PRADEEP CHERUKURI
BSA
Etobicoke,ON
Summary
Experienced BA with 4+ years of involvement with an Agile mentality and space information in Retail, and Banking. An outcome-centered expert with conceptual and system thinking, business principles, and best practices, these abilities bring out incredible outcomes. Excellent technical aptitude and knowledge of programming languages, data analytics, and data visualization.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Business Systems Analyst
Bank Of Montreal
Toronto, ON
11.2021 - 07.2023
- Primarily responsible for technical requirements for both of the data bank applications of Enterprise Master Data Management. EPM (Enterprise Product Master) is the single authoritative source of BMO's product and services data and ERDP (Enterprise Reference Data Management) is managing reference data sets of systems and processes in BMO.
- Processes of maintaining data in both applications involve several walk-throughs with channels, business owners, dependency applications, and the impacted downstream domains.
- The work involves usage of SQL Server for data storage and management and SSMS for Adhoc SQL server instances.
- Various functional documents were developed using MS Office 365 (Excel, Forms, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), and Atlassian products.
- Worked on testing for all user stories to meet E2E needs, made test information for the UAT clients, and continued UAT cycle until deferred away, giving incredible exposure to functional testing.
- Collected requirements utilizing different elicitation strategies, investigating, characterizing client stories and acknowledgment rules, data flow diagrams (UML), UI plans, prerequisite sign-off, walk-throughs for Dev and QA group, helped prepare users for STLC, unit testing, demo meetings, test information arrangement just as driving client acknowledgment testing (UAT/BAT) and defect management.
Business Analyst
Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto
11.2020 - 10.2021
- Experience working in Agile climate utilizing the standards and rules, and involved in sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and consistent improvement through sharing exercises learned.
- Efficiently refined and kept up with product backlog by focusing on highlights according to product owner and partners. Worked closely with solution architects, Vendors, Testers, and Developers.
- Worked with SQL, and ETL framework to collect data and made data visualization to better project line of business needs.
- Utilizing Kanban alongside approved acceptance criteria made up 8 - 12 user stories on average.
- Planned and Modeled data flow diagrams utilizing UML for building up business solutions for stakeholders.
- Designated work and followed progress in tasks to the offshore team and helped them with all business queries.
Business Analyst
Canadian Tire
Toronto
08.2019 - 10.2020
- Worked on the features of triangle rewards, Party City Web merge, and AVIS stakeholders for partnership in rewards program.
- Managed stakeholder involvement and created artifacts as per project timelines aligning with team and Steering Committee.
- Extended involvement in defining efficient methods, and cost-effective solutions that helped clients processes, products, and functional requirements.
- Giving account of improvement solicitations and advancement endeavors to higher management so they realize when new features and updates will be delivered.
- Dealt with project plan development, workflow breakdown structures (WBS), and data required for project specifications.
Research Analyst
Industry ARC
07.2016 - 06.2017
- Experience generating reports based on primary and secondary research to analyze market needs and consultation on relative markets.
- Analyzing data gathered using different qualitative and quantitative methods to present data visualization in form.
- Some of the projects I was involved are Service Deionization (SDI), Automobile parts, Telecom Service prices etc.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineering
09.2012 - 05.2016
Skills
SDLC - AGILE (Scrum, Kanban, Xtreme Programming) and Waterfall
Document Management, Stakeholder Management, BPMN Processes
SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Google Slides, Spreadsheet, HP ALM
Data modelling and visualization using Tableau and Power BI
Intermediate Level of SQL, Python Languages
MDM Data sets and product definitions
MS Office 365, and UML – Process and Data Flow Modeling
Experience with Enterprise ETL Platform of IBM (XML & JSON)
Timeline
Business Systems Analyst - Bank Of Montreal
11.2021 - 07.2023
Business Analyst - Royal Bank of Canada
11.2020 - 10.2021
Business Analyst - Canadian Tire
08.2019 - 10.2020
Research Analyst - Industry ARC
07.2016 - 06.2017
Sreenidhi Engineering College of Science And Arts - Bachelor of Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering
09.2012 - 05.2016