AMRUSHA PENUMAJJI
Pontiac,MI
Summary
Accomplished Management Consultant with over 7 years of Project Management and Business Analysis experience. Successfully led cross-functional teams and delivered high-impact projects on time and within budget. Experience in initiating, planning, executing, and closing projects across diverse industries. Adept at implementing Agile/Scrum Methodologies to drive project efficiency and exceed client expectations.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Management Consultant
KPMG
Bengaluru, India
10.2022 - 11.2023
- Developed project plans, defined project scope, objectives, timelines, and deliverables in alignment with client requirements.
- Managed entire project life cycle from initial concept through final delivery.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure successful completion of projects within budget and timeline constraints.
- Developed solutions to project risks and issues, meeting quality and timeline goals and objectives.
- Modified project plans when needed to better align with organizational objectives.
- Created project plans with established timelines, assigned to appropriate teams and managed workflow throughout construction.
- Allocated resources effectively, including personnel, and finances.
- Prepared forecasts based on current trends in order to anticipate upcoming resource needs.
- Oversee project implementation, monitored progress against milestones, tracking deliverables, and ensuring adherence to project plans and timelines.
- Managed changes within the project scope, assessed their impact, and guided stakeholders through transitions to minimize resistance and successful adoption.
- Created detailed reports and project status presentations for all active projects.
- Documented project activities, outcomes, and lessons learned to facilitate knowledge sharing and future improvements.
- Assisted senior leadership in developing strategies related to ongoing projects.
- Identify and resolve project-related issues, conflicts, or bottlenecks that may impede progress or impact project success.
- Analyzed customer needs and identified opportunities for process improvements.
- Performed cost-benefit analyses to determine optimal solutions for projects.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams across multiple departments to ensure timely delivery of tasks.
- Facilitated project closure by ensuring all deliverables are met, conducting post-project evaluations, documenting outcomes, and provided recommendations for future improvements.
- Established project budgets and tracked expenditures.
- Assisted in the preparation of business cases for new projects
- Conduct daily scrum meetings
- Reviewed documents to guarantee quality, consistency, and adherence to criteria.
Senior Engineer
Scaleup Street Technologies
Bengaluru, India
01.2022 - 07.2022
- Worked with Business stakeholders and users to understand and analyze current 'As-is' processes and workflows and worked with various teams to define the 'To-be' processes and workflows.
- Gathered and prioritized product requirements from stakeholders.
- Developed user stories, acceptance criteria, and mockups for new features.
- Assessed business value of new features prior to implementation.
- Collaborated with design team to come up with product look.
- Documented and analyzed business requirements from stakeholders
- Translated business needs into functional and non-functional requirements
- Suggested and implemented process improvements to increase efficiency and productivity
- Prepared detailed business requirement documents, use cases, and functional specifications
- Collaborated with business users, IT teams, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and concerns
- Evaluated costs, benefits, and risks associated with proposed solutions
- Collaborated with the testing team to ensure test cases align with business requirements
- Led user acceptance testing (UAT) with business stakeholders and participated in defect resolution
- Managed and tracked changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle
- Analyzed requirements through requirement prioritization, define assumptions & constraints, maintain requirement traceability matrix
- Worked closely with Development teams to interpret and translate business needs into application requirements
- Responsible for overall quality of the solution
- Performed gap analysis and identify areas that need improvement
- Provided guidance on best practices in Agile software development processes.
- Oversaw team resources and allocated assignments.
- Developed process documentation related to the product life cycle management.
- Advised on technical solutions that align with product objectives.
- Created BRDs
- Conducted daily scrum meetings
- Generate Daily, weekly, and monthly status reports
- Defined functional requirements and system interfaces to improve efficiency and usability.
Senior Test Analyst
ITC Infotech
Bengaluru, India
08.2016 - 12.2021
- Gather requirements from stakeholders and business users by conducting interviews, and brainstorming sessions
- Understand the Needs and Goals of the project
- Ensure clarity, consistency, and completeness in Requirement Analysis
- Breakdown complex/larger requirements into smaller fragments/components
- Perform gap analysis and identify areas that need improvement
- Created flowcharts, data flow diagrams and use case diagrams for current and proposed business processes/procedures
- Communicate with stakeholders to help them understand the flow of activities
- Document Business requirements - both functional and non-functional
- Represent UI design through wireframes, and mock-ups
- Document any assumptions and constraints made during requirements gathering process and necessary interfaces and integration points
- Define the project scope, manage scope changes, and prevent scope-creep
- Maintain and track the traceability matrix throughout the project lifecycle
- Stakeholder Management - bridge the gap between different stakeholders, including business users, project managers, developers, testers, and other project team members
- Set realistic goals, communicate constraints, and provide regular updates on the project's progress
- Assist in decision-making processes, prioritize requirements, and advocate for solutions that align with business goals
- Actively seek and incorporate feedback to ensure that the solution meets stakeholders' needs
- Conduct daily/weekly meetings with project teams to understand the project progress
- Identify and analyze potential risks and issues
- Assist in change management processes by anticipating and addressing the impact of proposed changes on the organization, processes, and people
- Support the testing team by providing clarification on requirements and reviewing test cases to ensure comprehensive test coverage
- Reviewed project requirements, created test scenarios, and participated in testing of legacy system for update to new one.
- Collaborate with project managers to ensure that projects stay on track, and deadlines are met
- Gather feedback, conduct post-implementation reviews, and identify lessons learned to improve future projects and processes continuously.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam
03.2023
Advanced Business Analytics -
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
02.2022
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
05.2016
Skills
- Project Management
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Business Objective Analysis
- Gap Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- Agile/Scrum Methodology
- Client Relationship Management
- International Business
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Microsoft Office Suite Expert
- Customer Needs Assessment
- Business Process Improvement
- Power BI & Tableau Tools Expertise
- Operations Management
- Quality Assurance
- Forecasting and Planning
- Process Optimization
- CRM Systems
- Decision-Making
Certification
- Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), issued by ISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications
- Business Analysis Foundations issued by IIBA
- Automation Anywhere Certified Advanced RPA Professional (V11.0), Issued by Automation Anywhere
Timeline
Project Management Consultant
KPMG
10.2022 - 11.2023
Senior Engineer
Scaleup Street Technologies
01.2022 - 07.2022
Senior Test Analyst
ITC Infotech
08.2016 - 12.2021
Master of Business Administration -
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam
Advanced Business Analytics -
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University