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Pune Area, India

Working directly with the development team, answers questions related to acceptance criteria and ensure that the work performed meets product expectations • Working with our UK Product Management team to break down features into a detailed product backlog. • Create and manage features that can be turned into technical development stories for the analytics application development team • Working with developers and QA to refine user stories and assist with rapid user feedback. 2 • Assisting the Product Manager and Scrum Master to identify and implement best practices and improvements to the product development process • Working within an Agile framework to deliver your product in fortnightly sprints, prioritizing development team’s work with Scrum. • Working smart by setting effective work goals, establishing priorities, and planning well in order to produce quality work

Pune Area, India

Worked as a Business Analyst/Product Owner on envisioning and implementing the company's proprietary travel platform to a new cloud infrastructure. - Areas of responsibilities include working with the client product owners to ensure migration of their travel platform to the cloud infrastructure is seamless. - Ensuring there is a proper road map in place for the migration.- The implementation road map is aligned with clients business goals.- Working with the technical team to ensure clarity of product implementation goals.- Creating and maintaining the product backlog.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

As part of my Tenure with Syntel have worked on various projects with American Express in their compliance and operational risk team in the merchant acquiring business unit. Engaging business partners to identify new business requirements to support American Express’s implementation and to meet changing strategic and operational needs.Working as a liaison between the business partners and the implementation team to ensure clarity of requirements.Analyzing merchant’s data to understand any risks and apply any corrective measures if required to ensure they are compliant with state and Federal regulations.Working with the technologies team to implement solutions to ensure data accuracy and consistency across the systems.Ensured all user queries were resolved within a specific time frameDevelop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.Part of Business process improvement team to implement enhanced processes to ensure accurate data exchange between systems. Creation of process flow diagrams to gain a better understanding of the process in place and the process which needs to be implemented.Knowledge of IRS regulation for tax withholding of merchants.Understanding the current processes of reporting and data analytics.Interpret data, analyze results and provide ongoing reports.Communicate with external and internal partners in a concise manner, in writing and/or verballyEnsure all data merchant data interchange between American Express and contracted partners is delivered in a timely manner.Assist with training and support for new team membersWork cross-functionally with many areas within American Express.Designing various reports which are helpful for the business users to a get a better insight into American Express merchant population to ensure they are compliant with all government regulations.Successfully engaged in multiple initiatives simultaneously.

Pune Area, India

• Working as a liaison between the business partners and the implementation team to ensure clarity of requirements.• Transitioning of the product knowledge to the support team at the end of warranty support period of current implementation.• Ensured all user queries were resolved within a specific timeframe• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.• Maintenance of the entire document repository of the project.• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.• • Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), iii. Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs)• Document and gather IT and business approvals for detailed requirements and designs.

Bangalore, India

The Illustrations system is used by Northwestern Mutual Financial Representatives (FR) to produce illustrations for their clients or potential clients. Illustrations were used to show a product’s guaranteed and non-guaranteed current and projected future values, including cash value, death benefit, premium, dividend, and loan amount. The illustration shows how the policy might perform under one specific set of assumptions. An illustration encompasses both an input data set and output. The input data set is derived both from UI user input and, in the case of inforce policies, from the existing policy contract data. This system has also implemented a very complex validation architecture.Illustration output consists of one or more of the following:• Ledgers and supporting assumptions or definitions• Concept Pages (Static and Dynamic)The ledger and dynamic concept pages contain calculated values, and the values are generated from actuarial calculations every time that an illustration is viewed and/or printed. These Illustrations were included in Presentations that were shown to prospective or current clients. Responsibilities:• Requirement specifications.• Managed the creation of detailed design documents.• Conducted Code reviews.• Mentoring others in the team.• Client co-ordination with telephonic calls and emails.• Managing Issue tracking site and providing logs.• Creation of training plans for new member of the team.

Noida Area, India

Description: The project involved developing a proxy application that will read XML streams from web methods of underlying web services and will return corresponding object or collection of objects to the consuming application. Proxy classes were defined for each underlying web service, with one method for each web method of the corresponding web service. Consuming applications will call these methods of Proxy Classes to get the web service data in the form of object(s).Responsibilities:• Prepared detailed design document.• Developed dummy web services as well as the proxy application.• Prepared test cases for testing of the modules.

Pune Area, India

Description: GotDotNet Workspaces provided a dynamic online environment enabling collaboration on software projects without the barriers created by geographical or network boundaries. As a free service for .NET developers, Workspaces includes a number of team focused development tools. The 1.0 version of this application already in place our team was responsible for implementation of new features to be released in version 1.1 of this application like notification architecture across all modules, adding business logic to the multi layered web service architecture.Responsibilities:• Code Development.• Interface between business and development teams.• Incorporating notifications architecture across all the modules of this application using Microsoft SQL server notifications.• Extensive usage of User controls made for creating uniform menus across all the pages of the application.• Prepared test cases for testing of the modules.

Masters In Computer Mamagement (Mcm), Computer Management

Bachelor Of Science, Masters In Computer Management

Master, Computer Management