Nelson Varghese Santhipurathu
Product Owner
Kalyan,MH
Summary
Systematic Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Good planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of products. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and product management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions. Passionate to have a long association with an organization, which allows me to improve my skills and knowledge to grow along with the organization's objective.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
4
4
Languages
Work History
Product Owner
Epiq
Hyderabad, Telegana
03.2022 - Current
- Managed multiple projects effectively in demanding environment with tight deadlines.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
- Allocated and approved team resource usage.
- Identified changes in project scope and modified job schedule accordingly.
- Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Suggested enhancements to product design that would improve user experience.
- Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
- Documented user stories, specifications and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Coordinated design meetings and decisions with internal departments and teams.
Business Analyst
Epiq
Hyderabad, Telegana
10.2020 - 03.2022
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Attended Agile ceremonies, demos and production proving activities.
- Liaised with product team and development team to help break down requirements.
- Broke project into epics and implementable user stories.
- Interacted with internal stakeholders as voice of customer.
- Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Epiq
Hyderabad, Telangana
01.2017 - 10.2020
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
- Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.
- Met tight deadlines to satisfy client demands and project timelines.
- Communicate with stakeholders to understand their Business Requirements and communicate the same to the team.
- Trained and guided onsite and offshore team members in quality assurance standards, policies and procedures.
- Worked with Product Development Manager to Create User stories.
- Frequently led the Story Grooming and Promptly addressed queries of the Team.
- Led Interviews for Candidates for the position of Business Analyst.
- Perform unit, acceptance, regression and functional performance testing on different applications using the manual method.
- Gained knowledge of the eDiscovery process and Workflow & Data management of the eDiscovery project
- Conducted meetings with stakeholders and product owners to curate testing standards, user-friendliness and maintain the quality standard across product
- Played the role of a catalyst in collaborating with onshore members leading to repetitive success sprint on sprint.
- Facilitated daily scrum calls and catalysts in collaborating with US team members. Ensured best practices in Scrum are followed at all times.
- Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands.
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Aeries
Hyderabad, Telangana
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Worked on multiple products in Corporate Development and Client.
- Played multiple roles for corporate development projects, acted as BA, functional subject matter expert, and tester, led business analysis and requirement gathering session to review scope with key business key holders
- Gained knowledge of Compliance Management, Procurement Management and Time Tracking & Billing domains
- Worked with the Product Owner to create user stories, epic and features.
- Proposed solutions in alignment with defined specifications and requirements.
- Communicate client's business requirements by constructing easy to understand data and process models.
- Identified test scenarios, estimated test effort, and created test plans.
- Participated in daily stand-up meetings to facilitate clarification and implementation of requirements in an agile development environment.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Karunya Institute of Technology And Science
Coimbatore 06.2012 - 06.2016
Skills
Story planning
Stakeholder relationship management
Scrum methodology
Agile frameworks
Mockups and prototypes
Design process
Problem-Solving
Dependable and Responsible
Troubleshooting
Organization and Time Management
Product development
Decision-Making
Planning and Coordination
SQL and databases
Release planning
Test case scenarios
Project Management
Needs assessments
Certification
Agile Certified Product Manager and Product Owner Credential (ACPMPO) - AIPMM The Association of International Product Marketing and Management - Credential ID 50285685
Accomplishments
- Quarterly Outstanding Performance Award (Jan 2018 - March 2018) in Aeries Technology Group
- Quarterly Outstanding Performance Award (Jan 2020 - March 2020) in Epiq
Affiliations
AIPPM Ambassador - AIPMM The Association of International Product Marketing and Management
Issued Mar 2022
Timeline
Agile Certified Product Manager and Product Owner Credential (ACPMPO) - AIPMM The Association of International Product Marketing and Management - Credential ID 50285685
04-2022
Product Owner
Epiq
03.2022 - Current
Business Analyst
Epiq
10.2020 - 03.2022
Quality Assurance Engineer
Epiq
01.2017 - 10.2020
Quality Assurance Engineer
Aeries
01.2017 - 12.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Karunya Institute of Technology And Science
06.2012 - 06.2016