NISHANT VATHSAL - CSM®, CSPO®

PROFILE

Phone: 951-***-****

E-mail: nishant.vathsal @gmail.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-v-60980765 PRODUCT OWNER/

SCRUM MASTER

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Responsible for 2 scrum teams and 6 legacy applications under the National Insurance Underwriting Technology Team.

Responsible for delivering the Next Gen Auto solution to enable dynamic and better pricing for customers

Responsible for articulating and translating the product vision into feature(s) and maintaining liaison between business partners and IT teams in order to provide effective technical solutions Ensured user stories are clear, removed barriers for team members and resolved open issues/questions quickly and efficiently to ensure delivery of scope.

Own the backlogs and and lead refinement meetings with the team to have a healthy, and prioritized backlog for the team. Work closely with Sr. POs and business users in defining minimum viable product (MVP).

Set the quality standard for delivery, develop test plans, accept each story and track completion of features.

Participate in team demos and retrospectives to validate quality, provide feedback to team and improve team processes. Partner across functions//trains as needed to coordinate delivery plans, testing, training and support.

Lead problem resolution as needed to ensure that internal and external customers receive efficient service and periodically support applications in Development, Test and Production environments

As a PO:

EXPERIENCE

SR.BUSINESS SYSTEMS

ANALYST/

SCRUM MASTER

VF Corporation (Feb 2018 - Aug 2019)

Responsible for requirement Elicitation and Documentation. Develop use cases and perform Gap, Risk, and Cost-Benefit analyses to evaluate feasibility of solution being implemented. Worked closely with application SMEs and vendors to create and implement data extraction procedures from systems like SAP, MDM, SAS etc., to be integrated on to the Analytics Platform. Planned and co-ordinate platform roll out to Europe Middle East And Africa (EMEA) AND Asia Pacific (APAC) regions

Work alongside other scrum masters and product owners to prioritize the product features for delivery, translate requirements to user stories and plan releases in Jira.•

Review and document ad hoc change requests during project deliverables, communicate with the business and development leads to understand the impact of the change required, Used tools like Tableau, Smartsheet etc., to build and maintain custom business, financial, operational and project reports and dashboards to provide daily, and weekly status updates to stakeholders and leadership.

Identifying the risks/challenges to deliver the business commitments and negotiate on the timelines and prioritize the requirements based on the Business impact and time criticality. Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies like Stand-Up, Retrospectives, Planning and Demos.

Facilitate empirical learning, while encouraging broader adoption of Agile techniques to speed up software delivery and increase the quality of product.

Responsible for removing blockers/ impediments for the NI Billing team.

Implement best practices and changes to the SAFe framework as and when necessary to improve the overall productivity of the ART. Assist in establishing cadence for ART by developing annual calendars for Sprints, Program Increments, and all other Agile and SAFe ceremonies.

As a Scrum Master,

EXPERIENCE

BUSINESS ANALYST/

PRODUCT OWNER

BSASPEC (Apr 2017 - Feb 2018)

Simplified existing applications & integration architecture & build for scalability utilizing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as framework and Applied the "As Is" and "To Be" process designs in order to identify any potential process gaps and as well as improvement opportunities.

Facilitated JAD Sessions, Interviews sessions, Survey/Questionnaire and Focus Groups to Elicit Requirements with various stakeholders, mostly business users and SME’s for understanding the business requirements.

Drafted Business Requirement Document (BRD) for the specific business requirements and Functional Specification Document

(FSD) capture the functional requirements.

Developed and delivered work/performance plan and associated schedule as described in the schedule of deliverable Involved in Forecasting; Release Planning; developing business cases for prioritizing the product road map features, defining the User stories and User Acceptance Criteria.

Helped the team overcome technical barriers by creating and updating use case diagrams activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and data flow diagrams.

Extensively used JIRA to record and maintain the artifacts such as Product backlogs, Sprint backlogs, user stories / Data stories, Impediments list, tasks, defects and issue tracking. Created test plan to best understand test scenarios and structured documents with test case scenarios for developers. Maintained and created end-to-end testing strategy and enterprise wide test cases for USer Acceptance Testing (UAT), Systems Integration Testing (SIT).

As a Scrum Master - conducted agile ceremonies, removed team's impediments/blockers and promoted the agile mindset along with RTEs by conducting workshops to train team members. EXPERIENCE

CONTENT ENGINEERING

ANALYST

Google India(Jun 2014 -Jul 2015)

Performed Document analysis, conducted interviews with Compliance team, monitoring team, and SMEs to understand the As-Is state. Conducted interviews with business owners and facilitated JAD, brainstorming sessions between business stakeholders through effective communication.

Supported and assisted Product owners in capacity planning to determine the production capacity with respect to availability of onshore and offshore team members to meet the changing needs of the project. Worked with the stakeholders to improve project management practices such as development of an integrated cross- functional team and global teams project plan

Responsible for creating dashboards and customized visualizations to present the reports as per business requirements that helped in strategic decisions

OPERATIONS ANALYST 24/7 Customer PVT LTD (Feb 2013- Mar 2014) Responsible for eliciting and documenting requirements for the PIM system.

Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) report to ensure that every Business requirement is adhered to achieve the expected performance.

Involved with the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Team to develop Test plans, execution of Test Cases and logged the defects for failed test cases using HP Quality Center.

LAST MILE AND QUALITY

ANALYST

Amazon India (July 2015 - Dec 2015)

Worked on a pilot project to support address corrections and reduce costs incurred from 3rd party carriers.

Contributed as an analyst on the global team working on the AmazonLogistics (AMZL) project.

Performed GAP analysis to identify gaps in current and future states on the AMZL project.

Identified KPIs and developed weekly project status reports for the global leadership using Tableau.

Elicited requirements, maintained documentation and translated requirements to developers for building internal tooling for Transportation and Last Mile Analysts.

Worked closely with First- and Middle-Mile teams to streamline the end to end process from First Mile to Last Mile. Business Analysis

Product Development

Agile

Business Process Improvement

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Scope Management

Negotiation

Critical Thinking

SKILLS

Alteryx

Google Analytics

Tableau, Power BI

MS Project

Visio

JIRA,Confluence,HP ALM

AWS Athena,Redshift, S3.Data pipeline

SQL Workbench

TOOLS

CERTIFICATIONS

M.S IN IT MANAGEMENT Campbellsville University

M.B.A California Baptist University

B.A MASS COMMUNICATION The English and Foreign Languages University

BACHELORS IN TECHNOLOGY Jawahar Lal Nehru Technological University

EDUCATION

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