About SaiKiran SenthilVel:
- Self-motivated software professional with around 2+ years of functional experience as a Business Analyst and Scrum Master in various domains like Banking, and Finance
- Experienced Business Analyst in taking up business stakeholders’ liaison and coordinating application development in the financial sectors
- Worked in the field of Client Administration, Customer Relationships, Project Management, Business Development, and Stakeholder Relations
- Expertise in Test Planning, Test Preparation, UAT, Test Execution issue resolution, and report generation to assure that all aspects of a project follow the Business requirements
- Expert in tracking and managing the requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) controls numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables of the project
- Gathered requirements within an Agile/Scrum framework through document analysis, interface analysis, brainstorming, interviewing SMEs, requirement workshops, JAD sessions, and reviewing existing systems documentation, procedures, workflows, and legacy application
- Skilled in conducting a SWOT analysis and Demand analysis for better market understanding and Successful project implementation
- Good at creating Business workflows, and processes, and creating management reports in dashboards and visualization to the stakeholders using Power BI and Tableau reporting tools
- Demonstrated domain knowledge in the Banking and Finance Domain and good knowledge in Product development and Customization, Implementation, and Support Services
- Worked with a team in multiple locations nationwide and acted as a liaison between business units and programmers in gathering requirements used in developing reports from querying the complex data from SQL
- Demonstrated proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodology, including sprint ceremonies, user story creation, backlog grooming, and prioritization, resulting in successful project completion and improved team efficiency.
- Experience in Analyzing solutions, Stakeholder management, Current State Analysis, Gap analysis, Product Backlog Grooming, Story Prioritization, Testing Reporting, and scope management
- A seasoned professional with expertise in both Agile, and Iterative development methodologies, who is highly organized, proactive, and motivated by achievement. An inspiring servant-leader agile individual champion who motivates others to be at their best performance believes in the competencies of others and is eager to research
- Good knowledge of project coordination including Cost Control, Scheduling, Codes, standards, specifications, applicable contract reviews, corporate policies, and procedures
- Proven skills in leadership, organization, negotiations, time management, and client relationships Ability to manage projects through all stages from initiation, design, and implementation in terms of function, quality, and budget schedule to final approvals in coordination with external and internal stakeholders
Hands-on experience in supporting Project Managers for service delivery, planning, scheduling, execution of projects, optimizing existing processes, setting up new processes, implementation, and documentation
Experience
Business Analyst
BMO, Toronto
Feb 2021 – Till Date
- Facilitating collection of Functional Requirements from system users and preparing Business Requirement documents.
- Creating and managing weekly tracking reports for tickets related to deployments for tracking progress, completions, and upcoming deployment activity.
- Gathering Business requirements, analyzing data/workflows, defining work scope, and maintaining the documentation in SharePoint.
- Developing use cases and managing enhancement requests for the organization’s software systems.
- Following a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and information needs and ensuring that critical information is not missed.
- Supporting PMO in the application of methodologies, research, and PMO with functional tasks to create a variety of management reports, delivering materials as desired.
- Supporting change management activities, preparation of budgets, forecasts on projects, and tracking of financial project metrics.
- Scheduling meetings with developers and testers, collaborating on resource allocation and project completion, using Microsoft Project, and managing and maintaining project scope and product backlog.
- Supporting PMO in developing budget and resource planning scenarios within the scope and allocated timelines.
- Providing support to the Quality Assurance team to execute complete functional and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Performing daily, weekly, and monthly reviews and analyses of current processes using operational metrics and reports in Power BI.
- Working on complex queries in SQL to pull the data for technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Creating informative, actionable, and repeatable reporting that highlights relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Facilitated daily Scrum meetings and sprint planning sessions, ensuring the team understood the goals and prioritized tasks accordingly, resulting in improved collaboration and delivery of high-quality products.
- Spearheading scrum ceremonies, ensuring adherence to scrum practice, leading team retrospectives, and guaranteeing key learning is incorporated into the next sprint.
- Tracking team delivery and team velocity using burndown charts and other visual methods to ensure the accuracy of future planning.
- Conducting weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring that work items are estimated and are ‘ready for work’ according to the Product Owner’s priorities.
- Providing input to and participating in Release Planning, assisting the Project Manager / Program Manager with day-to-day activities including status reporting, financial reporting, time tracking, and project communication.
- Organizing standup for daily scrum meetings, identifying project issues and risks, and attending internal and client meetings, updating and reporting accordingly.
Working alongside Quality Analysts, Developers, and other stakeholders to achieve the required goals for the successful execution of the project.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce
September 2017 – April 2021
Major in Marketing
Minor in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON
Agile Scrum Master Certification – 2022
Six Sigma White Belt - 2021
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