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Shruthi Vanga

Agility Lead & Product Analyst

Summary

Results-driven IT professional with 13+ years of experience in the Banking domain, progressing from Software Engineer to Lead Business Analyst/Product Analyst and subsequently excelling in the Agility Lead role. Proven expertise in product management within the Agile framework, demonstrating a strong vision for understanding and optimizing products. Recognized as an expert in prioritizing tasks and streamlining workflows to ensure the success of banking products.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Agility Lead

JP Morgan Chase
03.2022 - Current

Product: Consumer & Community Banking - Digital Collections Product Group

Description: The Collections Product Group aims to reduce credit losses and improve operational efficiency of line of business Collections by making it simpler for at-risk customers to find and act on payment solutions through their channel of their choice.

  • Built Agile process roadmaps for teams, planned, and coordinated team activities while aiming to achieve 100% agility. Coached the teams on LeSS, Jira & JiraAlign.
  • Manged cross-functional product execution teams simultaneously increasing velocity by 30%, reducing churn by 25%, and also ensured 100% of goals, scope, and product vision was understood by the development team
  • Created and prioritized Product Backlog based on the requirements of the product and technical team
  • Worked closely with Product Manager and Dev Team, helped in writing user stories & acceptance criteria Reviewing and finalizing the User Acceptance Criteria with the Product Team at each Sprint Planning Event
  • Created presentation deck for management and stakeholder Quarterly meetings.

Senior Business System Consultant

Wells Fargo India Solutions Pvt Ltd.
03.2019 - 03.2022

Lead - Business Analyst

Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
04.2017 - 02.2019

Product-1: Wells Fargo – Foreign Exchange Trade Booking Application

Product-2: Wells Fargo - Foreign Exchange Online Application

Product-3: Wells Fargo - Wholesale Consumer Banking Application

  • Lead cross-functional product execution teams simultaneously increasing agility rating from 1.5 to 3.5 on scale of 4, also ensured 100% of goals, scope, and product vision was understood by development team
  • Collaborated with engineering, design, and marketing teams to define product features, prioritized development tasks, and created seamless user experience
  • Created and prioritized Product Backlog based on the requirements of the stakeholders
  • Worked with Stakeholders for feedback and issue understanding
  • Assisted in the advancement of strategic planning and continual enhancement of features
  • Created presentation deck for management and stakeholder monthly meetings.

Business Analyst

State Street Corporation
05.2015 - 02.2017

Project : AIS Transfer Agency (TA) Workflow Automation

Description: State Street Hedge Transfer Agency team provides various investor services to its fund clients.

This Agency universe of clients includes roughly 300 clients, 2, 500 funds, 120, 000 total investors and contacts

Hedge Transfer Agency teams manually review over 2 million emails annually. This communication with the investors and clients is made automated in this project.

Business Analyst

InterDigital Inc.
11.2014 - 05.2015

Project : Smart Access Manager Description: Smart Access Manager (SAM) is an intelligent client that enables a consumer's mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to make intelligent network selection and traffic management decisions between Wi-Fi, 3G, and LTE networks.

Android Application Developer

DirecTV
12.2013 - 11.2014

Project : NFL Sunday Ticket Application

Description: NFL Sunday Ticket Application, using this application one can stream any Sunday game live on any device, track your NFL.com fantasy league and favorite players, get highlight alerts and play the videos with a tap.

Graduate Assistant

St. Cloud State University
01.2013 - 12.2013
  • Functioned as a tutor for around 20 junior graduate students for project management and worked under the Prof. Hiral Shah and Dr. Ben Baliga.

Intern

Royal Bank of Scotland
06.2011 - 10.2011

Project: The study on potential of SME clients in specific products.

Java Developer

Genequo Softech Services
02.2009 - 06.2009

Project: Web-based Application

Education

Master of Engineering Management -

St. Cloud State University
St Cloud, MN
07.2012 - 12.2013

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

Vishwa Vishwani Institute of Systems & Management
Hyderabad, Telangana
05.2010 - 06.2012

Skills

    Business Analysis

    Analytics & Insights

    Product Management

    Jira, Jira Align, LeSS Framework

    Agile Software Development

    Android Software Development

Certification Awards

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, By Amazon Web Services
  • Product Bootcamp, By JPMC
  • Certified LeSS Basics, By LeSS
  • Gobal Certificate in Product Management, By Accredian
  • Certified in Product Management Foundation, By Accredian
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM), By Scrum Alliance
  • Scrum Foundation Professional Certifications, By Certi Prof
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, By St. Cloud State University
  • Surpass Award for the Quarter Jan'15 to Mar'15 for my outstanding performance, By Synechron
  • Spot Award for being an exceptional performer, By Synechron

Timeline

Agility Lead

JP Morgan Chase
03.2022 - Current

Senior Business System Consultant

Wells Fargo India Solutions Pvt Ltd.
03.2019 - 03.2022

Lead - Business Analyst

Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
04.2017 - 02.2019

Business Analyst

State Street Corporation
05.2015 - 02.2017

Business Analyst

InterDigital Inc.
11.2014 - 05.2015

Android Application Developer

DirecTV
12.2013 - 11.2014

Graduate Assistant

St. Cloud State University
01.2013 - 12.2013

Master of Engineering Management -

St. Cloud State University
07.2012 - 12.2013

Intern

Royal Bank of Scotland
06.2011 - 10.2011

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

Vishwa Vishwani Institute of Systems & Management
05.2010 - 06.2012

Java Developer

Genequo Softech Services
02.2009 - 06.2009
Shruthi VangaAgility Lead & Product Analyst