Gayathri Pandiaraj
Middletown
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Product Lead Business Analyst with 5+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams to successfully deliver innovative software products. Skilled in translating business requirements into technical solutions, driving product strategy, and optimizing processes for maximum efficiency. Proven track record of collaborating with stakeholders to define project scope, prioritize tasks, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. Adept at identifying market trends, analyzing data, and implementing solutions to drive business growth. Strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a passion for driving continuous improvement in product development processes.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Lead Business Analyst
Mdlive,Cigna
11.2021 - Current
- Conducting thorough market research and analysis to identify trends, opportunities and threats in the industry to inform product strategies
- Create Business Mock-ups and performs data analysis
- Create and maintains agile artifacts including Workflows/Diagrams, User Stories, Release Notes and User guides
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, marketing, and sales to define product requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives
- Participate in Agile ceremonies like Daily stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
- End user acceptance testing (UAT) processes to validate product functionality and ensure alignment with customer needs and expectations
- Utilize data analytics and visualization tools to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide insights for continuous product improvement
- Worked directly with end users and stakeholders to gather, prioritize, document requirements, and analyze challenges
- Provided key performance metrics to the Head of IT on the deliveries and benefits realization of change implementations
- Prioritizes work within an agile team and maintain a backlog of future work for consideration/prioritization
- Responsible for the development of ongoing enhancements, create and prioritize user stories with the agile teams, drive testing and delivery
- Translates technical concepts to business audience and business information to technical audience
- Worked with Program Management and leadership to support new business
- Worked in the development of project plan and schedule and effectively communicates status of projects and requests
- Worked closely with counterparts in Product Management to align on the vision, program backlog, and roadmap
- Prioritizes development and maintenance backlog and product release plans
- Communicates with stakeholders regarding project status, release plans, and new ideas
- Worked closely with development teams to ensure the output to be aligned with expectations
- Being the voice of the customer and providing a business perspective on value during day-to-day development
- Supported definition of business requirements working with business stakeholders
- Documents and maintains product delivery roadmaps working with business and technology counterparts
- Conducted product demonstrations for stakeholders/customers
- Performed estimation for enhancements or new products
- Contributed to team objectives in fast-paced environment.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
Business Analyst
GE/Tata Consultancy Services
03.2014 - 09.2016
Junior Business Analyst
Kraft/Tata Consultancy Services
09.2013 - 03.2014
Education
Bachelor's - Information Technology
Anna University
06.2013
Skills
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Project Management
- Agile Testing
- Scrum
- Product Management
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Decision Making and Reporting
- Jira
- Lucid Charts
- Confluence
- SQL
- Roadmap development
- Sprint planning
- Stakeholder management
- Product support
Certification
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (ICGB)
- Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer, 01/01/11
- DevOps Engineer - Professional, 03/01/21
Timeline
Product Lead Business Analyst
Mdlive,Cigna
11.2021 - Current
Business Analyst
GE/Tata Consultancy Services
03.2014 - 09.2016
Junior Business Analyst
Kraft/Tata Consultancy Services
09.2013 - 03.2014
Bachelor's - Information Technology
Anna University
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