Andrey Stepanov
Portfolio
ROKO Labs
- BA team management: creating BA community in the company, organizing internal BA meetups, practises sharing. - Resource Management: responsible for my subordinates career development/addressing questions/mentoring; - BA onboarding and sharing practices across clients: creating commom approaches for distributed BA teams in order to start/maintain the BA activities for all clients. - Product Backlog management: Planning/Prioritization/Delivering.- Customer interviewing; - Requirements gathering/documentation/management. - Project reporting: Sprint report (Dev performance), Release Notes, Weekly status reports, etc. Projects/Specific: 1. Environmental sample management system for Nuclear facilities: - participating in setting up the requirements analysis phase on the Customer side (in business trip); Outcome: Requirements Specification/Scope Matrix/Role Matrix/Vision Document are created. 2. Claims management system:Joined the distributed agile team to improve the US Health/Injury Claims Settlement System.
ROKO Labs
Lead Business Analyst at 'Roko Labs' - participated in building digital solutions for 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 the hiring/onboarding processes). - Product Backlog Management: Planning/Prioritization/Delivering - Release Management. Achievements: 1. BA community creation - we are continuously extending the team (from 1 person 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 working with BAs. Projects/Specifics: 1. Participating in e-commerce solution development for US customer, who sells 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 order to gain users' activity; - the new video-streaming service was introduced in order to provide the best video/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 in the digital solutions/platforms development for many customers from varied business domains (Health Care, E-commerce, etc). This is where I grew as a professional Business Analyst, working with great mentors and fantastic colleagues!I was responsible for: requirements gathering/management, communicating with 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 biggest internet retailers. Tools: Oracle ATG, Jira/Confluence, InVision, Bizagi Modeler. 2. Building a non-commercial web product for the US hospitals (Health Care domain). 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.