Arpitha R

Senior Business Analyst @MUFG

TX, US

Gathered the Requirements from the Product Owner and other stakeholders involved using elicitation techniques like interviews, JAD sessions, Surveys, and one on one sessions. Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings. Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown. Helping team and product owner to find a suitable definition of done and definition of ready. Performed Document Analysis and migrated all the previous documentation into standard documentation format that is followed across client projects. Documented the User Stories, Use Cases, FSD and Wireframe diagrams for multiple functionalities on the new application. Assisted in preparing GAP Analysis; identified and documented improving areas to meet capital markets requirement regulations. Supported testing efforts across all phases of testing – SIT, UAT, by ensuring timely deployment of application in an appropriate environment, reviewing release notes, and performing Smoke and Sanity testing on the application for each deployment. Integrated different builds which included different iterations during the Agile process. Worked with the scrum agile methodology throughout the SDLC for the implementation of releases at online resources. Created inventory of the list of reports holding positions in various financial instruments including equities, bonds, currency futures, equity futures, swaps, forwards, options, Money Market instruments, and Credit Derivative products such as Interest rate swaps. Responsible for the development of testing strategies in collaboration with the QA group, as well as creating and executing SIT/UAT testing. Wrote SQL queries to perform Backend and Database Integrity Testing.