VD VENKATAKRISHNAN

DHEENADHAYALU

Cumming, GA ***41 949-***-****

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SUMMARY

Over 17+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Requirement Engineering, Resource Management, Test Planning and Product Ownership across Finance

(Payments API, ACH, Wire), Healthcare, Banking, Debt consolidation, Data Warehousing, Mortgage and Capital Market Domain. Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities.

SKILLS Leading cross functional teams

Jira, Azure DevOps, Aha, Rally

Confluence, Flow Chart, Visio,

Miro

User Acceptance Testing

(UAT)/SIT

Stakeholder Relationship

Management

Scrum Methodology

Story Planning

Business and Processing

Documentation

Managing Multiple Projects

Test Strategy/Planning

ALM

Reporting/Metrics

WORK HISTORY TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER III 08/2022 to CURRENT CSI

Product : Payments API/ACH/Wire, Owned and prioritized product backlog

Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.

Acted as liaison between business, sales and IT teams to refine product and incorporate features based on market demands.

Partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage solution development process and ensure product team understands direction and vision

Collaborated with teams to discover and deliver best solution to market presented by product team lead and business

Created and maintained solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through project's life cycle

Translated features into user stories within team's backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder's requirements Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges

Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features

Analyzed user feedback and implemented changes to product design Created visuals and renderings communicating product design concepts Define features of product and ensure they are properly communicated to all project stakeholders

Manage product backlog, set priorities, iteration planning, convert epics & features into user stores, creates acceptance criteria Owned aspects of feature demos and presented to client stakeholders Built and maintained strong relationships with client stakeholders by providing support through demo walkthrough.

Collaborated with teams to discover and deliver best solution to market presented by business

Worked directly with dev team and QA to refine user stories and assist with rapid feedback and ensures that work performed meets customer expectations

Worked within Agile framework to deliver product in fortnightly sprints, prioritizing dev team's work with Scrum or Kanban

Analyzed Business Requirement, SRS, and participating in document inspection

Key Achievement:

Effectively negotiated sprint goals with team, which resulted in slashing delivery time by 20% in single quarter

Planned and estimated 2-week sprints in realistic yet time-efficient manner that allowed teams to deliver 97% of MVP according to company roadmap Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.

Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work. SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER 01/2022 to 08/2022

Ernst & Young (Client - Chick Fil - A)

CFA Little Blue Menu is ghost kitchen digital business launching with series of new brands and products as delivery business in Nashville/Atlanta Responsibilities:

Define features of product and ensure properly communicated to all project stakeholders.

Manage product backlog, set priorities, iteration planning, convert epics & features into user stores, creates acceptance criteria. Owned aspects of feature demos and presented to client stakeholders. Built and maintained strong relationships with client stakeholders by providing support through demo walkthrough.

Collaborated with teams to discover and deliver best solution to market presented by business.

Worked directly with dev team and QA to refine user stories and assist with rapid feedback and ensures that work performed meets customer expectations.

Worked within Agile framework to deliver product in fortnightly sprints, prioritizing dev team's work with Scrum or Kanban

Analyzed Business Requirement, SRS, and participating in document inspection.

Involved in preparing master Test plan and Test Scenarios Extensively involved in preparing test cases, test conditions and test scripts for manual testing

Responsible to remediate issues by talking to Developers, Business Analysts and Client

Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews to improve overall quality of Application.

Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.

Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.

Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work. Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.

Allocated and approved team resource usage.

SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER 09/2016 to 12/2021

Ernst & Young (Client - Morgan Stanley)

Morgan Stanley 3D trading platform provides financial advisor's access to buy, sell or cancel several Equity, options, fixed income tickets and also to maintain client and account profiles.

FA's can update client and account information at any time and also can play around with trading options.

Project involves identifying functional gaps and issues in 3D application especially in trading platform.

Responsibilities:

Be hands-on with describing business rules as technical artifacts for analysts, business product managers, and any functional team that depends on this information.

Be skilled at forging strong partnerships with business sponsors, product managers, architects, and developers to define feature sets, story maps, detailed user stories (functional and non-functional) to support development process.

Discuss technical implementation details with architects, and other technical teams.

Partner with card acquirers, banks, and other strategic partners to enable payment processing which facilitates our global footprint expansion Collaborate with engineering teams to build robust, reliable, and scalable payment processing platforms

Synthesize requirements into common set of platform and services capabilities

Candidates will be responsible for value proposition definition, communications across technical, business and product functions, cost/benefit analysis, and executive presentations Define product requirements which involve writing clear, thorough, and detailed user stories for complex features and product sets Partner with business operations and analytics team to build right monitoring capabilities and metrics which helps monitor health of platform and facilitates data driven decision making

Be primary liaison between business units, business product managers, engineering, and other applicable groups to ensure flawless integration of new and existing feature sets.

Owned and prioritized product backlog.

Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.

Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and target markets.

Analyzed and reported on KPIs to validate and demonstrate success of marketing campaigns.

Developed creative presentations, trend reports, kitted assets, and product data sheets.

Generated sponsorships with related and partnering entities to enhance marketing objectives.

QA TEST MANAGER 10/2015 to 08/2016

Ernst & Young (Client - CSS)

Securitization Solutions (CSS) is a joint venture between Fannie Mae

(FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC) to build and operate a Common Securitization Platform (CSP) for the secondary mortgage market The Common Securitization Platform (CSP), largely a technology project, meets an FHFA mandate for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to build a new infrastructure to issue mortgage-backed securities (MBS) for secondary market

Responsibilities:

Developed data requirements and data interface material and published that information to external stakeholders of the Common Securitization Platform

The team also maintains the Common Securitization Platform Data Dictionary, which serves as the business data dictionary for the Platform Conducted GAP analysis to understand the shortcomings of the existing system and evaluated the benefits of the new system Analyzed Business Requirement, SRS, and participating in the document inspection

Involved in preparing master Test plan and Test Scenarios Extensively involved in preparing test cases, test conditions and test scripts for manual testing

Responsible to remediate issues by talking to Developers, Business Analysts and Client

Provided test data to interface testing and prepare the test data by inputting in the GUI for CR testing

Executed SQL queries for backend validations

Responsible for Regression testing to make sure that application is working fine because of the changes to the new code/enhancement Responsible to prepare all the Quality Assurance Documents and posted in Share point

Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews to improve overall quality of the Application

QA TEST MANAGER 04/2015 to 09/2015

Ernst & Young (Client - PNC )

Standardise the requirements gathered across the teams and conceptualise application workflow

Participate in project planning, execution, and tracking Research and come up with solutions for the business problems in co-ordination with other teams

Identifying options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability

Conducted GAP analysis to understand the shortcomings of the existing system and evaluated the benefits of the new system Testing to make sure that application is working fine because of the changes to the new code/enhancement

Responsible to prepare all the Quality Assurance Documents and posted in Share point

Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews to improve overall quality of the Application, Project : Common Securitization Platform

(CSP

TEST LEAD 01/2011 to 03/2015

Infosys Technologies (Client - CGI)

Eagle Investment System – Quality Management, objective is to replace legacy application for fund accounting and NAV calculation with EAGLE investment application

Project involves identifying functional gaps between legacy application and EAGLE and helps EAGLE team to configure product as per needs of customer - Capital Group

Responsibilities:

Part of functional team to identify functional gaps between legacy application and EAGLE

Involved in functional testing ( Pre Release and Post Release testing) for EAGLE application

Thorough out project in various iterations/Sprints – conducted system testing, integration testing, functional testing and UAT testing Developed ETL test scripts based on technical specifications/Data design documents and Source to Target mappings

Developed complex SQL queries for querying data against different data bases for data verification

Supplied subject matter expertise in Fixed Income, Custody and Corporate action

Good understanding of fixed income, Equity, Cash management, Capital market, SWIFT, Options, Forwards, SPOT, Swaps & Derivative Securities fundamentals with hands on experience

Posted transactions at account level, keeping track of account positions, cash and accruals

Processed transactions such as trades, corporate actions, capstock, interest accrual, settlement and cash movement

Maintained share, cost, and market value for cash and securities Maintained and validated general ledger accounts

Extensively worked with flat files and excel sheet data sources and wrote scripts to test their content

Worked with software developers on design and specification of features of application

Testing involves Data base, Cross Commit XML validations through Data base logs and Valuation service XML logs validations, UI Validations and Functionality testing

Analyzed Business Requirement, SRS, and participating in document inspection

Supported master test plan creation and designed test scenarios Extensively involved in preparing test cases, test conditions and test scripts for manual testing

Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.

Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.

Collaborated with product owners to stay current on intended functionality. Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.

Trained new test employees on equipment and company guidelines to promote productive and high-quality work.

TEST ANALYST 09/2006 to 12/2010

Polaris

Post-Trade Technology is responsible for development and management of systems 'after trade is made', including Confirms, Statements, Settlements, Corporate Actions, Operational Risk, Client Servicing, exception resolution and business process monitoring

These platforms are high-volume, high-throughput, mission-critical systems, encompassing enterprise applications for real-time query and work management

Provide ample opportunity to innovate through multiple programming platforms, rich client interfaces, performance optimization, and business intelligence tools

Responsibilities:

Worked with software developers on design and specification of features of application

Testing involved Data base, Cross Commit XML validations through Data base logs and Valuation service XML logs validations, UI Validations and Functionality testing

Analyzed Business Requirement, SRS, and participated document review sessions

Involved in preparing master Test plan and Test Scenarios Responsible for preparing test case spread sheets, Setting up environment, executing test cases and documenting results in Quality Center

Extensively involved in preparing test cases, test conditions and test scripts for manual testing

Responsible to report defect to Developer, QA Manager, and Development manager

Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing. Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review.

Identified bugs and issues within system and applied troubleshooting techniques for mitigation purposes.

Participated in available trainings to improve software knowledge. Directed team members to follow specific testing standards and guidelines as outlined in project requirements.

Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing, EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering Electrical & Electronics 2006 Anna University, India

CERTIFICATIONS Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certified SAFe Scrum Master

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