Sandilya Gupta Vankayala
McKees Rocks
Summary
Over 8 years of experience as Sr.Business Analyst with in depth knowledge of Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow and Problem Solving. Expertise in FS, BRD & MS Visio for creating use case diagrams and work flow diagrams. Exposure in creating and analyzing Data flow diagrams, and Entity Relationship diagrams Experties in both Agile Scrum and Waterfall methologies Have exposure in performing Scrum Master Role in the project have have good knowledge of Agile Scrum. Strong experience in client interaction, understanding applications development and business data flow
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Business Systems Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2024 - Current
- Requirements gathering, creating stories, grooming and acting as a liaison between the business, the development and testing teams for the development of VPP Reinsurance Project
- Participated in analyzing business requirements and production specifications for changes made to technology applications
- Formulated and defined the system scope and objectives, based on user needs and business processes
- Identified and documents all system constraints, implications, and consequences of various proposed system changes
- Worked and communicated effectively as part of an Agile crew and through daily stand-ups and assignments for the project, and effectively mastered the JIRA tool and User stories and tasks
- Effectively communicated both verbally and in writing and participated actively in team calls and presentations
- Participated and lead requirement gathering sessions with other analysts and developers from both the LOB and the Technology areas and kept track and manage various small LOB demands for changes across a small portfolio of applications
- Organized the backlog, assigned story points, and prioritized items in the backlog with the help of other team members
- Lead Sprint Planning to make sure each prioritized story has acceptance criteria, important attachments as well as point the stories
Sr Business Systems Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - 04.2024
- Working over the past 8 years in requirements gathering, creating stories, grooming and acting as a liaison between the business, the development and testing teams for implementing various payment products like SWIFT, FED, CHIPS through Finestra Total Payments (GPP)
- Have worked in both GPP 5.0 and GPP 4.6 versions
- Played a major role in implementing major annual SWIFT upgrades including SWIFT GPI
- Worked in the implementation latest payment products like RTP (Real Time Payment), Zelle etc
- Currently involved in implementing Fed Now payment flow for PNC Bank through ICON Payments Framework
- Currently working on ISO conversion for SWIFT (2022), Chips (2023) payment types
- Participated in analyzing business requirements and production specifications for changes made to technology applications
- Formulated and defined the system scope and objectives, based on user needs and business processes
- Identified and documents all system constraints, implications, and consequences of various proposed system changes
- Worked and communicated effectively as part of an Agile crew and through daily stand-ups and assignments for the project, and effectively mastered the JIRA tool and User stories and tasks
- Effectively communicated both verbally and in writing and participated actively in team calls and presentations
- Participated and lead requirement gathering sessions with other analysts and developers from both the LOB and the Technology areas and kept track and manage various small LOB demands for changes across a small portfolio of applications
- Organized the backlog, assigned story points, and prioritized items in the backlog with the help of other team members
- Lead Sprint Planning to make sure each prioritized story has acceptance criteria, important attachments as well as point the stories
Test Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2015 - 02.2016
- Worked over the past 1 years in testing and implementing various payment products like SWIFT, FED, CHIPS through Finestra Total Payments (GPP)
- Have worked in both GPP 5.0 and GPP 4.6 versions
- Played a major role in implementing major annual SWIFT upgrades including SWIFT GPI
- Worked in the implementation latest payment products like RTP (Real Time Payment), Zelle etc
- Work with Client Directors in a Customer-Service Provider relationship and responsible to meet the mutually agreed expectations pertaining to deliverables
- Work with Client Managers to plan strategic initiatives within the scope of engagement
- Responsible for work products and deliverables within the scope of the engagement
- Responsible for reducing the overall cost to the business by effecting process improvements, improve efficiency and utilizing technology effectively
- Working with the leads to ensure proper communication on process improvements, strategy implementation and deliverable
- Coordination with offshore counterparts on day to day project deliveries and sorting out any delivery issues and ensuring seamless delivery
Education
Masters of Computer Application -
Bharathidasan University
01.2001
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Agile/Scrum methodology
- Cross Functional Team Interaction
- Requirements gathering
- User Story Creation
- Backlog Prioritization
- Business process mapping
- Gap analysis
Industryexperience
Information Technology
Timeline
Sr Business Systems Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2024 - Current
Sr Business Systems Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - 04.2024
Test Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2015 - 02.2016
Masters of Computer Application -
Bharathidasan University
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