Avinash Ravi

Avinash Ravi

Senior Business Analyst @ Government of British Columbia

About

• Having worked on projects in a variety of industries, including insurance, telecom, banking, and retail, a seasoned business analyst with more than six years' expertise in business analysis, skilled in both Agile and Waterfall Methodology. • Familiarity with Scrum and active participation in ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standup/Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospective Meetings • Experienced with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its documentation, including the BRD, Use Cases, Process Flow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Rules, and Functional and Non-Functional Requirements, as well as generating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix. • Expert at eliciting requirements using a variety of methods, including requirement definition, elicitation, analysis, review, and finalisation, as well as requirement management, traceability, and prioritising. • Facilitated discussions and maintained a structured approach to planning, gathering, analyzing, documenting, communicating and managing requirements with stakeholders. • Proven track record of managing software development teams through the Agile project lifecycle, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, stand-ups, and release. • Skilled in developing and translating business requirements into software requirement specifications (SRS). • Detailed knowledge and understanding of Confluence and JIRA. • Highly developed analytical and product management abilities, as well as a solid understanding of how to translate customer business needs into application and operational requirements. • Significant experience writing use cases through interactions with SMEs and business representatives.

Country

Canada

City

Toronto

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Agile Project Management, Use Case, Risk Management, Process Modeling, Process Analysis, Elicitation, Business Process Design, Business Case Preparation, Feasibility Studies, Business Case Development, Test Planning, Test Cases, Team Leadership, Business Process Improvement, SharePoint, Walkthroughs, Business Process Management, Business Process, Information Technology, Agile Methodologies

Experience

Government of British Columbia

Senior Business Analyst

Government of British Columbia

LinkedIn
2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Gathered and documented business requirements for applications and data, ensuring alignment with project objectives and enhancing project success. • Leveraged experience working with front-line clients in service delivery-based organizations, ensuring customer-centric solutions and enhancing service delivery. • Played an active role in an Agile Scrum team, utilizing scrum methodologies to facilitate effective project management and product delivery. • Proficient in working with non-technical end users, including writing business test cases, conducting functional testing, and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT). • Provided business analysis related to integrated custom applications with complex business processes, including the creation of business cases, business requirements documents, use cases, and process flow diagrams. • Led multi-discipline teams in conducting facilitation toward new requirements, ensuring efficient collaboration and alignment. • Contributed to the gathering and development of new business processes, continuous process improvements, and appropriate documentation, optimizing organizational efficiency. • Involved in Security Threat and Risk Assessment (STRA) to provide guidance on the secure implementation and operation of an application, service, or infrastructure. • Delivered training to customers on relevant project aspects, ensuring user adoption and satisfaction. • Resolved usability issues in web-based applications, enhancing the user experience and application performance. • Successfully applied change management tools, including the ADKAR model, to manage and communicate organizational changes effectively, promoting smooth transitions during project implementations. • Authored release communications to keep stakeholders informed about system updates, enhancements, and changes, maintaining transparency and user awareness.

Government of New Brunswick / Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick

Senior Business Analyst

Government of New Brunswick / Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick

LinkedIn
2021-8 - 2023-4 · 1 yr 9 mos

Conduct working sessions for requirements gathering. • Analyze the functional requirements to identify information, procedures, and decision flows. • Develop and document detailed statements of requirements both functional and nonfunctional. • Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems. • Define requirements for internal web sites • Use Agile methodology. General Duties: • Support the software development team. • Work with both client and development team members to elicit requirements, write user stories, define goals, document requirements, and analyze business functions to become familiar with the business domain. • Identify business workflows and determine stakeholder needs. • Author test case specifications, requirements traceability documentation, and contribute to the compilation and execution of test plans. • Support and contribute to the Agile practices adopted by the development team

TD

Senior Business Analyst

TD

LinkedIn
2021-1 - 2021-7 · 7 mos

Toronto, ON

• Following the INVEST approach, and with the assistance of thorough requirement elicitation from Subject Matter Experts and Business stakeholders, delivered concise and clear User stories. • Worked closely with the Product Owner in managing the product backlog by organising, grooming, and refining user stories in JIRA. • Led JAD sessions with business and technical stakeholders to refine project requirements and decompose them to minimum viable products. • Created use cases, activity diagrams, data flow diagrams, and process flow diagrams to help stakeholders understand requirements and illustrate page flow and user interaction. • Documented prototypes, wireframes and mock-ups using Confluence. • Regularly coordinated with the design, development, and QA teams for review sessions to identify and resolve any impediments with User Stories, UI/UX tasks, and business rules. • Developed and maintained data maps and data dictionaries, using SQL to validate the data. • Actively participated in sprint review meetings to convey the work completed to business stakeholders with the assistance of the development team. • Using appropriate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Post Implementation Testing (PIV), ensured that the system and the business's vision are in alignment. • Monitored the timely and successful resolution of issues and bugs that had been documented. • Assured requirement traceability from high level requirements to software requirements specification (SRS). • Engaged actively in Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and meetings for UI/UX and product backlog refinement. • Performed gap analysis to visualise the current state and identify the resources required to achieve the desired future state. • Used story mapping to find personas, epic/feature stories, and high-level user stories. • Helped the Scrum Master make burn-up/burn-down charts.

Bell

Senior Business Analyst

Bell

LinkedIn
2019-10 - 2020-12 · 1 yr 3 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led and facilitated daily scrums, backlog grooming sessions, release planning sessions, sprint planning sessions, and retrospective sessions. • Assisted in the further decomposition of complex user stories into more manageable executable versions for the development teams. • User story accuracy and compliance testing to guarantee that they are unquestionably accepted and validated. • Experience using the JIRA platform to log and maintain issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks). • Supported the creation of Project Impact and Process Control Plan documentation by collaborating with the business owners and development team. • Maintained productive working connections with the development team by managing team activities and holding inter-team retrospectives. • Participated in estimating meetings with the development team to provide story points, or high-level estimates, for the items on the product backlog. • Contributed to the creation of use cases and process flow diagrams for functional needs by helping to define essential functional requirement specifications. • Assisted the product owner in running daily scrum meetings, monthly reviews meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives, as well as in keeping track of the process improvement action items. • Examined affordable solutions to problems with change management and process adjustments. • Skilled in analysing complicated data using Microsoft and SQL tools, and recommending improvements to customer relationships and retention rates. • Successful collaboration between two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team to translate business requirements into user stories.

SunLife UK

Business Analyst

SunLife UK

LinkedIn
2017-11 - 2019-9 · 1 yr 11 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Using the proper elicitation methodologies, information was gathered and stakeholder requirements were defined. • In cooperation with the Project Management Office and the Business Development Department, provided project assessment and coordination for successful project implementation. • In order to support corporate goals and objectives, business processes that produce meaningful data analysis were built. • Business architecture, by developing business specifications, contributes to the creation and modification of the systems necessary to fulfil customer requirements and support the changes. • Project Coordination - Working together with Development Leads to find opportunities to enhance collaboration and process improvement. • Directly engaged with stakeholders and product owners to collect feedback on customers ’ satisfaction, post-launch problems, and change requests. • By structuring and carrying out work process assessments, meetings were reorganised to make decisions. • Recognized, analysed, and fixed issues found during user acceptance testing. • Identified and reported system issues to the appropriate people so they could recommend remedies and follow-up measures. • Based on data analysis and business process analysis, created process maps and workflows.

Walmart Canada

Junior Business Analyst

Walmart Canada

LinkedIn
2016-7 - 2017-10 · 1 yr 4 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Throughout the project life cycle, used a variety of project management techniques to manage process improvement projects. • Developed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and used waterfall development techniques. • Oversaw the management of the required documentation and the involvement of stakeholders. • Participated in the analysis and definition of effective and affordable solutions that support client processes, business products, and functional requirements. • Assisting in minimising the amount of time that passes between the first request and delivery. • Effectively enhancing current business procedures to provide excellent outcomes. • Updated top management on improvement requests and development work so they are aware of when new functions and updates are available. • In some circumstances, served as the project lead and assisted the project manager in making sure the project stayed on schedule and did not creep in scope. • Created artefacts and tracked them in accordance with the project plan and schedules after consulting with the steering committee and the project team. • Contributed to the creation of the project plans, the workflow breakdown structures (WBS), and the fundamental data for certain project requirements.

Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology

LinkedIn

Industrial Engineering

Madras Institute of Technology Campus

Madras Institute of Technology Campus

LinkedIn

Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering Technology/Technician

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