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Manojkumar kumar

IT
Chennai,tamil nadu

Summary

Analytical Product Analyst /product owner conducting market research to create product initiatives positively impacting financial growth. Skilled in customer polling and surveys to meet market demands. Comfortable working with distributing teams balancing lean product practices with fixed timelines.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Analyst

SBM Digital Chennai Pvt ltd
02.2023 - Current
  • Product – 10wC Tracker (mobile App)
  • PSC (web application)
  • Responsibilities:
  • Analyzed the legacy system and worked on understanding all the existing features to create parity solutions along with enhanced process flows and documentation
  • Gathering all the functional and technical requirements from the business stakeholders and architects to work on creating high level feature documentation and business process flows
  • Interact closely with the FedEx team members/agents and users to analyze their needs and come up with improved solutions/ideas
  • Work collaboratively with the UX lead and UI/UX designers to improve the overall design of the new application
  • Working with Business owners, Product owners and Scrum masters and development team to plan for the upcoming PIs
  • Created and presented PI plans for the team with all PI objectives, dependencies, team’s capacity, and load details in the PI planning meetings
  • Conducted the various Agile ceremonies including daily stand ups and story grooming sessions for the onsite and offshore development teams
  • Assisting the lead Product Owner in backlog story grooming, planning the sprints by creating user stories and acceptance criteria in Version One, refining and prioritizing them according to the business objectives
  • Working closely with the development team and product leads throughout the project and clearly communicating with the Stakeholders on the management and progress of the project
  • Providing clarifications/direction to the offshore development teams regarding the user stories and functionality of the to be developed application
  • Collaborating and providing business analysis support to the lead product owner, business managers, SMEs and testers during the development
  • A/B Testing
  • Environment: Agile-SCRUM, MS Office Suite, Azure Cloud, Postman,Figma,Trello,Miro,Microsoft clarity

Associate Product Manager

Sprouts Technolgy Solutions
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • The project was based on implementing a customizable Application Tracking System (ATS) for Truck
  • Drivers and enhancing the ATS software solution according to the specific ATS system requirements by streamlining the ATS processes, integrating with background check, employee retention, compliance and safety requirements
  • The major focus was on enhancing the candidate’s experience as well as letting the employers keep track of the candidate’s status throughout the hiring process
  • Responsibilities:
  • Analyzed the high-level Business Requirements Document (BRD) and documented the Functional
  • Requirements Document (FRD) with the help of the development team to enhance the legacy system
  • Gathering functional and technical requirements, creating high level business documents and assisting in facilitating mapping of “to-be” processes
  • Work with the team on Agile/Scrum Framework, deploying scrum practices, conducting scrum ceremonies including the Daily Scrum Call and Sprint Retrospective with on-site and offshore teams
  • Facilitating the Sprint Planning session, refining the user stories and their acceptance criteria, prioritizing the backlog and facilitating the Sprint demos after every Sprint
  • Tracking the team’s progress through Jira, ensuring all the dependencies/issues are resolved and presenting detailed reports on regular basis to the management team based on the project and team’s overall progress
  • Weekly meetings with the business stakeholders to capture and validate the business requirements, creating process flow diagrams for all the integrations involved and working on the gaps of “as-is” to “to-be” processes
  • Creating and validating test case scenarios for all the integrations, testing the API calls using
  • Postman and ensuring all bugs raised by the QA are resolved
  • Conducting JAD sessions to develop architectural solutions to ensure application meets the business requirements, resolve the open issues and change requests
  • Developing detailed and summary reports including line and pie charts, trend analysis reports and sub reports according to the business requirements
  • Working with the Quality Management team to ensure the requirements documentation can be easily translated to test plans and ensuring end-to-end test coverage is maintained
  • Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions and trained users on the product
  • Environment: Agile-SCRUM, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS SQL Server, Azure Cloud, JIRA
  • Confluence, Postman, Figma,Miro,Hotjar

Business Analyst/Senior business analyst

01.2018 - 11.2021
  • The Web Development Project is majorly focused on improving the Customer Experience and making sure that all the features provided in the new website match the older version, and new features are added to make the website portal more dynamic for Cross Platform functioning
  • Responsibilities:
  • Facilitated requirements gathering sessions with the business group for gathering, analyzing and documenting the requirements and business rules
  • Created the Business Requirement Document (BRD) with user stories, UML diagrams, prototypes and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Interacting with clients and stakeholders to create business case, process workflow using Visio, creating wireframes and mock-up UI along with the architect to communicate visual data flow to end users
  • Assisted in writing the user stories in Jira, estimating the story points using estimation techniques like Planning Poker, prioritizing the product backlog and facilitating various SCRUM ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, etc
  • Along with the Product Owner
  • Facilitating the Daily Scrum Call (stand-up meetings), planning future sprints and ensuring the team’s planned velocity and current velocity are in close proximity at all times
  • Managing defects and monitoring the team performance using the Burndown Chart in Jira
  • Created dashboards and reports in MS Power BI to track the trends and provide meaningful insights throughout the lifecycle of the project, educating the clients and stakeholders on the benefits and risks associated with the project
  • Assisting in creation of test plans, test cases and test scripts for Unit, System, Regression and
  • Load testing by creating Feature Files and conducted User Acceptance Testing to check if all the requirements are met
  • Environment: Agile-SCRUM, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS SQL Server, Balsamiq, JIRA
  • Confluence, Cucumber, Android Studio, iOS XCode, MS PowerBI

Education

M.B.A - Technolgy Management

Anna University

Product Management certification (Duke cooperate education in collaboration with upgrad) Certificate scrum product owner (CSPO) Google Analytics for beginner. Certification in research and market methodology - undefined

Skills

  • Digital Marketing
  • Customer Experience
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Sprints
  • Presentation Skills
  • Jira
  • GitHub
  • Project Planning
  • Scrum
  • Client Rapport
  • Agile Project Management
  • Software Project Management
  • Product Development
  • Business Analytics
  • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Product Vision
  • Communication
  • Written Communication
  • Software
  • Requirements
  • User Experience (UX)
  • User Stories
  • Sprint Planning
  • Retrospectives
  • Product Road
  • Mapping
  • Product Planning
  • Product Management
  • Analytical Skills - Figma

Timeline

Product Analyst

SBM Digital Chennai Pvt ltd
02.2023 - Current

Associate Product Manager

Sprouts Technolgy Solutions
01.2021 - 01.2023

Business Analyst/Senior business analyst

01.2018 - 11.2021

M.B.A - Technolgy Management

Anna University

Product Management certification (Duke cooperate education in collaboration with upgrad) Certificate scrum product owner (CSPO) Google Analytics for beginner. Certification in research and market methodology - undefined

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