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Ravi Kumar
Business Analyst
ravi.kumar@email.com +44 7712 345 678 London, United Kingdom linkedin.com/in/ravikumar-ba
Certifications
BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis — BCS, 2024 Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate — Microsoft, 2025 ISTQB Foundation — ISTQB, 2023
Professional Summary

Business Analyst with 2 years of experience spanning IT services delivery at Wipro and financial services transformation at Lloyds Banking Group. Skilled in requirements elicitation, process mapping (BPMN), and leading end-to-end UAT cycles for regulatory and customer-facing system changes. Bridges business stakeholders and technical teams by translating complex requirements into clear, testable acceptance criteria.

Delivery Metrics
6 Regulatory change projects delivered
97% UAT pass rate across 4 releases
38% Reduction in rework via structured BRDs
£340K Est. savings from process re-engineering
Tools & Technologies
SQL Excel (Advanced) Power BI Jira Confluence Visio BPMN 2.0 Miro ServiceNow Microsoft Azure DevOps SharePoint
Experience
Business Analyst Oct 2024 – Present
Lloyds Banking Group, London
  • Business question: Could a proposed change to the mortgage affordability calculation engine be implemented with zero regulatory defects? Approach: Facilitated 12 workshops with risk, compliance, and product owners to document 94 acceptance criteria; created a traceability matrix linking each criterion to FCA rules. Outcome: UAT completed with a 97% first-pass rate; zero regulatory findings raised at post-implementation review.
  • Business question: Why was the mortgage operations team processing 140 manual exception cases per week? Approach: Mapped the as-is process in BPMN, identified 3 upstream data quality gaps causing exceptions; drafted a to-be process and facilitated sign-off with operations and IT. Outcome: Automated fix reduced weekly exception volume from 140 to 22, saving an estimated £340,000 per year in analyst time.
  • Business question: How could the product team reduce rework caused by late-stage requirement changes? Approach: Introduced a structured BRD template and a requirements sign-off gate at sprint 0; ran a pilot with 2 squads and measured rework hours before and after. Outcome: Rework due to ambiguous requirements fell 38% over the pilot quarter; template adopted across 5 squads.
  • Managed a backlog of 200+ user stories in Azure DevOps across a 9-month regulatory programme; maintained sprint velocity reports for the programme director.
Business Analyst (Associate) Jul 2023 – Sep 2024
Wipro Limited, Bangalore
  • Business question: Could a global insurance client's claims intake process be standardised across 4 regions to reduce processing time? Approach: Conducted 20 stakeholder interviews across UK, US, Germany, and India; produced an as-is/to-be process map highlighting 7 regional divergence points. Outcome: Standardised process reduced average claims intake time from 11 days to 6.5 days across all regions.
  • Business question: Were test cases adequately covering the new policy administration system ahead of go-live? Approach: Wrote 320 test cases mapped to functional requirements; co-ordinated UAT across 40 business users over a 3-week window. Outcome: 14 critical defects identified and resolved before go-live; system launched on schedule with no Sev-1 incidents in the first 30 days.
  • Presented weekly status reports to client programme manager (VP level); maintained stakeholder RACI and issues log for a 14-person delivery team.
Business Analyst Intern Jan 2023 – Jun 2023
Wipro Limited, Bangalore
  • Business question: Could an SQL-based reporting layer replace a manual Excel extract used by the client's operations team? Approach: Gathered requirements in 4 sessions with the ops lead; wrote parameterised SQL queries and designed a Power BI dashboard mirroring the existing Excel layout. Outcome: Dashboard adopted by 18 operations staff; weekly reporting preparation time dropped from 6 hours to 25 minutes.
  • Supported the BA lead on 2 change requests; drafted functional specifications reviewed and approved within one revision cycle.
Additional Skills
  • Requirements elicitation & BRD authoring
  • Process mapping (BPMN, swimlane)
  • UAT planning & execution
  • Agile & Waterfall delivery
  • Stakeholder management
  • Data analysis & MI reporting
  • English (fluent), Hindi (native), Tamil (conversational)
Education
PG Diploma in Business Analytics Jul 2022 – May 2023
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai — Merit, Specialisation in Decision Analytics
BTech Computer Science & Engineering Jul 2018 – May 2022
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT University) — CGPA 8.6/10