Arjav Prajapati

• Ensure completion of technical reviews, quality assurance checks, and post-implementation reviews through ServiceNow, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Provide time and personnel resource estimates for procurement of IT testers, developers, and subject matter experts (SME) based on the scope of the software solution.
• Organize meetings and interviews with testers, developers, SMEs, and other relevant stakeholders to gather and analyze change requirements.
• Design SQL queries in production, testing, and maintenance environments with the use of PLSQL to support business needs and meet business requirements.
• Collaborate with the production control team and business BSAs to schedule batch jobs for year-end processes in production and maintenance environments with the use of Chronicle.
• Facilitate meetings with the development and operational support team to map out details of change requirements with the use of functional specifications, entity-relationship diagrams, and process workflows.
• Collaborate with release management and integration teams to administer installation and configuration solution components of our enterprise solution RMS and IPAS.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to resolve and troubleshoot conflicts around functionality, gaps, features, and specification.
• Design test cases and scenarios to support IT tester for user acceptance testing in test and MUAT environments.

• Worked closely with businesses and stakeholders to design the desired future state after identifying, validating, and documenting the current state process.
• Started the project with discovery sessions.
• Conducted meetings with different Executives to know about the project, and stakeholders involved with the process as well as the Internal/External business partners.
• Developed User Stories having components like Acceptance Criteria, Done Criteria, Linkages, Documents, Tasks, etc, using Jira and Confluence.
• Provided Agile project management controls, project plans, and timeline schedules, facilitated RAD sessions, and reviewed software defects.
• Played a pivotal part in the success of the agile ceremonies like a daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospect, and backlog grooming sessions.
• Led Requirement Gathering Sessions, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Created and managed User Stories, Product and Sprint Backlog.
• Conducted meetings with key Stake Holders, SMEs, and Decision makers from Front, Middle and back office to have a successful collection of requirements from all domains areas.
• Released presentations to the Project team, and also conducted walkthrough with different department heads to have deeper understanding of the requirements.
• Assisted in the development team in demos to the Product Owner, and ensured that any changes requested in the demos were implemented.
• Coordinated Sprints, from Iteration Planning thru daily scrum, and Iteration Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Used SQL to query the data.

Key Components:

• Capital Markets, Bloomberg, Murex, Jira, Portfolio Accounting (PA), PCR, Trust, Blue Prism, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Oracle, SQL, Data Mapping, Data Modeling and Flow diagrams, User Stories Agile Methodology.

• Provided Agile project management controls, project plans, timeline schedules, facilitate RAD sessions and review software defects.
• Worked closely with Front Office and Middle office stakeholders to gather requirement and transferred business requirements to product development team and helped understand the requirement in detail.
• Facilitated and followed a structured approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate, and manage business requirement with stakeholders by applying a variety of elicitation techniques to probe, challenge and understand requirement according to the requirement management discipline.
• Created User Stories with all the information required for its correct estimation.
• Participated in all the agile ceremonies like daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospect and backlog grooming sessions.
• Worked alongside the Lead Business Analyst. Furthermore, supported to various business lines, including Front Office, Middle Office and back office.
• Gathered Business Requirements, Interacted with the Users, Designers and Developers, Project Manager and SMEs to get a better understanding of the Business Processes.
• Conducted JAD Sessions periodically with various stakeholders at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to discuss open issues and resolve them.
• Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)/and modeled them into Use case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used SQL to check the authentication of data attributes.

Key Components:

• Wealth Management, Broadridge, Bloomberg, Jira, Waterfall, Agile, Tableau, Excel, .NET, Data Models, Data warehousing, SQL, Data Mapping, Schema Documents

• Improved team performance by providing support and backup to the production team.
• Assist the Project Coordinator to ensure project objectives, scheduling, budgeting, cost and margin calculation, milestones, procedures, and performance standards.
• Determine operational objectives by studying business functions, gathering information, and evaluating output requirements and formats.
• Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements, forming a project team, and establishing a project budget.
• Coordinated with staff to clarify information and enforce procedures resulting in effective problem solving and smoother operations.
• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders for scope creation.