Abinash Lenka
Product Owner
Summary
Agile Product Owner with 8+ years of experience in requirement gathering, product roadmaps, prioritization, and user stories. Proficient in Scrum, SAFe and adept at facilitating scrum ceremonies. Aimed to ensure successful product deployments and improve product visibility through effective demonstrations and user-friendly documentation.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
09.2023 - Current
- Partnered with cross Release Train PO/PM to rapidly iterate new product features.
- Delivered 5 features by owning and prioritizing product backlog for a mining solution.
- Improved product KPIs & quality metrics by 18% by identifying process improvements.
- Contributed to UI/UX to ensure the customer's voice is ingrained at all stages of PDLC.
- Collaborated with the testing team to ensure complete test case coverage, scenarios validation, and end-to-end application testing using BDD framework.
Product Owner
TCS
04.2021 - 09.2023
- Owned and prioritized product backlog for web-based and mobile applications aimed at providing price optimization solutions.
- Conducted requirement-gathering sessions to understand functional and nonfunctional requirements and created workflows.
- Brainstormed with key stakeholders to determine product improvement for TCS Data Bureau- an AI price intelligence solution (AI Items Matching).
- Oversaw entire product implementation from vision and creation to roll out and delivery to 3 geographic customers in the Retail industry.
- Responsible for managing, planning, and owning scrum activities, sprint planning, product demonstrations, and workshops.
- Developed user training plans, created user-friendly training materials, conducted user training, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Performed secondary market research and formulated a new GTM strategy for product.
Assistant Systems Engineer
TCS
08.2017 - 08.2019
- Designed and developed scalable and maintainable Java applications, adhering to best coding practices and design patterns.
- Improved application functionality and user experience by implementing 5 new features and enhancing existing features.
- Consulted and provided technical support to various account teams on development and testing related issues across domain.
Education
MBA - Business Management
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar 06.2019 - 04.2021
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering And Technology, Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar 08.2013 - 05.2017
Skills
- Product Management
- Feature Prioritization
- Stakeholder Management
- Backlog Management
- BRD, FRD, Epic and User Stories
- Functional and Business Requirement
- Wireframe, Mockups, and Prototypes
- RTM, BDD, FMEA
Certification
Certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner / Product Manager
Affiliations
Achieved Tata Innovista award, an inter-company business competition for TATA subsidiaries.
Timeline
Certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner / Product Manager
06-2024
Product Owner
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
09.2023 - Current
Product Owner
TCS
04.2021 - 09.2023
MBA - Business Management
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
06.2019 - 04.2021
Assistant Systems Engineer
TCS
08.2017 - 08.2019
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering And Technology, Bhubaneswar
08.2013 - 05.2017
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