Deepa Royee

Certified Agile Business Analyst || IIBA – CBAP Trained || PSM I Trained || PSPO Trained
|| Domain: Investment Banking || Service Delivery Manager at Cognizant || Ex-Thomson || Ex-
UBS
Address: Nizampet, Hyderabad, India Contact: +91 8008079898; Email: deeparoyee84@gmail.com

AGILE BUSINESS ANALYST

EXPERTISE
Agile Methodology
Business Analysis
Requirement
Elicitation/Gathering
Requirement Documentation
Requirement Life Cycle
Management
Business Process Management
Business Process Model and
Notation (BPMN)
SUMMARY
16 years of overall experience in the Financial Services industry with 6 years as an Agile
Business Analyst in the Investment Banking domain (OTC Derivatives, Reconciliation,
Collateral Mgmt.)
PROFILE
 A certified Business Analyst with extensive experience in Business Analysis,
Requirement Elicitation, Business Process Improvement & Management
 Proven experience as an Agile Business Analyst with
 Excellent user story writing skills with acceptance criteria
 Product backlog grooming and prioritization
 Execution of sprint planning, sprint review
 Product scope definition
 Estimation
 Test plan preparation and execution
 Experience as a Business analyst:
 Requirement gathering, Requirement elicitation using techniques such
as Brainstorming, interview, prototype, workshop & focus group.
 Conducting Gap Analysis, Scope definition using techniques like use
case diagrams (UML), Context Diagram (Data Flow Modelling), BPMN
(process modelling)
 Deliver Requirement documents like BRD, FRD, Use Case, Process
Flow, Change Requests and Traceability Matrix

Wireframes, Mockups,  Domain expertise: Investment Banking

Prototypes
OTC Derivatives: Excellent functional knowledge of OTC Trade life cycle and
Reconciliation
 Good knowledge of Interest Rate Swap, Cross currency Swap, Mark to
User Stories and Acceptance
Market Swap, Non Deliverable Swap, Non Deliverable Forward, FX
Criteria Forward, Swaption products on end-to-events starting from Trade
capture till all life cycle events
Sprint Planning  Excellent knowledge of International payments using different SWIFT
formats and Reconciliations
Onsite Travel: Travelled to UBS, Hong Kong location for six months to facilitate the
Product Backlog Refinement launch of ASX OIS process newly into the OTC platform. The responsibilities included
managing testing and documentation at offshore to sync-up with the client requirements
and deliver the project within stringent timelines.
Sprint Review

Retrospective
 SKILLS

Business Analysis Product Management Requirement Elicitation Gap Analysis Stakeholder Management
Product Design Agile Methodology SDLC Wireframing Team Management Process Automation BRD
FRD Use Cases User Stories Problem Solving Product Strategy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Service Delivery Manager – Business Analyst SEP 2016 – PRESENT

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (UBS, JPM)

Roles and Responsibilities

 Business analyst for the entire work stream collaborating with the stakeholders in order to build product roadmap
 Proficient in using Agile Scrum methodologies via role of Agile Business Analyst: writing user stories, backlog
grooming and prioritization of backlog items, execution of sprint planning and review, participation in all Scrum
ceremonies
 Team management and Leadership roles: leading development team through several successful deliveries
 Writing and reviewing functional and technical analyses as per client requirements
 Test plan creation and execution in order to ensure the functionality completeness and quality deliverables
 Technical and functional support to the development team members
 Reviewing and providing validations and status reporting (metrics, estimates etc.) and ensuring quality deliveries
 Handling transition of activities to Offshore within the client expectation timelines by meeting the required tollgate
formalities
 Regular interaction with various stakeholders on the ongoing changes and take their requirements to implement
the expectations with the various combinations of people, process and technology to assure that their
requirements are delivered
 Delivered 1.2 FTE with the automation of reconciliations
 Worked on machine learning automation tool to read the PDF document with keywords & sentences system
inputs the fields automatically, with this project delivered

Process Specialist – Team Manager

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (UBS) APR 2008 – AUG 2016

 Responsible for managing OTC derivatives Rates Settlements team. Ensures that all the settlements are processed
with correct account details before the currency cut off time and raise to MO if there were any discrepancies and all
the nostro breaks are cleared before getting aged.

Research Analyst - THOMSON REUTERS APR 2006 – FEB 2008

 Part of a team that maintained and updated price and non-price data for fixed income securities of European
markets. On daily basis used to analyze fixed income market and price fluctuations, perform quality checks on
time series and static bond data for the handled markets. Responsible to resolve queries related to the handled
markets.

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS
 IIBA-CBAP Trained, Business Analysis Certified Professional from Trainsmart Academy
 PSM & PSPO Trained, Agile Business Analyst Certified Professional from Trainsmart Academy
 Project Management Essentials Certified
 Business Analyst (Automation 360) Certified from RPA Automation Anywhere
 Master of Business Administration (Finance), Acharya Nagarjuna University, Vijayawada, 2005

Languages known: English, Hindi and Telugu