United States

Platform Product Management

Executive-Master of Business Administration

PG Program

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

srividhya chandrasekaran

Senior Product Manager

Product strategy

Postman

Figma

Hotjar

Jira

Mural

Empathy

Collaboration

Conflict resolution

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Senior Product Manager in Spotify's Platform Developer Experience (PDX) R&D Studio.
Responsible for Soundcheck -a Backstage commercial plugin that helps  engineers  track development and operational standards and  measure the tech health of software components. Soundcheck also provides guidance to cultivate behavior and improve an organization's DevOps practices.

-Assisting in managing roadmaps, product strategy, and process improvement efforts 
* Working with the customer to understand their pain points, driving the business case, and translating them into product requirements
* Leading product improvements by working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders to develop and manage the product roadmap.
*Responsible for Initiating and Leading Intake by working with cross-functional teams (H/W and S/W Engineering, Product IT, and Program management ) to drive the problem statement and define the business case to understand the impact before the project gets approved for implementation.
*Experience working with Leadership to assist in driving the right product strategy as customer needs constantly evolve.
* Converting user needs into clear, well-defined product requirements and improving scope clarity for engineering partners

-Responsible for leading and managing a team of engineers to set up  API and UI  Test Automation Frameworks and automated Test Pipelines in Jenkins. 
-Solved a crucial problem of 'it worked on my machine' through an automated solution to reduce manual installs to zero for internal environments. 
- Established best practices, for internal test environments by training manual test engineers, setting up automated tests and guidelines for development teams before code gets pushed across for testing, and solving challenges caused by a lack of documentation and standards while using emulation for testing.

#microfulfillment #Robotics #Industrial Automation

-Promoted to perform the role of a Platform Product Manager /Platform Engineering team lead
-Led a fast-paced DevOps team that Automated deployments to customer environments.
-Drove the vision and requirements for a DevOps team to automate environment provisioning and
product installs/upgrades for customers. This improved the number of environments delivered by 203 within 1 month.
-Ansible automation reduced the time taken to deliver one new environment from 50 hours to 6 hours per resource
-Drove user stories to set up CI that mirrored customer environments of all products in Healthedge .This
improved stability of the products since bugs were caught early in the cycle instead of firefighting issues
close to release date
-Shadowed 21 customer environment upgrades and identified automation and process issues and fed
them back into the backlog . This helped improve upgrades by 25% (2 days to 1.5 days).
-Drove automation requirements to create docker hosts, Jenkins agents and oracle servers at will

-Responsible for Test Automation of HE Digital /HE Web Portal on a homegrown Test Automation Framework using Java/Rest Assured
-Ranorex on C# 
-Web Api testing of Rest APIs using soap UI(currently in the process of migrating the tests to c# as well)
-Part of the team that helped with Automated Test data generation for use by the engineering team

Worked on Test Automation of an online banking web application using Selenium and Java

Consulted on multiple projects/customers for the Department of Public health to help with manual testing and set up frameworks and write automated tests using Test complete and QTP

Consulted on a project for Truefit to help with quality assurance

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