akanksha arora

· Collaborating and building strong links to understand business/client needs and translate into products & features

· Creating and controlling the user story backlog, prioritization, and refinement (epics, user stories and requirements)

· Facilitating and supporting all scrum events including sprint planning, sprint refinement, daily standups, retrospectives and reviews

· Work with architects and technical leads to determine the implications of the business changes

· Defining user stories, requirement specific documents acceptance criteria using tools like JIRA, Confluence,Draw.io & Balsamic ensuring definition of ready (DOR) is met

· Involved in conducting requirement gathering sessions, feasibility studies, risk, impact analysis, interviewing the subject matter experts and organizing software requirements in a structured way

· Managing product backlog, developing and obtaining sign off from product leads and managers

· Coordinating with QA team for bug validation, cross checking test plans, performing UAT with customer& post go live support

· Organizing ideation workshops and thinking breakthrough sessions for continuous innovation

- 10/2021

• Designed the solution to implement data deletion, anonymization and locking for international automotive financial service provider.

• Collaborated with market specific business teams to design and understand business rules for implementing GDPR/ Local market specific laws for 4 European markets: Spain, Italy, France and Portugal

• Conducted workshops with 150+ stakeholders across 15 departments like Risk, Compliance, IT, Business operations, BI experts and start up management to collate requirements and create BRD and FRD documents.

• Defined& prioritized requirements with the help of SAGAs,epics and user stories creation and refinement

• Created structured frameworks like business, IT toolkits, deletion frameworks, business and IT questionnaires to deep dive into processes and steer them in an effective manner

• Proactively understanding and defining performance benchmarks to ensure the smoothness of business activities post go live

• Managing smooth implementation & testing of the IT-systems in internal testing environment and extending post go-live, application maintenance & support to the client

• Responding to RFPs from functional standpoint and preparing proposal presentations for bid defence

• Designed powerful Web applications targeted at Fund Accountants & Treasury
• Driving the project from ideation to design, implementation, Testing & Prod go live
• Creating Business, Functional, System & UI/UX requirement documents including user workflows, wireframes and UI mock-ups, conducting signoffs session as well
• Conducting product demos/UAT for the sales and client development teams and preparing user manuals
• Defining epic & user stories in JIRA and creation of user manuals on confluence
• Conducting user story prioritization and sign off meetings with the client
• Creating user adoption statistics on Tableau after every functionality roll out.