GAYATHIRI ASOKAN
Senior Software Engineer | Technical Product Owner | Agile Product Delivery | Enterprise Systems
Hyderabad
Summary
Senior Software Engineer (Product Ownership & Quality Lead) bridging backlog refinement, release readiness, and enterprise workflow analysis for high-volume order and fulfilment systems. Drives sprint-ready scope by clarifying user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and release risk with Product Owners, QA, and business stakeholders. Strengthens go/no-go decisions through defect triage, quality risk assessments, and traceability between requirements and implementation.
Overview
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4
Languages
2
2
Certifications
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer (Product Ownership & Quality Lead)
DELL International Services
10.2022 - Current
- Drive backlog clarification sessions in collaboration with Product Owners and business stakeholders to ensure sprint-ready scope definition.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to refine user stories, clarify business requirements, and improve sprint readiness.
- Assisted enterprise applications in managing high-volume order and fulfilment workflows across cross-functional global teams, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Contribute to sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and release readiness checkpoints.
- Monitor release health using production defect trends, dependency tracking, release readiness metrics, and sprint delivery insights.
- Lead defect triage meetings, enabling impact-based resolution decisions during release cycles.
- Influence prioritization discussions by evaluating system dependencies, operational impact, and release risk exposure.
- Provide structured quality risk assessments during Go/No-Go discussions.
- Participate in acceptance criteria discussions to ensure shared understanding between business and delivery teams.
- Supported release roadmap planning by identifying cross-team dependencies and delivery risks, ensuring timely implementation sequencing.
- Monitored release health through analysis of production defect trends and release readiness metrics, providing insights to inform sprint delivery.
Senior Software Engineer
DELL International Services
05.2017 - 10.2022
- Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for core enterprise applications, contributing to design and requirement analysis across releases.
- Facilitated backlog grooming sessions to clarify functional scope and eliminate requirement ambiguity.
- Coordinated integrated team alignment and ensuring smooth enterprise release execution.
- Led defect triage discussions, prioritizing issues based on business impact and timeline sensitivity.
- Tracked quality and release health metrics to support informed prioritization and risk mitigation decisions.
- Monitored quality and release health metrics to enable informed prioritization and effective risk mitigation.
- Contributed to backlog grooming sessions to clarify functional scope and reduce requirement ambiguity.
- Aided backlog refinement by validating business requirements and identifying functional dependencies across enterprise systems.
- Engaged with business stakeholders and development teams to enhance requirement clarity prior to implementation.
Test Analyst
UST Global (Dell Account)
03.2016 - 05.2017
- Developed and executed test scenarios to ensure alignment with user stories and business requirements, enhancing overall testing effectiveness.
- Coordinated E2E and UAT testing across integrated enterprise systems, facilitating seamless order processing in high-volume environments.
- Functioned as Point of Contact for the Dell Print Program, managing deliverables and stakeholder communications.
- Assisted in maintaining execution stability and resolving defects across time zones, contributing to consistent project delivery.
Senior Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
09.2008 - 01.2016
- Managed E2E testing lifecycle for multiple enterprise clients, ensuring thorough validation and quality assurance.
- Participated in requirement reviews, assessing risks and providing actionable testability insights to enhance project outcomes.
- Participated in requirement reviews, providing risk assessment and testability insights.
- Aided deployment validations and facilitated post-production stabilization to ensure seamless transitions and system reliability.
Education
BSC - Computer Science
Vel’s College
ChennaiMS Software Engineering -
BITS Pilani
Chennai, IndiaSkills
Jira
Confluence
Agile Scrum
SIT
UAT
Product backlog refinement
User story management
Acceptance criteria analysis
Product roadmap planning
Scope management
Release planning
Dependency analysis
Release risk assessment
Release readiness review
Go/no-go decision support
Certification
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) – Scrum.org
Awards & Professional Recognition
“Results” Award (2019, 2021) – Recognized for consistent delivery impact., “Winning Together” Award (2020, 2022) – Cross-team collaboration excellence., “Bravo” Awards (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025) – Enterprise release contributions., “Applause” Awards (2021, 2022, 2023, 2025) – Operational impact recognition., “Bronze Award” (2019) – Quarterly performance recognition.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer (Product Ownership & Quality Lead)
DELL International Services
10.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
DELL International Services
05.2017 - 10.2022
Test Analyst
UST Global (Dell Account)
03.2016 - 05.2017
Senior Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
09.2008 - 01.2016
BSC - Computer Science
Vel’s College
MS Software Engineering -
BITS Pilani