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Education
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Certification
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Raja Venkata Sesha Arun Telikicherla

Raja Venkata Sesha Arun Telikicherla

Amsterdam

Summary

Solutions-oriented Business Analyst possessing unique combination of business analysis, quality assurance testing and applications development experience in top-tier organizations. Solid SQL query writing skills paired with familiarity of visualization tools and techniques. Successful provider of airline domain services with 13+years of comprehensive experience.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
Amsterdam
01.2021 - Current

Client: KLM Airlines

Key Responsibilities
1. Project scope assessment, due diligence, and business planning.
2. Business strategy workshops with key customer stakeholders including data officer, data stewards, data architects and enterprise architects.
3. Working closely with Business analysts to refine product strategy.
4. Supporting data architect in data model and validation strategies.
5. Migrating legacy systems to cloud ready applications.

6. Mentoring other Business Analysts and trainees in the project.
7. Driving the deliveries and keeping the team motivated by sharing continuous feedback.

Impact
1. Implementation of modernized and future-proof technology enabling Cloud Readiness.
2. Optimizing the cost by decommissioning the legacy platform.

Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
Amsterdam
09.2020 - 12.2020

Client: ABN AMRO Bank

Key Responsibilities
1. Decommissioning third party services and create with an equivalent in-house application with GUI and back end systems.
2. Conducting stakeholder interviews, reverse engineering old flows to document new requirements.
3. Product backlog creation and updates.

4. Preparing the design for Business rule engine and creating business rules sets.
5. Supported development team to understand the business requirements and functional flows.
6. Support for user acceptance testing.

Impact
1. On-time delivery to decommission third party services as scheduled.
2. Better performing application supported by in-house system.

Business Analyst and Information Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
Amsterdam
11.2017 - 08.2020

Client: SkyTeam Airline Alliance

Key Responsibilities
1. Driving workshops with clients to demonstrate business case, solutions, project road map and planning.
2. Developing applications to track passenger related information, applications that are used daily by passengers and clients.
3. Weekly reporting of project status and scope for improvements.
4. Solution designing in consultation with architects and SMEs.
5. Analyzing customer process and product fitment and recommending changes.

6. Managing the business rule sets for business rule engines.
7. User acceptance testing and system testing.
8. Setting up kibana dashboards for application monitoring.
9. Delivery ownership and guiding the team to task completion.

Impact
1. Implemented projects and achieved planned cost savings for clients.
2. Delivered internal applications to provide seamless experience during a passenger journey.
3. Delivered public facing applications to support cargo tracking which has reached wider audience than planned.

Information Analyst and Mainframe Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai And Amsterdam
01.2011 - 10.2017

Clients: KLM Airlines, JPMC Bank and RBS Bank

Key Responsibilities as Information Analyst
1. Incident management in SM9 and JIRA.
2. Impact analysis at code level and functional level.
3. Change requests documentation (functional and corrective).
4. Development in both waterfall model and Agile model projects.
5. Code deployment and validation.
6. Release management.
7. Introduction of kanban board for support processes.

Impact
1. Smooth functioning of support team.
2. Reduced daily abends in the system from few thousands to zero.
3. Brought in agile way of working into waterfall projects.

Key Responsibilities as Mainframe developer
1. Code development, testing and deployments.
2. Co-ordination with internal and external parties for release activities.
3. Ensuring system availability for all the dependent systems.
4. Trouble shooting production, UAT and development issues during batch cycles and online transactions.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Gokula Krishna College of Engineering
2010

Skills

  • Business Analysis
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Stakeholder management
  • Data Analysis and modelling
  • Requirement gathering and gap analysis
  • Process Modelling (BPMN)
  • SQL
  • DevOps Product development flow
  • Microsoft Office
  • Unified Modelling language
  • Datalake concepts
  • Webservices and APIs
  • Microservices
  • Internet of things an Blockchain basics
  • IBM Mainframe
  • ITIL process and SDLC cycle

Accomplishments

  • Played crucial role in implementation of a long term project for my client in data world by demonstrating excellent stakeholder management skills, domain knowledge and technical understanding in Big Data and analytics.
  • Delivered an in house system to replace third party services which in turn helped the account in reducing costs and dependency.
  • Part of industry first projects in Baggage sub-domain in Travel industry that was estimated to save approximately USD $17 million.
  • Certified profession scrum product owner and scrum master by Scrum.org.
  • Certified Digital Business Analyst by IIBA and PMI.
  • Certified Product Specialist and Airlines domain specialist by Tata consultancy services.

Certification

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner Level 2 by Scrum.org.
  • Professional Scrum Master Level 1 by Scrum.org.
  • Digital Business Analysis by IIBA
  • Agile Requirements foundation by PMI & NASBA.
  • ITIL foundation level by TCS.
  • Business Analysis foundation by IIBA.

Languages

English
First Language

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2021 - Current

Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2020 - 12.2020

Business Analyst and Information Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2017 - 08.2020

Information Analyst and Mainframe Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2011 - 10.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Gokula Krishna College of Engineering
Raja Venkata Sesha Arun Telikicherla