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Kashi Ramanathan

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Last update: 10.10.2018

Business Analyst/Product Owner

Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Elementary) | English (Limited professional)

Attachments

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Skills

Competence Areas
  • Business Architecture
  • Business Process Re-Engineering
  • Product Development
  • Product Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Management
  • Waterfall & Agile Methodologies
  • Documentation Skills

Project Management Tools
  • MS Visio
  • MS Project
  • JIRA
  • Confluence

Project history

April 2017 – Current
Business Architect/Scrum Master
Qvantel Finland Oy
Berlin, GERMANY
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
  • Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables
  • Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
  • Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 5 major initiatives
  • Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
  • Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
  • Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
Achievements:
  • Successfully migrated more than 3 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months
  • Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%
Oct 2012 – Mar 2017
Product Owner
Vodafone India Services Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, INDIA
  • Responsible for developing, leading, and implementing the product strategy and roadmap, focusing on driving and owning the Product vision through innovative, stable and scalable features.
  • Understand business and customer needs and translating them into product requirements, prototypes and user stories.
  • Design UX for new features.
  • Run daily Scrum standup, weekly sprint retrospectives and monthly backlog refinement meetings.
  • Manage the Quality Assurance process.
  • Create and maintain the Product backlog
  • Sort the Product backlog items according to priority
  • Work closely with stakeholders including subject matter experts, technical architects, user experience designers and system developers for documentation of Epics, tasks and User stories using the Agile development tool JIRA

Mar 2011 – Sept 2012
Business Analyst
Vodafone India Services Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, INDIA
Responsible for working with stakeholders to identify and document the requirements of end users, analyze workflows to create process maps, isolate and evaluate inefficiencies, and recommend potential improvements.
  • Project managed, coordinated and delivered key feasibility studies.
  • Coordinated key IT transition following a merger and acquisition.
  • Worked with global users to analyze current business processes and procedures to identify gaps and areas for process improvement.
  • Worked with stakeholders to define and document the “As-Is” and “To-Be” business processes, business rules, and oversee and assist system project teams in defining business process requirements and/or specifications for new business systems.
  • Managed testing and implementation of new business systems.
Sept 2009 – Mar 2011
Lead Business Analyst
Colt Technologies Services India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
  • Responsible to produce business requirement specifications, including use cases.
  • Responsible to produce new and updated business processes based on the requirements defined, and interactions with operational stakeholders.
  • As the owner of the project requirements, I am responsible for ensuring IT solution compliance to the business requirements.
  • Follow SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) process to implement every project.
  • Ensures smooth implementation of any system changes to meet business needs via UAT (User Acceptance Testing) & provide communication to users.
Achievements: As part of Order to Bill interface project, defined solution to automate the population of billing literal unique identifiers in the Order handling system based on the Order details which drastically reduced the manual errors while generating invoice in Kennan.
May 2006 – Aug 2009
Business Analyst
Infosys Technologies Ltd
London, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Lead an Offshore team of 15 members, team responsible for product analysis/design and modeling the product specifications into the IT systems.
  • Responsible for the capture, documentation and development of Product Information for both new products and existing products.
  • Contribute to the building of logical Data Models by identifying the business rules, relationships between data entities and the data sources.
Achievements: Awarded with Individual Excellence award for contribution to the project and winning customer delight.

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