Pavithra Gnanasekaran, IT Analyst

Pavithra Gnanasekaran

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Experience
7 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 10 Months

IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services
  • India - Chennai
  • September 2011 to October 2014

 Responsible in Project planning and ensuring project standards are followed.
 Responsible for tracking the status of project deliverables/milestones and timely communication to all the stakeholders.
 Involved in gathering the requirements and translating the functional requirements to technical requirements.
 Involved in the preparing the technical requirements and design document
 Coordinate with the Quality Assurance team and Performance team for load testing and Quality check.
 Responsible for logging in the Change Request, Assessing the Change Impact, Identify, Analyze and prepare risk mitigation plan, contingency planning, manage stakeholders etc., as a Change Requester for Change Management during code implementation. Responsible for getting approvals from the required stakeholders.
 Responsible for prioritizing the requests.
 Reviewing the project regularly, and highlighting the changes, if any
 Responsible for Configuration Management (Baselines of all project documents)
 Updating the Organizational Process Assets as and when needed.
 Scrum Projects - Involved in sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, software demonstrations.
 Responsible for Development, Testing and verifying deliverables as per client requirements.
 Responsible for unit testing, regression testing and post implementation support
 Responsible for mentoring the new team members.

PMO Analyst (Project Executive) at Wipro Infotech
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2010 to April 2010

 Responsible for tracking the status of project deliverables/milestones and timely communication to all the stakeholders.
 Coordinate with the Quality Assurance team and Performance team for load testing and Quality check.
 Responsible for prioritizing the requests.
 Reviewing the project regularly, and highlighting the changes, if any
 Responsible for Configuration Management (Baselines of all project documents)
 Responsible to maintain daily, weekly, and monthly report, and send it to the Senior Manager
 Updating the Organizational Process Assets as and when needed.

Team Lead at Keane Inc.,
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2005 to October 2009

Project Management:
 Responsible for managing multiple development and support projects/applications for US based Office supply Retail customer with a team of 20 personnel.
 Involved in developing functional specification, System test case document, coding, Unit testing, System testing of the application.
 Working in close association with the solution architect to develop various prototypes, design decisions at different stages of the project.
 Ensuring adherence to Quality norms across the development and implementation process.
 Effective and quality communication to the team (track the progress, schedule) and upper management(status of the projects, foreseen risks)
 Effectively coordinating the development activities in collaboration with various support teams such as Solution Architect Group, Testing Practice, Software Quality Assurance group, Process Management Group & Infrastructure.
 Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
 Reviewing the project regularly, and highlighting the changes, if any
 Responsible for Configuration Management (Baselines of all project documents)
 Updating the Organizational Process Assets as and when needed.
 Responsible for mentoring the new team members.


Client Facing - Business Analyst:
 Interacting with the client for requirement gathering and finalization of functional specifications. Diligently translating the business/functional and technical requirements to the offshore counterpart.
 Generating and compiling reports based on findings; with causes & solutions to systems issues.
 Applying analytical and problem-solving skills to help maximized the benefit of IT System investments.
 Responsible for testing the deliverables before sending it to the Client.
 Closely interacting with the client on daily/weekly basis to monitor and track the progress of the project
 Responsible for servicing ad-hoc for the clients by providing the required metrics and analytics.


Software Development:
 Responsible for preparing the Functional Specification, System Requirements and Design Documents.
 Responsible for coding and development of the deliverables
 Involved in testing the overall application as a part of quality check.
 Responsible for fixing the issues during User Acceptance Testing.
 Onsite-Offshore interaction to track the status of the milestones / deliverables
 Responsible for post implementation support
 Responsible for migrating the data and objects from older version of the app to the upgraded version by writing scripts

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • at Velammal Engineering College, Anna University, Chennai
  • May 2005

Secured University Rank 5.

Specialties & Skills

Team Management
Business Analysis
Project Management
Enovia v6
BRIO Reporting tool
Scrum projects
Proejct Management
MS Office, MS Project

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Telugu
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Scrum Master Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Scrum Developer Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2011
Valid Until:
May 2017

Hobbies

  • Music, Books and Dance