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Anuja Avhale

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Adept at driving project success and efficiency improvements, Tenure at Tata Consultancy Services honed the expertise in Agile Methodology and stakeholder management.

Leveraging skills in SQL and cross-functional collaboration, Enhanced release quality by 75%, embodying a proactive and results-driven approach to business analysis and team leadership.

Knowledge of Product Owner with strong background in analyzing business processes and implementing efficient solutions.

Successfully led multiple projects that optimized workflow and increased productivity. Demonstrated expertise in data analysis and stakeholder management.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Saama Technologies
12.2023 - 07.2024
  • Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
  • Created detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.
  • Facilitated requirement gathering workshops, resulting in clear project objectives and deliverables.
  • Improved project efficiency by analyzing business processes and identifying areas for improvement.

· Working on Platform Integration Foundation And Framework (FnF)

· Discussion with stakeholders and other UI team members to understand the requirement

· Provide solution to the stakeholders that can be used across all the teams

· Working in Agile Methodology and Scrum Framework

· Responsible for Backlog Creation, Story Grooming, Backlog Refinement, User Demo, Story Acceptance

· Preparing Roadmap and other business documents like BRD, FRD

· Working on Bugs tracking raised by QA team

· Responsible for creation of UML diagrams

· Perform RCA and Gap Analysis to identify solution

· Maintaining all the documents on the Confluence page

· I led scrum team of 7 resources and achieved to deliver critical part of system successfully. Was involved in delivery throughout development lifecycle. I collaborated with cross functional teams and groomed development team to cater requirements. Discussion with development and service layer team once solution is approved by stakeholders.

· Worked on Backlog creation, Confluence documentation, Reviewing UTCs and grooming QA Team for better testing approach

Product Owner

Dassault Systemes
07.2021 - 12.2023
  • Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
  • Collaborated with engineering teams on technical feasibility assessments, resulting in realistic scope definition for projects.
  • Developed comprehensive roadmaps outlining the product vision, goals, and milestones for successful execution.
  • Proactively identified risks associated with project timelines or deliverables, implementing mitigation strategies when necessary.

· Worked in Study Conduct domain for Rave Safety Gateway (RSG)

· Assumed full responsibility for gathering, understanding, and implementing requirements and was part of E2E SDLC from requirement analysis till client support.

· Collaboration with Product Owner , Clients to understand the Product objective

· Detailed discussion with Engineering team to help them in understanding the product feature

· Prepared Product Roadmap and discuss with Client and entire team

· Engaged in creation of Release Plan

· Got a chance to work on other products like RAVE EDC , Coder

· Responsible for identifying priority items for Sprint and creates Sprint Backlog

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2020 - 07.2021

Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.

· Worked on different GDS like Amadeus, Radix for Service Layer and micro services

· Worked in Departure Control System, Inventory , reservations project

· Involved in test preparations, regression test-cases reviewing.

· Performed sanity testing of UI and backend using SOAP UI, POSTMAN

· Performing root cause analysis and gap analysis for providing solution to problem.

· Worked on Amadeus API and rest of the web services

· Analyzed all the Amadeus APIs and built a micro services for the UI team

· I was also involved in streamlining the agile process in the team, which improved release frequency from monthly to bi-weekly and also improved quality of deliverables which reduced prod issues by 75%

· Interaction with engineering team while preparing solution for service layers and also worked in Scrum Of Scrum framework

· Perform API testing to identify all the endpoints required to develop new micro services

· Discussion with Stakeholders for solution approval

· Collaboration with Desktop/Mobile team while preparing solution

· Conduct Solution Review meeting with all the stakeholders/internal team

· I led scrum team of 7 resources and achieved to deliver critical part of system successfully. Was involved in delivery throughout development lifecycle. I collaborated with cross functional teams and groomed development team to cater requirements. Discussion with development and service layer team once solution is approved by stakeholders.

· Worked on Backlog creation, Confluence documentation, Reviewing UTCs and grooming QA Team for better testing approach

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2016 - 07.2021
  • Conducted gap analyses to identify discrepancies between current and desired states, leading to actionable recommendations.
  • Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
  • Mentored junior analysts on best practices for business analysis techniques, fostering professional growth within the team.
  • Streamlined workflow for better productivity with the implementation of new software solutions.

· Worked with Morgan Stanley within the Investment Banking and Wealth Management department to understand the banking operations performed throughout the process.

· Working on e2e flow for fully automated credit renewals process.

· Performed detailed analysis of Balance sheet and Benchmark

· Strong knowledge of Assets, Liabilities, Equities, Trade.

· Good knowledge of Retail Banking, Payment Domain (SWIFT),Payment Gateway (WorldPay), Investment Management,Cards,Wealth Management, Capital Markets

· Participation in sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint retrospective as part of Agile ceremonies. Conducting Requirement Grooming calls of project backlog stories (Requirements) with business and technology partners.

· Working with product owner, scrum master & delivery teams in translating features and requirements into fully-formed user stories that describes needs, features, constraints and scope of project.

· Working with PO and End users for prioritizing requirements and ensure that proposed solutions are feasible and in-line with project timelines.

· Creating flow charts, UML diagrams for better understanding of requirement. Also, providing UI mockups, Report layouts, API structures, Data mapping analysis details to tech teams for better implementation

· Participating in testing activities and providing demo/ Sprint Review to end users & PO to get business signoff.

Education

Bachelors of Engineering - Information Technology

Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
Aurangabad
2016

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Stakeholder Management

SIGNATURE SKILLS

Certified Scrum Product Owner by Scrum Alliance

Working throughout Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC)

Agile Scrum Methodologies

Requirement Gathering

End User Interaction

Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

Release planning

Roadmap Creation

BFSI , Clinical Trial, Airline Domain Knowledge

Cross-functional Collaboration

Team Leadership

Production Support

Defect Analysis (STLC)

TECHNICAL SKILLS :

SQL

o PostgreSQL – pgAdmin

o MSSQL – Squirrel

Creating API Structures in JSON format

Test API collections on Postman

UML Diagrams in Microsoft Visio

UNIX Commands in Putty

Business Requirement Document (BRD)

Functional Requirement Document (FRD)

Feature, Epic, Stories creation in JIRA

Documentation tracking in Confluence

DOMAIN: BFSI

Capital Markets

o Trade Life Cycle

o Equities, Bonds & Derivatives

o Regulatory Reporting

Investment Banking

o Assets, Positions, Gain and Loss, Equities, Liabilities

DOMAIN: Clinical Trial

Rave, Rave Safety Gateway, Coder

Accomplishments

  • Product Development - Led team of 6 direct reports to determine packaging, positioning, pricing, advertising, sales forecasts and promotional aspects for successful new product launch.
  • Earned the Best Business Analyst Award for 1 year in a row for documenting, redesigning and improving business processes.
  • Client Interface - Worked in close collaboration with clients, providing accounting, payroll and taxation advice.
  • Reduced organizational operating costs by streamlining processes.
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams and provided business analysis for 2 projects
  • Developed an organizational change management strategy for 12 employees as a Lead Analyst.

Certification

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Amazon Web Services ( TCS Internal Certification)

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Saama Technologies
12.2023 - 07.2024

Product Owner

Dassault Systemes
07.2021 - 12.2023

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2020 - 07.2021

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2016 - 07.2021

Bachelors of Engineering - Information Technology

Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
Anuja Avhale