Sowmya Sri profile

Sowmya Sri Rathnakumar

Business Analyst — Support & Product | Requirements, Documentation, Process & Analytics

Strategic Business Analyst — bridging support & product

Business Analyst with deep frontline support experience and a product-focused mindset. I translate customer issues into validated requirements, run prioritisation workshops with stakeholders, and deliver audit-ready documentation that speeds delivery while reducing rework. Comfortable across the software lifecycle — from unit test verification to coordinating UAT and driving successful rollouts.

Requirements elicited — 100+
Process improvements — 30+
Documentation coverage — 95%

Core skills

Requirements Elicitation Stakeholder Workshops Prioritisation & Roadmaps BRDs / User Stories UAT & Unit Test Support Process Mapping Power BI / Analytics API Testing (Postman) Compliance & Audit Docs

Primary responsibilities (What I Do)

  • Lead requirements workshops with customers and internal stakeholders; document needs as BRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Run prioritisation meetings to shape product backlog and sprint priorities.
  • Define and review test cases; support unit testing and co-ordinate/validate UAT with business users.
  • Create audit-ready documentation (SOPs, runbooks, compliance checklists) and maintain a living knowledge base.
  • Translate support tickets into reproducible product issues and measurable backlog items; reduce developer churn through clear reproduction steps and impact analysis.
  • Design dashboards and analytics to measure adoption, defect trends and process KPIs.

Accomplishments & Impact

  • Converted high-volume support patterns into product features, reducing developer dependency by 90%.
  • Built BRDs and acceptance criteria for 20+ features; average delivery velocity improved by 18% after process changes.
  • Designed onboarding & diagnostic playbooks used by support and product teams, improving first-contact resolution metrics.
  • Led cross-functional UAT for multi-release rollouts; ensured zero showstopping defects in production launches.

Professional Experience

Digitide Solutions — Business Analyst & Technical Support Executive

2022 – Present
  • Progressed from Technical Support to Business Analyst role based on strong requirement analysis, documentation excellence and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Owned intake for customer issues, created BRDs and user stories and prioritised items with product owners and customers.
  • Reduced developer-side escalations by enabling targeted backend access and creating clear reproduction steps.
  • Authored SOPs, audit documentation (CMMI/ISO) and release notes; participated in unit test verification and UAT.

Klaus IT (Citrix R&D) — Technical Support Executive

2021 – 2022
  • Supported enterprise Citrix Cloud accounts; performed root-cause analysis and coordinated bug reports with engineering.

Amazon Development Center — Customer Service Associate

2020 – 2021
  • Managed multi-channel support; focused on customer experience and SLA adherence while documenting known issues and fixes.

SASTRA University — Junior Research Fellow

2017 – 2019
  • Research and documentation for DST-SERB biosensor project; mentored junior staff.

C-Cubed Solutions — Technical Support Representative

2013 – 2014
  • Microsoft L3 chat support; produced internal knowledge articles and training materials.