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Nisha Kumari

Product Owner/ Scrum Master

Summary

Focused and enthusiastic Product Owner/ Designer with excellent troubleshooting and quality assurance skills coupled with more than 16 years of IT experience. Effective in identifying resources and managing compliance standards. Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Scrum Master

Capgemini
Amsterdam/ Utrecht
03.2021 - Current
  • Worked with leading Bank(s) as clients
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
  • Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly product releases
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams
  • Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges
  • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Worked expertly with: Confluence, Sharepoint, Azure DevOps

Product Owner/ Functional Designer

Capgemini
Amsterdam
04.2018 - 02.2021
  • Worked for leading Bonding Insurance client
  • Acted as liaison between business and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog alongwith overseeing the entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work
  • Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges
  • Partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process and ensure the product team understands the direction and vision
  • Created and maintained the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project's life cycle
  • Translated features into user stories within the team's backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder's requirements
  • Successfully took care of the requirement gathering, analysis and designing the functional requirements
  • Converted project specifications into drawings and other materials that would be used to create product
  • Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features
  • Worked expertly with: Confluence, Sharepoint, JIRA

Service Delivery Manager

TechMahindra GmBH.
Wolfsburg
06.2016 - 03.2018
  • Worked for leading Automotive client
  • Participated in drafting service budgeting, advising on areas of possible improvement to reduce costs and service delivery times
  • Met with business leaders to better understand IT issues that negatively impacted businesses
  • Successfully led the team to provide support for more than 60 applications as part of the AMS project
  • Effectively analyzed and assessed applications to plan manpower and application management with help of 30-35 team-members
  • Consistently worked with the team to maintain and improve the agreed SLAs
  • Successfully brought the client documentation from none to complete and approved documentation by working with the ever dedicated team
  • Created and managed effective third-party contracts to drive the delivery of required services
  • Created a strong transition mechanism to replace current internal team or incumbent vendor smoothly without affecting delivery
  • Used Strong delivery governance structure, improve stability and efficiency of mission-critical applications
  • Greatly improve quality of service, focus on delivering Operational, Tactical and Strategic benefits
  • Evaluated personnel workloads to support capacity planning, adjusting service call scheduling according to available staff

Technical Project Lead

Infosys Ltd.
Pune/ Cardiff/ Amsterdam
09.2013 - 04.2016
  • Worked for leading Credit Insurance company as Clients
  • Successfully worked on the POC leading to Project allocation
  • Led a result oriented offshore and onsite team with various expertise like Thunderhead, Database and Testing teams
  • Successfully worked with team-members resulting into feasible architecture
  • Was solely responsible for requirement gathering
  • Led the planning and solution designing along with team members and customer
  • Worked expertly with: Java, Spring Beans, Hibernate, Web Services, Oracle 10G, Maven, Thunderhead Client 5.1 BCS, BOS, Admin, Job Console

Team Lead/Onsite Project Coordinator

Infosys Ltd.
Amsterdam
04.2012 - 08.2013
  • Worked for leading Insurance company as Client
  • Played Onsite Coordinator alongwith successfully leading the offshore Development team
  • Shouldered the responsibility for Requirement Gathering, planning, and solution designing, Functional and Technical Designing along with effort estimation
  • Supported the Testing team for creating the Test Plans and carrying planning the Deployment
  • Overall responsible for the end-to-end delivery by leading the deployment, testing and release and later providing the Production support
  • Worked expertly with: Java, Spring Beans, Web Services, Oracle 9G, Maven, IBM WSAD

Team Lead/ Software Developer

Infosys Ltd.
Bangalore/ Pune
11.2006 - 07.2012
  • Worked for leading Banks as clients
  • Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development
  • Translated customer requirements into written use cases
  • Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees
  • Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases
  • Worked expertly with: IBM Websphere, Oracle 10G, DB2 Database, ASP, ASP.NET, MS Analysis Services 2000, MS Reporting Services 2000, SQL Server 2000, Thunderhead Client 3.0, Oracle 10G, Java

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Nagpur University
Nagpur, India
06.2001 - 07.2005

High School Diploma -

Central Board of Secondary Education
Nagpur, India
05.2000 - 05.2001

High School Diploma -

Central Board of Secondary Education
Nagpur, India
05.1999 - 05.2000

Skills

Programming Languages: Java, JSP, JavaScript, Spring DI, Hibernate and Web Services

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Accomplishments

  • A passionate Product Owner with a strong logical and analytical bend of mind. Has extensive experience in funneling and prioritization of Epics and User Stories within cross-functional domain
  • Over 16 years of IT experience working in various projects as Product Owner, Scrum Master, Project Lead, Business Analyst, Functional Designing, Development, Production Support and AMS Support projects
  • Extensive experience in writing and maintaining the product vision in Confluence, maintaining roadmap and backlog of work throughout the product's life cycle in JIRA and Azure boards
  • Expert in building effective relationships with key stakeholders and define, monitor, and analyze key metrics for launched products/features
  • Experience of managing multiple aspects of a project alongwith handling multiple projects for both banking and insurance domain
  • Excellent communication and execution skills with high levels of ownership and accountability. Embraces new challenges and employs practical problem-solving skills
  • Reputation for adhering to high ethical standards and providing a stabilizing influence, regardless of situation. Excellent team-leading and client-interaction capabilities
  • Diverse offshore and onsite experience handling roles such as Project Lead, Team Lead, Functional Designer, Business Analyst and Developer
  • Extensive experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum framework

Certification

Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager

Interests

Travelling as its a huge learning experience

Painting is a way of stress buster

Photography is beauty to be captured

Timeline

Connected Manager by Harvard ManageMentor

12-2022

Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO II)

03-2022

Agile with Atlassian Jira

02-2022

Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager

01-2022

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist

12-2021

Scrum Master

Capgemini
03.2021 - Current

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

03-2020

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)

01-2020

Product Owner/ Functional Designer

Capgemini
04.2018 - 02.2021

Service Delivery Manager

TechMahindra GmBH.
06.2016 - 03.2018

Technical Project Lead

Infosys Ltd.
09.2013 - 04.2016

Team Lead/Onsite Project Coordinator

Infosys Ltd.
04.2012 - 08.2013

Team Lead/ Software Developer

Infosys Ltd.
11.2006 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Nagpur University
06.2001 - 07.2005

High School Diploma -

Central Board of Secondary Education
05.2000 - 05.2001

High School Diploma -

Central Board of Secondary Education
05.1999 - 05.2000

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