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Anush Arakelyan

Summary

Dynamic Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner with a proven track record at Epam Systems Armenia, adept in Agile and Scrum methodologies and exceptional at stakeholder relationship management. Excelled in driving product innovations and optimizing processes, leveraging skills in data analysis and SQL. Demonstrated success in enhancing team productivity and project efficiency through effective requirement gathering and prioritization.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner

Epam Systems Armenia
06.2022 - Current
  • Gather and manage requirements.
  • Discuss the technical requirements with the technical team, and prepare NFR documents.
  • Facilitate all Scrum processes and feasibility sessions.
  • Follow and manage pre-review acceptance for each story.
  • Drive discoveries with leads and SA.
  • Prepare and present weekly reports for high management.
  • Conduct user adoption.
  • Create guides and how-to's, and conduct workshops.
  • Run requirements from kick-off to roll-out.
  • Manage multiple stakeholders.
  • Participate in UAT.
  • Rollout/rollback planning and support.
  • Propose improvements to the Scrum processes.
  • Prepare mockups and diagrams for technical stories.
  • Analyze data from different databases.
  • Discuss API implementation with the technical team, and suggest possible solutions.

Product Manager Intern

ServiceTitan Armenia
12.2021 - 06.2022

In Coordination with Product Manager:

  • Conduct customer research, and analyze the gathered data.
  • Translate complex requirements into effective user stories.
  • Determine improvements to product features.
  • Coordinate findings with the product team and align them with business goals.
  • Crafted detailed project status updates for stakeholders.
  • Participate in all areas of the product life cycle.
  • Work cross-functionally with designers, engineers, product marketing, and support teams to perform UX research, design exploration, usability testing, build an MVP, and launch.
  • Demo new features, and organize internal and external feedback.
  • Participate in defining business KPIs and customer outcomes to measure success.
  • Be comfortable communicating results to larger groups.

Business Analyst/Technical Writer

SmartClick
02.2021 - 01.2022
  • Meet with core team members to research, write, gather product information and translate it into accessible, user-friendly documentation
  • Develop detailed product stories/requirements in an agile environment
  • Collaborate closely with the Core Team to create a clear vision of what needs to be built
  • Create Business Requirement Documentation (BRD), Market Requirement Documentation (MRDs) and Functional Requirement Documentation (FRD)
  • Create and execute detailed roadmap and related planning
  • Write and refine user stories with the engineering team for inclusion in Agile Sprints
  • Assist in the writing of online technical articles and white papers
  • Create and maintain documentation library
  • Write easy-to-understand user interface text, online help documents and API documents/developer guides
  • Collaborate with product management, engineering, and user experience to develop required content

Senior Technical Writer

ServiceTitan Armenia
01.2020 - 01.2022
  • Manage specific projects in the Technical Documentation team
  • Onboard, mentor, and manage team members
  • Assign tasks to team members and assure the quality
  • Work with the Documentation team to improve content to customer experience through new feature release and improvements
  • Organize teamwork for technical documents
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts to provide user friendly contents
  • Communicate with managers to improve the quality of technical documents provided

Product Owner/Technical Writer

Dexatel Communications
10.2021 - 12.2021
  • Analyze and create business, functional, and technical requirements utilizing an Agile methodology
  • Create Use Case documents and Use Case Diagrams
  • Collaborate with different teams on a product implementation ideas
  • Create written content and update user manuals, user guides, product updates, process documentation, API documents

Technical Writer

ServiceTitan Armenia
08.2020 - 01.2021
  • Develop effective documentation that promotes self-service and efficiency for internal agents and customers
  • Update existing documentation to ensure optimization of content architecture and accuracy of content
  • Present author easy-to-understand, customer-facing guides and help articles, including work with product managers and product teams to get an in-depth understanding of the product and documentation requirements
  • Making presentation or training sessions for newcomers as SME

Product Owner/Business Analyst

TaskRabbit
01.2018 - 01.2021
  • Product/Product feature planning and monitoring
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Identify and communicate with stakeholders
  • Initiate a product discovery phase
  • Determine ways and methods of communicating with users, stakeholders
  • Requirements' elicitation techniques identification
  • Conduct elicitation and analyze data
  • Analyze, verify, and validate requirements with the stakeholders and/or subject matter expert/s
  • Create Business requirements and/or specifications documents
  • Create functional/non-functional requirement specification documents
  • Being responsible for creating and delivering User Stories/Use Cases, Acceptance Criteria
  • Communicate with developers
  • Supply UX decisions
  • Translate and simplify requirements
  • Meetings with Stakeholders
  • Create Product Backlog, epics, user stories and use cases with Jira
  • Create Use Case diagrams
  • Wireframe/mockup/prototype creation, updates, discussion with UX/UI teams

Technical Writer

SoftConstruct
06.2020 - 08.2020
  • Create written content for user manuals, user guides, product updates, process documentation, API documents
  • Supply documentation for all projects in a timely and efficient manner
  • Contribute to documentation and process improvement
  • Work with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of software and the documentation requirements
  • Participate in various documentation projects undertaken by the team

Technical Writer and Translator

Synergy International Systems Inc.
01.2013 - 05.2020
  • Create written content for user manuals, catalogues, product updates, process documentation, training packages and safety data
  • Supply documentation for all projects in a timely and efficient manner
  • Prepare manuals for video tutorials
  • Contribute to documentation and process improvement
  • Prepare translations for different projects
  • Conduct different surveys organized by the government or private companies
  • Provide suggestions on the questionnaires in the surveys
  • Participate in meetings regarding the effectiveness of the survey conducted
  • Collecting the results of surveys conducted

Education

MA - Political Science and International Affairs

American University of Armenia
01.2013

BA - International Relations

Yerevan State University
01.2011

Skills

Product Management, Business Analysis, & Technical Skills Tools and platforms

  • Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Requirements gathering and prioritization
  • Process Development and Optimization
  • Forecasting and Planning
  • Business Intelligence & Data Analysis
  • Data Modeling and SQL (SQL Management Studio, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
  • GraphQL and REST API Design
  • AWS (EC2, S3 Buckets) and Azure DevOps
  • HTML, CSS, and Basic Frontend Knowledge
  • Wireframing and Prototyping (Figma, Balsamiq, Miro, Lucidchart, Drawio)
  • Jira and Confluence
  • Salesforce, Contentful, and QuickBooks
  • Google Suite and Microsoft Excel
  • Snagit and RoboHelp
  • Stakeholder interviews and workshops
  • Business Process Documentation
  • Presentation, negotiation, and relationship management

Languages

  • Armenian, native
  • Russian, B2
  • English, C1

Professional Development

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 Certification, Scrum.org, 01/01/21
  • BA Lab intensive program for becoming Business Analyst, EPAM Yerevan, 01/01/21
  • Product Management Practical Training, Skillrocks Yerevan, 01/01/21
  • Project Management Training, 01/01/22

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner

Epam Systems Armenia
06.2022 - Current

Product Manager Intern

ServiceTitan Armenia
12.2021 - 06.2022

Product Owner/Technical Writer

Dexatel Communications
10.2021 - 12.2021

Business Analyst/Technical Writer

SmartClick
02.2021 - 01.2022

Technical Writer

ServiceTitan Armenia
08.2020 - 01.2021

Technical Writer

SoftConstruct
06.2020 - 08.2020

Senior Technical Writer

ServiceTitan Armenia
01.2020 - 01.2022

Product Owner/Business Analyst

TaskRabbit
01.2018 - 01.2021

Technical Writer and Translator

Synergy International Systems Inc.
01.2013 - 05.2020

MA - Political Science and International Affairs

American University of Armenia

BA - International Relations

Yerevan State University
Anush Arakelyan