Aug 2021 – May 2022 · 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Product Vision and Strategy Alignment:
• Understand and internalize the product vision and detailed requirements as communicated by the Head of Product and CTO.
• Increase the business value, and collaborate with the product owner to create the product backlog by using Agile practices.
• Develop business cases by working closely with product managers to develop business cases.
• Documentation and Requirements Specification:
• Document product and feature requirements for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Manage and maintain detailed project information, including feature definition and scope. Create and maintain project timelines, defining clear milestones and deliverables.
• Develop comprehensive execution plans for features and projects, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap.
• Provide user stories to multi-disciplinary teams and define the business-driven acceptance criteria.
• Support Agile practices and encourage the improvement of service.
• Facilitate various Agile processes such as Iteration / Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective, Sprint Review, Daily Stand-up.
• Project Management and Execution:
• Oversee the development of multiple product features, ensuring they are well-planned, executed efficiently, and delivered with high quality and predictability.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to estimate task efforts and resources required, developing actionable short-term roadmaps.
• Assist in resource allocation, delegation, and task assignments with Lead Engineers.
• Manage dependencies effectively, identifying potential bottlenecks and facilitating their resolution.
• Apply project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum) effectively to streamline product development processes.
• Track project progress across multiple workstreams, maintaining productivity metrics and status reports.
• Feedback Analysis:
• Systematically gather, organize, and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams.

Sep 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Responsible for communicating with stakeholders across the board, including customers, business managers, and the development team to make sure the goals are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives.
• Help the team maintain that vision by creating a product roadmap.
• Creating and managing the list of product backlog items and prioritizing them based on the overall strategy and business objectives.
• Works with stakeholders to identify and organize the steps required for the next iteration. And work with the team to refine the process, identify areas for improvement, and support the sprint.
• For assigned product initiatives, collaborates with Account Management, Customer Care, Delivery SMEs, Delivery Project Management, Development, and Development Program Management.
• Facilitates product concept and requirements workshops with clients and internal development teams in pursuit of product requirements, objectives, and architecture decisions.
• Collaborates with product delivery and technology team to validate detailed design, particularly to ensure that product objectives and key requirements are met and aligned with the market needs and business unit strategy.
• Work with the Solutions team on product development to product launch, ensuring execution is in line with the project plan for complex product initiatives.
• Create and manage product roadmap and its execution via quarterly releases.
• Make priority decisions having broad knowledge of the Crew business and thorough knowledge of what the product can do.
• Advanced ability to plan strategically for current and future business environments, including future technology and business design changes to create flexible solutions.
• Develop Business Requirements, Change Requests, Acceptance Criteria, and Business Test cases.
• Provides expert-level functional assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost-effective and meet user requirements.

Jan 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Preparing functional and technical requirements for the development team to explain customer needs through epics, features, and user stories.
• Gathering Business requirements, performing Requirement Analysis, preparing Functional Level Design (FDD) document to be used by developer for their coding.
• Work with Product owner and stakeholders to clarify the requirements/Epic and providing them Demo if required.
• Leading learning sessions and preparing flow diagrams of the Product vision/goal.
• Providing business knowledge and support for resolving technology issues and helping primary and secondary developer for project requirement understanding.
• Providing and reviewing USE and FAT cases to system testing team.
• Translating and simplifying requirements for the development team
• Work closely with the Product Owners, Technical Leads and Scrum
• Masters for effective product backlog refinement, sprint planning, and
• Sprint/PSI release planning.
• Govern change control process to manage requirement changes to base lined deliverables and scope for projects.
• Interact with business stockholders and subject matter experts to understand end customer needs better.
• Prioritize requirements and preparing business mock-ups for client to secure User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sign-off.
• Responsible for evaluating multiple options before helping a team settles on a solution.
• Worked with third party vendors to get alignment of project related changes and get it implemented as per client needs.
• Provide time to time information about the sprint goal or product goal to have better alignment of Technical team with Product owner vision.
• Work with Scrum Master for preparing data based on Burn-Down and Velocity charts of any sprint.

Mar 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Gathering Business requirements, performing Requirement Analysis, preparing Functional Level Design (FDD) document to be used by developer for their coding.
• Preparing map tool used by primary and secondary developer for project requirement understanding.
• Providing and reviewing USE and FAT cases to system testing team.
• Translating and simplifying requirements for the development team
• Interact with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand end customer needs better.
• Prioritize requirements and preparing business mock-ups for client to secure User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sign-off.
• Responsible for evaluating multiple options before helping a team settle on a solution.
• Worked with third party vendors to get alignment of project related changes and get it implemented as per client needs.
• Worked with project developers to provide them development solutions.

Nov 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Build hierarchical data sets, front-end screens using transactions, TenFold language functions to implement server-side functionality
• Build Java classes and interfaces using Google Web Toolkit to implement client-side functionality
• Write complex Oracle SQL queries to fetch the desired data and fine-tune long-running queries for database performance optimization
• Build UNIX shell scripts to perform file transfer across different application servers (UNIX to/from Mainframe)
• Identify table structure, define attributes/keys/integrity constraints/access levels and authorizations
• Monitor data volume and adjust table space allocations accordingly
• Prepare high-level Process Flow Diagram of the business workflow and corresponding Technical Design Document depicting low-level implementation details
• Maintain channel between the development team and business stakeholders to understand customer needs better and get their alignment on proposed solutions
• Advise customers on system architecture, key processes and best practices by involving the relevant groups within Syntel
• Identify and prioritize tasks to be performed in individual sprints
• Create tasks in the Agile tool and prepare different charts and reports to track the status and progress of the tasks