Monikongkana Bharadwaj

• Drove and facilitated the end-to-end product development process, overseeing all aspects from concept to release, ensuring the product meets global regulatory standards.
• Developed product roadmaps aligned with the company's vision, focusing on user needs, revenue potential, and scalability.
• Created project tasks, goals, and scope using estimation strategies (like story points), while maintaining a sharp focus on timelines and quality.
• Engaged often with clients for requirement gathering, using interviews or surveys.
• Developed comprehensive PRD, BRD, FRD, and created epics and user stories in JIRA.
• Conducted market and data analysis, and identified key opportunities based on end-user
needs and regulatory conditions.
• Wrote and maintained technical documents (requirement specifications, PAF, CRF,
deployment reports, trace matrix, etc.).
• Performed product backlog refinement, prioritised, and maintained backlog items.
• Created wireframes and collaborated with the design team to produce low- and
high-fidelity UI designs and UX flows, supported by usability testing.
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration, bridging the gap between engineering teams,
product managers, and business leaders.
• Conducted and led scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, sprint review/demo, and sprint
retrospective.
• Coached the Scrum team in Agile practices and principles, fostering a collaborative and
self-organizing environment, and ensuring alignment on sprint cadence and deliverables.
• Ensured that the product development and deployment are within the required budget.
• Managed and coordinated with stakeholders (internal and external).
• Managed and allocated resources. Directly managed a team of 10 and worked on a team of
30.
• Managed and mitigated risks using different strategies.
• Resolved conflicts within and across teams with expertise.
• Led product walkthroughs for development and QA teams, resolved blockers, and
managed dependencies.
• Handled change requests.
• Tracked the team's progress using Agile metrics and tools, ensured transparency, and
made necessary adjustments to keep the project on track.
• Iterated and improved the product by gathering feedback from end users and
stakeholders, assessing any changes in the landscape, and incorporating features for
future roadmap releases.
• Oversaw the deployment, maintenance, and optimization of cloud infrastructure (AWS) to
ensure scalability, security, and efficiency.

• Engaged often with clients for requirement gathering, using interviews or surveys.
• Developed comprehensive BRD, FRD, and created epics and user stories in JIRA.
• Created wireframes and collaborated with the design team to produce low- and
high-fidelity UI designs and UX flows, supported by usability testing.
• Assisted in developing product roadmaps aligned with the company's vision, focusing on
user needs, revenue potential, and scalability.
• Assisted in creating the project scope using estimation strategies, while maintaining a
sharp focus on timelines and quality.
• Managed and coordinated with stakeholders (internal and external).
• Conducted market and data analysis, and identified key opportunities based on end-user needs and regulatory conditions.

• Led product walkthroughs for development and QA teams, resolved blockers, and managed dependencies.
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration, bridging the gap between engineering teams, product managers, and business leaders.
• Resolved conflicts within and across teams with expertise.
• Iterated and improved the product by gathering feedback from end users and
stakeholders via UAT, assessing any changes in the landscape, and incorporating features
for future roadmap releases.
• Tracked the team's progress using Agile metrics and tools, ensured transparency, and
made necessary adjustments to keep the project on track.
• Coached the Scrum team in Agile practices and principles, fostering a collaborative and
self-organizing environment, and ensuring alignment on sprint cadence and deliverables.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and
Retrospective).
• Facilitated timely backlog grooming.
• Efficiently and effectively performed front-end and back-end testing of mainframe
systems for a banking client.
• Performed installation testing, HA testing, and integration testing on the back end.
• Created automation test scripts using Java, the Selenium, and TestNG frameworks for a
web-based load manager application.
• Created automation test scripts for Windows-based components using PowerShell.
• Performed API testing using Postman API.
• Took the initiatives in improving application performance using JMeter and implemented
the same.
• Groomed the new talents into the team for a smooth onboarding project experience, and
provided knowledge transfer.

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) are conducted efficiently and effectively.
• Mentored the Scrum team in Agile practices and principles, fostering a collaborative and self-organizing environment.
• Tracked the team's progress using Agile metrics and tools, ensuring transparency, and making necessary adjustments to keep the project on track.
• Contributed as an Automation Test Engineer for a series of clients across different domains, such as Healthcare, Retail, Agriculture, and Transportation, using testing tools like HP UFT, Worksoft Certify, and CBTA.
• Worked on creating hybrid test automation frameworks involving different combinations of: Data Driven, Modular, Hybrid, and Business Process Testing.
• Wrote manual test cases for functional, client-centric, SAT, UAT, and regression.
• Contributed to Agile methodology using the Scrum approach over HP ALM. tool.
• Set up an automation framework for testing SAP HANA using UFT (VBScript).
• Created automation scripts for SAP (FI, FICO, FILO, Hana).
• Awarded bravo for automating over 200 test cases within a month.
• I did hands-on work using Selenium and TestNG on the SAP application and presented a
POC aimed at helping to reduce costs for which I received POB.