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Sanika Hinge

Business Analyst and Scrum Master
Mumbai

Summary

Seasoned Business Analyst offering 15+ years of Telecom, Automotive, Finance, Revenue assurance, and Banking industry success. Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making. Effective driver of product development lifecycle from concept to delivery. Communicative and collaborative with proven history of improving business operations to support corporate growth and revenue.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Business Analyst and Scrum Master

Ubs Business Solutions
04.2023 - Current

s Business Analyst

  • Effectively delivered 3 automation projects within last 1 year of medium to high complexity
  • Worked on 2 Power BI dashboard projects
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Optimized data access and storage to improve performance of analytics systems.
  • Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.
  • Monitoring performance of deployed RPA solutions, identifying areas for optimization and improvement, and iterating on automation processes to drive efficiency gains
  • Ensuring that solutions comply with regulatory requirements and organizational policies, and implementing governance frameworks to manage risks associated with automation
  • Continuously identifying opportunities for process optimization and automation, staying abreast of industry trends and best practices in RPA, and driving a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within organization
  • Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.
  • Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
  • Partner with Business Process Owner (s) and SME’s to develop deep end-to-end understanding of processes targeted for automation and outline impacted processes and business requirements
  • Engage with cross-functional teams to develop business requirements documentation of the process to be automated in a way that is understood by business users and can be shared with RPA solution design and development teams
  • Work with technical Team members to facilitate the planning and execution of RPA and other Automation projects
  • Work with Business Units to perform value analysis (ROI) for the processes
  • Identify scope, benefits, constraints, and risks for automation initiatives, capture and document current state manual processes
  • Deliver key business analysis artifacts, using best practices and tools, for the design, solution and execution of medium and large projects
  • Document and diagram the existing environment and data-flows
  • Gather non-functional requirements such as security, capacity performance and availability
  • Proactively identify areas for business enhancement and effectively challenge existing practices to drive constructive change
  • Conduct through analysis to identify risks associated with legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices
  • Adhere to demonstrate adherence to internal controls and compliance and maintaining

As Scrum Master

  • Organizing and facilitating key Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
  • Identifying and removing any obstacles or impediments that may hinder the progress of the Scrum Team
  • Providing guidance, coaching, and mentoring to the Scrum Team and stakeholders on Scrum principles, practices, and values.
  • Fostering a collaborative culture within the team and encouraging effective communication and collaboration among team members
  • Monitoring the progress of the Scrum Team and ensuring that they are working towards achieving the goals of the Sprint
  • Encouraging accountability within the team by ensuring that all commitments are met and that team members take ownership of their work by asking relevant questions
  • Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies
  • Optimized workflow processes to enhance overall productivity and achieve operational excellence
  • Developed and implemented data governance policies and procedures
  • Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions
  • Implemented business intelligence solutions to increase operational efficiency
  • Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement
  • Optimized data access and storage to improve performance of analytics systems
  • Assessed business requirements to forecast annual budgetary operational costs
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback
  • Supported software development projects by defining clear requirements and effectively communicating them to technical teams
  • Enabled data-driven decision making with advanced analytics tools, generating valuable insights for the organization
  • Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards
  • Managed vendor relationships to negotiate contracts, secure favorable pricing, and ensure timely delivery of products or services

Business Analyst - Digital Transformation

TMLBSL - A Subsidiary Of Tata Motors
10.2020 - 04.2023
  • Worked on 10 projects throughout in span of 9 years with Tata Motors with high and medium complexity
  • Worked as Consultant for Tata Chemical for process optimization and providing solutions
  • Document and diagram existing environment and data-flows
  • Gather functional and non-functional requirements
  • Creating comprehensive documentation including process maps, business requirements documents, and user stories to guide the development and implementation of RPA solutions
  • Facilitating change management activities to ensure smooth transition and adoption of RPA solutions by end-users, including training, communication, and stakeholder engagement
  • Create business benefit and cost documentations
  • Worked on Gap Analysis
  • Creating a risk log and solutions to mitigate the same
  • Simplifying the technical terms to business and converting business knowledge into
  • Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
  • Optimized workflow processes to enhance overall productivity and achieve operational excellence.
  • Act as a liaison between business and technical resources
  • Recommend ‘to-be’ process map designs using Cross-functional flowcharts.
  • Define configuration specifications and business analysis requirements
  • Conduct Process diagnostics & opportunity identification
  • Analyzing the project complexity and Creating Cost and Effort estimations
  • Creating User Stories and Project plan
  • Creating sprints in ZOHO/excel and work with development team and Project management team to execute and achieve sprint goals
  • Providing Digital Transformation solutions for optimizing the business processes

Business Analyst

Tata Motors
11.2013 - 09.2020
  • Providing Digital Transformation solutions for optimizing the business processes
  • Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Flow State Diagrams for required scenarios, making Reports as per customer Requirement.
  • Responsible for testing Mobile Apps development. (Android and iOS),
  • Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application
  • Creating test scenarios which are used in testing the business applications/BOTs to verify if it meets business requirements
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to understand their business processes, needs, and pain points, and translating these into detailed requirements for automation
  • Analyzing existing business processes to identify areas suitable for automation, including tasks that are repetitive, rule-based, and time-consuming
  • Assessing the feasibility of automating identified processes by evaluating factors such as complexity, system compatibility, and potential ROI
  • Collaborating with RPA developers to design automation solutions that meet business requirements, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability

Group Leader

Wipro BPO
11.2006 - 01.2013
  • Managing a team of 50+ members with 3 team leaders for 24/7 project
  • Accountable for project deliverables, Monitoring & Control, Quality, Compliance etc.
  • Forecasting and scheduling of resources
  • Identifying improvement areas and implementing adequate measures to maximize customer satisfaction level
  • Process Transition - was responsible for knowledge capture, creation of As is and to be Process MAPs, Creation of SOP’s, Time and motion study, FMEA for the process
  • Initiating Service Improvement Plans (Leans, Six Sigma) as per the process requirement
  • People and performance management

Education

BCOM - Accounts And Economics

University of Pune
Pune
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Maharashtra State Board
Pune
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Process Optimization

  • Stakeholder Management

  • Data Analysis

  • Process Improvement

  • Cost-benefit analysis

  • SAP

  • Business Process Mapping

  • Advance Excel

  • Lean and Green Belt Trained

  • Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) Trained - preparing for final certification

Accomplishments

  • Awarded ‘Star Performer’ for delivering key projects for the company
  • Awarded by the Vodafone team for outstanding customer service
  • Worked on a LEAN project to reduce the number of unwanted calls, which would helped in reducing efforts and optimizing the team productivity
  • Worked on a LEAN project to reduce unwanted Frames Activities, which would helped in reducing efforts and cost savings for the customers.
  • Saved up to 35% of the productive time of SME by implementing the automated tracker allowing even allocation/distribution of the work
  • Went to UK as trainer to train the UK based team
  • Award for consistent performance
  • Received an Award successful transition of the process
  • Company (Wipro) level appreciation of reduction in backlog from 15M to 4M

Software

Blue Prism

Python

Alteryx

Power BI

Advance Excel

SQL

MS Visio

Jira

GitLab

Confluence

Certification

Professional Scrum Master I

Timeline

Business Analyst and Scrum Master

Ubs Business Solutions
04.2023 - Current

Business Analyst - Digital Transformation

TMLBSL - A Subsidiary Of Tata Motors
10.2020 - 04.2023

Business Analyst

Tata Motors
11.2013 - 09.2020

Group Leader

Wipro BPO
11.2006 - 01.2013

BCOM - Accounts And Economics

University of Pune
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Maharashtra State Board
04.2001 -
Sanika HingeBusiness Analyst and Scrum Master