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Chennai Area, India

• Product Owner of an AI based pricing product for retailers.• Planned, created, and maintained the Product vision and Product roadmap throughout the product’s lifecycle.• Analyzed the market landscape (by conducting periodic Market Studies and Competitor Analysis) to identify and explore opportunities for product improvement.• Created, maintained, and owned the Product backlog.• Created high value product features based on customer requirements and stakeholder expectations.• Acted as a liaison between business, sales, and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands.• Translated product strategy and high-level product features into epics, and detailed user stories.• Prioritized the epics/stories/features based on criticality, ROI involved, business value and stakeholder inputs.• Owned the backlog grooming, refinement, and management along with acceptance testing and delivery of iterations.• Collaborated closely with development team to articulate product needs, user-stories, and acceptance criteria and to provide rapid feedback.• Engaged with UI/UX designers to create wireframes, visual designs, mock-up screens etc. for presentations and development team guidance.• Worked with Sales & Marketing Consultants on preparing presentations and business proposals.• Worked with Pre-Sales team on RFP responses and organizing Product Demos for prospective customers.• Worked with new Customers on Product Scoping (Requirements gathering phase) to baseline and document all the requirements. • Liaised with Sales and Marketing teams to collect and analyze user feedback.• Translated customer needs & feedback to shape new product features and user requirements.• Ensured agile practices and actively participated in all Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective)• Successfully implemented the product for a leading Pet retailer. Post implementation, customer has seen a 3-5 % increase in sales.

Chennai Area, India

• Worked with customers to identify the pain-points and formulated innovative solutions by leveraging emerging digital technologies (Big Data, Machine Learning, Analytics etc.)• Conducted a Proof of Concept (PoC) for a Toy Manufacturing company. Identified their pain-points through extensive data-analysis and formulated a demand-projection process that had an accuracy of 60%.• Monitored the performance, milestones and achievements of competitors and analyzed their strategies.• Generated actionable insights by analyzing market trends. • Identified emerging business opportunities for innovations.

Chennai Area, India

• Managed the QA process as the Lead Analyst for various customers within the BFSI domain.• Prepared the overall Test-Strategy and Test-Plan by incorporating inputs from all stakeholders.• Co-ordinated the entire testing phase among various cross-functional teams from across the globe.• Monitored the overall health of the projects by compiling test metrics and reporting it back to the management with defect and project status reports.• First point-of-contact to handle client-interactions and address stakeholder concerns.• Extensive experience in Functional-Testing and Web-Application Testing.• Worked on process-improvement and automation-feasibility studies for all releases and implementations to achieve an increase in productivity.• As the Learning & Development manager, kept track of technical competencies of all project-members and organized regular trainings to develop relevant skill sets. • Enhanced customer satisfaction ratings by ensuring delivery excellence and best practices.• Designed and implemented a standardized induction program for new team-members which resulted in a reduction in training period.• Coordinated the migration of the QA process to agile.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, Cqpi - 6.08/8

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science, 85.70% (First Class With Distinction)

Higher-Secondary (12Th Standard), Computer Science, 90.25%

Till 10Th Standard, Science, 88.40%