VIMISHA PERATHARA
Cumming
Summary
Accomplished Safe 5 Certified Business Analyst with a 6+ years of experience at BSI, driving the development of cloud-based payroll and tax compliance software. Adept at aligning tax regulations into streamlined technical requirements. Serves as a strategic liaison between executive leadership and technical teams ensuring business vision is accurately captured and executed in every product release.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Analyst
Business Software, Inc
08.2019 - Current
- Stakeholder Management: Facilitate requirement elicitation sessions and whiteboarding sessions with stakeholders to define project scope for cloud-based payroll and tax compliance solutions.
- Documentation Excellence: Elicit comprehensive functional specifications (FRDs), design documents, and use case scenarios, ensuring 100% alignment between business needs and technical delivery.
- Quality Assurance & Testing: Execute end-to-end functionality testing and API validation using SOAP UI and REST Client to certify features before production release.
- Technical Integration: Streamline client installations by configuring local application environments and setting up ODBC drivers, reducing technical friction during implementation.
- Continuous Improvement: Partner with Software Architects to analyze customer tickets and developer feedback, identifying solutions to promote iterative software enhancements.
- Training & Knowledge Transfer: Led group training sessions in collaboration with QA to educate staff on new payroll system features and federal/state compliance updates.
Business Analyst
Lenawave LLC
01.2017 - 06.2019
- Agile Delivery: Translated stakeholder needs into actionable user stories and JIRA backlog items; facilitated sprint planning and backlog grooming sessions to prioritize deliverables.
- Visual Modeling: Created UML activity diagrams and use case flows in MS-Visio to effectively visualize functional requirements for "Notum" mobile platform, enhancing stakeholder understanding.
- Product Strategy: Analyzed user community inputs to define product roadmap, aligning UI/UX designs with database architecture and table fields to improve user satisfaction.
- User Research: Conducted targeted surveys and brainstorming sessions with SMEs to elicit high-level non-functional requirements.
Recruiting Intern
Object Net Technologies
Atlanta
06.2011 - 05.2012
- Workforce Planning: Partnered with hiring managers to define job parameters and source technical talent for skilled trade and management positions.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Human Resource
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
DubaiSkills
- Business Analysis: Requirement Elicitation (Workshop/Interviews),User Stories, Backlog Grooming, BRD/FRD Documentation, Process Modelling
- Methodologies: SAFe® Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, UAT Coordination
- Technical & Data: SQL (Oracle, MS-SQL,), Data Validation & Mapping, ODBC Configuration, API Testing (SOAP UI/REST)
- Tools & Design: Jira, MS Visio, LucidChart, SOAP UI, REST Client, UML (Activity/Use Case Diagrams), MS Office Suite (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
Certification
SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Timeline
Business Analyst
Business Software, Inc
08.2019 - Current
Business Analyst
Lenawave LLC
01.2017 - 06.2019
Recruiting Intern
Object Net Technologies
06.2011 - 05.2012
Master of Business Administration - Human Resource
Manipal Academy of Higher Education