Experienced Product Management Professional skilled in leading product initiatives, driving product development, creating roadmaps, conducting market research, and performing data analysis.
Global MBA holder - University of Bradford(UK) with expertise in end-to-end product development, product ownership, project management, and Agile methodologies.
Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful results.
Industries: Life Sciences, Banking, and Finance, Telecom.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
ValGenesis
03.2023 - Current
Vision and Strategy: Defining the SaaS product vision and aligning it with organization and business goals
Roadmap Development: Creating and maintaining the product roadmap to prioritize features and initiatives
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinating with UX, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure successful product development and launches
User Feedback: Gathering and analyzing customer feedback to inform product improvements and iterations
Stakeholder Communication: Communicating product plans and updates to stakeholders to ensure alignment and support release and product management
Performance Monitoring: Tracking product metrics and performance post-launch to adapt strategies and enhance user experience
Market Research: Conducting analysis to understand customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape
Key Deliverables, Artifacts: Product Backlog, User stories, User Requirements Specification, Functional Requirements Specification, UI Mockups, Wireframes, Use-case diagrams, Gap analysis
Senior Business Analyst
Russell Tobin
04.2021 - 03.2023
Company Overview: Client: BNP PARIBAS, ISPL Chennai
To define the Product Vision, Manage Backlog and Prioritization: Aligned the product vision as per the business goals and customer needs
Own the Product Backlog and Prioritize requirements based on feedback from business users
Work with business users and onsite teams based in APAC (SG, HK, TW), Europe (Swiss, Monaco, Germany, Spain) to gather and analyze requirements, conduct and participate in workshops to understand business requirements
Write functional / Technical specifications documents and update the Functional Requirements in Jira
Documentation: Create User Stories in Jira for development, Raise Change Request for Application, Raise Incidents in ServiceNow, Prepare test cases for UAT & review them with business teams etc
Testing: Support SIT / UAT testing
Create test cases as needed for testing
Work with teams on defect resolution for those defects raised by Business Users
Key Deliverables: Business Requirement Document, Product Backlog, User stories, Functional Specification, Use-case diagrams, Gap analysis
Client: BNP PARIBAS, ISPL Chennai
Senior Business Analyst
ObjectFrontier Software
04.2019 - 04.2021
As a Product Owner, Conducted requirements gathering workshop with Business Owners and convert the business needs into functional requirements
Worked with the Business Users to prioritize the Product Backlog and maintain a well-groomed backlog by grooming the user stories with the Scrum team on regular basis
Translated the Product Manager’s road-map initiatives into clearly defined feature sets and capture user stories using JIRA with distinct acceptance criteria
Followed Agile Ceremonies
Participate in Scrum meetings, facilitate Backlog Refinement, provide demo during Sprint Review session and gather feedback as part of Sprint Retro meeting
Performed functional testing for proper execution of designed features & involved in UAT to ensure the defects/bugs are captured and addressed prior to go-live
Performed API testing using Postman Tool and documented the web-service end points
Assistant Manager
BankBazaar
04.2017 - 04.2019
Eliciting business requirements from business owners, through Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), Walkthrough sessions etc
Liaise with Development teams and other stakeholders to form a clear understanding of the product requirements and translate them into Functional Requirements
Followed Agile Methodologies and Scrum for managing the Product Backlog and Delivering them
Mapping requirements & providing them best solutions involving evaluation, definition of scope of project and finalization of project requirements
Grooming, prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog in collaboration with stakeholders
Follow Agile approach for implementation of projects
Key Deliverables - Business requirement documents, Product backlog, Epics, User stories, Functional specification, use case diagrams, gap analysis, as-is and to-be business process, data analysis, risk matrix