Vijaya Avatani

• Acts as primary interface to internal and external customers, users, and stakeholders.
• Contribute to Program Increment planning as well as sprint planning, execution, and review.
• Using Working Backwards method to decompose requirements into Epics, features that drive product roadmaps.
• Guide and review feedback for their agile team and stakeholders and sign-off work products completed by agile team.
• working with cross-functional teams including Technical Program Managers, Chapter leads, Developers, UX designers, and internal customers to define detailed requirements.
• voice of business customer, ensuring accountability for system services.
• owning working backward document and vision for features, as well as eliciting and decomposing business requirements.
• proficiency in coordinating internal forums, prioritizing backlogs, and making trade-off decisions on product features.
• monitor feature development, review product demos, prepare launches, and ensure post-launch feedback incorporation.
• mentoring team members, assisting with candidate selection and onboarding, and collaborating with interdependent teams on platform product requirements.
• Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
• Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders by maintaining open lines of communication and addressing concerns promptly.
• Fostered culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospective meetings with team.
• Proactively identified risks associated with project timelines or deliverables, implementing mitigation strategies when necessary.
• Collaborated with engineering teams on technical feasibility assessments, resulting in realistic scope definition for projects.
• Optimized product performance by identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary changes.
• Implemented Agile methodologies to increase team productivity and enhance overall project outcomes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality products that met customer needs.
• Owned and prioritized product backlog.
• Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
• Hired and managed 6 new managers to drive business growth.
• Handled administrative systems to assist senior leadership and over 16 staff members

Bank of Ireland Domain: Retail Banking/AI projects, Core Banking

• Undertake data and business process analytical, experimental, investigative, fact-finding work to support user stories
• Create user journeys, artifacts to illustrate understanding of the business needs
• Acts as the primary interface to internal and external customers, users, and stakeholders
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritized stories, epics and features to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Facilitated communication between development teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of requirements and expectations.
• Developed comprehensive roadmaps outlining the product vision, goals, and milestones for successful execution.
• Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
• Work with program management representatives to understand costs, risks, resourcing, and other external dependencies that influence delivery
• Guide and review feedback for their agile team and stakeholders and signoff work products completed by the agile team.
• Tracked key project milestones and adjusted project plans to meet customer needs.
• Oversaw employee development program and provided career path opportunities to drive talent advancement and retention efforts.
• Coordinated among multiple external stakeholders to gain consensus on major project milestones and prioritization goals.
• Owned and prioritized product backlog.

• Projects: DeutscheBank, UHL Domain: Banking, Healthcare, Facilitate client meetings to gather business requirements and ensure dev and testing teams are aligned to it
• Deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases, user stories, wireframes, workflow/ process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams
• Test the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance criteria also validate the user stories
• Data analysis and reporting, analyzing and projecting of data using
• Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, feasibility, project communications, etc
• Conduct sprint planning sessions, daily scrums, testing, retrospective session, and sprint reviews
• Create user stories, tasks, Epics, depending on business requirement and priorities assigned
• Maintain the backlog of enhancements, new features and defects, defining the user story and acceptance criteria based on current business needs
• Create and distribute communications around product enhancements and releases
• Ongoing interaction and engagements with other Product
• Owners, stakeholders, and technology partners
• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.

• Facilitate client meetings to gather business requirements and ensure dev and testing teams are aligned to it.
• Deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases, user stories, wireframes, workflow/ process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams
• Test the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance criteria also validate the user stories
• Data analysis and reporting, analyzing and projecting of data using MSExcel
• Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, feasibility, project communications, etc
• Conduct sprint planning sessions, daily scrums, testing, retrospective session, and sprint reviews
• Create user stories, tasks, Epics, depending on business requirement and priorities assigned.

• Development of various applications using C# .net technology
• In charge of Software Update Validation Program build release
• Fixing high priority etrack defects
• Creating documents as per project requirement