Experience

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  DiscoveryPartners.io

  • Lead Business Analyst

    • Mar 2024 - Present

    Working as a Lead BA, spearheading strategic planning and execution of business analysis activities to optimize project outcomes.- Taking lead in the business discussions and acting as a liaison between business users and technical teams.- Collaborating with stakeholders to comprehend business needs and translate them into actionable requirements.- Managing relationships and expectations with key business stakeholders.- Facilitating workshops, interviews, and meetings to elicit and prioritize requirements effectively.- Leading the ideation of innovative functionalities and interfaces aimed at maximizing business value.- Creating and maintaining product backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.- Identifying and mitigating impediments or risks that may hinder project delivery.- Continuously monitoring project progression and performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.- Fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous learning within the BA team.

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  Wiley

  • Sri Lanka

  • Senior Business Analyst - Data Analytics & Insights

    • Mar 2022 - Mar 2024
    • Sri Lanka

    Working as a Business Analyst focused on Data Analytics initiatives.The responsibilities covered by myself are as follows.- Primarily acting as a spokesperson with business stakeholders, to identify new functionalities that would enhance existing analytics solutions or build new analytics solutions, and drive the development teams towards implementing them. - Collaborating and working with experts in different teams to understand end-to-end processes, source data systems and business logics underlying Wiley Research solutions.- Adequate understanding on existing data architectures, data warehouses/lakes and pipelines, to efficiently map available data to derive various analytics requirements.- Lead eliciting business requirements and precisely communicating them to the development teams.- Designing dashboards and reports to provide effective analytics solutions for the business. - Translating complex results into clear and concise visualizations.- Thinking creatively about opportunities to align analytics offerings with future business needs.- Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.- Developing and maintaining business requirement documentation.- PI planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, creating epics, user stories and tasks.- Looking into avenues of improving existing development processes and introduce improvements when possible.- Observing and communicating progress, risks, barriers, and status of ongoing projects on a regular basis.

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  CAMMS

  • Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

  • Business Analyst | Team Lead

    • Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
    • Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

    Worked as a Business Analyst/Team Lead in Camms Reporting Hub, which mainly designs bespoke product reports & dashboards for clients.As a Business Analyst:- Effectively engaged in multiple parallel projects to deliver the desired outcomes.- Maintained effective communication with clients across the world including UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Singapore etc.- Was responsible for bridging the gap between Camms product suite and the business using data analytics to accurately analyze and provide data driven recommendations for various types of business reporting requirements of clients. - Worked as a Camms Reporting Consultant.- Assisted clients by designing dashboards and reports that provide insight into key data points.- Liaised with the Product Engineering teams to refine, optimize and streamline deliverables that need to be incorporated in incremental product/report development and delivery.- Conducted product trainings for clients.- Reviewed and provided feedback on documents and artefacts produced by the junior BAs.- Was responsible for managing, planning and communicating requirements throughout the development lifecycle.- Maintained the product/report backlog.- Conducted sprint planning and sprint review sessions.As a Team Lead: - Was responsible for coordinating and delegating tasks to the team members. - Monitored and tracked their progress. - Assisted the project managers in providing commits for the deliverables.- Provided monthly/quarterly updates on team performance KPIs.

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  Inova IT Systems

  • Sri Lanka

  • Associate Business Analyst

    • Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
    • Sri Lanka

    Involved in the development of multiple IT solutions (Platforms / Web Apps / Mobile apps) built for local as well as foreign clients, operating in varying business domains such as ; - IoT - E-commerce - Government - Power Generation - Healthcare Tasks performed :- Analyzed, defined and documented business requirements.- Designed solutions based on requirements.- Quantified and prioritized requirements by identifying client's pain points and needs. - Assisted with business cases by understanding the client's business operations promptly.- Managed, planned and communicated requirements throughout the development life cycle.- Solution assessment and validation.- Conducted UAT sessions.- Actively participated in pre-sales activities.- Conducted product presentations.

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  N-Able Private Limited

  • Colombo

  • Engineering Trainee

    • Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
    • Colombo