Product Owner Resume

SUMMARY

Dynamic, motivated, h ighly skilled and formally trained Certified SAFe Product Owner with expertise in banking, brokerage and insurance applications, including elicitation, analysis, validation, and documentation of business, organizational and operational requirements utilizing SAFe (Scaled Agile), Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Heavy interaction with all levels of stakeholders, management, business users and developers.
Excellent in identifying key issues and gaps, in - depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with solid track record of analyzing and conducting system research.
Strong ability to identify the way existing solution can be improved, the need for new projects and the valuable benefits these projects provide to the company and clients.
Strong ability to lead meetings, follow-up, negotiate and resolve ambiguity, writing Business (BRD) and translating into Functional (FRD) requirements; and coordinating communications between clients, business users, and IT teams.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Managing and Prioritize Program/Team Backlogs
Heavily Participating in PI (Program Increment) pre-planning and planning processes.
Presenting the upcoming PI objectives/milestones, team capacity vs velocity and load, iteration workload
Creating Features (Epics), User stories, defining Acceptance Criteria, allocating technical debts and enablers
Participating in Team and System demos, Inspect and Adopt (I&A) sessions
Constantly working with PMs and RTE (Release Train Engineer) to understand the customer needs and assign the business values
Collaborated with development and QA teams to ensure seamless production implementation.

Confidential

Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

Engaged Business Users to gather front/back-end requirements and business rules during the inception phase.
Owned and Maintained Product Backlog
Coo rdinated and Facilitated Agile/Scrum Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Demo and Daily Stand Up.
Used JIRA to create and maintain EPICs, Defects, Enhancements and User Stories; reviewed them with the business stakeholders on a weekly basis.
Provided training and coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business solutions .

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Created Product Backlog Requirements (PBR), Sprint Backlog and managed User stories .
Participated in Sprint planning, testing, retrospectives and sprint reviews. Led daily stand-up meetings.
Created multiple User Guides and provided the end-user training.
Coordinated work with end users to generate solutions to business issues and implement those solutions .
Served as a Liaison between Operations, business and IT teams
Maintained a Product Backlog, tracked Open Items//questions progress and reported status to the Agile Deliver Leader (ADL) and project management.
Conducted meticulous GAP analysis.
Collaborated with development and QA teams to ensure seamless production implementation.

Confidential

Consulting Director

Responsibilities:

Facilitated requirements gathering workshops and individual interviews with subject matter experts (SMEs).
Created UML Use Case, activity, state transition and data flow diagrams using various modeling techniques.
Analyzed and translated Business Requirements into detailed Functional Specifications.
Maintained a Product Backlog, tracked Open Issues progress and reported status to the project team.
Created Test Scripts including specific test cases and expected results. Collaborated with QA team to ensure seamless translation of requirements documentation into test scenarios and scripts.