SRIDEVI LANKA
Hyderabad
Summary
Methodical Product Owner with a meticulous and disciplined approach to gathering and understanding requirements, breaking down specifications, and working alongside different departments to develop high-quality products. Tactical planner and complex problem-solver with experience in various lines of BFSI domain like Cross boarder payments, Retail banking, Wealth Management1. Prepared to bring 13 years' experience in the field to a challenging new role.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Techwave
Hyderabad
10.2020 - Current
- worked with clients like VISA (Cross Boarder Payments) and FinTrust (Wealth Management)
- Gathered and prioritized product requirements from stakeholders.
- Breaking down the requirements into user stories and interpreting to DEV team
- Assisting teams in sprint planning based on VPL’s product roadmap
- Collaborated with design team to come up with product look.
- Developed user stories, acceptance criteria, and mockups for new features.Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to review progress towards sprint goals.
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure successful delivery of products.
- Managed sprints and monitored progress against project timelines.
- Recommended improvements to existing or proposed systems to enhance solution functionality.
- Handling Change management activities.
- Outlined new feature plans and specifications.
- Provided training and support for users as needed throughout the product lifecycle.
- Communicated regularly with stakeholders to ensure alignment on product strategy and vision.
Project Manager
Tetrasoft
Hyderabad
02.2019 - 08.2020
- Prepared cost estimates for projects of varying sizes.
- Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
- Identified risks associated with each project and developed strategies for mitigating those risks.
- Identified project needs by reviewing project objectives and schedules.
- Maintained records of all documents related to each project including specifications, change orders, invoices.
- Created team objectives and roles with specific goals outlined for each individual.
- Identified needs and coordinated resource allocation to deliver quality standards on time and within budget.
- Made changes to project scope and cost and implemented most effective change management processes to keep project up-to-date.
- Built and established strong partnerships with teams, vendors and contractors.
- Conducted periodic reviews on project timelines, cost and project progress
- Actively sought out feedback from stakeholders throughout the duration of a project in order to identify areas needing improvement or adjustment.
- Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams as needed for successful completion of projects.
- Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
- Led meetings with internal teams, business stake holders and 3rd party vendors
- Drafted reports summarizing progress made on projects for review by executive leadership team.
- Maintained open communication with team members and stakeholders, resulting in successful project outcomes.
Senior Business Analyst
Telangana State Cooperative Apex Bank LTD
Hyderabad
02.2017 - 01.2019
- Conducted gap analysis between current state processes and desired future state processes.
- Monitored project progress using metrics such as timeline, budget, resources utilization.
- Prepared cost and benefit analyses to support decision-making regarding potential solutions.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define features, integrations and partnerships.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews to understand user needs and preferences.
QA Lead
ValueLabs
Hyderabad
07.2012 - 01.2017
- Developed and implemented test plans, strategies, and processes to ensure quality assurance of products.
- Reviewed test scripts for software testing rounds.
- Reviewed requirements documents and technical specifications to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Developed test cases based on user stories and requirements documents and ensured they are up-to-date at all times.
- Conducted manual and automated tests on software applications to identify bugs or defects.
- Analyzed existing systems for potential areas of improvement.
- Met project scope and delivery dates by planning optimal testing schedules.
- Monitored execution of testing activities, directing supervisors, inspectors, and floor workers according to testing specifications to gather accurate, useful data.
- Tested functionality, performance and compliance of each product against design specifications to maintain strong development standards and high customer satisfaction.
- Simulated software production environments to allow for enhanced testing.
- maintained Requirement Traceability matrix for test coverage
- Collaborated closely with development teams to ensure product stability before release.
- Performed root cause analysis for identified issues, tracked progress and reported results.
Software QA Engineer
Cyient – (Infotech Enterprises LTD)
Hyderabad
03.2010 - 06.2012
- Tested web application compatibility and performance to recommend cross-browser compatibility improvements to web development team.
- Created detailed bug reports with steps to reproduce the issue and tracked them through resolution.
- Executed manual exploratory tests to identify bugs in web-based applications.
- Tested functionality, performance and compliance of each product against design specifications to maintain strong development standards and high customer satisfaction.
- Collaborated with developers to troubleshoot issues during debugging phase.
Education
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
JNTU
Hyderabad, Telangana05-2008
Skills
- IBM DB2
- MS Office
- Agile Tools : Jira, Confluence
- Workflow creation using MS Visio, Drawio
- API design and specification
- Mockup creation using Figma
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Product Planning & Lifecycle Management
- Roadmap Development
- Risk Management
- Problem Resolutions
- User Acceptance Testing
- Scrum Expertise
Certification
PSM1 (from Scrum.org)
Education Details
B.Tech. (Electronics and Communication Engineering) from JNTU, Hyderabad
Key Impact Areas
- Holding extensive knowledge in Waterfall and Agile methodologies (Scrum framework)
- Administering all agile scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Coaching team members and clients on agile process
- Conducting business workshops
- Well experienced in Requirement elicitation, BRD preparation, RTMs, epic, user story and workflow creation
- Handling change management.
- Having good functional knowledge in BFSI in the modules like retail Banking, corporate Lending, Domestic and cross boarder payments, channel banking and wealth management
- Well versed experience in handling cross boarder payment messaging systems like SWIFT and ISO20022
- Conducting end to end functional testing and responsible for all test deliverables.
- Conducting UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and handling end user training
- Good exposure on conducting PoC and proposal writing.
- Preparing project charters and commercials.
Personal Information
Marital Status: Married
Languages
- Telugu
- English
- Hindi
Timeline
Product Owner
Techwave
10.2020 - Current
Project Manager
Tetrasoft
02.2019 - 08.2020
Senior Business Analyst
Telangana State Cooperative Apex Bank LTD
02.2017 - 01.2019
QA Lead
ValueLabs
07.2012 - 01.2017
Software QA Engineer
Cyient – (Infotech Enterprises LTD)
03.2010 - 06.2012
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
JNTU
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