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Nishant Das

Summary

A diligent professional with 9+ years of experience in Business Analysis, software development, project management using Agile methodologies across digital and business transformations projects in banking domain. My area of expertise includes business analysis, requirement gathering & documentation, stakeholder management along with functional testing of banking applications.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Associate Business Manager

HCL Technologies Ltd.
London, United Kingdom
2023.02 - Current

Client: Deutsche Bank, UK

Role: Business Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Requirements Elicitation & Documentation: Identifying specific datapoints for business reporting needs along with security standards & data retention policies.
  • Data Modelling & Mapping: Collaborating with architects to build conceptual & logical data models, also creating detailed mapping sheets defining dataflow from source to target systems.
  • Backlog Prioritization: Performing Agile ceremonies with Product Owners to align the product backlog with the Business OKRs and KPIs defined.
  • Stakeholder Management: Acting as a translator, explaining technical constraints to business team while providing technical teams with the necessary business context.
  • Leading UAT testing by creating test cases that reflects real-world business scenarios & verifying database outputs match expected results as per business requirements.
  • Impact Analysis: Assessing how database changes will affect downstream systems, existing business processes & integrated third party applications.
  • Playing a major role in the release management process, monitoring system performance & gathering user feedback for future enhancements.

Associate Manager

HCL Technologies Ltd.
, India
2019.06 - 2023.01

Client: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australia
Role: Technical Business Analyst
Responsibilities:

  • Conducted detailed analysis of business requirements, identified gaps, and proposed solutions to bridge them.
  • Identified inefficiencies in current workflows, developed process improvement plans, and implemented changes that reduced processing time by 20%.
  • Acted as the primary point of contact between business units and tech teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment on project goals and deliverables.
  • Assisted in project management activities, including capacity planning and RAID management, contributing to the successful on-time delivery of project milestones.
  • Building EPICs, features in JIRA and drafting User Stories with Acceptance Criteria, elaborating them to the whole scrum team.
  • Coordinated user acceptance testing (UAT), developed test cases, and worked with users to validate that solutions met their needs and requirements.
  • Managing the SDLC process throughout the project lifecycle & manage all guardrail engagements needed.

Client: PPD, USA
Role: Business Analyst
Responsibilities:

  • Developed functional specifications leveraging the Pegasystem software and DCO capabilities.
  • Documented user interface requirements, prepared the interface mock ups and workflows for the application.
  • Conducted workshops with stakeholders to understand their needs for a forecasting model as an IT application.
  • Elaborated the user stories to development team and made sure the acceptance criteria met on the deliverables.

Software Developer (Advanced)

Amdocs DVCI LLP
, India
2014.06 - 2017.05
  • Provided solutions for web-based end to end applications as a Java Frontend Software Developer
  • Developed multi-device applications using User Experience Framework as a user interface cross-OS platform for desktop and tablet with Agile Methodology approach.
  • Spearheaded cross application teams with SCRUM calls to analyze the progress, align the goals and meet the business requirements.
  • Actively coordinated with the onshore and offshore development teams to prioritize the sprint backlog and ensured effective delivery of release items.
  • Addressed client complaints and processed corrective and preventive actions for the same with complete and easy documentation.

Education

B. Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology
Rourkela, India
2010 - 2014

Master of Business Administration - Systems & Finance

Xavier Institute of Management
Bhubaneswar, India
2017 - 2019

Skills

  • JIRA & Confluence
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Agile, Scrum Methodology & SDLC
  • Stakeholder Management
  • SQL & Advanced Excel
  • Data Interpretation
  • Project Planning & Risk Management
  • Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking
  • Process Improvement
  • Strong communication skills

Certification

  • Pega Certified Business Architect (PCBA) 8
  • Certified SAFe 5.0 Agilist

Timeline

Associate Business Manager

HCL Technologies Ltd.
2023.02 - Current

Associate Manager

HCL Technologies Ltd.
2019.06 - 2023.01

Software Developer (Advanced)

Amdocs DVCI LLP
2014.06 - 2017.05

B. Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology
2010 - 2014

Master of Business Administration - Systems & Finance

Xavier Institute of Management
2017 - 2019
Nishant Das