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Registration: 29.09.2023

Andrey Stepanov

Portfolio

ROKO Labs

- BA team management: creating BA community in the company, organizinginternal BA meetups, practises sharing. - Resource Management: responsible for my subordinates careerdevelopment/addressing questions/mentoring; - BA onboarding and sharing practices across clients: creating commomapproaches for distributed BA teams in order to start/maintain the BA activitiesfor all clients. - Product Backlog management: Planning/Prioritization/Delivering.- Customer interviewing; - Requirements gathering/documentation/management. - Project reporting: Sprint report (Dev performance), Release Notes, Weeklystatus reports, etc. Projects/Specific: 1. Environmental sample management system for Nuclear facilities: - participating in setting up the requirements analysis phase on the Customerside (in business trip); Outcome: Requirements Specification/Scope Matrix/Role Matrix/VisionDocument are created. 2. Claims management system:Joined the distributed agile team to improve the US Health/Injury ClaimsSettlement System.

ROKO Labs

Lead Business Analyst at 'Roko Labs' - participated in building digital solutionsfor US customers from different business domains such as E-commerce, SaaS, Non-Commercial Organizations, Health Care, HR. Duties: - Setting up the efficient requirements gathering/management process/communication channels; - clients' expectations management; - applying best practices for projects/clients; - company's operational business processes improvements (especially for thehiring/onboarding processes). - Product Backlog Management: Planning/Prioritization/Delivering - Release Management. Achievements: 1. BA community creation - we are continuously extending the team (from 1person to 10 per the 2020 year); 2. BA community speaker; 3. Running Technical interviews for candidates; 4. BA mentoring; 5. Applying best practices for projects/clients, that have never been workingwith BAs. Projects/Specifics: 1. Participating in e-commerce solution development for US customer, whosells premium furniture.Achievements: re-platforming (Magento 1.8 to Magento 2.0, a new e-store'Outlet' was implemented in order to sell promo items); Team: 2 Dev, 1 QA. 1 BA. 2. Participating in the start-up in the fitness community. Achievements: - A web portal was implemented with some social features introduced in orderto gain users' activity; - the new video-streaming service was introduced in order to provide the bestvideo/audio quality during the online class. - the IOS mobile application was developed with Apple Pay connected. Team:3 BA, 15 Devs, 4 QA.

EPAM Systems

At EPAM Systems, I was working as part of the BA team, participating inthe digital solutions/platforms development for many customers from variedbusiness domains (Health Care, E-commerce, etc). This is where I grew as a professional Business Analyst, working with greatmentors and fantastic colleagues!I was responsible for: requirements gathering/management, communicatingwith the clients, SRS/User Stories creation/Other outcomes creation, UATtesting, and demonstrating the results for the customer. Some specifics: 1.Participating in the e-commerce solutions development for the biggestinternet retailers. Tools: Oracle ATG, Jira/Confluence, InVision, Bizagi Modeler. 2. Building a non-commercial web product for the US hospitals (Health Caredomain). Tools: 'CrownPeak' CMS, Jira/Confluence, Draw.io, Balsamiq. 3. Web-accessibility implementation for the US Hospital web portal.Tools: WCAG 2.03. BA-community speaker.

Skills

Balsamiq
Bizagi Modeler
Confluence
Draw.io
InVision
Jira
Oracle ATG
Prioritization
Product Backlog management
Project reporting
Release Management
Requirements gathering/documentation
Resource Management
Roadmap
WCAG 2.03

Work experience

Business Analyst Manager
since 01.2022 - Till the present day |ROKO Labs
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- BA team management: creating BA community in the company, organizinginternal BA meetups, practises sharing. - Resource Management: responsible for my subordinates careerdevelopment/addressing questions/mentoring; - BA onboarding and sharing practices across clients: creating commomapproaches for distributed BA teams in order to start/maintain the BA activitiesfor all clients. - Product Backlog management: Planning/Prioritization/Delivering.- Customer interviewing; - Requirements gathering/documentation/management. - Project reporting: Sprint report (Dev performance), Release Notes, Weeklystatus reports, etc. Projects/Specific: 1. Environmental sample management system for Nuclear facilities: - participating in setting up the requirements analysis phase on the Customerside (in business trip); Outcome: Requirements Specification/Scope Matrix/Role Matrix/VisionDocument are created. 2. Claims management system:Joined the distributed agile team to improve the US Health/Injury ClaimsSettlement System.
Lead Business Analyst
08.2019 - 12.2021 |ROKO Labs
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Lead Business Analyst at 'Roko Labs' - participated in building digital solutionsfor US customers from different business domains such as E-commerce,SaaS, Non-Commercial Organizations, Health Care, HR/ Duties: - Setting up the efficient requirements gathering/management process/communication channels; - clients' expectations management; - applying best practices for projects/clients; - company's operational business processes improvements (especially for thehiring/onboarding processes). - Product Backlog Management: Planning/Prioritization/Delivering- Release Management. Achievements: 1. BA community creation - we are continuously extending the team (from 1person to 10 per the 2020 year); 2. BA community speaker; 3. Running Technical interviews for candidates; 4. BA mentoring; 5. Applying best practices for projects/clients, that have never been workingwith BAs. Projects/Specifics: 1. Participating in e-commerce solution development for US customer, whosells premium furniture.Achievements: re-platforming (Magento 1.8 to Magento 2.0, a new e-store'Outlet' was implemented in order to sell promo items); Team: 2 Dev, 1 QA. 1 BA. 2. Participating in the start-up in the fitness community. Achievements: - A web portal was implemented with some social features introduced in orderto gain users' activity; - the new video-streaming service was introduced in order to provide the bestvideo/audio quality during the online class. - the IOS mobile application was developed with Apple Pay connected. Team:3 BA, 15 Devs, 4 QA.
Business Analyst
05.2015 - 08.2019 |EPAM Systems
CMS, Jira, Confluence, Draw.io, Balsamiq, WCAG 2.03
At EPAM Systems, I was working as part of the BA team, participating inthe digital solutions/platforms development for many customers from variedbusiness domains (Health Care, E-commerce, etc). This is where I grew as a professional Business Analyst, working with greatmentors and fantastic colleagues!I was responsible for: requirements gathering/management, communicatingwith the clients, SRS/User Stories creation/Other outcomes creation, UATtesting, and demonstrating the results for the customer. Some specifics: 1.Participating in the e-commerce solutions development for the biggestinternet retailers. Tools: Oracle ATG, Jira/Confluence, InVision, Bizagi Modeler. 2. Building a non-commercial web product for the US hospitals (Health Caredomain). Tools: 'CrownPeak' CMS, Jira/Confluence, Draw.io, Balsamiq. 3. Web-accessibility implementation for the US Hospital web portal.Tools: WCAG 2.03. BA-community speaker.
Senior Technical Writer
02.2014 - 03.2015 |Probusinessbank
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- Led the development of technical and user documentation.

Educational background

Computer Engineering
2002 - 2006
Saratov College of Radioelectronics named after P.N. Yablochkova

Languages

RussianNativeEnglishAdvanced