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Sneha Suresh

Summary

Experienced Business Process Analyst adept at leading key aspects of large IT projects utilizing Agile and other delivery methods. Skilled in root cause analysis, process design, functional requirements, testing, knowledge content, and change management. Collaborates effectively with diverse stakeholder groups to analyze and document business needs, communicate specifications, and implement sustainable process enhancements. Dedicated team player committed to setting clear project goals and guiding teams towards successful outcomes for the business and clients.

Professional leader with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Proven track record in driving success through effective strategy development and implementation. Skilled in project management, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement. Adaptable and reliable, consistently meeting evolving organizational needs.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Process Consultant

Telstra
10.2022 - Current
  • Provided in-depth training sessions for employees on updated processes and procedures.
  • Enhanced overall performance, driving continuous improvement initiatives across multiple departments.
  • Drove innovation within the company by researching industry trends and incorporating cutting-edge technologies into existing processes.
  • Streamlined operations with the development of comprehensive process maps and documentation.
  • Conducted root cause analyses to identify underlying issues impacting project success rates.
  • Mentored junior consultants to strengthen their skills in process improvement methodologies.
  • Optimized process efficiency by conducting thorough analysis and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Evaluated vendor capabilities, ensuring optimal supply chain management for seamless operations support.
  • Collaborated with key stakeholders to align organizational goals with process improvement initiatives.
  • Developed documentation, diagrams, and specifications to meet project requirements and regulatory standards.

Process Improvement Specialist

Telstra
09.2019 - Current
  • Company Overview: Telstra Corporation
  • Work with Capability Leads across Enterprise Activations to design, map and document (Current and Future state), Telstra service, product and technology processes in Signavio utilising prescribed process methodologies.
  • Identify business improvement opportunities utilising gaps identified during process mapping within various activations process which feed into Business cases being developed to improve the Enterprise Activation space.
  • Define High level process and business requirements developed as part of the Future state process mapping that form an Input into the technical design.
  • Provide strong analytical skills and understanding of business requirements and functional requirements to manage process delivery and analysis for all initiatives.
  • Establish a process capability to support Enterprise Activation Business including ensuring consistency and alignment to the Telstra wide business process model at all levels.
  • Telstra Corporation
  • The CorpSME Project - I designed and mapped the cross functional process used Telstra wide with stakeholders across Partner sales, Retail Partner support and Global Business Services contact centres.
  • Implemented legal, business and technical changes required for this project to ensure the process worked seamlessly.
  • This provided visibility to Telstra wide stakeholders ensuring minimised exposure to fraud, legal risks and provided a higher level of control for partners who often tried to circumvent process.
  • Appointment booking process – To respond to covid impacts I Mapped and Standardised the Enterprise appointment booking process for field services used across multiple business groups.
  • Once clearly communicated the process successfully eliminated multiple redundant steps performed by the PMs that were increasing the field services team’s workload.
  • The reduction in work for the field services team allowed them to focus on more value-add tasks.
  • IDEAL to AMDOCS Integration – I successfully led a series of workshops to define the as is and to be state maps required to design the interface between AMDOCS (Front of house tool) and IDEAL (Back of house tool).
  • The process maps and the business requirements collected were used as input and guidance to the engineering leads to produce a technical design that aligned to the needs of the business.
  • Security approval for Partner Management – Designed the end-to-end process that enabled Telstra to assess and approve security requirements for their partners.

Transformation Business Process Analyst

Telstra
08.2017 - 09.2019
  • Company Overview: Telstra Corporation
  • Develop re-imagined process flows in Signavio based on the ITIL framework and customer journeys linked to the digitisation project.
  • Collaborate with operational stakeholders including SMEs, architects and Product owners to capture requirements ensuring the process flows are futuristic, standardised and address current pain points.
  • Develop Epics, user stories for technical writers and org change teams to ensure work instructions for the business end users are documented and temporary work arounds are in place where automation wasn’t put in place.
  • Collaborate with Business stakeholders and senior management to showcase application (Mobile and Web) being built as part of Agile sprints to keep all related parties involved, collect feedback and influence their end customers to contact us via digital channels.
  • Provide comprehensive support to business and technical teams through UAT, business readiness and change management activities via providing test cases, training and documentation of how to use the system.
  • Telstra Corporation
  • Digitization Project- Value Chain Assurance - Led and designed end to end process maps (level 2/3 and 4) for Service request management, Service desk process ensuring alignment to ITIL standards, Telstra Process management and all other operational areas within digitization program (T-connect, O2A, P2O).
  • Liaised with multiple cross functional SME’s, Architects and process owners within other Value chain (Business Units) of the digitisation project to negotiate and agree on requirements and touch points across different systems and processes to ensure seamless flow.
  • I was able to successfully work across the feature teams to influence system requirements and ensure business requirements are met and understood allowing for maximum automation of processes and delivery of business benefits.
  • Telstra Connect - played a lead role in successfully integrating the incidents and the service requests modules for Enterprise customers into the T-connect customer portal by translating the process requirements into business requirement for the development team.
  • I led the project through to success by playing a pivotal role in creating user stories and acceptance criteria, working with designers on wireframe through to acceptance testing, user training and deployment into production.

Business Analysts Service Management – Quality and Business improvement

Telstra
08.2013 - 06.2017
  • Company Overview: Telstra Corporation
  • As a BA lead played a key role throughout the project lifecycle from inception to delivery by facilitating workshops with stakeholders to gather and document user stories, functional and non-functional requirements, working with development teams to co-ordinate and approve developed requirements, leading and facilitating UAT/PVT, liaising with testing teams and stakeholders to resolve issues and defects found and be a major point of contact for all postproduction issues.
  • Working with a varied group of stakeholders like SMEs and business process owners to analyse and map their current processes 'As- Is' and facilitating workshops to develop, standardise and deliver optimized processes 'To-be' to increase efficiency and decrease costs as per ITIL guidelines.
  • Lead internal business improvement initiatives and liaising with process leads, departmental SMEs and senior managers to implement brand new customer facing online self-service tools using Agile Methodology.
  • Working with operational teams to create work instructions and training materials required to migrate service desk across Australia and other global teams onto new tools.
  • Performing Gap Analysis and feasibility assessments on high level business initiatives and presenting my analysis and recommendations to general managers and senior stakeholders if the initiatives should be progressed.
  • Telstra Corporation
  • Global Contact Centres Service Management (ServiceNow) - I led the transitioning and managing the build of a brand-new ticketing system for Enterprise Assurance centres along with its self-serve portal.
  • This reduced the call logging time and the number of phone calls with the introduction of the self-serve tool.
  • BC remedy enhancement program – As a BA gathered and implemented requirements from a varied set of stakeholders (SMEs, team leaders and Senior managers) to improve the SMEC ticketing system used by Enterprise assurance customers.
  • I was also responsible to negotiate and get agreement from all stakeholders on conflicting requirements to ensure the processes across the contact centre was standardised.
  • As a result of my improvements the service desk was able to reduce its call logging and ticket searching time by 5.5mins per ticket.
  • Configuration Management Database build - lead BA role for creating a fully functional asset database repository in Service NOW (new ticketing system) utilised by enterprise assurance centres.
  • The creation of this database eliminated the need to use a legacy B2B Interface which removed significant ongoing cost from the business and reduced the number of errors in the incident tickets created by the service desks.

Business Project Manager – Operations

Telstra
01.2010 - 08.2013
  • Company Overview: Telstra Corporation
  • Engage and work with various business teams (technical and non-technical) to develop precise customer requirements, define and ensure solution being proposed meets the customer’s vision.
  • Work with end users to develop 'as-is' and 'to-be' process flows to review and evaluate existing systems and make improvements as required.
  • Establish a project plan to track and co-ordinate tasks, project dependencies, resources and to ensure project deliverables are achieved within tight budget and timeframes.
  • Track, control and report on project timeline, budget, expenditure and financial forecasting.
  • Work with project stakeholders to identify risks and issues. Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify risks early and develop contingency plans to mitigate the risks at hand.
  • Telstra Corporation
  • NAB – Transition project (project worth 2 M) - Managed a program of work for the NAB account to ensure contracted deliverables met including Customer On-boarding: -Establishing a service request and incident management system for the customer (NAB) based on ITIL V3 standards which incorporates change as well as problem management.
  • SMEC – info man Interface: -Establishing a bi-directional incident management interface which provides the customer with real time updates of their logged incidents.
  • SharePoint portal: -Managed and worked with 5 different teams to provide the customer with a secured platform which allows NAB and Telstra to share their document to fulfill their contractual obligations.
  • Service Catalogue: - (AGILE project) Enhancing and adding new products to NAB ‘s enterprise product ordering system TEOS.
  • Qantas onboarding – Led the project to establish the Service Request and Incident management functions for the customer (Qantas) based on ITIL V3 standards which incorporates change as well as problem management.
  • Staff skills/business capability Database - Worked with various teams within Telstra to establish a web-based skills database repository.
  • This allows work force management to find and manage resources for projects where multiple skills may be required.
  • Commonwealth Bank’s – ECSMC project – I led the change management process supporting several operational teams through a larger number of IT changes built for our customer (CBA).

Software Tester

E Services Interactive
01.2009 - 12.2009
  • Standardizing, creating and improving the testing processes/ strategy, including investigation of best practice automated testing methodologies.
  • Work with stakeholders to document functional requirements as part of business requirement documents and raise concerns or issues with ambiguity in requirements.
  • Documenting detailed training manuals for end users and creating and managing of testing activities: test plans, test cases, test scripts, execution, testing results, defects and progress.
  • Perform a range of non-functional tests such as usability and accessibility using Jaws software.
  • Successfully developed and executed comprehensive test plans for Sitecore, Umbraco and Dotnetnuke based projects for customers such as Hoyts, Dulux, Australian Disability Enterprises, Diabetes Australia, Peppers Resorts and Pac Hydro.
  • Led the Testing phase for all project by not only executing the test cases but also raising and tracking defects and holding meetings to update all stakeholders on defects resolution.

Dialler Administrator – Campaign Execution

National Australia Bank
11.2007 - 01.2009

Collections Officer

National Australia Bank
03.2007 - 04.2008

Senior Technical Support Officer- SME for OPTUS DSL Services, Australia

Convergys Management Services (India)
09.2005 - 01.2007

Education

Masters - information systems

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Bachelors - computer engineering

Pune University

Diploma - Computer Engineering

Mumbai University

Skills

  • Stakeholder management
  • Business process improvement
  • Requirements gathering
  • Project management
  • Cross-functional teamwork and leadership
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Problem-solving

Career Details

  • Telstra Corporation, Process Improvement Specialist, 09/01/19, Current, Work with Capability Leads across Enterprise Activations to design, map and document (Current and Future state), Telstra service, product and technology processes in Signavio utilising prescribed process methodologies., Identify business improvement opportunities utilising gaps identified during process mapping within various activations process which feed into Business cases being developed to improve the Enterprise Activation space., Define High level process and business requirements developed as part of the Future state process mapping that form an Input into the technical design., Provide strong analytical skills and understanding of business requirements and functional requirements to manage process delivery and analysis for all initiatives., Establish a process capability to support Enterprise Activation Business including ensuring consistency and alignment to the Telstra wide business process model at all levels., The CorpSME Project - Designed and mapped the cross functional process used Telstra wide with stakeholders across Partner sales, Retail Partner support and Global Business Services contact centres., Implemented legal, business and technical changes required for this project to ensure the process worked seamlessly., Appointment booking process – Mapped and Standardised the Enterprise appointment booking process for field services used across multiple business groups., IDEAL to AMDOCS Integration – Successfully led a series of workshops to define the as is and to be state maps required to design the interface between AMDOCS and IDEAL., Security approval for Partner Management – Designed the end-to-end process that enabled Telstra to assess and approve security requirements for their partners.
  • Telstra Corporation, Transformation Business Process Analyst, 08/01/17, 09/01/19, Develop re-imagined process flows in Signavio based on the ITIL framework and customer journeys linked to the digitisation project., Collaborate with operational stakeholders including SMEs, architects and Product owners to capture requirements ensuring the process flows are futuristic, standardised and address current pain points., Develop Epics, user stories for technical writers and org change teams to ensure work instructions for the business end users are documented., Provide comprehensive support to business and technical teams through UAT, business readiness and change management activities., Led and designed end to end process maps for Service request management, Service desk process ensuring alignment to ITIL standards., Played a lead role in successfully integrating the incidents and the service requests modules for Enterprise customers into the T-connect customer portal.
  • Telstra Corporation, Business Analysts Service Management – Quality and Business improvement, 08/01/13, 06/01/17, Facilitating workshops with stakeholders to gather and document user stories, functional and non-functional requirements., Working with a varied group of stakeholders to analyse and map their current processes 'As-Is' and facilitating workshops to develop, standardise and deliver optimized processes 'To-be'., Lead internal business improvement initiatives and liaising with process leads, departmental SMEs and senior managers., Led the transitioning and managing the build of a brand-new ticketing system for Enterprise Assurance centres., Gathered and implemented requirements from a varied set of stakeholders to improve the SMEC ticketing system.
  • Telstra Corporation, Business Project Manager – Operations, 01/01/10, 08/01/13, Engage and work with various business teams to develop precise customer requirements., Establish a project plan to track and co-ordinate tasks, project dependencies, resources., Track, control and report on project timeline, budget, expenditure and financial forecasting., Managed a program of work for the NAB account to ensure contracted deliverables met., Led the project to establish the Service Request and Incident management functions for the customer Qantas.
  • E Services Interactive, Software tester – Ordinance Operation, 01/01/09, 12/01/09, Standardizing, creating and improving the testing processes/ strategy., Documenting detailed training manuals for end users and creating and managing of testing activities., Successfully developed and executed comprehensive test plans for various projects., Led the Testing phase for all project by executing the test cases and tracking defects.

Professional Development

  • ITIL V4 Managing Professional Certification – AXelos
  • Agile Methodology
  • Data Driven decision making
  • Signavio
  • Panviva
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Case wise
  • Project Management fundamentals
  • Customer Interface
  • Team Management
  • Business writing Skills
  • Conflict Management

Timeline

Senior Process Consultant

Telstra
10.2022 - Current

Process Improvement Specialist

Telstra
09.2019 - Current

Transformation Business Process Analyst

Telstra
08.2017 - 09.2019

Business Analysts Service Management – Quality and Business improvement

Telstra
08.2013 - 06.2017

Business Project Manager – Operations

Telstra
01.2010 - 08.2013

Software Tester

E Services Interactive
01.2009 - 12.2009

Dialler Administrator – Campaign Execution

National Australia Bank
11.2007 - 01.2009

Collections Officer

National Australia Bank
03.2007 - 04.2008

Senior Technical Support Officer- SME for OPTUS DSL Services, Australia

Convergys Management Services (India)
09.2005 - 01.2007

Bachelors - computer engineering

Pune University

Diploma - Computer Engineering

Mumbai University

Masters - information systems

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Sneha Suresh