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Sindhu Nadig H D

Sindhu Nadig H D

Wavell Heights

Summary

10+ years of solid experience in IT Industry comprising of 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner and Business Analyst in the insurance, benefits, industrial automation, transportation, and banking sectors. Well versed with business requirements elicitation and analysis, quality assurance and experience in envisioning, representing, and translating the product vision from the business area to software development. Good experience in handling Techno Functional roles in SDLC. Also, have an expert understanding of SDLC processes and Agile flavored development methodologies (Waterfall, Kanban and Agile with Scrum Framework).

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst

Plansource
09.2023 - 01.2024
  • Company Overview: Plansource USA
  • Developed and communicated product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder needs in the Benefits domain
  • Maintained and prioritized the product backlog based on business value and user feedback, driving efficient achievement of sprint goals
  • Using BPMN 2.0 to design and model business processes for better understanding and communication
  • Conducting data modelling to support database design, reporting, and analytics
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature specifications, ensuring business goals were met
  • Facilitated sprint planning sessions, working closely with development teams to refine user stories and prioritize tasks for iterative development
  • Led User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate features, ensuring they met acceptance criteria and user expectations before release
  • Coordinated product releases, including deployment, communication strategies, and stakeholder updates to ensure smooth delivery of new features
  • Worked with cross-functional teams, including marketing, operations, sales, and customer support, to align on product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies
  • Defined and tracked key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and effectiveness, using metrics for strategic decisions and continuous improvement
  • Applied Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative product development
  • Acted as a liaison between stakeholders and development teams to gather requirements and ensure alignment, particularly in Benefits and data science projects
  • Analysed customer feedback, usage data, and market trends to guide product improvements and feature prioritization
  • Collaborated with developers and stakeholders on API validation and seamless system integration, ensuring data integrity and alignment with business requirements
  • Led data science projects by gathering and defining requirements, working with data scientists to build dashboards and track metrics that provided actionable insights
  • Conducted data analysis and defined KPIs for data-driven initiatives, using insights from dashboards to support decision-making and continuous improvement
  • Ensured data accuracy and collaborated with teams to validate and refine analytical models for optimal business impact
  • Plansource USA

Product Owner /Business Analyst

HCP Anywhere
08.2021 - 09.2023
  • Company Overview: Hitachi Vantara Pvt Ltd
  • Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
  • Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
  • Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
  • Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
  • Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
  • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
  • Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
  • Working with UX to create feature mockups before technical requirements are built around the plans
  • Involved in User research and usability testing
  • Demo product iterations to the rest of the company, including to both technical and non-technical teams
  • Involved in mobile development cycle and guiding the team in building the features of the product
  • Contribute in preparing the Release Plan
  • Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
  • Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
  • Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
  • Follow our competitors and the industry
  • Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
  • Assisted in gathering and documenting requirements for various projects, contributing to improved project scope and timelines
  • Hitachi Vantara Pvt Ltd

Product Owner

WINCC Unified SCADA PI Options
06.2018 - 07.2021
  • Company Overview: Siemens Technology and Services
  • Managed a highly effective product development team consisting of one technical team lead, 3-4 developers and 1-2 QA engineers
  • Facilitated and helped remediate problems, impediments, and defects that could delay the demo and delivery of the user stories in the Agile delivery cycle along with the Scrum Master/Team
  • Conducted regular review/walkthrough sessions with the Business/internal stakeholders to understand the company's vision and product roadmap and be in line with the same
  • Created product backlog and authored user stories based on the business requirements from the markets
  • Facilitated scrum ceremonies like sprint planning and backlog grooming sessions as per scrum framework to help scrum team refine the stories for the build phase
  • Participated in scrum ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint review meetings and retrospective meetings to address the queries on the requirements front and represent business to the IT team
  • Prioritized and allocated user stories in the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlogs to the IT team for 2-sprint look ahead there by benefitting the stakeholders for review
  • Performed story point estimation for the user stories with the team for the upcoming sprints based on resource availability and technical complexities of stories
  • Mitigated the risks on the requirements front that the team came across during the in sprint cycles
  • Led and coordinated scrum and release activities for a cross-product, cross-group, multiple team product release that allowed the release to ship ahead of schedule
  • Helped resolve impediments with the scrum master to maximize productivity
  • Encouraged and implemented process improvements and created team-building opportunities
  • Siemens Technology and Services
  • Helped the team achieve ~100% sprint velocity consecutively immediately after resuming the role of PO
  • Improved the team’s learning curve and extended help to the program in achieving planned velocity by proactively picking the user stories from different process areas and delivering them successfully
  • After resuming the role of PO, lead the team to achieve a clean exit from the SIT/UAT phases
  • Led multiple tasks to implement best practices by documenting, tracking end to end life cycle review and signoff processes

Test Analyst

TTA
03.2014 - 05.2018
  • Company Overview: Transport Ticketing Authority, Government of Victoria, Australia – NTT DATA GDS
  • Analyze and evaluate requirement of existing and proposed systems
  • Prepare test strategy documents for software program and releases
  • Design and review test cases for requirements based on functional specification documents and requirement traceability matrix
  • Prepare Understanding documents and flow charts for core functionalities and modules
  • Root cause analysis for defects and advise test process improvement to minimize test seepage
  • Conduct defect triage with system architects, business analyst, development representatives
  • Managing team of test analysts and junior testers
  • Assigning daily test tasks, monitoring daily executions & preparing daily test summary report and weekly test summary reports
  • Prepare test strategy documents based on project plan and delivery timelines for upcoming software releases
  • Perform system integration testing, system testing and User acceptance testing
  • Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium
  • Created Test cases Using Element locators and Selenium Webdriver methods
  • Enhanced Test cases using Java programming features and TestNG Annotations
  • Execution of Selenium Test cases and Reporting defects
  • Involved in Regression Testing using Selenium
  • Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports
  • Transport Ticketing Authority, Government of Victoria, Australia – NTT DATA GDS

Education

B.E. - Electronics & Communication & Engineering

01.2013

Skills

  • Product Ownership
  • Requirement Analysis and Elicitation
  • Business Analysis
  • Gap Analysis (As-Is and To-Be)
  • Documentation
  • User Story Definition
  • Client liaison
  • Deployment and escalation support
  • Project Management
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Excellent Communication and Presentation skills
  • Functional and Automation Testing
  • Defect management
  • Product Roadmap
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Release Management
  • Customer Feedback Analysis
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Selenium
  • TestNG
  • Data Analysis & Reporting
  • Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean Agile)
  • API Endpoint Validation
  • Data visualization
  • Data modelling
  • BPMN 20
  • Product management
  • User acceptance testing
  • Multitasking and organization
  • Business process modeling
  • Business process improvement
  • Change impact analysis
  • Test case scenarios
  • Microsoft Excel mastery
  • Project management
  • Functional specifications
  • Software development life cycle
  • BI tools expertise
  • CRM systems
  • Problem-solving
  • Reporting and documentation

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO - Scrum Alliance)
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
  • ISTQB Foundation Level Certified Tester
  • ISTQB Advanced Level Certified Tester

Tools

Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, Jira, Confluence, ALM, TFS, TMS, SQL, Oracle, LucidChart/Visio, MS-Office tools, superset, Tableau, Power BI, Pendo, Figma, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Webex

Personal Information

  • Passport Number: Y4041166
  • Date of Birth: 04/24/92

Timeline

Business Analyst

Plansource
09.2023 - 01.2024

Product Owner /Business Analyst

HCP Anywhere
08.2021 - 09.2023

Product Owner

WINCC Unified SCADA PI Options
06.2018 - 07.2021

Test Analyst

TTA
03.2014 - 05.2018

B.E. - Electronics & Communication & Engineering

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