RAVI SHANKAR

Product Manager

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India6 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led multiple 0→1 product initiatives with measurable impact.
Strong bias towards UX and product design.
Developed diverse ground-up product solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in B2C platforms and user-centric design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyProduct Management

Other Skills

End User ResearchProduct Road MappingMetrics Definition

About

I found my way into product management the hard way, starting with an uninteresting construction job and a few tough but conscious pivots that eventually got me up the aisle. I’m currently part of an ambitious team working to bring some order to India’s highly fragmented home-building ecosystem. We’re building a phygital B2C platform for tier-2 and tier-3 cities, and I’ve spent a good year each on both the partner and customer sides, giving me enough time to develop a healthy respect for trade-offs and second-order effects. I’m a Product Manager with a strong bias toward UX and product design, with a deep respect for clean engineering execution. The design bias comes from a lifelong interest in art and aesthetics, while the engineering affinity comes from a few years of tinkering with software, along with an engineering undergrad around some very fine minds. Over time, I’ve designed a fairly eclectic mix of ground-up product solutions. These range from an end-to-end multi-platform payment solution to a community platform for home-building discussions, business listing, and partner SaaS tools. Outside of work, I’m a fitness and sports enthusiast, a percussionist, and a sucker for a good cup of chai.

Experience

6 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Ultratech cement

Senior Lead - Product Management | Utec, By Ultratech

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, India · On-site

Product Manager for Utec, UltraTech's B2C marketplace platform enabling end-to-end home-building services across Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities in India. Owned customer-side and partner-side products for one year each, driving multiple 0→1 initiatives with measurable business impact in a highly fragmented, offline-heavy market.
● Built, piloted, and launched a multi-platform payments solution from scratch, enabling 81% of total platform business value and delivering measurable revenue impact
● Owned product vision and execution of a multi-sided community platform to facilitate home-building discussions, driving sustained customer engagement and retention
● Designed and launched a monetizable business listings module by translating deep user research (50+ customers, 30+ service providers) into domain-specific provider profiles, evaluation criteria, and discovery flows
● Collaborated closely with Engineering, Design, Category, Operations, Legal, Finance and on-ground sales teams to build scalable products for non-tech-savvy users in emerging markets

Product StrategyEnd User ResearchProduct Management

Cloudcraftz

Product Manager

Apr 2023 – Jun 2023 · 2 mos · Kolkata · On-site

● Evaluated product-market fit for 2 AI/ML products: an Explainable AI tool and a Machine Learning based Investment Optimization Tool through extensive Primary Research, and generated 15+ GTM insights.
● Developed a marketing analytics dashboard tracking 30+ metrics–across user engagement, demographic profile & platform comparison

Infosys

3 roles

Test Analyst (Software Development Engineer in Test)

Sep 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mysore, Karnataka, India

Being part of the core automation team in our Unit Information Systems, I was primarily involved in the development and enhancement of test automation framework for web and mobile applications, researching and identifying the process improvements, conducting its feasibility analysis and proof of concept, and enabling various functional testing teams in our Unit in adopting the same. I was the point of contact for any automation related challenges faced by the functional testing teams and, pertaining to DevOps integration of scripts.
● Involved in the development and implementation of test automation framework for web applications (UI) using Selenium WebDriver with Java, using Page Object Model design pattern and, TestNG for unit testing.
● Created common functions for browser interactions used in UI testing of applications.
● Worked with APIs such as Apache POI, Log4j, Extent Reports etc.
● Exposure to CI/CD with Jenkins and Infosys DevSecOps Platform, GitHub for source code management and GIT for version control.
● Troubleshooted issues by analyzing the logs generated.
● Collaborated with Senior Architect and other major stakeholders to resolve critical bottlenecks impeding multiple functional testing teams horizontally.
● Created a bug repository along with its sanity checks and troubleshooting steps. This reference document helped the FT teams augment its performance on automation front by enabling faster resolution of the common issues.
Tool and technologies exposure:
Web Automation - Selenium WebDriver with Java, Sahi Pro with JavaScript, Assist Edge (Robotic Process Automation)
Mobile Automation – Appium
API Testing - Postman
Unit Test Frameworks - Junit, TestNG
IDE – Eclipse, IntelliJ, PyCharm
Design Pattern – Page Object Model, Hybrid testing framework
Programming Languages – Python, Java, JavaScript
DevOps – Jenkins, Infosys DevSecOps Platform
Project Management – Microsoft TFS, HP ALM
Source code Management – GitHub, GIT
Database – SQL Server

Senior Systems Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mysore, Karnataka, India

Asset Management System
● Collaborated with senior auditors, inventory management team, and other stakeholders in devising scenarios to be tested from an audit standpoint for regulatory compliance and, curated an effective test plan for critical workflows that need to be monitored regularly.
● Analyzed automation scope and cross application integration testing feasibility, for the test cases created for the workflows identified.
● Automated the testcases within the scope, using Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
● Estimated the effort in migrating the existing automation scripts in Sahi Pro to RPA and was closely involved in formulating the timelines for the same with my Test Lead.
● Led a team of six in this initiative.
● Took the initiative and created an algorithm for increasing testcase execution log coverage in RPA and got widely appreciated by the senior management, for increasing the coverage by 40.1 % and thereby implementing the algorithm across 22 applications.
● Drove an initiative to conduct knowledge sessions across functional testing teams for new joiners on automation best practices and associated topics, which was attended by 80+ employees.
InfyMe app
An Employee Experience mobile and web application developed with a cardinal emphasis on seamless User Experience (UX), by unifying over 150+ service applications and bringing it under a single platform to make all key transactions available on-the-go.
● Owned end to end testing of two modules and was the primary SPOC for those.
● Identified Test scenarios and created corresponding test cases for both web and mobile applications.
● Analyzed automation scope of the testcases for web, and automated using Selenium with a coverage of 80 percent.
● Reviewed testcases written by new resources onboarded.

Systems Engineer

Apr 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mysore, Karnataka, India

● Reviewed business requirements and created test scenarios accordingly.
● Created test cases and performed manual testing of application functionalities.
● Automated the test cases assigned, using Sahi Pro.
● Used HP ALM for test planning, execution, and defect tracking.