About Me

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details

Name in Full             : Pushpaharan Prashath

Date of Birth             : September 25^th 1984

Address                      : 104, 4/4, Manning Place, Colombo-06.

Contact No                : 0776629472/0772243504

Email Address          : prashath25@gmail.com

Professional Profile

Highly-Motivated and self-driving, Business Analyst, with more than 9 years of progressive experience in implementing flexible and customizable capital market surveillance solutions for trading platforms.

I’m an adaptable and a fluent communicator with robust investigation, negotiation, problem-solving and decision making skills. This enables me to successfully practice a variety of different roles within project teams and provide an effective and efficient interface between business and technical functions.

Core Skills and Abilities

·         Highly experienced in requirement gathering, gap analysis and functional documentation. ·         Excellent interfacing capability with software systems. ·         Hands-on skills in successful implementation of complexed business solutions with high stakeholder expectations. ·         Extensive experience in client management and pre-sales. ·         Ability to work under pressure to meet tough deadlines.        ·         Experience in Product Owner and Scrum Master Role in Scrum model.

·         Exposed to Agile and Waterfall SDLC models. ·         Familiar with BDD and TDD development methodologies. ·         Experience in working in multicultural teams and environments. ·         Hands on experience in using Mind Maps, UML and BRD diagrams to simplify complexed business problems. ·         Exposed to task management tools such as JIRA, Abacus and Bugzilla ·         Extensive experience in composing and managing documents in web based systems – Confluence.

Employment History

Ø  Senior Business Analyst, MillenniumIT LSEG Technology (Jan 2015 – Present)

(February 2018 - Present)

·         Product Owner of the product team

·         Working on one of the key market monitoring window which comprises of data analytics, trend prediction, graphical data modelling and a statistical computation model.

·         Working on completely shifting the product team to BDD based software development (Epics, Stories, Scenarios and Sub Tasks).

·         Reviewing scenario documents and comprehensive test plans.

·         Managing the product backlog to cater to the solution deliveries.

·         Conducting sprint review meetings with client

(August 2016 – January 2018)

·         Product Owner of the scrum team that was responsible for two major releases of the Turquoise Surveillance system upgrade.

·         LSEG MiFID II upgrade – Surveillance Business Analyst for identifying, scoping and managing requirements for regulatory compliance of MiFID II LSE and TQ solutions (Market data reporting, Post trade transparency).

·         Analyze the interfacing requirement of the new product with trading systems and documenting the system interfacing specification for the system upgrade.

·         Performed the UI customization for Turquoise solution, using XML language

·         Defining the solution specific market monitoring alerts and reports.

·         Review test cases developed by QA Analysts,

·         Demo prototypes to clients and collect client feedback at the preliminary stages of development.

·         Managing the backlog and all aspects to deliver a fully functional and a high quality solution.

·         Liaising with external QA analysts based in Russia in order to ensure a quality software product is being delivered.

·         Working with different level of stakeholders to match client expectations with product capabilities.

·         Representing the team in the project steering committee meetings

·         Interviewing potential candidates to be recruited as Business Analysis.

(April 2015 – July 2016)

·         Lead business analyst of maintenance team that caters to several trading exchanges including Colombo (CSE), Bursa Malaysia (BM), London Metal (LME), Egypt (EGX), Mongolia (MSE), Chittagong (CHSE), Johannesburg (JSE)

·         Scrum Master of maintenance scrum team. Receive client change requests/issues, manage, prioritize and build them based on all aspects (Criticality, Reusability, Resource Availability, Profitability)

·         Primary Business analyst of Bursa Malaysia and London Metal Exchange

·         Preparing functional documents based on the business requirements and achieving timely sign-off from key stakeholders.

·         Carry out pre-sales/marketing demonstrations (proof of concepts) on potential clients.

·         Responsible for organizing and conducting system walkthroughs and user training sessions to clients.

·         Defining and configuring the solution specific market monitoring alerts and reports.

·         Carry out onsite UAT sessions and Training sessions

·         Review Specifications, User Manuals, Project Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenario documents.

Ø  Served in the capacity of Business Analyst at MillenniumIT LSEG Technology (Jul 2011 to Dec 2014)

Ø  Served in the capacity of Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Providence Network and Solutions (Jan 2009 to Jun 2011) 

Ø  Served in the capacity of Business Analyst at AKLO Information Technology (August 2008 to Dec 2008)

Ø  Served in the capacity of Trainee Production Associate at INNODATA ISOGEN Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. (Mar 2007 to Oct 2007)

Educational & Professional Qualifications

Ø  Reading Foundation Level at Charted Institute for Securities and Investment (Expected 2018)

Ø  Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance (2016)

Ø  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Australian Institute of Business – Australia (2010 - 2012)

Ø  B.Sc. Computer Science (2nd Major in Software Engineering)

Edith Cowan University – Australia (2005 - 2009)