Mohan Raj Sivakumar

Experienced professional with strong business acumen and functional expertise in insurance and banking sectors. Skilled in creating BRDs, defining data models, and conducting backlog refinement meetings with agile development teams. Proven track record of ensuring clear product features to enhance team productivity and stakeholder satisfaction. Adept at analyzing stakeholder feedback to drive product improvements and deliver value to end users. Over 14 years of experience excelling in roles such as Sr. Business System Analyst, Functional Analyst, Business Analyst, and Developer within the financial industry.

• SRE Foundation Certification from DevOps Institute.
• Guidewire integration and Configuration Specialist Certificate.

• Strong Business and Functional Knowledge in Insurance and Banking Domain.
• Create BRD, Data Mapping, Define Data Model, table structures for the integrations to consume it.
• Create Functional Process Flow and Technical Process Flow maps using vizo, Aris.
• Conducts backlog refinement meetings with the scrum development team.
• Attends sprint planning and review meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement to the team.
• Ensure product features are clear and succinct to eliminate guess-work from the development team.
• Attends daily scrum meetings as necessary, monitors the progress of product development and delivery through daily interaction and sprint reviews.
• Provides regular updates, status, and risks to management and stakeholders.
• Analyses stakeholder feedback to determine features or components that will add the greatest value to the product.
• Cleaned and standardized datasets and prepared data reports for Data and Policy Manager.
• Reviewed data collection and storage methods of information across multiple departments.
• Owns, manages, create and prioritizes product backlog of user stories.
• Engages with stakeholders to obtain information (requirements) on expected features.
• Measures product performance, as well as value delivered to market, in order to make adjustments where necessary.
• Assesses product value stream to identify areas that require improvements.
• Ensures implemented product features add value to end users and increase company returns.
• Establishes user story acceptance criteria and accepts user stories into the baseline.
• Defines sprints and stories content, accepts sprint goals.
• Drives sprint goals and sprint delivery and acts the sole owner for acceptance of sprint delivered development.
• Excellent communication, organizational and problem-solving skills, thorough attention to detail, and the capability to meet deadlines, while working both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines, plan, prioritize and organize effectively and work under pressure deadlines.
• Ability to show judgment and initiative and to accomplish job duties.
• Ability to work independently and matrix lead a variety of internal and external teams.
• Ability to work with designers or developers and maintain online brand guidelines and strategy.
• Excellent creative or aesthetic judgment combined with the ability to take ideas from multiple sources and form a cohesive, compelling creative result.
• Expertise in multiple CMM tools with 14+ years of experience with End-to-End implementation knowledge in forms and letters content Management.
• Played different roles like Sr Business System Analyst, Functional Analyst, Business Analyst and Developer in both Banking and Insurance Domain.