Venkateswara R

· Total and relevant experience: Proactive and achievement-oriented Senior Product Owner bringing 13 years of experience with special emphasis helping IT-Software Industry clientele.

· Roles Played: Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Junior Business Analyst

· International (Onsite) work experience: Netherlands, Budapest – Hungary, Ukraine

· Domain Experience: eCommerce (B2B, B2C), After market Automotive (B2B -retail), Telecom, Retail Banking, Investment Banking / Financial Services – Wealth Management, Human Capital Management

· Product Backlog Management: Partnered with Product Managers and Engineering teams to create, review, and refine Business Initiatives, Product Backlog. Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation.

· As Is and To-Be Processes analysis: Skilled in As-is and To-be process analysis, identifying gaps and bottlenecks, and redesigning processes.

· Feature Requests & Enhancements: Organized and prioritized feature requests and enhancements with Product Managers, contributing to the management of the product roadmap for each quarter.

· Prioritization & Planning: Managed the product backlog, balancing conflicting priorities to establish clear prioritization. Led release and sprint planning processes, setting and achieving defined goals.

· Change Management: Applied change management processes, including Impact Analysis, Gap Analysis, flow charts, process maps, and stakeholder analysis. Secured approval for all change request artifacts, including code reviews, QA sign-off, business value, and risk levels.

· Documentation & Support: Produced comprehensive documentation and user guides with Product Managers and Marketing team to support product development, product launch, support, services, and sales and marketing initiatives.

· Product Demonstrations: Delivered detailed product demonstrations to external and internal stakeholders, effectively communicating the solution's benefits.

· Subject Matter Expertise: Acted as a subject matter expert to assist with sales and support, Integrated into the team to understand, refine, and enhance the product backlog.

· Release Delivery: Extensive experience with release scoping, reviewing release timelines, finding, and resolving release impediments, doing release regression triage, preparing, and publishing release notes, prioritizing release level defects with cross-functional teams.

· Product Knowledge: Developed in-depth product knowledge to serve as a subject matter expert.

· Stakeholder Management: Expert in stakeholder engagement and ensuring transparency in release timelines, features, and scope for Product managers and Engineering Team

· Finance Team Collaboration: Collaborated with and supported the Finance team, providing insights and facilitating product development tailored to financial requirements.

· Cross-functional Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority, balancing conflicting priorities and making critical decisions. Led cross-functional teams to successfully deliver multiple projects, consistently meeting or exceeding financial targets, achieving a 95% on-time completion rate

BI Tool Experience: Utilized BI tool such as Power BI to derive data insights and inform product decisions and strategy

Project Management: Excellent relationship-building, organizational, and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

• Banking (Retail, Corporate): Omnichannel - Web, Mobile,Credit Cards, Bill Payments,Domestic and Wire Transfers,Quick Deposit and Quick pay, OFAC & Fraud Check,Open Banking(APIs),Payments (Global & Regional),CSR Admin & Support
• Ecommerce(B2B,B2C,Omni Channel): P2P (Procure to Pay),BOPIS, Mobile, Web, Store,Catalog Management,Product Configuration,Order Management,Back Office System,Customer Support system
• Human Capital Management (HCM)
• Trade Finance
• Telecom
• Human Capital Management (HCM)
• Trade Finance

• SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile – Scrum
• Mockups: Draw.io, MS Visio, Excel
• Test Management: ALM, Zypher, Test Rail
• Agile & Bug Management: JIRA, TFS, Remedy
• SOA: SOAP UI, Google REST client, Fiddler
• Data Base Management: SQL 2008, Maria DB
• Test Data Setup: AUTO Cast
• SAP E-Commerce: Hybris Management Console, Product Cockpit, WCMS, Back office, Operating Systems: Windows Family
• Content Management: WCMS

Project 1 - Eikon 5.0 Datastream for Office (DFO)

• Client: REFINITIV, UK
• Domain: Financial – Trade Finance
• Role: Business Analyst, Scrum Master
• Team Size: 18
• Tools & Technologies: MongoDB, JIRA, Confluence, TestRail, Node JS, Angular 8.0, GraphQL, Fiddler

Project 2 - Employee Self Service (ESS)

• Client: Epam Systems Inc
• Domain: Human Capital Management(HCM)
• Role: Business Analyst
• Team Size: 27
• Tools & Technologies: MongoDB, Python, JIRA, Confluence, Test Rail, Drwa.io, Angular 8.0, Fiddler

Project 3 - Operational Risk Independent Challenge

• Client: JP Morgan Chase, USA
• Domain: Banking
• Role: Business Analyst, QA Lead
• Team Size: 9
• Tools & Technologies: SQL Server 2008, JIRA, Confluence, QC ALM, MS Visio, .net

Project 4 - 3G QMS, eStorage – Phase 6

• Client: DBS Asia Hub2
• Domain: Institutional/Corporate Banking
• Role: Business Analyst, QA Lead
• Team Size: 9
• Tools & Technologies: Maria DB, JIRA, Confluence, Soap UI, Draw.io, Zypher

Project 5 - Vodafone Hungary Red Sky Phase – I

• Client: Vodafone, Hungary
• Domain: TELECOM & CPG ecommerce
• Role: SME, QA Lead
• Team Size : 27
• Tools & Technologies : Maria DB, JIRA, Confluence, Soap UI, Drwa.io, Zypher

Project 6 - MMS–CIG Payments &Transfers, Phase2

• Client: JP Morgan Chase, USA
• Domain: Retail Banking – Payments
• Role: SME and QA Lead
• Team Size : 50
• Tools & Technologies : Oracle, DB2, Auto Cast, QC ALM,Soap UI, Lisa, WinSCP, F-Secure, Soap UI, Java, XML

Project 7 - ASPIREPRU

• Client: Broadridge Financial Solutions
• Domain: Financial – Trade Finance
• Role: Senior QA Engineer
• Team Size : 12
• Tools & Technologies : Sybase, Green Plum, Remedy ALM QTP, Soap UI, Java

Project 8 - HD Vest Financial Solutions

• Client: HD Vest
• Domain: Financial – Trade Finance
• Role: Senior QA Engineer
• Team Size : 9
• Tools & Technologies : Dot net, SQL, Bugzilla, ALM, Soap UI
• Team Size : 9
• Tools & Technologies : Dot net, SQL, Bugzilla, ALM, Soap UI

• Epam Systems: Pat on Back (Q3 FY 19, Q2 2020, Q2 2021, Q3 2021), Delivery Hero - Q2 FY 19
• JP Morgan Chase& Co: Best Performer - Q4 FY 17
• DBS Bank Asia Hub 2: Best Performer - Q1 FY 18
• Virtusa: Best Performer Q1 FY 15, Service Excellence (Q2 FY 13), Delivery Excellence
• NCC: 25 (A) Bn, NCC, Guntur, C - Certificate, 2008-10
• Corporate Cricket: Advance Auto Parts, From 2022 - till date

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