Arvind Prakash
Product Owner
Lucknow
Summary
Experienced Project Lead with top-notch implementation and project management abilities. Highly organized, methodical and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams. Well-versed in business support system based planning and deployment.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Owner
Seamless Distribution Systems
Kolkata
12.2025 - Current
- Own the end-to-end product vision, roadmap, and backlog for the Smart CapEx platform, ensuring measurable business outcomes.
- Partner with Finance/FP&A, Procurement, Engineering/Facilities, IT, and Compliance to define priorities and align delivery with governance and budgeting needs.
- Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and release goals, maintaining a well-groomed, delivery-ready backlog.
- Lead Agile ceremonies (planning, refinement, reviews), and ensure the team delivers increments that meet quality, security, and performance expectations.
- Drive key CapEx workflows: request intake, business case/ROI, budget allocation, multi-level approvals, and audit-ready documentation.
- Define and enhance governance capabilities, including approval matrices, thresholds, delegation, role-based access (RBAC), and audit trails.
- Own execution tracking features: milestones, committed vs. Actual spend, variance monitoring, re-forecasting, and project closeout.
- Coordinate integrations and data needs across enterprise systems (e.g., ERP, accounting, procurement, BI) to ensure accurate financial reporting and traceability.
- Establish and monitor product KPIs, such as approval cycle time, forecast accuracy, budget variance, adoption, and user satisfaction, using insights to prioritize improvements.
- Lead UAT, stakeholder demos, and change enablement, producing release notes, and supporting training/adoption with business teams.
- Identify process bottlenecks, and drive automation to reduce manual work, improve compliance, and accelerate decision-making.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for product decisions, reinforcing transparency through regular stakeholder communication, and clear trade-offs.
Quality Assurance Engineer, QMS
Seamless Distribution Systems
10.2024 - 11.2025
- Performed manual and automated API testing for ERS (E-Refill System Phase 2), ensuring feature reliability and backend stability.
- Developed and integrated automation scripts for the CI/CD pipeline to enable security scans (Sysdig) and code quality checks (SonarQube APIs).
- Streamlined test execution and reporting, reducing manual effort, and accelerating continuous integration workflows.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance software quality, security, and delivery efficiency.
Technical Lead
Tech Mahindra
11.2021 - 10.2024
- Led end-to-end delivery of voucher system projects, including requirement analysis, solution design, development, and post-implementation support.
- Defined roadmaps and technical strategies to align solutions with client objectives, and drive digital transformation.
- Managed project planning, risk/change management, and stakeholder communication, ensuring on-time and quality delivery.
- Mentored team members, and enforced SDLC best practices, improving efficiency and service quality.
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
Project Lead
6d Technologies
04.2020 - 11.2021
- Requirement Gathering, Procurement, Solution Designing, Planning Timelines of project delivery ,Plan & Schedule the implementation activities as per the project plan.
- Low level Elaboration of Project plan to daily, weekly & monthly activities for optimum & efficient utilization of the resources.
- Development and Implementation of Testing Automation for GUI based Project using robotic framework and API based automation using Karate Framework for customer based scenario requirement.
- Implementing J-Meter based testing framework for GUI and API based operation to meet required load TPS.
- Assisted clients with monitoring all software implementation lifecycles.
- Worked with technical staff on system audit to execute implementations on time and within functional parameters.
- To present the project customize demo to the customer for finalize LLD sign off as per customer requirement.
- Deployment of the On-site system network architecture as per finalized network LLD.
- Deployment of the On-site server system architecture as per finalized system deployment LLD.
- UAT of the complete environment as per the requirements & ensuring 100 % project delivery as per the agreed delivery dates.
- Handing over the production environment to customer operation team with proper technical KT session along with operational document for L1 and L2 troubleshooting methods.
Senior Implementation Engineer
6D Technologies
04.2017 - 03.2020
- Assisted clients with monitoring all software implementation lifecycles.
- Worked with technical staff on system audit to execute implementations on time and within functional parameters.
- To present the project customize demo to the customer for finalize LLD sign off as per customer requirement.
- Deployment of the On-site system network architecture as per finalized network LLD.
- Deployment of the On-site server system architecture as per finalized system deployment LLD.
- UAT of the complete environment as per the requirements & ensuring 100 % project delivery as per the agreed delivery dates.
- Handing over the production environment to customer operation team with proper technical KT session along with operational document for L1 and L2 troubleshooting methods.
Network Engineer
Huawei Technologies India
12.2016 - 04.2017
- Oversaw patch testing and deployment for script network
- Set up hardware and software in optimal configurations to meet network performance requirements.
- Monitored network hardware operations to evaluate proper configuration.
- Collaborated with vendors to locate replacement components and resolve advanced problems.
- Development and implementation of access layer network upgrade in 5 different circles for Telenor India and Bharti Airtel NSN Core upgrade to 9300E to 9306E L3 Switch.
Operation Engineer
Ericsson RASO
09.2015 - 11.2016
- Developed and maintained standardized operating procedures for numerous functions and tasks to streamline IP Core operations.
- NOC support for IP-Core nodes in the network.
- Planned installation, maintenance, and operation during the upgrade of the IP Core Network during planned activity.
- Participated in weekly training for the network optimization workshop.
- Conducted root cause analysis for recurring issues, resulting in long-term solutions and improved system stability.
Education
MBA - Business Analytics
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool,United Kingdom 03.2023 - 02.2024
B.E - Electrical-and-Electronics
PES Institute of Technology
Bangalore 04.2011 - 07.2015
Senior Secondary - Scince
Satyam International
Patna 04.2009 - 05.2011
High School Diploma -
Delhi Public School
Lucknow 04.2008 - 04.2009
Skills
Linux-RHEL
MySQL Database
SOAP/XML,JSON,HLAPI
Robot framework python
Karate framework
Apache jboss and Tomcat Container Deployment
Apache httpd and Haproxy
ATN-950B,ATN-910I,CX6000,NE40-X series,S9300 Switch Series
Jmeter Based Performance Testing
JIRA Tool
Timeline
Product Owner
Seamless Distribution Systems
12.2025 - Current
Quality Assurance Engineer, QMS
Seamless Distribution Systems
10.2024 - 11.2025
MBA - Business Analytics
Liverpool John Moores University
03.2023 - 02.2024
Technical Lead
Tech Mahindra
11.2021 - 10.2024
Project Lead
6d Technologies
04.2020 - 11.2021
Senior Implementation Engineer
6D Technologies
04.2017 - 03.2020
Network Engineer
Huawei Technologies India
12.2016 - 04.2017
Operation Engineer
Ericsson RASO
09.2015 - 11.2016
B.E - Electrical-and-Electronics
PES Institute of Technology
04.2011 - 07.2015
Senior Secondary - Scince
Satyam International
04.2009 - 05.2011
High School Diploma -
Delhi Public School
04.2008 - 04.2009