Basant Kumar Sahu has over 8 years of experience as a business analyst and project manager with expertise in business requirements gathering, process analysis and redesign, project planning and risk management. He has strong interpersonal skills and experience facilitating discussions between stakeholders. Some of his recent projects include serving as the business analyst on a 30-month project with a 20-member team to create, modify and validate profit and loss adjustments in a critical application.

1. Basant KumarSahu
Curriculum Vitae: Basant Kumar Sahu
Summary:
Techno-Functional Business Analyst with 8+ years of highly accomplished contribution that have been
exceedingexpectation todiverse ITprojects.
Practiced business analysis project management, business requirements elicitation, gap analysis
between goals and existing procedures/skill sets, and designing process and system improvements to
increase productivity and reduce costs. Credited for Strong interpersonal skills and highly adept at
facilitatingdiscussionsandnegotiationswithstakeholders.
Skill Set Overview:
Project Management:
• Goal settingandvalue creation, Innovation,Mentoring,performance management.
• ProjectDefinition,initiation,decomposition, planningandtaskmitigation.
• Resource,time andcostestimation, Scope definition,activityplanningandsequencing.
• Supervisionandmitigation of projectRISK andMonitoringandreportingprojecthealth.
• Strategicinfluencingandbenefitrealization.
• Functioning efficiently under different frameworks CMRM, Waterfall, V-model, AGILE process
(Scrum/iScrum/Canban).
Business Analysis:
• Stake Holderanalysisand management.
• Businessrequirements gatheringand elicitation.
• Gap analysisbetweengoalsandexistingprocedures/skillsets.
• Use case modeling,POC(Proof of concept),Designing processandsystemimprovements.
• Stronginterpersonal skillsandhighlyadeptto crossfunctional teams.
• ProcessAnalysis&Redesign(Re -EngineeringandRetroEngineering).
• Change Management, useronboarding, UAT,post productionmanagementandsignoff.
• Analyze the marketplace,industry,company,technologytrends,andbestbusinesspractices.
Testing:
• TestingTools /SuitesQualityCentre 10.0,Clarify, iTrac,JIRA,WIKI.
• TestingMethodslike BlackBox, WhitBox testingandGray Box Testing.
• TestingModuleslike Integrationtesting,RegressionTesting,GUItesting,Functional.
• Testing,Systemtesting,usabilityTesting,Non-Functional Testing.
• Testing Skillslike,Testcase Preparationandexecution,TeststrategyandTestplanning

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Project Description and Project matrix: Role/Duration of Assignment/Team Size
• The AIR is a Critical application to create, modify delete PnL adjustments and validate and report
the PnL as required.BusinessAnalyst/30 Months/ 20 Members.
• The SAFE isa complex refinancingapplication.BusinessAnalyst/13 Months/4 Members.
• The AgRisk is a legacy application to calculate the aggregated RISK as depicted by PNL and VAR.
SeniorTestAnalyst/18 Months/7 Members.
Primary Responsibilities
• Analysis/Evaluation/Identificationof CustomerProblemsandRequirements
• Elicits, captures and interprets customer problems from multiple perspectives across projects or
within a program; presents implications and recommendations with a strategic perspective
influencingprojectparametersandoutcomes.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and product teams to create user stories and translate those
storiesintofeaturesthatcanbe understoodandbuiltbymembersof the developmentteam.
• Holds team accountable to their commitments and accept or reject the scrum team’s work at
the close of each sprint.
• Attend all required Scrum meetings including: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog
grooming,sprintreview.
• Works closely with business stakeholders to prioritize the product backlog in order to deliver the
highestvalue featuresquickly.
• Executes well-defined project analysis, including cost benefit, functional decomposition,
structured analysis, context, diagrams, entity relationships, workflow mapping and diagramming
efficiencystudies.
• Serves as champion to drive adoption of agile delivery principles with all project team members
and stakeholders.
• Formulates the project team hypothesis and takes primary responsibility for restructuring and
executingsignificantportionsof the complex projectwork.
• Leadsdata analysisandreportingworkforeffectivebusiness decisions.
• Identifies the inter connections between business process and other technology initiatives,
ensuresalignmentwithenterprise standardsandincontextof businessarchitecture.
• Drives analysis and makes recommendations on client / customer fit and offers ideas on a
strategyfor enablementof productsandservices.
Business Acceptance Testing
• Leads all activities for designing, managing and evaluating business acceptance tests for end to
endoperational processesandend-usersof solutions.
• Works with UAT staff to assure comprehensive testing throughout the development cycle and
communicate testingstatustootherfunctional teamsandmanagement.
• Plansand executestasksof endtoendbusiness/operationalprocesses.

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Solution Delivery/Project Management
• Establishes and manages analysis plans for multiple and moderately complex work steams;
accountable forintegrationintolarger,multi-disciplinedprojectsasappropriate.
• Works closely with project manager to determine project task estimates, deadlines, and
deliverables,simultaneouslyworkingonseveral projects.
• Assessesprojectprogresstoidentifyriskstoprojectquality,timeliness,and/orbudget.
• Ensuresqualityof the projectteam'sworkby reviewingdeliverables.
• Providesperiodicinputinthe developmentof the businesscases.
• Drives the execution of complex client / customer enablement and the tasks needed for Fidelity
to be readyto supportthe newcomplex product/service.
People Management
• May manage a small-to-medium-sized group of professionals directly or matrix managed
through other business units while leading projects; provides supervision to business analysts in
theiranalysistasksbyprovidinginputaswell asstructuringdeliverables.
• Serve as mentor/coach to more junior business analysts on assigned program or within the
broaderSolutionDeliveryorganization.
Education:
• B.Tech in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from National Institutes of Science and
Technology Collegeof Engineering,2003-07 with7.47(CGPA).
Professional Experience:
• Associatedasa Software Engineer fromJuly2007 withBirlasoftIndiapvtltd to April 2011.
• Contributingasa BusinessAnalystsince August2011 withSociete GeneraleGSCtill date.
Personal Details:
Email/Contact(Mobile): basantsahu.testengineer@gmail.com /+91-9590680311
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