Preethi B R
Ajax,ON
Summary
Product Owner and Requirement Engineer with 9+ years of combined experience as a software tester and Product Owner, adept at understanding both technical and business aspects of product development. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, defining product vision, and prioritizing backlog items to maximize value. Proficient in Agile methodologies, ensuring seamless communication between stakeholders and development teams. Experienced in user story creation, acceptance criteria definition, and continuous improvement of product quality. Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing priorities, mitigate risks, and drive product success through effective collaboration and decision-making.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Onward Technologies Ltd
11.2022 - 01.2023
- Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
- Collaborated with engineering teams on technical feasibility assessments, resulting in realistic scope definition for projects.
- Developed comprehensive roadmaps outlining the product vision, goals, and milestones for successful execution.
- Proactively identified risks associated with project timelines or deliverables, implementing mitigation strategies when necessary.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality products that met customer needs.
- Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders by maintaining open lines of communication and addressing concerns promptly.
- Reduced time-to-market by effectively coordinating resources, tasks, and timelines within the team.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Facilitated communication between development teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of requirements and expectations.
- Fostered a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
- Championed user-centric design principles throughout the development process to ensure exceptional user experiences.
- Collaborated with development team on [Type] services and tasks.
Requirement Engineer
NEXTGEN Healthcare
06.2018 - 11.2022
- Demonstrate Design Thinking by working closely with UX team to enhance the customer experience.
- Own and develop relationship with internal stakeholders, working with them to optimize and enhance the product for better client experience.
- Actively conducted Refinement sessions with Engineering Team and defined User stories using INVEST agile method, which also helped in fine-tuning of Acceptance Criteria.
- Worked closely with RE’s and Engineering Team of Cross Product Teams such as Electronic Health Records and API Services to gather additional information on the requirements which helped fine-tuning of Acceptance Criteria.
- Define System Test end to end Workflow to ensure flawless integration of NextGen product with other applications.
- Based on the Client Adoption, generate the Post Production defects report, for QA Analysis, in order to come up with CAPA.
- Constantly seek feedback from stakeholders to fine tune the requirements.
- Utilized Salesforce to work on the Client changes/queries and assisted in maintaining the process of being Client-Focused.
- Worked closely with Engineering team on e-Prescribing and ePCS Surescripts Certification and achieved this on-time which is a milestone for Mobile Application since this was on Top Priority as per discussions with Clients before using e-Prescribing and ePCS features.
- Ensured that the product is in sync with ePCS Audits which is performed by Schellman & Company.
- Facilitated and acted as Scrum Master (at times) during Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, Retrospectives and Stakeholder Meetings.
- Tracked and managed Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burn-down metrics, Velocity, and task break-down.
- Always practiced MOSCOW technique in prioritizing the User Stories.
- Actively participated in Defect Triage Meetings and have used Ranking technique to prioritize the defects.
Senior Software Engineer & Staff Engineer
NEXTGEN Healthcare
03.2016 - 06.2018
- Analyzing requirements to understand the Business and bring out key points.
- Actively involved in Refinement sessions and sharing feedback on fine-tuning the requirements
- Involvement in Test Planning, Test Design & Review along with Test Execution & Defect Reporting using Quality Center and Jira.
- Assisting Team in preparing reports, documents, Test Conditions & Test Scripts and guiding them in understanding the application.
- Leading the scrum team and actively involving in Sprint Planning and Task breakdown. Mentoring Team on Demo sessions for Sprint Review Meetings, Conducted Daily Scrums in the absence of Scrum Master, actively participated in Retrospective and called out Process gaps which was considered and implemented in the Team.
- Good Understanding on API testing (Postman, JMeter, Swagger) and Performance Testing (JMeter) and involved actively during these testing phases including Functional, Regression, Exploratory, Stage testing phases.
- Achieved multiple recognitions as Subject Matter Expertise (SME) across different modules in Mobile Application.
- Have lead QA team during all the test cycles, involved Planning phase for Functional Testing of new Epics/User Stories, Regression Testing, API Testing, Exploratory Testing, Stage Testing and Performance Testing.
- Have good knowledge on AWS systems (S3 bucket, Instances etc.).
- Actively used my skills in Database Testing in MS SQL to analyze the backend queries/SP’s associated with the code, writing queries to fetch, update and insert data, and also have good knowledge in analyzing sql and deadlock traces.
Software Engineer
NTTDATA Services Pvt. LTD.
12.2013 - 03.2016
- Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and repeatable test cases/scripts through all parts of the development lifecycle, execution and sign-off for a high volume of data and regular release schedule for successful project delivery.
- Participated in the project life cycle, from analysis to production implementation, with emphasis on data analysis, system testing, and auditable documentation of results.
- Collaborated with Project Managers, Business Partners, and Developers to coordinate on project schedules and timelines.
- Created detailed test plans based on analysis of requirements and design documents (including estimating and maintaining a testing schedule).
- Involved in Test Case Creation and execution, documented detailed results and summary report.
- Identified, researched, reported, tracked and verified software defects proactively and comprehensively.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Aeronautical Engineering
MV Jayaraman College of Engineering
Bangalore, Karnataka01.2013
Skills
- Requirement Elicitation
- Business Analysis/Process Improvement
- Agile Methodology(Scrum/Kanban)
- Product Backlog Management
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Wireframing and Prototyping
- Effective Collaborator
- Strategic Thinker
- Conflict Management
Key Skills:
Agile Tools:
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- HPALMQC
- MS Visio
- Miro
- Wireframing Tool - Balsamiq
- Swagger
- JMeter/Postman
- Microsoft SQL Server
Other Tools:
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance)
Timeline
Product Owner
Onward Technologies Ltd
11.2022 - 01.2023
Requirement Engineer
NEXTGEN Healthcare
06.2018 - 11.2022
Senior Software Engineer & Staff Engineer
NEXTGEN Healthcare
03.2016 - 06.2018
Software Engineer
NTTDATA Services Pvt. LTD.
12.2013 - 03.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Aeronautical Engineering
MV Jayaraman College of Engineering
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