Kiran Gireesh
Product Owner
Cochin
Summary
Dynamic and results-oriented Product Owner with over 13 years of extensive experience in the Airline, Market Research, and Hospitality industries. Proven expertise in stakeholder communication, people management, and delivering successful projects through a detail-oriented and data-driven approach that drives strategic initiatives. Highly motivated and diligent, consistently recognized for the ability to swiftly adapt to challenging environments while maintaining a focus on excellence and innovation. Committed to fostering collaboration and achieving impactful results in fast-paced settings, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and customer needs.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
10
10
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Product Owner
Xerox LLP
12.2022 - Current
- Work with the business offering team on prioritized Feature Enhancement Requests.
- Translating customer requirements in detailed levels of CoAs to support the team in developing features for one of the mother applications in the MPS space.
- Analyzing and creating release plans by working hand in hand with Scrum Masters, Scrum Teams, and application development managers to deliver the major milestone releases planned for future timelines.
- Identifying roadblocks and communicating with business stakeholders to mitigate future risks while proceeding with major feature releases in the application.
- Based on business priorities, work in line with the FER backlog.
- Handling the product backlog of one of the core applications in the MPS domain.
- Collaborate with Software Architects and UI/UX engineers to enhance the product designs.
- Involving and partnering with Scrum teams in sprint planning and execution activities.
- Evaluating the Sprint Review and demo for features and bugs worked on by the Scrum team.
- Collaborating and addressing process and best practices enhancements through Communities of Practice.
- Collaborate with Release Management to establish a release plan and communications.
- Prepare documentation specific to the release and features.
- Prepare training materials, and participate in training activities.
- Spearhead stakeholder demos, and facilitate training materials and engaging training activities.
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2019 - 12.2022
- Engaged as a key SPOC in analyzing the requirements, evaluating business processes, uncovering gray areas for improvements, and providing solutions accordingly in order to create a working software product.
- By formulating workflow charts, wireframes, and diagrams; studying system capabilities, and writing specifications.
- Leading ongoing reviews of business processes, and developing optimization strategies for projects.
- Steered efforts in identifying project milestones, phases, and elements, and accordingly defining project requirements and deciding on the project budget.
- Liaising with the clients and driving requirement-gathering workshops by conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
- Performing a requirements walkthrough session to elicit requirements for the scrum team.
- Creation and updating of the product backlog that includes defining and prioritizing user stories in accordance with business needs.
- Effectively communicating business insights with the team on the product vision.
- Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders, and producing useful reports.
- Working closely with clients, the technical team, and TCS management.
- Reviewing and tracking project progress by resolving problems, and recommending viable solutions.
- Providing training, coaching, and guidance to junior members in the scrum team.
- Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.
- Supporting user acceptance testing.
- Serving as a liaison between the scrum team and users in an agile environment.
- Monitoring deliverables, and ensuring timely reporting for projects.
- Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
Senior Business Analyst
IBS Software Services
01.2016 - 07.2019
- Working collaboratively with Product Owners and the Development team to analyze and document business requirements, communicate functional scope, report bugs, and deliver tested stories in an agile development lifecycle.
- Eliciting user requirements, CRs, performing detailed impact analysis, and generating/helping the team by assisting with system requirements documents.
- Responsible for the quality and completeness of system use cases and other requirements-related documents of the system, using tools like DNG.
- Unit/Regression Testing functionality to assess the quality of deliverables at periodic intervals.
- Supporting pre-sales activities, such as conducting product demos, user workshops, etc.
- Ensuring continuous operational quality by evaluating bug fixes and enhancements, and by assigning tasks to UI and development resources via reporting tools like JIRA.
- Coordinating with groups of product team personnel who test, evaluate, and validate new features based on the product roadmap, and identify voids in the product.
Business analyst
SODTECH, Infopark, Cochin.
06.2014 - 12.2015
- Soliciting possible opportunities by participating in bids, understanding the requirements in the RFP, and creating proposals.
- Market research and gathering intel for writing winning proposals.
- Determining the proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs, studying requests for proposals (RFPs), and attending strategy meetings.
- Meeting the proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval, entering and monitoring tracking data, coordinating requirements with contributors, and contributing proposal status information to review meetings, as well as transmitting proposals.
- Gathering proposal information by identifying sources of information, coordinating submissions and collections, identifying and communicating risks associated with proposals, understanding their audience, and creatively explaining ideas in a way that will be appealing.
- Participating in a sales call for providing technical support and possible solutions.
- Conceptualized documentation to assist the sales team: newsletters, case studies, white papers, mailer campaigns, brochures, catalogs, and documents highlighting value propositions, ads.
- System-level documentation, SRS, and use cases.
Business analyst
Exalt Integral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Technopark, Trivandrum
08.2012 - 06.2014
- Closely involved in business analysis activities, with experience in requirements gathering, requirements analysis, gap analysis, and interaction with foreign clients.
- Experience in preparing WBS, business proposals, based on customer requirements.
- Good presentation skills and strong experience in preparing business proposals, B2B, and B2C business writings.
- Other tasks include preparing business plans, corporate presentations, and reporting of project-related details.
Education
MBA - Marketing & Operations
Institute of Management in Kerala
Trivandrum, India01.2012
B-Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
University College of Engineering & Technology
Trivandrum, India01.2009
Skills
- Product roadmap management
- Experienced in handling BRD and CoA documentation
- Cross-functional collaboration expertise
- Product backlog management
- Collaborative communication skills
- Collaboration with QA on test evaluations
- Experience with Agile frameworks
- Business requirements analysis
- Requirements elicitation
- Data-driven decision making
- Agile project management
- Market analysis
Certification
Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced (PSPO-II) from Scrum.org.
Timeline
Product Owner
Xerox LLP
12.2022 - Current
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2019 - 12.2022
Senior Business Analyst
IBS Software Services
01.2016 - 07.2019
Business analyst
SODTECH, Infopark, Cochin.
06.2014 - 12.2015
Business analyst
Exalt Integral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Technopark, Trivandrum
08.2012 - 06.2014
B-Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
University College of Engineering & Technology
MBA - Marketing & Operations
Institute of Management in Kerala
Declaration
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct to my knowledge, and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above mentioned particulars.