Personal Info

Araniyan Sivanesaraja
12, July 1986
Male
Married
Sri Lankan Tamil
#11C 1/1, Central Road,
Orr's Hill,
Trincomalee,
Sri Lanka
+94 (76) 376 6699

Professional Skills

AGILE SCRUM REQUIREMENT ELICITATION REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS REQUIREMENT MODELLING BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS GAP ANALYSIS SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CLIENT MANAGEMENT RESOURCE PLANNING PRESENTATION & SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION USER TRAINING CHANGE MANAGEMENT VISUAL MODELLING WIREFRAME WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT GRAPHIC DESIGNING CREATIVE WRITING DOCUMENTATION

Technical Skills

PHP HTML CSS MySQL JavaScript jQuery Bootstrap Laravel REST API WordPress Magento Version Control

OS & Tools

MS Windows Ubuntu MacOS Jira Invision MS Office MS Visio Bitbucket Axure RP Draw.io PhpStorm phpMyAdmin FileZilla SmartGit WHMCS cPanel Mantis Bug Tracker Adopbe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom TeamViewer

Languages

TAMIL ENGLISH SINHALA

Interests

MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY GOOGLING PLAY GUITAR WATCH MOVIES HAND CRAFT PAINTING READING THINK FOR NEW IDEAS DIY WORKS COOKING EXPLORE PLACES

Professional Path

Head of Business Analysis

March, 2022 to Present

Omobio (Pvt) Ltd

Heading Business Analysis Department of 15+ staff, consisting of Associate Lead BAs, Senior BAs, BAs, Associate BAs, and Trainee BAs

Mentor, support, and train BAs to enhance their productivity and knowledge of the field

Team Capacity Planning and managing BA allocation throughout the project tracks

Agile process standardization, evaluation, and facilitating improvement

Establishing proper BA and Agile Standards

Interviewing and recruiting Business Analysts

Conducting Performance Review of BAs and setting KPIs

Working directly and reporting to the CxO level

Working closely across other departments of the company to ensure proper coordination and support of the BA Department


Associate Lead Business Analyst

January, 2021 to February, 2022

Omobio (Pvt) Ltd

Managing Agile Scrum Teams in the capacity of BA and Scrum Master

Responsible for Sprint-based velocity delivery of the team ensuring the committed Story Points

Manage and ensure proper Sprint Burndown

Facilitate SIT, UAT, and On-time Deployment

Maintaining track of deployment features

Jira Query Language based filter creation, dashboard customization, and applying Jira Automation to simplify the Project Management


Senior Business Analyst

January, 2019 to December, 202

Omobio (Pvt) Ltd

Responsible for Agile transformation of Waterfall-based projects and succeeded in the adoption

Jira Backlog Management along with Epics and User Stories

Formulating user stories with proper Acceptance Criteria ensures the Definition of Ready (DoR) and ensures completion along with the Definition of Done (DoD)

Ensuring the user stories aligned with the Requirement Clarity Index (RCI)

Working closely with the Product Owner to align and prioritize the backlog items of key digitization projects using methods such as MoSCoW.

Coordinating and conducting Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

Facilitating Planning Poker Sessions for Story Points-based effort estimation

Track and support production/live issue related scope clarifications to the Developers and QAs

System Logs Verification for Root Cause Analysis


Business Analyst

April, 2017 to December, 2018

Omobio (Pvt) Ltd

Organize client meetings and discussions for Requirement Elicitation

Scope of Work (SOW), and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) Documents preparation

REST API Verification and Validation along with the API testing in Postman and ensure parameter mapping meets the requirements

Engage in pre-sales activities supporting submission of RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs

Establish documentation standards for the company

Wireframe Design for the derived scope to facilitate the actual UI/UX

Solution/Architecture Diagram Design along with Tech Lead/Architect

Carryout BA Validation of the developed functionality

Facilitate UAT and Show and Tell Sessions along with QAs and track the client’s comments

Clear out dependencies to align the development


Business Analyst

August, 2015 to March, 2017

Innovay (Pvt) Ltd

Transform business requirements to technical perspective through proper requirement gathering and analysis

Competitor Analysis to identify pros and cons

System study to ensure proper business process adoption

Proposal, Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Project Agreement, and other project- related document preparation

Justify finalized scope and business objective to Developers, QAs, and team members

Defining the milestones with the project plan

Monitoring the project activities and ensuring proper delivery

Client Relationship Management

System review from the client's perspective

User training and demonstration


Associate Business Analyst

May, 2014 to July, 2015

Innovay (Pvt) Ltd

Scope Document preparation

Research and development to develop standard products such as Hospitality Solutions, eCommerce Solutions, Online Education Solutions, and related Mobile Apps

Support UI Designers, Developers, and QAs on Development related activities

Project Monitoring and progress tracking

Project review to ensure prompt delivery

Digital/Social Media Marketing

Digital Marketing content creation

Managing Social Media pages of businesses applying standard Social Media Optimization (SMO) techniques


Associate Software Engineer

June, 2013 to April, 2014

Innovay (Pvt) Ltd

Developing websites/web-based systems using the technologies HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Laravel, and MySQL

Focused more on front-end development

UI/UX flow validation with the client

Client management throughout the project

Carry out Quality Assurance for the development done by peers and tracking bugs

Solution deployment in a shared server

Managing servers of the deployed solutions

Providing post-deployment maintenance support to the client and handling client queries

Provide support on production/live issues around the clock based on the criticality

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Google Analytics integration


Project Assistant

January, 2012 to January, 2013

HETC Project - funded by The World Bank

Implementation of educational project activities at the University as per the Project Plan to meet the deadlines

Responsible for all Administrative and Financial activities of the project office

Financial planning and procurement and responsible for payments in millions

Purchase/procurement of goods and Services and maintain records as per World Bank guidelines

Reporting of Project Progress to Project Director through the Project Office

Academic Track

DNIIT, Information Technology

  2009 to 2012

  National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT)


Bachelor of Business Administration

  2006 to 2011

  Eastern University, Sri Lanka


Schooling

  1992 - 2015

  T/R.K.M Sri Koneswara Hindu College