarded for leading and complying the Products to Regulatory requirements for Audit
Strategizing and implementing Fraud Risk Strategy
Conducting 80+ customer trainings to improve product usage during product rollout.
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