Ashutosh Deshmukh

ashutoshvd.work@gmail.com | +353-899805417| Galway, Ireland |

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*Allowed to work in Ireland without any restrictions.

SUMMARY
Purpose Driven | Analytical Mindset | Learn and Adapt
Exemplary masters graduate in Business Analytics and experienced Business Analyst with over 3 years of experience in business
requirements elicitation and analysis, designing business solutions, key client engagement, and Software Quality Assurance with a
proven record of delivering high-quality software products meeting critical business requirements while working in an AGILE
environment. Have expertise in SQL, Python, R, Tableau. Excellent written, oral communications, and interpersonal skills to work
dynamically as a part of a team or individually. Seeing challenges as opportunities!

SKILLS
• Methodologies: SAFe Agile, Waterfall, SDLC
• ALM Tools: CA Agile Central (Rally), HP ALM (Quality Centre)
• Process mapping tools: MS Visio, Lucidcharts
• Database: Oracle SQL, MongoDB
• Languages: Python, R, JAVA, C#
• Data Visualization Tool: Tableau 2021.1
• Tools: IBM SPSS, XLMiner, MS Excel Solver, RStudio, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Testing type: User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance testing, System testing

EXPERIENCE
Business Analyst (Quality) at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech – Pune, India Sep 2017 - Aug 2020

• Elicited and documented business requirements, and performed meaningful analysis, prepared requirement’s KPI
documentation by conducting workshops with 3 stakeholders, 2 product owners and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for 23
production releases.
• Authored user stories, well-defined acceptance criteria, by converting the business requirements and system specifications
into technical and non-technical use cases by using ALM Rally which resulted in 70% more strategic iteration planning.
• Designed 30+ data work flows/process diagrams using MS Visio and Lucidcharts in coordination with internal development
teams for better understanding of each phase of software development.
• Implemented data integrity checks to ensure correctness and reliability to confirm business requirements are covered to
meet the project objectives.
• Experience in executing ‘As Is’, ‘To Be’ process and GAP Analysis to identify functionalities missing in the current system and
to identify future requirements.
• Resolved gaps between requirements and provided recommendations to cover the whole scope of the project, identified,
and closed issues by communicating with key stakeholders, product owners, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to improve
business processes.
• Monitored 50+ software features deployments, mitigated risks, managed product backlogs and ensured to implement best
practices of project management to enhance the overall quality of the application.
• Converted production data into meaningful insights by analysing intercorrelations and patterns between variables by
tweaking 500+ SQL queries.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with stakeholders and business users to use the new system.
• Provided support to QA team to develop Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test cases and defect management to ensure the
quality of the software.
• Enhanced product quality by developing 100+ Java-Selenium test cases for Web UI automation and 250+ Apache JMeter test
cases for API testing (REST, SOAP).
• Communicated and resolved production environment defects by collaboration between technical architects, API
development team, UX / UI developers, and QAs.
KEY COMPETENCIES
• Knowledge of modern software development practices such as Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Application
Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Agile Continuous Integration (CI/CD).
• Experience of working across 7 cross-functional agile teams while working on functional dependencies and completed
dependent iteration work.
• Ability to implement new tools through appropriate research and analysis.
• Facilitating key agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily scrum calls, sprint retrospective.
• Excellent in carrying out Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and resolving the issues for process improvement.
• Conducting feature demos by using Microsoft PowerPoint for clients, stakeholders, and business users.
• Working closely with multiple teams (Insurance, IT, Users) to provide solutions to complex business problems.
• Individually operating in an innovative way and delivering project assignments.
• Received ‘Best Newcomer’ Award in LTI in 2018 for learning and adapting to new technologies.

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Sales Assistant at Daybreak– Galway, Ireland Nov 2020 - Present
• Serving and supported more than 200 customers daily with purchases.
• Manage customer service, cash handling and stock taking.

EDUCATION
MSc Business Analytics Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) 1.1 First Class Honors
Core Modules: Business Analysis | Python (Pandas, NumPy) | Statistics | Data-driven business decisions | Data Visualization |
Tableau | My SQL |C# | XLMiner | Big Data Analytics – AWS | Business Modelling and Analytics
Projects:
• Cryptocurrency Prediction and Sentiment Analysis of Dogecoin – Headed a team of 4 and incorporated predictive analysis on
the price of Bitcoin and done sentimental analysis of dogecoin using Python Language by fetching real-time Tweets data from
twitter API developer account and results showed positive correlation between sentiment and Dogecoin prices.
• Tweets Text Mining - Built text analysis in R programing language using R Studio and constructed the various visualizations
and models by using tweets dataset that contains 4575 tweets, loaded into the corpus, performed necessary cleaning of data,
build document term matrix, and apply Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling with K=2 and K=5. Also Build linear,
generalized linear, and nonlinear models in R language.
• Tableau Dashboard of Retail Sector - Designed a dashboard in Tableau using the publicly available dataset to highlight the
Online Education during Covid-19 by gathering data through questionaries.
• Data Mining & Predictive Analytics - Developed data mining and predictive analytics by building a machine learning model
using XLMiner in MS Excel to predict if a customer will subscribe for term deposit or not utilizing Bank telemarketing campaigns
dataset in the context of the CRISP-DM methodology.
• Statistical Analysis – Performed Statistical analysis on different hypothesis using IBM_SPSS software to the generation of
hypotheses, performed an appropriate test, interpretation of results, resolution of Hypotheses, and document the results by
writing an Abstract.
• Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) Application – Developed Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) Application using C# programming in
visual studio for Music instruments products to process, record, inventory management, and real-time comprehensive reports
with a developer’s manual detailing the application development process.

Bachelor Of Engineering-Electronics and Telecommunications Jul 2013 - Aug 2017

University of Mumbai, India 7.86 CGPA