Siraj Ahmed Shaik

Consulting Manager at Cognizant

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About

Competent professional with an overall 13 years of extensive experience in successfully executing projects in Mobile Applications and Web-based Applications in HRMS, Banking, Capital Markets & Investment Banking domain. Areas of expertise in Project Management, Team Management, Business Analysis, Functional Testing, Product Control and Client Services. Willing to self-educate and has ability to ramp up fast on new domain & technology. # Experience in Project Management Activities – Project Forecasts, Scheduling, Demand and Capacity Tracking, Metrics and Status Reporting, Defect Management, Risks and Issues Management. # Creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures. Known for ability to produce high quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. # Experience in performing requirement elicitation and analysis in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). # Hands on experience in analyzing and documenting Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Use Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). # Excellent analytical skills in understanding the business process (AS-IS and TO-BE), understanding the functional requirements and translating them to System Requirements Specification (SRS). # Proficient in GAP Analysis, defect tracking, status reporting and issue escalation. # Experience in Test Strategy and Test Case development and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities. # Analysing the feasibility and possibility of implementing the change requests.

Experience

  • Cognizant (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Consulting Manager
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Business Analyst
      Jul 2019 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Team Lead at Olam
    Mar 2012 - Oct 2018 · 6 yrs 8 mos

  • Risk Analyst at Aditya Birla Group
    Nov 2009 - Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos