United States

Product Design

shiv kumar

Senior Business Product manager 

Product strategy

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Project management

Product roadmap

UserTesting

Figma

Confluence

Empathy

Leadership

Product analytics

PR writing

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Global Governance & Global Responsibility Tech, InfoSec - Helping lead and drive new products and lead cross-horizontal product work and releases @ Walmart Global eCommerce

Keeping Customer Obsession and making them center of my universe,  in  all I do, is the most important value for delivering results !

Responsible for overall  product management delivery, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the product life cycle. Focusing  in core product management disciplines including BRD, schedule,  resources, UX quality, testing  and risk management, reporting and metric development/tracking.

Define and work within an agile project governance framework for Supply chain vertical(e.g. establish team cadence, run Scrum ceremonies, facilitate backlog refinement sessions and story writing, etc.)
Lead the agile delivery team, manage issues, plan risk mitigation, lead Steering Committee and weekly status meetings
Be the functional and subject matter expert for the solution and act as the liaison between Product Ownership, Project Governance, and the Development/Implementation Team
Product Owner to define the product by identifying personas, user stories, technical tasks (requirements) and thinking critically about what will make it successful; write user stories that effectively communicate the Product Owner’s requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams
Work with the engineering team, in particular the Solution Architect, to define and validate the technical approach, strategy and deliverable and the solution analysts to define the functional approach, strategy and deliverable
Lead meetings; provide project status reporting to management; assist with testing scenarios, and validate results
Prepare and deliver client presentations and work products/prototypes
Perform technical analysis to determine present and future business performance
Work with and lead QA teams in the execution of test plans, verification of sprint feature release, assistance in triaging defects for engineering & QA teams

As a Sr Associate/Lead in KPMG leading and managing a project team of 15 (onshore and offshore). A member of the IT Advisory practice specializing in Requirement Gathering, Design, Gap analysis Testing and Change Management
Drive product discover, supports product implementation, deployment, and product releases. 
Developed, manage and document changes to project scope
Designed and created complex user stories or Use cases for requirements during the design phase.
Supervised traceability effort between test scripts and requirements. Ensured application, procedures, documentation, and system are error-free and ready for each release. 
Translate business strategies into product strategies, roadmaps, and product specifications that deliver customer benefits and meet business goals
Developed a custom QA work schedule to minimize overtime work for contractors, which in turn saved project cost and was within the budget
Manage all project communication, including status reporting on project progress to stakeholders. 
Identify, manage, escalate and mitigate risk through maintenance of Risk Control Log. 
Manage Change Control for the project. Maintain Change Control Log, monitoring and ensuring appropriate approval and documentation of all changes. 
Established an Efficient Testing Framework and Quality management process to identify, develop, and formalize testing strategy. 
Formalized an end to end process to build and manage Quality centers spread across different geographic locations 
Lead and managed the team for Project Quality Management in System Testing, UAT, Defect Management and Test Automation with a team of 15 test and business analysts team. 
Responsible for building the master test plan and test strategy. 
Manage application development using Agile Scrum. 
Liaise with the product team on business requirements and product roadmap for releases and build

As Sr. Team leader for CalHEERS State project -California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System (CalHEERS). 
Lead team of 5  right from Planning teams to develop and execute test plans for capabilities and BRD.
Set priorities for the team and assign resources
Provide regular status against the team’s progress and track to the overall project health, and report to C - executives on the overall status. 
Contribute to process improvement and establishing best practices for testing
Interact effectively with other teams, including Product Management and Development
Actively participate in talent acquisition and onboarding
Managing a diverse team of 5  in quality assurance and requirement gathering.
Experience with Agile development methodologies
Helped in building relationships across teams, such as Development and Product Management
Proven experience delivering high-quality software products within a full development life-cycle

Supported the documentation of requirements into Business requirement document (BRD). 
Provided traceability analysis to certain the projects deliverables comply with approved plans and accurately reflect the requirements.
Served as a Business analyst coordinating and gathering the requirements from stakeholders.

Managed a Team of Developers and Testers.
Worked with Stakeholders in requirements gathering, tracking project progress, and monitors the requirements management efforts of the project.
Documented “Lessons Learnt” as a part of ongoing support to the client to produce repeatable success in the projects. 
Manage all project and program communication, including status reporting on project progress to stakeholders.
• Develop, manage and document changes to project scope.
• Identify, manage, escalate and mitigate risk through maintenance of Risk Control Log.
• Worked with Stakeholders in requirements gathering, tracking project progress, and monitors the requirements management efforts of the project.
• Conducted an as-is business process review of the current state of the Research Station. Through structured interviews, research, identification of key business requirements and process, as well as identification of technology applications
• Manage Change Control for project. Maintain Change Control Log, monitoring and ensuring appropriate approval and documentation of all changes.
• Review quality of deliverables for conformance to quality methods and requirements.

The company offers enterprise-wide software solutions for educational institutions, energy and utility companies, and security companies. Its educational software products include MonitorSIS, a Web-based student information system package for K-12 schools; WebEIM, a solution for enterprise resource planning requirements; Monitor, a management tool for school administrators to track daily student performance; and Training Institute Manager, a centralized platform for enterprise-wide training management and delivery. The company’s energy and utility software solutions comprise billing solutions; and the Power Plant Manager, an enterprise suite for asset and resource management and preservation, as well as security solutions include Maya, a visitor management system for visitor identification, call management, and access control; and remote monitoring solutions. In addition, it provides solutions for e-governance and other information technology infrastructure projects; and undertakes information and communications technology projects for primary and secondary education. Agnite Education primarily serves the United States, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and India. The company was formerly known as Teledata Informatics Limited and changed its name to Agnite Education Limited on April 7, 2011. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Chennai, India.

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