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Pramod Saligrama Ramakrishna
Agile Business Analyst | PSM | PSPO | Banking | T2 Skilled Worker Visa Till Feb 2027
Belfast
Summary
Over 10 years of rich, end-to-end Business Analysis and Testing experience in the Banking. Oversaw full software life-cycle implementation, upgrades, rollout, enhancement from business analysis, testing, cut-over, migration, go-live assistance till post implementation support in 4 high valued projects with 100% on time delivery and while staying 5% under budget. Expert understanding of SDLC processes and Agile flavored development methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum, Agile Framework, and Kanban Approaches). The deliverables rendered were Largely Successful. Management were happy with the throughputs.
Worked with companies / client like Citibank, Standard Chartered, ANZ, Travelers, HP, Capgemini, Accenture, L&T InfoTech
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
9
9
Certifications
Work History
Associate Vice President
Citibank UK N.A
10.2021 - Current
- Formulate & define systems scope and objectives for 'Build the bank' projects and foster communication between business leaders and IT.
- Have strong understanding of accounting landscape, including technology and accounting processes downstream, General ledger, postings and adjustments
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity of Bank's EUC
- Proven track record in project delivery within FX space with comprehensive knowledge on FX Trade Lifecycle and Regulatory reporting
- Analyze, design & E2E implementation of new systems mostly home-grown including Strategic Ledger and Accounting Hub
Senior Business Analyst
Standard Chartered GBS
01.2019 - 07.2021
- Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for Banking products and service.
- Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis which was about 20% from expected and outlined sensible solutions.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
- Evaluated consistency and importance of different business intelligence data against needs to determine optimal courses of action.
- Created workflow diagrams and Gantt charts to clearly demonstrate processes and timelines.
- Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling all parties to meet and discuss project progress.
- Proposed User stories, Acceptance Criteria and Monitored Testing Process
Business & Integration Arch Sr. Analyst
Accenture
09.2017 - 01.2019
- Completed quality reviews for designs, codes, test plans and documentation methods.
- Analyzed complex data and identified anomalies, trends and risks to provide useful insights to improve internal controls.
- Written Apache Hive Scripts to perform ETL activities like Filtering, Joining on HDFS Data
- Customized existing code to requirements and chartered out Test plan and strategy
- Performed Code review and Peer reviews to check scripts are as per standards. Tried achieving 85%+ Code coverage always.
- Created Paxata datasets to leverage learnings and tried automating Data profiling activities
Senior Test Engineer
ANZ Bank (On payrolls of Delivery Centric Technologies Pvt Ltd.)
02.2016 - 03.2017
- Defined and tracked quality assurance metrics, including test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.
- Mentored junior engineering staff, offering instruction on testing parameters and accepted engineering principals.
- Designed and validated test support systems for Capital Markets - Wealth Domain Industry.
- Improved efficiency of Investment Registry systems by 7% through application of diagnostic iteration.
- Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.
- Collaborated with senior partners to verify presence and integration of automation capabilities into developed software.
- Established functional and technical specifications and standards.
Testing Engineer
L&T Infotech
11.2013 - 11.2015
- Framed SQL queries based on Business logic to validate data in Front End Reports
- Liaised with developers and Business to swiftly resolve faults and Defect tracking
- Performed impact analysis and providing solutions for performance issue and benchmarking.
- Reviewed test plans and procedures for 100% coverage of system requirements.
- Presided for Regular Calls with Onshore functional team for understanding Report handoff
- Performed Sanity Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Defect Tracking, Production Check-Outs and many all ETL QA Activities
Education
PG Cert in Business Analysis & Consulting - Business
University of Ulster
Belfast, United Kingdom 09.2023 - 04.2024
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Visveswaraya Technological University
Karnataka 08.2009 - 2013.07
Skills
Accomplishments
- As an Area Director of Toastmasters International District 92 Area K1, was responsible for 5 Toastmaster clubs and supported them to achieve their club goals and worked hard to later achieve the highest status Presidents Distinguished Area.
- Started a new Corporate Toastmasters club at Standard Chartered, Bangalore to help improve communication and Leadership skills of employees. Stood as a fore runner and a mentor and the club eventually attained President Distinguished status.
- In July 2015 , was awarded as the Star Performer Award for the services rendered at L&T Infotech Ltd
Software
Balsamiq
MS Visio
Paxata
AWS
Azure
Oracle 11g
Teradata SQL
Hive
Confluence
Bit Bucket
Certification
Professional Scrum Product Owner™
Timeline
PG Cert in Business Analysis & Consulting - Business
University of Ulster
09.2023 - 04.2024
Associate Vice President
Citibank UK N.A
10.2021 - Current
Senior Business Analyst
Standard Chartered GBS
01.2019 - 07.2021
Business & Integration Arch Sr. Analyst
Accenture
09.2017 - 01.2019
Senior Test Engineer
ANZ Bank (On payrolls of Delivery Centric Technologies Pvt Ltd.)
02.2016 - 03.2017
Testing Engineer
L&T Infotech
11.2013 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Visveswaraya Technological University
08.2009 - 2013.07
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