Shweta Iyer
Business Analyst
North York,ON
Summary
- A technically skilled Product analyst and consultant with experience in business, technology, digital strategy, agile transformation and Software testing
- 8+ years of diverse experience across domains like Healthcare, Banking, Credit Reporting and Insurance industries
- Experience in requirement gathering, gap analysis, impact analysis, user stories, functional requirement documentation, client relationship and stakeholder management, Agile and waterfall model, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, cut-over and migration, go-live assistance, release planning and forecasting, creating business reports and propose changes as per various internal and external requirements gathered for process improvement.
- Good knowledge of SQL queries, AWS Workspaces, Oracle database, Amazon Redshift, Data Analytics GA and Firebase, GraphQL, SOAP UI, JIRA, VSTS, Testing, Tableau, Share Point and MS Excel.
- Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Waterfall, Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
- Demonstrated cross‐functional capabilities achieving stakeholder satisfaction through supplier and stakeholder management and vendor selection.
- Researched latest market trends to create valuable insights and provide timely and actionable findings
- Strong analytical, problem solving, stakeholder management and communication skills
- Deep knowledge and experience using proven Agile and SAFe principles, practices and methodologies including Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban and iterative delivery.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Analyst
Tangerine Bank
Toronto, ON
04.2020 - Current
- Leads operational and/or technical tasks assigned end to end to identify all potential problems and how to solve for them. Articulate issues and risks to management. Provides support to department to ensure timely completion
- Responsible for assessing cross impacts as part of project support, which includes working directly with the Agile Product Owner to make recommendations on process changes and define implementation roadmaps during Epic grooming
- Document all data source and code used in data analysis and reporting using Tableau
- Create detailed documentation as part of data integration technology project, which includes: Interface Specifications (ISD), Functional Specification sets (FSD) and Data Integration Mappings to guide Developers using firebase – Google Analytics (Extraction-Transformation-Load) technical design documents, and QA (Quality Assurance) test cases creation
- Contribute to planning and review sessions and participate in status meetings with Business Users, Developers and QA teams
- Partnering with the product team to create key performance indicators and new methodologies for measurement.
- Helped in creating a digitalized business impact across the value chain by harnessing technology.
- Host discovery sessions along with other team members to come up with user-journey mapping, workflows, end-to-end understanding of the application.
- Developed Product Roadmaps, drafted requirements, prioritized features & planned releases based on business requirements and technology & financial feasibility.
- Supported project management activities in effort estimation and risk management
- Managed scope of MVP and subsequent releases and launched on time and on budget
- Worked as a business consultant to clients for Business – IT strategy alignment.
- Discuss Defect backlog with the team and prioritize according to business needs and deliverables.
- Proactively investigate database query log data to find opportunities to improve performance in OLAP and OLTP queries executing against the database
- Remain current on database technology trends and upcoming database releases. Provide guidance on database technology direction
Business Quality Analyst
Legato Health Technologies LLP – An Anthem Company
Bangalore, India
03.2019 - 12.2019
- Analyzing and managing the product capability roadmap to be line with product vision and market trends
- Owning and maintaining the entire product backlog using MoSCoW technique including scope, quality and be the voice of the customer within the development team
- Understand the gaps and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Write succinct user stories using INVEST acronym, add easily understandable and exhaustive ‘Acceptance Criteria’ using Given-When-Then format that aids BDD.
- · Create Release Management Plan for product go-live and handle customer product demos.
- · Worked with several teams across time zones, to develop business intelligence and integration solutions to enhance business processes through seamless flow of information across applications
- Responsible for prioritization of the product roadmap, review of feature and product backlog for more than one SCRUM team.
- Closely work with Architect and cross functional engineering team members to create functional specification and wireframes.
- Proactive in identifying potential risks and implementing mitigation strategies to avoid potential issues downstream
- Coordinate with Product Management team to specify requirements and features.
- Deriving requirements (capabilities, features, stories) from higher level business requirements or EPICS,
- Gap analysis, risk management and user story writing. Independently analyze requirements and come up with Business analysis work products.
- Pitching features during PI Planning and performing high-level T-Shirt sizing based on technical inputs.
- Develops insights from analysis and market research and presents communication frequently to leadership communicating the desired message at the appropriate level.
- Conduct backlog refinement meetings and breakdown product requirements for the development team
Senior Test Analyst
Cerner Corporation
Bangalore, India
08.2013 - 02.2019
- Made vital contribution in writing SQL queries as well as managed Group Functions, Sub-queries, and Joins Correlated sub-queries.
- Created test cases/scenarios for all kinds of applications at the Modular, End-to-End and Integrated Levels for Test Driven Development (TDD) environment.
- Coordinated communication throughout the project life cycle with all areas of enterprise that impacts the scope, budget, risk, resources and providing various metrics to management - tests coverage, defects analysis, dashboards.
- Oversaw guidance on the projects and its requirements to the clients over the technology, processes and applications while updating them on the regular project related developments.
- Designed and developed Automation Framework to realize continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins.
- Carried out Data Driven testing as well as managed Window Based Popup using AutoIT and Cross browser testing using TestNG.
- Managed the entire gamut of activities pertaining to the class and objects, initialization, declaration, strings and collections.
- Drove significant efforts in handling functional, integration, system, regression and compatibility testing.
- Participated in smoke testing in every test cycle, usability and accessibility testing.
- Implemented test cases thereby analyzed results besides conducted defect tracking and generated defect report.
- Utilized Requirement, Test plan, Test Lab and Defect Modules of Quality Center besides mapping Test case to Requirement and Test Plan Modules.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India 08.2008 - 06.2012
Skills
Predictive modeling
Certification
Certified SAFe® 4 Practitioner: Issued by Scaled Agile Inc
Timeline
Business Analyst
Tangerine Bank
04.2020 - Current
Business Quality Analyst
Legato Health Technologies LLP – An Anthem Company
03.2019 - 12.2019
Senior Test Analyst
Cerner Corporation
08.2013 - 02.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology
08.2008 - 06.2012
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