Manhar Sood

Background

About Manhar Sood

Certified business analyst professional (CBAP) with 14+ years of total experience in Banking & IT sector for both Agile and Waterfall projects. Organized and disciplined team player with the ability to excel in independent positions requiring minimal supervisions and the ability to simultaneously handle multiple tasks. Utilize requirement analysis skills to facilitate the capture of business requirements, negotiate successfully delivery of projects and produce quality business documents. Professional highlights: 1. Oversee team of BA’s in driving process improvements through the life cycle of the project right from requirement gathering till project go live. Successfully coached BA teams within and outside organization in workshops on BA processes, techniques usage of BA tools and artifacts like - use cases, user stories, which resulted in increasing their productivity, output quality and knowledge. Managed BA resources, progress, completion time-frames, and budget while exceeding key BA process and skills. Monitoring and controlling project progress, objectives, and costs against the established schedule and budget. Providing directions and explanations to the BA team as and when required. Gaining influence, trust, and credibility within the BA team to build and help foster collaborative work relationships. Maintain high standards within the team by conducting weekly status meetings, provide coaching in communication, problem solving, quality assurance and team building. Strong experience in the understanding and documentation of business and user requirements in the form of Use Cases, user stories, functional and non-functional requirements, creation of Business Requirements Document (BRD) and System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and related models including requirements management and traceability 9. Good foundation in conducting JAD sessions, end-user requirements workshops, and interviewing techniques. 10.Possess a detailed-oriented nature with excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem solving. Software proficiency includes MS Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel), HP Quality Centre, MS Visio, Confluence and JIRA 12. Conduct root cause analysis to identify GAPS in the system 13. Languages: Fluent in English and Hindi (Oral/Written) 14. International exposure to multinational banks in London, Johannesburg and Kuwait