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Harpreet Kaur

Sydney

Summary

Experienced Agile Business Analyst at WooliesX with a passion for problem-solving in retail, technology, and product design. Skilled in requirements elicitation, data analysis, process mapping, documentation, KPIs tracking and agile methodologies. Committed to promoting agile values and practices for organizational adaptability. Thrives in diverse work environments and values collaboration with talented individuals. Previous experience includes roles at Sears, IAG, NBN, Telstra, and Westpac before joining WooliesX in August 2017.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst

WooliesX - Woolworths Group
05.2019 - Current
  • Collaborated with business, design and technology teams to design personalised & delightful customer experiences across various products and services.
  • Rich experience of working in agile framework (Scrum) and iteratively delivering product features in a fast-paced environment.
  • Effective Stakeholder engagement - balancing diverse expectations of varied stakeholder groups. Adept at maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure transparency and alignment around backlog and priorities.
  • Used data analysis and created dashboards to derive insights to improve product offering and solve customer issues ( Power BI, Adobe Analytics)
  • Work closely with stakeholders and capture requirements in the form of user stories and epics (in JIRA, Confluence).
  • Work on process flows and use story mapping sessions to structure stories, epics and squad backlog( Miro, Jira, Figma)
  • Work closely with the squads (including developers, UX and QA colleagues) in solution development and deliver features, user stories that are fit for purpose and of high quality
  • Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.
  • Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.
  • Backlog management ensures the product roadmap is being tracked, getting the right directions from Product owners and stakeholders
  • Working closely with teams of developers, testers, scrum master, product owners, vendors and work towards resolving any possible impediments
  • Evaluate the impact and risks and identify features and functionalities that will deliver the most value to customers and business while keeping costs under control
  • Work with Product Owner, Tech Lead, UX and Scrum master to have a successful quarterly planning sessions.
  • Fostered culture of continuous improvement by leading regular review sessions to identify and implement process enhancements.
  • Regularly present my squad's work in various company-wide showcases

Senior Performance Engineer

WooliesX - Woolworths Group
08.2017 - 05.2019
  • Non-functional Requirements Gathering from Product Owners, TechLeads, Infrastructure Team
  • Documenting the requirements and calculating test volumes after requirements analysis
  • Designing Scenario and Performance Test Scripts using Loadrunner and Jmeter Analyze Test Results and Publish results to stakeholders like Program team and Infrastructure team
  • Root cause analysis of various issues and collaborated with developers to resolve them
  • Completed End to End testing for various projects like Dragonfly, SmartSubs, API and Services Testing
  • Component Level Testing for CI/CD Preparing for all the high sales/traffic days (Christmas, Easter, Black Friday)
  • Run various kind of tests - stress, failovers, soak tests with valid/expected volumetric to avoid any performance issues during these peak times.
  • Worked in an Agile team and participated in various agile ceremonies

Performance Engineer

IAG, Telstra, Westpac, NBNCo,Sears
08.2007 - 12.2016

Performance testing expertise:

  • Requirements Gathering from various Stakeholders
  • Experience in executing all types of performance tests – Load, Stress, Endurance,
  • Failover and Scalability
  • Worked with various tools like LoadRunner, SilkPerformer, Jmeter (Leading Software Testing Tool)

Automation testing experience:

  • Experience in scripting and running automation scripts with Selenium WebDriver
  • Experience in executing all types of tests – regression, functional and integration Worked with HPQC and JIRA

Manual Testing experience:

  • Preparation of Acceptance Criteria, Requirements Traceability Matrix,Test cases
  • Experience in executing all types of test – System, System Integration, User Acceptance and Regression Tests
  • Raising Defects using HPQC and JIRA
  • Test Results Preparation
  • Good knowledge of SDLC/STLC

Education

Masters in Computer Science - Computer Science

Centre For Development of Advanced Computing
Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing
06-2007

Skills

  • Requirements Analysis and Documentation
  • Data Analysis & Reporting
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Advanced technical skills
  • Analytical and Conceptual thinking skills
  • KPI tracking
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Team Player

Certification

  • IIBA-AAC

Timeline

Business Analyst

WooliesX - Woolworths Group
05.2019 - Current

Senior Performance Engineer

WooliesX - Woolworths Group
08.2017 - 05.2019

Performance Engineer

IAG, Telstra, Westpac, NBNCo,Sears
08.2007 - 12.2016

Masters in Computer Science - Computer Science

Centre For Development of Advanced Computing
Harpreet Kaur