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Wasundara De Silva

Wasundara De Silva

Business Analyst
Kandy

Summary

Customer -oriented business analyst possessing unique combination of business analysis, quality assurance testing experience in top-tier organizations. Solid technical writing skills paired with familiarity of visualization tools and techniques. Successful provider of solutions for critical business problems with several years of comprehensive experience.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

JIT Resourcing and Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Colombo
2023.07 - Current

• Practicing Waterfall and Scrum Agile Methodology while leading a large-scale project.

• Preparing FSD for existing Hayleys dipped products BID (Business Intelligence Dashboard) system on the purpose of system modernization, while catering customer expectations.

• Used JIRA for version control and content management, MS Word, IBM Blue Works, and draw.io for documenting.

• Team Management, including the BA team, clients, and internal inter-team relationships. Conducted story telling activities for technical teams (Dev & QA).

Lead Consultant-Business Consulting

Virtusa Pvt. Ltd.
Colombo
2023.03 - 2023.06

• Practicing Agile Scrum methodology.

• Preparing acceptance criteria (gherkins GIVEN, WHEN, THEN)

• Working in a multinational team.

• Providing service to the international and foreign clients (USA), while

• Managing cross-cultural collaborations (Sri Lankan, Indian, USA).

• Used G-Suite and Tracked team work on GitLab.

Lead Business Analyst

DSP Engineering and Construction Solutions PVT. Ltd.
Colombo
2020.04 - 2020.09

• Preparing functional specification documents (FSD) and software requirement specification documents (SRS), developed UML diagrams, flow charts and wire frames as required.

• Performed JIRA admin tasks, SLACK team member tasks, experienced in TRELLO.

• Experiences in Agile Scrum methodology (Attended to Agile ceremonies, working with JIRA).

• Close Collaboration on projects with international (Singapore, Japanese) clients (attending to client discussion on requirement gathering, requirement analyzing, proposal presenting, change requirement negotiating).

• Performing QA tasks (functional testing, UI testing, test case development) form the BA team and leading the BA team and the QA team while managing cross-functional teams.

• Performed storytelling and brainstorming activities to tech teams in order to maintain the clarity.

Senior Business Analyst

Inova IT Systems PVT. Ltd.
Colombo
2016.10 - 2020.03

• Preparing functional specification documents (FSD) and software requirement specification documents (SRS) for CRM system (Customer modeling, order management, service request management, billing system).

• Preparing functional specification documents, capturing diverse requirements for mLocator, the GPS based employee tracking system and contributed on continuous improvement of the product. Preparing functional specification documents for automating the Mobitel billing process.

• Preparing process flow charts for VAS payment automation system Preparing functional specification, process flow documents and flowcharts for Mobitel Hybrid solution (both postpaid and prepaid functions in one sim).

Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Engineer

Agaya Holdings Private Limited
Colombo
2014.10 - 2016.10
  • Worked as a business analyst in PMA (Production Management Application - a locally build application for managing functionalities in a production line), ABBYY and e commerce web application.
  • Gathering requirements in all the functionalities of production line, Retail online business and does the feasibility analysis.
  • Developed project proposals, SRS documents, FSD, marketing materials, Created test cases and performed application testing Organized and conducted client meetings.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLI
Colombo
2014-02

Higher National Diploma - Information Technology

Infortec International Pvt Ltd
Kandy
2010-04

MBA - Business Administration

University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Skills

  • Business Administration
  • Gap analysis
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Requirements Gathering and Elicitation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Product Management
  • Business process improvement
  • Workflow Analysis
  • Technical Writing (SRS, FSD, BRD)
  • Quality Assurance
  • Negotiation
  • Consulting
  • Project Management
  • CRM Systems
  • Leadership Skills
  • Excellent Communication
  • Attention to Detail
  • Strong Interpersonal Skills
  • Clever Client Relationship Management
  • Microsoft 365
  • SAP
  • Power BI
  • G Suite
  • JIRA
  • GITLAB
  • Agile scrum / Waterfall
  • Draw.io / Pencil

Certification

  • Power BI: Basics to Advance (Date of Completion: Apr 27, 2024) – APPTRA LEARNING AND TRANSFORMATION CONSULTING
  • Google Analytics Quick Start (Date of Completion: Apr 08, 2024) CertificateOfCompletion_Google Analytics Quick Start.pdf
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)(2023-2025) – ScrumAlliance https://badgecert.com/bc/html/groupbadges.html? k=OVgwa3hTVmJhaTY5RmZoal NaV3Q5VGs0cTkybW0yb2Q
  • Software Project Management Foundations by Kelley O'Connell – (Date of Completion: 2023-06-15) - PMI https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/abe85d6d8b75d3ffe8a2e475a d847e15876b58 280c06596a77206ceea9540a18
  • Agile Foundations by Doug Rose (Date of Completion: 2023-06-07) – IIBA https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/9062289b05e88dda807709c b9307922cebd889 ac742dff9c7e9f30d75e36d6bd
  • Business Analysis Foundations: Competencies by Angela Wick (Date of Completion: 2021-06-20) - IIBA https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/172b1d0e6a1a62b1f77d71472ff d9653e5cf8dc 461a587434948b8f32cfed526
  • How to Perform Business Analysis in a Virtual Environment by Jamie Champagne (Date of Completion : 2021-6-19) - IIBA https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/e16b2f9b92ffb23697cc1b58ae 603532173a0df8 37eb112b851ab62323375406

Languages

Sinhalese
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Beginner
A1

Affiliations

  • Early childhood development enthusiast
  • volunteer in Sri Lankan stray dog welfare
  • An Animal lover

Timeline

Lead Business Analyst

JIT Resourcing and Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
2023.07 - Current

Lead Consultant-Business Consulting

Virtusa Pvt. Ltd.
2023.03 - 2023.06

Lead Business Analyst

DSP Engineering and Construction Solutions PVT. Ltd.
2020.04 - 2020.09

Senior Business Analyst

Inova IT Systems PVT. Ltd.
2016.10 - 2020.03

Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Engineer

Agaya Holdings Private Limited
2014.10 - 2016.10

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLI

Higher National Diploma - Information Technology

Infortec International Pvt Ltd

MBA - Business Administration

University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
  • Power BI: Basics to Advance (Date of Completion: Apr 27, 2024) – APPTRA LEARNING AND TRANSFORMATION CONSULTING
  • Google Analytics Quick Start (Date of Completion: Apr 08, 2024) CertificateOfCompletion_Google Analytics Quick Start.pdf
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)(2023-2025) – ScrumAlliance https://badgecert.com/bc/html/groupbadges.html? k=OVgwa3hTVmJhaTY5RmZoal NaV3Q5VGs0cTkybW0yb2Q
  • Software Project Management Foundations by Kelley O'Connell – (Date of Completion: 2023-06-15) - PMI https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/abe85d6d8b75d3ffe8a2e475a d847e15876b58 280c06596a77206ceea9540a18
  • Agile Foundations by Doug Rose (Date of Completion: 2023-06-07) – IIBA https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/9062289b05e88dda807709c b9307922cebd889 ac742dff9c7e9f30d75e36d6bd
  • Business Analysis Foundations: Competencies by Angela Wick (Date of Completion: 2021-06-20) - IIBA https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/172b1d0e6a1a62b1f77d71472ff d9653e5cf8dc 461a587434948b8f32cfed526
  • How to Perform Business Analysis in a Virtual Environment by Jamie Champagne (Date of Completion : 2021-6-19) - IIBA https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/e16b2f9b92ffb23697cc1b58ae 603532173a0df8 37eb112b851ab62323375406
Wasundara De SilvaBusiness Analyst