Ashwin Agrawal
Lead Product Manager Technical
Pune
Summary
Experienced Program Manager Technical, Thought Leader, Agile Certified Professional, Product manager/owner with vast exposure in business consulting, services & Product delivery.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Product Manager Technical
Mastercard
Pune
03.2022 - Current
- Responsible for developing inspiring platform/product visions through elaboration of features and stories, derived from business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends.
- Using Working Backwards method, decompose business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive platform/product roadmap.
- Working with Technical Program Managers, Developers, UX designers, architects, and internal customers to define details behind business requirements.
- Ensuring business requirements are accurately captured through collaboration with service owners, regional leads and Mastercard clients.
- Make trade-off decisions on platform product features.
- Determine release goals for platform and prioritizes assigned features according to business and platform value, adjusting throughout implementation as needed.
- Continuously monitor feature development at feature level.
- Review product demo with development team against acceptance criteria for feature set.
- Prepare launches and monitors platform performances, adoption, and operational health for feature sets.
- Own and manage product documentation.
Lead Business Consultant/ Product Owner
HSBC, Virtusa
Pune
07.2017 - 02.2022
- Excellent experience in trade data analysis for new requirements in finance domain. (Trade, risk, market data etc.)
- Extensive experience in Actimize reporting tool.
- Extensive experience on MI reports.
- Excellent knowledge of on boarding of new data sourcing platforms. Also demising old once.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business requirements/ problem statements and convert them into user stories.
- Managing, ranking, and prioritizing backlog to reflect stakeholder’s requirements.
- Articulated product vision and user stories in way clearly understandable to development teams.
- Managed backlog for two teams / products simultaneously.
- Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams.
- Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
- Applied Agile methods and processes to promote disciplined and transparent project management.
- Participate in PI planning meetings, reviews (demo) and retrospective meetings.
- Owned on boarding of new regions instruments across multiple geographical locations.
- Migration and demise of different systems across multiple geographical locations.
- Extensive knowledge on Requirement gathering, Requirement analysis, Client interaction.
- Managing and prioritizing technical debt for team.
Business Analyst / Senior Quality Analyst
Triple Point Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Pune
07.2011 - 05.2017
- Good knowledge in Domain Driven Development.
- Good understanding of Capital, Derivative Markets and trade life cycle.
- Gathering Business Requirements, analyzing, documenting and preparing BRDs, FRDs and scrum documents like SBE, User Stories. Also preparing training manuals.
- Developing use cases from requirements and creating UML diagrams. Creating Screen Mockups, conducting GAP Analysis, Impact Analysis, and Risk Analysis.
- Communicating with Product Owner and conducting trainings for development teams and BAs on changes in application and functional domain.
- Handling issues and providing resolution to users especially high net worth clients.
- Excellent knowledge in manual and automated software testing.
- Excellent experience in SDLC including both Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall, and V model.
- Good experience in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution and Issue Resolution to ensure that all aspects of project are in compliance with Business Requirements.
- Conducting demo of enhancements for product owner and clients.
- Handling pre UAT, UAT and post-implementation support.
- Experience in managing onshore and offshore projects, good at handing multiple projects in parallel.
- Done development for automation of testing using Google Robot. (OPPs based programming)
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Pune
12.2009 - 07.2011
- Gathering Business Requirements, analyzing, documenting and preparing BRDs and FRDs.
- Conducting training for development teams and BAs on changes in application and functional domain. Also documenting training manuals.
- Excellent knowledge in SDLC and STLC.
- Good knowledge in Derivatives Instruments like Futures, Equity, Options.
- Managing issues reported in production and tracking them till post-production deployment.
- Conducting demo for product owners and clients.
- Excellent knowledge of various Testing processes– UAT, Regression Testing, creating and reviewing test cases and requirements to test cases using processes-based knowledge.
Quality Analyst
Saba Software’s Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2006 - 12.2009
- Interacting with various teams involved in project.
- Performed ETL testing.
- Designing TOC and Test Plan for Saba functionality.
- Generating matrices to analyze changes made to product.
- Preparing and executing test cases on basis of requirement specifications.
- Conducting Functional, Smoke and Exploratory testing on developed application.
- Responsible for tracking defects and using bug tracking tool to prepare bug reports.
- Writing SQL queries in Oracle and SQL for Database testing.
- Carrying out testing on reports, notifications, data imports, web customizations, database testing and web services.
- Done development for automation of testing using Silk Test. (OPPs based programming)
Education
MS, Masters - Advanced Software Methodologies
I2IT
Pune 01.2005 - 01.2006
BE - Electronics & Communications
GRKIST Jabalpur
Jabalpur 04.2000 - 05.2004
Skills
Product Manager Technical
People management & Leadership
Agile Methodologies (Safe Certified PM/PO)
Domains - Payments, Trade Surveillance, Commodity Derivatives, Secondary loan trading, eLearning & management
Timeline
Lead Product Manager Technical
Mastercard
03.2022 - Current
Lead Business Consultant/ Product Owner
HSBC, Virtusa
07.2017 - 02.2022
Business Analyst / Senior Quality Analyst
Triple Point Technologies Pvt. Ltd
07.2011 - 05.2017
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd
12.2009 - 07.2011
Quality Analyst
Saba Software’s Pvt. Ltd.
01.2006 - 12.2009
MS, Masters - Advanced Software Methodologies
I2IT
01.2005 - 01.2006
BE - Electronics & Communications
GRKIST Jabalpur
04.2000 - 05.2004