SRASHTI DUBEY
Lead Consultant
Pune
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Product Owner and Consultant with over a decade of experience delivering high-impact product solutions across diverse industries, including Payroll, Automotive, Insurance, and HR. Expertise includes translating complex client needs into actionable requirements and developing clear, Objective and Key Result (OKR)-driven product roadmaps that effectively guide cross-functional teams in Agile environments, including Scrum, Scrumban, and SAFe. Proven ability to elicit business requirements, craft detailed functional specifications, and facilitate successful system sign-offs and releases while leading large, cross-cultural teams. Recognized for strategic prioritization skills, managing technical debt, optimizing data models for enhanced performance, and fostering strong client relationships that contribute to team efficiency and morale during organizational changes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Lead Consultant / Product Owner
Thoughtworks
11.2021 - Current
- Drove product creation for a major European automotive client, effectively leading highly collaborative, cross-cultural, and cross-functional teams.
- As a Scrum Master, I led domain teams for a leading U.S. savings and investments firm, driving insurance product development and creation for their Southeast Asian market operations.
- Strategic Product Leadership: Led the unification of complex portfolio maintenance and consolidated critical data onto single platforms, providing unified views for reporting and analysis. Scoped and led Gen AI POCs to address critical user pain points, demonstrating tangible benefits. Proactively identified and mitigated significant risks in large-scale initiatives, preventing functionality breaks, and enabling technical debt refactoring for higher quality.
- Process Optimization and Automation: Automated complex operational flows, reducing manual effort by 80-90%, and accelerating delivery. Designed scalable data architectures for accurate information flow and audit trails. Collaborated to identify technical improvements, like UI performance gains and a streamlined codebase.
- Agile Implementation and Project Execution: Introduced and championed Agile and Scrum methodologies, establishing frameworks, and facilitating ceremonies as a Scrum Master. Successfully managed complex dependencies and ensured timely delivery of high-priority initiatives across cross-functional teams.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Built and maintained a strong rapport with clients and diverse stakeholders, guiding focused, results-oriented decisions. Co-created knowledge-sharing platforms to break down silos, and fostered improved collaboration. Developed frameworks for prioritizing technical debt and non-functional requirements, enhancing clarity and efficiency. Supported teams through attrition, maintaining morale, and delivery.
- Developed custom solutions based upon clients' strict requirements.
- Mentored junior consultants, improving their skills and knowledge through hands-on coaching and guidance.
- Optimized team performance through effective communication, training, and leadership techniques.
- Facilitated knowledge sharing among team members to build a collaborative work environment that fostered innovation and creativity.
Business Analyst
Cognizant
09.2015 - 11.2021
- Spearheaded data-driven solutions: Led the analysis and consolidation of data onto a single platform, creating a unified view for reporting and analysis. Designed intuitive dashboards in Microsoft BI, directly supporting data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
- Optimized Processes & Automated Workflows: Automated over 25 critical manual validations in Excel, reducing weekly delivery time by 4 hours. Streamlined HR operations across India, APAC, and Europe by automating salary advance requests and approvals.
- Drove digital transformation and user experience: Championed the digitization of employee processes, enabling direct tax filing from applications, which reduced over 150,000 personalized mail triggers. Applied design thinking to create user-friendly experiences (UX) for finance applications in Argentina and Australia, and designed interfaces for applications like E-Payslip and gamified learning platforms.
- Led Agile and Project Implementations: Successfully introduced and implemented Agile and Scrum methodologies for the India payroll processing application, acting as a Scrum Master to facilitate reviews and retrospectives. Consistently delivered requirements with organized and planned releases, achieving accurate project forecasting through granular planning and estimation.
- Ensured Quality & Compliance: Provided crucial support in QA testing (SIT and UAT phases), supported secure data migration, and monitored compliance, ensuring robust and reliable system performance.
- Fostered cross-functional collaboration: acted as a central coordinator, facilitating seamless communication and successful integrations between diverse stakeholders, including clients, HR, legal, and technical teams, ensuring timely product deployments.
- Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.
Education
MCA (Hons.) - Computer Applications
National Institute of Technology Raipur
Raipur, India03.2015
B.Sc. - Science
Nagpur University
Nagpur, India05.2012
Skills
Product Vision
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certified by Scrum Alliance for mastering agile principles applicable to product ownership.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
- Design Thinking Designing intuitive user interfaces (Microsoft BI dashboards, E-Payslip, gamified learning platforms)
- Agile Transformation Facilitator Facilitated a 50% improvement in agile methodology adoption, enhancing product delivery at Cognizant.
- Automation of Manual processes Digitizing employee tax filing, cutting over 1.5 lakh personalized mail triggers.
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
- Automotive
- Payroll
- HR
Timeline
Lead Consultant / Product Owner
Thoughtworks
11.2021 - Current
Business Analyst
Cognizant
09.2015 - 11.2021
MCA (Hons.) - Computer Applications
National Institute of Technology Raipur
B.Sc. - Science
Nagpur University