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Harshini Dhondaley

Jersey City,NJ

Summary

Results-oriented professional with robust background in product management and agile frameworks. Known for fostering team collaboration and driving projects to successful completion. Reliable in adapting to evolving requirements and prioritizing key deliverables, showcasing strong ability to manage stakeholder expectations.

A former software developer with technical expertise, enabling a deeper understanding of system architecture and code requirements.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner

Accenture
03.2023 - Current
  • Product Owner for the Client Self Service Enablement project where we partnered with DocuSign vendor to streamline the digital signing process for Global Wealth Management clients and advisors
  • Managed the cross dependencies across various teams to deliver the product features aligned with business objectives in stringent timeframes to achieve e-Signature enabled documents to 70% by YE 2024
  • Defined and prioritized product backlogs
  • Facilitated agile ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospective for continuous improvement
  • Conducted demos with the field/branches to promote eSignature among financial advisors, and clients thereby increasing adoption rate by 60% in 2024 for eligible documents

Product Owner

Accenture
05.2019 - 02.2023
  • Spearheaded the integration project for onboarding employees into HR systems due to a bank merger as a product owner, aligning operations with the parent bank's core systems
  • Partnered with cross functional teams to implement data synchronisation across the two HR systems
  • Collaborated with compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory standards during migration, mitigating risks
  • Conducted system compatibility assessments, resolving integration issues between the two bank's HR system
  • Help facilitate Day 1 readiness and support the coordination of cutover planning with the project work streams
  • Accelerate the project pace by anticipating problems, rapidly solving/escalating them, and constantly driving the decision-making process to maintain project timelines
  • Defined and prioritized the product backlogs, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs
  • Developed user stories and acceptance criteria to guide development teams in delivering high quality features
  • Extensive participation in exploratory tests to ensure requirement was met and assisted in user acceptance tests
  • Performing business reviews and business demos with end users

Team Lead

Accenture
10.2017 - 04.2019
  • Acted as a critical resource in driving several year end compensation and promotion cycles, which is vital to the bank
  • Conducted thorough code reviews as part of a proactive approach to uphold and enhance code quality
  • Involved in the planning and effort estimation, identifying potential roadblocks and mitigation strategies
  • Support and guide the team to facilitate a healthy intra-team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
  • Mentored and coached junior team members, enhancing team capabilities

Senior Developer

Accenture
04.2016 - 09.2017
  • Individual contributor responsible for end to end project SDLC delivery for four HR applications
  • Worked in close collaboration with Business Stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver features on time in accordance with business objectives
  • Analyzed system dependencies and collaborated with teams to mitigate risks associated with application retirement
  • Identified bottlenecks and bugs, and devised solutions to these problems through debugging, research, and investigation
  • Maintained and monitored the performance, quality and responsiveness of the applications

Associate Developer

Accenture
12.2011 - 03.2016
  • Involved in the design, development, unit testing and implementation of various significant changes to the application
  • Assessed implications of changes and highlighted risks and impacts
  • Supported the production systems and resolved the key production incidents

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Medical Electronics

M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology
06-2011

Skills

  • Business analysis
  • Requirements gathering
  • Product backlog management
  • Release planning
  • User story creation
  • Business process improvement
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Agile methodology
  • Roadmap development
  • Stakeholder management
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • GitHub
  • Adobe AEM
  • Oracle HCM Cloud Core HR
  • Oracle P/S4/Sybase
  • Core Java
  • Unix
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Functional/ technical expertise

  • Requirement Gathering and Analysis
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Risk Analysis and Decision making
  • Agile and Scrum Methodologies
  • Product Roadmap development
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Jira, Confluence, GitHub
  • Adobe AEM
  • Oracle HCM Cloud Core HR
  • Oracle P/S4/Sybase
  • Core Java
  • Unix

Visa valid until

02/28/2027

Personal Information

  • Visa: H1B , valid until February 2027
  • Date of Birth: 10/25/1988

Timeline

Product Owner

Accenture
03.2023 - Current

Product Owner

Accenture
05.2019 - 02.2023

Team Lead

Accenture
10.2017 - 04.2019

Senior Developer

Accenture
04.2016 - 09.2017

Associate Developer

Accenture
12.2011 - 03.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Medical Electronics

M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Harshini Dhondaley