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Abhishek Lokannavar

Pune

Summary

  • A competent professional with close to 14 Year of relevant experience in product management, Scrum Management, Backlog Management & People Management as well.
  • Diligent Product Owner with solid background in product development and stakeholder management. Successfully led cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact products aligned with business goals. Demonstrated expertise in agile methodologies and effective communication with diverse teams.
  • Equipped with strong problem-solving abilities, willingness to learn, and excellent product skills. Poised to contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Ready to tackle new challenges and advance organizational objectives with dedication and enthusiasm.
  • Versatile across different domains with the likes of Wealth Management, Capital Markets, Core Banking, Lending, Cards, Payments and non-financial domains like Data Analytics, Health Care and Telecom. Capital markets exposure in Equity Derivatives, Corporate Actions, Account Maintenance, Reports, Regulatory process.
  • Possesses excellent inter-personal and communication skills and a good team player.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Owner/Product Manager

Persistent Systems Limited
02.2023 - Current
  • Working with a customer where we transform Data into knowledge – Providing solutions around Anti-Money Laundering, Border Security, Threat Intelligence etc.
  • Following Scaled Agile principles with quarterly PI Planning sessions, acted as the bridge between business and technical teams, resolving cross-dependencies and ensuring smooth feature rollouts.
  • Continuous delivery – catering to customer needs helped us grow our team from a small team to more than 30 new hires in just six months.
  • Our dedication towards customer satisfaction helped our customer reach a revenue growth of more than 90% in just a year.
  • Also worked and delivered SME projects providing solutions around digital payments bank in SEA region.
  • Delivered Cards functionality specifically dealing into disputes management.
  • Also engaged with Indian financial giants like Bajaj Finserv, dealing with credit cards and provided solutions around it.

Sr. Business Analyst II

FIS Global
03.2021 - 11.2022
  • Active participation in PI Planning, backlog management, stakeholder collaboration, incremental delivery including continuous feedback from stakeholders.
  • Applied SAFe principles such as Customer Centricity, Lean Thinking, and Agile Product Delivery to enhance team efficiency and product quality.
  • Requirements analysis for a SaaS product dealing with Wealth Management dealing majorly into CorporateActions/Equity Derivatives/Account maintenance/Reporting/Ledger/Multi-Currency Trading/Swift used by more than 50+ financial giants from North America

Sr. Business Analyst

Collabera Technologies
06.2019 - 07.2020
  • Product owner for healthcare application while also taking care of scrum related activities
  • Connecting with customer on a regular basis for getting new requirements and refining backlog.
  • Creating user stories for the team, providing acceptance criteria and functional flows.
  • Mentoring team to follow scaled agile principles.

Sr. Software Analyst

Oracle Financials
01.2017 - 06.2019
  • Capturing requirements and cascading the same to the team for capital market product (Equity Derivatives/Trader Desk tool/Listed Derivatives) dealing with regulatory and compliance changes for major financial institutions.
  • Also had the opportunity to work in payments domain specifically into SEPA transactions and different messages associated with it.
  • Briefly worked on cross border payments as well.

Sr. Software Analyst

Tech Mahindra
08.2016 - 12.2016
  • Test lead dealing with online/offline process dealing with delivery to assembly of telecom products in US Sector.
  • Managing engineers working on both manual and automation testing.

Sr. Software Analyst

Capgemini India Private Limited
03.2011 - 05.2016
  • Started my journey with Capgemini & was trained for Software Testing.
  • Completed manual testing projects for core banking domain (interfaces like Retail and Corporate Banking along with Transactions, advices, Swift messages, lending etc), capital markets domain(Equities) and cards domain(Payment Gateway).

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

01.2010

Skills

  • Roadmap development
  • Product backlog management
  • Business analysis
  • Release planning
  • Product Manager
  • Business Analyst

  • Certified Product Owner
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • SQL
  • Versatile Domain Knowledge
  • SAFe Agile Certified
  • Certified Generative AI PO PM

Certification

  • Certified Product Owner (CSPO) by Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance
  • NCFM Finance Markets
  • NCFM Banking Module
  • NCFM Currency Derivatives
  • NCFM Mutual Funds
  • NCFM Interest Rate Derivatives
  • SAFe Certified
  • BBST/ISTQB Certified

Languages I speak

English
Hindi
Learning Assamese

Hobbies

  • Exploring different genres of music
  • Watching football over the weekend

Timeline

Product Owner/Product Manager

Persistent Systems Limited
02.2023 - Current

Sr. Business Analyst II

FIS Global
03.2021 - 11.2022

Sr. Business Analyst

Collabera Technologies
06.2019 - 07.2020

Sr. Software Analyst

Oracle Financials
01.2017 - 06.2019

Sr. Software Analyst

Tech Mahindra
08.2016 - 12.2016

Sr. Software Analyst

Capgemini India Private Limited
03.2011 - 05.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Abhishek Lokannavar