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Poonguzhali Kuppusamy

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Exceptionally well-organized and resourceful professional with 14 years of experience in digital, telecom, hospitality & retail domain. Meticulous business analyst, adept at analytical and problem-solving skills, able to manage multiple projects while producing high-quality work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success. Quick to learn new skills, easily adapts to new environments, and welcomes challenges.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Business Analyst

Doshii
12.2021 - Current

Doshii brings hospitality apps together and gets them talking to your POS. For venues that means less double-handling, admin, and confusion and more time to do what they do best. For their customers, it means a more satisfying and seamless experience.

  • Worked on Venue/POS/App onboarding for Doshii Connect website
  • Worked on integrations with Chargebee for Subscription
  • Worked on Zendesk for ticketing
  • Worked on As Is and To Be process while migrating from Zendesk to HubSpot
  • Assisted in testing for HubSpot migration
  • Worked on HubSpot
  • Working closely with the Product Owner to understand backlog priorities.
  • Working closely with scrum teams and facilitating scrum events to ensure that user stories, bugs, designs and technical solutions are appropriately and correctly articulated, documented, and understood by the team.
  • Working closely with stakeholders, PO, tech lead & design to write a story.
  • Translate business requirements into Agile scrum User stories/Acceptance Criteria for completion by the technology teams.
  • Created Epics, User Stories and acceptance criteria( Gherkin format) in JIRA for Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  • Created multiple process flow, flowcharts using the draw.io to explain how the flow between each system works.
  • Effectively running the Sprint refinement to make a story ready for the next sprint.
  • I have additionally assisted as Scrum Master for the Scrum ceremonies (Standups, Sprint refinement, Sprint review, Sprint retro, Sprint planning).

Digital Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2020 - 11.2021

Client: WooliesX - Woolworths at work

  • Worked on payment experience (Openpay & Creditcard ) for Woolworths at work website.
  • Worked on shopping/online experience for Woolworths online(B2C), Woolworths at work website(B2B) & WPAY.
  • Created Roadmaps inline with release dates linked Epics, User Stories and acceptance criteria in JIRA for Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  • Facilitate BRP(Big room planning) to plan for each quarter, identify risk and dependency and address it to stakeholders during SOS(Scrum of scrums).
  • Created user flows using MIRO, Lucid chart to demonstrate logical operational steps.
  • Organized technical workshop with different streams involved to identify potential blockers and to produce designs to meet business needs.
  • Working collaboratively with stakeholders and project team to manage and remove roadblocks to deliver code into production environment for ongoing development of the Delivery framework.
  • Working collaboratively with scrum team during a sprint to deliver sprint goals.
  • Performing 3 amigos with Developers & Testers
  • Created support documents with relevant details about changes.
  • Providing demos to the Business team for each initiative.
  • Framed Go To Market plan for enhancement and tracked changes.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Maintained implementation and roll-out plan for changes.
  • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.

Digital Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2018 - 02.2020

Client: WooliesX

  • Effectively participating in Sprint planning and execution with cross-functional team, facilitating in creating user stories, product backlog, sprint backlog.
  • Creating acceptance criteria in Gherkin format.
  • Identified needed business improvements and collaborated with systems involved to implement solutions.
  • Maintained Risk register - Risk analysis and management and conducted customer research with design team
  • Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Walkthrough stakeholders with demo pre-implementation of changes into production.
  • Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new enhancements, and software-related technical issues.
  • Hybrid model - Plan with waterfall, execute with Agile and speed up whole process.
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.

Lead QA Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2016 - 07.2018

Client - WooliesX(Woolworths Online B2C & Woolworths at work B2B)

  • Collaborated on readiness and acceptance tests and verified programming changes made met the client's needs.
  • Worked on multiple microservices.
  • I have additionally assisted as Business Analyst during the Woolworths at work launch.
  • I have also helped the team as Scrum Master for the Scrum ceremonies.
  • Collaborated with 8 different Squads - 16 testers in SIT & UAT environment during the launch of Woolworths at work website & coaching employees to maintain best-in-class testing.
  • Collaborated closely with upper management to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes.
  • Collaborated with developers, business analysts, and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
  • Gathered quality metrics for all delivered projects to make sure details match with estimated effort and ensuring automation utilization.
  • Holds forte' in all testing methodologies, levels of testing, and testability analysis for Functional, Integration, System, Regression, GUI, SIT, UAT, cross-browser, and cross-platform testing.
  • Extensively knowledgeable eCommerce & mCommerce tester.
  • Experience with Cloud(Azure) DevOps - To deploy builds in release the pipeline, perform a rollback and forward testing in test environment before deploying builds to production.
  • Performed Status Reporting and preparation of Test Exit Summary Report.

Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2014 - 10.2016

Client: Woolworths Group

  • Worked on the WOW Money app, collaborating with Macquarie bank.
  • Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review.
  • Identified bugs and issues within the system and applied troubleshooting techniques for mitigation purposes.
  • Directed team members to follow specific testing standards and guidelines as outlined in project requirements.
  • Documented current production methods to identify points of limitation to target for quantification through testing procedures.
  • Coordinating with UAT users for Business testing.
  • Automating the scripts using selenium

Test Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2009 - 05.2014

Client: British Telecom - PIPeR is a project of BT-Openreach

  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize the success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Identified and tracked defects with HP Quality Center and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
  • Reviewed requirements and specifications to understand software design standards.
  • Defined, created, and controlled testing environments for successful software deliverables.
  • Supported test review, defect control, and configuration management within the delivery pipeline.

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore, Tamilnadu
09.2009

Skills

  • Business Process
  • Stakeholder Management Skills
  • Gap analysis
  • Team Management
  • Domain expertise in Retail, Hospitality
  • Scrum and Agile proficiency
  • JIRA & Confluence
  • Lucid Chart, drawio & Miro
  • Gherkin language
  • Strong Documentation, requirement gathering, process mapping
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Facilitating Workshops
  • Mastercraft ALM and HP Quality Center
  • Zendesk, HubSpot
  • SQL and databases
  • Azure Deployments
  • Waterfall methodology
  • Strategic Planning Quality assurance
  • Relationship development
  • Selenium with Java & Cucumber BDD

Timeline

Technical Business Analyst

Doshii
12.2021 - Current

Digital Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2020 - 11.2021

Digital Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2018 - 02.2020

Lead QA Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2016 - 07.2018

Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2014 - 10.2016

Test Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2009 - 05.2014

Master of Science - Software Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology
Poonguzhali Kuppusamy