ARAVINDA KUMAR K S

Compliance Screening & Validation System

• Engaged with business stakeholders to gather requirements to enhance application usability
• Delivered key features in simplifying rule creation, introduction of categories under policies
• Created and groomed user stories & features, supporting backlog refinement and sprint planning.
• Collaborated with UI/UX to design mockups for requirement walkthroughs.
• Drove feature prioritization & release planning in alignment with business needs.
• Prepared release notes, tracked production status, and conducted product demos for stakeholders.

• Partnered with product owner and business users from Adidas to define and refine requirements, translating them into epics, features, and user stories for two global supply chain applications.
• Led the transition from CFA 2.0 to 3.0, delivering 5+ strategic enhancements that improved forecast accuracy from ~75% to 90%, enabling reliable intake planning.
• Drove new product development of GIS (Global Intake Scheduling) from MVP definition to rollout, covering modules such as container management, container tracking, appointment scheduling, distribution center management, and UAM (user roles & permissions).
• Collaborated in tech architecture discussions, ensuring functional alignment of services (Container Management, Tracking, Primary Data, UAM, Appointments)
• Defined and maintained a role-permission master matrix for 7+ internal/external stakeholder groups (Transportation, DC Planning, Inbound Planning, Admin, Customs Broker, Customs Team, On-carriage Providers).
• Coordinated functional release validation, using SQL, Postman, and Excel-based checks, reviewing test case coverage from QA team reducing UAT defects by 25% and cutting production issues by 70%.
• Acted as Scrum Master for CFA and proxy Scrum Master for GIS; facilitated ceremonies, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
• Supported multi-country rollouts: GIS MVP launch (Germany, Sep 2024), Mexico release (Feb 2025,), and US release (Jun 2025, multi-mode transport & load types).
• Provided continuous production support and maintaining Kanban board for CFA in maintenance phase, resolving blockers, and earning recognition from business users for responsiveness.

• Quality Assurance Analyst – Annual Enrollment Systems (Insurance Domain)
• Delivered end-to-end functional testing for a full Annual Enrollment (AE) cycle for a large US-based insurance benefits platform, ensuring seamless employee experience and timely rollout.
• Executed manual testing, regression cycles, and enhancement validations across multiple modules, supporting defect fixes and stability improvements.
• Acquired working knowledge of employee insurance, health & welfare benefits, and eligibility workflows critical to accurate enrollment operations.
• Worked extensively on the Oracle HOBS desktop application, validating front-end and back-end data alignment to maintain system integrity.
• Ensured successful completion of enrollment timelines with zero post-production issues, contributing to overall client satisfaction.