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Suchit Kulkarni

Kanata,ON

Summary

Highly motivated and results-driven professional with a proven track record of successfully delivering mission-critical projects using Agile Methodology and Waterfall in the Payment & Card Industry. Possesses 15+ years of experience as a seasoned Consultant. Strong structured thinking and exceptional problem-solving skills. Demonstrated expertise in managing and leading teams throughout the complete implementation cycle, from requirements gathering to project planning, technical design, development, testing, deployment, and support. Experienced in various Techno-Functional roles as Product Manager, Product Owner, Technical Lead, Business Analyst, and Onsite Coordinator, across diverse locations such as Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom, and India.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager- Assistant Vice President

U.S Bank Crop
05.2022 - Current

Duties:

· Plan and manage information technology projects/products.

· Act as a liaison between the business line and the engineering Scrum team.

· Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.

· Help with writing epics, user stories, leading story refinement sessions, and managing/prioritizing story backlogs in an Agile environment and using Agile backlog tool Jira.

· Recommend enhancements to help meet objectives and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of product features for Agile teams to pull into their backlogs.

· Collaborate with stakeholders & work with Architects during the vision and concept development of a product developed.

· Provide release direction and support including research, analysis, review, and guide implementation and/or monitoring of new or revised systems.

· Help coordinate story dependencies across multiple scrum teams and multiple systems.

Skills: JIRA, Confluence, SQL, Agile, API (application program Interface), Kibana, Splunk, Postman, Product Management.

Product Owner

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2022 - 05.2022
  • Client- Large financial service Technology
  • Project – Fraud Product

Duties

Focus on developing solutions for Merchant Fraud. Worked in an Agile environment, actively reviewing business needs, defining priorities, and setting milestones to deliver solutions in alignment with strategic goals. Responsible for defining features and stories that cater to business requirements and provide effective solutions to end customers

Skills: SQL, Agile, Product Owner, APIs, Credit Card Dispute Management, CA Rally.


Principal Consultant

Wipro LTD
12.2019 - 03.2022


Duties

Product Owner/Manager in an Agile environment, responsible for aligning the product roadmap with strategic goals, refining priorities, and defining milestones. Oversee end-to-end product development, including planning, refinement, development, testing, and sprint. Collaborate with stakeholders to organize and plan iterations. Develop and maintain a prioritized backlog of Epics, Features, and user stories aligned with business needs. Translate functional and non-functional requirements into high-level technical specifications. Conduct refinement sessions and drive alignment with the product goal. Actively participate in architecture design and review code and applications to ensure process integrity. Provide user story acceptance based on defined criteria.

Skills: Agile, Rest APIs, JIRA, RALLY CA,
Version One, Mainframe Z/OS, COBOL, IBM Db2, Swagger Documentation, Product Owner /
Management, Credit Card Disputes Lifecycle, Credit Card Transaction Lifecycle, API as Product
Lifecycle, Kibana, Confluence, Postman.

Senior Consultant

Wipro LTD
06.2013 - 11.2019

Duties:-

Deriving functional and non-functional requirements, analyzing the Mainframe codebase, and converting requirements into technical specifications. Active participant in architectural design reviews and feasibility analysis. Expertise in breaking down and converting requirements, creating diagrams, and preparing technical user stories. Hands-on experience coding and testing Mainframe applications and SAS modules. coordinating integration and system testing, resolving defects, and handling production incidents. Ensures code quality through code review and conducts user story demos.

Skills: Mainframe Z/OS, Cobol, JCL, VSAM IBM Db2, Agile, SAS, Credit Card Disputes Lifecycle, Credit Card Transaction Life Cycle.

Senior Software Engineer

HSBC Technology & Services
06.2007 - 05.2013

Duties: –Requirement gathering to create Functional Detail requirement FDR and working along with Business stakeholders for Root cause analysis, Gap analysis, Creating solution proposals via clear choice, Requirement elicitation & Requirement validation. Functional document review and gathering requirements to conduct Technical analysis and create Technical detail requirements. Unit testing of developed Code. Support to SAT/UAT team during the testing phase. Working along with Business and conducting E2E testing. Participate in monthly, and quarterly big releases and also coordinate with the Production Support team for weekend fixes and FF. Mentoring Junior members of the team in code development and System Knowledge. Maintenance of the code as per the requirement with IBM- Mainframe Application Development technologies-COBOL, JCL, IBM-DB2, VSAM, CICS, File manager, C: D – Connect Direct, MQ series. Production support (resolving the abends in production). Handling user severity 3 tickets. Second line support

Skills: Development, Enhancement of the code as per the requirement with IBM- Mainframe Application Development technologies-COBOL, JCL, IBM-DB2, VSAM, CICS, File manager, C: D –Connect Direct, MQ series, CA Endevor, IBM-WTX.

Education

Graduate Certificate - Data Analytics

University of Cincinnati
Ohio
12.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Institute of Engineering and Technology
05.2007

Skills

  • Agile
  • Product Management, Product Owner, JIRA, Confluence, Product Roadmap, CA Rally, Version One
  • Mainframe, DB2, SQL,COBOL
  • KIBANA Elastic Search, Postman, APIs, Swagger Documentation, API Testing, Splunk
  • Stakeholders' management, Requirement gathering, Business Analysis
  • Product Delivery management, Leadership
  • Credit Card Dispute Management
  • Credit Card Transaction Life Cycle
  • Payments

Accomplishments

    .Sheild Award- Silver for Data on Edge BoldStroke Successful rollout -2023

    · Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager – Feb-2021

    · Awarded BU award in May-2020, Oct-2018, and August -2017 by Wipro Limited

    · Data Analytics Graduate Certificate from Carl H Lindner College of Business (University of Cincinnati)-2018

    · Scaled Agile Safe®4.5 Certified Advanced Scrum Master-2018

    · Scaled Agile Safe®4.0 Certified practitioner -2017

    · Certified Project Lead Certification from Wipro. -2016

    · Completed Unified competency framework -EBI and Payment integration 4.1-2013

    · HSBC Mainframe Track 1 & Track 2 Proficiency Certification Assessment-2012

    · BEC British English Certification with Grade B vantage program. -2010

    · HSBC Competency Framework Assessment Certification – IBM Mainframe Level 2-2008

    · Training of 1.5 months on various Mainframe Technologies (COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, and DB2) at HSBC – 2007

Timeline

Product Manager- Assistant Vice President

U.S Bank Crop
05.2022 - Current

Product Owner

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2022 - 05.2022

Principal Consultant

Wipro LTD
12.2019 - 03.2022

Senior Consultant

Wipro LTD
06.2013 - 11.2019

Senior Software Engineer

HSBC Technology & Services
06.2007 - 05.2013

Graduate Certificate - Data Analytics

University of Cincinnati

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Institute of Engineering and Technology
Suchit Kulkarni