Gowri Devaraj

Sr Business Analyst @Rogers Communications

CA

Conducted various requirements gathering and elicitation techniques such as brainstorming, interviews, workshops, etc, documenting Requirements, Use Cases, Software Requirement Specifications, and Functional specifications. Served as a liaison between business users and IT team members to capture and document detailed business and technical requirements such as business rules and data standards. Conducted a needs analysis with business users to understand and document their needs. Design and development of use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using UML Facilitated Product Backlog refinement meetings with the scrum team to refine, prioritize, and estimate user stories, as well as collaborated with the Product Owner to establish, groom, and manage a Product Backlog and User Stories on JIRA. Continually aided Scrum Master in problem-solving, conflict resolution, and removing impediments, resulting in increased team velocity. Assisted the Change Management team in documenting and delivering change requests. Participated in bi-weekly Sprint Review and Sprint Planning sessions with the Scrum Master. Facilitated sprint review and retrospective ceremonies. Lessons learned were analyzed and implemented to increase team efficiency. Created and maintained project artifacts, meeting materials, reports, and progress updates. Conducted Client Surveys to Gather Requirements Drove the development of product features and functionalities based on approved requirements. Prepared process and data models; created workflow and other Business Process Model and Notation Language using Visio (BPMN 2.0) Preparation and documented test plans for user acceptance testing (UAT), system integration testing (SIT), test case creation from business use cases, and documented test scripts.

Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Civil Engineering