Vinu Thomas

Senior Business Analyst @RBC

ON, CA

Serve as a liaison between business users and IT team members, obtaining and documenting detailed business and technical requirements such as business rules and data standards. • Business requirements, use cases, software requirement specifications, and functional specifications were documented using different requirements gathering and elicitation approaches such as brainstorming, interviews, workshops, and so on• Gathered client requirements through surveys. Developed the features and functions of the product using requirements that were established and accepted• Utilizing UML, use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams were created.• Facilitated Product Backlog refining sessions with the scrum team to refine, prioritize, and estimate user stories, as well as collaborated with the Product Owner to create, organize, and maintain a Product Backlog and User Stories on JIRA• Consistently aided Scrum Master in problem-solving, conflict resolution, and impediment removal, leading to increased team velocity• Documented and delivered change requests in collaboration with the Change Management team• Participated in bi-weekly Sprint Review and Sprint Planning meetings with the Scrum Master• Facilitated retrospectives and evaluations of the scrum ceremonies. Analyzed and put into practice insights learned to increase team productivity• Developed and kept up with project artifacts, meeting materials, reports, and status updates• Process and data models have been prepared; Visio has been used to develop workflows and other Business Process Models and Notation (BPMN 2.0)• Prepared and documented test plans for User Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Integration Testing (SIT), creating test cases from business use cases, and documenting test script