Anup Gupta
Agile Product Owner/Lead
Pune
Summary
Experienced product management professional with over 12.3 year of experience in IT industry. Well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies and principles of product development. Comfortable making key decisions for team to move products efficiently through pre-production and production timelines. Expertise in overall testing process life cycle of software product Including UAT testing.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Agile Product Owner, Client- American Express
Employer-Tata Consultancy Service
Pune
08.2021 - Current
- Leading Product execution for 2 scrum teams.
- Engage with business partner to evaluate product opportunities.
- Work with business stakeholders to create product backlogs.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Work with scrum team on daily basis to set clear direction, articulate business requirements and remove impediments.
- Facilitate and present scope, roadmap, risks and dependency during PI planning session.
- Creating Feature and User stories in JIRA and making sure stories have good acceptance criteria, Description, business values and story points etc.
- Facilitate discussion & team ceremonies including daily scrum, product backlog refinement, sprint planning and sprint retrospective.
- Participating in scrum meetings and guiding team members on prioritization of work
- Facilitate meeting with Quality Assurance team to validate validation results before code goes to production.
- Performing UAT validation whenever required
Agile Product Owner, Client- American Express
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
Brighton, UK
06.2018 - 07.2021
Senior Automation Engineer, Client-AEGON Life
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
The Hugue, NL
01.2017 - 05.2018
- Analyze client requirement
- Build Proof of concept using automation tool TOSCA
- Created test script base on client requirements
- Execution of test script and reporting
- Participated Agile meetings including Scrum meeting, Refinement and PI planning
Onsite Coordinator, Client- Humana HealthCare
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
Louisville Ky
04.2015 - 10.2016
- Worked as onsite coordinator for quality assurance team
- Lead & assisted team of 5 people
- Participate business requirement discussion with different stockholders
- Prepared ETL mapping document, Test cases and execution of test cases using TOAD tool
- Daily and weekly test report
- Test results review and walkthrough
Quality Assurance Tester, Client-American Express
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
Pune
03.2010 - 03.2015
- Analyze project requirements.
- Involved working in agile environment and participated in Scrum and Sprint meetings.
- Creations of test scenarios ,test cases, test plan and test approach
- Performed Automation,Manual, API and Database testing according to software requirement.
- Manually tested web application and performed sanity, exploratory, functional and regression testing to ensure quality of product.
- Performed integration testing with different end to end teams to make sure software integration work as expected
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities, reported findings and recommended improvements.
- Demo to end users before implementation.
- Completed pre-implementation testing for new system modifications to assess potential impacts.
- Generated summary or detailed reports for daily, weekly, or monthly date ranges.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Computer Science
RGPV University
Indore 07.2005 - 06.2009
MBA - Information Technology
Symbiosis Center For Distance Learning
Pune 04.2011 - 07.2013
Skills
Product Owner, Business Analyst
Funtional, API and Database Testing
Agile/Scrum Methodology
CICD Tool, Jenkin, DevOps
SQL Developer, TOSCA Automation, Selenium Cucumber
Domain- Card & Payment
JIRA, Quality Center
Postman, Soap UI
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Timeline
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
01-2022
Agile Product Owner, Client- American Express
Employer-Tata Consultancy Service
08.2021 - Current
- SAFe®- Agilr
08-2021
Agile Product Owner, Client- American Express
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
06.2018 - 07.2021
- TOSCA Leve I & II
06-2017
Senior Automation Engineer, Client-AEGON Life
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
01.2017 - 05.2018
Onsite Coordinator, Client- Humana HealthCare
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
04.2015 - 10.2016
MBA - Information Technology
Symbiosis Center For Distance Learning
04.2011 - 07.2013
Quality Assurance Tester, Client-American Express
Employer-Syntel Private Limited
03.2010 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Computer Science
RGPV University
07.2005 - 06.2009