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Chandan - Product Owner

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Chandan Product Owner 3614158884 [email protected] H1B Product Manager and Scrum Master with around 9 years of IT experience in particular to SCRUM, Product Management and Business Analysis. Well versed in Software Development methodologies - Agile using SCRUM, SAFe, Test-driven development, Hybrid development, Kanban. Experienced in working with clients to implement requirements and in providing team leadership for development, support teams. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Solid understanding in adherence to SDLC methodologies like Agile/Scrum iterative development, Hybrid and Waterfall. Professional expertise in working with multiple teams on different levels of Scaled Agile Frameworks(SAFe). Proficient in Acting as an Agile coach and Product leadto ensure consistency in Agile best practices across different projects. Strong knowledge of Capital Markets, Financial Services and on various financial instruments and asset classes like Equities, Fixed-Income Products, Derivatives and Alternative Instruments. Worked in multipleMerchandising and Mobile scalable (IOS) initiatives. Experience in facilitating Sprint Ceremonies such as daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective sessions. Experience in Creating and maintaining Scrum Artifacts like Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burn Down and Burn Up charts. Experience in estimating team Velocity and Capacity. Efficient in facilitatingestimation technique sessions like Planning Poker, T-Shirt Sizing. Proven expertise in Creating User stories based on INVEST technique, prioritizing them based on MoSCoW Technique and breaking them in to Tasks using SMART technique. Comprehensive knowledge in Risk Analysis, Risk Management. Experience in workingunder CICD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Development), TTD (Test Driven Development)and BDD (Behavioral Driven Development). Excellent business writing skills in drafting Artifacts likeBusiness Requirements Documents, System Requirement Specifications Documents, Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) and Use Cases Specifications. Using complex SQL queries to provide the data points to the Dev and Business teams. Supporting project team in the development of Project plans, Project schedule and budget to Meet Deliverables. Assist in risk mitigation, identifying team and project risks, and Dependencies. Performed GAP Analysis and suggested the action plans. Experience implementing Unified Modeling Language (UML) with MS VISIO in creating Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Class Diagrams. Experience in developing Wire frames, Mock-up screens and Proto types. Proficient in Change Request Management and drafting Change Request Document. Experience in SOA Architecture, Three-tier Architecture, REST, SOAPWeb Services. Sound Knowledge on WSDL, WADL, UDDI, Business rules and XML Schema s. Experienced in reviewing Test plans and Test cases in QA environments and facilitating UAT. Technical Skills Modeling and Design Tools Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, Balsamiq, Irise SDLC/Design Methodologies Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, SAFe, Kanban, XP Languages C, Java Script, HTML4, HTML5, SQL, PL/SQL. Web Technologies XML, JSON, SOAP, REST, Web Services, API Requirements/Document Tools MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel Project Management Tools Azure Devops (ADO), JIRA, Confluence, Rally, HP ALM, Share Point Testing/ Test tracking Tools Postman, Swagger, Soap UI, HP QC, Load Runner ETL & BI Tools Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Crystal Reports Databases SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL Data Warehousing OLAP, OLTP, Query/Reporting, Multidimensional Analysis Version Control GIT, Clear Case. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Client: Walmart Location- Bentonville, AR March 2023 Till Date Position: Product Owner Walmart Philanthropy:Give associates a view to the various donations made by the company within US and make them feel proud to be part of a Walmart and see how the company is helping communities around the country. Provide a way for home office donation administrators to answer various questions as to how donations are distributed by locations, time frame, Organizations, Campaigns and donor groups Associate, Customers and Programs. Responsibilities: Working closely with the Cross-functional Business teams to gather the requirements. Create and Maintain the Product Backlog. Collaborate with technology and business departments to define deliverables and develop solutions that are reusable across the organization. Effectively communicated weekly project status, burn down charts to executive and business leadership. Involved in all scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming to be in cadence with scrum team. Participated in the design of reports that integrate data from multiple sources, including design of reporting systems and standardization of metrics and formats across departments and functional areas. Lead the Product activities for third party integration with One-Walmart. Create and Support Product Roadmap to set the timely milestones and achieve the Product deliverables. Collaborate in creating and executing the Test plans. Documenting the As is and To be flow as required for Nextgen development initiatives Client: AMEX (American Express) Location- Phoenix, AZ June 2022 Feb 2023 Position: Technical Product Owner Risk Fulfillment Platform (RFP): RFP the risk orchestrator that fulfills the adverse action decision process and customer communication. Responsibilities: Eliciting Requirements from Business/Stakeholders. Drive the E2Efeature development and release from product standpoint. Lead the PI planning from the product group, identify the dependencies from the cross-functional teams for effective planning. Understand the Platform capabilities and explore the opportunities for enhancements. Create Process flow Designs for integration of Multiple Applications with Solution Architect. Review and Validate the JSON and XML files for the API Integration Leading the product representation on SOS meetings. Participating in solution discussions. Facilitating and Participating in the Scrum ceremonies. Create, update and maintain Artifacts Lead the testing strategy and assist the Business team in UAT. Client: Sam s Club (Walmart Inc) Location- Bentonville, AR May 2020 June 2022 Position: Technical Product Owner Sam s Item Management: Sam s Item Management Project deals with transforming common Item File into more common product level, enabling a trusted and flexible product Management with management interface and business process for the Wal-Mart enterprise. As this migration happens, this will simplify the business with an agreed upon plan to sunset legacy Item File applications. Sam s Item Management is the transformation of existing Item File toolsto a new Global Item File capability designed to facilitate a multichannel environment. Responsibilities: Eliciting Requirements from Business/Stakeholders or System Artifacts. Work with the Dev team to enhance the Agile best practices as Agile product lead. Work with internal and external security and compliance teams to educate them on various technical aspects of the product and platform architecture, data flows, data dictionaries. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to efficiently facilitate alignment and review processes. Creation and maintaining Scrum Artifacts like Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burn Down and Burn Up charts, estimating team Velocity and Capacity. Converting Business Requirements Documents, System Requirement Specifications Documents, and Use Cases Specifications to user stories and epics. Lead the PI planning from the product group, identify the dependencies from the cross-functional teams for effective planning. Build the quarterly Product Roadmapand establish the KPI s. Assist in risk mitigation, identifying team and project risks, and Dependencies and draft a mitigation plan accordingly. Implementing Unified Modeling Language (UML) with MS VISIO in creating Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Class Diagrams. Providing the data points using SQL queries. Actively involved in designing the Data Mapping from Source to Target. Providing the required Business rules for the migration. Working on down-stream applications decommission from Legacy and establishing the consumption pipe-line with the new application Work on the stake-holders feedback and add the enhancements in the quarterly road-maps. Developing Wire frames, Mock-up screens and Proto-types with Zeplin tool. Worked on the cleansing strategy and implementation for the legacy data Client: WALMART Location- Bentonville, AR July 2019 May 2020 Position: Technical Product Owner Supplier Experience Omni Channel New Initiative, Intranet Web Application Create a suite of a self-service Backend components for comments, messages, Inbox and Notifications where all the applications under Supplier Experience can leverage these features without having to create silo feature sets. Responsibilities: Uncover and understand User needs and translate them into requirements. Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations. Worked with internal teams, including developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance. Manage the product backlog, create an effective vision and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iterations. Created Product Roadmap and set Milestones on quarterly basis. Identified the Dependencies and prioritized the Tasks accordingly. Worked with Warehouse management team, to supporting the notifications and messaging use cases Perform project management activities, which include active mitigation of any risks to the project scope and scheduleand provide status updates. Develop and execute project plans, communication plans, risk plans and management metrics. Create Process flow Designs for integration of Multiple Applications. Worked closely with the development team in establishing multiple options to leverage the functionality (KAFKA and Web-services) Designed the Micro-Services architecture to leverage the self-service backend components. Define, monitor and report KPIs for assessing product vitality and business value. Effectively communicate the overall product strategy and vision, as well as goals and objectives for specific initiatives. Illustrating the API s flow to the dependency teams and working on the required enhancements. Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Client: WALMART Location- Bentonville, AR Aug 2018 June 2019 Position: Product Owner /Scrum Master FlightDeck Stores Edition(Opportunities Engine) New Initiative Opportunities will provide a centralized platform that allows merchants to immediately know their top issues each morning and move seamlessly to other Merchants to take action. Flight-deck uses a rule-based engine to surface actionable insights tied to specific recommendations, freeing up merchants to focus on strategic decisions that drive their business forward. Responsibilities: Established the ways of working of a new team and established a robust structure. Worked with the Product Owner to create Jira Backlog and have Epics and a Roadmap. Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies such as Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. Resolved Impediments in every sprint. Handled the Off shore team effectively in working towards ProductINCREMENT. Facilitated Backlog Grooming Sessions for the Product Backlog so that scrum team understand the upcoming tasks. Worked with the U/X team in explaining the business requirement and getting the UI design. Ensured that Definition of Done (DOD), Definition of Ready (DOR) and Acceptance Criteria are defined. Ensured that release deliverables are clearly communicated to the team. Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution to ensure efficiency and collaboration. Calculated and tracked Velocity and Capacity of the team throughout the project. Used JIRA project management software for creating the Sprint Burn Down and Burn Up charts, velocity charts throughout the sprints to track velocity as well as determine capacity of the development team. Experienced in participating Scrum of Scrum meetings for insuring Cadence. Update the user stories and tasks that are completed in various sprints into the product backlog artifact. Facilitated user story estimation with the help of various techniques such as Planning Poker, T-Shirt Sizing etc. Maintained meeting notes and presented weekly status reports on the project using Business Object Crystal Report. Improved the Teams efficiency through retrospective feedback by conducting Silent WritingTechnique and made sure that the necessary Improvements are been made for further sprints. Collaborated with Cross-Functional teams in Identifying and managing all Up-Stream and Down-Stream Dependencies to align the Deliverables. Client- Walmart Location- Bentonville, AR Nov 2017 Jul 2018 Position- Business Analyst Agreement Management Application (AMA): Enhancement initiative, Intranet web Application. Enhance the existing Agreement management application to improve the user experience on both Supplier and Merchant sides and reduce the agreement review, approval life cycle. Creating the workflows and allocate them to the respective teams for faster acknowledgement on the decisions to be taken. Responsibilities: Worked closely with the Cross-functional Business teams to gather the requirements. Create and Maintain the Product Backlog. Participated in interactive Scrum Workshop for the new cross-functional team members and emphasized on the importance of the scrum framework and ceremonies involved. Involved in Product incremental meeting (PI) with the scrum teams and the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to identifydependencies and break down high level features into user stories. Collaborate with technology and business departments to define deliverables and develop solutions that are reusable across the organization. Experience with updating multiple teams using Kanban Board to streamline the post productionprocess. Effectively communicated weekly project status, burn down charts to executive and business leadership. Involved in all scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming to be in cadence with scrum team. Collaborate directly with Principal Architect, Solutions Consultants, Business Analysts, Development, & Leadership to ensure all deliverables are executed. Participated in the design of reports that integrate data from multiple sources, including design of reporting systems and standardization of metrics and formats across departments and functional areas. Took the lead in writing user stories, use cases and managed Sprint, product backlog in JIRA and adding approvals, moving stories, tracking defects, impediments, retrospectives, monitoring burndown chart. Constantly monitored development work, SPIKE Stories, TECHNICAL DEBTS and worked on removing the impediments to improve team s performance to meet sprint goals. Made sure User Stories are fulfilling INVEST criteria, Tasks are fulfilling SMART Criteria and assisted the ProductOwner in prioritizing the Product Backlog Items (PBIs) using techniques like MoSCoW, Paired comparison. Participated Scrum of Scrum events to identify dependencies across team, removing impediments, collaborating with scrum masters, providing status update to program stakeholders and business owners at weekly basis. Supported team in CI/CD to produce a potential shippable product in each sprint. Played a pivotal role in setting up User Acceptance Criteria for user stories to help line of business. Client: Softpath Technologies Location- Hyderabad, India Jun 2012 Aug 2015 Position: Business Systems Analyst Employee Reporting Application Enhancement, Intranet web-based application The project was to enhance the existing reporting system in the organization. This Application helps Project managers in monitoring the daily reports of their team s end-of-day work and create an estimate of their Project s progress. This application is also used in tracking the shared Resources of multiple Projects. Responsibilities: Assisted the business in determining if and how new systems or system enhancements may improve process flow and business function. Working with Product Owner (PO) to gather and elaborate business and functional requirements and objectives for analysis. Facilitated Backlog Grooming session to prioritize and enhance the User Stories. Designing UML use cases and screen prototypes based on user experience. Ensuring that all Scrum Artifactsare in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines. Ensured that Definition of Done (DOD), Definition of Ready (DOR) and Acceptance Criteria are defined. Reported bugs and interacted with the software development team to resolve issues. Involved in Preparing Test scenarios and Test Plans with QA. Assisted in facilitated Demo sessions to Stakeholders. Education Summary MBA in Management Information Systems - GPA 3.69 June 2017Concordia University,Milwaukee, WI Bachelor s in Commerce (Computers) April 2012Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Keywords: cprogramm continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst user interface business intelligence information technology hewlett packard purchase order microsoft procedural language Arizona Arkansas Wisconsin