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ProfessionalQualification
 Certified Scrum Product Owner (from Scrum Alliance, trained by Mr Devon Morris) with 2
years 3 months of Business Analysis/ Proxy Product Owner experience in various domains
 Post graduate from the University of Warwick (UK)
 Strong experience in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using Agile-Scrum,
Waterfall and Verification & Validation methods
 Driven and creative professional offering expertise in Business and Process Analysis with strong
communication, problem solving and leadership skills
 Training to become an IIBA certified Business Analyst by end of this year
Strengths
 Client Interaction skills: have successfully worked with clients, majority with US clients
during various projects
 Gathering business requirements by interviewing stakeholders and validate them
 Proactive: willingness to take up duties outside my core roles and responsibilities
 Ability to identify, analyse and solve problems
 Understand existing system and process and propose solution that would fill in the existing gaps
 Experienced user of SMAC (Social, Mobile Analytics and Cloud) tools to enhance the user
experience of an application/ a system
 Experience in various domains: Banking, Healthcare, Real Estate, Pharmaceutical, and Health
club
 Help development team understand the business value of each piece of code that they program
 A strong understanding of business analysis tools (Visio, UML, Rally, PowerPoint, JIRA, TFS),
standards and best practices
 Very good at taking initiatives and also be able to work independently
 Team player who loves to work in a collaborative team environment
Education
 Oct 2010 – Jan 2013
Masterof Science by Researchin Engineering
University of Warwick, Coventry, England
Research Title: A Path for Small Businesses to Adopt Cloud Services
 Sep 2005 – July 2010
Bachelor of Engineering
Santosh Vijaya Kumar
Home Address: 58 Fisher Point Drive, Auckland, New Zealand, 1010
Mobile: 0223529883
Email: santoshvijayakumar87@gmail.com
LinkedIn profile: in.linkedin.com/in/santoshvijayakumar/
I hold a valid NZ open work visa

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Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysore, India
Stream:Information Science and Engineering
Work Experience
 April 2014- April 2015
Endeavour Software Technologies – Bangalore, India
Job Title: Associate Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Analyse business needs by proactively communicating and collaborating with internal and external
stakeholders
 Develop prototypes and conduct walkthroughs for Software Developers
 Identify actors and how they interact with the system using UML diagrams
 Work with Scrum Master,Dev team (developers and testers) to deliver a working piece of solution
 Handle change requests by the client and communicate to team and create a plan to deliver it
 Create Product backlog (User stories) and Prioritize User Stories
 Perform Product Backlog grooming in consultation with Product Owner
 Develop Sprint Plans for delivering products for customers.
 Define Acceptance Criteria for User Stories
 Create Definition of Done for the Project with the help of Scrum Team
 Support Scrum Team during estimation process (Story Pointing)
 Draft Statement of Work
 Handle multiple projects simultaneously
 Involve in the Unit Testing and UAT of the application to ensure desired output as captured in the
Requirements Document
Projects executed:
 Mobile Club Management Software (iOS- both iPhone and iPad, Android app)
 Real Estate- Vendor Management System (Web portal app)
 Mobile Cheque Cashing Application (iPhone app)
 Health Care Chat Application (iPhone app)
 Jan 2013- March 2014
Aris Global Pvt Ltd – Mysore, India
Job Title: Associate Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Analyse business needs by proactively communicating and collaborating with internal and external
stakeholders
 Develop Requirements Documents to detail the specific requirements to develop a robust product
 Write Functional Specification Document
 Develop proto types and conduct walkthroughs for Software Developers

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 Involve in the Unit Testing and UAT of the application to ensure desired output as captured in the
Requirements Document
 Create and give presentations to internal and external customers about the product
Projects executed:
 Global Medical Information Software (iPhone and Web portal Application)
 Complaint Management System (Web portal Application)
Areas of Expertise
 Agile Scrum Product Owner (proxy) role
 UML Methodology like Use case/Activity/Class and Sequence Diagrams
 Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile (SCRUM)
 Testing (User Acceptance)
 UML tools (MS Visio, Visual Paradigm)
 Design prototypes (Wireframes using MS Visio tool)
 Design UI mock up, wireframes and crude VDs (Using SnagIt, Blasmiq)
 Product Backlog, User Stories, Define Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done
 Requirement Documentation (RD)
 Functional Specification Document (FSD)
Software and Tools used
Technology: Cloud Computing
Business Analysis Tools: Rally, JIRA and Microsoft TFS
Business Analysis Techniques: SWOT, PESTLE, and MOST
Microsoft Office Suite: Microsoft Office Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access
and SharePoint
Operating System: Windows 7, XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS
Additional Skills
 Certified Scrum Product Owner from Scrum Alliance
 During my Master studies, I have organized digital workshops for small businesses on how IT
can be used to leverage their core business
 I have started to publish posts on LinkedIn
Interests
 I attend various digital seminars via online
 Trekking
 Cricket