Ateeba

Responsibilities:

• Conduct requirement gathering and elicitation sessions with cross-functional stakeholders in India and the U.S. to align business needs with initiatives, while validating that the solution meets regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Create story maps and end-to-end workflows and collaborate with stakeholders to validate and align requirements.
• Own and maintain product backlog in Azure DevOps, including epics, features, and user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Lead refinement and estimation of user stories with cross-functional teams to ensure clarity of requirements, resolve ambiguities, and capture all necessary details for confident sprint planning and delivery.
• Drive enablement by developing and maintaining product documentation, including functional requirements specifications, configuration specifications, user guides, and other release-supporting documents, ensuring all documentation is reviewed and signed off by stakeholders prior to release.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective).
• Mentor a Junior Business Analyst to support professional growth and ensure successful project contributions.
• Conduct product demos for business stakeholders to showcase platform capabilities and demonstrate features.
• Collaborate with QA to define test cases and validate features against acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with UI/UX team to create wireframes and mock-ups.
• Contribute to improving requirements processes to improve cross-team collaboration and delivery efficiency.

Achievements:

• Owned backlog and requirements delivery for a major time-bound release transitioning the platform from single-tenant to multi-tenant architecture, achieving less than 5% requirement-related defects during testing and post-release.
• Recognized as a key contributor and integrated into the product management team, collaborating with senior stakeholders to guide product direction, define priorities, and contribute to strategic decision-making.
• Introduced a structured format for configuration-related requirements that improved clarity, reduced clarification requests, and enabled developers and testers to understand requirements within minutes.

Responsibilities:

• Monitored and managed performance of multiple rooftop solar projects with a combined capacity of ~20 MW across diverse sites in India using DataGlen and SynaptiQ.
• Oversaw operations and maintenance (O&M) activities for site locations.
• Prepared reports on generation, cleaning cycles, and monthly performance analysis.
• Developed project design layouts using Helioscope, AutoCAD, and Google SketchUp.
• Supervised ~30 on-site team members and coordinated with clients to resolve technical issues.
• Conducted regular meetings with clients to review plant performance and address concerns.

Achievements:

• Earned a place in the senior management team within 6 months, contributing to decision-making and team leadership.
• Improved issue resolution rate by streamlining communication with site engineers, resulting in higher plant availability and overall performance.