Hi, I’m
Akhila B
Technical Product Owner
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Strategic Product Visionary Technical Product Owner, with 15 years of experience driving product vision, strategy and execution across diverse industries demonstrating the ability to lead cross-functional teams prioritizing product backlogs and delivering high-scale cloud-native features that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
Overview
15
years of professional experience
5
Certificates
Work History
Equifax
Technical Product Owner
10.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: Successfully transitioned the Product Vision into executable work by aligning all product objectives and feature sets with the Product Value Roadmap set by leadership, ensuring 100% adherence to strategic goals.
- Speed to Market: Led the strategic vision and rapid delivery to launch a real-time claims eligibility engine, ensuring the first-mover advantage.
- Data Platform Modernization: Defined the strategy and roadmap to migrate legacy database systems to a Data Fabric architecture, enhancing data accessibility, and real-time processing capabilities for the enterprise.
- Cloud Infrastructure Leadership: Led the platform transition from third-party security systems to Google Secret Manager (GSM), and migrated container management from GCR to Google Artifact Registry (GAR) to strengthen cloud security and operational efficiency.
- Backend Optimization Strategy: Orchestrated the adoption of the Micronaut framework across microservices to optimize system performance, reduce memory usage, and accelerate deployment cycles.
- Stakeholder Management and Liaison: Served as the primary bridge between Engineering, QA, and Business teams, translating high-level business goals into technical requirements, and communicating complex technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Defined Actionable Requirements : Created and meticulously refined over 500 detailed user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria, focusing on clarity, feasibility, and maximizing business impact for engineering execution.
- Maximized feature delivery value: Owned and maintained a continuously prioritized product backlog across multiple sprints, managing dependencies and technical debt to ensure all delivered features provided maximum business impact.
- Visualized Understanding : Improved engineering alignment and reduced development risk by visualizing complex workflows and system interactions using flowcharts, diagrams, and specialized modeling tools.
- Measured and improved delivery: Tracked and reported on key technical KPIs, release readiness, and delivery timelines, providing crucial transparency to leadership, and driving continuous improvement in product outcomes through systematic stakeholder feedback.
- Led Agile Delivery: Facilitated all core Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Stand-ups, and Retrospectives), fostering a collaborative and predictable delivery environment across the cross-functional team.
Infosys
Technical Test Lead
11.2015 - 10.2021
Job overview
- Managed a high-performing team: Spearheaded and mentored a QA team of over 15 members, driving operational excellence and consistently ensuring that quality deliverables met stringent client expectations and business objectives.
- Owned End-to-End QA Lifecycle: Developed and owned the entire QA process, including test strategy formulation, comprehensive test planning, resource allocation, and final execution of test case preparation for multiple web applications.
- Drove stakeholder alignment: Collaborated directly with business, architecture, and development teams to translate high-level requirements into clear quality expectations, ensuring alignment across all project phases.
- Facilitated Agile Processes and Reporting: Facilitated key Scrum meetings (Sprint Review, Retrospectives) to optimize team velocity; prepared and delivered customized status reports and dashboards (weekly and monthly) to provide real-time performance insights to stakeholders.
- Managed Project Logistics: Held responsibility for test design and execution deliverables, project estimation, planning, and performed monthly reporting on project financials and billing.
- Architected Automation Framework: Led the implementation and maintenance of a robust, scalable web application automation framework, utilizing Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Maven, resulting in efficient and reliable regression testing.
- Mastered API and CI/CD: Expert in web services, REST API testing using Postman, and Cucumber (BDD). Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins to automate build verification, significantly accelerating the release cycle.
- AEM Platform Expertise: Ensured functionality and content integrity across critical Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) components (Sites, Assets, Forms) through focused manual and automated validation.
Infosys
Technology Analyst - Application Development And Maintenance
06.2014 - 11.2015
Job overview
- Drove full-stack feature delivery: Led the complete development lifecycle (UI design, functional coding, and unit testing) of high-value features utilizing the Spring framework based on stringent customer requirements.
- Implemented Critical Enhancements: Successfully developed and deployed several business-critical front-end enhancements using AngularJS and HTML, improving user functionality and experience.
- Ensured product quality: Expertise in root-cause analysis and timely bug fixing to resolve complex issues and ensure the delivery of a stable and high-quality product.
Tata Consultancy Services
System Engineer
12.2010 - 06.2014
Job overview
- Led Requirement Analysis and Development: Performed in-depth requirement analysis for critical applications for the BFS client, followed by the subsequent development of the application UI using the Java Spring framework.
- Feature delivery: Performed UI design, functional coding, and unit testing based on customer requirements, utilizing the Spring framework for robust backend functionality.
- Provided Advanced Technical Support: Served as a second- and third-level technical support resource, expertly performing root-cause analysis and troubleshooting to swiftly resolve complex, high-impact application issues, and ensure product quality.
- Ensured product quality: expertise in bug fixing to resolve complex issues, ensuring the delivery of a stable and high-quality product.
- Managed Client Communication: Worked closely with clients, coordinating and delivering internal training sessions to ensure smooth application adoption.
- Contributed to project reporting: Assisted project leads in synthesizing data and preparing status updates for daily, weekly, and monthly dashboard reporting, ensuring clear visibility of project health to stakeholders.
Education
Kerala UniversityTrivandrum
B.Tech from Information Technology
04.2010
Skills
Strategic Leadership: Product Roadmapping, Stakeholder Management, Competitive Analysis, Cross-functional Leadership
Cloud & Platform: GCP (Associate Cloud Engineer), API Strategy, Legacy-to-Cloud Modernization
Agile Governance: Scrum Master Certified, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, KPI Tracking
Stakeholder Communication: Possess strong communication and storytelling skills to convey complex technical ideas simply to diverse audiences
Cross-Domain Negotiation: Maintain comfort in negotiating priorities and navigating trade-offs across business and technical domains
Collaborative Alignment: Proactive in seeking feedback, resolving team blockers, and fostering cross-functional alignment
Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Lucidchart, Jenkins, Maven, Git
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
SAFe® POPM
03-2026
Technical Product Owner
Equifax
10.2021 - Current
Technical Test Lead
Infosys
11.2015 - 10.2021
Technology Analyst - Application Development And Maintenance
Infosys
06.2014 - 11.2015
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2010 - 06.2014
Kerala University
B.Tech from Information Technology