Professional Summary

**+ years of total experience in designing, planning, testing and 3+ years leading Projects as a Product Owner for web based applications and standalone applications. Strong business knowledge, committed to processes like Agile, SDLC. Detail oriented with excellent leadership and communication.

Contact

Phone:703-***-****

adjq9e@r.postjobfree.com

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

Education

Bachelors of Engineering with Honors 2000-2004

Certifications

PMP Certified, 2015 (I.D 1852404)

Professional Scrum Master Certified

Clients

Portland General Electric(PGE), Microsoft, Amgen, Cardinal Health, Alcon, Daimler Trucks, AT&T

Skills

Processes: Agile/Scrum/Kanban, PLC, SDLC, STLC, ASAP

Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, QTP, Clear Quest, Confluence

Language: C/C++, VB, ERP: SAP

LEKSHMI KURUP

Product Owner

WORK EXPERIENCE

3D SYSTEMS APRIL16-DEC20 PRODUCT OWNER/SCRUM MASTER

Projects: 5600 Large platform printer with digital mixing, 2500 material launch, Material Level Integrity(MUD/MLI) and Culinary printer.

Responsibilities as Product Owner and Scrum Master:

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

Gathered requirements and translated them to JIRA user stories.

Bridged the gap between the Stakeholders and the Development team.

Brainstormed and facilitated product architecture meetings and planned the risks with the 3rd party tool deliverables.

Prioritized the Product backlog and developed valuable Stories integrating UX/UI, WEB API, AWS, Middleware and core systems.

Organized, prioritized and refined the stories for MVP, added Acceptance Criteria and Corner cases.

Lead IOT Integration efforts with the Mechanical and the Software teams.

Developed structure to the User stories in JIRA by importing them from excel.

Coached the team to the SCRUM Framework and to develop the skills needed.

Evaluated the progress of the product and provided KPI reports to the management like Scope creep, Defect leakage, Story completion, Burn down Chart.

Set up Scrum framework for onsite and remote teams and arranged demo of the product to the Stakeholders.

Supported go-to-market supporting material and measured Post Launch performance.

Led Risk planning for the stories and supported team in removing impediments and to create successful increment.

Coordinated with the Release team, for successful release of the project.

Facilitated Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES AS LEAD QA ENGINEER:

Led multiple projects through the Product Life cycle (PLC) process to the launch of the product.

Responsible for the resource planning and task assignment to the QA team.

Analyzed and raised risks to the Mechanical, Electrical and Print process teams and helped with mitigation plans.

Developed strategy for Unit, Exploratory. regression and Integration testing. Prioritizing and planning the test for the release cycles.

Developed Test strategy from ground up for the projects.

Coordinated cross site communications for the QA teams.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Successfully helped launch four printer product lines within the time and cost constraints.

Planned realistically to deliver the MVP according to the roadmap.

Promoted SCRUM framework to cross teams within the Organization.

ADVENT GLOBAL FEB11- MARCH14 SYSTEM ANALYST

Client: Portland Electric General, Microsoft, Amgen, Alcon, Cardinal Health

Developed and maintained Test planning, Test Strategy, Test Case and Test scenarios and Traceability for different projects like Azure, Paperless Email foundation, Plan to procure.

Integrated QC, QTP and developed Automation framework in VB.

Mentored new, existing team member in automation test script design, debugging and execution using automated testing framework.

Coordinated with offsite teams on a daily basis and reported the status to higher management.

Set up ground up SAP Test strategy for implementation projects for Sales and Distribution Module and Material Management Module.

Worked in fast paced Agile Environments and helped team to collaborate and update the team status to the management.

Coordinated end to end implementation of projects with heavy integrations with varying third party applications.

SYNTEL INC. JUN 10 - JAN 11 PROJECT LEAD

Client: Daimler Truck North America

Involved in brainstorming sessions, analyzing the business processes, requirement gathering, Mapping the As-Is process and designing To-Be Processes for Order to Cash scenarios.

Developed functional reports in SD Module in coordination with ABAP teams.

Developed Test plan scenarios and performed Unit test, functional and Integration validations.

VAYU INC. NOV 08-JUNE 10 SAP CONSULTANT

Client: AT&T, Amgen

Analyzed, developed, documented and validated QA artifacts for the SD and MM Businesses Scenarios against the Functional Specifications Document as part of the Implementation.

Bridge the gap between the Offshore and onsite team, interact with the stakeholders, development teams and update management.

Analyzed risks and planned for mitigations.

INFOSYS LTD JUN 08 – SEP 08 ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

Immediate analysis and response for the problems in downstream business process.

Resolving issues as per SLA, documentations, resolutions and preparation of Functional Specifications, Test Scripts and deployed to production.

NIIT LTD JUN 07- JUN 08 PROCESS CONSULTANT

Resolved support tickets on time for Order to cash.

Analyzing, fixing and testing the new changes made to the ERP system.

Validated master data of Customers, Vendor, Material Master, BOM.

Created Test Plans for the Transaction codes and the functions to be tested.

ABB LTD FEB 05 – APRIL 07 PROCESS ENGINEER

Worked as Super User for SAP SD Module and provided trainings to the channel partners to keep them updated with the enhancements.

Provided end user support to the issues from Order Management Team for SD Module.

Order processing and prepared manufacturing schedule based on delivery required by customer and material availability.

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