Somya Maheshwari

Product Synopsis: SOLVE is the leading provider of parsed data market in the Fixed Income Securities across multiple asset classes.

Responsibilities :

• Lead on multiple product development projects for SOLVE Quotes from conceptualization to market launch, leading to revenue growth and enhanced client satisfaction.
• Manage and mentor team of Product Managers, fostering their professional growth and aligning their efforts with company objectives, resulting in improved team performance.
• Oversee complex, cross-functional projects, leveraging product and financial experience to facilitate discussions and make informed decisions that advanced key company initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders from engineering, design, marketing, client services and sales to ensure product strategies aligned with Solve Fixed Income's business objectives.
• Improved user experience by collaborating closely with design and development teams on UI/UX enhancements.
• Mentored junior Product Managers in effective project management techniques and industry best practices.
• Increased product adoption by identifying customer needs and developing innovative product features.
• Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, fostering collaboration across departments for seamless product development.
• Developed communications plans for new products, increasing sales by 15%
• Championed customer feedback loops to continuously refine products according to evolving customer requirements
• Led cross-functional teams for successful product launches, resulting in increased market share

Product Synopsis : Aventri is an event management software, which helps in organizing corporate events. It helps in organizing meetings, finalizing the venues, for the same and letting the people register for those event, where in the user puts in all the required details by the host.

Responsibilities :

• Collaborated closely with stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvements and drive continuous innovation in the organization.
• Facilitated change management initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions during organizational transformations.
• Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
• Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

Client Synopsis : Benefitfocus is a biggest US based employer insurance management portal.

Project Synopsis : Payroll is a web-based accounting application to facilitate the employers to manage benefits for the employees of the entire organization. It includes financial details of employers & carrier for health, life, EAP & Accounts.

Responsibilities :

• Involved in Requirement Analysis and Walk-through.
  
• Involved in test closure activities, Mitigation Plan for a release.
  
• Involved extensively in decision making of Functionality testing, System testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing.
  
• Involved in reviewing test cases of peers for complex requirement..
• Monitored & identified the bugs in the running application along with bug reporting through JIRA. Create defect reports based on test execution errors.
  
• Involved in regular discussions with developers regarding defects
  
• Involved in the user acceptance testing to make sure that the application should work according to the client requirements.
  
• Benefitfocus Project Certified for HIPAA, COBRA, INFOSEC, Benefit101 & Product101
  

Project Synopsis : Worked on multiple projects like “Music Streaming, Guardian Avionics, NetCorp, HRUD” which included mobile and web applications.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
  
• Had complete ownership of testing from identifying the required test scenarios and its execution.
  
• Presented the reports on the test execution, defects, risks and coverage in a timely manner for each release.
  

• Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software.

• Responsible for running test cases, and posting defects.

• Identifying the requirement issues and tracking them to closure by communicating.

• Provided valuable suggestions for better usability features.
  
• Involved in deciding the test exit criteria.