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Vinoth Kumar Deva Kumar

Senior Business Analyst/SAFe agile specialist

Can work in or around Amsterdam

  • 52.37243
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  • Suggested rate €1,000 / day
  • Experience 7+ years
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Location
Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands
Can work onsite in your office in
  • around Amsterdam and 50km

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Languages

  • English

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Skills (7)

Experience

NBN Australia

Senior Business Analyst  - As a freelancer

Melbourne VIC, Australia

February 2021 - December 2022 (1 year and 10 months)

Senior Business Analyst
- Worked in Service Co-ordination Team/Portfolio Planning along with Architects and delivery managers to scope the project and requirements for the next couple of quarters or Program Increments (each PI is 3 months)
- Worked closely with business stakeholders early on in the project discussion phases to understand their pain points, ran requirement elicitation workshops. Data Reporting Project
- Responsible for building, refining, and translating the Functional (Business) data requirements into IT data specifications and capture them in Jira Epics and User stories by working closely with business owners and product owners
- Created highly detailed data models, data schema to capture the technical requirements for identified data artifacts
- Worked with business and delivery team in agile squads to capture the various data sources, ingestion patterns across various systems, curation requirements for individual data sources, data quality/data transformation requirements
- Coordinate between the various data producer systems and data consumer systems to create interface documents and workflows Systems: Alteryx Analytics Process Automation, Tableau Data Visualization, Appian, Sharepoint Online, Key responsibilities:
- Investigates operational requirements, problems and opportunities, working with Service Owners/Product owners to seek effective business solutions.
- Work on Pre-PI (Program Increment) capabilities and breakdown the solution into epics/user stories by working together with architects and delivery engineers.
- Scope and estimate the epics for PI planning
- Involvement in scaled agile activities including program increment planning, daily stand ups, retrospectives etc
- Clarifying and defining requirements in the Solutioning process and communicating work packages to the delivery teams

NBN Australia

Business Analyst  - As a freelancer

Melbourne VIC, Australia

February 2019 - August 2020 (1 year and 6 months)


- SAFe Agile Business Analyst in the Service Co-ordination Team.
- Experienced in running requirements elicitation workshops with Product Owners, Business Solution Leads, Technical architects and other application specialists.
-Hands-on experience in translating business requirements into highly technical epics, solution designs, user stories, user journey, acceptance criteria, and test scope for delivery teams and integration teams.
-Wrote Test-Driven user stories and acceptance criteria that increased the velocity of delivery and reduced the test effort by maximizing coverage of use cases. Trained other delivery teams to write test driver user stories.
-Responsible for running Solution walkthroughs and User Acceptance Testing workshops with remote teams in India and Sydney.
-Hands on experience running 11 Program Increments with business and delivery teams. Experienced in running sprint planning sessions for the development teams.
-Worked closely with NBN labs to productionize Machine Learning models and conducted proof of concept for Tableau dashboard and Salesforce Wave Analytics.
-Used AWS components such as Lambda, Athena, cloudwatch for implementing Service continuity projects.
-Experience in performing scrum master duties and SAFe Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, reviewing epics with product owners and showcasing features to stakeholders.

NBN Australia

Business Analyst  - As a freelancer

Melbourne VIC, Australia

March 2017 - February 2019 (1 year and 11 months)


- Business Analyst with the Delivery Team
-Set up the integrated environment for 4 major platforms to support Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment that reduced the lead time and cycle time by 30% and increased the velocity delivery teams.
-Managed the product requirements for the connect program as NBN scaled from 1 million to 8 million households over 4 years in a fast paced, constantly changing environment.
-Finalist in NBN Data Analytics Hackathon. Appreciated by Software Engineering Managers for driving CI/CD initiatives with systems teams and delivery teams.

NBN Australia

Application Specialist  - As a freelancer

Melbourne VIC, Australia

September 2016 - March 2017 (6 months)

M1 Limited

Senior Systems Analyst  - As a freelancer

Singapore

April 2014 - September 2016 (2 years and 5 months)


-Involved in designing and requirements validation of several projects such as Unified Communication and M2M (Machine to Machine) platform.
-Managed several concurrent projects, coordinating with developers, preparing test specification, planning test, tracking defects and status reporting to higher management.

Tech Mahindra

Senior Technical Associate

September 2012 - April 2013 (7 months)


• Was a member of the Comptel Instantlink Center of Excellence Team.
• Led the transition of IT maintenance project from the incumbent vendor to Tech Mahindra.
• Prepared documents and templates for due diligence, knowledge transition, and reverse presentation. These templates were also used by other application teams for their transition.

Ibm - IBM Group

Operations Specialist

March 2011 - September 2012 (1 year and 6 months)


• PAN-India Operations support for one of the largest Telecom service providers in India.
• Client facing role that involved coordinating with multiple client managers and IT teams scattered across India.
• Significantly reduced the number of incidents by improving operational efficiency.
• Built templates and assets that reduced Turn Around Time of requests and eliminated the chances of human error.
• Worked on multiple projects simultaneously. Appreciated by Clients for Project Management and Leadership skills.
• Mentored and trained new recruits in the team.

Tata Consultancy Services

Module Lead

June 2010 - March 2011 (9 months)


• Module Lead for a team of 3 members.
• Was responsible for estimating, implementing, and testing of Change Requests.
• Took up the additional responsibility of Release Management.
• Quickly picked up the functional knowledge in Telecom Billing.

Tata Consultancy Services

Assistant Systems Engineer

September 2008 - May 2010 (1 year and 8 months)


• Joined the project in the design phase and was a part of all phases of SDLC right from designing, implementation, testing, delivery till post production support.
• Started as Business Logic Developer using BST. Later on, designed and implemented few change requests.
• Solely responsible for the testing phase and led the User Acceptance Testing and Integration Testing. Received appreciation for delivering high quality deliverables in a multi-vendor project. Highlights:
• Awarded Star Performer on confirmation.
• Recommended for early confirmation during the probation period.
• Appraised in the Top 10% of peer group.
• High Customer Satisfaction Index of 97%.

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