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Aruna Katte

Frisco,TX

Summary

Results-driven business analyst with over 8 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in Agile methodologies and business analysis. Certified in CSM, CSPO, SAFe POPM, and Leading SAFe, I possess strong organizational and communication skills. Detail-oriented and adept at managing complex projects, I excel in collaborating with distributed global teams to drive successful outcomes.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Systems Analyst

Equinix Inc
12.2022 - Current
  • Part of internal Audit analysis team to assess adherence to delivery frameworks and to identify continual improvement areas that need to be addressed.
  • The development of standard operating procedures for agile & Waterfall methodologies to ensure standard and consistent practices in tool usage, supporting documentation for improved effectiveness & streamlined communication
  • Designed a visually appealing department landing page and all of its sub-sites within the SharePoint Hub environment ensuring consistent messaging and branding to drive customer buy-in for new initiatives and transformations showcasing the value and benefits to external stakeholders.
  • Designed a Scrum Lead training program in partnership with Agile Coaches for all the Scrum Leads to create guides, templates, checklists, and best practice documents, that provide clear instructions and guidance on agile practices to enhance execution excellence in predictability, value delivery, risk management, and transparency/communication.
  • Played a pivotal role of Scrum lead for one of the teams in HR transformation initiative.
  • Collaborate with the Portfolio leaders to gather quantifiable data and metrics needed to create and publish a department Newsletter on a quarterly basis focusing on the impact aligned with the organization’s goals.


Quality Engineering Lead

Kickwheel
08.2015 - 02.2018
  • Company Overview: Quality Engineering Lead – Kickwheel, San Francisco, USA
  • Design, implement Test framework from the ground up into a continuous integration and execution model
  • Collaborated with Product Manager to write user stories & functional specifications
  • Research & evaluate tools to cover various forms of testing such as Testing on real devices on cloud, Load testing to simulate thousands of users to test the performance of the application
  • Coordinate with cross functional teams including development, designers, and product management in an agile environment overseeing defect tracking, test prioritization, test automation and release
  • Define QA processes and refine them from time to time to meet the changing business needs
  • On-boarding the new members to the team, Conduct trainings, and Mentor them
  • Test backend services at database level, API endpoints using REST clients
  • Write and run load tests and analyze results for our backend
  • Finding regressions, logging and verifying defects, and creating comprehensive historical records

Product Analyst

Stealth Mode Startup
05.2014 - 07.2015
  • Company Overview: Product Analyst – Stealth Mode Startup, Cupertino, USA
  • Responsible for identifying & recommending areas of business improvement by capturing, analyzing, and documenting business requirements
  • Assisting the co-founders for the planning & feature proposals as part of the complete Product Development lifecycle
  • Completed the functional specification and worked with User Experience designer to get the complete mock-ups done for the product
  • Participated in all the design discussions and provided valuable insights in to the business model & Marketing content
  • Participated in formulation of the Acceptance criteria, Test plan, Test cases, Test data and Expected results for the system testing of the application
  • Planned and carried out weekly estimations to meet the project deadlines

Software Engineer

Keane Inc. (Now NTT Data)
08.2007 - 12.2009
  • Company Overview: Software Engineer – Keane Inc (Now NTT Data), Bangalore, India
  • As part of a Honeywell Aerospace Production support team, have handled enhancements and bug fixes in ABAP and BC (Business Connector) modules
  • Some of the responsibilities include design and development of objects like Reports, Interfaces, LSMW, IDOCS and Enhancements, Monitoring Jobs & IDOCS and send Status reports
  • Worked on a Middleware BC tool to achieve File transfers using FTP, IDOC transfers, RFC calls
  • Gathered requirements, Give go-live support, and validation and post import steps verifications
  • Created user documentation and hosted training sessions for juniors and fellow test engineers

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
05-2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science & Engineering

Don Bosco Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India
07-2007

Skills

  • Scrum Lead
  • Agile expertise
  • Effective Communication
  • Process Documentation
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Stakeholder Relations
  • Business process modeling
  • Risk & Audit Analysis

Certification


  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance.
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
  • Scaled Agile Framework Leading SAFe - Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • Scaled Agile Framework Product Owner/Product Manager - Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SAFe Agilist) - Scaled Agile, Inc.

Timeline

Business Systems Analyst

Equinix Inc
12.2022 - Current

Quality Engineering Lead

Kickwheel
08.2015 - 02.2018

Product Analyst

Stealth Mode Startup
05.2014 - 07.2015

Software Engineer

Keane Inc. (Now NTT Data)
08.2007 - 12.2009

Master of Science - Software Engineering

San Jose State University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science & Engineering

Don Bosco Institute of Technology

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