Neethulekshmi S
Product Owner
Mumbai
Summary
Highly accomplished project and program management professional with 12+ years of experience in IT industry across domains. Demonstrated excellence in adopting Agile, scaling Agile maturity against defined metrics, and enforcing best practices and standards for efficient Agile delivery. Proven leader in handling cross-functional teams and delivering comprehensive solutions that align with client needs along with a very deep understanding on PMO activities.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Consultant
Capgemini
09.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with stakeholders to understand problem statements and convert them into business requirements in the form of Epics/Features
- Translated the business requirement into functional requirements in the form of user stories by actively colloborating with stakeholders.
- Refined product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams and helped in product backlog refinement.
- Maintained a prioritized, ready-to-work backlog with an appropriate mix of new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
- Collaborate with Quality Assurance and Customer Support teams to replicate, understand, and prioritize resolution of customer issues.
- Managed two large projects with complex cross-functional collaboration and management at the higher product level.
- Tracked project progress, risks and dependencies by creating risk registers and timely follow ups, resulting in efficient delivery.
- Communicate and manage relationships with stakeholders; clearly understand and express product backlog items
- Prioritize the items to be considered for inclusion in each sprint / increment in the product backlog to best achieve goals and missions
Team Lead
Accenture
03.2022 - 05.2022
- Led team of execute comprehensive test plans,ensuring high quality software delivery.
- Design test strategy & Test plan
- Ensure timely delivery & Team management
- Plan, design, script and execute functional tests that ensure all applications or systems meet functional and business requirements.
Senior Analyst
Reserve Bank Information Technology
10.2020 - 03.2022
- Optimize the value of the work the team performs (making decisions on competing priorities); partner with Design and Development teams to rank business features
- Support the team in preparing for and undertaking in Planning and throughout the delivery of planned work, working alongside the Scrum Master
- Reviewed the completed work from developers in form of demo and accepted the user stories for closure
- Listed out the business impact for each epic/feature with respect to cost savings or time spent.
- Performed impact analysis for upstream and downstream applications based on product touchpoints and aligned with business unit’s OKR
Senior Consultant
Polaris – A Virtusa Company
03.2018 - 09.2019
- Automation Team Lead
- Domain: Banking [Financial trading platform of BNP Pariba]
- Experienced in Advanced Automation Testing using HP UFT/QTP, Selenium.
- Experienced in advanced manual testing for BFSI domain
- Hands on experience in HP-ALM (Quality Center), Jira, My SQL.
- Involvement in automation candidate selection/regression test suite preparation for automation
- Involvement in review of test scripts
- Development of Test scripts
- Preparation of regression bug reports and Automation Status reports
- Track defect reporting and automation testing timeline
- Timely and accurate status reporting of testing
- Involvement in all phases of STLC during application development
- Involvement in test discussions with internal teams as well as client teams
- Interfacing closely with all team members and ensuring complete quality of deliverables as per defined standards
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2015 - 02.2018
- Automation team Lead & Automation tester
- Domain: Banking/Retail/Mobility/Healthcare
- Experienced in Advanced Automation Testing using HP UFT/QTP, Selenium
- Experienced in advanced manual testing for BFSI, Retail and Healthcare domains.
- Hands on experience in HP-ALM (Quality Center), My SQL.
- Experienced in testing of Salesforce application.
- Client billing and resource management for complete team
- Involvement in automation candidate selection/regression test suite preparation for automation
- Involvement in review of test scripts
- Development of Test scripts
- Preparation of regression bug reports and Automation Status reports
- Track defect reporting and testing timeline
- Involvement in test discussions with internal teams as well as client teams
- Timely and accurate status reporting of testing
- Interfacing closely with all team members and ensuring complete quality of deliverables as per defined standards
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 11.2015
- Digital Test team Lead & Manual tester
- Domain: Banking/Retai/Mobility/Healthcare
- Experienced in advanced manual testing for BFSI, Retail and Healthcare domains.
- Experienced in advanced manual testing of applications in digital platforms.
- Hands on experience in HP-ALM (Quality Center), STIM, Jira, Rally, Appium, Robotium, My SQL,Selenium
- End to End testing on iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian
- Involvement in cross browser testing, API testing
- Preparation of Test cases, Bug reports and Test completion reports
- Review Test Suite, Track reporting and Defect triaging
- Involvement in test discussions with internal teams
- Timely and accurate status reporting of testing of various projects
Education
B. Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Govt. Engg. College
Trivandrum, India01-2011
XII (CBSE) - Science
Arya Central School
Trivandrum, India01-2006
X (CBSE) - Science
Arya Central School
Trivandrum, India01-2004
Certification
UFT One v15 Professional Exam Certificate
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Star Team - Awards for Excellence - Annual Star Awards - Feb 2014
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
- First prize for Hindi essay writing competition 2010, conducted by Hindi Prachar Sabha
- Learnt Carnatic music for 10+ years & completed Carnatic Music & Veena courses at Swathi Thirunal Sangeetha Sabha
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Govt. Engineering College, Trivandrum - Representative – EEE [2007-11]
Responsible for representing 2011 batch at various inter-departmental meetings
- Arya Central School - 2002-04
Responsible for representing the team during cultural fests.
OTHER INFORMATION
- Doting Mother who is now a seasoned pro at learning new skills on the job and find a way to make them work.
- Travel enthusiast who loves to see the world and learn about new things each day.
- Associated with Akshaya Patra Foundation to support Mid-Day Meal schemes at municipal schools in rural India.
Professional Projects
- Cytiva – Product Owner of Genealogy correction application utilized by Cytiva
- Sanofi – Project Management of SAP system, Sanofi
- Accenture Solutions – Leading QA Team
- ReBIT – Project management of platform utilized for administration of Risk andRegulatory activities at Reserve Bank of India
- Bank of America – Leading Team for testing financial trading platform used by globalcustomers
- BNP Pariba – Leading Team for testing financial trading platform used by traders
- ICICI Lombard – Leading/Testing of application used by the financial advisors
- Kaiser Permanente – Leading Team/Testing of Web Platforms for internal and externalusers
- CISCO – Leading Team/Testing of Salesforce platform used by global customers andsales team
- Toys"R"Us – Testing of e-commerce platform used by buyers for products
- Berlin Marathon – Testing of a multi-lingual app in German and English for athletes
- Apollo Tyres – Testing of application to detail sales of tyres
- Pfizer – Testing of a multi-lingual app in French and English for vaccination profiling
- Allianz Insurance – Testing of application used by Insurance agents
- Tata Sky – Testing of application used by employees, distributors, and dealers
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Malayalam
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
Skills
Product management
undefinedTimeline
Senior Consultant
Capgemini
09.2022 - Current
Team Lead
Accenture
03.2022 - 05.2022
Senior Analyst
Reserve Bank Information Technology
10.2020 - 03.2022
Senior Consultant
Polaris – A Virtusa Company
03.2018 - 09.2019
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2015 - 02.2018
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 11.2015
B. Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Govt. Engg. College
XII (CBSE) - Science
Arya Central School
X (CBSE) - Science
Arya Central School