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Sagar Joshi

Sagar Joshi

Lead Product Owner
Hyderabad

Summary

Experienced Product Owner/Manager with 19+ years in BFSI and technology services, with expertise in leading cross-functional teams, driving customer-centric product

development, and delivering strategic solutions at scale. Proven track record of

transforming legacy processes, managing quality and delivery of products, backlogs prioritisation techniques, stakeholder management and implementing best practices in Agile.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates

Work History

Lead Product Owner

Wells Fargo
07.2024 - Current
  • Orchestrated collaboration among cross-functional teams to create and implement Low Code/No Code platform supporting remediation and sunsetting of shadow IT applications.
  • Developed enhancements in BTAP application by analyzing customer requirements. Guided product strategy and roadmap to ensure alignment with market trends and organizational objectives.
  • Adopted shift-left methodology for improving product quality, refining product development workflows and minimizing time-to-market
  • Coached junior product managers, enhancing a culture of ongoing improvement and teamwork.

Technical Product Owner

Valuelabs Pvt. Ltd.
02.2024 - 07.2024

Owned the Customer Identity and Access Management product, driving end-to-end roadmap, quality, and delivery.

Collaborated with engineering, Business and QA to define and refine requirements, ensuring implementation of user stories as per INVEST and MoSCoW prioritization methods.

Led daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and sprint reviews as acting Product Owner;

enhanced team velocity by removing blockers and clarifying deliverables.

Developed metrics dashboards for tracking CSAT, and defect rates; enabled

data-driven decision making for the leadership team.

Presented roadmap and progress updates to senior stakeholders to facilitate buy-in

for new feature roll-outs.

Drove adoption of functional automation and CI/CD testing practices, reducing release timelines.

Product Manager - Certification

Giesecke & Devrient Pvt. Ltd.
07.2023 - 02.2024
  • Oversee product management certification process for payment products, ensuring quality and certification accreditation activities.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams of project managers, R&D engineers, and marketers to effectively launch and propel automation of new products across various geographies.
  • Serve as primary interface and liaison among external stakeholders, technical labs, and accreditation entities.

Product Lead - SME

FIS
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2019 - 06.2023
  • Strong experiencing in leading complex migration project, implementing modernization and innovation ideas across web and server side technologies.
  • Worked as a Scrum Master & Tech lead for managing end-to-end delivery of modernization project from legacy VB6/perl to Spring-Boot, Angular and python platform.
  • Managed ETL flat file comparison testing using automation framework designed using python and bash scripting.
  • Contributed significantly to the planning of QA environments cloud migration strategies, designed QA test strategy for the Lift-n-Shift approach.
  • Prepared development and automation test plan to implement the RESTful services and automate functional testing and API monitoring using Postman.
  • Well versed with Performance metrics, Root Cause Analysis, Performance tuning, in collaboration with coding team.

QE Lead

FIS
04.2017 - 03.2019
  • Strong experience in Automation framework maintenance, Optimization, Automation Strategizing, and Automation Test Execution & Troubleshooting.
  • Managed development of end-to-end testing automation suite for RTS web application, utilizing Selenium WebDriver-Java for test automation.
  • Led the effort of designing functional automation suite for verifying tax forms generated through OpenText HPExstream using bash-scripting.
  • Lead DevOps implementation efforts, ensuring continuous integration across environments.
  • Managed the implementation and execution of non-functional tests, specifically using JMeter to identify bottlenecks and areas of improvement.

Team Lead

FIS
04.2014 - 03.2017
  • Work on implementing TDD methodology to drive significant improvements in Software Quality & Delivery.
  • Designed and implemented automation framework for ETL program using flat file comparison through Python and Bash scripting.
  • Quality lead for data analysis for a data science project. Validating data sources, performing data profiling and cleansing, identifying and addressing data quality issues.
  • Managed the Trading Platform integration testing, Ensuring real-time and accurate execution of financial trades, validating market data accuracy, and responsiveness.

Module Lead

FIS
04.2011 - 03.2014
  • Implemented release automation with SVN version control, seamlessly integrating code changes into the release process through the utilization of SVN hooks and branch-based workflows.
  • Managing the Disaster Recovery testing across products in short time through extensive use of automated regression suites.
  • Skilled in providing post-production support and troubleshooting to ensure optimal system performance.

Sr QA Engineer

FIS
01.2007 - 03.2011
  • Test case designing, test execution, test case management.
  • Conducted extensive regression testing on complex software systems, enabling the achievement of 99% product reliability and customer satisfaction.
  • Release automation using bash scripting.

QA Engineer

Tech Mahindra (Payroll of Verisoft Infoservices Pvt.Ltd.)
11.2004 - 01.2007
  • Effectively contributed as QA Engineer for British Telecom's two major products at Tech Mahindra.
  • Showcased expertise in Planning and Assignment; Configuration System (PACS) and Network Capacity Assignment System (NCAS) for streamlined management of SDH equipment life-cycle, customer service orders, and ADSL services support.

Education

MCM - Computer Science

Institute of Technology & Management
Nanded, India
06.2003

Skills

Product backlog management Feature prioritization Customer empathy Quality engineering

Certification

Certified Safe Product Owner / Product Manager

Timeline

Lead Product Owner

Wells Fargo
07.2024 - Current

Technical Product Owner

Valuelabs Pvt. Ltd.
02.2024 - 07.2024

Product Manager - Certification

Giesecke & Devrient Pvt. Ltd.
07.2023 - 02.2024

Product Lead - SME

FIS
04.2019 - 06.2023

QE Lead

FIS
04.2017 - 03.2019

Team Lead

FIS
04.2014 - 03.2017

Module Lead

FIS
04.2011 - 03.2014

Sr QA Engineer

FIS
01.2007 - 03.2011

QA Engineer

Tech Mahindra (Payroll of Verisoft Infoservices Pvt.Ltd.)
11.2004 - 01.2007

MCM - Computer Science

Institute of Technology & Management
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