Manasi Sadekar
Product Owner
Pune
Summary
A qualified Software Professional offering around 11 year of experience with strong academic background and functional skill. Simplifying features delivery as per Customer's expectations. Effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Analyst
Western Union
07.2023 - Current
- Developing compelling product vision, strategy and roadmap
- Developing and maintaining prioritized list of customers and market requirements
- Launched OCR/ML-based KYC product to digitally verify customers inline within the transaction flow with potential revenue of $2M per year globally
- Managing product backlog and prioritizing needs
- Coordinating with development, QA, and design team for meeting clients' expectations and market demands
- Communicated expectations of stakeholders to development team
- Participated in Spring Reviews, daily Scrums, and Spring Planning Meetings
- Investigated, analysis, and assisted in resolving production support issues
- Work with cross functional teams such as engineering, KYC, UI/UX, content, risk, compliance, PMO, and also third party vendors to launch features digitally and deliver the promised revenue.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality products that met customer needs.
- Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
- Mentored junior team members in Agile methodologies and best practices for effective Product Owner role execution.
- Collaborated with engineering teams on technical feasibility assessments, resulting in realistic scope definition for projects.
- Optimized product performance by identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary changes.
- Launched a regulatory framework for Web and app to collect "Source of funds" and additional documents inline within the transaction flow from customers in case of transferring to a High-risk Jurisdiction
- Ensured regulatory compliance by working closely with legal teams during the development process.
- A/B tests – Launched multiple A/B tests on address proof collection page.
Product Owner
Amdocs
02.2020 - 06.2023
- Working as a Product Owner on Amdocs "Catalog One", which is an online catalog based on TM Forum standards
- It enables the management of offers and products
- Involved in PI planning, sprint planning, retrospective, backlog grooming, weekly status and demos
- Responsible for defining Epics, User stories and prioritizing team backlog
- Deployment Support & Post Implementation Review
- Work with Scrum Masters to help direct, motivate, and guide the delivery teams
- Good understanding of requirements, solution, and overall product
- Focal for Catalog in cross functional domain (Amdocs Digital product)
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to define strategic vision for the products
- Working on a building a product based on leading technologies such as Cloud, Microservices and DevOps
- Good understanding of requirements, solution, and overall product
- Focal for Catalog in cross functional domain (Amdocs Digital product)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define strategic vision for the products
- Reviews output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria has been complete
- Conducted Internal training sessions
- Helped testing team to analysed defects related to cross functional solution gap, Communicate with other management, Application Engineers and Production Support teams on product issues and work on rapid resolution of issues/defects
- Helped testing team to understand Feature whenever needed
- Identify and remediate problems, impediments, and defects that could delay the demo and delivery of the user stories in the Agile delivery cycle Testing Experience.
Functional Test Specialist
Amdocs
06.2014 - 02.2020
- Worked on different modules such as Ordering, Catalog-Ordering integration, OMS, CPQ
- Test Planning: Taken part in test planning process
- After requirement gathering process, have taken part in test scenario preparation, test scenario review and preparing Test Plan for release
- Test Case Preparation and Execution: Taken part in test case writing, and test case review
- Also have taken part in test case execution, Defect (design gap, bug) Logging and test case execution review
- Test Expert: Worked with onsite counterpart for testing different business scenarios with team of 5 members
- Handled Daily execution reports, sync up with team and onsite team for assignments.
Test Engineer
Precision Power Product
06.2012 - 06.2014
- Test Planning: Taken part in test planning process
- After requirement gathering process, have taken part in test scenario preparation, test scenario review and preparing Test Plan for release
- Test Case Preparation and Execution: Taken part in test case writing.
Education
Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication - undefined
Skills
JiraStrategic PlanningMicrosoft officeConfluenceRequirements Analysis
Product analysis
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Accomplishments
- Awarded with Certificate of Appreciation multiple times within team as a tester and PDO
- Awarded with Employee of the Quarter and recognized in a Townhall addressed by Amdocs VP
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 04/26/89
Timeline
Product Analyst
Western Union
07.2023 - Current
Product Owner
Amdocs
02.2020 - 06.2023
Functional Test Specialist
Amdocs
06.2014 - 02.2020
Test Engineer
Precision Power Product
06.2012 - 06.2014