United States

UX Design

12th

Vaibhav Raverkar

Sr Product Manager

Project management

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As a API Product Manager, managing multiple Projects within a Portfolio for Fiserv client.

1. Leading the development and implementation of the Open Banking project within the fintech domain, ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices.
2. Designing and architecting a cloud migration strategy for the API-driven platform, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
3. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize features for the Open Banking platform, including OPA/Rego integration, admin platform enhancements, and retail and business banking capabilities.
4. Driving the development and deployment of APIs, ensuring seamless integration with external systems and adherence to API design principles.
5. Establishing and enforcing coding standards, version control processes, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for the Open Banking platform.
6. Conducting technical reviews and providing guidance to the development team to ensure high-quality code and adherence to architectural principles.
7. Working closely with product managers to define and refine the product roadmap, aligning it with business goals and customer needs.
8. Collaborating with security teams to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and implementing robust security measures for the Open Banking platform.
9. Managing and overseeing the development of the admin platform, enabling efficient monitoring, reporting, and configuration management for the Open Banking project.
10. Implementing retail and business banking capabilities, such as account management, payments, and financial analytics, to deliver a comprehensive and user-friendly banking experience.
11. Mentoring and coaching team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation within the Open Banking project team.

Working with Photon Interactive Pvt Ltd, India division as senior Project Manager on fintech project related to API related project. Working primarily with key stakeholders ensuring the below KRAs and owning the job responsibilities mentioned below,

1. Lead and oversee the successful delivery of technical projects related to payment processing, fintech mobility, and analytics within the fintech domain.
2. Manage a team of six reportees, ensuring that each team member is meeting their performance objectives, while also fostering a positive team culture.
3. Act as the single point of contact for various stakeholders, including Account Manager, Delivery Managers, Product Team, Technical Teams, and HR Team, to ensure clear communication, alignment, and collaboration throughout project execution.
4. Participate in interviewing and hiring activities for multiple accounts, ensuring that the right talent is identified and onboarded to the team.
5. Manage vendor documentation for onboarding, compliance, project management, and delivery, ensuring that all necessary documents are up-to-date and accessible by the appropriate team members.
6. Develop project plans and timelines, identifying key milestones and dependencies, and tracking progress against established metrics.
7. Facilitate meetings and workshops with stakeholders to drive decision-making, problem-solving, and alignment on project requirements, scope, and priorities.
8. Monitor project risks and issues, working with the team to develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans as needed.
9. Provide regular status updates to stakeholders on project progress, risks, and issues, and manage expectations accordingly.
10. Continuously identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes, tools, and methodologies, and implement changes as appropriate.

Bajaj Finance Super App Project: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.altruist.BajajExperia&hl=en_IN&gl=US

My roles and responsibilities included
1. Supporting the programme management with impact assessment for change requests on design, scope, time, budget or effort on programme plan and provides accurate estimates for handling new requirements, design changes and scope
2. Ensuring that all requirements have suitable benefits associated with it and full traceability on ownership of requirement and success criteria for each requirement 
3. Maintaining a strong understanding of industry, regulatory and customer needs and apply this knowledge to all change activity to ensure appropriate solutions are developed and delivered
4. Plan and schedule project activities aligned with the project plan and ensure timely completion of milestones. All risks associated with project plan should be escalated and documented in a timely fashion using various logs.
5. Key Stakeholders Include: COEs/Business and Operations team, Business Services Technology, Global Heads of businesses
6. Reporting weekly updates to MD/Higher Management as a consolidated report, duly following-up on actions items related to high-value goals
7. Follow governance/ toll gates to ensure the right requirements are being signed off and built, with the outcomes fully understood
8. Interacting with COEs, Services Team. IT team, Legal & Compliance and other project managers on the daily basis to make sure the project deliverables inline with the project plan and to mitigate the risk
9. Documenting and managing requirements using tools like Microsoft Planner, AzureBoards, User Journey Diagrams and MS Excel. Same time managing and overseeing the creative deliverables using Sketch and Zeplin tools. Using flow diagrams tools as OmniGraffle & Draw.io.

1. Focusing on contactless payments, merchant transaction processing, third party wallet integration like Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal and custom wallet development, connected cars
2. Daily work includes mobile applications requirement gathering, Interacting with the client team, updating documentation for the project, build testing, project planning, and new project estimation. 
3.Actively involved in strategic planning of new projects, reviewing estimation and help to create WBS. 
4. Specialing in mobile app project estimation, annual roadmap planning, and project delivery from Business Analyst point of view
5. Participating in requirement workshops on client location and defining the product roadmap items
Attended workshop in London(UK), Budapest(Hungary) and various locations in the USA
6. Defining the use cases related roadmap items, drafting information architecture, user journey flows and writing detailed requirements using 'Gherkin' method
7. Working with the creative team to define the product and actively participating in usability testing
8. Supporting the product promotion demos remotely and actively supporting prod builds for events like Money 20-20 and NACS
9. Sync with offshore team and tracking pending items with other vendor teams to make sure blockers are cleared for planned items
10. Weekly product demo to key stakeholders including client team, vendor teams and tracking the feedback to closure
11. Analyzing new customer feedback, Root-cause analysis for missed items, feasibility testing and requirement discussion for new features
12. Reviewing the product and ensuring the implementation  of 'Human interface guidelines' from Apple and Google for mobile apps

Interacting with the onsite client team, project documentation including updating user stories, feature coverage, traceability matrix, daily scrum calls, project planning meeting, requirement estimation.

1. Create and maintain workflows, approval processes, and validation rules based on internal
stakeholder requirements
2. Work with functional leads to transform and develop new requirements as design and implementation
3. Facilitate successful delivery of project requirements to meet client specification.
4. Complete and document any process mapping and process redesign/improvement opportunities accordingly
5. Contribute to the development and advancement of the business discipline within the assigned division, and the organization as a whole
6. Working as owner for requirement gathering, documentation, clarification and scope definition from offshore
7. Working with client located in the USA primarily and defining the products from business requirement documents
8. Taking active part in usability testing and product road-map related discussions

1. Responsible for requirement gathering, requirement elicitation & acting as a link between client and development team, working with Agile methodology
2. Analyzing client requirement and proposing solution based on understanding using idea presentation
3. Client interaction, Product Demo by daily stand-ups & calls, converting the requirement in functionality
4. Preparing project related documents like feature coverage, wire-frames, FSD, User Stories, Use Cases, UML diagrams etc
5. Responsible for negotiating scope and change management, arranging the JAD/Brainstorming sessions between technical teams & stakeholders
6. Responsible for QA documentation such as test cases, feature coverage document, clients/users traceability matrix
7. Responsible for successful implementation of requirements & ensuring quality deliverable
8. Ensuring clear & concise documentation of the requirements 
9. Instrumental in working closely with clients/user to determine and resolve conflicts / issues raised by them ensuring adherence to project timeline
10.Advance planning for deploying and rendering support ensuring all projects are executed and delivered with adherence to quality and deadlines.

Responsibilities:
1. Understanding the CDC Software product - CDC Factory
2. Understanding the sales process viz database generation, cold calling
3. Responsible for database generation, cold calling, sourcing the prospects
4. Scheduling appointment, Visiting client site, understanding the problem statement
5. Providing the product demo, optimum solution to the problem, scheduling audit process
6. working closely with National Sales Head, Sales Manager

Achievements
1. Generated 4 leads including Kemwell Pharma, Pepsico Bangalore
2. Successfully completed competitor analysis of CDC Software

Responsibilities:
1. Working with the CTO, Project Manager
2. Understanding the client requirement for the project
3. Understanding the Business Analyst work
4. Preparing the FSD/ FDD documents
5. Preparing SRS documents
5. Working with MS Visio, Preparing website flow-diagrams
6. Understanding the flow of IBN Travel Management product
7. Worked for Audit Process & maintaining all the documents needed

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