Gauri Gajanan Bathe
Irvine,USA
Summary
Product Owner with over 3 years of experience defining product vision and leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable results. Experienced in backlog management, requirement gathering, and PI planning to support the delivery of key features within set timelines. Proven ability to increase dashboard usage by 35% within six months and drive the adoption of over 500 applications.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Owner
Edward Jones(Consultant Via Gemini Solutions)
06.2023 - Current
- Defined product vision (objectives and key value metrics of SEMD in context of development cycle) and product roadmap (what is “now, next, and future” deliverables) aligning with business goals.
- Prioritized and managed backlog in JIRA; authored detailed user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring timely delivery of features that improved dashboard usage (measured by total users, average time per user) by 35% in 6 months.
- Facilitated PI planning and sprint ceremonies across 4 cross-functional teams (engineering, data, QA, UX) to gather requirements, clarify priorities, remove impediments, and ensure mutual understanding.
- Defined, tracked and delivered OKR’s on success metrics / KPIs, ensuring that delivered features or system changes provide measurable value.
- Published documentation and release notes in SharePoint, improving transparency and stakeholder communication.
- Led product development initiatives to align with market demands and customer feedback.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to prioritize product backlog and refine user stories.
Product Owner
CitusTech
12.2020 - 03.2021
- Partnered with cross-functional teams (PMs, Dev, QA, UX) to design healthcare data analytics while platform adhering to regulatory compliance.
- Coordinated Agile ceremonies: backlog management (prioritization, grooming), sprint planning, define acceptance criteria, conduct UAT across scrum teams.
- Gathered and analyzed requirements from multiple stakeholders (clinical users, engineering, UX, operations) across [no of teams/users] and translated them into detailed product specifications / user stories / epics in JIRA dashboards leading to transparency, increased cross collaboration and seamless delivery pipelines.
- Collaborated with UX/UI teams to design intuitive interfaces and user flows using Figma.
- Conducted demos with senior clients, gathered feedback and drove iterative improvements that reduced rework cycles by 15%.
Business Analyst
SameSpace
07.2019 - 12.2020
- Partnered with clients to demonstrate Conversation Studio capabilities, conducted discovery sessions, and translated feedback into prioritized features and tech stories in JIRA for engineering team.
- Collaborated with developers to define key performance metrics (e.g. bot response time, customer interaction volume, engagement rates) and built dashboards to measure adoption and ROI.
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies (backlog grooming, sprint planning, UAT), aligning stakeholders and reducing delivery cycle time by 20%.
- Defined and maintained the product delivery roadmap, balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and business priorities to accelerate adoption. (optional)
- Served as the bridge between clients, engineering, and leadership, ensuring seamless communication and successful go-lives.
- Coordinated delivery across multiple projects with competing priorities, ensured on-time completion of 100% of releases in 2020.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Reliance Jio
10.2015 - 07.2019
- Led a QA engineering team of five engineers to design, build, and maintain a pre-production regression & integration testing for the JioFiber (FTTX onboarding portal used across 10 million households), ensuring stability and robustness.
- Defined test scenarios, integration flows and simulated realistic network and user conditions leading to reduced post-production defects by 30% (or whatever your metric is) through this tooling.
- Architected and oversaw automation efforts for the RetailPOS mobile app (serving 400M+ subscribers) used Appium with cross-platform (Android/iOS) test suites, to automate sanity, regression, and functional test cases; cut manual regression test execution time by 50% (or relevant number).
- Integrated automation framework and regression tool into CI/CD pipeline, enabling automatic triggering of key test suites on pull requests / feature branches, giving faster feedback to developers and reducing release cycle time.
- Tracked, reported, and monitored key QA metrics (e.g., defect leakage, test coverage, time to regression release, failure rates) to stakeholders (engineering leads, product owners, project management), driving informed decisions on readiness of features.
- Mentored junior QA engineers in best practices for writing reliable automated tests, debugging failures, maintaining test suite stability, ensuring maintainability and minimal flakiness.
- Collaborated with product and dev teams to gather functional specifications, clarify edge cases, user experience concerns, and ensure test coverage for both expected and unexpected usage scenarios.
Education
MS - Information Systems
California State University, Long Beach
05.2024
BE - Information Technology
University of Mumbai
08.2014
Skills
- Product Management: Roadmaps, Backlog Prioritization, Requirement Gathering, OKRs, Agile/Scrum, PI Planning
- Tools: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Tableau, Power BI, SQL, Python
- Stakeholder Management: Executive Presentations, Cross-Functional Alignment, Client Demos
Collaboration & Key Contributions
Drove adoption of 500+ applications into the SEMD within 6 months., Delivered executive-level presentations and trained on SEMD product impact to C-suite leadership, influencing strategic decisions and securing consensus on new metric rollouts., Mentored and coached team members and supported adjacent product teams to ensure consistency., Received recognition from senior tech leadership and multiple awards, including 'Employee of the Quarter' and an 'On-the-spot award', for the significant impact made on key projects., Spearheaded the launch of Conversation Studio, driving 25% increase in customer engagement across enterprise accounts.
Timeline
Product Owner
Edward Jones(Consultant Via Gemini Solutions)
06.2023 - Current
Product Owner
CitusTech
12.2020 - 03.2021
Business Analyst
SameSpace
07.2019 - 12.2020
Quality Assurance Engineer
Reliance Jio
10.2015 - 07.2019
BE - Information Technology
University of Mumbai
MS - Information Systems
California State University, Long Beach
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