Skill set (7)
Vinoth Kumar in a few words
Professional Summary
- An agile technical Business Analyst (SAFe 4 Certified) experienced in translating customer pain points and business needs into Minimum Viable Products, Product feature backlogs and Technical requirements.
- Proven experience in leading teams, driving projects, running workshops to gather, validate and prioritize requirements, documenting product specifications and reporting project status in Jira/Confluence.
- Good knowledge of agile practices and ceremonies. Experienced in running daily standups, sprint planning, sprint review, Program Increment (PI) planning, retrospectives, and system demos.
- Certified in Data-Driven Product management and Alteryx Designer core. Good knowledge of Tableau dashboards, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate (FLOW) and Amplitude.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and experienced in working in complex transformation and Integration projects involving multiple vendors.
Career Summary
Senior Business Analyst (Feb 2023 – Till Date) LeasePlan Digital (Contractor), Amsterdam
Senior Business Analyst (Feb 2021 – Dec 2022) NBN co (contractor), Australia
End-to-End Business Analyst (Feb 2019 - Aug 2020) NBN co, Australia.
Technical Business Analyst (Sep 2016 - Feb 2019) NBN co, Australia.
Senior Systems Analyst (Apr 2014 - Sep 2016) M1, Singapore.
Senior Technical Associate (Sep 2012 - Apr 2013) Tech Mahindra, India.
Operations Specialist (Mar 2011 - Sep 2012) IBM, India.
Module Lead (Sep 2008 - Mar 2011) Tata Consultancy Services, India.
Experience
- NBN AustraliaSenior Business AnalystFebruary 2021 - December 2022 (1 year and 10 months)Melbourne VIC, AustraliaSenior 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 AustraliaBusiness AnalystFebruary 2019 - August 2020 (1 year and 6 months)Melbourne VIC, Australia- 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 AustraliaBusiness AnalystMarch 2017 - February 2019 (1 year and 11 months)Melbourne VIC, Australia- 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.
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Education
- MBA/PGPM - Post Graduate Program in Management, Strategy and MarketingGreat Lakes Institute of Management2014MBA/PGPM - Post Graduate Program in Management, Strategy and Marketing
- BE, Computer Science and EngineeringGovernment College of Technology, Coimbatore2008BE, Computer Science and Engineering