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Sapna Durga

Product Owner
Gurugram

Summary

Visionary Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to gather and write requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Recognized consistently for Backlog prioritization and delivering high value products to business in various products. Walked in to the shoes of Developer, System Analyst and Business Analyst in 16 years of IT experience. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Product Owner

NEC Software Solutions
02.2022 - Current
  • Managed expectations of more than 14 clients of the same product with different needs ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams of more than 14 members each to develop high-quality products that meet customer needs.
  • Traveled to customer sites in UK and Sweden to maintain customer relationship
  • Conducted customer demos and participated in user groups and service reviews.

Product Owner

Optum Global Solutions
1 2019 - 2 2022
  • Create, maintain, and 'own' the product backlog
  • Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization
  • Works with development team to ensure right customer problem is solved and clarify questions
  • Act as a link between stakeholders and development team
  • Participate in the planning meetings, reviews (demo) and retrospective meetings
  • Accepts or rejects product development results from a team
  • Incorporates feedback from customers to the product backlog
  • Perform/host UAT to deliver high quality products with high business standards
  • Work with Scrum Master and / or Project Manager to ensure clarity of scope, status tracking and execution of product

Agile Business Analyst

Optum Global Solutions
01.2016 - 12.2018
  • Created Features, user stories and design documents
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
  • Combined business and systems knowledge to create functional designs
  • Created workflow diagrams using Microsoft visio and Gantt charts to clearly demonstrate processes
  • Developed Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools
  • Participated in dev solutioning and propose improvements
  • Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint
  • Track success on roadmap and report risks and constraints if any

System Analyst

United Health Group
07.2010 - 12.2011
  • Created Functional Specification Document (FSD) and Software Requirement Inventory (SRI) Design Specification document (DSS) and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system flows, user administration and requirements
  • Design walkthrough with stakeholders for base lining architecture
  • Assisted business users in defining UAT test cases and plans
  • Create Mapping Documents and Process Flow Diagrams if needed
  • Functioned as the bridge between product management and IT

Developer

United Health Group
10.2007 - 06.2010
  • Production support and enhancement project for COSMOS Claims System
  • Preparation of design documents and technical specification documents related to code changes
  • Unit testing
  • Resolution of Incidents and Business-related problems in Billing and enrolment Area
  • Solution to queries raised by Business users
  • Fixes to issues related to Billing and enrolments Applications
  • Handling Yearly Open Enrolment Periods which is business critical for the company

Software Engineer

Satyam Technology
10.2007 - 06.2010
  • Coding new mainframe programs
  • Preparation of technical specification document
  • Unit testing
  • Batch Support and handling tickets
  • Fixes to issues related to Application

Education

B.tech - ECE

Kurukshetra University
07.2003 - 07.2007

Skills

Change Management Strategy

Risk Mitigation Strategies

Product Strategy Development

Customer interaction

Agile Development Practices

Effective Backlog Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Release Plan

MS Office skills including Visio

Business Requirement Document

Functional Specification Document

Software Requirement Specification

Requirement Traceability Matrix

Solution design

Product Prototyping and development

Proof-of-concepts

Process design

Conduct GAP Assessment

Impact Assessment

Stakeholder Engagement

JIRA Project Management

CA Agile Rally

TFS/ADO

Confluence Proficiency

Certification

PSM-1

Timeline

Product Owner

NEC Software Solutions
02.2022 - Current

Agile Business Analyst

Optum Global Solutions
01.2016 - 12.2018

System Analyst

United Health Group
07.2010 - 12.2011

Developer

United Health Group
10.2007 - 06.2010

Software Engineer

Satyam Technology
10.2007 - 06.2010

B.tech - ECE

Kurukshetra University
07.2003 - 07.2007

Product Owner

Optum Global Solutions
1 2019 - 2 2022
Sapna DurgaProduct Owner