Sriramya Vinnakota
Summary
Adept Product Owner with a proven track record in leading digital transformation at WSIB Digital Modernization, adept in stakeholder engagement and leveraging Agile methodologies. Expertise in cloud migration and Guidewire platforms, significantly enhancing business processes and system scalability. Excelled in cross-functional team coordination and product roadmap execution, ensuring project success and stakeholder satisfaction.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
WSIB Digital Modernization
06.2024 - Current
- Led the digital transformation initiative for a Canadian insurance platform, integrating PolicyCenter with cloud-based solutions
- Created and managed product roadmap and backlog and remained accountable on the outcomes
- Worked with stakeholders to adjust priorities in order to maximize the business value delivered
- Participate in business readiness to understand the impact of change, to propose the approach to manage adoption
- Participate in team activities: sprint planning, sprint review, retro, daily scrum, backlog refinement
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to deliver Digital Portal integration with Insurance Platform
- Translating technical details to non-technical stakeholders
- Worked and coordinated with the technical team on the product upgrade and conducted meetings on new product features
- Maintained RAID logs, tracked task progress and managed the technical dependencies between technical teams
- Worked closely with the architect and the development team in designing the API’s
- Prepared high level design documents for few of the complex API’s
- Worked closely with the development team for building the data model and worked with the reporting team to represent the same
- Worked with front end team to verify if the acceptance criteria are met
- Worked closely with the solution architect and helped the development team in implementing the authorization and authentication flow for the end-to-end process
- Presented end-of-sprint demos to stakeholders
Product Owner
Renault Car Insurance (RCI)
12.2022 - 05.2024
- Spearheaded the deployment of Guidewire Cloud solutions for a European insurer
- Defined user stories and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Business Analysts
- Conducted client workshops to identify and address business needs
- Actively participated in sprint planning, retrospectives and stand-ups
- Collaborated with solution architects, developers and testers to ensure alignment with business goals
- Delivered two major go-lives on time
- Worked closely with the development team to provide feedback on work-in progress, clarify requirements and contributed to remove roadblocks or impediments
- Worked with testing team to verify if the acceptance criteria are met
- Worked on financial development module as per business requirement along with the development team
- Worked on verifying the general ledger file along with the development and testing team and provide minor fixes
- Worked on generating the document payloads and data model mapping
Senior Business Analyst
Maphre Insurance
11.2021 - 05.2022
- Transitioned Italy-based auto insurer from legacy systems to Guidewire v8
- Analyzed the existing business processes and identified areas of improvement
- Identify risks and dependencies
- Collaborated with clients to ensure requirements were accurately translated into product features
- Managed release planning and supported post-production defect resolution
Business Analyst
NLC Transformation Project
08.2015 - 01.2021
- Modernized legacy systems for an American insurer, enhancing scalability and reducing operational costs
- Gathered requirements, proposed solutions, and managed delivery timelines
- Coordinated across onshore and offshore teams for seamless project execution
- Document change requests and work with stakeholders to evaluate feasibility
- Assist in creating test plans and test cases
- Conducted user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensured timely go-live of critical functionalities
- Worked on SQL to generate the reports
Education
B.Tech -
Gitam University
01.2014
Intermediate -
Sri Chaitanya Junior College
01.2010
SSC -
St Alphonsas High School
01.2008
Skills
- Stakeholder Engagement and Requirement Gathering
- Product Roadmap Planning and Execution
- Agile and Scrum methodologies
- End-to-End Project Lifecycle Management
- Cloud Implementation and Migration Strategies
- Functional and technical knowledge of insurance platforms (Guidewire)
- Business Process Optimization and Documentation
- JIRA
- Confluence
- MS Visio
- IDE Studio
- Basic Java
- Gosu
- SQL
Certification
- Guidewire Functional and Technical PolicyCenter V8 Certified
- Guidewire Functional and Technical BillingCenter V8 Certified
- ACE Certified in PolicyCenter
Accomplishments
- Received continuously outstanding award for 7 years.
- received ACE award for the contribution and successfully delivery of the project
Languages
Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
kanada
Elementary (A2)
A2
Marathi
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Product Owner
WSIB Digital Modernization
06.2024 - Current
Product Owner
Renault Car Insurance (RCI)
12.2022 - 05.2024
Senior Business Analyst
Maphre Insurance
11.2021 - 05.2022
Business Analyst
NLC Transformation Project
08.2015 - 01.2021
B.Tech -
Gitam University
Intermediate -
Sri Chaitanya Junior College
SSC -
St Alphonsas High School
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