Resume_Sathishkumar Kothandan_BA and QA_H1B Visa
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Sathishkumar Kothandan is a senior business analyst at Team Controls Inc with over 11 years of experience in various roles such as business analyst, quality analyst, and project manager. He has extensive experience working on projects in the airline domain for clients such as British Airways, Lufthansa Airlines, and DTCC. Kothandan has expertise in requirements gathering, documentation, testing, and agile methodologies. He is proficient in various tools used for business analysis, quality analysis, and project management.
Resume_Sathishkumar Kothandan_BA and QA_H1B Visa
- 1. Sathishkumar Kothandan Senior Business Analyst at Team Controls Inc 4737 CollegePark, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX 78249 * Phone210.907.0541(M), 210.858.8911(W) * E-mail: sathish1010@gmail.com , sathish@teamcontrols.com Profile Summary I' m a self motivated , flexible and highly organized Business Analyst with 11 years experience in I.T project and business developments for various domains in consultancy services organizations. Experience of full project life cycle using both waterfall and agile methodologies including pre-project scoping , impact assessment , GAP analysis , RFP generation ,evaluation of 3rd party system , feasibility studies , requirement capture , solution design , backlog management ,user story creation , business and functional documentation , UAT and SIT testing ,Quality Analyst ,delivery and handover to support. Work Experience Lead Business Analyst - Project Controls Enterprise Systems at Team Controls Inc June 2016 - Present Procurement , specification development , value analysis & delivery of complex , high profile , cross channel and business strategic initiatives. IT Lead Business Analyst - Booking Engine project for Lufthansa Airlines at Tata Consultancy Services May 2015 - June 2016 (13 Months) Use of Agile methodology to deliver business value and consolidation across Lufthansa Airlines and its alliance partners IT Lead Business Analyst and Lead QA - Rates project for DTCC at Tata Consultancy Services December 2014 - May 2015 (6 Months) Project planning , GAP analysis , Functional Testing ,Regression planning and execution IT Lead Business Analyst - Self Service Kiosk project for British Airways Client at Tata Consultancy Services - London UK - November 2013 - December 2014 (12 Months) Focus on project initiation from pre-project scoping through to solution design , before handover of project to development and testing teams. Involved in UAT and OAT testing IT Lead Business Analyst and Lead Test Analyst - Customer Flight Management ,Flight Management project for British Airways Client at Tata Consultancy Services - May 2010 - November 2013 (42 Months) Project planning ,Requirement Elicitation ,GAP analysis, BRD and FRS creation , Brainstorming ,Defect Analysis , SIT , UAT , Regression testing.
- 2. IT Lead Quality Analyst - Qwest Telecom Project at Tata Consultancy Services - November 2008 - May 2010 (18 Months) Test preparation and execution planning ,high level scenario preparation , test case and test results review ,traceability mapping . IT Lead Quality Analyst - Pricing Re-architecture for VSNL client at Tata Consultancy Services - May 2008 - November 2008 (6 months) Requirement provision ,functional test planning , user acceptance and functional test execution, Defect retesting , audit and metric collection. IT Quality Analyst - ELAN and Customer Portal for Virgin Media Client at Tata Consultancy Services - October 2007 - May 2008 (7 Months) Scenario Analysis , test case preparation , functional, integration & regression execution, defect retesting and status reporting. Skills & Expertise Business Analyst Skills Serve as liaison to the business community and participate in user and task analysis to maintain business community perspective. Created Business Case for major projects. Involved in project planning and monitoring phase Experience in gathering ,eliciting , anticipating , translating , managing the requirements. Skilled in writing the Use case documents for projects Involved in deriving EPIC and Mid level user stories Implemented advance strategies for gathering , reviewing and analyzing the business requirements Prioritize the requirements Create conceptual prototypes and mock ups Created Business process modelling notations using Axure tool. Skilled in drawing Data flow diagrams and Flow charts Created a High level scenarios. Created Business Test cases for UAT execution. Involved in UAT and OAT testing. Involved in Factory Accepting Testing for SSK project Worked on Agile and Scrum Methodology. Involved in process improvement Conduct stand-up meeting with Technical and testing team Good in status reporting to project and portfolio managers.
- 3. Created Business Requirement Document (BRD) , Functional Requirement Document ,Screen Specification Document Involved in business stakeholders for requirement clarification. Performed GAP analysis Manage the requirements and test cases by traceability matrix using excel or HPALM. Strong in Agile Methodology. Delivered assignments in sprint plan mode. Conduct Brainstorming sessions to business and internal project teams. SMART test . Good in influencing the business and project teams. Good in creating RFP. Involved in Impact assessment. Quality Analyst Skills Understanding the Requirements Convert the Requirements into high level scenarios and low level scenarios. Write efficient test cases Skilled in leading the testing team. Involved in test planning and test execution Created test plan and test strategy for various projects Handled HP Quality centre as a test management tools for testing projects. Involved in test case review and sign off. Involved in test results review and project closure. Define and collecting testing metrics. Implemented selenium tool for regression projects. Conduct trainings and knowledge transition (HOTO). Perform testing audit during the project test execution completion. prepare Daily , Weekly and Monthly status report. Conduct training sessions and groom team on start of project Train the team on requirement change control management Train the project team on latest tools required for project Involve in gathering project metrics Project Manager Skills Created a detail project plan using MS Word. Created a project schedule using MS Visio. Involved in Activity planning and sequencing and estimation. Involved in Resource , Time and Cost Estimation using excel. Created a schedule charts for the project start up and closure. Involved in risk analysis and risk assessment.
- 4. Achievements Awarded trainer of year in Airline Domain. Recognized for best delivery of reports My SSK project has been awarded as the Best project of the year by the client as well as company. Received appreciation for best document delivery for Customer Flight Management Business Scope. Implemented Axure RP tool for developing flow diagrams in Lufthansa Airlines Project. Education Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering @ Thangavelu Engineering College (University of Madras) ,1999 - 2003 Master of Business Administration in General Management @ Anna University ,2009 -2003 Training & Certification ISTQB & CSTP Level 1 certified professional. Trained in Business Analysis Certified Professional. Trained in automation tools like Selenium. Trained in performance tool like HP Load runner. Trained in ITIL . Trained internally in Six Sigma-Green Belt. Trained in Information Security Management at Brisk Info Tech Chennai. Trained in PMP certification at TCS Certified (TCS internal) in Internal Quality Audit, Internal Quality Management, Process Improvement & Airline domain certification.