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Suyog Gupta

Troy,USA

Summary

Suyog Gupta is a Product Owner with Health Alliance Plan (HAP, health insurance organization of Henry Ford Health) with 7+ years of consulting and technology experience working in Auto finance and lending services, Health Care Consumer Operations, Contact Center Technologies and overall industry experience of 12+ years. Expertise include business analysis, requirement gathering, writing detailed acceptance criteria, functional, user acceptance testing, and agile project management. Thorough understanding of underlying business/system requirements catering to the client and industry requirements. Specialities: Result Oriented, highly motivated, creative and problem solving professional. One distinguished Master's Degree; consistently achieving record-high customer satisfaction ranking, improvements to the bottom line. Professional Business consultant with an ability to transform the needs of the business users into functional/technical requirements, experience in all phases of Agile methodology, including requirements gathering, prioritizing requirements according to the releases. Leadership expertise for leading, mentoring, motivating, and developing and managing local and remote teams. Strong communication skills to effectively communicate with all various levels of management across the organization. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Experience with Contact Center Technologies platforms like Openscape, Verint, Genesys and functions like WFM, Reporting, Omni Channel Routing. Experience in documenting and tracking bugs using various tools like JIRA, Quality Center, qTest, VersionOne, SNOW. Foundational experience in building visualizations using Power BI, Tableau.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Management Engineer

Health Alliance Plan
Troy, MI
04.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Health insurance organization of Henry Ford Health.
  • Develop the strategic vision for a product within the Consumer Operations Team.
  • Develop and present the quarterly roadmap to VP-level leadership.
  • Responsible for making the decisions within the team backlog.
  • Own prioritization and maintain a healthy product backlog, including the definition of user stories and acceptance criteria within Contact Center technology/products.
  • Prioritize IT work in accordance with the strategic vision and company goals.
  • Work cross-functionally with business and other IT stakeholders to understand needs across the enterprise.
  • Ensure that the acceptance criteria for UAT are satisfied and met.
  • Documents current systems and operations.
  • Lead multi-disciplinary project teams, and guide teams through complex process/function changes.
  • Work closely with various stakeholders to identify dependencies and opportunities for process improvements.
  • Experience in managing contact center deployments.
  • Serve as an escalation point for delivery teams and business users experiencing issues.
  • Managing and Running CoP.
  • Actively participate in sprint ceremonies: sprint backlog and refinement, sprint planning, sprint demo, and sprint retros.
  • Hands-on experience in Telephony Systems (Genesys Cloud CX).

Sr. Business Analyst

Health Alliance Plan
Troy, MI
02.2022 - 04.2023
  • Company Overview: health insurance organization of Henry Ford Health
  • Conduct meetings with multi functional stakeholders to gather and document requirements, workflows and explore potential solutions.
  • Collaborates with work teams, departments, system leadership, staff, other IT groups, and to define needs and business requirements.
  • Assist in formulating business strategy to enhance business processes and efficiency.
  • Experience in reporting of progress to various levels of leadership within organization.
  • Experience with Call Center platform (e.g. PEGA).
  • Performs gap analysis between 'As-is' and 'To-Be' system. Creates current state documentation to evaluate and map potential business processes for improvement.
  • Works on CRM software by understanding the customer journey.
  • Generate and extract data reports from PEGA for identifying key performing indicators.
  • Assessed impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders.
  • Verify requirement implementation of business applications via creation of test scenarios and assist in developing test plans.
  • Facilitate and Conduct UAT testing process with product owners and stakeholders.
  • Experienced in managing multiple priorities with conflicting deadlines.
  • Occasionally trains end users or coordinate with the Training team to help guide the development of end user training materials as needed in form of DLPs/Guides.
  • Recruit new members for business analysis team to support division growth and create strong and productive department.
  • Health insurance organization of Henry Ford Health

Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Detroit
05.2015 - 02.2022
  • Worked closely with Product Owners to refine the business requirements and analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Communicated with product owners/scrum master on product roadmap, backlog grooming, prioritization of requirements and fleshing out the sprint/release plans.
  • Mediated between the customer and the software teams to ensure that product/feature requirements are implemented according to acceptance criteria/definition of done.
  • Extensive involvement in Agile Sprint Ceremonies with entire scrum team.
  • Worked in Agile SDLC which involved CI/CD thereby gaining understanding of required tools and technologies.
  • Actively participated in 3 Sprint planning session ensuring healthy backlog is maintained.
  • Conducted planning sessions and assisted in preparation of project plan for upgrade of existing system/application.
  • Project management activities such as: scoping, identifying risks and recommending solutions/mitigation measures, modifications, communicating activity status and possible impediments.
  • Conduct demo of new/enhanced functionality/feature to internal and external product stakeholders.
  • Extensive involvement in order to deliver the MVP.
  • Led 3-Amigos session from business side to refine the backlog stories with the SCRUM team.
  • Led the +1 apps communication and coordination for various business use cases.
  • Estimated business stories accurately with thorough understanding of application.
  • Ensuring the team is on track to complete assigned work and meets the minimum requirements for a production release.
  • Created use cases, and developed detailed workflow diagrams describing the end to end flow.
  • Led testing squad in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected result for product, performance, user acceptance and operational acceptance testing.
  • Validated UI changes for every feature/function enhanced.
  • Developed test strategies, plans, and maintained automation test data.
  • Developed and continuously improved automated tests as new system features and enhancements were developed.
  • Executed automated tests and managed the resulting defect log through the point of defect fix validation.
  • Ensured the appropriate business environments and infrastructures are in place and kept up to date.
  • Partnered with QA/Dev teams to Create Test Plan, Test Design and execution of Scripts.
  • Trained new and existing team members on the agile/sprint processes and business application.
  • Proficient in writing SQL queries.
  • Excellent Communication Skills.
  • Experience in working with teams distributed geographically.

Quality Software Analyst

Cengage Learning (QA Infotech Inc.)
Farmington Hills
02.2011 - 05.2015
  • Designed and executed Test Cases for web based application on Staging, Pre Production and Production environments.
  • Identified Bugs and Issues during sprint and release regression.
  • Worked closely with development and engineering teams to resolve bug fixes and software enhancements.
  • Managed testing schedules and ensuring that the QA team meets expectations and deadlines.
  • Monitored test progress throughout the project release cycle, providing test results and detailed status reports.

Software Consultant

Marvel Infotech
New Jersey
08.2010 - 02.2011
  • Worked on an inhouse project under the guidance of various team leads and successfully completed various trainings in QA/BA, Databases.
  • Worked as BA where in analyzed and understood detailed business requirements. Also, provided mapping requirement and software solutions.
  • Lead and Performed functional testing, UAT, Regression Testing and involved in writing SQL queries for identifying test data.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Business

Tarelton State University
Stephenville, TX
08.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

RustamJi Institute of Technology
India
04.2008

Skills

  • Requirement gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • Management Consulting
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Business Requirement Analysis
  • Quality Assurance
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Test Planning
  • Test Automation
  • Business/Gap Analysis
  • Requirement Traceability
  • OpenScape
  • Verint
  • Engineering/project management experience
  • SQL Developer
  • JIRA
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Quality Center
  • QTest
  • MS Office
  • Visio
  • VS Code
  • Cypress
  • SnagIt
  • PEGA
  • Confluence/SharePoint
  • Genesys Cloud
  • Product backlog management
  • Telephony systems
  • User acceptance testing
  • Agile methodology
  • Data reporting
  • Process improvement
  • Team leadership
  • Workforce planning
  • Operations management
  • Business process improvement

Timeline

Principal Management Engineer

Health Alliance Plan
04.2023 - Current

Sr. Business Analyst

Health Alliance Plan
02.2022 - 04.2023

Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2015 - 02.2022

Quality Software Analyst

Cengage Learning (QA Infotech Inc.)
02.2011 - 05.2015

Software Consultant

Marvel Infotech
08.2010 - 02.2011

Master of Business Administration - Business

Tarelton State University

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

RustamJi Institute of Technology
Suyog Gupta