Product Owner Data Analyst

Deepika Alla

Product Owner/Business Data Analyst

Ph: +1-908-***-****

Email: ***************@*****.***

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alladeepika19478342/

Professional Summary

●5 years of experience working on digital/software products as a Product Owner/Business analyst.

●POPM, PMP, PSM, Business Analysis & Microsoft Azure fundamentals certified.

●AWS Business Professional Certified

●Strong working experience in all phases of SDLC implementing Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

●Abundant experience working in different iterative development frameworks like Scrum.

●Good experience in Product Development and Project Management.

●Working Domain knowledge of Manufacturing Execution Systems, Life Sciences, HealthCare and Automotive

●Experience in launching products that solved real-world problems in the healthcare and finance domains.

●Experience in developing product strategy and product roadmap.

●Efficient in managing the product backlog, and prioritizing features and user stories.

●Expertise in planning and development of Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases to meet products’ business requirements, and good experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

●Efficient in writing Product Requirements Document (PRD), Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Use Cases.

●Efficient in executing Proof of concepts and New Ideas.

●Experience working with Data Warehousing (ETL/ELT) and Business Intelligence (BI).

●In-depth knowledge of UI/UX design.

●Experience with Database Testing, BI Reports and UI testing and Dashboarding

●Good understanding of DevOps

●Solid knowledge of Cloud Computing, especially Azure and Data bricks.

●Extensive experience working with relational databases (RDBMS) and solid understanding of data models and

data pipelines.

●Experience working with data visualization tools like Power BI and Tableau.

●Good understanding of microservice architecture and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

●Profound experience in organizing Scrum ceremonies, interviews and requirements elicitation sessions.

●Profound experience in supporting Change Management and Release Management processes.

●Knowledgeable about Six Sigma, and RPA.

●Extensive experience using Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) tools like Jira and Microsoft Project.

●Strong experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project) and SharePoint.

●Experience in conducting feasibility study and Gap, SWOT, Risk, and Cost-benefit analyses.

●Strong experience in developing screen mockups and wireframes.

●Good experience in managing Project Scope and Schedule.

●Drive to learn about new technological trends and a passion to solve real problems.

●Ability to work independently with superior analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Technical Skills:

Databases

MySQL

Programming & Web

SQL Data validation scripting

Business Intelligence

Power BI, Tableau, Excel

Cloud Computing

Azure, AWS

Testing

Functional Testing, Database testing

Product &Project

Management

Jira, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Microsoft Office

Other Tools

Hue, Datameer, Canva,Customer Relationship management – Onehash, Kylas,

SQL Work Bench, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Sage, QuickBooks, and accounting software tools

Certifications/Trainings

●Data Science Methodologies

●PMP

●POPM

●PSM

●AWS Business Professional

●Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

●Waterfall to Agile Project Management

●Data Analytics Fundamentals

●Data Visualization – Tableau & Power BI

Professional Experience

MTA (Metro Transport Authority), NewYork March 2024 – Present

Role: Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner

The Unified & Interactive Business Intelligence project aims at creating an enterprise view of the Business to the stakeholders for effective decision making by importing Real time data assets to its centralized data warehouse. This platform is focused on Analytics and Interactive BI reporting.

In this Project, we launched multiple Tableau and Power BI reports to provide information\insights to SVP, RVPs, DMs and Sales Reps to gauge their performance in a well-structured and quick manner. These dashboards are used for Improvement and consistency in planning and strategy and have ability to communicate KCI’s value, and greater insights into how to better leverage KCI products and services to improve patient care while decreasing total cost of care.

Responsibilities:

●Translated requirements into appropriate user stories, and ensured stories met acceptance criteria.

●Participated in all Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

●Collaborating with management to develop budgets and forecasts for the organization. This includes analyzing financial data, identifying trends, and providing insights to support decision-making.

●Managed the product lifecycle from requirements to prioritization to product release.

●Reported status of the features and stories to Program Management, periodically.

●Conducted demos and training sessions with internal and external groups.

●Ensured proper product documentation including user guides, use cases, implementation guides, and release notes.

●Continuously evaluating and improving financial reporting processes and controls to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and compliance with GAAP standards.

●Serving as the primary liaison with external auditors during the audit process. This includes providing requested documentation, addressing auditor inquiries, and resolving any audit findings or discrepancies.

●Conducting financial analysis to assess the financial health and performance of the organization. This may involve evaluating profitability, liquidity, solvency, and efficiency metrics, as well as conducting variance analysis against budgets and forecasts.

●Ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and accounting standards. This includes staying updated on changes in regulations and proactively implementing necessary changes to accounting practices and procedures.

●Communicating financial performance, analysis, and insights to stakeholders, including senior management, board members, investors, and creditors. This involves preparing presentations, reports, and other materials to effectively convey financial information.

●Establishing and maintaining internal control procedures to safeguard assets, ensure accuracy of financial records, and prevent fraud. This may involve designing control systems, conducting risk assessments, and implementing monitoring mechanisms.

●Developed prototypes of the product using InVision.

●Advocated for the end user by influencing decisions to ensure product features are in alignment with user needs and expectations.

●Prioritized the product backlog to maximize business value delivered while maintaining a sustainable pace for the team.

●Continuously collected user feedback and collaborated with the UI/UX team to enhance user experience.

●Used Jira to manage the product backlog.

●Prioritized dependencies by working with other Product Owners and Project Managers.

●Collaborated with the CTO, Program Manager, and the Architect to ensure the product strategy fit within the overall vision of the program

Destin IT Solutions, Texas Aug 2023 – Dec 2023

Role: Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

●Conducted requirement workshops among all project stakeholders to verify and validate the business requirements

●Interfaced between Developers and Subject Matter Experts to understand the work effort for a requirement, communicated any compromises or risks to the Designers and Product Managers to ensure high quality functional and technical deliverables.

●Prototyped the application by providing screen shots and wireframes.

●Contributing to strategic planning initiatives by providing financial insights and analysis to support decision-making. This may involve evaluating investment opportunities, assessing business risks, and modeling potential scenarios.

●Providing training and education to finance and accounting staff to ensure understanding and compliance with GAAP principles and reporting requirements.

●Leading and developing a team of accounting and finance professionals. This includes providing guidance, coaching, and performance feedback to ensure the team achieves its objectives effectively.

●Developed workflow charts and worked extensively on use case diagrams.

●Developed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Documents.

●Actively participated in the application development meetings to clarify the business logic and provide the business scenarios to the development teams.

●Successfully delivered walkthroughs of the application requirements to both the development and testing teams.

●Conducted JAD sessions to resolve issues in an efficient manner involving data processing, user interface and downstream systems interactions

●Led the development of conceptual, logical, and physical designs of the Reports & Dashboards.

●Oversaw ETL process to load data from disparate sources into the data warehouse.

●Developed compelling Power BI and Tableau reports comprising KPIs and metrics.

●Analyzed data to solve a wide variety of business problems and created data visualizations that drove strategic direction.

●Conducted review meetings with software test teams to ensure appropriate test scenarios have been provided

●Conducted user acceptance testing (UAT sessions) to ensure all the business requirements have been fulfilled by the application

●Aligned with the Production support team for issues reported by the user group in the production environment.

●Overseeing the implementation and maintenance of financial systems and processes to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance accuracy in financial reporting.

●Effectively conducted post production validation (PPV).

●Gathered, analyzed, and prioritize user stories.

●Worked closely with Sr. Product Owner, Architect, and the Development Team to groom user stories.

●Designed screen mockups to specify the website’s user interface (UI).

●Created data flow diagrams and Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams using Erwin and collaborated with the Architecture/ETL team to fill in the gaps.

Environment: Agile, Jira, Power BI, Data Lake, Data Factory, Tableau, Canva, Lucid Charts, Microsoft SQL Server, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, SQL workbench

First American India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore April 2021 to June 2022

Role: Business Analyst

The First American India Private Limited is an American Insurance company based in Dallas, Texas. The purpose of the project is to secure the user data and keep the financial systems and processes Audit compliant.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the Scrum team.

●Ensuring that the organization's financial statements adhere to GAAP standards. This involves staying updated on the latest developments in accounting standards issued by standard-setting bodies such as the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the United States or the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) globally.

●Overseeing the preparation of financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of changes in equity. These statements should accurately reflect the financial position, performance, and cash flows of the organization.

●Establishing and maintaining accounting policies and procedures that are in compliance with GAAP. This includes ensuring consistency in accounting treatment across different transactions and business activities.

●Ensuring proper recognition of revenue in accordance with GAAP guidelines, including the application of revenue recognition criteria such as the timing and measurement of revenue recognition.

●Coordinated with application users and various stakeholders (including other POs) to understand business problems, requirements, and goals that the business team needs to achieve.

●Worked with technical SMEs to come up with a solution and ensure that solution meets business needs.

●Lead requirements discussions to document, analyze and translate functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, diagrams, and other deliverables as needed.

●Participated in Scrum Agile events and other agile activities.

●Managed multiple priorities, customer expectations and relationships with all stakeholders.

●Assisted the team as needed to complete stories and with troubleshooting problems and developing recommendations/solutions.

●Supported training development for end users and staff members.

●Collaborated, coordinated, and communicated across disciplines and departments.

●Ensured the project requirement compliance with HIPAA regulations and requirements.

Environment: Agile, Jira, Power BI, ETL, SSIS, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure cloud, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel

Concentrix, Bangalore June 2018 to April 2021

Role: Product Owner/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Led multiple Security Baseline project on critical Production Servers to implement full scale Security standards with Zero exceptions and impact to customers

●Carried out one of the critical audits like SOX Compliance Audits & Periodic Review Audits for 170+ production systems

●Understanding and designing the security policies of the client based on the business understanding and requirements

●Creating security baseline agreements that must be agreed by both the service seeker (Clients) and service provider (IBM) and to be executed accordingly in the client’s environment

●Ad-hoc Report extraction and process automation

●Assist the users with security concerns and interrogate users in case of security violations

●Data cleaning, loading and validations

●QC and bug detection in data/process and bug fixing in current process

●Perform Data Security Audits on regular basis to see the systems and data are in accordance with the business rules and policies

●Investigate security threats and unauthorized transactions happening in the data level to maintain the health of the systems

●Perform the changes according to the new updates and maintain the documentation in a universal repository

●Conduct data level internal audits and reviews and prepare a report on the health of the systems

●Documented as-is and to-be processes, and identified security gaps by conducting Gap Analysis, and documented impacts to different groups and systems.

●Built Tableau dashboards and reports based on client specifications.

●Ensuring accurate and timely recognition of expenses in accordance with GAAP principles, including the matching of expenses to the period in which they are incurred and the allocation of expenses to appropriate cost categories.

●Overseeing the valuation of assets, including property, plant, and equipment, intangible assets, and investments, in compliance with GAAP guidelines. This may involve assessing impairment indicators and performing impairment tests when necessary.

●Ensuring that financial statements include all required disclosures as per GAAP standards. This includes disclosures related to significant accounting policies, contingent liabilities, related party transactions, and other relevant information.

●Collaborated with the QA team to ensure adequate security testing both before and after completion, maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is in place.

●Authored UAT scenarios and reviewed Test Plans with the team to ensure the product met all acceptance criteria.

●Processed and documented change requests.

●Provided L3 production support and used Remedy ticketing tool to resolve issues within the defined SLAs.

Environment: Windows, Linux, Tableau, Visio, SharePoint, Remedy, Service Now, IAM, AS400, Mainframes

Education

●Master’s in Computer Science – Southern Arkansas University, Arkansas

●Bachelor’s in Computer Science -- Oxford College of Science, Bangalore

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