RAMYARAGA RANGANATHAMANI
McKinney,TX
Summary
Product Owner with 13 years of progressive experience in IT industry specializing in domains such as retail and banking. Results driven and self-motivated with extensive business experience in designing, improving and supporting key business functions. Skilled in understanding business pain points, offering solutions and coordinating with different teams for implementation. Expert in gathering requirements from stakeholders, converting them into epics and stories, prioritizing the backlog and channeling them into sprints. Strong experience in developing and analyzing large and complex data sets and converting them into reports and insights that drive business decisions at all levels of the organization using Data Visualization tools. Competent in creating business flow diagrams to help organization through various stages of changes from design, training and implementation. Experienced in working with offshore teams and ensuring project completion within tight deadlines. Team leader/Builder with a positive attitude, excellent communication skills and strong people influencing skills
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Owner
Citi Bank
11.2022 - Current
- Developing a clear roadmap that addresses the regulatory requirements, data quality and governance policies.
- Creating, prioritizing and maintaining product backlog
- Conducting requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders, documenting detailed requirements and maintaining them for regulatory audits and compliance reporting
- Planning and prioritizing sprint goals, collaborating with development team, data engineers and data analysts to ensure timely and accurate delivery of features, participating in sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Defining data quality metrics and working with QA teams to ensure data governance policies are implemented and adhered to across the organization
- Identifying potential risks related to data governance including data breaches, quality problems and compliance violations and developing strategies to mitigate them
- Preparing and presenting regular updates and reports to ensure transparent communication of data governance policies and their impact on business operations
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2020 - 02.2022
- Collaborated with business analysts to collect all client requirements and created detailed design documentation by mapping those business requirements
- Worked closely with product owners to gather requirements and provided accurate effort estimation for completion of same
- Created epics, stories, tasks and assigned same to developers
- Ensured that business context of project, along with client’s requirements, are understood by whole team and translated into individual expectations for each team member
- Took initiatives to mentor developers and followed up with them to ensure all tasks are completed on time
- Identified and encouraged areas of growth and improvement within team
- Actively involved in defect triaging, assigned them to developers and tracked them to closure
- Participated in daily/weekly status calls, requirements gathering, data model and design discussions
QA Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 09.2020
- Managed and coordinated all testing activities on assigned tasks including testing standards, testing strategies, effort estimation, progress, and status reporting
- Identified risks and created plans to mitigate it
- Designed, developed, and executed test scenarios, test cases and scripts
- Participated in all phases of testing including functional, system, integration, regression, load/performance, automation and UAT
- Created detailed bug reports and provided same to upper management
- Performed quality audits to ensure standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed by QA team
- Provided sign offs for deploying fixes to higher environment.
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2017 - 10.2019
- Worked closely with business stakeholders and scrum team at offshore to ensure successful deployment of product at various client locations
- Established product requirements and user expectations with scrum team
- Clearly defined all tasks and ensured product backlog is communicated to all team members
- Prioritized and organized product backlog based on criticality of requirements
- Prepared technical design documentation to facilitate development team at offshore
- Coordinated meetings between business stakeholders and scrum team to finalize Deployment, SIT, UAT and Go-Live dates for product implementation
- Actively involved in all sprint review meetings, technical and business discussions while identifying areas of improvement
- Evaluated work done by development team and provided constant feedback
- Reviewed technical code to meet client standards and performed smoke/sanity testing of application
- Suggested development team to make necessary changes based on feedback from customer.
Module Lead/Product Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 01.2017
- Prepared high-level and low-level technical design documentation
- Identified project dependencies, key risks and took necessary remedial measures
- Developed front-end application for cross-browser, highly interactive AJAX-based JSP/Model View-Controller architecture (MVC) applications
- Developed Hive queries to perform data analysis
- Developed Sqoop code to import data from client databases to HDFS
- Created well written code that runs efficiently and optimally
- Built reusable code and libraries for future use
- Monitored logs in production environment
- Participated in all testing phases including unit testing, regression testing, browser compatibility testing, load testing and system testing
- Debugged and resolved issues that were identified by testing team
- Provided daily/weekly status reports to upper management
- Took initiatives to mentor entry-level field developers
- Tracked completion of deliverables against defined milestones
- Updated status and progress of deliverables to project manager
- Coordinated between onsite and offshore teams.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore04.2011
Skills
- Business Requirement Elicitation
- Data Analysis
- Product Backlog Management
- Roadmap development
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Agile Methodology
- Risk and Change Management
- Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Database- SQL
- Swagger for API Documentation
- Postman for API Testing
- Banking- Data Governance Expertise
- Retail - Merchandising Product
Timeline
Product Owner
Citi Bank
11.2022 - Current
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2020 - 02.2022
QA Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 09.2020
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2017 - 10.2019
Module Lead/Product Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Engineering -
PSG College of Technology
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