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Amneet Singh Chahal

Toronto,Canada

Summary

  • Seasoned Lead Business Analyst/Product Owner offering 10+ years Finance, Insurance and IT industry success. Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making.
  • Experience in data mapping/migration, business/application integration projects. Adept at project management, team handling, understanding various phases of SDLC and SCRUM, upstream/downstream impact analysis, backlog grooming, defining scope, data mapping, requirement gathering, change management, stakeholder management (Business + IT), developing process flows and wire frames. Successfully defining change requests, feature documents (SRS/FRD/BRD), user stories, QA and UAT test cases. Facilitating test outcome/bug triage sessions vendor representatives.
  • Agile Practitioner, strong hold on verbal and written communication, prioritizing work flow, data analysis. Offering advanced planning, problem-solving and presentation skills. Experience in tracking product performance and leadership reporting/presenting.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST

Cognizant
06.2021 - Current

Client: Guardian Insurance, Disability Products (Jan 2023 to Current)

  • Leading third party integration with Guardian's enterprise legacy systems to improve modularity and efficiency of the processes.
  • Coordinating with Business, IT Infra teams to understand and facilitate correct implementation of disability product policies on Guardian proprietary claim processing platform
  • Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted groups and translate the requirements to respective teams for implementation.
  • Develop business process documentation (Visio + FIGMA), analyze feature documents, UI/UX designs, conduct analysis to present findings to business and IT team stakeholders; manage risks, assumptions and constraints.
  • Develop and facilitate user acceptance test cases, manage offshore testing team of 14 members, document upstream/downstream impacts, triage defects with IT, business and third party vendor.
  • Conducting API gap analysis to ensure correctness of data flowing across various legacy and target state systems

Client: Metlife Insurance, Disability Products (Jun 21 to Dec 22)

  • Worked with Business, IT Infra teams to facilitate implementation of disability product for 5 US states policies on Metlife claim processing system in a phased manner.
  • Optimized business operations with thorough analysis of current systems, identifying areas for improvement and recommending actionable changes.
  • Coordinated with IT teams to design and implement custom applications (Front end) tailored to specific business needs, resulting in increased efficiency and effectiveness of workflows.

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

American Express
06.2017 - 06.2021
  • Apply advanced elicitation techniques to work with different types of stakeholder groups such as Data Architecture team, Business, Technology data Data Engineering
  • Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
  • Lead digitization efforts of developing in-house data based analytics products which can be housed on intranet for client usage.
  • Implemented intranet/extranet based applications to drive efficiency between business, IT and architect teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to document business processes, procedures and requirements. Proficiency in documenting business requirements using agile methodology.
  • Created data mapping templates, business requirement documents, understand system and data gaps, analyze and document detailed business and system solution; verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders ; create data based solutions for Fortune 500 clients

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Evalueserve
06.2013 - 05.2017
  • Identify client demand, scope the project, prioritize action items, recommend strategies, build competitive landscape and market trends basis competitive data sourced from secondary and primary sources, report challenges
  • Devise, deployed and monitored processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
  • Contributed to success of client's organization by improving performance and management systems.

BUSINESS ANALYST

HCL
06.2010 - 08.2011
  • Organized system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls and enhancing overall performance.
  • Helped deploy system enhancements to improve field operations
  • Identified needed business improvements and determined appropriate systems required to implement solutions.

Education

MBA - Marketing

Pune University
06.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

University Institute of Engineering and Technology
06.2010

Skills

  • Functional specifications
  • Software development life cycle
  • Business process modeling
  • Business intelligence tools
  • Gap analysis
  • Business process improvement
  • Test case scenarios
  • Business strategy

Certification

PMI ACP (Agile Practitioner, Project Management)

Timeline

LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST

Cognizant
06.2021 - Current

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

American Express
06.2017 - 06.2021

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Evalueserve
06.2013 - 05.2017

BUSINESS ANALYST

HCL
06.2010 - 08.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

University Institute of Engineering and Technology

MBA - Marketing

Pune University
Amneet Singh Chahal