SUMMARY:

• 14 years of industry experience in leading the design, development, building a sustainable product and managing projects/programs in Enterprise Information Technology domain.
• 7+ years of experience in building products using agile methodology and proven track record in Product backlog management, Team management, Release Management, Delivery Management, Process Management, Systems design and implementation.
• Expertise in taking real customer requirements and developing the products those are valuable, innovative and successful.
• Collaborative and decisive with strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Skilled at analyzing the market trends and deciphering the future changes. Highly creative and skilled at experimenting with innovative ideas.
• Ability to build the products more successfully with consistent track record of demonstration of product success, reducing operating costs with more efficiency and productivity. Area of expertise
• Market research Planning and Execution Customer Orientation User experience improvements Quality leadership New Product launch Backlog management Building products using Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Product Manager (Product Owner/Product Manager)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Strategized the Agile Transformation initiative & Implemented the Confidential methodology with processes defined.
• Developed Operational dashboard with several built - in compliance reports and schedules.
• Created an Onshore/Offshore service delivery model with reduced operational costs.
• Worked with EM teams in defining new requirements and estimations for funding.
• Responded to RFP questions and supported business team with jobs schedule prioritizations across the health plans.
• Managed an incremental product backlog in the tool ‘CA Agile Central’ (Rally) and led weekly backlog management calls/DSUs.
• Consistently provided an issue trend analysis with business leadership and scrum teams.

Sr. Product Manager (Product Owner/Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Published the best practices documents and enabled the sales webcasts on quarterly basis which were demonstrated in Technology Customer Summits.
• Led the ongoing competitive analysis, win/loss analysis to understand the strengths and weaknesses.
• Managed an incremental product backlog with definitive acceptance criteria and led customer communities in determining & prioritizing the desired features.
• Supported the marketing team to deliver the key messages and values addressing the customer needs during the new product development
• Led an effective Customer Validation program with regular customer interactions
• Responded to RFI/RFP questions and successfully won deals

Senior Team Lead, Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with multiple scrum teams in estimating the requirements for delivery. Prepared a project plan with the inclusion of budget and resources required and submitted for approval.
• Published multiple releases of the project with varied timelines and presented to the Engineering team, Product Management and Business leadership.
• Managed multiple scrum teams and delivered software design documents, Test design documents, release plan corresponding to each release.
• Facilitated ongoing project reviews with business management and owned the project delivery.
• Conducted audits, performed reviews during the development process and escalated the risk factors on time.
• Handled Scrum-of-Scrum meetings as part of project review.
• Worked with Deployment and Support teams to understand and educate the deployment process.

Team Lead

Confidential

Skill set - C#.Net, WatiN, SQL, Oracle

Tools: - JIRA, QC, ALM, IBM RTC and Silk Performer

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 12 members and responsible for delivery of the product
• Proxy product owner and collaborated with 4 additional scrum teams to deliver the product
• Contributed to different roles such as Scrum Master, Project lead and Automation lead
• Performed the requirement analysis, bug triage, sprint planning, and sprint retrospective
• Scheduled the releases, project plans and release of deliverables
• Was an Agile champion and improved the processes by collaborating with different teams
• Created the test plans, test design documents and effort estimations
• Contributed to functional testing, regression testing, performance testing and system testing
• Managed the product life cycle and mentored the scrum team members in test automation
• Analyzed the customer support tickets and educated the team about the real time issues

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and automation testing including the preparation of design, test plan, test design documents for an enterprise application in asset management domain.
• Automated the test cases using C#.Net and responsible for execution and delivery.
• Followed the Agile methodologies and played the role of scrum team member.
• Owned different types of testing Functional testing, performance testing and Integration testing for IT Asset Manager Enterprise web application.

Sr. Project Engineer

Confidential

Skill set - C#.Net, SQL, Windows XP/2003/2008/VISTA

Tools: - QC, QTP, Microsoft Product studio

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the client requirements & systems design
• Created the test plans, test design documents and effort estimations
• Contributed to functional testing, regression testing, performance testing and system testing
• Debugging using windows and kernel debugger
• Scheduling the nightly automation runs and publishing the test results
• Code coverage testing and participated in regular bug triage at client site