Anusha Goud Kottra
Birmingham,AL
Summary
- Business Analyst with 4+ years of experience driving project outcomes, proficient in gathering business requirements, and facilitating agile project management to Bridge the gap between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and project alignment.
- Collaborated with product owners and developers to create clear, concise, and measurable user stories that define acceptance criteria for new features.
- Experience Facilitating JAD sessions to gather, synthesize, and prioritize requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, and surveys.
- Proficient in strong analytical skills to translate business and user needs into actionable requirements, documented these effectively using user stories, process flows, non-functional specifications, and tailored supporting materials.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst
Principal Financial
AL
01.2024 - Current
- Leveraged cost/benefit analysis to inform project selection decisions and ensure resource allocation aligned with strategic objectives
- Used JIRA reporting capabilities to generate insights into team performance, identify roadblocks, and ensure project delivery on time and within budget, utilized these reports to achieve a 30% improvement in team velocity and reduce project delays
- Optimized MySQL queries and database performance to enhance the efficiency of data retrieval and reporting processes
- Bridged the gap between business needs and technical development by working closely with developers to translate requirements into clear and actionable user stories
- Developed interactive dashboards in Tableau to visualize key performance indicators (KPIs), increasing stakeholder data comprehension by 30% and driving more data-driven decisions
Business Analyst II
Dixon Technology
India
06.2020 - 07.2022
- Streamlined 10+ backlog grooming sessions, aligning user stories with strategic goals and project objectives
- Developed custom DAX formulas within Power BI to perform complex calculations and generate deeper insights from data
- Facilitated collaborative Sprint Planning sessions to define user stories, and acceptance criteria, and prioritize backlog items for upcoming development sprints
- Improved data cleansing accuracy by 16% by implementing custom SQL functions and stored procedures for data validation and anomaly detection
- Gathered product requirements from stakeholders through one-on-one interviews and conducted 5 Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions with stakeholder panels, enhancing collaboration and ensuring understanding of stakeholder needs
- Utilized advanced requirement-gathering techniques, leading to a 30% improvement in the accuracy of project requirements and minimizing the need for rework
Business Analyst
Aspire Technolab
India
01.2019 - 05.2020
- Contributed to a streamlined Agile workflow by actively participating in daily stand-ups, writing user stories, planning sprints, and refining the product backlog (burning points & review/grooming)
- Designed Power BI dashboards that drive a 30% increase in user engagement, fostering a data-centric culture and improved decision-making
- Improved user experience and facilitated stakeholder communication by creating clear and concise wireframes, UI mock-up screens, and prototypes, ensuring a shared understanding of design concepts and functionalities
- Streamlined user story management by leveraging GitLab labels and milestones to categorize and track user stories throughout the development lifecycle
- Created ad-hoc reports using MS Excel and Pivot tables to do the calculations created reports accordingly and created and modified SQL queries to match the requirements
Education
Master - Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Skills
- SDLC
- Agile
- Scrum-Ban
- KanBan
- FRD
- BRD
- SRS
- RTM
- MS Project
- MS SharePoint
- JIRA
- HP ALM
- Asana
- Microsoft Suite
- Google Suite
- Lucidcharts
- Balsamiq
- Microsoft Visio
- Rational ClearQuest
- UAT
- Tableau
- Power BI
- MS Excel
- Cost/benefit analysis
- Ad-hoc Analysis
- GAP analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Budget Analysis
- Market Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- Mockups
- Wireframes
- BPMN
- Process flow
- Use Case
- Activity
- Sequence diagrams
- KPI
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- Windows
- Linux
- MacOS
Timeline
Business Analyst
Principal Financial
01.2024 - Current
Business Analyst II
Dixon Technology
06.2020 - 07.2022
Business Analyst
Aspire Technolab
01.2019 - 05.2020
Master - Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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